The Last Secret Agent

BOOK ADDED: Sun, 20/10/2024 - 9:52pm by Karen

The book cover of The Last Secret Agent by Pippa Latour and Jude Dobson has the tagline 'My untold story of life as a spy behind Nazi enemy lines' The cover includes the image of a young woman with a hairstyle that's typical of the 1940's, she's got dark hair and a hint of red lipstick on, she's looking up towards the left hand side of the book. In the background there's a green field with a treeline in the background.

This is the astounding true story of one of the last female special operations agents in France to get out alive after its liberation in WWII.

Born in 1921, Pippa Latour became a covert special operations agent who parachuted into a field in Nazi-occupied Normandy. Trained by the...Read more

Blood & Ink

BOOK ADDED: Fri, 19/07/2024 - 7:07pm by Karen

The book cover of Blood & Ink by Brett Adams includes the tagline 'A heart-stopping new crime novel by' immediately above the author's name. The background is pale blue, with a pile of books that have the names on the spines including 'Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, Cold Blood Truman Capote & The Stranger Beside Me, Ann Rule'. On the top of the stack there's a white campervan and two small silhouettes of male characters - one pointing to the van.

Literature professor Jack Griffen has recently suffered a nervous breakdown. His wife has divorced him and she and their adult daughter have moved to the USA. Into the void steps exchange student Hieronymus Beck, claiming to be the professor’s greatest fan.

But everything changes...Read more

Dark Arena

BOOK ADDED: Thu, 11/07/2024 - 3:51pm by Karen

The book cover for Dark Arena by Jack Beaumont includes the quote 'Dark Arena is as real and as deeply disturbing as a world I once knew' Ant Middleton, former UK Special Forces and the tagline 'The Frenchman Returns'. The image is of a man standing in a classic stance, holding a gun in his hands, one knee slightly bent, he's in shadow. In the background there's a snowy piece of ground with a few stubby trees and an elaborate building beyond, with minarets on the roof.

The Frenchman returns in Dark Arena, a super-charged espionage thriller from Jack Beaumont. When an agent of the Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE) is brutally murdered in front of his family, the "Company" swings into action, determined to track down the killers. Meanwhile,...Read more

The Woman on the Island

BOOK ADDED: Thu, 13/06/2024 - 4:09pm by Karen

The book cover for The Woman on the Island by Ann Cleeves includes the notations 'New York Times Bestselling Author' and 'A Vera Stanhope Short Story'. The image is of a point of land with a large white lighthouse in the distance, the light shining brightly. The surrounding sea is blue purple and the sky pink. There's vegetation on the spit of land.

A rare day off from policing leads DCI Vera Stanhope across the tidal causeway to Holy Island, the lure of crab sandwiches there too hard to resist.

While on the island, she is reminded of the day decades before when, as a teenager, she went with her father Hector on another day...Read more