The Seventh Raven
In a bungled attempt to kidnap an ambassador's son, four revolutionaries make hostages of a hundred children rehearsing an opera.Read more
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Severed Past
A car crash fourteen years ago. The result —amnesia. A terrible accident … or was it? Since that fateful day, computer expert David Hayes has been consumed by his need to learn more about his past. Frustrated at every turn, his search seems destined to fail until the sudden arrival of a...Read more
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Sexton Blake Wins
Contains The House of the Hanging Sword · Gwyn Evans · The Treasure of Tortoise Island · G. H. Teed · Under Sexton Blake's Orders · John Hunter · The Man I Killed · Rex Hardinge · The Green Jester · Donald Stewart · The Secret Amulet · Anthony Parsons · The Box of Ho Sen · Anthony Skene (...Read more
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Shades of Murder
In 1889 the late Cora Oakley’s husband William was put on trial for her murder. The case was dismissed, but Oakley fled the country, never to be heard of again.
Over a hundred years later, the only remaining members of the family are two elderly sisters who, after years of...Read more
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Shadow
In a nondescript apartment block in Stockholm, most of the residents are elderly. Usually a death is a sad but straightforward event. But sometimes a resident will die and there are no friends or family to contact. This is when Marianne Folkesson arrives, employed by the state to close up a...Read more
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A Shadow at the Door
No matter the cost ...
After a brutal attack and the breakdown of her marriage, life has taught former TV star Remi Lucan that it's safer to not rely on anyone. Instead, she's buried herself in Hobart, transforming her dilapidated sandstone house back to its former splendour,...Read more
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The Shadow Broker
It is 2026 and individual freedoms are severely curtailed, and state surveillance is everywhere. State Security has a Watch List, and being on it means that nothing you do or say escapes the authorities, but does the Kill List really exist? And if it does, how would you know if you were on...Read more
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Shadow City
Sydney, The body of a young woman is found in Chinatown. She's been beaten, tortured - and tattooed with the image of a sun. Called to the scene, Sergeant Jackie Rose asks herself whether this was a drug murder, or something else. But before her investigation can get under...Read more
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The Shadow Dancers
“We are The Division. This is what we do.”
A politician’s daughter goes missing in Turkey, as Russia bombs neighbouring Syria and chaos explodes throughout the Middle East. Rob Moore of Division 5 is sent from London to find her, but he’s a man with his own problems....Read more
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The Shadow District
A deeply compassionate story of old crimes and their consequences, The Shadow District is the first in a thrilling new series by internationally bestselling author Arnaldur Indridason.
THE PAST
In wartime Reykjavik, a young woman is found strangled in 'the...Read more
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The Shadow Game
Beloved yet dishevelled newshound Harry Dunkley has fallen about as low as it's possible to get, disgraced and dispirited at having failed to reveal the existence of the Alliance, a cabal of mandarins pulling the strings of power in Canberra.
But new purpose is in the air....Read more
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The Shadow House
When single mother Alex flees her abusive relationship and moves with her teenage son and baby girl to a rural ecovillage, she thinks she’s made the best decision of her life. Pine Ridge is idyllic: the off-grid lifestyle and remote location are perfect, and the community is welcoming –...Read more
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The Shadow in the River
One June night, in a small town gripped by a sweltering heat wave, a young man is forced off the road and into the river. Robert Bell, a disillusioned local journalist with a dry sense of humour and an escalating drink problem, leaves behind the banality of his quiet office to investigate...Read more
The Shadow of Larose
The Shadow of Larose by Arthur Train is a compelling mystery novel that delves into the shadowy world of crime and deception. Set in the early 20th century, the story follows detective Larose as he embarks on a dangerous investigation to uncover the truth behind a series of baffling crimes...Read more
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Shadow Lives
One sister murdered. The other missing. Can a flawed man find the answers buried within a web of intrigue?
Kharkiv, Ukraine, 2019: Ongoing clashes between Ukrainian nationalists and pro-Russian activists make this city a deadly...Read more
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The Shadow Maker
A brutal predator is on the loose, targeting women and savagely attacking them. His first victim is found chained, blinded and hanging on to life by a thread. His next target isn't so 'lucky'. After a forced bondage session, her ears are cut off and she's left for dead.
As the...Read more
The Shadow Murders
On her 60th birthday, a woman commits suicide. When the case lands on Detective Carl Mørck's desk, he can't imagine what this has to do with Department Q, Copenhagen's cold cases division. It's a tragedy to be sure, but the cause of death seems to be clear. But his superior, Marcus Jacobsen...Read more
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Shadow Over Edmund Street
Edwina’s death is brutal, a swift and silent killer who leaves no clues. Her murder seems unsolvable until a casual comment sends Inspector Alex Cameron and his seasoned team trawling through the dead woman’s childhood.
Raised in a poverty-scarred part of Auckland, Edwina was a...Read more
Shadow Sister
Lydia and Elisa, twin sisters, identical in appearance, different in every other way.
Lydia has her life in order and opinions on everything, from her husband's business to her sister's friends, to her fellow teachers. If only those around her could live up to her high...Read more
Shadow of the Rock
A humid summer night in Gibraltar. Lawyer Spike Sanguinetti arrives home to find an old friend, Solomon Hassan, waiting on his doorstep. Solomon is on the run. A Spanish girl has been found with her throat cut on a beach in Tangiers and he is accused of her murder. He has managed to skip...Read more
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The Shadow of the Wind
Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer’s son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julián Carax. But when he sets out to find the author’s...Read more
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The Shadow Walker
His eyes were adjusting to the darkness now, and he twisted around trying to see what it was that had tripped him. At first, he couldn't make it out. Just a blank shapeless mound, spread across the frozen ground. And then he thought it looked something like a human figure, but not quite...Read more
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Shadows in the Twilight
JOEL WILL SOON be 12, and he thinks nothing is going on in the small community where he lives. But he’s wrong. One day, an incident that could easily have been a catastrophe turns into a miracle. Now Joel believes he owes the world a good deed, to prove that he deserved what might have been...Read more
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Shadows on the Mirror
By day, Sarah Fortune works as a lawyer in a prestigious firm in Mayfair, but by night she provides lonely men with intimate company—an arrangement with which she is happy until she becomes implicated with a dead body found off the English coast.Read more
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Shadows of Sounds
When George Millar, the City of Glasgow’s orchestra leader, is brutally murdered in his dressing room before a performance, his colleagues are shocked. As the show goes on, DCI Lorimer and psychologist Solomon Brightman uncover a series of irrevocably tangled relationships between the...Read more
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Shadows of Winter Robins
Winter Robins is a happy enough child, growing up in the north of England, with parents who love her and the constant companion of a twin brother, but a cold wind blows through when her mother dies. Her father turns to the bottle, her grandmother struggles to cope, and she and her brother...Read more
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