Peter James
Author
Series
Roy Grace ; 12
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An ugly duckling as a child, Jodie Bentley had two dreams in life--to be beautiful and rich. She's achieved the first, with a little help from a plastic surgeon, and now she's working hard on the second. Her philosophy on money is simple: you can either earn it or marry it. Marrying is easy, it's getting rid of the husband afterwards that's harder, that takes real skill. But hey, practice makes perfect... Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is feeling...
Author
Series
Roy Grace ; 14
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A parent's worst nightmare is Grace's deadliest case...Kipp Brown, successful businessman and compulsive gambler, is having the worst run of luck of his life. He's beginning to lose big style. However, taking his teenage son, Mungo, to their club's big Saturday afternoon football match should have given him a welcome respite, if only for a few hours. But it' at the stadium where his nightmare begins. Within minutes of arriving at the game, Kipp bumps...
Author
Series
Roy Grace ; 15
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Roy Grace exposes the dark side of the internet. .You don't know me, but I thought I knew you . . . A man waits at a London airport for Ingrid Ostermann, the love of his life, to arrive. Across the Atlantic, a retired NYPD cop waits in a bar in Florida's Key West for his first date with the lady who is, without question, his soulmate. The two men are about to discover they've been scammed out of almost every penny they have in the world - and that...
Author
Series
Roy Grace ; 13
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lorna Belling, desperate to escape the marriage from hell, falls for the charms of another man who promises her the earth. But, as Lorna finds, life seldom follows the plans you've made. A chance photograph on a client's mobile phone changes everything for her. When the body of a woman is found in a bath in Brighton, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is called to the scene. At first it looks an open and shut case with a clear prime suspect. Then...
6) I follow you
Author
Publisher
Pan Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"To the outside world, suave, charming and confident doctor Marcus Valentine has it all: a loving wife, three kids, a great job. But there's something missing -- there always has been. Driving to work one morning, his mind elsewhere and not on the road, he almost mows down a female jogger on a crossing. As she runs on, Marcus is transfixed. She is the spitting image of a girl he was infatuated with in his teens. A girl he has never been able to get...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When a young couple join a fertility program run by a clinic in America, they little suspect that the happy day that follows is the last day of mankind's evolutionary supremacy. Mankind is facing its greatest challenge: obsolescence."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
They said the dead can't hurt you ... They were wrong. The House on Cold Hill is a chilling and suspenseful ghost story from the multi-million copy bestselling author of Dead Simple, Peter James. Moving from the heart of the city of Brighton and Hove to the Sussex countryside is a big undertaking for born townies, Ollie Harcourt, his wife, Caro, and their twelve-year-old daughter, Jade. But when they view Cold Hill House - a huge, dilapidated, Georgian...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Investigative reporter Ross Hunter nearly didn't answer the phone call that would change his life, and possibly the world, forever. 'I'd just like to assure you I'm not a nutcase, Mr Hunter. My name is Dr Harry F. Cook. I know this is going to sound strange, but I've recently been given absolute proof of God's existence, and I've been advised there is a writer, a respected journalist called Ross Hunter, who could help me to get taken seriously.'...
10) Stop them dead
Author
Series
Roy Grace ; 19
Publisher
St Martins Pr
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A ruthless crime. A race against time. In the dead of night, a farmer hears a suspicious noise. It's everyone's worst nightmare: a break-in. When he confronts the intruders, he has no idea that just minutes later he will be left lying in a pool of blood. But the chilling truth lies not in the act itself, but what the perpetrators were willing to kill for. At the scene of the crime, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace senses something amiss. This is...
14) Dead man's time
Author
Series
Roy Grace ; 9
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"New York, 1922. Five-year-old Gavin Daly and his seven-year-old sister, Aileen, are boarding the SS Mauretania to Dublin--and safety. Their mother has been shot and their Irish mobster father abducted. Suddenly, a messenger hands Gavin a piece of paper on which are written four names and eleven numbers, a cryptic message that will haunt him all his life, and his father's pocket watch. As the ship sails, Gavin watches Manhattan fade into the dusk...
15) Not dead yet
Author
Series
Roy Grace ; 8
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Roy Grace investigates threats against Gaia Lafayette, a Hollywood star who is filming in Brighton, but when a body is found on a farm miles away, Grace and his men must race against time to stop an obssessive killer.
16) Possession
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
When Alex Hightower's teenage sone, Faibian, dies in a car crash, she is devastated. Hurt as she is, Alex tries to accept that Fabian is gone forever. But then strange events begin to occur in her home: rooms turn freezing cold, furniture moves by itself and the bathroom begins to sweat. Worse follows: the words "Help me, Mother" appear on her computer screen, Fabian's face eerily shows up in photos developed after his death, and his voice speaks...
17) Host
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Karen's husband Joe is obsessed with thoughts of immortal life and a blending of cryogenics and computer technology to scientifically extend his life. His obsession with a gifted young scientist takes on macabre proportions, his family fears for their future.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Chinua Achebe's first novel portrays the collision of African and European cultures in people's lives. Okonkwo, a great man in Igbo traditional society, cannot adapt to the profound changes brought about by British colonial rule. Yet, as in classic tragedy, Okonkwo's downfall results from his own character as well as from external forces.
20) Run
Author
Language
English
Description
"Engaging, surprising, provocative and moving...a thoroughly intelligent book, an intimate domestic drama that nonetheless deals with big issues touching us all: religion, race, class, politics and, above all else, family." — Washington Post
From New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett comes an engrossing story of one family on one fateful night in Boston where secrets are unlocked and new bonds are formed.
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