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Cara Massimina by Tim Parks
epub |eng | 2015-09-05 | Author:Tim Parks

13 They were on the train at eight fifteen. Morris wanted to take the rapido but Massimina wouldn’t hear of paying the surcharge and so they were caught in a ...
( Category: Mystery September 5,2017 )
The Chessman by Dolores Gordon-Smith
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-07-22 | Author:Dolores Gordon-Smith

ELEVEN Jack walked stiffly up the steps to the front door of Lucas’s house. Although his leg felt much better, he wouldn’t be sorry to sit down. ‘You … you’d ...
( Category: Mystery September 5,2017 )
A Spanish Lover by Joanna Trollope
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Joanna Trollope

12 ‘I BET HE’LL be spoddy,’ Harriet said. Alistair, who was reading a book of Davy’s about an owl who was frightened of the dark, said, without raising his eyes ...
( Category: British & Irish September 5,2017 )
Long Summer Day (A Horseman Riding By) by R. F. Delderfield
azw3 |eng | 2014-07-22 | Author:R. F. Delderfield [Delderfield, R. F.]

II Celia’s second letter arrived towards the end of January, more than six months after Grace had left. Her first, replying to his angry demands for news of his wife’s ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 4,2017 )
A Southwold Mystery by Suzette A. Hill
epub |eng | 2015-09-04 | Author:Suzette A. Hill [Hill, Suzette A.]

Over supper, and with Hawkins safely busy in the kitchen, Rosy suggested that perhaps it really was time that they should return to London. ‘Delightful though Southwold is one must ...
( Category: Mystery September 4,2017 )
Beatrice and Benedick by Marina Fiorato
epub |eng | 2015-10-22 | Author:Marina Fiorato

Act IV scene ii A courtyard in Leonato’s house, Messina Beatrice: I woke in the middle of the night without knowing why. I turned over in my bed, groaning gently. ...
( Category: Historical September 4,2017 )
The Companion by Agatha Christie
epub |eng | | Author:Agatha Christie

‘I tried to speak to the vicar yesterday, to confess all, but was not allowed. She would not let me. I can make amends only one way—a life for a ...
( Category: Mystery September 4,2017 )
The Concubine by Norah Lofts
epub, mobi |eng | 1963-01-01 | Author:Norah Lofts [Lofts, Norah]

An entertainment, and not just any entertainment, one with a purpose, to be made ready within a few hours. She sped into the house and sent pages running. Her brother ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 4,2017 )
17 The Commodore by O'Brian Patrick
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:O'Brian, Patrick [O'Brian, Patrick]

Chapter Six In the afternoon of Saturday, with the Berlings in sight on the larboard bow, the topgallant-sail breeze that had been bowling the Ringle along so handsomely since Cape ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 4,2017 )
The Confectioner's Tale by Laura Madeleine
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Laura Madeleine

Chapter Twenty-Four February 1910 Gui’s first weeks at the pâtisserie did not go as well as he had hoped. He was just another skivvy for the most part, the lowest ...
( Category: Historical September 4,2017 )
The Complete Stories by Waugh Evelyn
epub |eng | 2010-08-06 | Author:Waugh, Evelyn [Evelyn, Waugh]

III In the last week before the birth of her child, Lucy began for the first time to betray impatience; she was never, at any time, at all apprehensive—merely bored ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 4,2017 )
Never Surrender : a Novel of Winston Churchill by Michael Dobbs
epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Michael Dobbs [Dobbs, Michael]

Amery had emerged, irate and intent on retribution. The young Churchill had apologized, “I”m sorry,” he explained, “but I mis-took you for a Fourth Former. You are so small.” His ...
( Category: British & Irish September 4,2017 )
The House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes Novel by Horowitz Anthony
azw3 |eng | 2011-11-01 | Author:Horowitz, Anthony [Horowitz, Anthony]

I had a visitor, early the next morning. It was the one man I most wanted to see – Inspector Lestrade. As he came striding in, interrupting me at my ...
( Category: Mystery September 4,2017 )
Tannhauser Trilogy 01 - The Religion by Willocks Tim
epub |eng | 2007-05-15 | Author:Willocks, Tim [Willocks, Tim]

In the smoking shell of Saint Elmo across the water, Tannhauser searched the grounds and found Orlandu at work with a gang of Maltese soldiers. They were hauling rocks up ...
( Category: Action & Adventure September 4,2017 )
Redmayne 03 - The Repentant Rake by Edward Marston
epub |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Edward Marston [Marston, Edward]

'Were you the first to receive a threat?' he said. 'What of it?' 'I seem to recall that a letter was involved.' 'It was,' admitted Henry gloomily. 'A billet-doux sent ...
( Category: Mystery September 4,2017 )

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