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The Saint Meets his Match by Leslie Charteris
epub |eng | 2014-03-18 | Author:Leslie Charteris [Charteris, Leslie]

2 Simon Templar smiled with his lips and his one visible eye. “Hullo, Jill!” he murmured. “And how have you been keeping all these years?” The girl backed towards him, ...
( Category: Contemporary February 12,2024 )
Red Dog by Louis de Berni'Res
epub |eng | 1999-02-01 | Author:Louis de Berni'Res [Berni'Res, Louis de]

HAS ANYONE SEEN JOHN? John bought a nice powerful motorbike because, although he already had a car, he liked the idea of riding around on hot days with the breeze ...
( Category: Contemporary January 21,2024 )
When Memory Dies by A. Sivanandan
epub |eng | 2011-11-15 | Author:A. Sivanandan [A. Sivanandan]

8 ‘WHY EVERYTHING HAPPENS all at once, I do not know,’ I ended‚ recounting for Lali my eventful week in Colombo. It was late evening and we were seated on ...
( Category: Contemporary November 9,2023 )
A Smile in a Whisper by Jacquelyn Middleton
epub |eng | | Author:Jacquelyn Middleton

SIXTEEN EVIE Now, Thursday, July 20 Weeks into filming, Evie and Nick’s working relationship had found its groove. While they only saw each other once or twice each day, their ...
( Category: Contemporary October 13,2023 )
Crusader Gold (Jack Howard Series Book 2) by David Gibbins
azw3 |eng | 2007-09-24 | Author:David Gibbins

12 MARIA AND JEREMY LED JACK AND COSTAS through the imposing west entrance of Iona Abbey and down the worn flagstones of the nave. It was cool inside, a refreshing ...
( Category: Contemporary October 6,2023 )
The Beauty of Perhaps by Eryn Marie
epub |eng | | Author:Eryn Marie

We woke up the next morning with mountains stretched out all around us. A shiver ran up my spine and I blinked happily at the variety of green pushing its ...
( Category: Contemporary September 14,2023 )
The Mother at Number 5 by Jill Childs
epub |eng | 2023-06-20 | Author:Jill Childs [Childs, Jill]

Ros’s first feedback came from Diana on Wednesday morning, when the two of them coincided at drop-off. Once they’d kissed their children and sent them, arms wheeling, across the playground ...
( Category: Contemporary August 25,2023 )
The Bearpit by Brian Freemantle
epub |eng | 1988-12-15 | Author:Brian Freemantle [Freemantle, Brian]

20 Finally it had all emerged so easily, reflected Vasili Malik: so stupidly, incriminatingly easy! And now he had them! Panchenko definitely. And Kazin as well. Not so definitely but ...
( Category: Contemporary June 7,2023 )
Becoming George Sand by Rosalind Brackenbury
epub |eng | | Author:Rosalind Brackenbury

“Edward,” she says to him on the phone. She has his mobile number, and hears him answer, but she can’t know where he is, what he is doing; she has ...
( Category: Contemporary May 26,2023 )
For Love or Money by Elizabeth Bevarly
epub |eng | 2000-03-15 | Author:Elizabeth Bevarly

Normally, it would have caused Dinah some concern to be alone with a man in a hotel room, wearing nothing but a little white towel. But Marcus was still in ...
( Category: Contemporary March 2,2023 )
Timoleon Vieta Come Home by Dan Rhodes
epub |eng | 2009-02-15 | Author:Dan Rhodes

GIUSEPPE, OR LEONARDO DA VINCI Timoleon Vieta killed and ate rats and rabbits and old, slow hares. He scavenged from bins outside houses, turning them over in the middle of ...
( Category: Contemporary February 8,2023 )
Tokyo Cancelled by Rana Dasgupta
epub |eng | | Author:Rana Dasgupta

SECTION 7 7.1 There was a backlog of things that Yukio had to do, but working at home seemed different without Yukiko. He was distracted. He had not expected to ...
( Category: Contemporary February 7,2023 )
Walking the Dog by Bernard MacLaverty
epub |eng | | Author:Bernard MacLaverty

BY TRAIN ‘. . . your man was travelling from Glasgow to Aberdeen by train. In the opposite corner of the carriage sat a man pretending to be absorbed in ...
( Category: Contemporary February 3,2023 )
Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains by Susan Elderkin
epub |eng | 2000-01-15 | Author:Susan Elderkin

11 From the windows of Santa Catalina Elementary School you look out on to the foothills of the Santa Catalina mountains. Sometimes, higher up where the sides of the mountains ...
( Category: Contemporary January 30,2023 )
Picking Up the Pieces by Mary Sheepshanks
epub |eng | | Author:Mary Sheepshanks

EIGHTEEN Kate was late for her date with Jack at Scott’s. She had pondered whether to leave the car at Mike’s house and fetch it later, but as she intended ...
( Category: Contemporary January 28,2023 )

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