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Sorry for the delay, not been on here much since I've been away!
I know these are both by the same author, but she is one of my favourites and these have been on my shelf unread for a while.
The Apprentice - Tess Gerritson
The Surgeon has been locked up for a year, but his chilling legacy still haunts the city, and especially Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli. For a new killer is at work and Rizzoli senses something horryfyingly familiar about his modu operandi. Then the unthinkable happens: the surgeon escapes. And suddenly there are two brilliant, twisted killers on the loose, master and apprentice, united in their hunt for the most challenging prey of all:the very woman whi is hunting them...
In Their Footsteps - Tess Gerritson
The quit scandal surrounding her parent's death twenty years ago has always haunted Beryl Tavistock. Now she's decided that the only way to exorcise the ghosts of the past is to search for the truth.
Caught in a world of international espionage, Beryl turns to an ex-CIA agent for help. But in a world where trust is a double edged sword, friends become enemies and enemies become killers.
Dawn
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Sorry to have kept you waiting everyone.
My suggestions are_
1. The Villa in Italy - Elizabeth Edmondon
4 strangers are summoned to Villa Dante each being named in the will of Beatrice Malaspina although none of them know who she is. As the villa comes back to life the 4 visit the medieval tower close to the house and find themselves face to face with their troubled pasts in a way they never could have forseen. The villa works its' magic and slowly they are changed - now they can receive their unexpected inheritance and, as devastating secrets are finally revealed, get on with their lives.
2. Sheltering rain - Jojo Moyes
On Coronation Night in 1953 teh ex pat community in Hong Kong gathers for a celebration party. While thye strain yo listed ot the proceedings on a faulty wireless 21 year old Joy falls in love. She is engaged within 24 hours but will not see her fiance again for a year.
In 1980 Kate's rebellion is to run away from County Wexford with her illegitimate child.
15 yrs later Sabine leaves trendy Hackney to visit the grandparents she has never known and finds that time in Wexford seems to have stood still. When Sabine, her mother and gran are brought together a deeply buried family secret is discovered as well as fundamental truths about conflict between love and duty, about women's choices and about mothers and daughters.
Kate
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SHAME written by Jasvinder Sanghera
Is a true story of her life after leaving home to avoid an arranged marriage. It highlights what still happens in this country in the 21st century.
A compelling read.
DAMAGED written by Cathy Glass
True story by a long term foster carer. It focuses on the horrid abuse a child has endured, and her carers determination to help her where other carers have failed. Great read.
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Hi everyone!
Sorry I'm late but I've been away.
Ann....I will pm you shortly
The Plantagenet Prelude - Jean Plaidy
When William X dies, the duchy of Aquitaine is left to his fifteen year-old daughter, Eleanor. But such a position for an unmarried woman puts the whole kingdom at risk. So on his deathbed William made a will that would ensure his daughter's protection: he promised her hand in marriage to the future King of France. Eleanor grows into a romantic and beautiful queen, but she has inherited the will of a king, and is determined to rule Aquitaine using her husband's power as King of France. Her resolve knows no limit and, in the years to follow she was to become one of history's most scandalous queens.
Lifeless - Mark Billingham
In Lifeless, Mark Billingham's Tom Thorne reaches something like the nadir of his police career, broken by the death--possibly the murder--of his demented father and shuffled off to a desk job of infinite tedium. When someone starts kicking the London homeless to death, he suggests going undercover, and those of his friends who care about him worry that he is looking for his own destruction as much as for the killer. Certainly Thorne finds compensations on the street for danger, cold, hunger and squalor--his friendship with two young addicts is nonetheless real for his deceit and their pragmatic ruthlessness. Yet the secret of the deaths he is investigating lies only partly in London's dark alleys and corners; it lies as well fourteen years in the past on the road to Baghdad...
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thanks you all, will sort out the vote thread now.
ann
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