"There's no place like home. No place so deadly.
With the team still reeling after a vicious attack on one of their own, it falls to DI Haskell to put the pieces back together. Drew misses the old days when he worked with Harriet, before everything became so complicated.
Returning from Ireland, Dr Harriet Quinn feels isolated and alone. Forced to contend with problems of her own, both personal and professional, she struggles to fit back into a world that appears to have moved on without her.
When a farmhouse full of bodies is discovered, the police initially connect the crime to a chain of burglaries across North Yorkshire. But when a connection is made to the past, events take a sinister turn.
Drew and Harriet must explore dark avenues, many of which take them to unthinkable places. But in a case this complex, they must face unsettling facts if they are to uncover the truth at the heart of the killings."
"The owners of The Right Sort Marriage Bureau are back, and more determined than ever to bring love matches to the residents of Post-WWII London . . . so something as trivial as being dragged into a spy mission isn't going to stop them!
Sparks fly when an old friend comes to town . . .
London, 1947. After recent events have left the normally steadfast Iris Sparks thoroughly shaken, she's looking forward to some peace. With The Right Sort doing well, she and business partner Gwen Bainbridge are due a holiday. Until Iris's former boss enlists their help for a secret mission.
Iris, who left British intelligence after the war, is being recruited for her Cambridge connection to one Anthony Danforth. She hasn't seen Tony in almost ten years, yet she and Gwen must manipulate him into hiring their marriage service.
Tony's suspected of being a Soviet operative, and an undercover agent posing as his perfect match could discover the truth. Despite her reluctance at being dragged back into the world of espionage, Iris agrees. After all, Tony was once a very good friend. If he's innocent, she'll happily prove it. If not? Well, no one ever said being a spy was easy . . .
Those who enjoy Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher Mysteries and Dorothy Sayers will adore this warm and witty historical mystery!"
"Clinical psychology makes a significant contribution to mental health care across the world. The essence of the discipline is the creative application of the knowledge base of psychology to the unique, personal experiences of individuals who are facing difficulties or changes in their lives. Rather than addressing such experiences as primarily a medical, political, or legal problem, clinical psychologists approach personal distress as an unhappy outcome of certain ways of thinking, behaving and relating, often occurring within difficult social, cultural, or economic circumstances. Clinical psychologists work with people to try and help them change what is distressing or concerning them, based on a belief in the value of the individual to determine what happens to them and on the importance of using approaches which have been demonstrated through research to be effective.
In this Very Short Introduction Susan Llewellyn and Katie Aafjes-van Doorn provide insights into the world of clinical psychologists and their clients or patients, and cover the range of domains of practice, the difficulties tackled, and the approaches and models used. They consider the challenges and controversies facing the profession today, and also how it varies across the globe. Finally, they discuss the key questions surrounding clinical psychology, such as whether it should compete or collaborate with psychiatry, how far it is yet another instrument of social control, what new technology can offer in the future, and whether clinical psychology can ever really be considered a science."
"When dark secrets surface, a killer's obsession is revealed.
Over the past few months, several bodies have been discovered in a lake in Ireland. All of them have one thing in common: a fragment of a poem found upon their person. No one knows the meaning of the poem or why these particular victims were chosen by their killer. The police are baffled.
When Harriet is called to the scene by an estranged relative, she must draw on her skills as a psychologist to uncover a secret that lies buried within a close knit community that wishes to bury a dark past.
The truth will reveal more than Harriet had bargained for."
"A romance of lingering pain, old letters, and new possibilities.
Miss Adelaide Harris, the eldest daughter of the second Viscount Morley, is approaching five and twenty and a life of spinsterhood disabled by rheumatism. With hands too brittle for playing the pianoforte and a constitution that can barely tolerate a walk in the gardens, Della’s parents have restricted her to their country manor even during the season.
But on the eve of Della’s birthday, they’re overheard discussing the property Della is about to inherit—a barony that is hers in her own right. It belonged to her long-deceased birth mother, and the estate was placed in trust until Della’s marriage or her twenty-fifth birthday. They don’t intend for Della to ever know, for their poor, sickly Adelaide could never run a barony of her own. And they know she’ll never marry, as no one could want a wife afflicted by such pain.
Beloved by the few who truly know her and irreparably harmed by those who were supposed to love her, Della can either choose to stay the course of her tragically predictable life, or she could give everyone who has taken such loving care of her a better life. She could give girls like herself a home and a place to belong.
But to do so, she’ll need the help of someone loyal only to her. Someone her parents can’t influence. And she knows just the man for the job: her long-lost childhood friend and first love. Andrew is working his way up through the London courts, bored of making a name for himself. When he receives a pleading letter from the girl he’s never been able to forget, he’ll do anything to bring back the vibrant woman he knew. Even stoop to her family’s level.
Tropes you’ll enjoy:
• Second-chance romance
• First love
• Friends to lovers
• Class difference
• Secret inheritance
• Secret love letters
• Bluestocking FMC
• Found family"
"He wants revenge, and he's willing to do anything to get it.
Harriet and Drew are tested to the limit when a number of murders claim the most innocent of victims.
Someone is taking bloody revenge for past misdeeds.
As the investigation into a killing spree reveals dark secrets, it soon becomes clear that unless Drew and Harriet can discover the next target, more innocent lives will be lost."
"Fame can be fatal when your fans want you dead.
The discovery of a body on the moors sets a chain of devastating events in motion. Drew and Harriet must solve the riddle of a five-year-old murder while also tackling personal demons.
Personal loss and professional disgrace threaten to destroy everything Drew and Harriet have built.
Only time will tell if anyone will walk away from this case unscathed."
"The fascinating story of Prince William's American ancestors, and how this often-rebellious lineage will help shape the future King of Great Britain.
In this fresh and perspective-shifting narrative, American Crown is an absorbing blend of American history and royal biography that brings to life the past generations who will shape the Prince of Wales's role in the future of Britain, America, and the world. For the first time, Britain will have a monarch whose ancestors fought against the very crown he bears.
It all goes back to the roots of Diana, Princess of Wales, whose Spencer family has a friendship with the Washington clan of Sulgrave Manor that produced the founding father of America. Even more fascinating is Diana's maternal side, whose American ancestors fought in the Revolution in New England, became successful in the new nation, and then (like many Gilded Age families) sent a daughter across the ocean to marry into the British elite. Other Spencers on the British side had bucked social trends in the 1770s and even raised funds for the American rebels themselves. Embodying more interconnected history than any of his predecessors, William's sense of his own role in the world is markedly different from anyone who's ever held the throne.
With sweeping locations from battlefields to Buckingham Palace and featuring grand personalities like Nathan Hale, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Winston Churchill, King George VI, and Queen Elizabeth II, Stephanie Green's American Crown tells the story of a very new kind of royal family—one with the potential to bring two countries closer together in times of turmoil and bring the 'special relationship' into the next century."
"A viscount is enraptured—but gossips might get in the way of romance—in this Regency tale by an author acclaimed for 'absorbing storytelling' (Booklist).
Despite having proposed to more than a dozen women, Viscount Frederick remains one of London's most eligible bachelors. The debutantes simply don't find him dashing enough for their tastes. His pride stinging from his latest rejection, Freddie leaves London for his country estate.
After six years abroad, Anne Webster has returned to New Biddeford with a child at her side—a child whose unruly red hair and mischievous green eyes leave society gossips quite sure of the identity of his mother. Though five–year–old Ian is really Anne's nephew, nothing could quiet the scandal or erase the stigma once the ton started talking. Anne's childhood companion, Viscount Frederick, was the only person to offer friendship—and then, a rapturous love. But how could Anne allow Freddie to destroy his life by marrying a woman with a tarnished reputation such as hers?"
"A groundbreaking novel of historical fiction based on the real experiences of two of the Golden Age of Pirates’ most infamous women, Anne Bonny and Mary Read, who dared to subvert the rules and gender roles of their time.
1721, Spanish Town, Jamaica. Captured, convicted, and pregnant, 23-year-old Anne Bonny faces the gallows. When writer Captain Charles Johnson enters the garrison, she strikes a deal: she’ll tell this opportunistic fool her story if he sends a doctor to her friend, Mary Read, who’s battling prison fever.
Prior to their arrest, life at sea had offered Anne and Mary freedom that few women knew. Anne, born into scandal in Ireland, seeks home and elusive safety in South Carolina. Discovering the opposite, she makes a bitter bargain for emergency passage to the Bahamas.
Across the Atlantic in England, Mary confronts her own limitations as an illegitimate daughter. She sneaks into a merchant crew, disguised as a cabin boy. But when war sends Mary into the cavalry, she meets a challenge even she might not rival.
When their paths collide in Nassau, a notorious “pirate den,” Anne and Mary find kinship aboard the Revenge—the fastest ship in the Caribbean. With the governor out for blood, every raid brings more risk. From the high seas to the depths of a Jamaican prison, Anne and Mary must navigate impossible choices, each determined to taste freedom again."
"A WICKED MERCY: He's in your home and you don't even know it. Not everything is as it seems in this sleepy Yorkshire village. DI Drew Haskell is a no nonsense detective recovering from a devastating personal loss. When a number of young people turn up dead, Haskell believes a murderer is on the loose but his boss won't authorize an investigation. Breaking the rules is Haskell's only chance at solving this case. Teaming up with criminal profiler Harriet Quinn, Haskell opens up a can of worms that triggers a deadly sequence of events. Can they stop the killer before he finds another victim?
DEATH IN PIECES: He sends you the clues and leaves his victims in pieces. When Harriet receives the random pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, she knows they hold the key to identifying a sadistic killer's next victim. Racing to identify the target, she realizes that she has been chosen as Puzzle Master in a deadly game. Teaming up with Drew, she must put personal differences aside to save a life.
SPLINTER THE BONE: He knows you're alone and he wants to be with you. When a young girl is found washed up at the base of the cliffs, the police suspect human trafficking. Drew and Harriet are called on to investigate a series of seemingly unconnected, and random, crimes. This may turn out to be their most challenging case yet."
"Tabitha has enjoyed an entertaining afternoon in Julia's kitchen, but her return home is a bit jarring. As she arrives at her grandfather’s rue de l’Université mansion, a woman bursts out the door babbling about messages from spirits and a warning Grand-père must heed. Oncle Rafe angrily sends the woman on her way.
The very next night, Tabitha's messieurs host a soiree at their new restaurant, inviting fellow Resistance fighters from the war known as the Nine Bluets.
But shortly after the revelers leave the restaurant, one of Grand-père’s old friends is found dead on the street. When a second member of the Nine Bluets is found poisoned the next day, and a bluet flower is left with the body, Tabitha cannot ignore Madame Vierca's predictions about her dear messieurs. She has no choice but to share her suspicions and fears with the enigmatic Inspecteur Merveille.
Tabitha soon finds herself caught up in an investigation that takes her and Merveille to the seediest, most dangerous parts of the Left Bank. As she and Merveille desperately try to find a killer, they know they don’t have much time before the rest of the Nine Bluets are targeted . . . including Grand-père and Oncle Rafe."
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