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Monday 6 August 2012
The Resurrectionist, James Bradley
A Week in December, Sebastian Faulks
Sunday 29 July 2012
The Great Stink, Clare Clark
There, in the darkness of the stinking tunnels beneath the rising towers of Victorian London, May discovers another side of the city and remembers a disturbing, violent past. The corruption of the growing city soon begins to overwhelm him and a violent murder is committed.
Will the sewers reveal all and show that the world above ground is even darker and more threatening than the tunnels beneath?
Beautifully written, evocative and compelling, with a fantastically vivid cast of characters, Clare Clarke's first book is a rich novel, full of suspense, that draws the reader right into Victorian London and into the worlds of its characters who are desperately attempting to swim the tides of change.
A Small Death in Lisbon, Robert Wilson
This stunning, atmospheric thriller set in war-torn Europe won the CWA Gold Dagger and has now been reissued with the Javier Falcon series.
A Portuguese bank is founded on the back of Nazi wartime deals.
Over half a century later a young girl is murdered in Lisbon.
1941
Klaus Felsen, SS, arrives in Lisbon and the strangest party in history where Nazis and Allies, refugees and entrepreneurs dance to the strains of opportunism and despair. Felsen’s war takes him to the bleak mountains of the north where a brutal battle is being fought for an element vital to Hitler’s blitzkrieg.
Late 1990s
Inspector Ze Coelho is investigating the murder of a young girl with a disturbing sexual past. As Ze digs deeper he overturns the dark soil of history and unearths old bones. The 1974 revolution has left injustices of the old fascist regime unresolved. But there’s an older, greater injustice for which this small death in Lisbon is horrific compensation, and in his final push for the truth, Ze must face the most chilling opposition.
Over half a century later a young girl is murdered in Lisbon.
1941
Klaus Felsen, SS, arrives in Lisbon and the strangest party in history where Nazis and Allies, refugees and entrepreneurs dance to the strains of opportunism and despair. Felsen’s war takes him to the bleak mountains of the north where a brutal battle is being fought for an element vital to Hitler’s blitzkrieg.
Late 1990s
Inspector Ze Coelho is investigating the murder of a young girl with a disturbing sexual past. As Ze digs deeper he overturns the dark soil of history and unearths old bones. The 1974 revolution has left injustices of the old fascist regime unresolved. But there’s an older, greater injustice for which this small death in Lisbon is horrific compensation, and in his final push for the truth, Ze must face the most chilling opposition.
The Secrets of the Lazarus Club, Tony Pollard
The club meets to discuss ideas so unorthodox they cannot be voiced in public, so advanced are they that they will change the course of history but it is a brotherhood of questionable morality.
Meanwhile, mutilated bodies are being washed up from the murky Thames, leading police to Dr Phillips’ door: can he help solve some brutal murders?
It is a dark and twisted conspiracy and Dr Phillips soon realises that the Lazarus Club is being used by one member for some evil purpose. Can he discover who in time to prevent an extraordinary invention falling into the wrong hands?
Wednesday 25 July 2012
The Return of the Dancing Master, Henning Mankell
The One Hundred and Ninety Nine Steps, Michael Faber
The Crimson Petal and the White author, Michael Faber, is back with this historical thriller, romance and ghost story. Sian, troubled by dark dreams and looking for distraction, joins an archaeological dig at Whitby Abbey. The abbey's one hundred and ninety-nine steps link the twenty-first century with the ruins of the past and Sian is swept into a mystery involving a long-hidden murder, a fragile manuscript in a bottle and some peculiar characters. This is an ingenious literary page-turner and is completely unforgettable.
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