Murder at holly house
Denzil Meyrick
It’s December 1952, and a dead stranger has been found lodged up the chimney of Holly House in the snow-covered town of Elderby. Is he a simple thief, or a would-be killer? Either way, he wasn’t on anyone’s Christmas wish-list. Inspector Frank Grasby is ordered to investigate. But as is often the way for him, things don’t go according to plan. When the local doctor’s husband is murdered, Grasby begins to realise that everyone in Elderby is hiding something – and if he can’t uncover the truth soon, the whole country will pay a dreadful price.
In too deep
Lee & Andrew Child
‘Reacher had no idea where he was. No idea how he had got there. But someone must have brought him. And shackled him. And whoever had done those things was going to rue the day. That was for damn sure.’ Jack Reacher wakes up, alone, in the dark, handcuffed to a makeshift bed. His right arm has suffered some major damage. His few possessions are gone. He has no memory of getting there. The last thing Reacher can recall is the car he hitched a ride in getting run off the road. The driver was killed. His captors assume Reacher was the driver’s accomplice and patch up his wounds as they plan to make him talk. A plan that will backfire spectacularly …
The Wrong Sister
Claire Douglas
You’ve known her all your life. … Or have you? Tasha and her sister Alice might look alike, but couldn’t be more different. Yet each trusts the other with her life. So when Tasha is in need of a holiday, Alice offers to stay at home with the kids. Tasha knows they’re in safe hands. She couldn’t be more wrong. The phone call from home is unexpected. Alice and her husband, Kyle, have been attacked. Alice is in intensive care. Kyle is dead. Then the note arrives, addressed to Tasha: It was supposed to be you …
Unruly
David Mitchell
A seriously funny, seriously clever history of our early kings and queens by one of our favourite comedians and cultural commentators. This will be the most refreshing, entertaining history of England you’ll have ever read. Certainly, the funniest. Because David Mitchell will explain how it is not all names, dates or ungraspable historical headwinds, but instead show how it’s really just a bunch of random stuff that happened with a few lucky bastards ending up on top. Some of these bastards were quite strange, but they were in charge, so we quite literally lived, and often still live, by their rules. It’s a great story. And it’s our story. If you want to know who we are in modern Britain, you need to read this book.
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