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December 1940. New Year''s Eve draws closer, but crowds will not be gathering on the steps of St Paul''s Cathedral to celebrate. After a quiet Christmas, the whole area has just suffered London''s most devastating air raid since the start of the Blitz and waves of incendiary bombs have burnt the heart of British book publishing to the ground. Detective Inspector John Jago finds a desolate woman sitting among the ruins of her family business and must break the news - her husband''s been found shot dead at their home in Soho. An antiquarian bookseller, he''d just acquired a mysterious volume which is priceless - and missing. Did someone covet it enough to kill for it?Obsessive collectors and unscrupulous dealers haunt Jago''s descent into Soho''s underworld, where he finds criminals are branching out in the shadows of the blackout. Allison & Busby has produced many successful crime series set in World War II, by authors such as Jacqueline Winspear and Jim Kelly. The Blitz Detective is set during World War II, when German bombs rained down nightly on London. This installment set in the shady streets of Soho provides perfect opportunities for the city''s criminal fraternity. With vivid period detail of wartime London, DI Jago is an engaging and memorable lead character.

Second chances and a dash of magic ... In Alba Ashby's hour of need, she finds herself on the doorstep of number 11 Hope Street, a house that has stood quietly in Cambridge for nearly two hundred years. But this is no ordinary house. Its walls are steeped in the wisdom of past residents including Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Parker and Agatha Christie. Alba accepts an invitation to stay under the condition she has ninety-nine nights, and no more, to turn her life around. Guided by the energy of the house, where portraits come alive, bookcases refill themselves and hot chocolate has healing properties, the enchanting experience Alba and her new friends share will transform their lives in unexpected ways.

The Cambridge University witches meet every month on the roof of one of the city's many colleges to discuss books and more, but lately the ties that bind them have begun to unravel. Amandine has the power to feel the emotions of those around her. Noa's ability is to hear others' innermost thoughts and secrets. Kat struggles with unrequited love, but refuses to use magic to win anyone's heart. Her sister, Cosima, is not above using such powers, sprinkling pastries in her bakery with sugar and enchantment. But when Cosima sets her sights on the love of Kat's life, she sets off a chain of events that turns each of the witches' worlds upside down . . .

Miranda''s Family is the first in a new series by Anna Jacobs set in Wiltshire and focused on the emotive complexity of adoption Anna Jacobs has never been more popular. She retains her position as the fifth most borrowed adult author in UK libraries Miranda Westerby always believed she was an only child. When her adoptive mother dies, Miranda discovers a box of papers in the attic of the family home, and the contents shock her to her core: she is the eldest of four children, scattered to the four winds when their birth parents died suddenly. Miranda sets out to find her siblings, and along the way she finds a love of her own. Prolific and extremely popular author of historical and contemporary sagas with sales of over five million copies

Juno Browne, self-proclaimed Domestic Goddess who can turn her hand to cleaning, dog walking or home help jobs, is feeling overworked and underpaid. Her elderly client, Maisie, is demanding more of her time and staff absences at the Ashburton antiques shop Juno owns are making business difficult. She is not the only one with problems, very serious problems. Among her friends, Elizabeth is being blackmailed, and Ricky''s errant nephew is on the run from criminals in London.In an attempt to get to the bottom of these disturbing developments, Juno finds herself drawn from an isolated manor house on Dartmoor to London''s glamorous but shady theatreland. Can she avoid being fatally entangled in threads of deception and murder?

Yorkshire, 1983. Thatcher is at Number 10, Michael Jackson''s ''Thriller'' is on the radio and Lorraine Quick is having to put plans to tour with her band on hold due to work. With her expertise in psychometric testing, she is being sent to the Yorkshire moors to build a PR-friendly team out of the ragtag staff of the infamous Windwell Asylum as it transitions into a modern, top-security unit housing some of the most dangerous criminals in the country.And then Lorraine stumbles on a brutal murder that has taken place despite the fifteen-foot-high perimeter wall and heavy-duty locks. Between the asylum''s lingering reputation for violence, the haunting underground tunnels of the old institution and the arrival of almost-old flame DS Diaz to investigate the murder, events are coming to a head for Lorraine. For readers who love a tense and twisty medical thriller like Freida McFadden''s Ward D and Leslie Wolfe''s The Surgeon. The bleak, Yorkshire moorland setting and Thatcher''s beleaguered NHS provides a chilling backdrop for an impossible-to-put-down crime thriller. The dark side to the profession that purports to ''do no harm'' has perennial fascination with readers. The follow-up to Bailey''s chilling Sharp Scratch, Isolation Ward similarly draws upon the author''s time working at the - heart of the NHS, including Ashworth top security psychiatric hospital.

First in a new series from Jim Eldridge, author of the bestselling series set in the world of museums, hotels and the London Underground. In this series, Eldridge explores crimes in notable UK cathedrals during World War Two, tapping into our perennial fascination with these landmarks. The next addition to the series takes places at Canterbury Cathedral, coming June 2026. May 1941. One of the senior choristers of St Paul''s Cathedral choir, Dr Edwin Roberts, is found beaten to death in the crypt of the Cathedral. Coburg and Lampson are called in to investigate. When they get there, Coburg is pleasantly surprised to be greeted there by Arthur Waterson, an old Etonian friend, now sporting a dog collar. Waterson believes that there may be a connection between the very precious books that are housed in the crypt and Dr Roberts'' work at Bletchley Park. As Coburg and Lampson work to solve a very puzzling case, it becomes clear that there is more to the brutal murder than they first suspected . Murder at St Paul''s Cathedral follows Inspector Coburg and Sergeant Lampson as they unravel a mysterious murder committed against a senior chorister.

Now a major motion picture, The Sheep Detectives, starring Hugh JackmanOn a hillside near the quaint Irish village of Glennkill, the flock gathers around the dead body of their shepherd, George, who lies pinned to the ground with a spade. George cared deeply for the sheep, reading to them daily, and as a result they are far smarter than your average flock. Led by Miss Maple, the sharpest sheep in Glennkill (and possibly the world), they set out to find George's killer. With an assortment of woolly investigators on the case, there are furtive missions into the village and a collection of two-legged suspects to chew over. Dazzingly original, Three Bags Full introduces a band of detectives who are a breed apart.

Pippa Mason is ready for a fresh start. She has bought Pumpkin Cottage in the picturesque Wye Valley village of Riverdean, where her late mother grew up, and plans to renovate a run-down bed and breakfast. Despite the complications of the project and a very surly builder, Pippa is settling into village life and starting to fall for the charms of local Jake when problems start coming thick and fast ...Jenny Foster has enough on her plate running Riverside Lodge as well as managing her husband Phil''s diagnosis of early-onset dementia. She didn''t need the threat of another B&B on her doorstep. When the spat between them escalates and an autumn storm brings matters to a head, Pippa and Jenny will have to see if Riverdean is big enough for the both of them.

Autumn, 1941. The third year of war and still the siren sounds, driving the people of Cambridge from their beds to trudge to one of the city''s crowded bomb shelters. At dawn, the body of a young man is found in a shadowy corner. Everything points to suicide, but Detective Inspector Eden Brooke has his doubts given the unidentified man has a suspiciously tropical suntan and the detective''s office telephone number scrawled on the back of his hand. Did the victim know his life was in danger?Brooke''s caseload doubles when a local factory making submarine periscopes discovers it has a saboteur on the workforce. The city''s police are at full-stretch. Then two more men are found dead in the city''s shelters. A blackout killer is on the loose. The trail leads Brooke to the university, a laboratory which hides a brutal secret, and the key to a startling mystery. A Cambridge-based series from a Dagger-winning author with a rapidly growing following. For fans of Jacqueline Winspear''s books and James Runcie''s Grantchester series Inspired in great part by the author''s father who was a Chief Superintendent in the Met. and a Commando in WW2.

March, 1941. London is the scene of nightly destruction as the Blitz continues, and the bombing is taking its toll on the city''s inhabitants. Detective Chief Inspector Coburg and Sergeant Lampson are recovering from a devastating bomb attack on the Café de Paris when they receive a call asking them to go to the disused Lord''s Underground station where the body of a man has been discovered outside the formerly busy station. The dead man was the victim of a brutal attack, beaten to death by what appears to have been a cricket bat. Could the dead man be associated with the British Empire XI, made up of players from Great Britain and far-flung corners of the globe, who are playing at the world-famous Lord''s cricket ground? Coburg and Lampson are put in a spin by this complex case.

The streets of East London teem with different languages, cultures and religions. Private investigators Lee Arnold and Mumtaz Hakim are well-versed in the community''s tensions, the sad day-to-day reality that includes the desecration of graves at Plashet Jewish cemetery in East Ham. However, the destruction of these final resting places leads to a disturbing discovery - one of the damaged coffins does not contain human remains, but instead a sculpture of a man made of clay. This so-called ''golem'', a term from Jewish myth given to a figure brought to life by supernatural means, proves intriguing to Arnold and Hakim, even more so when it is stolen in an armed raid from a police storage facility, leaving a man dead in its wake.The case leads the pair into the past in London and Prague, and onto the trail of a jewel worth killing for. Nadel is also well known for her CWA Silver Dagger winning Inspector Ikmen series, which was recently adapted as the massively successful series on the BBC. Nadel was born and raised in the East End of London, a setting which she brilliantly brings to life in this series. The latest in Nadel''s gritty, original and timely series following private investigators Lee Arnold and Mumtaz Hakim.

When a young girl is snatched from a West Yorkshire town there are eerie similarities with a cold case from many years earlier. It can''t be the same killer, can it? Yorkshire, 1994. Eighteen-year-old Adrian Brown spends his days working at the local newspaper, and his evenings in his local pub. But under this ordinary surface lies a haunting story. Aged ten, Adrian was kidnapped by a shadowy figure known as The Lollipop Man, who had abducted three children before. Adrian was the only one to escape. The Lollipop Man might well have returned when another missing child whips up a media frenzy. Journalist Sheila Hargreaves, troubled with memories of her own involvement in the reporting of the previous abductions, is determined to dig deeper, atone for what she did nearly a decade ago and bring the Lollipop Man to justice.

A shiver thrilled my spine at the thought of what might be contained in collections to be kept away from ordinary eyes ...London, 1873. Madeleine Brewster''s marriage to Dr Lucius Everley was meant to be the solution to her family''s sullied name. After all, Lucius is a well-respected collector of natural curiosities - his ''Small Museum'' is his life''s work, although firmly kept under lock and key. His sister Grace''s philanthropic work with fallen women also adds to the polished reputation of the family.However, Maddie finds herself unwelcome in her new home and the more she learns about Lucius and Grace, the more she suspects that unimaginable horrors lie behind the respectable façade.Then Maddie is framed for a crime that would take her to the gallows and leave the Everleys free to continue their dark schemes. Her only hope is her friend Caroline who must prove Maddie''s innocence before the trial reaches its fatal conclusion.

Gwinny Tuffel is on location in the misty Yorkshire Dales filming a small part in Draculania, a genderswapped remake of Bram Stoker''s classic tale, when life begins to imitate art a little too closely. One of the cast members is found dead inside a locked trailer, with a stake through their heart.With a prima donna in the starring role, filming is already facing delays, while Gwinny is being run ragged by Lily, the Jack Russell terrier she''s looking after for a friend in hospital. Against the backdrop of Hendale Hall with its own vampire legend, a flesh-and-blood killer has struck. Will Gwinny be able to find the murderer before the production or any further victims are cut? Allison & Busby are proud to be publishing a new contemporary cosy crime series, The Dog Sitter Detective, by New York Times bestselling author Antony Johnston Each book follows a different breed of dog influenced by the author''s lifelong love for dogs and support of rescue charities The series follows former actress Gwinny Tuffel who stumbles upon murder cases and embarks on a burgeoning romance, often accompanied by her canine companions

1922. Ruby Vaughn has made a life for herself running a bookshop alongside octogenarian Mr Owen. When she finds herself at Penryth Hall, deep in the Cornish countryside, painful memories emerge of her lost friendship with Tamsyn, now married to the rather sinister Sir Edward Chenowyth. Although desperate to leave, Ruby''s plans are thwarted when Penryth''s bells ring for the first time in thirty years. Edward has been brutally killed in the orchard and fears are rife that a dormant curse has been awoken. Sceptical Ruby doesn''t believe in such things, nor in the power the locals swear Ruan Kivell, the Pellar, possesses to break the curse. But, to protect her friend, Ruby must work alongside this unsettling man to find out what really happened that night.