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SEVERN HOUSE PUBLISHERS Antiques Carry On Barbara Allan When Vivian Borne - true-crime writer, antiques dealer and drama queen - and her co-author daughter Brandy travel to London in luxury to meet their new editor, they don't predict their vacation will end in murder . but, plunged into a complex mystery, they have no choice but to carry on. Summary Look out London - eccentric antiques dealer Vivian Borne and her daughter Brandy are bringing their own brand of mayhem and mischief to the British capital, in the fifteenth installment of the award-winning Trash 'n' Treasures cozy mystery series. Vivian Borne - true-crime author, antiques dealer and ex-sheriff of Serenity, Iowa - is looking forward to meeting her new editor in London. Flying first class, rooms at the Savoy . Her long-suffering co-author, Severn House Publishers daughter Brandy, worries the trip will bankrupt them both, but the alternative - Mother travelling alone - is 9780727890818 unthinkable. Brandy's almost tempted to make her fiance, Tony - Serenity's Chief of Police - call Scotland Yard Pub Date: 7/6/21 and warn them Vivian's coming. $28.99 USD/$38.99 CAD Hardcover with dust jacket But even Brandy doesn't predict their vacation will end in murder . or that she and Mother will be 208 Pages unceremoniously ejected from the country, with an order to leave things well alone. Carton Qty: 20 Fiction / Mystery & Detective Vivian and Brandy need a case to write about, and Mother doesn't care which one. But as the intrepid sleuths - FIC022070 ably supported by doggy detective Sushi - investigate a promising local prospect, they'r... Series: A Trash n' Treasures mystery Contributor Bio 9 in H | 5.9 in W Barbara Allan is the joint pseudonym of husband-and-wife mystery writers, Barbara and Max Allan Collins. Barbara is an acclaimed short-story writer, and Max is multi-award-winning New York Times bestselling novelist and Mystery Writers of America Grand Master. Their previous collaborations have included one son, a short story collection, and fourteen novels. They live in Muscatine, Iowa - their Serenity-esque hometown - in a house filled with trash and treasures. Whitehavens Parker Bilal Brodie is the hitman for the head of a feared crime dynasty. He does what he's told, which is why he's agreed to take his boss's young nephew with him on his next job. But as Brodie finds his target, he gets a call that changes everything - and he is dragged into a brutal game of survival alongside ... Summary When it comes to family, loyalty is everything . It's not easy being the head of a feared crime dynasty. Donny Apostolis and his family are at war with the powerful Ziyades, determined to stop them muscling in on the Apostolis empire. Fortunately, Donny has Brodie. Brodie is loyal. He's also Donny's hitman. He does what he's told, which is why Severn House Publishers he's agreed to take Donny's young nephew with him on his next job. But when Brodie finds his target, he gets 9780727850393 a call that changes everything - and his mission takes a startling turn. Pub Date: 7/6/21 $28.99 USD/$38.99 CAD Hardcover with dust jacket Brodie is suddenly one half of an unlikely couple on the run, dragged into a brutal game of survival alongside Karima, the woman he was sent to kill. But can Karima trust him . and can Brodie trust her? 256 Pages Carton Qty: 20 Contributor Bio Fiction / Thrillers FIC031010 Parker Bilal is the pseudonym of Jamal Mahjoub, the critically acclaimed literary novelist. He is the author of 9 in H | 5.9 in W the Makana Investigations series, the third of which, The Ghost Runner, was longlisted for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. The Divinities, the first in his Crane and Drake London crime series, was published in 2019. Born in London, he has lived in a number of places, including the UK, Denmark, Spain and, currently, the Netherlands. @Parker_Bilal | jamalmahjoub.com Severn House July-Dec 2021 HC - Page 1 SEVERN HOUSE PUBLISHERS Prime Directive Davis Bunn Lieutenant Amanda Bostick must solve the mystery behind the unreported murders of sixteen scientists at an inconsequential outpost on the planet Loria. Is there a simple explanation or are there deeper conspiracies at play? What is the Galactic Space Arm's plans for the planet and are the sentient L... Summary Lieutenant Amanda Bostick is ordered to investigate why scientists on a distant outpost on the planet of Lorian are being murdered with no alarm raised. "In the past ninety days, sixteen colonists have been murdered, and nobody thought to report it until now?" When a number of scientists are mysteriously killed on an insignificant scientific outpost on the planet of Loria Severn House Publishers and no alarm is raised, Commander Rickets of the Galactic Space Arm (GSA) is angered that no one can explain 9780727850263 why. Rickets orders Lieutenant Amanda Bostick along with two armed Guardians, Sergeant Hamoud and Pub Date: 7/6/21 Corporal Nasim, to investigate. $28.99 USD/$38.99 CAD Hardcover with dust jacket All three have faced setbacks in their careers and time is against them: the GSA is demanding answers within 192 Pages Carton Qty: 20 ten days. But they have no idea what to expect as there are few reports on the planet. Fiction / Science Fiction FIC028090 Why are the scientists being killed? Is there more to the mission than first appears? Are the sentient Lorians 9 in H | 5.9 in W who inhabit the planet more of a threat than the GSA realize? Contributor Bio Davis Bunn is a best-selling author with more than eight million books in print. Davis was first published in 1990 and has gone on to have a prolific career with the release of over seventy books across twenty languages. He was born in North Carolina but now lives in Oxfordshire, England, and serves as writer-in-residence at Regent's Park College, University of Oxford. He has won the Christy Award four times and is a member of their Hall of Fame. In 2011 he won the Library Journal Best Book of the Year for Lion of Babylon. Davis also publishes under the pseudonym of Thomas Locke. The Lammas Wild Alys Clare July, 1100. After seven years away, Lassair is finally going home. Before she can reunite with her loved ones, however, she has a promise to keep. Old flame - and king's spy - Rollo left her a chest before he died, and it's time to collect it. But to her dismay, Lassair's soon caught up in a web of ... Summary Healer Lassair returns to England and uncovers a secret that puts the lives of everyone she knows in grave danger, in the final Aelf Fen medieval mystery. It is the summer of 1100, and after seven long years away in Spain, Lassair is finally going home. Back to her beloved mentor Gurdyman. Back to her family. And back to young lawman Jack Chevestrier, who Lassair hopes still carries the same deep feelings for her as she does for him. Severn House Publishers 9780727890092 Before she can reunite with her loved ones, however, Lassair has a long-overdue task to perform. Old flame - Pub Date: 7/6/21 and king's spy - Rollo Guiscard left her a chest before he died, and it is finally time for her to collect it. But the $28.99 USD/$38.99 CAD chest contains more than gold, and soon Lassair is caught up in a web of danger and deception that threatens Hardcover with dust jacket not just her own life, but the lives of everyone she holds dear. 256 Pages Carton Qty: 20 And this is not the only peril Lassair must face. For although she's left the south behind her forever, the south is Fiction / Mystery & Detective not done with her yet . FIC022060 Series: An Aelf Fen Mystery Gripping, tense and moving, the last installment of the Aelf Fen series provides both a twisty and 9 in H | 5.9 in W compelling historica... Contributor Bio Alys Clare lives in the English countryside where her novels are set. She went to school in Tonbridge and later studied archaeology at the University of Kent. She is also the author of the Hawkenlye, Aelf Fen and Gabriel Taverner historical mystery series. Severn House July-Dec 2021 HC - Page 2 SEVERN HOUSE PUBLISHERS Darkness Beyond Marjorie Eccles February, 1933. When Paul Millar returns home, fourteen years after he was presumed killed at the end of the Great War, his shocked family have many questions, which Paul refuses to answer. DI Herbert Reardon has questions too, when Paul's body is found in the canal just two weeks later and it becom... Summary DI Herbert Reardon investigates the curious case of a man seemingly returned from the dead, in the latest 1930s-set historical mystery from Marjorie Eccles. February, 1933. When their eldest brother Paul walks into their hallway, fourteen years after he was presumed dead, successful property developers Thea and Teddy Millar are beset with questions. Where has he been? Why has he never written to let them know he was alive? And most of important of all: what happened to Paul, after Severn House Publishers the end of the Great War, to make him abandon everything and everyone he ever knew? 9780727850607 Pub Date: 7/6/21 When Paul's body is found floating in the canal two weeks later, Detective Inspector Herbert Reardon feels sure $28.99 USD/$38.99 CAD Hardcover with dust jacket the murder is connected to his new life in London.