December 2020 What’S New? Fiction / Non-Fiction / Biographies / Dvds Fiction
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December 2020 What’s New? Fiction / Non-Fiction / Biographies / DVDs Fiction Hidden in plain sight / ARCHER, Jeffrey William Warwick has been promoted to Detective Sergeant, but his promotion means that he, along with the rest of his team, have been reassigned to the Drugs Squad. They are immediately tasked with apprehending a notorious drug dealer who operates out of South London. As Wil- liam's team closes the net around a criminal network like none they have ever faced before, he devises a trap they would never expect, one that is hidden in plain sight. Daylight / BALDACCI, David Ever since her twin sister Mercy was abducted when the girls were just six years old, Atlee Pine has been relentless in her search for the truth. Now, just as time is running out on her investiga- tion, she finally gets her most promising breakthrough yet - the identity of her sister's kidnapper: Ito Vincenzo. Last known location: New Jersey. The last druid / BROOKS, Terry As the Four Lands reels under the Skaar invasion - spearheaded by a warlike people determined to make this land their own -our heroes must decide what they will risk to save the integrity of their home. Even as one group remains to defend the Four Lands, another is undertaking a peri- lous journey across the sea to the Skaar homeland, carrying with them a new piece of technology that could change the face of the world for ever. The wise friend / CAMPBELL, Ramsey Patrick Torrington's aunt Thelma was a successful artist whose late work turned to- wards the occult. While staying with her in his teens he found evidence that she used to visit mag- ical sites. As an adult he discovers her journal of her explorations, and his teenage son Roy be- comes fascinated too. His experiences at the sites scare Patrick away from them, but Roy carries on the search, together with his new girlfriend. The sentinel / CHILD, Lee When Reacher ends up in a town near Pleasantville, Tennessee, there's nothing pleasant about the place. When he spots someone walking into an ambush, the odds are four against one-- until Reacher intervenes, with his own trademark brand of conflict resolution. Fiction Present tense / CONYER, Natalie Veteran cop Schalk Lourens wants a quiet life. Like the rest of the country, he's trying to put the past behind him. But the past has a way of hanging on, and when Schalk's old boss, retired police captain Piet Pieterse is murdered, Schalk must confront old demons. Pieterse has been necklaced. A tyre was placed over his head, doused in petrol, and set alight. Who would target Pieterse this way, and why now, 25 years after apartheid ended? War lord / CORNWELL, Bernard England is under attack. Chaos reigns. Northumbria, the last kingdom, is threatened by armies from all sides, by land and sea and only one man stands in their way. Torn between loyalty and sworn oaths, the warrior king Lord Uhtred of Bebbanburg faces his greatest ever battle and pre- pares for his ultimate fate. Consolation / DISHER, Gary Winter in Tiverton. Constable Paul Hirschhausen has a snowdropper on his patch. Someone is stealing women's underwear, and Hirsch knows enough about that kind of crime-how it can esca- late-not to take it lightly. But the more immediate concerns are a call from the high school, a teacher worried about a student who may be in danger at home. The cold, seeping feeling that something is very, very wrong. Fortune and glory / EVANOVICH, Janet When Stephanie's beloved Grandma Mazur's new husband died on their wedding night, the only thing he left her was a beat-up old easy chair... and the keys to a life-changing fortune. But as Stephanie and Grandma Mazur search for Jimmy Rosolli's treasure, they discover that they're not the only ones on the hunt. Two dangerous enemies from the past stand in their way-along with a new adversary who's even more formidable. The lying life of adults / FERRANTE, Elena wo years before leaving home my father said to my mother that I was very ugly. The sentence was uttered under his breath, in the apartment that my parents, newly married, had bought in Rione Alto, at the top of Via San Giacomo dei Capri. Everything - the spaces of Naples, the blue light of a very cold February, those words - remained fixed. Fiction Lethal white / GALBRAITH, Robert When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike's office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike is left deeply unsettled. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed, and cannot remember many concrete details, there is some- thing sincere about him and his story. But before Strike can question him further, Billy bolts from his office in a panic. Death in Daylesford / GREENWOOD, Kerry When a mysterious invitation for a spa holiday arrives for Miss Phryne Fisher from an unknown retired Captain Herbert Spencer, Phryne's curiosity is piqued. Spencer runs a retreat in Victoria's rural spa country for shell-shocked veterans of World War I. It's a cause after Phryne's own heart, but what can Spencer want from her? Phryne and her faithful servant Dot set out for Daylesford, viewing their rural sojourn as a short holiday. But their relaxation is short-lived. A time for mercy / GRISHAM, John Deputy Stuart Kofer is a protected man. Though he's turned his drunken rages on his girlfriend, Josie, and her children many times before, the police code of silence has always shielded him. But one night he goes too far, leaving Josie for dead on the floor before he passes out. Her son, six- teen-year-old Drew, knows he has only this one chance to save them. He picks up the gun and takes the law into his own hands. Jake Brigance doesn't want this impossible case. The dressmaker’s secret / HAM, Rosalie t is 1953 and Melbourne society is looking forward to coronation season, the grand balls and cele- brations for the young queen-to-be. Tilly Dunnage is, however, working for a pittance in a second- rate Collins Street salon. Her talents go unappreciated, and the madame is a bully and a cheat, but Tilly has a past she is desperate to escape and good reason to prefer anonymity. The survivors / HARPER, Jane Kieran Elliott's life changed forever on the day a reckless mistake led to devastating consequenc- es. The guilt that still haunts him resurfaces during a visit with his young family to the small coastal community he once called home. Kieran's parents are struggling in a town where fortunes are forged by the sea. Between them all is his absent brother, Finn. When a body is discovered on the beach, long-held secrets threaten to emerge. Fiction A longer fall / HARRIS, Charlaine Lizbeth Rose is hired onto a new crew for a seemingly easy protection job, transporting a crate into Dixie, just about the last part of the former United States of America she wants to visit. But what seemed like a straight-forward job turns into a massacre as the crate is stolen. Up against a wall in Dixie, where social norms have stepped back into the last century, Lizbeth has to go undercover with an old friend to spark a rebellion. Just like you / HORNBY, Nick Lucy married a man with whom she had everything in common but he made her miserable. When she meets Joseph, she would rather have a baby-sitter for her sons than a boyfriend, but she dis- covers that sometimes happiness comes from unexpected places Flying the nest / JOHNS, Rachael The first time Ashling Wood realises her marriage is on the rocks is when her husband, Adrian, suggests they try nest parenting. Heartbroken, Ash suddenly finds herself living a double life - one week with her children, the next cohabiting with her happily single sister-in-law. Her friends think the modern custody solution is an exciting opportunity for her to spread her wings, but all Ash wants is her family back together. The only good Indians / JONES, Stephen Graham Ten years ago, four young men shot some elk then went on with their lives. It happens every year; it's been happening forever; it's the way it's always been. But this time it's different. Ten years after that fateful hunt, these men are being stalked themselves. Soaked with a powerful gothic atmosphere, the endless expanses of the landscape press down on these men - and their children - as the ferocious spirit comes for them one at a time. Love your life / KINSELLA, Sophie Ava is sick of online dating. She's always trusted her own instincts over an algorithm, anyway, and she wants a break from it all. So when she signs up to a semi-silent, anonymous writing retreat in glorious Italy, love is the last thing on her mind. Until she meets a handsome stranger… All she knows is that he's funny, he's kind and - she soon learns - he's great in bed. Fiction Elsewhere / KOONTZ, Dean R. Since his wife, Michelle, left seven years ago, Jeffy Coltrane has worked to maintain a normal life for himself and his eleven-year-old daughter, Amity, in Suavidad Beach. It's a quiet life, until a lo- cal eccentric known as Spooky Ed shows up on their doorstep. Ed entrusts Jeffy with hiding a strange and dangerous object - something he calls "the key to everything" - and tells Jeffy that he must never use the device.