Flash point

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Rupert Holmes

"1940, San Francisco. Jazz saxophonist Ray Sherwood has arrived in town on tour with the Jack Donovan Orchestra and plenty of bad memories. But when he meets two beautiful women on the same day, Ray is shaken out of his stupor. One of the women, Gail, wants his help in orchestrating her avant-garde composition Swing around the sun; the other will plunge to her death just moments after speaking to him. It soon turns out that there is more to Gail's motivation than meets the eye, and Ray is led along a trail of music, murder and espionage - all set against the ominous backdrop of America preparing for war."--Publisher description.

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Louise Millar

Some people seem to have more than their fair share of bad luck, and Kate Parker is one of them. So when Kate and her son Jack move to Oxford to start a new life, Kate is determined that events of the past will not come back to haunt them. Despite the support she receives from her overbearing in-laws, she starts to feel threatened. Somehow her comfortable family home doesn't feel quite safe - it's almost as though someone is watching them.

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Julie Parsons

For ten years, newly retired policeman Michael McLoughlin has been haunted by the case of a young woman who was brutally murdered, and by the love he felt for Margaret, the victim 's mother. A favour for a friend leads him to another woman who has lost a child ... her daughter Marina has been found drowned. An accident, suicide ... or murder?" "Margaret, too, has been tormented by her daughter Mary's death and the subsequent death of Mary's killer. She can find no peace. Anywhere. Finally she returns to Dublin to face her demons. A chance encounter with a young girl in a graveyard leads her back to a man she never thought she'd see again and to a mother with a grief to match her own.

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Andy McNab

Nick Stone is a deniable asset to British Intelligence. His refusal to assassinate an individual in the Houses of Parliament leads to a chilling ultimatum from his bosses. Either he finishes the job, or Kelly, the 11-year old girl in his guardianship, will surely die.