Still grindin'

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Ali Land

Milly's mother is a serial killer. Though Milly loves her mother, the only way to make her stop is to turn her in to the police. Milly is given a fresh start: a new identity, a home with an affluent foster family, and a spot at an exclusive private school. But Milly has secrets, and life at her new home becomes complicated. As her mother's trial looms, with Milly as the star witness, Milly starts to wonder how much of her is nature, how much of her is nurture, and whether she is doomed to turn out like her mother after all. When tensions rise and Milly feels trapped by her shiny new life, she has to decide: Will she be good? Or is she bad? She is, after all, her mother's daughter.

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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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Frank Baldwin

Mimi Lessing's attraction to a seduction artist has thrown her marriage plans into chaos. She never imagined that the pleasures of sex could so overwhelm her imagination. Jake Teller's attraction to Mimi Lessing is causing him to rethink his greatest pleasures: the art of the chase, the gleam of submission, the thrill of giving women greater pleasure than they ever dreamed of. A man who secretly watches Mimi sees her with Jake and is filled with rage. Soon the women who Jake has slept with begin being murdered, focusing investigators straight at Jake. Then Mimi herself disappears. "Jake & Mimi" is a relentlessly plotted and powerfully written thriller and a breathtaking exploration of the pleasures and limits of sex.

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Ruth Rendell

Once, when Benet was 14, her mother had tried to stab her with a carving knife. It was some time since she had seen her mad mother, so when she arrived at the airport, Benet tried not to hate her. But then the tragic death of a child begins a chain of deception, kidnap and murder.