The Patriots' Club

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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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Melanie Wallace

When Jamie finds a boy tied to a tree and cuts him loose, she has no idea of the desperate chain of events her act of humanity will trigger. An orphaned teenage runaway who has fetched up with only her dog and her backpack in the lonesome town of her grandparents' birth, Jamie becomes housekeeper to Margaret, a retired photographer.

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Steve Hayes, David Whitehead

A vicious serial killer haunts the bayous of Louisiana. The only person who can catch him is FBI Agent Kate Palmer. But Kate's specialised work has taken its toll on her and she's facing burnout. Worse still, she's about to rekindle a relationship with the only man she ever loved when the Bayou Butcher strikes again - terrifyingly close to home. For Kate, that makes it personal - it might also be just the thing it takes to break her completely.

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Barbara Parker

Struggling to work as a graphic artist, former master forger Tom Fairchild accepts a precarious but lucrative job from the millionaire father of his former girlfriend only to discover that the assignment involves a dubious ulterior motive.