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Joy is a contemporary coming-of-age novel revolving around two women who shared an intense whirlwind romance as teenagers. Now, knee-deep in their twenties, they are both navigating their separate lives.Joy, in London with her husband, is dissatisfied with her materialistic lifestyle. Erica, an artist in their hometown of Liverpool, is stuck thinking about the past whilst living with a girlfriend who can't stop getting fake tan on the bed sheets. When circumstance brings Joy back home, the pair are faced with everything that was left unsaid, and the chance to risk it all to be together again. What happens when the one that got away comes back?

It Takes a Special Kind of Team to Hunt a Special Kind of KillerTime is about to run out for Joseph Miller. The ex-marine is being stalked in his retirement by a twisted serial killer with a flair for the theatrical: The Holy Ghost. When the spectre strikes again, Miller becomes the sixth in a chain of grisly murders going back decades.Detective Tom McHale is brought in to lead the investigation, having already put away a multiple murderer. His reputation is on the rise, and an autoimmune disease and self-medication don't dull his edge.To hunt The Holy Ghost, McHale enlists the help of a Native American FBI agent, a Jesuit priest, and a powerful supercomputer named Mother. Together, they form a formidable alliance that will stop at nothing to track down the killer and bring him to justice. But time waits for no-one, and as the hour approaches, the seventh victim could be closer than they think.

Aiden Hughes is a wanted man for a murder he didn't commit and, of course, Manchester's most ruthless gangster still wants him dead.Fresh from his confrontation with The Honey Talker, Aiden seeks a new life and anonymity in Ireland, settling into a cosy existence with girlfriend Roisin. But then an old colleague, Suzie Regen, reaches out, desperate to get to the bottom of a new mystery.Rumours of a chemist with a penchant for poison and contract killing draw Aiden back into the dark underbelly of Manchester to face this deadly new foe. But has he met his match? And can survive this fatal game?

Spanish version: The Sound We Found is a child's listen and look book, designed to encourage early sound and rhyme play. A great resource to aid early speech and language development, and to babble and bond with your baby, toddler or child.

What Has Been Seen Cannot Be Unseen...Liverpool is in the grip of an intense heatwave, and strange things are happening. A woman dies in an apparent case of Spontaneous Human Combustion; a truck explodes on the dock road; the charred corpses of pets litter the city; forest fires ravage the pinewoods...and there are birds everywhere, silent flocks drawing in ominously.Detective Inspector Darren Swift thinks there are connections, and his investigation delves into the worlds of football, nightclubs and organised crime. But is he imagining things? Dr. Helen Hope doesn't think so. And she believes the key lies in a mysterious seventeenth-century occult book which has gone missing from Liverpool Library.In the blistering sequel to Reprobation, DI Swift is forced to confront some inconvenient ghosts from his past, as a terrifying shadow lies over his city's reality....

There's a bad vibe.A professor of psychoacoustics is found dead in his office. A suspected heart attack, until a second acoustician dies under similar circumstances.Meanwhile, an outbreak of mysterious illnesses on a council estate, outbursts of unexplained violence in a city centre nightclub, and strange noises coming from the tunnels underneath Liverpool. Can it really be a coincidence that death metal band Total Depravity are back in the city, waging their own form of sonic warfare?Detective Inspector Darren Swift is convinced there are connections. Still grieving his fiancé's death and sworn to revenge, he is thrown back into action on the trail of a murderer with a terrifying and undetectable weapon.But this case cannot be solved using conventional detective work, and D.I. Swift will need to put the rulebook aside and seek the occult expertise of Dr. Helen Hope and her unlikely sidekick, guitarist Mikko Kristensen.You can't escape the noise. Only the memory of silence can comfort you. Or death itself.

Are You One Of The Elect?Dr. Helen Hope is a lecturer in eschatology - the study of death, judgement, and the destiny of humankind. She is also a Calvinist nun, her life devoted to atoning for a secret crime.When a body is found crucified on a Liverpool beach, she forms an unlikely alliance with suspect Mikko Kristensen, lead guitarist in death metal band Total Depravity. Together, they go on the trail of a rogue geneticist who they believe holds the key - not just to the murder, but to something much darker.Also on the trail is cynical Scouse detective Darren Swift. In his first murder case, he must confront his own lack of faith as a series of horrific crimes drag the city of two cathedrals to the gates of hell.Science meets religious belief in this gripping murder mystery.

Are You One Of The Elect?When a body is found crucified on a Liverpool beach, Calvinist nun and eschatology lecturer Dr. Helen Hope forms an unlikely alliance with suspect Mikko Kristensen, lead guitarist in death metal band Total Depravity.Together, they go on the trail of a rogue geneticist who could be the key - not just to the murder, but to something much darker.Cynical detective Darren Swift must confront his own lack of faith as a series of horrific crimes drag the city of two cathedrals to the gates of hell.

"The Scouse Stand By Me."YOUTHFUL PROMISES SHAPE LETHAL OUTCOMESHistorian Vinny Connolly tries to escape the bitter memories of his childhood in a tough neighbourhood. But a secret from the past, involving a pocket watch, an old man's death, and childhood friends, threatens to unravel his present.When one of those friends, Sammo, dies in mysterious circumstances, Vinny, his wife Helen, and his ex-partner Anne McCarthy race against time to uncover the truth. A hit and run incident, text messages, and a murdered pet, all warn Vinny away from the investigation. A series of letters hold the key to Sammo's life, and the secret to unlock the mystery of his death. Facing unexpected obstacles and police opposition Anne tries to overcome an accidental death verdict.Set against the backdrop of a post-Brexit UK, this is a gripping tale of immigration, friendship, the power of secrets to shape our lives, and the value of resistance to authority.

Bill O'Jack's, Saddleworth, 1832.She bent over it. Him. Bent over him; her grandfather's body, his nose and brow beaten into his face, a soft, bloodied mess. She stepped back; saw her grandfather's shirt ripped open at the collarbone. She thought of the bright blood in the eggs she had cracked against the side of a bowl that morning and how she needed yeast. And teeth, teeth caught in the soup like tiny nuggets of stale bread. A faint whistle came from his mouth, the red stickiness bubbling. She crouched over him, grasped at his collar with shaking hands.The bloody, battered, and unrecognisable bodies of an innkeeper and his son are found in their remote village. As gore-seekers travel from across the country to witness the sight, mill-worker Millie Bradbury, her family, and her discovery have become notorious, and the focus of unwanted national attention.But then popular local man, Johnny Barkwell, long the apple of Millie's eye, offers her a life beyond the borders of her girlhood. The promise of marriage, stability, security, and the chance for a new start in the shadow of tragedy.This new beginning isn't what Millie would've chosen. But as a young wife with few choices, she must comply, and so Millie finds herself on a coffin ship, heading to The Canadas.Out of Human Sight is a story of grief, family, and longing for home. The journey of a woman seeking a better life, through desperation, resilience, and a will to survive.

Aspiring musician, Billy, grows up in the glamour of sixties Liverpool dreaming of stardom. Hopes fade when he gets a girl pregnant and is hastily married. Seeking honest work at sea, his ship sinks with Billy presumed dead. When he returns, he finds his wife with another man but finds himself in jail after the ensuing quarrel. Encouraged by his glamorous small-time gangster cousin, Duke, Billy resumes his entertainment career and travels to London. There he falls in love with a precocious secretary of a publishing agent with a dark past. She recognises his talent and opts to help him. Riding high, Billy returns to Liverpool, agreeing to one last job for Duke. The job goes wrong and Billy accidentally kills a man. Duke goes down for the murder and wracked with guilt, Billy never returns to Missy or his music. This is a ballad of excess, success, and the pursuit of power.

When his beloved little brother is stolen away, five-year-old Tommy Farrier is left alone with his alcoholic mam, his violent step-dad and his guilt. Too young to understand what has really happened, Tommy is sure of only one thing. He is to blame.Tommy tries to be good, to live-up to his brother's increasingly hazy memory, but trapped in a world of shame and degradation he grows up with just two options; poverty or crime. And crime pays. Or so he thinks.A teenage drug-dealer for the vicious Burns gang, Tommy's life is headed for disaster, until, in the place he least expects, Tommy sees a familiar face... And then things get a whole lot worse.

'A love letter to Liverpool, with a touch of Peaky Blinders.' S.E. Moorhead, Author of Witness X'A thoroughly enjoyable debut.' Catherine Fearns, Author of the Reprobation SeriesWHEN SECRETS RESURFACE THE PAST REACHES OUT...2004The discovery of a body in the Liverpool docklands unearths long forgotten secrets. Reporter Anne McCarthy is keen to prove herself and dives into the case with abandon. There she finds Michael, an old Irish caretaker who knows far more than he's letting on and may have a connection to the body.Vinny Connolly is starting a postgrad degree, researching Liverpool's migrant history and a burgeoning Scouse identity. But Vinny has been neglecting his own family history and stranger Michael might know about his father's disappearance in the 70s.1955Escaping poverty in Ireland and fresh off the boat, Michael falls in with Wicklow boys Jack Power and Paddy Connolly, who smuggle contraband through the docks, putting them at odds with the unions. While organisers rally the dockworkers against the strikebreakers and rackets. A story of corruption, secret police, and sectarianism slowly unravels. But will the truth out?As the conflict heightens, Michael questions the life sprawling out ahead of him, while in the present, Anne races to solve the mystery, but is she prepared for what she'll find?