FORMER US PRESIDENT Bill Clinton is jointly credited with best-selling author James Patterson in one of the highlighted new titles just added to the Library shelves, along with offerings from Robert Crais, Liz Lawler and Gail Honeyman.
The Promise
by Robert Crais
WHEN ELVIS COLE is hired to locate a woman who may have disappeared with a stranger she met online, it seems like an ordinary case – until Elvis learns the missing woman worked for a defence contractor and was being blackmailed to supply explosives.
Meanwhile, LAPD officer Scott James and his patrol dog, Maggie, enter an abandoned building to, locate a dangerous thief, only to discover far more than they expected. soon, Scott and Maggie find themselves targeted and, as their case intertwines with Elvis and Joe’s, they join forces to find the missing woman, not only before she is killed but before the same fate happens to one of them.
Don’t Wake Up
by Liz Lawler
ALEX TAYLOR WAKES UP tied to an operating table. The man who stands over her isn’t a doctor. The choice he forces her to make is utterly unspeakable but when Alex re-awakens, she’s unharmed – and no one believes her horrifying story.
Ostracised by her colleagues, her family and her partner, she begins to wonder if she really is losing her mind. And then she meets the next victim….
The President Is Missing
by Bill Clinton and James Patterson
‘CLINTON’S INSIDER SECRETS and James Patterson’s storytelling genius make this the political thriller of the decade,’ says Lee Child.
The Presidents disappears. The world is in shock. But the reason he’s missing is much worse then anyone can imagine. When details only a president could know, and the kind of suspense only James Patterson can deliver it’s a ‘bullet train of a thriller.’
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
by Gail Honeyman
ELEANOR OLIPHANT LEADS a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch every day and buys the same two bottles of vodka to drink every weekend.
Eleanor Oliphant is happy. Nothing is missing from her carefully timetabled existence. Except sometimes everything…
DVD Corner
Peaky Blinders Series Four
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WHEN TOMMY SHELBY receives a mysterious letter on Christmas Eve he realises that his entire family is in danger of annihilation. As the enemy closes in, Tommy flees his country house and heads to the only safe place he knows…
In May of this year, with this gritty drama series a big winner at the BAFTA TV Awards, series creator Steven Knight confirmed his "ambition of making it a story of a family between two wars, and by ending it with the first air raid siren in Birmingham", which was 25 June 1940. He said it would take another three series, making seven in all) to complete the story up to that point.