WITH THE WINTER EVENINGS rapidly drawing in, we are here to keep you entertained with a good selection of new books and DVDs which, hopefully, will offer something to suit every taste and requirement.
Dangerous Crossing
by Rachel Rhys
THIS RICHARD AND JUDY autumn selection is set in England in September, 1939. Lily Shepherd boards a cruise liner for a new life in Australia and is plunged into a world of cocktails, jazz and glamorous friends.
But as the sun beats down, poisonous secrets begin to surface. Suddenly Lily finds herself trapped with nowhere to go…
Six weeks later when she reaches Australia to find the world is at war. The cruise liner docks, and a beautiful young woman is escorted on to dry land in handcuffs. What has she done?
Good Me Bad Me
by Ali Land
THE DEBUT NOVEL CHOICE in Richard and Judy’s autumn collection finds Annie with a new name, a new family and a ‘shiny new me’.
Annie’s mother is a serial killer. The only way Annie can make it stop is to hand her in to the police.
With a new foster family and a new name – Milly – she hopes for a fresh start. Now, surely, she can be whoever she wants to be. As her Mother’s trial looms, the secrets of Milly’s past won’t let her sleep. Because Milly’s mother is a serial killer. And blood is thicker than water…
Kill The Father
by Sandrone Dazieri
A MOTHER AND SON are abducted from a park in Rome, launching a massive manhunt. The chief of Rome’s major crimes unit lures to the case two of Italy’s best analytical minds.
Deputy Captain Columba Caselli, a fierce, warrior-like detective still reeling from having survived a bloody catastrophe, and Dante Torre, a man who spent 11 young years captive, abducted by a mysterious man who called himself ‘The Father’.
The Italian police fear ‘The Father’ has returned. But when Colomba and Dante begin following the ever-more bizarre trail of clues, they grasp that what’s really going on is darker then they ever imagined.
This is another title from Richard and Judy’s autumn selection.
The Steel Kiss
by Jeffrey Deaver
HOW DO YOU CATCH a killer when he is everywhere at once! Detective Amelia Sachs is in pursuit when she hears the scream. Stopping to help a man trapped in a horrific accident, Sachs has to let a suspected murderer get away.
But was it really coincidence? Did the killer make it happen? Sachs and Lincoln Rhyme are facing a new kind of opponent: Someone who can kill by remote control. Someone watching every move they make…
DVD CHOICE
Little Boy Blue
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THE MURDER OF A YOUNG BOY in broad daylight on his way home from football training sends shock waves through the city of Liverpool.
Detective Superintendent Dave Kelly is under increasing pressure to bring the killer to justice, but his efforts are frustrated by the suspect’s friends and family, who spin a web of lies to keep him free. Rhys’s parents navigate their way through the emotional fallout, while battling to keep their family together.
Based on real events.