Fiction - English

Why was Billy Blake, a homeless alcoholic, found dead from starvation in one of the richest areas in one of the richest capitals in the world? Six months on, Amanda Powell is eager to talk to journalist, Michael Deacon. But Deacon’s interest in Blake has more to do with his own past.

He is Oliver Barett IV, a rich jock from a stuffy WASP family on his way to a Harvard degree and a career in law.
She is Jenny Cavilleri, a wisecracking working-class beauty studying music at Radcliffe.
Opposites in nearly every way, Oliver and Jenny immediately attract, sharing a love that defies everything … yet will end too soon. Here is a love that will linger in your heart now and forever.

The name the beleaguered inhabitants give to their ‘sink’ estate. A no-man’s land of single mothers and fatherless children- where angry, alienated youth controls the streets.
Into this battlefield comes Sophie Morrison, a young doctor visiting a patient in Acid Row. little does she know that she is entering the home of a known paedophile…and with reports circulating that a tormented child called Amy has disappeared, the vigilantes are out in force…

John Grisham’s _A Painted House” describes, in his own words, the life of 7 year old Luke Chandler, an Arkansas farm boy growing up in the midst of the cotton fields. Luke is full of curiosity and mischief, as he witnesses life around him, causing him to make very adult decisions about keeping secrets. You will fall in love with the characters. This book will make you laugh and make you cry.

Twelve hours after Kate Sumner’s broken body is washed up on a deserted beach on the south coast of England, her traumatized three-year-old daughter is discovered twenty miles awa walking the streets of Poole, alone. The police are puzzled.
Why weren’t mother and daughter together? Why was Kate killed and her daughter allowed to live? More curiously, why had Kate boarded a boat – apparently willingly – when she was scared stiff of drowning at sea? Who had tempted her to her death?

‘I wonder if I should keep these diaries under lock and key. Jenny Spede has disturbed them again…What does she make, I wonder, of an old woman, deformed by arthritis, stripping naked for a young man? The pills worry me more. Ten is such a round number to be missing…’

My mother thinks I’m a delicate Southern flower. But believe me, Lexie Chandler’s not someone to take lightly. I’m a gemologist, a karate black belt, and can accurately fire any gun out there. Plus, I won’t back down…ever! And right now, my sights are set on the Heart of Burma, a magnificent, blood-red ruby that’s currently in the hands of a rebel gunrunner holed up in the tiger-infested Burmese jungle.

Ellie Cavanaugh was only seven when her older sister, Andrea, was murdered near their home in rural Westchester County. It was Ellie’s testimony that led to the conviction of a man, who steadfastly denied his guilt, but spent twenty-two years in prison. When he comes up for parole, Ellie protests, but the convicted killer is set free and returns home. Ellie also returns, intent on writing a book that will prove his guilt. But as she delves deeper into her research, she uncovers horrifying facts that shed a new light on her sister’s murder. And with each discovery, she comes closer to a confrontation with a desperate killer…

Abbie Devereaux wakes in the dark. She is hooded and bound, with no idea where she is or how she got there. Kept alive by a man she never sees, his only promise is that eventually he will kill her – like the others. But Abbie has spirit and bloody-mindedness on her side. She counts the seconds spent alone and plots her survival. Above all she dreams of returning to normal, careless, everyday life – the land of the living. Grasping at memories, Abbie recalls snatches of her identity, her career, and her disintegrating relationship with her boyfriend. Is there a connection between her real life and the voice in the darkness? And how can she survive in a place where fear becomes madness and the effort to survive seems too much to bear?

Features the wisecracking female PI Kinsey Millhone. Lorna Kepler was beautiful and wilful, a loner who couldn’t resist flirting with danger. The police cannot establish neither motive nor suspect for her death. So before Kinsey can expose a murderer, she must prove murder.