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Beneath the sea cliffs of the south coast, suicides are a sad but common fact. Yet even the hardened coastguard knows something is wrong when a beautiful young film actress is found lying dead on the beach one morning. However, it soon becomes clear that darker motives were afoot, and potential suspects in the death of Christine Clay stack up at a rapid pace. As the case grows murkier, the man who spent the last week of Clay’s life living with her in a remote cottage goes on the run, and Inspector Alan Grant must race to uncover the truth.

Charles Shilling has always had a soft spot for the poor and downtrodden, so when his friend comes to him with the case of a missing runaway, he wants to give it his best. Unfortunately, there’s more on his mind than one missing girl. The case is fighting for dominance with the more pressing issues of his personal life, and a rather intriguing discovery he is honoured to have been brought in to investigate – by the only person in the world who can leave him star-struck.

This is a story from the Thumbelina and Other Fairy Tales collection.

Hösten 1926 tar Maja Isaksson det djärva beslutet att lämna sitt hem och sin trygghet. Med en enkelbiljett till Uppsala i fickan kliver hon på tåget i Nattavaara. I Uppsala väntar jobbet som städerska på rasbiologiska institutet och ett liv med sin stora kärlek, den kontroversielle professor Lundborg. Snart blir Maja varse att verkligheten i Uppsala är långt ifrån den hon förväntat sig. Ryktena om lapphäxan som förvridit professorns sinne når hennes öron, och blickarna från Uppsalaborna talar sitt tysta språk.

As a powerful insurgent army closes on Liberia's capital, London is forced to act, and HMS Beaufort is dispatched to West Africa to pull British nationals from the teeth of encroaching danger. But when the volatile situation ashore unravels, the frigate's crew must draw deep on reserves of skill, ingenuity and sheer bloody-mindedness to save it. And with time running out, Beaufort's Captain makes the decision to take his ship upriver....

It was supposed to be over, but the Jack of Hearts is back… Charles Shilling nearly managed to get his life together. Happy, sober, and engaging with the closest thing to therapy he would probably ever consider… Then the next body showed up. Another dead woman, a victim of the Jack. Except the Jack is dead. Shilling helped bury them. Now the papers are claiming that was a set up and he’s the real killer… Amelia Florin is certain of two things: that she and Shilling caught the right murderer the first time, and that her Charlie isn’t the killer. Now she just has to find a way to prove it.

While many investors fear a rapid rise in inflation, author Gary Shilling, an award-winning economic forecaster, argues that the global economy is going through a long period of deleveraging and weak growth, which makes deflation far more likely and a far greater threat to investors than inflation. Shilling explains with clear language and compelling logic why the world economy will struggle for several more years and what investors can do to protect and grow their wealth in the difficult times ahead.

Charles Shilling is about to begin his day with a funeral… and it will only get worse from there. What seems like a harmless little investigation turns dark fast, and Shilling is in no state to hold back the tide of cruelty coming his way. Worse, with the rate he’s falling for Florin, he’s never been so vulnerable to revenge…

Based on Nigel Fairs' 'murder mystery serial' that has been running for over 21 years (new episodes performed every month in country houses, steam trains, jailhouses, castles and restaurants throughout the UK), Shilling & Sixpence Investigate takes place in a sometimes quirky, sometimes dark world where nobody is quite whom they seem.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of A Shilling for a Wife by Emma Hornby, read by Penelope Freeman. Sally Swann thought life couldn't get much worse. Then a single coin changed hands. A dismal cottage in the heart of Bolton, Lancashire, has been Sally’s prison since Joseph Goden...

Behind the mask, anyone could be a killer…Charles Shilling had been rather apprehensive about a trip to Venice, but when a dead body shows up on his arrival, his mood improves considerably. With a mystery to solve, he’s back in his element, and no shifty police officers, notorious gangsters, or shadowy figures are going to stop him from seeing justice done. He just has to make sure he doesn’t ruin Amy’s holiday in the process.

In a grisly nightmare war scenario, Rory tells the story of a new recruit who has been shipped out to an operational airbase on the eve of The War on Iraq in 2003. The new recruit suffers nightmares and questions himself over the validity of such a war. After his first stint in the field of battle, he embarks on a hellish journey into the underworld where he encounters soldiers in many kinds of uniforms, from many battles that have been fought over the ages, who are inflicted with terrible wounds and enduring great suffering.

After getting divorced, Francisca Dawson is attempting to find out who she is and how she wants her life to look. One thing she knows is that there isn’t room for a man in that equation. But then she meets Dayton Calloway. A man who is charming, funny, and unbelievably gorgeous. Unable to deny their connection, she gets lost in the moment and gives in to his dirty mouth and skilled hands.

The Josephine Tey Collection includes unabridged recordings of Tey's 8 major novels in one audiobook, including all 6 of the novels in the Inspector Alan Grant series.

Newly divorced with a young son to raise, Tucker Beckett is the last man Miranda Owens should be itching to figure out, make smile, and hear laugh. Still there is something about the detective with haunted blue eyes and a dirty mouth that draws her in from the moment they meet. If only life were so simple. As Tucker and Miranda begin to navigate their new relationship, Tucker is tasked with solving the murder of a young woman while their exes begin to play games in an attempt to split the two of them up

This is a story from the Thumbelina and Other Fairy Tales collection.

The problem isn't functional. It's not more hours at your desk, it's not a sales funnel or secret business owner tool no one's letting you in on. It's that you haven't got a "just start now" mindset. That's not something we're born with. But it's the perspective that will change everything.

From the bestselling author of The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir comes a thrilling new WWII story about a village busybody—the mighty Mrs. Braithwaite—who resolves to find, and then rescue, her missing daughter Mrs. Braithwaite, self-appointed queen of her English village, finds herself...

Nine-year-old Flora didn’t ask to be born into a life of hardship and suffering. When her mother sells her to the owner of the Great Hotel as a scullery maid, Flora learns the value of her life: eight shillings. Life in the Great Hotel is unspeakable. For years, Flora works constantly, half starved and constantly driven by the cruel cook and malicious hotel owner. She would lose hope entirely, were it not for the sweet, gentle boy who visits the Great Hotel from time to time.

Adam and Polly Fitch face a bleak future after being sold for just five shillings to Miss Reed's orphanage by their bullying father. But the orphanage does have one advantage - a merry band of children who soon form their own kind of family - and they're all determined to escape the clutches of the wicked Miss Reed. Can Adam, Polly and their band of friends survive life with only each other to rely on?