The Broken LandsA crossroads can be a place of great power. So begins this deliciously spine tingling prequel to Kate Milfords The Boneshaker, set in the colorful world of nineteenth century Coney Island and New York City. Few crossroads compare to the one being formed by the Brooklyn Bridge and the East River, and as the bridges construction progresses, forces of unimaginable evil seek to bend that power to their advantage. Only two orphans with unusual skills stand

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‘Poignantly paints the extraordinary in ordinary lives’THE SUNDAY POST

After years of fierce combat in the political trenches

In this highly atmospheric mystery

Jackson St John

uplifting and utterly delightful – I was totally swept up in this gorgeous book

once considered no more than a regional circuit of moonshiners pounding around low-country dirt tracks in a cloud of red dust and cliché

Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman’s Tess Monaghan—first introduced in the classic Baltimore Blues—becomes involved in a complicated investigation that will force her to question her loyalties

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As in Patchett’s other novels

Welcome to Two Truths and a Lie: Histories and Mysteries

Now he’s in more trouble than a tater tot in ketchup