Blasted Things

Blasted Things
Author: Lesley Glaister
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2024-09-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1504098870

After the Great War, a nurse and a damaged soldier become dangerously entangled in this “sensitive, unsettling tale” by the author of A Particular Man (The Independent). Sometimes love hurts. Sometimes love kills . . . It’s 1920 and Britain is attempting to move on after World War I. Clementine, who was a nurse on the frontlines and suffered her own losses, is trying to settle back into her comfortable middle-class life as a doctor’s wife. But when she meets Vincent, a man so battered he must wear a mask to hide his scars, a perilous and magnetic attraction develops between them. As their passion erupts and takes a darker turn, it threatens to spell disaster. Will either of them ever recover from the lingering horrors of war? And can both of them walk away from their affair unscathed? “One of the most compelling novels I have read all year.” —Liz Jensen, author of The Uninvited Praise for Lesley Glaister “[Glaister] commands respect for writing novels which are not just dark and mysterious but also emotionally satisfying.” —The Times Literary Supplement “One of Britain’s finest novelists.” —The Sunday Telegraph

The Secret War

The Secret War
Author: Michael A. Campbell
Publisher: Xulon Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2004-03
Genre: Christian fiction
ISBN: 1594673136

Fatal Isles

Fatal Isles
Author: Maria Adolfsson
Publisher: Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.
Total Pages: 451
Release: 2021-02-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1785768395

SUNDAY TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH FEATURED IN THE TIMES' BEST CRIME BOOKS ROUND-UP WINNER OF THE PETRONA AWARD 2022 A remote island. A brutal murder. A secret hidden in the past . . . In the middle of the North Sea, between the UK and Denmark, lies the beautiful and rugged island nation of Doggerland. Detective Inspector Karen Eiken Hornby has returned to the main island, Heimö, after many years in London and has worked hard to become one of the few female police officers in Doggerland. So, when she wakes up in a hotel room next to her boss, Jounas Smeed, she knows she's made a big mistake. But things are about to get worse: later that day, Jounas's ex-wife is found brutally murdered. And Karen is the only one who can give him an alibi. The news sends shockwaves through the tight-knit island community, and with no leads and no obvious motive for the murder, Karen struggles to find the killer in a race against time. Soon she starts to suspect that the truth might lie in Doggerland's history. And the deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes that even small islands can hide deadly secrets . . . 'This first novel in a proposed trilogy has terrific characters as well as effectively inventing a new genre, Anglo-Nordic noir' JOAN SMITH, SUNDAY TIMES 'A cracking police procedural set in a richly described isolated island community' IRISH INDEPENDENT 'A suspenseful and intriguing story that combines the best of British crime writing tradition with Nordic noir. Doggerland is a unique and alluring universe that I can't wait to revisit' CAMILLA GREBE