Alex Jennings
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Waking the Dead volume 3
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A Sudanese presidential candidate goes on hunger strike in the UK in protest over the Britain's refusal to hand over the skull of the Mahdi, a Sudanese ruler from the 19th century. The Cold Case team face a race against time to find the skull. Meanwhile, MI6 are pressing Boyd to re-investigate the murder of an Iraqi dissident. Could the two cases be connected?
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Waking the Dead volume 9
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A convicted murderer escapes from a secure psychiatric unit and directs a family to unearth a dead body in their garden. It turns out that the body has been there for 40 years. The team are called in and find themselves drawn back to a horrific double murder from 1967.
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Waking the Dead volume 12
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Further horrific discoveries are made at the London house where the Nazi dagger was found. As Boyd tries to get the truth out of a confused David, Sarah and Grace go to talk to the Dusniak family rabbi. Things take a frightening turn at the synagogue. Meanwhile, Stella travels to Poland to discover the truth about the murdered child.
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Waking the Dead volume 5
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A mummified, sexually conjoined couple fall from a concealed office during the renovation of a city bank. A sixteen-digit figure engraved on the dead woman's necklace matches the same 16 digit figure found on a dead corpse dragged out of the river Thames in 1992. The discovery of these two dead bodies awaken a fraudulent scandal buried in the city of London.
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Waking the Dead volume 8
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Another murder has been committed and Boyd knows he must track down the killer before he strikes again. The answer seems to lie in events at the children's home many years previously. Boyd questions two of the former staff, accusing them of running a regime of cruelty and beatings.
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Waking the Dead volume 4
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The team unearth a series of coincidences, involving secret societies, torture and interrogation. But Boyd is at the mercy of dangerous political forces. Stella is told of a shocking accusation against Catherine Braithwaite, the CEO of a major weapons company, but she has an alibi. It seems someone is trying to implicate her in a crime she didn't commit
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Waking the Dead volume 2
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The investigation takes the team deep into the culture and traditions of Irish Travellers. Joe finally wakes from his coma. What really happened at the boxing bout in its aftermath is revealed. As the team move closer to the truth about the dead boy, his family and the nunnery, they uncover a deep family secret.
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Waking the Dead volume 7
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The team are prompted to re-investigate three murders when the personal effects of the victims are anonymously sent to one of the widows. The deaths of Harry Valentine, a care worker in a Children's Home, Dr. Frank Reilly, and Councillor Henry Goss were thought to have been committed by James Jenson who grew up at the Hinkley Children's home. What was once thought to be the work of a serial killer is now thrown into doubt.
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Waking the Dead volume 1
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The Cold Case team are joined by a new forensic scientist Eve, as they investigate the death of a teenage boy who drowned in concrete. Tests reveal a lump of human ear in the boy's stomach. Nearby Irish travellers may offer a link. But what is the connection to a young nun who frequents the same woods?
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Waking the Dead volume 11
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An anonymous package containing a Nazi SS dagger arrives at the team's office. It sparks an investigation into the Cold Case of a murder of a young Polish girl in London in 1945. As Boyd, Grace and the team dig deeper, attention focuses on a London family and the secrets buried in their family home, leading to horrific discoveries about an unsuspected Nazi past which has survived to the present day.
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Waking the Dead volume 6
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Could the case be connected to the fall of the pound on Black Wednesday? And why are Opus Dei so keen to distance themselves? The team uncover a vital secret about murder victim Catherine Keane. Boyd must find out the truth about the murder, but he needs to get there before journalist Lisa Tobin.
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Waking the Dead volume 10
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Boyd and the team investigate the events at a hippy commune back in 1967. Meanwhile, double murderer Daniel Lennon is still on the loose and psychiatrist Caroline Ritter is concerned he may kill again. Stella manages to track him down to his hideout in the woods.
13) Cometh the hour
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Clifton chronicles volume 6
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The reading of a suicide note has devastating consequences for the Clifton family. Giles must decide if he should withdraw from politics and try to rescue Karin, the woman he loves, from behind the Iron Curtain. Lady Virginia is facing bankruptcy until she is introduced to the hapless Cyrus T. Grant III from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who's in England to see his horse run at Royal Ascot. Sebastian Clifton is now the Chief Executive of Farthings Bank;...
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Dark is rising sequence volume 2
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On his eleventh birthday Will Stanton discovers that he is the last of the Old Ones, destined to seek the six magical Signs that will enable the Old Ones to triumph over the evil forces of the Dark.
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Appears on list
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In 1919, young couple Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley form a partnership, hiring themselves out as "young adventurers". Their first case, however, is more of an adventure than they expect--working to find documents that, if they were known to the general public, would fuel a communist revolution in Britain. Undercover agents Tommy and Tuppence know that Jane Finn was carrying top secret documents when she disappeared five years ago. What they...
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"Be Careful What You Wish For opens with Harry Clifton and his wife Emma rushing to learn the fate of their son Sebastian, who has been in a fatal car accident. But who died, Sebastian or his best friend? When Ross Buchanan is forced to resign as chairman of the Barrington Shipping Company, Emma Clifton wants to replace him. But Don Pedro Martinez intends to install his puppet, Alex Fisher, in order to destroy the Barrington family firm just as the...
17) This was a man
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"This Was a Man opens with a shot being fired, but who pulled the trigger, and who lives and who dies? In Whitehall, Giles Barrington discovers the truth about his wife Karin from the Cabinet Secretary. Is she a spy or a pawn in a larger game? Harry Clifton sets out to write his magnum opus, while his wife Emma completes her ten years as Chairman of the Bristol Royal Infirmary, and receives an unexpected call from Margaret Thatcher offering her a...
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Chronicles of Narnia volume 03
(Clive Staples),Chronicles of Narnia) volume 5
(Clive Staples),Chronicles of Narnia) volume 3
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(Clive Staples),Chronicles of Narnia) volume 5
(Clive Staples),Chronicles of Narnia) volume 3
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A boy and a talking horse share an adventurous and dangerous journey to Narnia to warn of invading barbarians.
19) Best kept secret
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Clifton chronicles volume 3
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Harry Clifton, now a bestselling novelist, his wife Emma, their son Sebastian, and orphaned Jessica make a new life for themselves. But Emma's brother Giles' fiancaee may be after his fortune and title. And Sebastian, though bright, has a hard time resisting temptation. It all comes to a head when a new villain is uncovered, a face from the past with grudges against both Harry and Giles.
20) A god in ruins
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Todd family volume 2
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"Kate Atkinson's dazzling Life After Life explored the possibility of infinite chances and the power of choices, following Ursula Todd as she lived through the turbulent events of the last century over and over again. A GOD IN RUINS tells the dramatic story of the 20th century through Ursula's beloved younger brother Teddy--would-be poet, heroic pilot, husband, father, and grandfather--as he navigates the perils and progress of a rapidly changing...