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The new novel from the author of THE MESMERIST and THE FRAUD
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- *ELOISE by Judy Finnigan
- INSPECTOR SINGH INVESTIGATES: A CURIOUS INDIAN CADAVER by Shamini Flint
- INSPECTOR SINGH INVESTIGATES: A DEADLY CAMBODIAN CRIME SPREE by Shamini Flint
- INSPECTOR SINGH INVESTIGATES: THE SINGAPORE SCHOOL OF VILLAINY by Shamini Flint
- IT HAPPENED IN VENICE by Molly Hopkins
The new novel from the author of THE MESMERIST and THE FRAUD T  his is a story about money and memory and love. New York, late 1840s, and in the wild, noisy, brash and beautiful circus of Silas P. Swift a shadowy, mesmeric woman entrances crowds because she can unlock the secrets of troubled minds. Above them all her daughter sweeps and soars: acrobat and tightrope-walker. People cannot take their eyes from the mysterious woman in the Big Top who can help so many others – but she cannot unlock dark, literally unspeakable, memories of her own. In London memories also fester in the mind of an old and venomous duke of the realm. He plots, with an unscrupulous lawyer (and a huge financial reward) against the mother and the daughter: to kill one, and to abduct the other and bring her across the Atlantic to him: She is mine. The actress and mesmerist Cordelia Preston and her daughter Gwenlliam live with their unusual family in the exciting new city among exciting new ideas: the telegraph, the daguerreotype, anaesthesia, table-tapping. And among the dangerous street-gangs of New York also, whose raw violence meets Cordelia and Gwenlliam and those that they love, with unexpected results. Barbara Ewing is a New Zealand-born actress and author. She has a university degree in English and Maori and won the Bancroft Gold Medal at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She is the author of ROSETTA (Sphere 2006), THE MESMERIST (Sphere 2007) and THE FRAUD (Sphere 2009).
Praise for Barbara Ewing: A compelling storyteller, Ewing puts on a masterly performance in recreating Victorian England – The Independent A delightful plum pudding of a historical novel – Sunday Times First rate… A consistently entertaining, amusing and enlightening novel – Sunday Telegraph *ELOISE by Judy Finnigan Lead fiction | Sphere | autumn 2012 A story about obsession, passion and betrayal, and above all, the enduring power of maternal love E  LOISE is a ghost story and a psychological thriller set in Cornwall, magical land of legend, myth, and age-old superstitions. Cathy is in her late forties and seems to be happily married when her best friend, Eloise, dies after a long battle with a fatal illness. Then Cathy begins to have disturbing dreams that imply Eloise’s death was not all it seems. Cathy, however, has a history of depression and is only just recovering from a nervous breakdown. Her husband, Chris, a psychiatrist, is acutely aware of his wife’s mental frailty, so when she begins telling him about Eloise’s apparent visitations, and her suspicions about her friend’s death, he thinks she is simply losing her grip on reality once again. Stung by her husband’s scepticism, Cathy decides to investigate her concerns more closely. What really happened to Eloise? Why does Eloise’s spirit seem so worried about her children? Why is she telling Cathy that her widower, Ted, is not to be trusted? As Cathy digs deeper into the past, she finds herself drawn ever deeper into her friend’s great – and tragic – secret. Judy Finnigan is a television presenter who has championed hundreds of books to readers throughout the country through the Richard and Judy Book Club. She is synonymous with sharing compelling fiction with readers.
INSPECTOR SINGH INVESTIGATES: A CURIOUS INDIAN CADAVER by Shamini Flint General Fiction | 320pp | Piatkus | April 2012 Inspector Singh reluctantly agrees to attend a family wedding in Mumbai hoping that the spicy Indian curries will make up for extended exposure to his wife’s relatives. Unfortunately, the beautiful bride-to-be disappears on the eve of her wedding - did she run away to avoid an arranged marriage or is there something more sinister afoot? Before long, a corpse is found and inspector is dragged into a murder investigation with very firm instructions from Mrs. Singh to exonerate her family. But as Inspector Singh uncovers layer upon layer of lies and deceit, he knows it isn’t going to be that easy. Shamini Flint is a Cambridge graduate and was a lawyer with the UK firm Linklaters for ten years, travelling extensively in Asia over that period, before giving it up her practice to concentrate on writing.
‘As compelling as McCall Smith’s Precious Ramotswe’ Daily Record
General Fiction | 320pp | Piatkus | April 2011 
Inspector Singh is in Cambodia – wishing he wasn't. He's been sent as an observer to the international war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, the latest effort by his superiors to ensure that he is anywhere except in Singapore. But for the first time the fat Sikh inspector is on the verge of losing his appetite when a key member of the tribunal is murdered in cold blood. The authorities are determined to write off the incident as a random act of violence, but Singh thinks otherwise. It isn't long before he finds himself caught up in one of the most terrible murder investigations he’s witnessed – the roots of which lie in the dark depths of the Cambodian killing fields. Shamini Flint is a Cambridge graduate and was a lawyer with the UK firm Linklaters for ten years, travelling extensively in Asia over that period, before giving it up her practice to concentrate on writing. She is the author of several children’s books. INSPECTOR SINGH INVESTIGATES: THE SINGAPORE SCHOOL OF VILLAINY by Shamini Flint General Fiction | 320pp | Piatkus | April 2010 
Inspector Singh is home – and how he wishes he wasn’t. His wife nags him at breakfast and his superiors are whiling away their time by giving him his usual ‘you’re a disgrace to the Force’ lecture. Fortunately for Singh, there is no rest for the wicked when he is called out to the murder of a senior partner at an international law firm, clubbed to death at his desk. Unfortunately for Sing h, there is no shortage of suspects – from the victim’s fellow partners to his wife and ex-wife – or motives, as many of the lawyers have secrets they would kill to protect. And very soon Singh finds himself heading up an investigation that rips apart the fabric of Singapore society and exposes the rotten core beneath. Perhaps coming home wasn’t such a good idea, after all? Shamini Flint is a Cambridge graduate and was a lawyer with the UK firm Linklaters for ten years, travelling extensively in Asia over that period, before giving it up her practice to concentrate on writing. She is the author of several children’s books. US rights St Martin’s Press IT HAPPENED IN VENICE by Molly Hopkins General Fiction | 384pp | Sphere | March 2012 Directory: mediafiles mediafiles -> Department of Transport Annual Report 2013-14 mediafiles -> Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Report on the human rights situation in Ukraine mediafiles -> Valerii Hryhorovych asapov mediafiles -> Intentionally blank mediafiles -> Uncontrolled when printed mediafiles -> President of the Royal Aeronautical Society, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen mediafiles -> Display Pilot Flight Lieutenant Jamie Norris Download 1.99 Mb. Share with your friends:
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