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Anna Marie became an orphan at two years old, and ballet became her life until World War II, when she became a freedom fighter with the resistance.

Detectives Joe Cotton and Bill Thompson are asked by their superiors at the National Crime Authority, the UK's leading law enforcement agency, to investigate six murders that have been committed around England and Wales. Could the killer be a long-distance lorry driver or a traveling salesman? The killer murders his victims by spraying builders' foam down their airways and suffocating them in the most excruciating manner. Will DI Thompson and DS Cotton solve this perplexing case, or will the killer strike again?

The Newspaper Chronicles is the story of a young investigative journalist, Jamie Stroud, who has been assigned to write a piece on a local Chicago businessman who had been accused of inappropriate behavior with a school board member. As she begins her investigation, murky details start to emerge about his life. Upon further investigation, this self-professed family values man appears to be heavily involved with less than savory characters including members of the Russian Mafia.

The Autocrat is the story of Jenny Harriman, a 10th-grade teacher who inherits her uncle's estate after he dies. She discovers that he was not the person she knew while growing up and decides to find out his real identity. One of the featured characters is her son-in-law, Stephen, a Secret Service agent tasked with protecting the First Lady of the US.

Sugar and Spice is based on the story of Peter and Alison Spice, who graduate from University with degrees in Early Childhood Development and decide to devote their careers to helping impoverished children in the inner cities. Along the way, and quite by accident, they win a Grammy.

Paperback Writer is a collection of nine short stories with nine connecting songs.

The Enchanted Playground is the story of a little girl who is raised by a single father. They arrive in the United States from the United Kingdom and buy a cabin on three acres in the Blue Ridge mountains near Upperville Virginia. The story was written for children and is a fictional account of Timothy and Emily Tuttle's life and how they stumble across the enchanted playground near their new home, and make friends with the tree trolls and fairies.

The Cloister is a yarn about a young "privileged" chap who is accepted to Cambridge University, to study English Literature. Greville's ambitions are to follow in the comedic footsteps of well known celebrities who were also educated at Cambridge. His plans don't work out as smoothly as he had hoped and involve a 25 year old mystery that he vicariously helps to solve.

Love is rarely smooth, and the couple had some severe problems that turned them into people they did not recognize and that neither of them would ordinarily associate with. Listen to what happens to this "happy" couple in Murder for Hire.

Ciaran Reilly is a young novelist who discovers that someone appears to be mimicking the crimes he is writing about in his mysteries. The murder victims turn out to be real crimes that are currently unsolved. So who is reading his novels and then committing the murders? Or could it be the other way around? The young novelist begins to investigate the cases he has written about chronologically and discovers all is not as it seems.

Hello, my name is John Lennon, and I’m an 80-pound chocolate brown Labrador. I look after a nice, if not somewhat stupid, couple of humans called Robin and Trevor. I have them well trained, and so now, they leave me alone all day to sleep as much as I like. In the morning, I watch my shows, and then around noon, I go for a run down to the lake to chat with my duck friends.

Imagine, if you will, that you discover that your Dad is not whom he says he is. That is what happened to young Matt Chandler, an Oxford university student who finds a photograph of his father as a young man wearing a Nazi uniform.

President Clarke enacts a no-tolerance policy on the southern border to prevent refugees from entering the US. Jamie Stroud, a reporter for The Chicago Clarion, receives permission to travel to Brownsville, Texas, to interview detained families at the border. She meets Maria Hernandez who fled from Guatemala with her 7-year-old daughter after the death of her husband and son at the hands of a gang who shot them and kidnapped her 15-year-old daughter.

A bus driver who drives a London double-decker bus from Fulham to Liverpool Street station every day discovers that a passenger has left his leather satchel behind on his bus. The normal procedure when this happens is, upon discovery, for the driver to turn the item to "lost and found." On that day, however, because the manager of that department is off sick, the driver decides to take the satchel home with him and turn it in the following morning when he arrives at work. Imagine the man's surprise after he gets home and discovers that the satchel is full of hundreds of thousands of pounds.

Jamie Stroud, the investigative journalist for The Chicago Clarion, teams up once again with her friends Lucy D’Tremont and Sir Christopher Fenton to solve a case of the murder of an armored car guard who was a local Chicago hero. As the case unfolds, Jamie is suspended for a year. The trio decides to move to London, where Sir Christopher owns a flat in Knightsbridge that they plan to live in. No sooner have they arrived when they are ensnared in an art theft that they are asked to help solve.