Alex Jennings
Author
Series
Waking the Dead volume 5
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Waking the Dead volume 7
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Waking the Dead volume 2
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Waking the Dead volume 4
Language
English
Description
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
Author
Series
Waking the Dead volume 12
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Waking the Dead volume 11
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Waking the Dead volume 6
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Waking the Dead volume 3
Language
English
Description
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?
Author
Series
Waking the Dead volume 9
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Waking the Dead volume 8
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Waking the Dead volume 1
Language
English
Description
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?
Author
Series
Waking the Dead volume 10
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Music is magic in this vibrant and imaginative debut novel set in a fantastical version of New Orleans where a battle for the city's soul brews between two young mages, a vengeful wraith, and one powerful song. Nola is a city full of wonders. A place of sky trolleys and dead cabs, where haints dance the night away and Wise Women help keep the order. To those from Away, Nola might seem strange. To Perilous Graves, it's simply home. In a world of everyday...
Author
Series
Chronicles of Narnia volume 3
Language
English
Description
A boy and a talking horse share an adventurous and dangerous journey to Narnia to warn of invading barbarians.
Author
Series
Dark is rising sequence volume 2
Language
English
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Description
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.
Author
Series
Dark is rising sequence volume 5
Language
English
Description
In this conclusion of the tale begun in "Over Sea, Under Stone, " Will Stanton, the Welsh boy Bran, and the Drew children try to locate the crystal sword that alone can vanquish the strong forces of Dark.
17) Greenwitch
Author
Series
Dark is rising sequence volume 3
Language
English
Description
Jane's invitation to witness the making of the Greenwitch begins a series of sinister events in which she and her two brothers help the Old Ones recover the grail stolen by the Dark.
Author
Series
Dark is rising sequence volume 1
Language
English
Description
Three children on a holiday in Cornwall find an ancient manuscript which sends them on a dangerous quest for a grail that would reveal the true story of King Arthur.
Author
Series
Clifton Chronicles volume 4
Language
English
Description
"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...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Ursula Todd's brother Teddy is an old man trying to come to grips with his post-War life and with a modern world and family. Switching back and forth in time between memories of his childhood and his present, Teddy is an oblivious husband, a rueful father. He never quite got over the War and part of him never adjusted to having a future. Would-be poet, heroic pilot, husband, father, and grandfather, Teddy navigates the perils and progress of a rapidly...