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A Dreadful Murder by Minette Walters
Category: Fiction
Large Print. Detective and mystery stories. Three victims, three unsolvable murders, and three killers walk free...A Dreadful Murder Kent, August 1908. Caroline Luard is shot dead in broad daylight in the grounds of a large country estate. With few clues available, her husband soon becomes the suspect . ...Show more
Acid Row by Minette Walters
Category: Fiction
Acid Row is the name the beleaguered inhabitants give to their 'sink' estate, a no-man's land of single mothers and fatherless children, where angry, alienated youth control the streets. Into this battlefield comes Sophie Morrison, a young doctor visiting a patient in Acid Row. Little does she know that ...Show more
Chameleon's Shadow by Minette Walters
Category: Fiction
Could severe head injuries turn a man into a killer? When an injured soldier returns from Iraq, he appears to undergo a complete change in personality in this dark, complex thriller.
Chickenfeed by Minette Walters
Category: Fiction | Series: Quick and Easy Reads S.
A body is discovered in a chicken run ... Young Norman Thorne finds himself involved with Elsie Cameron and reluctantly promises to marry her. He buys a chicken farm to try to raise the funds for the wedding. Under financial and emotional stress, he finds himself in a hopeless situation ...but does h ...Show more
Disordered Minds by Minette Walters
Category: Fiction
In 1970, a retarded 20-year-old was convicted of brutally murdering his grandmother - less than three years later he was dead, driven to suicide. But what if he were innocent? Over 30 years later, an anthropologist reawakens the case.In 1970 Howard Stamp, a retarded twenty-year-old, was convicted on dis ...Show more
The Cellar by Minette Walters
Category: Fiction
This is the terrifying new Hammer novella by Minette Walters, bestselling author of The Sculptress and The Scold's Bridle. 'Muna's fortunes changed for the better on the day that Mr and Mrs Songoli's younger son failed to come home from school.' Before then her bedroom was a dark windowless cellar, her ...Show more
The Cellar by Minette Walters
Category: Fiction
The terrifying Hammer novella by Minette Walters, bestselling author of The Sculptress and The Scold's Bridle. Muna's bedroom is a dark windowless cellar and her activities are confined to cooking and cleaning. She's grown used to being maltreated by the Songoli family; to being a slave. She's never bee ...Show more
The Chameleon's Shadow by Minette Walters
Category: Fiction
When Lieutenant Charles Acland is flown home from Iraq with serious head injuries, he faces not only permanent disfigurement but also an apparent change to his personality. Described as an outgoing extrovert by everyone who knew him before he was wounded, he becomes increasingly isolated and withdrawn a ...Show more
The Ice House by Minette Walters
Category: Fiction
'It was evident, if there were no other entrance to the ice house, that the body had at some point traversed this thorny barrier . . . The big question was, how long ago? How long had that nightmare been there?' The people of Streech village had never trusted the three women living up at the Grange - no ...Show more
The Last Hours by Minette Walters
Category: Fiction
When the Black Death enters England through the port of Melcombe in Dorseteshire in June 1348, no one knows what manner of sickness it is or how it spreads and kills so quickly. The Church proclaims it a punishment from God but Lady Anne of Develish has different ideas. With her brutal husband absent, s ...Show more
The Last Hours by Minette Walters
Category: Fiction
June, 1348: the Black Death enters England through the port of Melcombe in the county of Dorsetshire. Unprepared for the virulence of the disease, and the speed with which it spreads, the people of the county start to die in their thousands. A culture of terror and superstition quickly sweeps across the ...Show more
The Scold's Bridle by Minette Walters
Category: Fiction
'A dark, rich brew of malice and murder ...secrets are deep, motives masked.' THE BULLETINMean, bitter Mathilda Gillespie has been dead for days - wrists slashed, pills spilled, body cold in the bath. Her death shouts suicide, but would even Mathilda have been crazy enough to force over her own head a r ...Show more