Alex Jennings
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
14) The fury
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"This is a tale of murder. Or maybe that's not quite true. At its heart, it's a love story, isn't it? Lana Farrar is one of the most famous women in the world. Every year, she invites her closest friends to her private Greek island. You may think you know this story. It had all the necessary ingredients for a press sensation: a celebrity, a private island, and a murder. We found ourselves trapped there overnight. What followed was a game of cat and...
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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...
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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...
17) Cometh the hour
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"Cometh the Hour opens with the reading of a suicide note, which has devastating consequences for Harry and Emma Clifton, Giles Barrington and Lady Virginia."-- Provided by publisher.
19) Best kept secret
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Embarking on a shared family life, Harry, Emma, Sebastian, and Jessica find their happiness challenged by Emma's brother's engagement to a fortune-seeker, Sebastian's hedonist pursuits, and a grudge-bearing enemy from the past who would destroy their careers.
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In the aftermath of an IRA bombing, Harry Clifton uses his new literary station to raise awareness for his POW friend while Giles Barrington works to secure a political career and Sebastian's past threatens his engagement.
"A bomb goes off, but how many passengers on the MV Buckingham have lost their lives? When Harry arrives in New York, his publisher Harold Guinzberg tells him he has been elected as the next president of English PEN, which will...




