…of which I use without even knowing their real meaning. In my investigations I came across the website www.phrases.org.uk, which is full of intriguing explanations for everyday sayings. For example,…

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…at Cosmopolitan, then Beauty Director at Harper’s Bazaar and now is Editor-in-Chief of the popular website Primped.com.au (The Go-To on the How-To in Beauty) and she is, it has to…

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…Chris Sagar in Edinburgh (reviewer for the website It’s a Crime or a Mystery!) who dropped me the following lovely email about it: ‘Had a wander into Waterstone’s at lunchtime…

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A bit of ‘science’ to help authors wishing to top the bestseller lists has surfaced over the past week. The people behind Lulu.com, the self-publishing website, have created a gizmo…

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The first four books in the #1 Bestselling Morganville Vampire Series Welcome to Morganville. Just don’t stay out after dark… Morganville is a small town filled with unusual characters –…

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Bernard Prior was never popular with the rest of his family. And when his second cousin, Sheila Malory, is warned that he is visiting members of the Prior family in…

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When Dr Clive Jordan’s dazzling career is brought to an abrupt end by a bullet, his colleagues are devastated – especially the female ones. If the doctor hadn’t been as…

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Detective Inspector Charlie Priest is officially on sick leave, but this brief break from work comes to an abrupt end when Mrs Marina Norris’s chauffeur is found dead from unnatural…

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Detective Inspector Charlie Priest believes in doing things by the book. It’s just that, in the heat of the chase, he sometimes turns over two page at once. His unorthodox…

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London 1930. Maisie Dobbs, the renowned psychologist and investigator, receives a most unusual request. She must prove that Sir Cecil Lawton’s son Ralph is really dead. This is a case…

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London 1931. When controversial artist Nick Bassington-Hope is found dead, the police believe it is an open and shut case and his death from a fall is recorded as ‘accidental’….

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When one of five restaurant-owning brothers vanishes into thin air, Monsieur Pamplemousse’s detective skills are called into play. A delicious blend of gastronomic delight, teasing mystery, and pure comedy. Recommend…

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In separate locations in Leek, Staffordshire, three separate tableaux are being performed. DI Joanna Piercy is writing to her lover Matthew to try and explain recent events; her sidekick Mike…

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Critic/sleuth Monsieur Pamplemousse has a lot on his plate when he investigates a terrible and strangely popular hotel. Recommend This:…

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Everything you ever wanted to know about sexual oddities from around the world – and through history – can be found in this witty and engaging volume. Read about the…

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Bond’s charming food inspector and part time detective has a tricky task in sampling the appalling cuisine of the Hotel du Paradis. Tricky due to the fact that it’s run…

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It wasn’t quite the homecoming ex-privateer Harry Ludlow had anticipated. Having cheated death and made a handsome profit into the bargain, Harry and his brother James expected their return home…

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Part naval swashbuckler, part mystery story, “The Dying Trade” tells the story of smuggling and death in the Mediterranean at the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Harry Ludlow and his…

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 1795. As war spreads across the globe, Harry Ludlow joins the struggle for the richest trade in the world. When half his crew is illegally pressed into the Royal Navy…

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Late in life Letty Sanderson yields to a romatic whim and buys the rundown house where she spent holidays as a child and tries, through her choice of tenants, to…

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Spring 1944. The War has taken the men away but brought other, more interesting American men into the small village of Columbine near Falmouth. All of the girls are aflutter…

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