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Fifty thousand pounds. That is the prize for solving The Oxford Mystery. The people of Oxford are gripped by the mystery trail game, suddenly announced on social media. The police struggle to control the crowds and the growing frenzy. Rachel Keen, a theatre nurse, and John Bamford, a police officer with a gambling problem, are swept up in the excitement. As the game unfolds, a man goes missing from Jericho, and Rachel becomes convinced she has a stalker. As Rachel and John’s paths collide, the mystery deepens, leading them to a spooky mansion deep in the Oxfordshire countryside. Things take a sinister turn. Lies are exposed. Lives are at risk. Who will be the first to solve The Oxford Mystery?

On his eighteenth birthday, Perry’s single mother abandons him leaving nothing but a note. ‘I have to leave. Please forgive me. You will understand why someday. Love, M’. Perry’s father, who he never knew, dies, leaving him the entire family fortune. But with the wealth comes a new family and a plethora of problems. His father’s only request is that his illegitimate son gets to know his newly-discovered half-siblings and share with them as much or as little of his inheritance as he feels they deserve. Perry and his only friend, Spider, along with his Irish Wolfhound, have to guard themselves against his new kin who are not in complete accordance with their enigmatic father’s wishes…

I have just finished reading Ruff Justice by Laury Conn. It was such a lovely, amusing, quirky and heart warming read. For a first novel, it was amazingly good. I am always impressed with people who are so talented with words, that they are able to take you on such a wonderful literary journey.  Thank you Laury!

Hanna (small-town estate agent) is faced with a moral dilemma when she tells a lie to help a colleague, claiming she kept an appointment at Three Albert Terrace.
She’s drawn into a criminal investigation when a woman’s body is found in the empty property.

Far from being your average ‘health book’, this title offers a bigger-picture stance on what it means to make informed lifestyle choices, and posits that balance, variety and moderation are the fundamental frameworks on which most of our behaviours should be based, if we are to successfully intersect the art of living well…with living fully!

In 12 succinct chapters the book covers the 10,000 years of England’s emergence from the last ice age to its first crowned king in an informative but highly accessible style.

A powerful story of the Oxfordshire origins of the Romano-British kingdom of Wessex.

Having never kissed a girl, 16-year-old Niko has a lot on his mind. But things get much worse when returning home from school, he finds his dad being tormented by criminals. They are trying to extract valuable information about secret government testing on the River Thames. With his own life now in danger, Niko must make a decision… Does he stick or does he twist? He twists, and makes his escape helped by his friend, Jacinta. Chased by the criminal gang, the teenagers flee along the Thames in a battered old canoe towards London. They try to unlock the mystery held by the water by following a set of weird clues linking old gravestones to pollution, death and even murder!

I realised I’d made an even bigger mistake. I’d made the wrong choice… It’s her third wedding of the year, and 33-year-old Louise is tired of living vicariously through other people. She just wants to meet a man she connects with; someone who puts her first. But all her relationships seem doomed to fail from the beginning. Father-of-two Dan is no exception. Sure, he’s funny, sexy, charming… but he’s married. Louise doesn’t want to be a homewrecker; she wants someone who can commit to her and their relationship. But she has always fallen hard and fast, and Dan… he feels like the one.

The first of a trilogy based on Geoffrey Chaucer’s granddaughter Alyce, whose tomb survives in the Ewelme Church, near Wallingford. The story arc is solving the mystery of the murder of her husband, William, Duke of Suffolk in 1450.

The book story opens with thirteen-year-old Zihna, who fears the legendary beasts from her tribe’s tales more than anything, fighting a giant serpent. Shortly afterwards, she finds out that the only way to save her sick father is to venture into the unknown and find the Amazonian Elixir. Its location is locked away in a riddle, and as Zihna tries to solve the clues, she realises that the monsters she has so often heard about are no longer a myth. They have been awoken to kill tributes for the Righteous Ones.