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Stasi Child
The award-winning Cold War crime thriller
2015
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In the shadow of the Berlin Wall, murder is never an open-and-shut case . . .The award-winning, critically acclaimed Cold War crime thriller set in East Berlin - perfect for fans of Tom Rob Smith, Phillip Kerr and Joseph Kanon.____________________________________East Berlin, 1975 - When Oberleutnant Karin Müller is called to investigate a teenage girl's body at the foot of the Wall, she imagines she's seen it all before. But...
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- Translated by
- David Young
- Book 1 -
- Ulrik Torp
2021
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Corruption, conspiracies and the cynicism of true Machiavellian villains... Move over Frank Underwood! There is a new bunch of power-hungry sociopaths in town.With only weeks until the election, the Democratic Party is thrown into a power struggle after their leader is seriously injured in a car accident. Young journalist Ulrik Torp uncovers a cynical plot involving the incumbent Prime Minister, forcing him to take action.Follow Ulrik Torp in this high-stakes game of politi...
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The brilliant WWII crime thriller from the author of Stasi Child
2022
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The brand new 2022 historical crime thriller from the award-winning author of STASI CHILD.*** 'A tense, smartly plotted new police procedural' - DAILY MAIL ***1942. HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE - It is the most heavily bombed city outside of London, but for the sake of national morale the Hull Blitz is kept top secret.Newly posted Detective Chief Inspector Ambrose Swift cannot believe the devastation he fi...
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Filthy Appetites
A Novel
2023
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Thailand’s ravenous ghost returns for a feast you’ll never forget!Mai is a krasue – a supernatural creature in the form of a young woman’s severed head with a trail of dangling entrails. For generations, she has been imprisoned on a farm in the Northeast. Now, a series of mishaps has set her loose upon Bangkok where she is on the run from a television ghost hunter hoping to turn her into a celebrity and an eccentric fortune teller bent on her destruction.
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Farringdon Chase is a Lord of the Realm and the greatest amateur detective of his time, loved and admired all over the world. However, following a tragic event involving his arch nemesis, Sylvanus Sharp, he dramatically retires from public life. But it is not long before London becomes gripped with fear by the terrible crimes of a new horror, The Gaslit Ghoul! With the population of the capital looking for a saviour, Chase is tempted out of retirement as the crimes and c...
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or Free with Kobo PlusBear Itaxsca - Bounty Hunter
Bear Itaxsca, #1
2024
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Bear Itaxsca is a Native America gunfighter of the old West. A Crow warrior, son of a chief. He fought in the Civil War on the Union side. At the end of the war, he becomes a bounty hunter.Bear is very good with weapons, especially two cap and ball .36 caliber Colts. He carries them like Wild Bill Hickock, in a sash around his waist.Bear encounters two wanted men in a gunfight. He kills them and transports the bodies to Durango, Colorado, to collect the bounty.There...
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Inside Thatcher's Last Election
Diaries of the Campaign That Saved Enterprise
2021
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The year is 1987. Having made history by becoming the UK's first female Prime Minister and then driving out the most left-wing manifesto the country has ever seen, Margaret Thatcher faces a climactic third election campaign.Her eight years in power have been pivotal in guiding the UK back onto the path towards prosperity, and as he surveys the scene, David Young, Secretary of State for Employment, can see the fragile seeds of Thatcher's government beginning to grow. But this third ...
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The breathless Cold War thriller by the author of Stasi Child
2019
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A secret State. A dark conspiracy. A terrible crime.Karin Müller of the German Democratic Republic's People's Police is called to a factory in the east of the country. A man has been murdered - bound and trapped as a fire burned nearby, slowly suffocating him. But who is he? Why was he targeted? Could his murderer simply be someone with a grudge against the factory's nationalisation, as Müller's Stasi colleagues insist? Why too is her deputy Werner Tilsner behaving...
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Stasi Winter
The gripping Cold War crime thriller
2020
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IN EAST GERMANY, SOLVING A MURDER CAN GET YOU KILLED . . .A gripping and intelligent thriller set in East Germany, during the worst winter in one-hundred years. Perfect for fans of Tom Rob Smith, Phillip Kerr and Joseph Kanon.____________________________________In 1978 East Germany, nothing is as it seems. The state's power is absolute, history is re-written, and the 'truth' is whatever the Stasi say it is.So...
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Stasi State
The gripping Cold War thriller for fans of Robert Harris
2018
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A gripping thriller set in 1970s East Germany, perfect for fans of Child 44, Phillip Kerr and Martin Cruz Smith.FOR THE STASI, IT'S NOT JUST THE TRUTH THAT GETS BURIED . . .The body of a teenage boy is found weighted down in a lake. Karin Müller, newly appointed Major of the People's Police, is called to investigate. But her power will only stretch so far, when every move she makes is under the watchful eye of the Stasi.The...
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- David Young
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- Wesleyan Poetry in Translation
2012
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Sonnets to Orpheus is Rainer Maria Rilke's first and only sonnet sequence. It is an undisputed masterpiece by one of the greatest modern poets, translated here by a master of translation, David Young.Rilke revived and transformed the traditional sonnet sequence in the Sonnets. Instead of centering on love for a particular person, as has many other sonneteers, he wrote an extended love poem to the world, celebrating such diverse things as mirrors, dogs, fruit, breathing, and childho...
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A Gripping New Thriller for Fans of Child 44
2017
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How do you solve a murder when you can't ask any questions?The gripping new thriller from the bestselling, award-winning author of Stasi Child.East Germany, 1975. Karin Müller, sidelined from the murder squad in Berlin, jumps at the chance to be sent south to Halle-Neustadt, where a pair of infant twins have gone missing.But Müller soon finds her problems have followed her. Halle-Neustadt is a new town - the pride of the co...
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