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Set in London during the Blitz, Hope Under Fire is the fourth exciting spy thriller in Caroline Dunford's World War II Hope Stapleford Adventures. It is late August 1940 and British Intelligence agent Hope Stapleford is desperate to join the Special Operations Executive. But spymaster Fitzroy, now Hope's stepfather, has promised to protect her, so instead he sends her to work in the home propaganda department of the Ministry of Information. When bombs start to fall in London and lives are tragically lost, Hope secretly becomes an ARP warden and her asset, Harvey, becomes a nightshift fireman on the East End docks. And as the Blitz rages on, Hope must keep the nation's spirits up, while never...
A captivating and modern Highland romance, set amid a culture clash of city and rural lifestyles and FILLED with unexpected twists and turns! ______________ City girl, Rural lifestyle. Something has to give... Lucy McIntosh is a city girl through and through. She works in an advertising agency in Edinburgh with her boyfriend Jake, and her life is a whirl of deadlines, corporate parties, and coffee shops. Then Lucy learns that she is to inherit a hotel in the Highlands from her long-lost Uncle Calum. At first insistent that she will sell it to fund her and Jake's move to London, she arrives in her uncle's village to find The Mormaer Inn, a huge, tumbledown place perpetually on the brink of fa...
This fully revised and updated edition of the bestselling Chief Data Officer’s Playbook offers new insights into the role of the CDO and the data environment. Written by two of the world’s leading experts in data driven transformation, it addresses the changes that have taken place in ‘data’, in the role of the ‘CDO’, and the expectations and ambitions of organisations. Most importantly, it will place the role of the CDO into the context of a c-suite player for organisations that wish to recover quickly and with long-term stability from the current global economic downturn. New coverage includes: - the evolution of the CDO role, what those changes mean for organisations and indiv...
Welcome to the most gripping thriller of the year: hugely entertaining, high-octane and read-in-a-single-sitting. Mind games. Murder. Mayhem. How far would you go to survive the night? Blackmail lures sixteen-year-old Ava to the derelict carnival on Portgrave Pier. She is one of ten teenagers, all with secrets they intend to protect whatever the cost. When fog and magic swallow the pier, the group find themselves cut off from the real world and from their morals. As the teenagers turn on each other, Ava will have to face up to the secret that brought her to the pier and decide how far she's willing to go to survive. For fans of Karen McManus' One of Us is Lying, Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None and films like I Know What You Did Last Summer.
'A sparkling and witty crime debut with a female protagonist to challenge Miss Marple' LIN ANDERSON, Award winning Scottish crime author A Death at Crystal Palace - the eleventh edition of the gripping and twisty Euphemia Martins Mysteries! _______________ An olive branch? Or a pile of poison ivy? With the world hanging on the precipice of war, Euphemia learns that threats also lurk on a far more personal level... When Richenda Stapleford accepts what she believes to be an olive branch from her dangerous and scheming brother, Richard, Euphemia can't help but feel that it's just another act of treachery waiting to unfold. Buying into this uncommon act of kindness, Richenda goes against the wi...
"A sparkling and witty crime debut with a female protagonist to challenge Miss Marple." Lin Anderson, Award winning Scottish crime author A Death in the Family - Book One of the Euphemia Martin Mysteries In December 1909 the Very Rev Joshia Martins expires in a dish of mutton and onions leaving his family on the brink of destitution. Abandoned by her noble grandfather, Joshia's daughter, the eighteen year old Euphemia, takes it on herself to provide for her mother and little brother by entering service. She's young, fit, intelligent, a little naive and assumes the life of a maid won't be too demanding. However, on her first day at the unhappy home of Lord Stapleford she discovers a dead body. Euphemia's innate sense of justice has her prying where no servant should look and uncovering some Stapleford secrets...
'A sparkling and witty crime debut with a female protagonist to challenge Miss Marple' LIN ANDERSON, Award winning Scottish crime author A Death at the Church - the thirteenth edition of the gripping and twisty Euphemia Martins Mysteries! _______________ Can old scores finally be settled? Euphemia's wedding day has finally dawned and her little brother, mother and step father are present. There's even a rumour that her grandfather might turn up. This is especially awkward as she would finally have to confess to Bertram that she is not merely a chambermaid going up in the world but actually the granddaughter of one of the foremost Earls in the country. However, such worries are quickly cast i...
'A sparkling and witty crime debut with a female protagonist to challenge Miss Marple' LIN ANDERSON, Award winning Scottish crime author A Death Overseas - the tenth edition of the gripping and twisty Euphemia Martins Mysteries! _______________ When Euphemia Martins accepts an invitation to the Exposition Universelle in Ghent, Belgium, she imagines she will enjoy a few days basking in the latest developments the worlds of science and art have to offer. However - this being Euphemia - things don't quite go as planned... As her employer, Richenda Muller, is suffering the effects of her first pregnancy, Euphemia must travel with a chaperone - the redoubtable Mrs Brown - and Richenda's brother B...
'A sparkling and witty crime debut with a female protagonist to challenge Miss Marple' LIN ANDERSON, Award winning Scottish crime author A Death for a Cause - the eighth edition of the gripping and twisty Euphemia Martins Mysteries! _______________ When Euphemia Martins accompanies her employer Richenda Muller to London, she envisages a pleasant few days spent taking tea and visiting the shops. Her hopes are dashed when Richenda gets her involved in a suffragettes' march which soon turns nasty. Euphemia finds herself getting quite physical in the defence of her fellow marchers when the police turn on them, and she is imprisoned for her pains. Euphemia soon realises this is no ordinary impris...
'A sparkling and witty crime debut with a female protagonist to challenge Miss Marple' LIN ANDERSON, Award winning Scottish crime author A Death in the Pavilion - the fifth edition of the gripping and twisty Euphemia Martins Mysteries! _______________ Euphemia Martins, the estranged granddaughter of an Earl, entered service incognito with the Stapleford family to save her family from destitution and from that moment on she acquired the bothersome reputation of finding dead bodies. Now promoted to the role of paid companion to the deplorable Richenda Stapleford she is staying at the country estate of Hans Muller upon whom Richenda has matrimonial designs. Mere weeks after their arrival Richen...