Jilly Bond
61) Spitfire Girl
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Jackie Moggridge was just nineteen when World War Two broke out. Determined to do her bit, she joined the Air Transport Auxiliary. Ferrying aircraft from factory to frontline was dangerous work, but there was also fun, friendship and even love in the air. At last the world was opening up to women... or at least it seemed to be.
62) The 12:57 Killer
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A wealthy man is discovered battered to death at home. His community are quick to blame burglars. Called to investigate DI Guido Black and team widen their search, uncovering feuds, envy and betrayals going a long way back. Events take a dramatic turn when a second body turns up.
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Detective Inspector Guido Black. The grandson of the last man in England to hang, Black fervently believes his grandfather innocent and is committed to finding...
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He wants to hate her, but he's passionately attracted to her...Just who is Lily Wrightington - cynical fashion photographer or studious art historian? Prince Marco di Lucchesi can't hide his haughty disdain for this Englishwoman - or his violent attraction to her! As they tour the captivating palazzos of northern Italy together for Lily's work project the atmosphere between them alternately sizzles with dislike and erotic promise...until shadows from...
64) Marry in Haste
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Amelia Ravenscroft is desperate to escape her aunt's home where she endures life of drudgery, whilst fighting off her lecherous cousin. When she overhears Viscount Demarr confiding in a friend that he needs to marry "at once", she boldly proposes a marria.
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One ghost, one murder, one hundred years apart. But are they connected? Ella has discovered a secret room in The Yellow Cottage, but with it comes a ghost. Who was she? And how did she die? Ella needs to find the answers before either of them can find peace. But suddenly things take a nasty turn for the worse. Ella Bridges has been living on Linhay Island for several months but still hasn't discovered the identity of her ghostly guest. Deciding...
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Never mess with power-hungry people!' Or so Sophie's Dad is always telling her. But when her friend Gidaado the Fourth starts working for a famous General, Sophie finds herself mixed up in some very dirty business. She discovers that General Crêpe-Sombo is not at all the kind, peaceful man he pretends to be. To expose the villain before he becomes President, Sophie and Gidaado will need all their wits about them. They will also need a dog whistle,...
67) A Clerical Error
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When the crime scene is pure coincidence and there's no evidence, how do you prove it was murder?
Ella Bridges faces her most challenging investigation so far when the vicar dies suddenly at the May Day Fete. But with evidence scarce and her personal life unraveling in ways she could never have imagined, she misses vital clues in the investigation.
Working alongside Sergeant Baxter of Scotland Yard, will Ella manage to unearth the clues needed to...
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Ever been talked into buying a camel? Or become a burglar by mistake? Or accidentally drugged a friend on a blind date? Keggie Carew has an unerring instinct for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, of putting her foot in it, and making a hash of things. From the repercussions of a missing purse, to boiling a frog, or the holiday when the last thing you could possibly imagine happens, Keggie has been there. She also has an enviable talent for...
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This book is the flip to How To Be Happy; a book which offers a reassuring and empowering guide to finding positivity and inner strength, it helps individuals to understand that it is not what happens to them, it is the way that they react and respond. The book will support individuals in developing a personal toolkit that will equip them to cope with the day to day challenges that they will inevitably have to deal with. The key messages in the book...
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Rina accepts an invite to Aikensthorpe, a country-house hotel with a sinister past. Her fellow guests are an eccentric bunch of magicians and scholars who want to re-enact a séance. Back in 1872, it left one man dead and another mad. But Rina won't be drawn into all of that. She's relieved when Detective MacGregor comes to her rescue. But then a blizzard sets in...leaving them trapped in the house, cut off from civilization. And then the first of...
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When the entire village is invited to a garden party for a mysterious announcement, nobody expects it to end with a man being thrown to his death. In a race against the clock, Julia must juggle her blossoming romance with DI Brown whilst interpreting her lodger's strange behaviour to uncover the truth behind the untimely death. With members of her family in the frame, will Julia like what she discovers?
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A pair of silver Regency candlesticks. Pieces of well-worn family jewelry. More than a thousand documents, letters, and photographs.
Lotte Meyerhoff's best friends risked their lives in Nazi Germany to safeguard these and other treasured heirlooms and mementos from her family and return them to her after the war. The Holocaust had left Lotte the lone survivor of her family, and these precious objects gave her back a crucial piece of her past. Four...
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If Joe and Vicky had known what relocating to a tiny mountain village in Andalucía would REALLY be like, they might have hesitated. They can have no idea of the culture shock in store for them… no idea they'll become reluctant chicken farmers and own the most dangerous cockerel in Spain… no idea they'll help capture a vulture and be rescued by a mule. Will they stay, or will they return to the relative sanity of England?
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A funeral wreath is delivered to Barker's cottage. Is it a prank, or a grim warning? Julia's fears that somebody is trying to kill Barker are confirmed when a dead body with a striking resemblance to him is found on his doorstep the very next day, just as their romance is deepening. Barker might be on temporary suspension from his role as Detective Inspector at the village police station, but that doesn't mean he's short of enemies in Peridale, especially...
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Professional genealogist Melissa Grantham receives an invitation to visit her family’s ancestral home, Ashleigh Manor. From the moment she arrives, life-like dreams and visions haunt her. The spiritual connection to a medieval young woman and her forbidden lover have her questioning her sanity, but Melissa is determined to solve the mystery.
Jake Precy, owner of a nearby cottage, has disturbing dreams too, but it’s not until he meets Melissa...
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For Victoria, image is everything, and on the surface, she has it all: a big house, a successful husband, and two beautiful children. But behind the scenes, things are very different. Victoria and her husband have a dark secret, and she lives in terror of it being discovered-of her perfect façade being shattered forever. Under massive stress, but still desperately trying to keep up appearances, her family is falling apart: her husband Kit is unable...
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As the clock strikes midnight on New Year's Eve, Cass finds her husband lying naked on a coat-strewn bed, entwined with another woman. She's determined to get over him – and soon. Luckily, there are plenty of distractions: juggling a young family with a burgeoning social life and a return to work… and narrowly avoiding arrest. Then one day, she falls for the last person she could ever have predicted…
78) The Arrangement
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Grace is living through every mother's worst nightmare. Her student daughter Abi went away on a dream vacation-and was murdered. Overwhelmed by grief and fighting off old demons that have resurfaced, Grace tries to make sense of it-who would want to kill her beautiful girl? But as she learns more about Abi's life, she realizes she didn't know her own daughter very well. How did Abi acquire all those designer clothes? And what was she doing on those...
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A best-selling author on both sides of the Atlantic, Sharon Kendrick pens romances that stir listeners' souls. In His Majesty's Child, King Casimiro rules all of Zaffirinthos, with only one problem-an accident has left him with amnesia. Casimiro has no earthly idea why he's taken Melissa Maguire, a delicate Englishwoman, as his queen. As Casimiro gets reacquainted with his lady wife, she begins to stir passions he never thought possible-but Melissa...
80) Fear the Silence
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"Do you believe Will took his own life?"
The question echoed off the white tiles in the hospital's cold, cavernous morgue, and I studied my husband in peaceful repose. I leaned down and put my forehead against his. Silent tears ran down my cheeks. They felt hot, and he felt so cold. It was five days since his death, and my grief felt heavy, like a vast, dark mass pushing down on me.
When Maggie's husband, Will, is shot dead in their London home,...
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