Simms, Chris

Summary: "After a body is found in a canal, tied up in a sleeping bag and weighed down with bricks, DC Sean Blake is sent in to investigate. Another body with links to the first is soon discovered under similar circumstances, meaning a clear pattern is emerging and a mysterious figure seen asking questions about the victims becomes the prime suspect. But as Blake delves into the pasts of those killed...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2019

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Pitcher, Annabel.

Summary: "Fifteen-year-old Tess Turner of Manchester, England, decides to stop speaking in the wake of discovering a heartbreaking family secret"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016

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Staincliffe, Cath.

Summary: "An abandoned infant on her doorstep is the last thing Manchester private eye Sal Kilkenny needs as she faces the challenge of her current case. Sal's client Libby Hill is trying to put her life back together after the brutal killing of her lover and the conviction of petty criminal Damien Beswick who confessed to the murder. But now Beswick has retracted his confession - exactly what game is...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2011

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Noon, Jeff.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1995

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Milano, Birdie

Summary: It's October half-term, and Dylan Kershaw's dreams of a reunion with Leo, the gorgeous boy he met over the summer, are dashed when his sports-mad dad whisks him off to football camp in Manchester instead. What's worse, dancer Leo seems to be too busy practicing his pirouettes to care. At least Dylan's best friend Kayla is along for the trip, on a quest to win exclusive tickets to see her...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Children's Books 2019

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Banks, Ray.

Summary: After private detective Cal Innes rescues a child from a fire, the building slumlord Donald Plummer hires him to track down the arsonists, a quest that forces Cal to deal with neo-Nazis and his worsening addiction to painkillers.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010

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Crane, Megan.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2004

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Anderson, Rebecca

Summary: "A free-spirited artist teams up with a no-nonsense detective to capture a thief who has stolen a priceless Michelangelo painting. Manchester, England, 1857. Rosanna Hawkins is one of Manchester's finest artists, even though no one knows her name. She reproduces "parlor versions" of classic masterpieces with near-perfect precision, which her employer then sells to the emerging upper-middle...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain Publishing 2023

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Cussler, Clive

Summary: In 1906, a groundbreaking Rolls-Royce prototype known as the Gray Ghost vanishes from the streets of Manchester, England, and it is only the lucky intervention of an American detective named Isaac Bell that prevents it from being lost forever. Not even he can save the good name of Marcus Peyton, however, the man wrongly blamed for the theft, and more than a hundred years later, it is his...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2018

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Simms, Chris

Summary: Detective Constable Iona Khan investigates when a Sri Lankan student begins asking suspicious questions about Manchester's tunnel system prior to the start of the Labour Party conference.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crème de la Crime 2013

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McGuire, Ian

Summary: "The rebels will be hanged at dawn, and their brotherhood is already plotting revenge. Stephen Doyle, an Irish-American veteran of the Civil War, arrives in Manchester from New York with a thirst for blood. He has joined the Fenians, a secret society intent on ending British rule in Ireland by any means necessary. Head Constable James O'Connor has fled grief and drink in Dublin for a sober...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020

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Ockley, Martha

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Publisher / Publication Date: Monarch Books 2010

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Chevalier, Tracy

Summary: 1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother. After countless meals of boiled eggs and dry toast, she saves enough to move out of her...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019

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