Heley, Veronica.

Summary: While out collecting laurel for formidable flower arranger Mrs Dawes, feisty widow Ellie Quicke comes across a corpse without an identity. Next day, Ellie discovers Mrs Dawes badly beaten and close to death. Much to Ellie's dismay, the police think shaven-headed Neil, Mrs Dawes' grandson, is responsible, even after a third body comes to light.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2007

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Habila, Helon

Summary: Reluctantly leaving America when his wife is given a prestigious fellowship in Berlin, a Nigerian grad student struggles with the suffering of the African refugees and immigrants he encounters in his new home.

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019

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Helle, Helle

Summary: "Dorte is twenty and adrift, pretending to study literature at Copenhagen University. In reality she is riding the trains and clocking up random encounters in her new home by the railway tracks. She remembers her ex, Per - the first boyfriend she tells usabout, and the first she leaves - as she enters a new world of transient relationships, random sexual experiences and awkward attempts to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Soft Skull Press, an imprint of Counterpoint 2015

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Heley, Veronica.

Summary: After 24 years, she's learning the truth that was hidden from her as a child. Now the fate of many people depends on what she will do with it. At the age of four, Araminta "Minty" Cardale was exiled from Eden Hall on the wings of a scandal. Twenty years later, summoned by her half-sister, she has returned to see her dying father. But her hopes of a warm family welcome are shattered, and she is...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2004

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Heley, Veronica.

Summary: Bea Abbot runs a domestic agency that doesn't "do" murder. There's nothing sinister about Zander's request for Bea to accompany him on an errand to a grieving widow, but it's awkward because it was Zander who'd exposed the scam that his boss Denzil had been running on the Tudor Housing Trust ... after which Denzil had, expectedly, died. Oliver, Bea's computer geek of an assistant, is delighted...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2010

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Heley, Veronica.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2007

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Heley, Veronica.

Summary: Ellie's always disliked the local big estate agent--aka Great White Shark--so is distressed when her daughter Diana announces that she's carrying his child and about to become his fourth wife. But Ellie's soon drawn into the family circle when one of the Hooper children dies in their private gym and another succumbs to a peanut allergy.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2012

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Summary: Directors Albert and Allen Hughes and screenwriter Tyger Williams were barely into their twenties when they sent shock waves through American cinema and hip-hop culture with this fatalistic, unflinching vision of life and death on the streets of Watts, Los Angeles, in the 1990s. There, in the shadow of the riots of 1965 and 1992, young Caine is growing up under the influence of his ruthless,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Heley, Veronica

Summary: Ellie investigates some mysterious deaths in the community that may or may not be suicide.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Pub Ltd 2013

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Heley, Veronica.

Summary: Bea Abbot is asked to find the man or woman who laid a booby trap for Sir Lucas Ossett, the powerful head of an international company.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2013

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Heley, Veronica.

Summary: A mysterious bout of sickness hits the parish after a lunch at church, and Ellie is horrified to discover that her home-baked quiches are considered to be the problem. Worse still, someone dies. When more suspect food turns up, Ellie's investigative instincts are aroused, for these incidents seem connected with her friend's troubled past.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2006

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Heley, Veronica

Summary: While looking into the Holland family business empire, Bea discovers that there is trouble both with the family fortune and within the family.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2013

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Heley, Veronica

Summary: Ellie's housekeeper Vera receives a visit from the man who raped her and left her pregnant years earlier as a schoolgirl, and now wants to adopt the child, but Ellie intends to protect Vera and her child from this unwelcome visitor from the past.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2014

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Heley, Veronica.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2011

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Heley, Veronica.

Summary: While Bea Abbot worries that she's lost control of her domestic agency, she's asked to find some domestic help for an eccentric musician falsely accused of murder, but Bea doesn't realize how dangerous this might be until he lands on her doorstep.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2012

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Heley, Veronica.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2005

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Coggan, Helena

Summary: Rose Elmsworth has a secret. For eighteen years, the world has been divided into the magically Gifted and the non-magical Ashkind, but Rose's identity is far more dangerous. At fifteen, she has earned herself a place alongside her father in the Department, a brutal law-enforcement organisation run by the Gifted to control the Ashkind. But now an old enemy is threatening to start a catastrophic...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hodder & Stoughton 2015

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Tursten, Helene

Summary: Two young kids are missing. A police officer is found dead. Detective Inspector Embla Nyström must quickly solve the mystery and find the children before the small town takes matters into their own hands.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2019

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Close, Helena

Summary: 18-year-old Saoirse can’t wait to leave school – but just before the final exams her ex-boyfriend dies by suicide. Everyone blames Saoirse – even Saoirse herself, who cheated on him with his best friend. She is shunned by her schoolmates and suffers unbearable levels of anxiety, which her useless counsellor does nothing to alleviate. On the night of the prom, everything becomes too much and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Island Books 2022

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Fox, Helena

Summary: "Sixteen-year-old Biz sees her father every day, though he died when she was seven. When he suddenly disappears, she tumbles into a disaster-land of grief and depression from which she must find her way back"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Fox, Helena

Summary: On the water, with everything hushed above and below, George is steady, silent. Then her estranged dad says he needs to talk, and George's past begins to wake up, looping around her ankles, trying to drag her under. George's best friend, Tess, is about to become a teen mom; her friend Laz is in despair about the climate crisis; her gramps would literally misplace his teeth if not for her, and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2023

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Greer, Helena

Summary: "A witty, glittering rom-com about finding the courage to face your past and learning what it truly means to return home, perfect for fans of Jenny Bayliss and Alexandra Bellefleur. Artist Miriam Blum has her decoupaged glitter ducks perfectly lined up. Only for one phone call to bring her whole life all crashing down. Her beloved and eccentric great-aunt has just died-leaving her part-owner of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2022

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