Martin Price
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Sonia Rowntree's car becomes trapped in a snowstorm. In the vehicle behind is Helen Davenport, who believes that Sonia killed her husband and son eight years ago. During the chase that follows, Sonia fights to prove that this is a case of mistaken identity. But something else is waiting for Sonia. For Helen, too. Something that will bind them together. For always.
2) Steam
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1963: the death of JFK and the birth of Dr Who. A craft passes over Billy Flowers's head, and he is doused in a strange, green mist. Billy, the Head Porter at Wentworth Train Station, becomes sick...but he also gains the ability to see people's darkest secrets. This would be a blessing for the detectives conducting a murder investigation, but for Billy it becomes a curse. He begins to realise the people he loves can no longer be trusted. Including...
3) Africar
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Shirley Oliphant's dream is to take her grandkids on a picnic in a Rolls-Royce. Her husband, the old KO, finds just the car, a 1974 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow once owned by a Mr Van Buren, who brought the car back from Africa. Since his death, seven years ago, the Rolls has been sitting in Mr Van Buren's garage, keeping a secret. A deadly secret. And the old KO is about to discover that secret, and unleash it.
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Naked and badly injured, Private Jack Twinterman is mistaken for a German soldier. Under the name Hugo Forst, he spends the next two years in a Berlin hospital, until finally, in 1947, he is released into a world he knows nothing about. He is accompanied by Pia Wedekind, a shy, nervous woman who is keeping a secret that Hugo Forst cannot get to the bottom of. But Hugo is falling in love with Pia Wedekind, and together they must face and then come...
5) Sad's Place
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1966. For the past five years, Ewan Redstone has bullied and neglected his youngest son, Tommy. There seems to be no way out for Tommy, or for Cale, Tommy's older brother. Then one day Cale finds his father trapped under a pile of wood. He will die under there if Cale doesn't get help. But never mind help. In a moment of dark clarity, Cale ends his father's life, and at last he and Tommy are free. Then Cale makes a shocking discovery. He finds his...
6) Luvya Getcha
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Jazzy Beckett touches a skeletal hand that is sticking out of a riverbank…and all at once, she is lost to the owner of that hand, a girl named Carolyn Crossley, also known as CC.CC was murdered back in the 60's by a man named Max Trumain. Now it is up to Jazzy's husband Richard to find Max Trumain. But if Richard fails, then Jazzy will die. No ifs, no buts. CC will drown Jazzy in the river. Jazzy who is pregnant, if only just, and expecting the...
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Christian Harper's father was a killer. He was also the most loving father in the world. An adult now, with a son of his own, Christian recalls the murders his father committed. He can do this, too – he was there. He saw those murders taking place. Entwined in all this is Christian's relationship back then with a girl in a wheelchair named Pretty. She becomes his world, his sanity in all the madness. They save each other. They mend the parts that...
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A strange message appears on Wes Churchill's old TV. He is told to tape the message and then broadcast it to the rest of the world. But Wes had a nervous breakdown five years ago, and he is uncertain if the message is genuine, or if maybe he has had another breakdown. While he decides what to do, he looks back at his past, to a time when he smashed up his wife's car, to how his eldest daughter saved him from taking his own life, to how he came across...
9) Marsha's Bag
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A car accident dumps journalist Marsha Dunbar in a strange and beautiful place…but it is also a place in which an abducted teenager is being held captive. Marsha has a broken foot, a wrecked car, and a busted phone. She can barely help herself, never mind the imprisoned young girl. But now Marsha is in danger, too. All she has is her bag. And the jumbled contents within that bag…
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Two men brought together by heartbreak and tragedy. Phil Hayward, after suffering a terrible loss back in the late 70's, committed an act of vengeance he got away with. But it seems his past is about to catch up with him. Then we have Michael Jepson, whose sister was murdered on his 12th birthday. Just before her death, she took a photo of Michael on his new bike. Now, 30 years later, it is Michael's son's birthday, and Michael takes a photo of him...
11) Bad Return
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Hawk Morgan owns a watch that his grandson, Joey, finds and falls in love with. Given the watch's disturbing history, Hawk feels compelled to tell Joey about how, many years ago, he accidentally killed a woman, and how Joey's grandmother came back from the dead. Only for a moment, but it was the strangest and most terrifying moment in Hawk's life. Around 20,000 words, Bad Return is a story of love, regret, and of one old man's battle with depression....
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Rinehart editions volume 110
Publisher
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Pub. Date
[c1961]
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English