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A computerized horse-betting system falls into the hands of the young physicist Jonathan Derry. But unless he returns this nearly perfect handicapping system to the rightful owners, the odds of Jonathan's survival are slim to none, as a cunning scheme of revenge unfolds.

Philomena McCarthy is an ambitious police officer with the elite Metropolitan Police in London, responding to a domestic violence call. Tempe Brown is a bloodied young woman and the mistress of a decorated and intimidating London detective, Darren Goodall. Philomena and Tempe strike up a tentative friendship, determined to protect each other from Goodall, but something isn’t quite right about the stories Tempe tells and the secrets she keeps. 

In Grimm Up North, scarred ex-soldier DCI Harry Grimm lands in rural North Yorkshire, exiled from Bristol and itching to leave—until a local teen vanishes. With a brutal awareness of human trafficking’s horrors, Grimm suspects the worst. As he clashes with locals and digs into dark secrets, he races against time to save a life in this gripping, darkly humorous series debut.

Frida Liu is struggling. She doesn’t have a career worthy of her Chinese immigrant parents’ sacrifices. She can’t persuade her husband, Gust, to give up his wellness-obsessed younger mistress. Only with Harriet, their cherubic daughter, does Frida finally attain the perfection expected of her. Harriet may be all she has, but she is just enough. Until Frida has a very bad day.

Will justice slip through his fingers like smoke? DCI Harry Grimm is on edge—big changes loom, and his team reels from loss. But when a charred corpse surfaces in a coffee warehouse, he's thrust back into the fray. As bodies appear from Yorkshire to Scotland, Grimm races to outsmart a cunning killer. In Ashes of Betrayal, David J. Gatward delivers a thriller where secrets smolder and danger ignites.

In Blood Fountain, city-tough Harry Grimm finds rural peace shattered when a decapitated corpse appears on his favorite pub’s quoit pitch. Soon, another body turns up at a famed waterfall, hinting at dark undercurrents in this quiet town. Grimm must dive deep into local grudges and hidden hostilities, racing against time to catch a killer lurking beneath paradise’s idyllic surface. Haunting, atmospheric, unforgettable.

As war rages in Europe, the citizens of London flee to the country. At Pigeonsford, a group of guests plays cards, drinks tea, and acts polite — but Grace Morland is painfully in love with Stephen Pendock, the squire of Pigeonsford. Pendock, however, is smitten with young beauty Francesca Hart. One afternoon, Fran debuts a new hat, and Grace’s jealousy exclaims: “I wouldn’t be seen dead in a ditch in a thing like that!”. She will soon be proven wrong.

When postman Higgins returns to Heron's Park hospital with injuries from a bombing raid in 1943, his inexplicable death by asphyxiation in the operating theatre casts four nurses and three doctors under suspicion. A second death in quick succession invites investigation by Inspector Cockrill. As an air raid detains the inspector for the night, the stage is set for a tense and claustrophobic investigation with a close-knit cast of suspects.