Descent into the Void (The Frontier Saga Book 1) (affiliate link)
Sergeant Talon Stiler thought he’d been through hell. Then he got sent to Baker V.
Stiler thought he was out – discharged from the Terran Union Marines with all four limbs and a gold watch – until a devastating attack by the hated alien Dioscuri drags him right back in again. In a flash, a war fought on the frontier of human-controlled space comes close to home, pushing humanity to the brink.
Now responsible for the development of the Union’s most secretive weapon system, Stiler and his ragtag crew of Marines have one chance to turn the tide of the war. Their mission: rescue a stranded scientist who might have discovered the key to winning the war from an occupied planet deep behind enemy lines.
And that’s the easy bit…
A hard winter. A string of brutal murders. An unstoppable killer.
A young woman dies at the scene of a suspicious hit-and-run. The evidence leads to a former schoolmate of the victim, but Detective Sergeant Dan Blacksmith doesn’t trust the evidence.
As the death toll rises, and the police become targets, can Dan and his partner discover the killer’s identity in time?
Cold Inside is set during November 1985, in the UK city of Kingston upon Hull.
Buried Secrets (Gribble-on-Sea Mysteries Book 1) (affiliate link)
In the seaside village of Gribble-on-Sea everyone has a secret.
Lord George Gribble is coming to terms with the death of his father, looking for love and deciding whether to admit to his friends how he’s really earning money. Archie, the estate gardener, has lost his best friend but is also the only person who knows a secret that could change George’s life forever. Bella, George’s best friend, is trying to deny her attraction to the local vicar whilst the village gossips think her herbal remedies and stroppy black cat means she’s a witch. Meanwhile Rose, the landlady of the Sea Shanty pub, is having nightmares about one night forty years ago and as the anniversary approaches she wants to find out the truth.
After a disturbing discovery on the beach secrets are starting to be revealed and the truth will be deadly.
Hitch-22: A Memoir (affiliate link)
Over the course of his 60 years, Christopher Hitchens has been a citizen of both the United States and the United Kingdom. He has been both a socialist opposed to the war in Vietnam and a supporter of the U.S. war against Islamic extremism in Iraq. He has been both a foreign correspondent in some of the world’s most dangerous places and a legendary bon vivant with an unquenchable thirst for alcohol and literature. He is a fervent atheist, raised as a Christian, by a mother whose Jewish heritage was not revealed to him until her suicide.
In other words, Christopher Hitchens contains multitudes. He sees all sides of an argument. And he believes the personal is political.
This is the story of his life, lived large.
Sidney Sheldon’s The Tides of Memory (affiliate link)
The conservative party’s newest superstar, Alexia De Vere has worked hard to realize her political ambitions. The brilliant and ruthless wife of wealthy aristocrat Teddy De Vere, Alexia relishes her power and the control it gives her to shape and destroy lives.
Yet success has also demanded sacrifice. Her daughter, Roxie, a bitter young woman confined to a wheelchair after a failed suicide attempt, blames Alexia for ruining her life. Alexia’s dashing son, Michael, is risking the family’s good name to jump-start his entre-preneurial dreams. Thankfully, Alexia has Teddy, her devoted husband who will stop at nothing to protect her.
But beneath Alexia De Vere’s gilded life and formidable facade lie secrets that are ugly, dirty, and deadly. When long-buried mistakes of her youth begin to resurface, old hatreds are rekindled and Alexia finds herself on the brink of losing everything—her power, her family, and even her own life. Now the woman who rose so high is on the brink of a perilous fall. For when the tides of memory rise, the only thing that might save her is the truth. . . .
The Hedge Knight (A Game of Thrones) (affiliate link)
Set one hundred years before the events in George R.R. Martin’s epic fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Hedge Knight chronicles a young squire as he travels the cruel and complex path to knighthood in the Seven Kingdoms.
Shouldering his fallen master’s sword and shield, Duncan (or “Dunk”) is determined to reinvent himself as a knight in a nearby tournament. But first Dunk needs a sponsor, and that requirement sends him down a road studded with friends, foes, adventure, and hidden agendas. One such friend is Egg, who becomes Dunk’s squire, yet even he may hold secret motivations of his own.
In this gripping prequel, Dunk and Egg seek glory in a world both familiar and new to Game of Thrones fans. What the two fortune seekers encounter, however, is a world of distrust and political machinations. Chivalry is not lost while Dunk holds fast to his dreams of honor. But such outdated virtues make him a target–and they may even lead to his ruin. This vivid and elaborately wrought tale brings new dimension to George R. R. Martin’s beloved world.
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