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Known for her adventurous, fast-moving plots that feature strong female protagonists, Dilly Court is a Sunday Times bestselling author. This set comprises six novels, each one rich with period details that create an evocative picture of life in London’s slums in the early 20th century. The six titles included in this set are: The Dollmaker's Daughters (Read more...) The Cockney Sparrow (Read more...) Mermaids Singing (Read more...) The Best of Sisters (Read more...) The Constant Heart (Read more...) Tilly True (Read more...)

John Grisham was a practising lawyer before he turned to writing but since his first book, The Firm, appeared in 1991, he has become the master of the modern legal thriller. Our set contains five cases, plus a story inspired by Grisham’s own childhood in rural Arkansas. The six titles included in this set are: The Broker (Read more...) The Associate (Read more...) The Testament (Read more...) A Painted House (Read more...) The Pelican Brief (Read more...) The King of Torts (Read more...)

In Grant County, Georgia – Karin Slaughter’s home state – Heartsdale is a small town that suffers more than its fair share of horrific murders. These unflinching thrillers follow the investigations of the local medical examiner and coroner, Sara Linton and the chief of police, Sara’s ex-husband, Jeffrey Tolliver. The five titles included in this set are: Blindsighted (Read more...) Kisscut (Read more...) Indelible (Read more...) A Faint Cold Fear (Read more...) Faithless (Read more...)

After their teenage sister Julia vanished, Claire and Lydia’s family was ripped apart. More than 20 years later, the murder of Claire’s husband, Paul Scott is followed by a shocking discovery, and the estranged sisters come together to unearth the truth of Julia’s disappearance.

Hapless blood donors, gamblers, hustlers, a death row inmate and a down-trodden divorce lawyer – the people and crimes of Ford County, Mississippi are the subjects of these seven page-turners from one of America’s greatest storytellers.

When a homeless man holds lawyers at a leading Washington DC firm hostage, his unusual demands cause rising star Michael Brock to investigate their origin, uncovering some unpleasant secrets about his own firm in the process.

Booking a Caribbean cruise to get away from the hassle and expense of Christmas does not work out well for Luther and Nora Krank as disputes with the neighbours and a last-minute change of plan cause comic chaos.

In this sports drama an American football player, whose disastrous form means he can no longer get a game in the NFL, decides to get away from his critics and his other personal problems by moving to Italy and trying to turn around the fortunes of the Parma Panthers.

Despite being declared dead following a car crash in Mississippi, Patrick Lanigan seems to have resurfaced in Brazil. If it is him, why did he abandon his life as partner of a law firm, and where is the $90 million that disappeared from the firm’s accounts?

Attending the funeral of their legendary high school American football coach, former players, including star quarterback Neely Crenshaw, replay past triumphs but stories of bullying and victimization also emerge and they try to decide whether they loved or hated the revered figure.

As part of a gang of refugees, Liverpool girls Imogen, Rita and Debbie spend their days spying on the young fighter pilots at the RAF base near their new countryside billet. When they stumble across an injured flier, the realities of war come into sharp focus.

When tomboy Daisy Kildare leaves rural Ireland to take on the role of companion to an orphan in Liverpool, her happy-go-lucky life seems to be at an end. One small crumb of comfort is her burgeoning friendship with chauffeur's son Jake – until the war intervenes.

Sent to live with her aunt in Anglesey for the duration of the war, Nell mourns the loss of her carefree city life. As she strives to navigate farm work, heartbreak and long-buried secrets, she slowly starts to feel at home in her new community.

Miranda is forced to move in with her disinterested aunt after her mother mysteriously disappears. She teams up with her neighbour Steve to search for her, but when he sets off to train as aircrew Miranda must face the fact that she may never see either of them again.

One day during a game of hide-and-seek Dot McCann overhears a conversation between two hardened criminals and inadvertently ends up in possession of a stolen necklace. Together with a motley crew of new companions, she sets out to bring the thieves to justice, unaware that her life is in danger.

Dismissed from service under a cloud of misunderstanding, Tilly True reluctantly returns home to her poverty-stricken family. Her desperation to secure new employment leads her down a treacherous path, made more dangerous by her dalliance with the charming but ruthless Barnaby Palgrave.

When mudlark Kitty Cox secures a position with a wealthy Mayfair family, she starts to believe a better life is within her grasp. However, her beloved mistress Lady Arabella is harbouring a dark secret – the repercussions of which may see Kitty forced back to the slums she worked so hard to escape.

Gentle Ruby dreams of escaping the sweatshop by training as a nurse, while her flamboyant twin Rosetta craves the bright lights of the music hall. When the twins meet handsome Jonas Crowe, a toxic combination of love, ambition and jealously threatens to fracture their fragile bond.

Compelled to marry the son of a wealthy merchant to settle a feud, bargeman's daughter Rosina must set aside her secret feelings for a dashing river pirate. After she falls on hard times, she finds it impossible to put him out of her mind.

Gifted young soprano Clemency is forced by her feckless mother to work as a pickpocket to support her ailing sibling. Just as she seems on the cusp of operatic stardom, a chance meeting with a mysterious man named Jared Stone casts a shadow over her ambition.

Banished to a dank sail loft above a Wapping chandlery, twelve-year-old Eliza has grown accustomed to a life of penury. Beaten and disowned by her cruel uncle, it seems her future happiness rests on her unlikely new friendship with a flamboyant medical man.

A teenage quarrel ends in a shoot-out and a girl’s death, but when the autopsy reveals evidence of ritual abuse, Sara and Jeffrey find themselves dealing with a tragedy and another, even more brutal crime.

After stumbling upon the body of a young woman who had been buried alive in the woods, Sara and Jeffrey begin the harrowing journey to find her killer and are led to ever more shocking discoveries.

Heartsdale’s college authorities are keen to avoid scandal after a suicide on campus, but at autopsy, the evidence doesn’t ring true; then two more suspicious suicides prompt a full-scale criminal investigation.

An eccentric, reclusive billionaire is determined to die, and to cut his heirs out of his will. Meanwhile, a lawyer is sent to the Brazilian jungle in search of Rachel Lane, now the world’s richest missionary.

A brilliant law student in New Orleans draws up a brief that links the unsolved murders of two Supreme Court Justices and uncovers a presidential conspiracy; but somebody will stop at nothing to conceal the secrets of the Pelican brief. The six titles included in this set are: The Associate (Read more...) A Painted House (Read more...) The Pelican Brief (Read more...) The Testament (Read more...) The Broker (Read more...) The King of Torts (Read more...)

Set in the author’s home state, Arkansas, and narrated by young Luke Chandler, this is the story of the Chandlers’ cotton farm, the hill people and Mexicans brought in at harvest time and the hot, wet summer that destroys the family’s hopes.

A lawyer in the Office of the Public Defender, Carter thought his career was stalled; then came a case of seemingly random murder and the investigation into his client’s background that revealed a conspiracy too terrible to contemplate.

After six years in prison, a Washington power broker suspected of knowing state secrets is pardoned by the outgoing President, under pressure from the CIA. They free the Broker, relocate him, then wait to see who will kill him.

A young lawyer harbours a dark secret from his college years; when it falls into the wrong hands, his dream job – associate with a high profile law firm – becomes his nightmare as he is forced to follow orders, however dangerous.

Simon was shattered when his eldest daughter ran away from home. Six months later, he saw her busking in Central Park. He tried to talk to her but she ran again and he followed – into a dark, drug-ridden and sometimes murderous world.

Ten years ago, two boys from wealthy American families were kidnapped; a ransom was demanded but never taken, and then – nothing. Now, sports agent Myron Bolitar believes he has located one of the boys, a teenager in London and in trouble.

A former US Army helicopter pilot, Maya knows how to keep her cool until she sees the image captured by the baby cam while she was at work: her two-year-old daughter playing with Maya’s husband, Joe — two weeks after his murder.

Fifteen years ago in a small town in New Jersey, Nap Dumas’s brother Leo and Leo’s girlfriend were found dead. Now, as a police detective investigating a recent series of murders, Nap uncovers secrets that bring past tragedies into the present.

Unusually independent for a Regency woman, Annis Wychwood is a wealthy spinster who lives alone, yet when she meets Lucilla Carleton, a young runaway and reluctant bride-to-be, Annis is drawn to Lucilla’s sharp-witted and rakish guardian.

When the very eligible Viscount Sheringham, or ‘Sherry’, proposes to Hero Wantage, she is overjoyed. Saved from life as a governess, she begins social climbing, but so naively that Sherry fears drastic action is required, or she will ruin them both.

To protect her niece Fanny, who has fallen in love with Stacey Calverleigh, a suspected fortune-hunter, Abigail enlists the help of Stacey’s cousin Miles. She soon discovers that Miles is the real black sheep of the Calverleigh family – and terribly attractive.

To general consternation, Serena Carlow’s father has died, naming the Marquess of Rotherham – Serena’s former fiancé – as her trustee. She forms new attachments, in revenge rather than love, and a grand entanglement of betrothals ensues.