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BookTalk but at night it becomes a novelty hotel . Shortly after their arrival , the holiday turns into a nightmare . A near-miss snowmobile accident is followed by the discovery of the frozen body of one of the hotel ’ s American guests . The American was drugged and pushed out of his sleeping bag to freeze to death in the room . As the body count rises , Maggie realises that the only person she can trust is Thomas Hallengren , the detective leading the case .
The Guilt Trip ( p ) by Sandie Jones . They went away as friends they came back as suspects ... Jack and Rachel . Noah and Paige . Will and Ali . Five friends who ’ ve known each other for years . And Ali , Will ’ s new fiancee . To celebrate the forthcoming wedding , all three couples are having a weekend getaway together in Portugal . It ’ s a chance to relax and get to know Ali a little better perhaps . A newcomer to their group , she seems perfectly nice and Will seems happy after years of bad choices . But Ali is hiding more than one secret ... By the end of the weekend there ’ ll be one dead body and five people with guilty consciences wondering if they really know each other so well after all .
The Hiding Place ( p ) by Jenny Quintana . Some houses have their secrets . But so do some people ... Abandoned as a baby in the hallway of a shared house in London , Marina has never known her parents , and the circumstances of her birth still remain a mystery . Now an adult , Marina has returned to the house where it all started , determined to find out who she really is . But the walls of this household more than memories , and Marina ’ s reappearance hasn ’ t gone unnoticed by the other tenants . Someone is watching Marina . Someone who knows the truth ...
The Stone Chamber ( h ) by Kate Ellis is book 25 in the DI Wesley Peterson series . On a summer evening , Robert and Greta Gerdner are shot dead at their home in the Devon countryside . DI Wesley Peterson suspects the execution-style murders might be linked to Robert ’ s past police career - until Robert ’ s name is found on a list of people who ’ ve been sent tickets anonymously for a tour of Darkhole Grange , a former asylum on Dartmoor . Wesley discovers that other names on the list have also died in mysterious circumstances and , as he is drawn into the chilling history of the asylum , he becomes convinced that it holds the key to the case .
Key : ( p ) paperback ( l ) hardback / large paperback depending on availability .
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