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Yes indeed, Linda. Deadland is out in the UK in May, featuring DS Cupidi and the return of William South.
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The Birdwatcher (DS Alexandra Cupidi #0/prequel)
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2016
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Salt Lane (DS Alexandra Cupidi #1)
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2018
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Deadland (DS Alexandra Cupidi #2)
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2019
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Grave's End (DS Alexandra Cupidi #3)
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2020
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The Trawlerman (DS Alexandra Cupidi, #4)
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2021
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A Song From Dead Lips (Breen and Tozer, #1)
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2013
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30 editions
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The Wild Swimmers (DS Alexandra Cupidi, #5)
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2024
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A House of Knives (Breen and Tozer, #2)
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2014
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The Red Shore
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A Book of Scars (Breen and Tozer, #3)
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The Red Shore, July 3rd
On July 3 2025 I'm launching a new series with a book called The Red Shore: The gripping new Devon-set crime thriller mystery featuring detective Eden Driscoll. It's set in Devon, on a coastline I know very well, and it's really about a man struggling to cope with his responsibilities after he finds himself carer for his nine-year-old nephew. Plus murder, obviously!
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"Having enjoyed the opening book to this series, "The Red Shore", I think the simplest way I can describe this is having built upon that. Which is odd in books really. We're inclined to assume sequels will be a drop in some regard, but I don't feel th"
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“They are usually asking quite ordinary questions, like why am I here, why are some people rich and others poor, what happens when I die, why doesn’t anybody like me, and so on. The real question is, how come they’re coming up with such weird answers?”
― Spying in Guru Land: A Journey into the Strange World of Religious Cults
― Spying in Guru Land: A Journey into the Strange World of Religious Cults
“Later the FBI would talk of ‘bunkers’ built under the compound.”
― Spying in Guru Land: A Journey into the Strange World of Religious Cults
― Spying in Guru Land: A Journey into the Strange World of Religious Cults
“In the Hare Krishna movement, everything Indian acquires a holiness. Many disciples not only adopt the clothes, but adopt a sort of odd body language too. Spurning the plastic spoons offered, they scoop up their prasadam with their fingers, and thank the servers with palms pressed together. Some even acquire twitchy pseudo-Indian neck movements.”
― Spying in Guru Land: A Journey into the Strange World of Religious Cults
― Spying in Guru Land: A Journey into the Strange World of Religious Cults
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“Adams grew up in the sixties, and the Beatles “planted a seed in my head that made it explode. Every nine months there’d be a new album which would be an earth-shattering development from where they were before. We were so obsessed by them that when ‘Penny Lane’ came out and we hadn’t heard it on the radio, we beat up this boy who had heard it until he hummed the tune to us. People now ask if Oasis are as good as the Beatles. I don’t think they are as good as the Rutles.”
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“It was one of those times when the unsatisfactory complexity of the world fades far enough into the distance for the moment to become a thing in itself.”
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Has it? News to me! Can I get you a copy then, Susan?
I see a new book has appeared on NetGalley - very exciting!
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