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The brothers / Kimberley Chambers.

Beau Bond hates fiercely and loves hard. He'll do anything to protect his twin Brett, and his girlfriend Jolene. Brett is a survivor. He's always followed his brother's lead, even if it means he's lived to regret it. As Beau and Jolene get hitched, their feuding families must put their differences aside. But the brothers have a dark secret that could cause a war between both sides - and what better place to reveal all than at a wedding. When their past sins resurface to threaten those closest to them, will the brothers still have each other's backs?
Author: Chambers, Kimberley
Published: London : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2024.
467 pages ; 24 cm
Bonds
Bonds ; 2
10 reserves

Aboyne Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Fiction - FT - On reserve shelf at Aboyne Library - 4065329
Peterhead Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Fiction - FT - In-transit from Peterhead Library to Westhill Library (Set: 14 May 2024) - 4065328

The secret ingredient / Sue Heath.

It's been three years, two weeks and one day since Kate Shaw's beloved husband Eddie died, leaving her behind. Three years, two weeks and one day that Kate has been angry - with Eddie, with herself, with life. But today is different. Different because Kate has finally taken the step she's been avoiding, back into Eddie's beloved kitchen. Now, what begins as a (disastrous) attempt to make pancakes becomes a culinary journey that is not only a love letter to the man she lost, but also an unexpected means of connection to a community she never knew she had.
Author: Heath, Sue
Published: London : One More Chapter, 2024.
369 pages ; 20 cm
1 reserve

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Fourth wing / Rebecca Yarros.

Welcome to the brutal and elite world of Basgiath War College, where everyone has an agenda, and every night could be your last. Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general - also known as her tough-as-talons mother - has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you're smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away - because dragons don't bond to 'fragile' humans. They incinerate them. With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother's daughter - like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant.
Author: Yarros, Rebecca
Published: London : Piatkus, 2024.
561 pages : maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
3 reserves

Balmedie Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Fiction - FT Pbk - On reserve shelf at Balmedie Library - 4065455
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The secrets of Blythswood Square / Sara Sheridan.

Glasgow, 1846, the second city of the British Empire is expanding rapidly and Ellory McHale, a working class woman receives an unexpected bequest which allows her to leave her job as junior assistant to a famous male photographer in Edinburgh to set up Glasgow's first professional photography studio, in a glass-roofed top floor within sight of the Clyde. There, Ellory crosses paths with wealthy heiress Annis Buchanan, and the two strike up a friendship based on a mutual understanding of what it means to be a woman trying to carve out her own path in a man's world. While Annis must fend off the advances of her cousin Forbes, who is determined to inherit the Buchanan fortune by hook or by crook, Ellory ventures into the dark underbelly of the city, using Glasgow's most famous performers as models in early erotic photography.
Author: Sheridan, Sara
Published: London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2024.
389 pages ; 25 cm
8 reserves

Cruden Bay Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Fiction - FT - Onloan - Due: 16 May 2024 - 4064528
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Mirror of our sorrows / Pierre Lemaitre ; translated from the French by Frank Wynne.

April, 1940. Louise Belmont runs, naked, down the boulevard du Montparnasse. To understand the tragic scene she has just experienced, she will have to plunge into the madness of the 'Phoney War', when the whole of France, seized by the panic of a new World War, descends into chaos. Alongside bistro-owner Monsieur Jules, new recruit Gabriel and small-time crook Raoul, Louise navigates this period of enormous upheaval and extraordinary twists of fate, for as the Nazi's advance, the threat of German occupation will uncover long-buried secrets and make strange bedfellows. With his characteristic wit and verve, Pierre Lemaitre chronicles the greatness and decline of a people crushed by circumstance. In 'Mirror of Our Sorrows', the final novel in the Paris between-the-wars trilogy, is an incandescent tale that is both burlesque and tragic.
Author: Lemaître, Pierre, 1951-
Published: London : MacLehose Press, 2024.
491 pages ; 20 cm

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The blood of others / Graham Hurley.

Summer 1942. Abwehr intelligence officer Wilhelm Schultz is baiting a trap to lure thousands of Allied troops to their deaths. George Hogan is a devout young Canadian journalist who has caught the eye of press baron Lord Beaverbrook. Now he faces an assignment that will test his faith to breaking point. Annie Wrenne, meanwhile, is working in Lord Louis Mountbatten's cloak-and-dagger Combined Operations headquarters and is privy to the boldest cross-Channel raid yet conceived. Three lives interlinked by a name and a date that no Canadian will ever forget: Dieppe, 19 August 1942. At dawn, over six thousand men storm ashore on heavily defended French beaches. Barely hours later, less than half will make it back alive.
Author: Hurley, Graham, 1946-
Published: London : Head of Zeus, 2024.
381 pages ; 20 cm
Spoils of war

Strichen Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Fiction - FT Pbk - Available - 4064050

The list of suspicious things / Jennie Godfrey.

Sometimes the strongest connections are found in the most unlikely of places. 'The List of Suspicious Things' is a tender and moving coming of age story about family, friendship and community.
Author: Godfrey, Jennie
Published: London : Hutchinson Heinemann, 2024.
455 pages ; 23 cm
14 reserves

Peterhead Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Fiction - FT - In-transit from Peterhead Library to Banchory Library (Set: 09 May 2024) - 4064826

Shadowstitch / Cari Thomas.

Anna may have survived her Binders' ceremony, but there are darker clouds on the horizon: The Witch Hunters have returned. Haunted by her aunt's death, afraid of her magic and desperately in love but bitterly cursed, Anna must now face the investigations of an Inquisitor at school. When a deadly hysteria spell breaks out across the pupils, the coven are thrown into the spotlight. Anna and Effie must find a way to protect the coven while delving deeper into the magical underworld of London, searching for the truth about their curse and just what Attis really is.
Author: Thomas, Cari
Published: London : Harper Voyager, 2024.
672 pages ; 23 cm

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Day one / Abigail Dean.

A village hall, a primary school play, a beautiful Lake District town. Into this idyllic scene steps a lone gunman whose actions set off a train of events that will have devastating consequences for the close-knit community of Stonesmere. At the epicentre of the tragedy is Marty, the daughter of the teacher who dies trying to protect her pupils. Marty told reporters that she saw it happen. She saw the gunman enter the hall. But what did Marty really see? And why would she lie?
Author: Dean, Abigail
Published: London : Hemlock Press, 2024.
378 pages ; 24 cm
4 reserves

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Hidden fires / Sairish Hussain.

Ramadan, 2017. Yusuf wakes up in the middle of the night to pray. His routine is always the same, but something tells him that tonight is different. Yellow flames blur Yusuf's vision, and the laughter of a small child echoes in his ears. But this time, the red, smoke-filled skies aren't just in his memory. Miles away, Rubi is also awake. On the television, she watches reports of a devastating fire in London. She is already anxious when her parents send her to stay with her Grandpa Yusuf, whose conservative house rules are almost as unbearable as the loneliness she feels at home. Yusuf's lifestyle does not gel with Rubi's. But when she finds him scared and confused one night, it becomes clear that there's more to her grandfather than Rubi ever considered. As Yusuf grapples with the past, Rubi is determined to save him. But the memories that are recovered are more painful than she could have imagined.
Author: Hussain, Sairish
Published: London : HQ, 2024.
377 pages ; 24 cm

Ellon Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Fiction - FT - In-transit from HQ-Circulation to Ellon Library (Set: 15 May 2024) - 4063811
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Faebound / Saara El-Arifi.

A thousand years ago, the world held three beings: fae, elves, and humans. But now the fae and humans exist only in myth and legend, survived by the elves who are trapped in an endless war over the remaining lands. Yeeran is a colonel in the elven army and has known nothing but a life of violence and hardship. Her sister, Lettle, is a diviner whose magic promises a different future for her and her sister, but the prophecies have yet to come to pass. When a fatal mistake leads to Yeeran's exile from the Elven Lands, Lettle, fearful for her sister's life, follows her into the uncharted territory beyond their borders. In the wilderness the sisters encounter the largest obeah they have ever seen. Part leopard, part stag, the obeah's magic is harnessed to make weapons for the elven war. It is during this hunt that they are confronted with the impossible: a group of fae who take them captive.
Author: El-Arifi, Saara
Published: London : Harper Voyager, 2024.
386 pages : map (black and white) ; 24 cm
1 reserve

Macduff Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Fiction - FT - Onloan - Due: 08 Jun 2024 - 4063833

Cover the bones / Chris Hammer.

A body has washed up in an irrigation canal, the artery running through Yuwonderie, a man-made paradise on the border of the Outback. Stabbed through the heart, electrocuted and dumped under cover of night, there is no doubt that detectives Ivan Lucic and Nell Buchanan are dealing with a vicious homicide. The victim is Athol Hasluck, member of one of the seven dynasties who have controlled every slice of bountiful land in this modern-day Eden for generations. But this is not an isolated incident. Someone is targeting the landed aristocracy of this quiet paradise in the desert. Secrets stretching back decades are rising to the surface at last - but the question remains, who stands to gain most from their demise? Can Ivan and Nell track down a killer before the guilt at the heart of these seven families takes the entire town down with it?
Author: Hammer, Chris, 1960-
Published: London : Wildfire, 2024.
495 pages : map (black and white) ; 24 cm
Detective Nell Buchanan and Ivan Lucic series
Detective Nell Buchanan and Ivan Lucic series ; 3
1 reserve

Stonehaven Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Fiction - FT - Available - 4063389
Turriff Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Fiction - FT - Onloan - Due: 29 May 2024 - 4063390

Dream a little dream / Rosie Archer.

Trixie and her fellow lumberjills are back in Scotland, newly stationed at the MacKay estate. When they arrive, they are shocked to find the place dilapidated and neglected and the taciturn and secretive Noah MacKay not at all happy to be meeting them. It quickly becomes apparent that MacKay was expecting men from the forestry commission to take charge, rather than four young women. Trixie, Jo, Hen and Vi decide he needs to be proven wrong - after all, don't they have stamina, skill and strength? But as the girls work to prove their worth, secrets from their own pasts threaten to follow them to Sutherland.
Author: Archer, Rosie
Published: London : Quercus, 2024.
377 pages ; 20 cm.
Timber girls series

Fraserburgh Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Fiction - FT Pbk - Onloan - Due: 16 May 2024 - 4063446
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Cult / Camilla Lackberg & Henrik Fexeus ; translated from the Swedish by Ian Giles.

A young child is snatched in broad daylight outside his nursery. Nobody in charge sees a thing, but the other children say a woman is the culprit. Detective Mina Dabiri calls on her close friend Vincent to untangle the puzzle that surrounds the kidnapped boy. As he finds a link between the boy and other others who have gone missing, it becomes clear that time is running out for everyone involved. Meanwhile, Mina's estranged daughter gets caught up in the secretive world of Epicura, a shadowy organisation that claims to be a centre for leadership development. Can Mina protect her child - a child who doesn't even know she exists?
Author: Läckberg, Camilla, 1974-
Published: London : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2024.
586 pages : maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
Mina Dabiri and Vincent Walder
1 reserve

Aboyne Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Fiction - FT Pbk - On reserve shelf at Aboyne Library - 4063415
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Atalanta / Jennifer Saint.

When a daughter is born to the King of Arcadia, she brings only disappointment. Left exposed on a mountainside, the defenceless infant Atalanta is left to the mercy of a passing mother bear and raised alongside the cubs under the protective eye of the goddess Artemis. Swearing that she will prove her worth alongside the famed heroes of Greece, Atalanta leaves her forest to join Jason's band of Argonauts. But can she carve out her own place in the legends in a world made for men?
Author: Saint, Jennifer
Published: London : Wildfire, 2024.
356 pages ; 20 cm

Inverbervie Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Fiction - FT Pbk - Available - 4063391
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House of flame and shadow / Sarah J. Maas.

Bryce Quinlan is stranded in a strange new world. She's going to need all her wits about her to get home again and return to everything she loves. But that's no easy feat when she has no idea who to trust. Meanwhile, Hunt Athalar is back in the Asteri's dungeons. Stripped of his freedom and the happiness he'd fought so hard for, he's without a clue as to Bryce's fate. Hunt is desperate to help his mate, but until he can escape the Asteri's chains, his hands are quite literally tied. In this breathtaking sequel to the 'House of Earth and Blood' and 'House of Sky and Breath', Midgard is brought to the brink of collapse, and the fate of the world rests on the hope of rebellion. But the fight for survival, freedom, and love may cost everything Bryce and Hunt have.
Author: Maas, Sarah J.
Published: London : Bloomsbury, 2024.
834 pages : maps (black and white) ; 25 cm.
Crescent city
Crescent City series
4 reserves

Banchory Academy - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Fiction - FT - Onloan - Due: 28 May 2024 - 4064048
Banchory Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Fiction - FT - On reserve shelf at Banchory Library - 4064049

One love / Matt Cain.

2002. Danny arrives at Manchester University determined not to hide from the world any longer. This is the year his life will begin. He locks eyes with a handsome stranger across the hall at the Fresher's Fair. It starts with a wink and soon Danny and Guy are best friends. 2022. Now, both single for the first time in years, Danny and Guy return to the confetti-covered streets of the Gay Village for Manchester Pride. After years of shared adventures and lost dreams, Danny finally plans to share the secret he has been keeping for two decades. He has always been in love with Guy. Could this weekend be the end of a twenty-year friendship - or the start of something new and even more beautiful?
Author: Cain, Matt (Writer)
Published: London : Headline Review, 2024.
458 pages ; 24 cm

Ellon Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Fiction - FT - In-transit from HQ-Circulation to Ellon Library (Set: 15 May 2024) - 4063746

First lie wins / Ashley Elston.

Evie Porter has everything a girl could want: a doting boyfriend, a house with a picket fence, a fun group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn't exist. First comes the identity. Once she's given a name and location by her employer, she learns everything there is to know about the town and the people in it. Then the mark: Ryan Sumner. The last piece of the puzzle is the job. For Evie, this job feels different. Ryan has gotten under her skin and she's started to picture another kind of life for herself - one where her boss doesn't pull the strings. But Evie can't make any mistakes. Because the one thing she's worked her entire life to keep clean, the one identity she could always go back to - her real identity - just walked right into this town. A woman, who looks just like her, has stolen her name - and she wants more.
Author: Elston, Ashley
Published: London : Headline, 2024.
384 pages ; 24 cm
11 reserves

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Countdown / James Patterson & Brendan DuBois.

An undercover CIA officer has seven days to save her country from the world's most dangerous double-agent. The CIA's highly classified Special Activities Division is in the business of tracking people down and keeping secrets hidden. Then a botched field operation reveals some dark dealings between an officer's superiors and an informant, including a plot that could kill thousands of Americans. Knowing that her leadership is corrupt to the core, she is forced to give up her identity and work from the shadows. But it's not easy staying hidden when your enemies are elite intelligence operatives. Will she get the truth out into the light before losing her identity, her history, her family? The countdown has already begun.
Author: Patterson, James, 1947-
Published: UK : Penguin Books, 2024.
451 pages ; 20 cm
3 reserves

Inverurie Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Fiction - FT Pbk - Onloan - Due: 25 May 2024 - 4063842
Peterhead Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Fiction - FT Pbk - Onloan - Due: 10 May 2024 - 4063841

Loot / Tania James.

Meet Abbas. Woodcarver, toy maker, dreamer. Abbas is seventeen when he is whisked away to Tipu Sultan's glorious palace in Mysore. Apprenticed to the legendary clockmaker Monsieur Du Leze, he is ordered to create an ingenious musical tiger to delight Tipu's sons. In the eccentric Du Leze, Abbas finds an unexpected friend who encourages his skill and hunger for learning, and through whom he also meets the unforgettable Jehanne, who has questions and ambitions of her own. But when British soldiers attack and loot Mysore, Abbas's world is turned upside down and his prized tiger is shipped off to a country estate in England. In order to carve out his place in the world, he must follow.
Author: James, Tania
Published: UK : Harvill Secker, 2024.
289 pages ; 24 cm

Banchory Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Fiction - FT - Available - 4064697

Daughters of Warsaw / Maria Frances.

1942, Warsaw. Young Sofia finds herself leading a double life when she is enlisted to help the fearless Irena Sendler save hundreds of Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto. Every night, Sofia risks her life to shepherd the children to safety. But when the worst happens, she is forced to make her riskiest journey yet to keep Irena's mission alive. Now, Seattle. After yet another miscarriage, heartbroken Lizzie returns to the comfort of her childhood home, where she stumbles upon a hidden photograph of her great-grandmother among a mysterious group of people. On a quest to discover more, Lizzie uncovers a buried past darker and more dangerous than she could ever have imagined. A sweeping and heartbreaking story of two remarkable women, generations apart, each finding courage when all hope is gone.
Author: Frances, Maria
Published: London : Avon, 2024.
327 pages ; 20 cm
3 reserves

Central Procurement - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Fiction - FT Pbk - Physical Processing (Set: 10 May 2024) - 4066507
Central Procurement - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Fiction - FT Pbk - Physical Processing (Set: 10 May 2024) - 4066508

My friends / Hisham Matar.

Khaled and Mustafa meet at university in Edinburgh: two Libyan eighteen-year-olds expecting to return home after their studies. In a moment of recklessness and courage, they travel to London to join a demonstration in front of the Libyan embassy. When government officials open fire on protestors in broad daylight, both friends are wounded, and their lives forever changed. Over the years that follow, Khaled, Mustafa and their friend Hosam, a writer, are bound together by their shared history. If friendship is a space to inhabit, theirs becomes small and inhospitable when a revolution in Libya forces them to choose between the lives they have created in London and the lives they left behind.
Author: Matar, Hisham, 1970-
Published: London : Viking, 2024.
256 pages ; 23 cm
1 reserve

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Cursed bread / Sophie Mackintosh.

A chilling feminist fable, based on the true story of an unsolved historical mystery. Audacious and mesmerising, 'Cursed Bread' is a fevered confession, an entry into memory's hall of mirrors, a fable of obsession and transformation. Sophie Mackintosh spins a darkly gleaming tale of a town gripped by hysteria, envy like poison in the blood, and desire that burns and consumes.
Author: Mackintosh, Sophie
Published: UK : Penguin Books, 2024.
184 pages ; 20 cm

Whitehills Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Fiction - FT Pbk - Available - 4063740

Always remember / Mary Balogh.

Left unable to walk by a childhood illness, Lady Jennifer, sister of the Duke of Wilby, has grown up to make a happy place for herself in society. Outgoing and cheerful, she has many friends and enjoys the pleasures of high society - even if she cannot dance at balls or stroll in Hyde Park. She is blessed with a large, loving, and protective family. But she secretly dreams of marriage and children, and of walking - and dancing. When Ben Ellis comes across Lady Jennifer as she struggles to walk with the aid of primitive crutches, he instantly understands her yearning. He is a fixer. It is often said of him that he never saw a practical problem he did not have to solve. He wants to help her discover independence and motion - driving a carriage, swimming, even walking a different way. But he must be careful. He is the bastard son of the late Earl of Stratton.
Author: Balogh, Mary
Published: London : Piatkus, 2024.
359 pages ; 20 cm.
Ravenswood series
The Ravenswood series ; 3

Aboyne Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Fiction - FT Pbk - Onloan - Due: 22 May 2024 - 4063744
Mearns Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Fiction - FT Pbk - Onloan - Due: 06 Jun 2024 - 4063745

Parasol against the axe / Helen Oyeyemi.

Oyeyemi treats you to a kaleidoscopic weekend in Prague, as dazzling as it is effortlessly unique. Get lost in the story like you would an unfamiliar city and let it reward you with moments of philosophical clarity, wheelbarrow rides, raw emotion and raw onions. This novel is a holiday, an adventure, a marvel and a guide. It is a story about the lies behind the lies we tell and a city as a living thing, sustained by the lives of its inhabitants. Suffused with warmth and joy, 'Parasol Against the Axe' is a love letter to Prague, and to the art of storytelling.
Author: Oyeyemi, Helen
Published: London : Faber, 2024.
256 pages ; 23 cm
1 reserve

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Piglet / Lottie Hazell.

Piglet is judging the contents of your shopping trolley. She is listening to what you order for lunch and is observing whether the dessert you serve is homemade or snatched from a packet. There isn't another 31-year-old that takes food more seriously. And who could blame her, with a childhood nickname like that? In just over a fortnight, she is marrying Kit. Kit and his tasteful family present an opportunity for reinvention - when she had been growing up in Derby, this life, this man had been beyond her imagination. Together they are the picture of domestic bliss - effortless hosts in their new house and planning an immaculate, covetable wedding. Everything is coming together for Piglet - tied as tightly and perfectly as her apron strings. But, if a life looks too good to be true, it probably is!
Author: Hazell, Lottie, 1993-
Published: London : Doubleday, 2024.
304 pages ; 23 cm

Huntly Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Fiction - FT - Onloan - Due: 04 Jun 2024 - 4064675
Inverurie Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Fiction - FT - Onloan - Due: 01 Jun 2024 - 4064676

One of the good guys / Araminta Hall.

Cole is the perfect husband; a romantic, supportive of his wife, Mel's career, keen to be a hands-on dad, not a big drinker. A good guy. So when Mel leaves him, he's floored. She was lucky to be with a man like him. Craving solitude, he accepts a job on the coast and quickly settles into his new life where he meets reclusive artist Lennie. Lennie has made the same move for similar reasons. She is living in a crumbling cottage on the edge of a nearby cliff. It's an undeniably scary location, but sometimes you have to face your fears to get past them. As their relationship develops, two young women go missing while on a walk protesting gendered violence, right by where Cole and Lennie live. Finding themselves at the heart of a police investigation and media frenzy, it soon becomes clear that they don't know each other very well at all. This is what happens when women have had enough.
Author: Hall, Araminta
Published: London : Macmillan, 2024.
323 pages ; 24 cm

Inverurie Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Fiction - FT - Onloan - Due: 28 May 2024 - 4063575
Westhill Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Fiction - FT - Available - 4063576

In memory of us / Jacqueline Roy.

What does it mean to remember? Joined at birth, then pulled apart, Selina and Zora's relationship is marked by a pattern of closeness and separation. Growing up in 50s' and 60s' London under the shadow of Enoch Powell, they are instinctively dependent on each other, and yet Zora yearns for her own identity. But in the eyes of the people around them, the twins are interchangeable. They come as a pair. They are Selzora. Now in her 70s and living with the early stages of dementia, Selina is tracing shards of memory. She is intent on untangling the traumatic events of the past that changed the twins' lives. Perhaps Lydia, who has reintroduced herself to Selina with sharp, cool charisma, will help her find answers. But even as Selina struggles to make sense of her memories, it's all too clear that Lydia is hiding something.
Author: Roy, Jacqueline, 1954-
Published: London : Simon & Schuster, 2024.
374 pages ; 24 cm

HQ-New Stock - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Fiction - FT - Available - 4063844
Kintore Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Fiction - FT - Available - 4063843

Return to Half Moon Farm / Holly Hepburn.

When Daisy's mother falls ill she is forced to return home. With her twin sons in tow, she moves back to Half Moon Farm, her family's ancient hop farm. But a new life in the Kent countryside isn't necessarily as idyllic as it might seem.
Author: Hepburn, Holly
Published: London : Simon & Schuster, 2024.
408 pages ; 20 cm

Kemnay Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Fiction - FT Pbk - Onloan - Due: 04 Jun 2024 - 4063438
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Last witness / Lucie Whitehouse.

When 18-year-old Ben Renshaw is found dead in city woodland, DCI Robin Lyons is plunged into one of Birmingham's most controversial cases. Months earlier, Ben and his best friend gave testimony that sent a former classmate, Alistair Heywood, to prison for a vicious sexual assault. Before the trial, the boys and their families endured months of brutal witness intimidation, for which the Heywoods, a privileged and influential local family, faced no legal repercussions. Instead, they vowed revenge. Is Ben's murder the fulfilment of that vow, the beginning of a bloody new chapter that will go on claim lives on all sides? Or is the truth - as the Heywoods claim - something entirely different? To solve the case, Robin has to negotiate the city's networks of power while walking a dangerous line: her own daughter, Lennie, has a secret that could threaten her liberty.
Author: Whitehouse, Lucie, 1975-
Published: London : Orion Books, 2024.
320 pages ; 24 cm
1 reserve

Central Procurement - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Fiction - FT - Physical Processing (Set: 10 May 2024) - 4066668