From the acclaimed author of Deathhampton Summer and A Killing in Venture Capital, a sophisticated new mystery of murder in academia. When a famous feminist professor is murdered, her colleagues discover enough subplots to challenge an advanced creative writing class. An Editor's Choice Selection of The Drood Review of Mystery.
Someone was ruining summer fun for the rich in Center Hampton. A mystery murderer was poisoning people at parties--absolutely destroying business and keeping everybody at home. Tersh Trowbridge and his son, Nick, needed to know who . . . and why!
While her Beacon Hill neighbors wrangle over a proposal to build a homeless shelter in their midst, Bostoner Olivia Chapman is forced to take into her home an abused, but noisome, wife who may be a murderer, as well.
Center Hampton's upper class society is disrupted by a series of murders at exclusive social gatherings, and Tersh Trowbridge and his son, Nick, attempt to untangle the town's web of gossip and scandal to solve the murders
Wonderful ... all killer, no filler' Red Magazine 'Dazzling stories, as inventive as they are inspiring' Daily Mirror 'Where power and feminist rage meet' Stylist ______________________________ A fun and fearless anthology of feminist tales, by fifteen bestselling, award-winning writers: Margaret Atwood, Susie Boyt, Eleanor Crewes, Emma Donoghue, Stella Duffy, Linda Grant, Claire Kohda, CN Lester, Kirsty Logan, Caroline O'Donoghue, Chibundu Onuzo, Helen Oyeyemi, Rachel Seiffert, Kamila Shamsie and Ali Smith - introduced by Sandi Toksvig. DRAGON. TYGRESS. SHE-DEVIL. HUSSY. SIREN. WENCH. HARRIDAN. MUCKRAKER. SPITFIRE. VITUPERATOR. CHURAIL. TERMAGANT. FURY. WARRIOR. VIRAGO. For centuries past, and all across the world, there are words that have defined and decried us. Words that raise our hackles, fire up our blood; words that tell a story. In this blazing cauldron of a book, fifteen bestselling, award-winning writers have taken up their pens and reclaimed these words, creating an entertaining and irresistible collection of feminist tales for our time. 'A slick collection of clever tales, with something for bluestockings and banshees alike' Guardian 'Delightful, thought-provoking' Louisa Young, Perspectives
After secretly receiving injections at the age of 100 that are meant to reverse the aging process, Melly and Anny Beth grow younger until, as teenagers, they try to find a guardian to take care of them as they return to infancy.
This bundle contains : Once Burned,GEORGIA AND THE TYCOON , and INNOCENT MISTRESS. Celine is devastated by the tragic news of her grandfather’s passing. Her grandfather, a self-made millionaire, was like a father to her, and he raised her following the death of both her parents. But three years ago, Celine renounced her status, name, and even love when she ran away from home. Now back after three years, she’s greeted at the airport by none other than her former fiancé, Guy. Guy’s still single, and Celine harbors mixed feelings about him… She still wears the engagement ring she received from him around her neck, but will it always remain there, swaying sadly on its chain?
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