Ex Ireland rugby player and now successful businessman Jim O’Connor is shot dead, point blank range, in the car park of a restaurant where he is hosting a family celebration. DCI Percy Peach is brought back from holiday to head up an investigation that has got nowhere. It seems Jim O’Connor had some rather unpleasant business contacts, many with the motive to get rid of him. However, when law-abiding Dominic O’Connor is also killed, within days of his brother, Brunton CID can only assume there must be some link between the two murders, so should they really be looking closer to home for the culprit. . . ?

BROTHERS' TEARS (A Percy Peach Mystery, 17)

Literature & Fiction

Gregson

Genre Fiction

Severn House

Seven-year-old Lucy Gibson can barely contain her excitement when she learns that the funfair has come to town and Matt, her mother’s new boyfriend, has agreed to take her. Despite her slight uneasiness in Matt’s company and her upset over her parent’s split, she readily goes off with him one evening, as excited as only a young innocent child can be. The next morning, Chief Superintendent Lambert briefs DS Bert Hook and DS Ruth David on the disappearance of a young seven-year-old local girl from a funfair the previous evening. On questioning her distraught mother, it appears that Lucy has vanished into thin air and so begins an intense investigation, racing against time, to discover who took the young girl – and to prevent more children from going missing before it’s too late . . .

CRY OF THE CHILDREN (A Lambert and Hook Mystery, 26)

Benjamin Franklin

A survey of the life of Benjamin Franklin, one of America's greatest inventors, philosophers, public servants, and political leaders. Follows Franklin's beginnings as a printer's apprentice, his life of public service and scientific experimentation, and his role as an originator and signer of the Declaration of Independence and other documents that created the United States of America.

Benjamin Franklin (Let Freedom Ring: American Revolution Biographies)

Children's Books

Susan R.

Biographies

Capstone Press

A biography profiling the life of James Beckwourth, an African American man whose sense of adventure led the way to westward expansion of the United States. Includes source notes and timeline.

James Beckwourth: Mountaineer, Scout and Pioneer (Signature Lives: American Frontier Era series)

Teen & Young Adult

Compass Point Books

Sam Houston: Texas Hero (Signature Lives)

A biography profiling the life of Sam Houston, the hero of the Texas Revolution who led Texas through its turbulent early years, and helped it secure statehood in 1845. Includes source notes and timeline.

Sam Houston: Texas Hero (Signature Lives: American Frontier Era series)