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Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"The rebels will be hanged at dawn, and their brotherhood is already plotting revenge. Stephen Doyle, an Irish-American veteran of the Civil War, arrives in Manchester from New York with a thirst for blood. He has joined the Fenians, a secret society intent on ending British rule in Ireland by any means necessary. Head Constable James O'Connor has fled grief and drink in Dublin for a sober start in Manchester, and connections with his fellow Irishmen...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"Five years ago [DI Kate Simms] helped a colleague when she shouldn't have ... Professor Nick Fennimore is a failed genetics student, successful gambler, betting agent, crime scene officer, chemistry graduate, toxicology specialist, and one-time scientific advisor to the National Crime Faculty ... In Manchester, drug addicts are turning up dead and Simms' superior is only too pleased to hand the problem to her. Then a celebrity dies ... Another overdose...
Author
Series
Kate Brannigan mysteries volume s 1 & 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
As a favor to her rock journalist boyfriend, Kate agrees to track down a missing song-writer Moira Pollock, a search that takes her into some of the seediest parts of Leeds and Bradford. But little does she realise that finding Moira is only a prelude to murder. Juggling her other cases, including a search to uncover the source of counterfeit luxury goods, Brannigan finds herself for the first time on the trail of a killer.
In Kick Back, Kate Brannigan...
4) Lifers
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Ever since his schoolmate, Alice Wilde, disappeared down Back Half Moon Street, sixteen-year-old Preston has not slept well, knowing Alice went to investigate the disappearance of other kids in Manchester; but Preston promised not tell the police, so there is only one thing to do--follow her into Dark Manchester and rescue her himself.
Author
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
A young New York woman exchanges her corporate job for a year of books, blokes, and new friends in graduate school in England. Alexandra Brennan is fed up with her dead end New York City job--and even more fed up with running into her smug ex-boyfriend. So when he crosses the line by telling her that shell never get into graduate school in the United Kingdom, thats precisely what she does. Armed with imported cigarettes and extra-strength coffee,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Isabelle Rackham enters into an arranged marriage in 1850 with the eligible Alexander Osgood, owner of a successful mill in Manchester, England, and who has close business relationships with Isabelle's father. Although she enters the marriage with no illusions about love, but with a will to make it work, she finds her new home in cold, dreary, dark northern England difficult to bear until an accident occurs on a visit to Alexander's country estate....
Author
Series
Boy meets volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
It's October half-term, and Dylan Kershaw's dreams of a reunion with Leo, the gorgeous boy he met over the summer, are dashed when his sports-mad dad whisks him off to football camp in Manchester instead. What's worse, dancer Leo seems to be too busy practicing his pirouettes to care. At least Dylan's best friend Kayla is along for the trip, on a quest to win exclusive tickets to see her favourite band, the Deathsplash Nightmares. It all looks set...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"Private eye Kate Brannigan confronts betrayal and cold-blooded greed as she investigates the alien world of medical experimentation and the underbelly of the rock music business. In Blue Genes, Kate Brannigan's not just having a bad day, she's having a bad week. The worst week of her life, if you really want to know. Her boyfriend's death notice is in the paper, her plan to catch a team of fraudsters is in disarray and a neo-punk band want her to...
Author
Series
Aidan Waits thrillers volume 2
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Aidan Waits is back on the night shift, the Manchester PD dumping ground for those too screwed-up for more glamorous work. But the monotony of petty crimes and lonesome nights is shattered when he and his partner are called to investigate a break-in at The Palace, an immense, empty hotel in the center of the city. There they find the body of a man. He is dead. The tags have been cut from his clothes, his teeth have been filed down, and even his fingertips...
11) Graft
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Manchester, 2025. To meet the demand for spares, the partner of an auto mechanic steals a luxury vehicle, only to discover a voiceless, three-armed woman inside. She has no idea who or what she is -- and someone waiting in the ruined city expects her delivery at all costs (Back cover).
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"There was only one reason Manchester-based private eye Kate Brannigan was prepared to let her boyfriend help out with the investigation into a car sales fraud nothing bad could happen. In Crack Down, Kate learns that once again with Richard you have to expect the unexpected. With the unexpected being Richard behind bars, Kate seems to be the obvious choice to look after his eight-year-old son who proves even more troublesome than his father. She...
Author
Pub. Date
2010, c1999
Description
Oliver Walzer is a natural - at ping-pong. Even with his improvised paddle, he can chop, flick, and half-volley like a champion. At sex he is not so adept, shy and frightened of women, but with guidance from Sheeny Waxman, fellow member of the Akiva Social Club Table Tennis Team, Oliver's game improves.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
As Britain is shook by volatile political, economic, and technological developments, members of the Lyons family unite on one crucial night in 2019. Over the next fifteen years, the twists and turns of their lives are explored as viewers find out if this ordinary family could change the world.
Pub. Date
2011
Description
An outstanding drama series about life behind the front doors of everyday working-class families on a street in Manchester, northern England. The inhabitants of The Street do their best to be good people as they struggle with moral choices in hard-hitting, individual stories of poverty, addiction, sexuality, unemployment, and crime.