Tell Her Everything

Tell Her Everything

Mirza Waheed

Mirza Waheed

The acclaimed and award-winning novel, Tell Her Everything, is a heartbreaking, brilliant, and emotionally absorbing novel about ethics, filial love, and the corrosive nature of complicity.As he prepares for a visit from his estranged daughter, Dr K, a retired surgeon enjoying the comforts of retirement in London, rehearses the conversations he will have with her over the course of her visit. It’s been years since he has seen her. He spent much of his time polishing the confession he wants to make to her.As her visit gets closer, he recalls the country, a prosperous oil monarchy,  he left India for to make his home and career. A dream job, the hospital he worked was just a ten minute walk from home. He had access to a lifestyle that he would never have had back home. Money and success came quickly, but the price was  steep and often unbearable, especially to a wife and daughter who watch him walk the perilous path of lifelong...
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A Man Among Ghosts

A Man Among Ghosts

Steven Hopstaken

Steven Hopstaken

You'll love this if you like the movie Jacob's Ladder, Stephen King's The Dead Zone or Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House.After surviving a near-death experience, David finds himself haunted by ghosts in the old Victorian house he is renovating. These tortured souls beg for his help and offer him protection from a demonic presence that wants David dead for a crime he doesn't remember committing. Even more surprising, he soon learns these are spirits of people who are not yet dead. Is this real, is he hallucinating, or is someone trying to drive him insane? As his paranoia ramps up, he discovers the truth is even more bizarre. The haunting won't stop until he kills a man named "Fitz."
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Transitioning Home

Transitioning Home

Heather K O’Malley

Heather K O’Malley

Thomas Simmons nearly died when a rocket-propelled grenade threw him ass over teakettle while flanking insurgents in Mosul, ending his military career. Recovery's rough and gives him all the time in the world to face the question he's avoided all his life: Why does he feel jealous of women?The more Thomas searches, the closer he comes to an answer: gender dysphoria.Seeking therapy as a road through his confusion, Thomas embarks on an unexpected journey as Emily is born. Emily's route to self-acceptance, love with another woman, and community are only some of the challenges that began the day her world exploded.Reader Advisory: Transphobic violence.
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Fatal Secrets

Fatal Secrets

Anita Waller

Anita Waller

Nothing is more important than family . . . Matt Forrester has followed in his dad's footsteps, climbing the police ranks to become a DI. But when he receives an urgent call for help, Matt has to rethink his career. His dad has been murdered, and Matt's not going to let this case go. It doesn't help that his current boss is sleeping with his ex-wife.Hermia Forrester didn't follow her brother into the police force, instead she works in research at the university. But, she's not going to let that stop her from helping her brother find out what happened to their dad. But the siblings soon find themselves surrounded by more danger than they ever imagined. Can they both survive this case or will there be more of their family in the morgue?The thrilling first instalment in the Forrester Detective Agency Mystery series.
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