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Extract from Rock and a Hard Place by Laurence Watkinson
While investigating a perplexing series of events related to gangsters, bombs and protection rackets, Lancashire detective Bill Ramsbottom is summoned in the morning twilight to the scene of an apparent murder at Blackpool’s famous amusement park, the Pleasure Beach…
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Audio preview of The Fireworks Start at Midnight by Laurence Watkinson

 

Prologue

It's 9.30 local time on a Monday morning at the Al-Malaz prison in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. A representative from the British embassy is visiting a middle-aged Londoner who’s in custody on a charge of smuggling drugs – a charge that under Saudi law could carry the death penalty…



Extract from Minority Rapport by Laurence Watkinson
Henry Middleton-Smith, leader of the BNP, is a suspect in a murder case – but have the police made a serious mistake? Is Middleton-Smith innocent, and is someone actually trying to kill him? Kate Brisket, a local newspaper reporter with a nose for trouble, has been writing about the recent troubles for the Evening Gazette, and this wintry evening she goes to interview the BNP leader at his luxurious bungalow overlooking North Shore Golf Course. But if Kate’s in danger of finding out the truth, could she herself be the next victim?
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Audio preview of The Happy News by Stuart Moston

 

American heiress and action-girl Saffron Alexander regrets dumping her English boyfriend three months ago. Now she's decided to take the next plane to England, to tell him they must get married.

 

But Saffron's dad, corporate mogul Louis Alexander, thinks dumping the weird English halfwit novelist was the best thing Saffron ever did. He's determined to prevent a rapprochement.

 

But there's something big that Louis can't bring himself to tell Saffron.

 

And there's something else Saffron doesn't know about her ex-boyfriend...

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