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Relight My Fire: (The Stranger Times 4) Audiobook

Brought to you by Penguin. STOP PRESS! The Stranger Times wins the 2023 British Fantasy Award for Best Audio Work! Some comebacks can be murder . . . Stella is enjoying life as an almost student, or at least she is until a man falls from the sky right in front of her, leaving a big old hole in the pavement for Manchester Council to fill. The obvious question of how he ended up in the sky in the first place has no obvious answers, which is where The Stranger Times come in. This isn't just the hunt for another story though. Dark powers think Stella might have been involved and the only way she and the team can prove her innocence is to find out what the hell is really going on. What have dodgy gear, disturbed graves and a decommissioned rock star got to do with all this? Vincent Banecroft has problems of his own in the form of a tall, dark but-definitely-not-handsome man dressed like a one-man funeral who has been sent to make the paper's editor atone for his sins. Once he finds out exactly what that entails, Banecroft is not keen. Being banished to a Hellscape for all eternity looks like being no fun at all, not least because he has that pale Irish skin that burns really easily . . . All that plus territorial ghouls, homicidal felines, eternal (and seemingly unstoppable) gnomes and a celebrity 'Who's Who' that'd put a royal wedding to shame, and you're looking at a wild few days for The Stranger Times. Relight My Fire is the fourth book in the acclaimed and brilliantly funny Stranger Times series. ©2024 C. K. McDonnell (P)2024 Penguin Audio

C. K. Mcdonnell (Author), Brendan Mcdonald, TBD (Narrator)

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Love Will Tear Us Apart

Brought to you by Penguin. Love can be a truly terrible thing. Marriages are tricky at the best of times, especially when one of you is dead. Vincent Banecroft, the irascible editor of The Stranger Times, has never believed his wife died despite emphatic evidence to the contrary. Now, against all odds, it seems he may actually be proved right; but what lengths will he go to in an attempt to rescue her? With Banecroft distracted, the shock resignation of assistant editor, Hannah Willis, couldn't have come at a worse time. It speaks volumes that her decision to reconcile with her philandering ex-husband is only marginally less surprising than Banecroft and his wife getting back together. In this time of crisis, is her decision to swan off to a fancy new-age retreat run by a celebrity cult really the best thing for anyone? As if that wasn't enough, one of the paper's ex-columnists has disappeared, a particularly impressive trick seeing as he never existed in the first place. Floating statues, hijacked ghosts, homicidal cherubs, irate starlings, Reliant Robins and quite possibly several deeply sinister conspiracies; all-in-all, a typical week for the staff of The Stranger Times. ©2023 C. K. McDonnell (P)2023 Penguin Audio

C. K. Mcdonnell (Author), Brendan Mcdonald (Narrator)

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The Blackbird: The heart-pounding Sunday Times bestseller from the author of Richard & Judy pick No

Brought to you by Penguin. AN IMPOSSIBLE DISAPPEARANCE Just before the crash, Cate and Aiden Gascoigne are recorded on CCTV. The couple are laughing, happy. Then their car plunges into a ninety-foot ravine. Within seconds, the vehicle is an inferno - and the Gascoignes are trapped inside. But when fire crews arrive, they find something impossible. The vehicle is empty. Cate and Aiden have vanished. A NOTORIOUS MURDER Missing persons investigator David Raker is hired by Cate's family to find out what happened. But this is a mystery that won't easily give up its secrets. As Raker links Cate and Aiden's disappearance to an unsolved thirty-year-old murder, he doesn't realise he's set something terrible in motion . . . WHAT CONNECTS THEM IS TERRIFYING . . . and it will bring him and his ally, former detective Colm Healy, into the crosshairs of a killer like no other. Praise For The David Raker Series: 'Terrific' Sunday Times 'Packed with twists' Daily Express 'What a talent' Daily Mail 'Impressive' Guardian © Tim Weaver 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Tim Weaver (Author), Anjili Mohindra, Brendan Mcdonald, Joe Coen (Narrator)

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This Charming Man: (The Stranger Times 2)

Brought to you by Penguin. Vampires do not exist. Everyone knows this. So it's particularly annoying when they start popping up around Manchester . . . Nobody is pleased about it. Not the Founders, the secret organisation for whom vampires were invented as an allegory, nor the Folk, the magical people hidden in plain sight who only want a quiet life. And definitely not the people of Manchester, because there is nothing more irksome than being murdered by an allegory run amok. Somebody needs to sort this out fast before all Hell really breaks loose - step forward the staff of The Stranger Times. It's not like they don't have enough to be dealing with. Assistant Editor Hannah has come back from getting messily divorced to discover that someone is trying to kidnap a member of their staff and while editor Vincent Banecroft would be delighted to see the back of any of his team, he doesn't like people touching his stuff - it's the principle of the thing. Throw in a precarious plumbing situation, gambling debts, an entirely new way of swearing, and a certain detective inspector with what could be kindly referred to as 'a lot of baggage' and it all adds up to another hectic week in the life of the newspaper committed to reporting the truth that nobody else will touch. This Charming Man is the second book in the critically acclaimed The Stranger Times series. 'Wonderfully dark, extremely funny, and evocative of Terry Pratchett - which I think is the highest compliment I can give.' ADAM KAY, about The Stranger Times . . . 'A gag-filled romp . . . in the spirit of Terry Pratchett.' The Times 'Great characters, a jet-propelled plot, and a winning premise.' Guardian 'Fresh and genuinely funny.' SFX © C.K McDonnell 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

C. K. Mcdonnell, C.K Mcdonnell (Author), Brendan Mcdonald (Narrator)

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The Shadow at the Door: Four Stories. Four Cases. One Connection.

Brought to you by Penguin. THE GRIPPING, BRAND-NEW COLLECTION FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR - DAVID RAKER IS BACK . . . FOUR MYSTERIES It's a night just like any other in the Conister home - but then Paul heads upstairs and never comes back. When his wife Maggie goes to see where he is, she can't find him. His phone and wallet are by the bed. The windows are locked from the inside. Paul has vanished. FOUR STORIES Missing persons investigator David Raker is an expert in locating the lost. So when he's hired by Maggie, he knows that in every disappearance - however impossible it seems - there's an answer. What he doesn't know yet is that his search for Paul Conister will become linked to three other mysteries . . . ONE CONNECTION A night patrolman on the London Underground makes a deadly discovery. A cold case is reopened - but the key witness appears to no longer exist. And thousands of miles away, a random shooting may not be random at all. David Raker is key to unlocking the truth . . . Praise for Tim Weaver: 'Smart, pacy and completely gripping' T.M. LOGAN 'So many twists and surprises' TIMES 'Impressive' GUARDIAN 'Terrific' SUNDAY TIMES 'I couldn't put it down' SUN 'Twisty, unpredictable and so gripping' CLAIRE DOUGLAS 'Packed with twists' DAILY EXPRESS 'Genuinely original' GILLIAN MCALLISTER © Tim Weaver 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Tim Weaver (Author), Adam James, Brendan Mcdonald, Joe Coen, Lorelei King (Narrator)

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What Remains: The unputdownable thriller from author of Richard & Judy thriller No One Home

Brought to you by Penguin. Colm Healy used to be one of the Met's best detectives. Until, haunted by the unsolved murders of a mother and her twin daughters, his failure to find an elusive killer left his life in ruins. Missing persons investigator David Raker is the only friend Healy has left. As they reopen the investigation together, Raker learns the hard way how this case breeds obsession - and how an unsolvable puzzle can break even the best detective. Their search takes them down a trail of darkness, unravelling a thread of tragedy, and forces them to sacrifice everything they have left.

Tim Weaver (Author), Brendan Mcdonald, Joe Coen (Narrator)

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The Stranger Times

Brought to you by Penguin. There are dark forces at work in our world (and in Manchester in particular), so thank God The Stranger Times is on hand to report them . . . A weekly newspaper dedicated to the weird and the wonderful (but mostly the weird), it is the go-to publication for the unexplained and inexplicable. At least that's their pitch. The reality is rather less auspicious. Their editor is a drunken, foul-tempered and foul-mouthed husk of a man who thinks little of the publication he edits. His staff are a ragtag group of misfits. And as for the assistant editor . . . well, that job is a revolving door - and it has just revolved to reveal Hannah Willis, who's got problems of her own. When tragedy strikes in her first week on the job The Stranger Times is forced to do some serious investigating. What they discover leads to a shocking realisation: some of the stories they'd previously dismissed as nonsense are in fact terrifyingly real. Soon they come face-to-face with darker forces than they could ever have imagined. The Stranger Times is the first novel from C.K. McDonnell, the pen name of Caimh McDonnell. It combines his distinctive dark wit with his love of the weird and wonderful to deliver a joyous celebration of how truth really can be stranger than fiction. © C. K. McDonnell 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

C. K. Mcdonnell, C.K.Mcdonnell (Author), Brendan Mcdonald (Narrator)

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Midday

Five hours. Four points of view. Vincent is a wealthy banker, living in one of the plushest penthouses Dublin has to offer. Ryan is a former PR executive who quit his job in an attempt to write a best-selling novel. Jack is a former member of one of Dublin's notorious crime gangs, keen to get away from his illicit past. Darragh is young and dumb, desperate to make a name for himself in gangland circles. Over the course of five hours, during one strange spring morning in Dublin, all four of their worlds collide. But what brings them together? And whose dark past will come back to haunt them the most? They don't have long to find out; they only have until Midday. And the clock is ticking...

David B. Lyons (Author), Aidan Kelly, Brendan Mcdonald (Narrator)

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