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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
At the school gates, Faiza fits in. It took a few years, but now the snobbish mothers who mistook her for the nanny treat her as one of their own. She's learned to crack their subtle codes, speak their language of handbags and haircuts and discreet silver watches. You'd never guess, at the glamorous kids' parties and the leisurely coffee mornings, that Faiza's childhood was spent following her parents round the Tooting Cash'n'Carry. When her husband...
65) Ebony gate
Author
Series
Phoenix hoard volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Julia Vee and Ken Bebelle's Ebony Gate is a female John Wick story with dragon magic set in contemporary San Francisco's Chinatown. Emiko Soong belongs to one of the eight premier magical families of the world. But Emiko never needed any magic. Because she is the Blade of the Soong Clan. Or was. Until she's drenched in blood in the middle of a market in China, surrounded by bodies and the scent of blood and human waste as a lethal perfume. The Butcher...
66) The pact
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"A golden summer, and six talented friends are looking forward to the brightest of futures - until a daredevil game goes horribly wrong, and a woman and two children are killed.18-year-old Megan takes the blame, leaving the others free to get on with their lives. In return, they each agree to a 'favour', payable on her release from prison. Twenty years later Megan is free. Let the games begin . . ."--Publisher.
67) The con is on
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
In an effort to avoid paying off a massive gambling debt to a notorious mobster in England, a couple flees to Los Angeles and hatch a jewel theft plot.
68) Gutshot straight
Pub. Date
2014
Description
A down-and-out gambler makes a quick deal for cash to pay his debts and finds out that he must play smarter in order to get ahead in the game.
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
Rebecca Bloomwood just hit rock bottom. But she's never looked better.... Becky Bloomwood has a fabulous flat in London's trendiest neighborhood, a troupe of glamorous socialite friends, and a closet brimming with the season's must-haves. The only trouble is that she can't actually afford it -- not any of it. Her job writing at Successful Savings not only bores her to tears, it doesn't pay much at all. And lately Becky's been chased by dismal letters...
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Series
Pub. Date
2008
Appears on list
Description
"The woman in white first appears at night on a lonely heath near London and is next seen at a grave-side in Cumberland. Who is she? Where has she come from, and what is her history? She seems alone and friendless, frightened and confused. And it seems she knows a secret - a secret that could bring ruin and shame to a man who will do anything to keep her silent. This famous mystery thriller has excitement, suspense, romance, and a plot that twists...
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Raising Arizona: A desperate couple who cannot have children resort to kidnapping one of the newborn quintuplets of a wealthy Arizona family.
Fargo: A car salesman sets in motion a complicated series of events when he decides to mastermind the kidnapping of his wife for ransom.
73) Like a boss
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Best friends Mia and Mel are living their best lives running their own cosmetics company they've built from the ground up. Unfortunately, they're in over their heads financially, and the prospect of a big buyout offer from a notorious titan of the cosmetics industry Claire Luna proves too tempting to pass up, putting Mel and Mia's lifelong friendship in jeopardy. The beauty business is about to get ugly.
74) Lawless range
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Brothers Sean and Tommy Donnelly live and work in modern-day Texas. Tommy has always been troubled and Sean has always been there to help him, but when Tommy gets himself $6,000 in debt, there's not much Sean can do. The money is owed to some very dangerous people and neither Sean nor Tommy has a spare dime. Worse, at every turn, Tommy manages to find a way to exacerbate their already difficult position.
75) Gutshot straight
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
A gambler makes a deal with a wealthy Las Vegas man in order to pay off his debts.
76) The hard easy
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Paul and Roger both owe a lot of money with no way to pay it back, and the clock is ticking. When they each get a chance to join a different gang of thieves for a heist that will square their debts, what choice do they possibly have?
78) Robin B Hood
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
A compulsive gambler gets into trouble when he kidnaps a baby with his friends in order to pay off his debts.
79) Robin B Hood
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
A compulsive gambler gets into trouble when he kidnaps a baby with his friends in order to pay off his debts.
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Description
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