Showing results by author "The Cannon" in Genre Fiction

There are three things you should know about Elsie. The first is that she's my best friend. The second is that she always knows what to say to make me feel better. And the third...might take a little bit more explaining. Eighty-four-year-old Florence has fallen in her flat. As she waits to be rescued, Florence wonders if a terrible secret from her past is about to come to light; and, if the charming new resident is who he claims to be, why does he look exactly like a man who died 60 years ago?

England, 1976. Mrs Creasy is missing, and The Avenue is alive with whispers. As the summer shimmers endlessly on, 10-year-olds Grace and Tilly decide to take matters into their own hands. And as the cul-de-sac starts giving up its secrets, the amateur detectives will find much more than they imagined.

MEET LINDA. Linda lives a nice, normal life, on a nice, normal street with Terry, her perfectly ordinary husband. Linda’s not like everyone else, she keeps herself to herself. But she’s good at solving puzzles and there are times she sees things other people might have overlooked. Because nothing on Cavendish Avenue is quite as it seems. People have started to go missing in the neighbourhood and Linda will soon discover that some secrets can’t stay buried forever…

How do we give a voice to those who so often remain unheard? Will You Read This, Please is a frank and impactful collection of twelve stories as told to our best British writers, based on the lived experience of people who have faced mental illness in the UK. Edited by Joanna Cannon, the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep, Three Things About Elsie and A Tidy Ending, the stories told here are powerful, resonant and heart-breaking. This is a ground-breaking and unforgettable collection, shining a light on the stigma and isolation of living with mental illness.

This is a story of a young girl who was moved from where she grew up to a new place in the country where she knew no one. Here, she encounters a very special friend to help her adapt.

In their home in southern Louisiana, Iris and her husband Joseph were both shot point-blank in the head by an unknown assailant. She wakes with her memory fractured. She doesn't remember her husband's family, eager as they are to take her into their world of marble, maids, and prim Southern manners.

After being released from a five-year prison sentence for an armed robbery gone sideways, Tarzan Brixton makes a vow to his dying mother to change his ways. With his mother’s medical bills piling up, the temptation of the criminal life becomes too real once again. His solution is to escape the rough streets of New York for the equally ruthless beaches of Kingston, Jamaica. He soon creates a drug-running empire while falling in love with a beautiful Jamaican woman named Maya.

At thirty-six, Katie Cope's life hasn't turned out the way she planned. She had big dreams of becoming an investigative journalist, but then her best friend from college disappeared. Claire was driving home for Thanksgiving and never made it. Her abandoned car was found at a trailhead in the Rockies, but she was never seen again. Now Katie's husband Howard has sold his San Diego business for more money than they ever dreamed. She's found a beautiful new housing development in the breathtaking wilderness of the Colorado mountains. It's just the fresh start we need, she tells him.

Getting dumped just before Christmas is her worst nightmare. And her greatest blessing.... Bailey Houston has spent so many years thinking Preston Wright was “The One” that when he says it’s over, it’s like he flipped her entire world upside down and shook her up like a snowglobe. The last thing she expects is for a guy like Judd Kohler to come crashing into her life. Literally. He was coming out. She was going in. Her face got in the way. You get the picture. It was an accident. Running into him twice in one day, though? That was starting to feel like fate.

JP is awoken on Christmas morning by a spreading rumor around town that he got married the night before. Could it be that something he believed was a joke has turned out to be a joke on him? Could it be that hurricane Deanna is actually his wife?

Deanna's ex Is planning on getting married on Christmas Eve. Her and Miles had broken up over two years ago and most of it had been her fault but that did not mean she could allow the one man that she had actually loved to marry a silly empty-headed stalker who had taken advantage of a man on the rebound. Karen and Miles are days away from the most important moment of their lives, their Christmas Eve Wedding, when they are informed by Miles’ ex -girlfriend Deanna that she is coming to the wedding to save Miles from making a terrible mistake.

Karen and Miles have worked together for years, and as Christmas approaches, they find themselves on the road together, when an epic snowstorm strands them in a seaside lighthouse with an elderly couple, who is willing and able to help this young couple work through the doubts, fear, and heartbreak of the past and to admit to each other what has been clear to everyone around them for years and that is that they are in love.

A whole quadrant of Baton Rouge has been bought up by a rich man with a penchant for gambling and women, creating a haven for seedy saloons, gambling houses, and brothels. Early one morning, in a popular brothel, one of the women who works there turns up dead. She seems too young and beautiful to be a part of this life.

Lawmaker August Flynn receives a tip-off that a Savannah gold mine is being sabotaged and many young men's lives are being needlessly lost. But the town is so wrapped up in lies, deceit, and greed that it's difficult for Flynn to know who's telling the truth.

From the Chronicles of Lawmaker August Flynn...Deadman Walking. Rumors that August Flynn has died circulate round Baton Rouge and Outlaw Henry Ike, an old adversary from Flynn's past, undertakes a violent robbery of a stagecoach. It's up to Flynn to track down the outlaw and settle the score once and for all.

When August Flynn decides to take a vacation in Dallas he's quickly drawn in to help solve the murder of a man shot playing cards in the back room of a saloon. It's likely that one of the other three men in the room is responsible, but which one?

Lawmaker August Flynn becomes personally involved in a bank robbery. But everything is not what it appears. When the vault is opened, it seems that someone else has beaten them to it, despite the vault being locked, and with no signs of entry.

Lawmaker August Flynn receives a tip-off that a Savannah gold mine is being sabotaged and many young men's lives are being needlessly lost. But the town is so wrapped up in lies, deceit and greed that it's difficult for Flynn to know who's telling the truth.

On a cold evening in November, Zoey Knight gets a frantic call from her sister. Their childhood home in remote Maine has burned to the ground. Two bodies have been discovered in the basement. When the FBI suddenly takes over the case, it's clear something more sinister than a random double homicide has taken place. Rumors go back to The Family-cult or commune, the wealthy enclave of Black Castle, Maine has never been sure. Twenty years ago, after the disappearance of a local girl, the group vanished. Now, signs of them are resurfacing.