Canterbury Tales Guesthouse

[Daveo]

Stone Kiss by Faye Kellerman

 

Traded In recently @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop * Book exchange - Cafe * Guesthouse - #Pattaya.

 

One Dead.

One Missing.

One Man Who can't Look Away...

In Los Angeles Lt. Peter Decker gets a frantic phone call from his family.

A distant relative has been found naked and murdered in a seedy Manhattan hotel room and the man's niece, the last person who may have seen the victim alive, has disappeared. Crazed with worry, the girl's parents plead for Decker's help and soon he's racing across the continent to a city he hasn't seen in ten years.

[Daveo]

Present Danger by Stella Rimington

 

Traded In recently @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop * Book exchange - Cafe * Guesthouse - #Pattaya.

 

MI5 intelligence officer Liz Carlyle has just been dispatched to Northern Ireland.

It's a promotion, and she'll be running agents, her favourite activity, but it also means being separated from Charles Wetherby, her old boss, recently widowed and a very close friend.

Attachments in the Intelligence Services are not encouraged: it seems her superiors know more about Liz's life than she thinks.

In Belfast, Liz and her team are monitoring the brutal breakaway Republican groups who never accepted the peace process and want to continue their 'war'.

Intelligence is focused on the shady Fraternity, with links to drug-running, arms-dealing and organised crime.

[Daveo]

Paula: A Memoir by Isabel Allende.

 

Traded In recently @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop * Book exchange - Cafe * Guesthouse - #Pattaya.

 

When Isabel Allende's daughter, Paula, became gravely ill and fell into a coma, the author began to write the story of her family for her unconscious child.

In the telling, bizarre ancestors appear before our eyes; we hear both delightful and bitter childhood memories, amazing anecdotes of youthful years, the most intimate Secrets passed along in whispers.

With Paula, Allende has written a powerful autobiography whose straightforward acceptance of the magical and spiritual worlds will remind readers of her first book, The House of the Spirits.

[Daveo]

Traitor by Duncan Falconer.

 

Traded In recently @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop * Book exchange - Cafe * Guesthouse - #Pattaya.

 

After a surveillance mission in Sevastopol goes badly wrong, Stratton finds himself doing penance at MI16, the government's clandestine organisation that creates weapons equipment for special forces and the secret service.

But Sevastopol has started something.

In the North Sea a team of hijackers take over the giant Morpheus oil platform.

They are demanding two billion dollars.

Inside twenty-four hours, or the bodies will start falling.

[Daveo]

Fair Game by Stephen Leather.

 

Traded In recently @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop * Book exchange - Cafe * Guesthouse - #Pattaya.

 

Dan "Spider" Shepherd is working for MI5, investigating Somali Pirates with links to terrorism in Britain.

Meanwhile, the crew of a yacht (including the prime minister's god-daughter) has been kidnapped by the Pirates and is being held hostage in Somalia.

A covert operation run by MI5 hopes to kill two birds with one stone.

Shepherd will go undercover on a container ship they know will be targeted by the Pirates, and hopefully will discover not only where the yacht's hostages are being held but also the ringleaders behind the terrorist plans.

 

[Daveo]

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo.

 

Traded In recently @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop * Book exchange - Cafe * Guesthouse - #Pattaya.

 

Introducing one of the most famous characters in literature, Jean Valjean, the noble peasant imprisoned for stealing a loaf of bread.

Les Miserables ranks among the greatest novels of all time.

In it, Victor Hugo takes readers deep into the Parisian underworld, immerses them in a battle between good and evil, and carries them to the barricades during the uprising of 1832 with a breathtaking realism that is unsurpassed in modern prose.

Within his dramatic story are themes that capture the intellect and the emotions: crime and punishment, the relentless persecution of Valjean by Inspector Javert, the desperation of the prostitute Fantine, the amorality of the rogue Thenardier, and the universal Desire to escape the prisons of our own minds.

Les Miserables gave Victor Hugo a canvas upon which he portrayed his criticism of the French political and judicial systems, but the portrait that resulted is larger than life, epic in scope, an extravagant spectacle that dazzles the senses even as it touches the heart.

[Daveo]

One Piece Of The Puzzle: Australia's Most Chilling Homicide Investigations by Justine Ford.
True Crime @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop * Book exchange - Cafe * Guesthouse - #Pattaya.

One Piece of the Puzzle examines more than twenty of this country’s most shocking and complex murders. 
Some cases are notorious; others are less well known but just as unsettling.

Featuring clues and photos about unsolved homicides and suspected homicides, from the 1970's to the present day, the book also delves into some of Australia’s most disturbing solved murders, revealing for the first time how police cracked these cases through police work, forensic science, and help from the public.

[Daveo]

The Fix by David Baldacci.

 

Traded In recently @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop * Book exchange - Cafe * Guesthouse - #Pattaya.

 

David Baldacci's remarkable detective Amos Decker, the man who can forget nothing, was first introduced in the sensational Memory Man. Now Decker returns in a stunning new novel....

 

The Fix

 

Amos Decker witnesses a murder just outside FBI headquarters. A man shoots a woman execution style on a crowded sidewalk, then turns the gun on himself.

 

Even with Decker's extraordinary powers of observation and deduction, the killing is baffling.

Decker and his team can find absolutely no connection between the shooter, a family man with a successful consulting business and his victim, a schoolteacher.

Nor is there a hint of any possible motive for the attack.

[Daveo]

Who Dares Wins by Chris Ryan

 

Traded In recently @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop * Book exchange - Cafe * Guesthouse - #Pattaya.

 

The latest explosive novel from the bestselling Chris Ryan.

Two brothers.

One mission.

And a whole world of trouble. . .

 

Sam and Jacob Redman.

Two brothers, SAS through and through, they fight alongside each other; they watch each other’s backs.

They are ruthlessly professional in the field of war and fiercely loyal wherever they are, but when Jacob is booted from the Regiment for a moment of madness, he disappears.

Not even his family knows where he is, or even if he’s still alive.

[Daveo]

Traded In recently @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop * Book exchange - Cafe * Guesthouse - #Pattaya.

 

[Daveo]

A Game of Ghosts by John Connolly.

 

@ Canterbury Tales Bookshop / Book exchange / Guesthouse / Cafe, #Pattaya.

 

It is deep winter.

The darkness is unending.

 

The private detective named Jaycob Eklund has vanished, and Charlie Parker is dispatched to track him down.

Parker's employer, Edgar Ross, an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has his own reasons for wanting Eklund found.

 

Eklund is no ordinary investigator.

He is obsessively tracking a series of homicides and disappearances, each linked to reports of hauntings.

Now Parker will be drawn into Eklund's world, a realm in which the monstrous Mother rules a crumbling criminal empire, in which men strike bargains with angels, and in which the innocent and guilty alike are pawns in a game of ghosts .

 

Edited April 22, 2018 by Daveo

[Daveo]

Rage by Simon Conway

 

@ Canterbury Tales Bookshop / Book exchange / Guesthouse / Cafe, #Pattaya.

 

Jonah Said is a man with nowhere left to run.

Hunted, haunted and bearing the horrific scars of a life spent on the front-line of some of the world's bloodiest battlefields, he's not what you'd call a model soldier.

That's why the British Army has shipped him to the Zone, a lawless strip of desert between Iraq and Kuwait where everything is for sale and nothing is what it seems.

From the moment he lands, Jonah is in over his head.

Drawn into a ruthless world of corruption, he's about to learn that in the Zone, life is cheap… and the truth is deadly.

[Daveo]

The English Girl by Daniel Silva

 

@ Canterbury Tales Bookshop / Book exchange / Guesthouse / Cafe, #Pattaya.

 

One girl....

No second chances.....

 

Madeline Hart is a rising star in Britain’s governing party: beautiful, intelligent, driven by an impoverished childhood to succeed.

But she is also a woman with a dark secret: she is the lover of Prime Minister Jonathan Lancaster. Somehow, her kidnappers have learned of the affair, and they intend to make the British leader pay dearly for his sins.

Fearful of a scandal that will destroy his career, Lancaster decides to handle the matter privately rather than involve the British police.

It is a risky gambit, not only for the prime minister but also for the operative who will conduct the search.

[Daveo]

Carnival in Romans: Mayhem and Massacre in a French City

by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

 

Traded back in @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop / Book exchange / Guesthouse / Cafe, #Pattaya.

 

The city of Romans, in Dauphine province in S. France, was the annual scene of a colorfully animated Mardi gras carnival. In 1580, however, winter festivities degenerated into bloody ambush.

While costumed craftsmen and peasants mimed and danced their uprising in the streets, and notables and bourgeoisie hurried from banquets to balls in ostentatious finery, Jean Serve-Paumier, master craftsman, draper and popular party leader was assassinated.

His supporters beaten and pursued by a mob hired by Judge Antoine Guerin, leader of the inflexibly reactionary part of the ruling party.

More than a cruel incident, this night marked the intersection of an urban movement & even larger rural stirrings.

Ladurie marshals a wealth of evidence and reveals the town of Romans as a microcosm of the political and religious antagonisms tearing 16th-century France.

[Daveo]

Hindus and Buddhists: Myths and Legends; Sister Nivedita & Ananda K Coomaraswamy.

 

Traded back in @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop / Book exchange / Guesthouse / Cafe, #Pattaya.

 

Philosophy, ritual, and mythology are the three pillars of all ancient religions.

But in India in particular, mythology has been an extremely important medium for teaching abstract spiritual truths, and it has had a profound influence not only on the religious traditions of the country but also on Indian society.

Myths and Legends of the Hindus and Buddhists includes stories from both the great epics of India (the Mahabharata and the Ramayana), and through these stories are introduced two great Avataras of the Hindu tradition:

Rama and Krishna, in addition, this volume includes some charming tales of gods and goddesses from the Puranas.Also included are stories from the Jataka depicting the different births of Buddha prior to his enlightenment.

The common message running through these stories is: No matter how hopeless things may seem, eventually righteousness prevails over unrighteousness and virtue defeats vice.

[Daveo]

The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer

 

@ Canterbury Tales Bookshop / Book exchange / Guesthouse * Cafe, #Pattaya.

 

What begins as the story of a lost boy turns into a story of a brave man yearning to understand what happened that night, in the years since, and to his very person.

 

While on vacation with their parents, Matthew Homes and his older brother snuck out in the middle of the night.

Only Matthew came home safely.

Ten years later, Matthew tells us, he has found a way to bring his brother back..

[Daveo]

Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith (Pseudonym), J.K. Rowling

Traded in @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop / Book exchange / Guesthouse / Cafe, #Pattaya.

Cormoran Strike is back, with his assistant Robin Ellacott, in a mystery based around soldiers returning from war.

When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman’s severed leg.

Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less alarmed. 
There are four people from his past who he thinks could be responsible and Strike knows that any one of them is capable of sustained and unspeakable brutality.

[Daveo]

The Wicked Wit of Oscar Wilde by Maria Leach

 

@ Canterbury Tales Bookshop / Book exchange / Guesthouse * Cafe, #Pattaya.

 

A book of the greatest quips many of us will ever read, Wicked Wit of Oscar Wilde is a compilation of the authors best, and most clever sayings, letters and speeches.

Every page is a new look into the mind of Oscar Wilde and his incredibly lavish lifestyle and quirky thoughts.

[Daveo]

[Daveo]

Rooms available @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop -- Book exchange -- Guesthouse -- Cafe, Pattaya --

[Daveo]

The Ways of the World (The Wide World Trilogy #1)

by Robert Goddard.

 

@ Canterbury Tales Bookshop / Book exchange / Guesthouse * Cafe, #Pattaya.

 

From the British writer Robert Goddard comes a captivating new trilogy of historical thrillers, set at the tail end of World War I and featuring the devilishly charismatic James “Max” Maxted, a Royal Flying Corps veteran who has a hard time keeping himself out of trouble.

 

Four years of horrific fighting have finally ended on the battlefield, but in the spring of 1919, Paris is filled with delegates from around the world who are still trying to hammer out the terms of peace.

One such delegate is British diplomat Sir Henry Maxted, in charge of liaising with the Brazilians regarding seized ships.

[Daveo]

Acknowledged as one of the most memorable novels about Thailand, “A Woman of Bangkok” was first published to critical acclaim in London and New York in the 1950's and is a classic of Bangkok fiction. ...available @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop - Cafe - Guesthouse - #Pattaya

[Daveo]

The Perk by Mark Gimenez.

 

Traded in @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop * Book exchange * Guesthouse * Cafe ** Pattaya.

 

Beck Hardin returns to his Texas hometown and his estranged father, after the death of his wife leaves him with two children to raise.

The town is still reeling from the murder of sixteen year old Heidi, whose father, Beck's old college friend, asks Beck to help him find Heidi's killer before the statute of limitations runs out. Meanwhile, Beck is pushed into becoming town Judge, and he makes some powerful enemies amongst the rich white landowners when he refuses to condone their treatment of the Mexican workers of the town. As events escalate, the landowners carefully plot their revenge..

[Daveo]

Stalkers (DS Heckenburg #1) by Paul Finch

 

Traded in @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop / Book exchange / Guesthouse / Cafe, #Pattaya.

 

Time’s up. You’re Next.

 

All he had to do was name the woman he wanted.

It was that easy.

They would do all the hard work.

 

Detective Sergeant Mark 'Heck' Heckenberg is investigating the disappearance of 38 different women.

Each one was happy and successful until they vanished without a trace.

 

Desperate to find her missing sister, Lauren Wraxford seeks out Heck’s help.

Together they enter a seedy underworld of gangsters and organised crime.

 

[Daveo]

The Last 10 Seconds by Simon Kernick

 

Traded in @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop / Book exchange / Guesthouse / Cafe, #Pattaya.

 

When ex-police officer John Cone is found lying wounded in a room full of dead bodies, he has a terrifying story to tell.

 

Three days earlier he was hired by a mysterious client to snatch a suspected serial killer, Andrew Kent (aka the Penthouse Predator) from custody while he's being transferred between prisons.

Kent is snatched, but then things immediately go wrong. People start dying, Kent goes missing, and Cone begins to realize that the case against him is not what he was led to believe.