The young stranger came to town just past twelve noon. Within an hour, the idiot had been assaulted, hands bloodied & broken; Deputy Travis suffered a major stroke at the wheel of his patrol car; & Babe Laurie was found murdered. The young stranger who had preceded all of these events was sitting in a jail cell.. .

That stranger is Kathy Mallory. Having left her detective's badge back in New York, she has made her way to Dayborn, a small town in the wetlands of Louisiana. There, seventeen years earlier, an unspeakably brutal act had changed her life forever. Now she is back to take a very personal revenge.. .

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A journey to the green inferno of the African jungle brings one man face to face with his macabre past. Every year the storks would set off on their astounding 12, 000-mile migration from Northern Europe to the remote Central African Republic. One year, inexplicably, puzzling numbers of them fail to return. At the invitation of a Swiss ornithologist, Louis Antioch agrees to investigate the mystery of the birds' disappearance. Before he can set off on his quest, however, his patron is found dead in bizarre circumstances. Jean-Christophe Grang-'s uncompromising narrative develops at a nightmare pace from a Bulgarian gypsy encampment to a kibbutz in the Occupied Territories, to the African jungle, to Calcutta, where an appalling & gruesome truth emerges: the end of a mission that began with the Flight of the Storks- ...

Did you know that Barnacle geese were once classified as fish? That both the Cherokees & the ancient Greeks were convinced that cranes regularly fought battles with pygmies? That the Swiss believed that any cuckoo that managed to survive for a year would turn into an eagle?

Throughout history, birds have fascinated & intrigued mankind, so it is hardly surprising that an astonishingly rich body of myth, legend & superstition has grown up around them. Flights of Fancy explores the stories told about 30 of the world's best-known species, from the blackbird to the wryneck, drawing on traditions from every quarter of the globe. Some of the stories included clearly arose as a result of faulty observation, such as the widely held belief that nightjars sucked milk from cows. Others stemmed from attempts to explain unusual aspects of appearance or behaviour. But the vast majority seem to have their origins in people's delight in inventing stories

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Did you know that Barnacle geese were once classified as fish? That both the Cherokees & the ancient Greeks were convinced that cranes regularly fought battles with pygmies? That the Swiss believed that any cuckoo that managed to survive for a year would turn into an eagle?

Throughout history, birds have fascinated & intrigued mankind, so it is hardly surprising that an astonishingly rich body of myth, legend & superstition has grown up around them. Flights of Fancy explores the stories told about 30 of the world's best-known species, from the blackbird to the wryneck, drawing on traditions from every quarter of the globe. Some of the stories included clearly arose as a result of faulty observation, such as the widely held belief that nightjars sucked milk from cows. Others stemmed from attempts to explain unusual aspects of appearance or behaviour. But the vast majority seem to have their origins in people's delight in inventing stories

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Flightsend is Charlie's new home, whether she likes it or not. Her mother sees it as an end to all that's gone so tragically wrong, but for Charlie it's the end of her family, not to mention her social life.

They had been a proper family. Mum, Sean & Charlie, with a new baby sister on the way. But the baby died before she was born & everything changed. Gradually, her mother pushed Sean away, before resigning from her job & selling the house, forcing Sean to find somewhere else to live.

Although Charlie believes her mother is making a terrible mistake, she can only offer support
- but who will support Charlie, with Sean cut out of their lives? She's certain that the move to a ramshackle cottage, miles from anywhere, can only make things worse.

She couldn't be more wrong. This first summer at Flightsend proves to be a turning point for them both. For Charlie's mum there's a new business & the fresh start that she knew she needed. & for Charlie there's a new job, new friends, a newly discovered talent for art & new feelings for two very different men. It's a summer of beginnings, not ends; a summer that Charlie will never forget.






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Flightsend is Charlie's new home, whether she likes it or not. Her mother sees it as an end to all that's gone so tragically wrong, but for Charlie it's the end of her family, not to mention her social life.

They had been a proper family. Mum, Sean & Charlie, with a new baby sister on the way. But the baby died before she was born & everything changed. Gradually, her mother pushed Sean away, before resigning from her job & selling the house, forcing Sean to find somewhere else to live.

Although Charlie believes her mother is making a terrible mistake, she can only offer support
- but who will support Charlie, with Sean cut out of their lives? She's certain that the move to a ramshackle cottage, miles from anywhere, can only make things worse.

She couldn't be more wrong. This first summer at Flightsend proves to be a turning point for them both. For Charlie's mum there's a new business & the fresh start that she knew she needed. & for Charlie there's a new job, new friends, a newly discovered talent for art & new feelings for two very different men. It's a summer of beginnings, not ends; a summer that Charlie will never forget.






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A nightmare killer is loose in the land of dreams-A murder/robbery on a stretch of beach just south of Laguna. A gang killing in Santa Ana. A young woman gunned down taking out the garbage. A high school track star shot during a dawn workout. A cook killed after work. A computer salesman found dead in a parking lot. A half dozen murders in the last month
- unnoticed & unsolved. Like the note said. An anonymous note to investigative reporter Jimmy Gage from someone calling himself ' The Eggman' claiming the killings & threatening to come after Jimmy. Is it a hoaxer? The police think so, apart from Detective Jane Holt
- assigned to the case but pulled off it. But Jimmy is driven to discover the identity of the serial killer no matter where the search takes him & it takes him right into the heart of danger.

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