The previous volume of the Vampire Chronicles, Memnoch the Devil, was called 'a modern Paradise Lost' by the Washington Post. Taking the Vampire Lestat from fiction into legend, it left him lying in a New Orleans convent, at the edge of death. Magnificent & electrifying, this new volume in the Vampire Chronicles returns to the glittering story of Arm&, mesmerizing leader of the vampire coven at the eighteenth-century Theatre des Vampires in Paris (seductively played by Antonio Banderas in the film of Interview with the Vampire). Snatched from the steppes of Russia as a child, & sold as a slave in Renaissance Venice, Armand's story sweeps through several hundred years, to New Orleans at the end of the twentieth century, where Lestat lies waiting for immortality, & the legend continues to grow.... . ...

Marcus was convinced that vampires didn't exist. He was very wrong...

On his thirteenth birthday, Marcus Howlett

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Marcus was convinced that vampires didn't exist. He was very wrong...

On his thirteenth birthday, Marcus Howlett

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Jimmy Rabbitte is unemployed & rapidly running out of money. His best friend Bimbo has been made redundant at the company where he has worked for many years. The two old friends are out of luck & out of options. That is, until Bimbo finds a dilapidated ...

Jimmy Rabbitte is unemployed & rapidly running out of money. His best friend Bimbo has been made redundant at the company where he has worked for many years. The two old friends are out of luck & out of options. That is, until Bimbo finds a dilapidated ...

A gritty & captivating story of courage & strength against terrible odds, this is the story of Midge, abandoned with her eccentric uncle during the holidays, & her adventures with the Various, a band of earthily realistic fairies. The existence of the Various, who are strange, wild & sometimes even deadly, has been kept secret since the beginning of time, but when their world begins to clash with that of human beings, their livelihood is threatened with extinction. This is a wonderfully imaginative story of love & loyalty, & is the first in a powerful trilogy. ...

A woman vanishes in the fog up on 'the Hill', an area locally known for its tranquillity & peace. The police are not alarmed; people usually disappear for their own reasons. But when a young girl, an old man & even a dog disappear no one can deny that something untoward is happening in this quiet cathedral town. Young policewoman Freya Graffham is assigned to the case, she's new to the job, compassionate, inquisitive, dedicated & needs to know
- perhaps too much.
She & the enigmatic detective Chief Inspector Simon Serrailler have the task of unravelling the mystery behind this gruesome sequence of events.

From the passages revealing the killer's mind to the final heart-stopping twist, The Various Haunts of Men is an astounding & masterly crime debut & is the first in a magnificent series featuring Simon Serrailler.



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A lonely woman of 53 vanishes in fog
- hidden in her cupboard is an expensive pair of cuff-links with a note: ' To You, with all
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A gritty & captivating story of courage & strength against terrible odds, this is the story of Midge, abandoned with her eccentric uncle during the holidays, & her adventures with the Various, a band of earthily realistic fairies. The existence of the Various, who are strange, wild & sometimes even deadly, has been kept secret since the beginning of time, but when their world begins to clash with that of human beings, their livelihood is threatened with extinction. This is a wonderfully imaginative story of love & loyalty, & is the first in a powerful trilogy. ...