When you`re a cop in Marseilles, threats of violence & revenge go with the territory. Usually they come to nothing, but when friends & colleagues start turning up dead it soon becomes clear that someone from Jacquot`s past has a score to settle & intends to see it through. But this killer is different. To sweeten the revenge, & cause the greatest pain, it`s always the target`s nearest & dearest who die. When Jac discovers that he`s in the firing line, he knows that unless he can track down the killer then someone he loves will pay the ultimate price. ...

Exactly 150 years after the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, history came extremely close to repeating itself when another army set sail from the Continent with the intention of imposing foreign rule on Engl&. This time the invasion force was under the command of Louis the Lion, son & heir of the powerful French king Philip Augustus. Taking advantage of the turmoil created in England by the civil war over Magna Carta & by King John`s disastrous rule, Prince Louis & his army of French soldiers & mercenaries allied with the barons of the English rebel forces. The prize was England itself. The invasion was one of the most dramatic episodes of British history. This is the first ever book on the subject. Blood Cries Afar tells a dramatic & violent but overlooked story, with a broad appeal to those interested in the history of England & France, the Middle Ages & war in an age of kings, knights, castles, battles & brutality. ...

Joe Clayton thought the dangers of his undercover career were behind him. He was wrong. One grey October morning, while working in a quiet Bristol street, he hears the voice of the man who has sworn to destroy him. Minutes later Joe is running for his life again. Desperate for sanctuary, he heads for the small Cornish town of Trelennan, & the home of Diana Bamber, widow of a former police colleague. But Diana reacts strangely to his arrival, & gradually Joe discovers that Trelennan is far from the idyllic, law-abiding resort it claims to be. The town is in the grip of one man. Leon Race doesn`t welcome strangers, especially ex-cops who start asking questions about missing women. Soon Joe is caught up in another undercover role, but as he penetrates the web of secrets that ensnares the town`s elite, his own secret is at risk of discovery. & all the time his old enemy is circling... ...

Joe Clayton thought the dangers of his undercover career were behind him. He was wrong. One grey October morning, while working in a quiet Bristol street, he hears the voice of the man who has sworn to destroy him. Minutes later Joe is running for his life again. Desperate for sanctuary, he heads for the small Cornish town of Trelennan, & the home of Diana Bamber, widow of a former police colleague. But Diana reacts strangely to his arrival, & gradually Joe discovers that Trelennan is far from the idyllic, law-abiding resort it claims to be. The town is in the grip of one man. Leon Race doesn't welcome strangers, especially ex-cops who start asking questions about missing women. Soon Joe is caught up in another undercover role, but as he penetrates the web of secrets that ensnares the town's elite, his own secret is at risk of discovery. & all the time his old enemy is circling... ...

How do you catch a killer who leaves no trace?A victim killed with a single, precise stab to the heart appears at first glance to be a robbery gone wrong. A caring, upstanding social worker lost to a senseless act of violence. But for Detective Kim Stone, something doesn`t add up. When a local drug addict is found murdered with an identical wound, Kim knows instinctively that she is dealing with the same killer. But with nothing to link the two victims except the cold, calculated nature of their death, this could be her most difficult case yet. Desperate to catch the twisted individual, Kim`s focus on the case is threatened when she receives a chilling letter from Dr Alex Thorne, the sociopath who Kim put behind bars. & this time, Alex is determined to hit where it hurts most, bringing Kim face-to-face with the woman responsible for the death of Kim`s little brother
- her own mother. As the body count increases, Kim & her team unravel a web of dark secrets, bringing them closer to the killer. But one of their own could be in mortal danger. Only this time, Kim might not be strong enough to save them...A totally gripping thriller that will have you hooked from the very first page to the final, dramatic twist. What readers are saying about Blood Lines` My heart didn`t beat right the whole way through this one! I actually had to read this on the floor as the edge of my seat was too uncomfortable! It is a real rollercoaster of a ride.. . this is one book you do NOT want to miss!` Emma the Little Book Worm (5*)` With no let up in pace, the author doesn`t give you time to catch your breath before she hits you with another shocking twist. I can honestly say Blood Lines kept me guessing right up to the last nail biting chapter, don`t you just love it when a book does that?` The Book Review Cafe (5*)`this character is the best nemesis to any character since Hannibal Lecter tormented Clarice Starling.. . the Detective Inspector Kim Stone books are nothing short of brilliant.` Nigel Adams Book Worm (5*)`I love this series, & Angela Marsons has joined the ranks of authors I would drop anything else I was doing to read, & whose books I put on pre-order without even stopping to read the blurb.` Jen Med`s Book Reviews (5*)` Gripping.. . so many twists & turns, as you try to fathom who is responsible for the murders; it`s going to keep you guessing all the way through that`s for sure!.. . fast paced with plenty of psychological mind games that will leave you reeling.` Chapter In My Life (5*)` It is a gripping, emotional & addictive read. My only concern is how the author is going to top this book as how can you improve on perfection itself? Outstanding!!!` By The Letter Book Reviews (5*)` All the stars lighting a clear night sky are not enough to rate this book. Believe me! I just LOVE this author & LOVE Kim Stone!! I cannot recommend this series enough. If you haven`t yet read any of Angela Marsons` books, you`re seriously missing out` Relax & Read Book Reviews (5*)
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Spain is corrupt & crumbling. The king is ill, banks are closing, hospitals are in chaos, homes are lost, demonstrators riot & rightwing thugs patrol the street. The tunnels beneath the streets are at once a refuge & a source of anger. & as the blood flows Camara roars on his motorbike straight into the heart of trouble. Camara is back in Valencia, with his partner Alicia & his anarchist, marijuana
- growing grandfather Hilario. In the old police headquarters, the mood is tense, as the chief hunts for cuts
- who will go, Camara or his friend Torres? The two men are flung into action on seemingly separate cases, the suicide of an ex bank-clerk & the brutal murder of a young American woman. Around them the city is erupting into demonstrations & near riots. This dazzling new Camara novel
- constantly surprising, full of vivid characters
- exposes the dark underside of today's Spain. A powerful, gripping page-turner, it confirms Max Camara as the detective to watch, feeling the pulse of the moment. A series that just gets better & better. Each Max Camara novel is a treat to savour. (Mark Billingham). Conveys a wonderful sense of Spain...[ Webster] does for the country what Michael Dibdin did for Italy. (Geoffrey Wansell, Daily Mail). All great cities need a fictional cop, & now Valencia has one of the very best in Jason Webster's dope smoking Chief Inspector Max Camara. Step into his world of the corrida, corruption, & clouds of saffron & you'll be hooked. But if he offers you a roll-up. (Quintin Jardine).



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Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence & depravity that attended America`s westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel & the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennessean who stumbles into a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered & the market for their scalps is thriving. ...

Natural resources like oil & minerals are the largest source of unaccountable power in the world. Petrocrats like Putin & the Saudis spend resource money on weapons & oppression; militants in Iraq & in the Congo spend resource money on radicalization & ammunition. Resource-fueled authoritarians & extremists present endless crises to the West
- & the source of their resource power is ultimately ordinary consumers, doing their everyday shopping at the gas station & the mall. In this sweeping new book, one of today`s leading political philosophers, Leif Wenar, goes behind the headlines in search of the hidden global rule that thwarts democracy & development
- & that puts shoppers into business with some of today`s most dangerous men. Wenar discovers a rule that once licensed the slave trade & apartheid & genocide, a rule whose abolition has marked some of humanity`s greatest triumphs-yet a rule that still enflames tyranny & war & terrorism through today`s multi-trillion dollar resource trade. Blood Oil shows how the West can now lead a peaceful revolution by ending its dependence on authoritarian oil, & by getting consumers out of business with the men of blood. The book describes practical strategies for upgrading world trade: for choosing new rules that will make us more secure at home, more trusted abroad, & better able to solve pressing global problems like climate change. Blood Oil shows citizens, consumers & leaders how we can act together today to create a more united human future.

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Olav lives the lonely life of a fixer. When you `fix` people for a living
- terminally
- it`s hard to get close to anyone. Now

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One Sunday morning in 1993 a 16-year-old girl named Eliza Claps goes missing from a church in the centre of Potenza, Italy. Shortly before her disappearance, Elisa had met Danilo Restivo, a strange local boy with a fetish for cutting women`s hair on the back of buses. Elisa`s family are convinced that Resitvo is responsible for their daughter`s disappearance, but he is protected by local big-wigs: by his Sicilian father, by a doctor with links to organised crime, by a priest who had vices of his own. Years went by & Elisa`s family could find only false leads. 2002, & Restivo is now living in Bournemouth. In November that year, his neighbour is found murdered, with strands of her own hair in her hands. Once again the police are at a loss to pin anything on him. It`s not until 2010, when Elisa`s decomposed body is found in the church where she went missing, that the two cases are linked & Restivo is finally dealt with. ” Blood on the Altar” combines a gripping true crime case with Jones` deep understanding of Italian culture
- the impunity it offers to the powerful
- he so expertly demonstrated in his bestseller: ” The Dark Heart of Italy”.

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