Isaac, a young Australian photographer, is travelling through Europe. His whole life he has longed for the sophistication & wealth of the Europe of his father`s stories, the Europe at the centre of civilization & culture. But behind the facade of a unified & globalized contemporary society, he finds a history-blasted wastel&, a place forever condemned by the ghosts of its unspeakable past. In the mountain village in the Balkans where his mother was born, he unearths ancient terrors that have not been laid to rest, & perhaps never can be. Part long-forgotten myth, part meditation on the violence & tragedy of contemporary Europe, Dead Europe is an unsettling story about blood lust & blood revenge; a novel of blazing brilliance from the acclaimed author of The Slap. ...

The explosion was heard twenty miles away. It killed boatmen & wrecked the exotic villa of Lawrence Alma-Tadema, the fashionable St John`s Wood artist. But what caused the 1874 Regents Park explosion? Fenian bombs? Sabotage by rival railways or other firms? Or was it something personal? & whose was the other body found in the canal? An artist`s model? The missing King`s Cross barmaid? Or another victim of the so-called Thames murderer? As he struggles to find the answers, Scotland Yard`s Sergeant Ernest Best straddles the conflicting worlds of art, wealth & privilege & that of the poverty-stricken canal boatmen in an intriguing mystery that will change his life forever. ...

Dead Lands is a thrilling crime story set in the 1970s. When a woman`s body is found a special team is called in to investigate & prime suspect Alex Troy is arrested for the murder. Desperate to remain a free man, Troy protests his innocence, but refuses to use his alibi. Trying to protect the woman he loves becomes a dangerous game
- questions are asked & suspicions deepen. When the prime suspect completes a daring escape from custody, DI Breck & DS Kearns begin the hunt. Breck wants out of the force while Kearns has her own agenda & seeks revenge. Breck has his suspicions & she wants to keep it from him, & a right-wing march provides an explosive backdrop to their hunt for Troy. Lloyd Otis brings a startling account of the past back to life over a burgeoning `70s landscape, & delivers a thrilling piece of crime fiction that will excite any fan of the genre.
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At nightfall on June 22, 1965, a soldier walked in from the outskirts of a small town in the Dominican Republic & reported that he had just shot & killed two policemen & an outspoken Canadian Catholic priest. It was the opening scene in a mystery that, forty years later, compels J. B. Mac Kinnon, a nephew of the murdered missionary, to investigate what many believe was a carefully plotted assassination. ” Dead Man in Paradise” is a true story with the suspense of a classic mystery novel, the immediacy of reportage & the insight of a travelogue. More than any of these, it is a personal examination of one of the gravest challenges of our times: finding a balance between our longing to hold the guilty to account for their crimes & the deep human need to forgive. ...

'I like hourglasses, maps, eighteenth century typography, the roots of words, the taste of coffee & the prose of Stevenson' said Jorge Luis Borges. Inspired by Borges & a chance discovery in a second hand bookshop, Nicholas Rankin became enthralled with Robert Louis Stevenson, the man & his works. When he died in Western Samoa in 1894 at the age of forty four, Stevenson was already a legend. Nearly a century later Nicholas Rankin followed in his footsteps from Ediunburgh to the South Seas. This meticulously researched, deliciously gossipy book is the result. ...

In the newly adapted & stylish new comic book, Poirot is called to investigate when a charity murder game at a Devon house turns into the real thing… Sir George & Lady Stubbs, the hosts of a village fête, hit upon the novel idea of staging a mock murder mystery. In good faith, Ariadne Oliver, the well known crime writer, agrees to organise their murder hunt. Despite weeks of meticulous planning, at the last minute Ariadne calls her friend Hercule Poirot for his expert assistance. Instinctively, she senses that something sinister is about to happen… Beware – nobody is quite what they seem! Famed for her crime masterpieces, Agatha Christie’s books have become the best-selling in the world, appealing to readers young & old for their ingenious plots & immediately recognizable characters. The stories have also transcended the printed page, become bestselling audiobooks & award-winning films, plays & television series. Now words & pictures combine in an exciting new way of telling these stories – full-colour graphic novels which enhance the original stories & offer a completely new way of enjoying some of the world’s most popular & exciting mysteries. ...

The discovery of Captain Scott`s body in the Antarctic in November 1912 started a global obsession with him as a man & an explorer. But one mystery remains
- why did he & his companions spend their last ten days in a tent only 11 miles from the safety of a depot that promised food & shelter? Birdie Bowers, a notoriously secretive painter, is a woman with a dead man`s name. Her parents were fascinated by her relative, Henry ` Birdie` Bowers, one of Scott`s companions. & a hundred years after his death, she is determined to discover what really happened to him. On her way to an exhibition of things recovered from Scott`s tent, she collapses, & is rescued by Adam, who falls in love with her, & agrees to travel with her to the Antarctic to discover the site of Scott`s tent, & the resting place of the man she was named after, now under 30 metres of ice. Dead Men tells the story of two paths. One is a tragic journey of exploration on the world`s coldest continent, the other one of present-day passion. Dead Men explores the weight of the past & the redemptive power of love.
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On September 5, 1996, the fishing boat Heather Lynne II was run down by a tugboat & barge & overturned Three fishermen were trapped inside with their air supply diminishing. The Coast Guard was called. Dead Men Tapping opens four years later in a federal courtroom, where the victims' families are suing the U.S. Coast Guard for a rescue gone wrong. As the story unfolds, you come to know the trapped fishermen, their community, their would-be rescuers, & the crew of the tug & bargeand their stories propel Dead Men Tapping to its heartbreaking conclusion. ...

In contrast with the epic scope of the Rougon-Macquart novels, Zola’s short stories are concerned with the everyday aspects of human existence & the interests of ordinary people. From the cruel irony of ‘ Captain Burle’ to the Rabelaisian exuberance of ‘ Coqueville on the Spree’, these stories display the broad range of Zola’s imagination, using a variety of tones, from the quietly cynical to the compassionate, from the playful to the tragic. ...

In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain. Eerie aspects of the incident, unsettling & unexplained causes of death, a strange final photograph taken by one of the hikers & signs of radioactivity, have led to decades of speculation over what really happened. This gripping work of literary nonfiction delves into the mystery through unprecedented access to the hikers` own journals & photographs, government case files, dozens of interviews & the author`s retracing of the hikers` fateful journey in the Russian winter. A fascinating portrait of the young hikers & a skilful interweaving of their story & the author`s investigations, here for the first time is the real story of what happened that night on Dead Mountain. ...