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. ...

Dead Man`s Blues is the gripping historical crime novel from Ray Celestin, the author of The Axeman`s Jazz, winner of the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger for Best First Novel 2014. Chicago, 1928. In the stifling summer heat three investigations begin.. . Pinkerton detectives Michael Talbot & Ida Davis are hired to locate a missing heiress. But it proves harder than expected to find a woman known across the city. After being called to a gruesome murder in Chicago`s violent Black Belt, crime-scene photographer Jacob Russo can`t get the dead man`s image out of his head, & decides to track down the culprit himself. & with a group of city leaders poisoned at the Ritz, Dante Sanfelippo
- rum-runner & fixer
- is called in by Al Capone to discover whether someone is trying to bring down his empire. As the three parties edge closer to the truth, their paths will cross & their lives will be threatened. But will any of them find the answers they need in the city of blues, booze & brutality?

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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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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. ...

Inner city murder crosses two continents. Inspectors Cetin Ikmen & Mehmet Suleyman from Istanbul are sent to a policing conference in Detroit, but little can prepare them for the corruption that lies at its heart. When Ezekial Goins, an elderly man of Turkish descent approaches them to crack the long-unsolved murder of his son, a quiet trip takes a far more sinister turn. As they delve deeper into the case, the pair find themselves immersed in a terrifying world of inter-gang drug war & racial prejudice that puts them in mortal danger, & forces Ikmen to confront some demons of his own... ...

A fast-paced, darkly funny crime novel set in Interior Alaska that follows down-on-his-luck cabbie, Mike Fisher, as he searches for his daughter. Her step-father has been shot in her bathroom, & Fisher thinks she killed him & fled. In a panic he tries to hide the body, but that`s not easy when it`s fifty-below outside. Things get dangerously complicated when it turns out step-dad was part of a local militia, & now they`re on Fisher`s tail. Dead of Winter evokes the harshness of winter in the ---sub-arctic & the intrigue fostered in a bored, trapped & socially circumscribed small-town community. ...

There's simply no limit to the sins people will commit for a tasty meal. The Japanese are notorious for their trade in bluefin tuna, while newlyweds in Bangkok, Shanghai & Singapore devour a gelatinous soup made from poached abalone & fins hacked from living sharks. But surely there's no need for you to feel bad about ordering sea bass in a London restaurant. Unless, of course, you consider that you may well be enjoying one of the very last members of the species. In Dead Seas we follow acclaimed journalist Taras Grescoe on a year-long, round-the-world trip, as he eats his way from the top to the bottom of the food chain with one purpose in mind: to find out whether he can continue to eat such delicacies in good conscience. As well as painting a vivid & often hilarious picture of the fascinating people Taras encounters, Dead Seas explores the impact we are having on sea life by overfishing & draws our attention to some of the ethical choices we can make. At a time when many of the fish we take for granted are on the verge of extinction, we need to face the fact that very soon jellyfish sandwiches may be all that is left for us to eat. ...