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The triumphant end of the
war has not allowed
beautiful but deadly Anna
Fehrbach, alias the
Countess von Widerstand,
to retire gracefully.
Working for the SS her
principal antagonist was
the Soviet Union, and to
Joseph Stalin and his
henchman Lavrenty Ber
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On the surface there was
nothing different about
that dull August day in
1998, and yet it was to
change all our lives for
ever. A wild gang of
girls live for
terrorising their estate
in London's East End.
When they bully the
weakest of their group
into breaking in to a
house, they expect her
to nick some cash, not
disappear
completely. Two days
later, her broken body
is found under a bed in
one of the rooms, and
the loner who lives there
is charged with murder.
It's an open and shut
case. Isn't it? Nearly
fifteen years later,
journalist Jess Vaughan
senses something doesn't
add up about what really
happened that afternoon.
Roping in detective Harry
Lind, Jess starts
stirring up all kinds of
trouble, asking
questions that someone
will kill to leave
unanswered.
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Detective Lane is back,
tracking down trouble on
the streets of Calgary
with his sharp-eyed
partner Harper in tow.
The duo must find the
missing daughter of radio
celebrity Bobbie Reddie
before it's too late. But
is Bobbie really as
saintly as her fans
believe? Lane must
uncover the truth or this
time the danger will hit
much closer to home.
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Barry Gerber is one of
the most powerful - and
hated - men in Hollywood.
Turning up dead in a
garbage can brings him
under the eyes of
Detectives Mike Lomax and
Terry Biggs and his
wasn't a pretty way to
go. Just two days later
another despised actor
bad-boy is found murdered
in the same sadistic
manner.
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A single red rose, a
one-way ticket to
Stockholm, and a cryptic
message in Latin intrigue
Vicky Bliss - precisely
as they were intended to.
Art historian Vicky
recognises the handiwork
of her former lover,
jewel thief John Smythe,
but still she takes the
bait in hope of finding a
lost treasure. The trail
begins with a superb
fifth-century chalice,
but Vicky soon finds
herself at the mercy of a
gang of ruthless
criminals who have their
eyes on an even more
valuable prize. On a
remote island, the hunt
threatens to turn deadly.
to save herself Vicky
must dig deep into the
distant past...
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Victorian Englands most
famous consulting
detective is hot on the
trail of London's most
notorious serial killer,
Jack the Ripper. But in
Sherlock Holmes and the
Whitechapel Vampire,
Jack is a vampire and
Holmes refusal to believe
it could be his undoing
as the two match wits in
this delightfully
original first novel.
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When Handy returns to his
native Los Angeles to
attend the funeral of his
old friend Burrow, who
is brutally murdered, a
terrible secret threatens
to reveal itself. 26
years earlier, Handy,
Burrow and Holden were
three young thieves who
pulled a heist tha
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Mama's fixin' to marry
husband number five. But
before she does, she
convinces daughter Mace
to saddle up for some
country-gal bonding on
the Florida Cracker
Trail. The six-day ride
is going fine until
wealthy rancher Lawton
Bramble keels over in his
Cow Hunter Chili. A
one-time beau of Mama's,
Lawton Bramble had a bad
ticker and tons of
enemies.
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Richard and Robin Mariner
are aboard Tai Fun,
preparing to join their
friends at the opening
ceremony of the luxury
Volcano Roads hotel on
the Indonesian island of
Pulau Baya, when they
spot two bodies floating
in the still Java Sea.
The victims are marin
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English adventurer Harvey
Landon agrees to help his
old Oxford friend, Don
Vargas, who is plotting
the overthrow of a South
American government.
However, the
Revolutionaries are
without aircraft, and to
obtain their supply,
Landon volunteers to take
a let
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A Swedish journalist has
vanished without a trace
in Budapest. When
Detective Inspector
Martin Beck arrives in
the city to investigate,
he is drawn into an
Eastern European
underworld in search of a
man nobody knows. He will
reveal a web of crime,
stretching back across
Europe - a discovery that
will put his own life at
risk.
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When Molly McQueen
decides to return home
after an unhappy time in
Australia, she needs a
new challenge. As the
coronation of Queen
Elizabeth-II lifts the
spirits of post-war
Britain, Molly opens her
brand new venture,
McQueen's Agency, and is
determined to make a go
of it.
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The protagonist, Brian
Durston, is a bright
young hotshot who left a
big New York ad agency,
and the fast track to
mega bucks, to join his
uncle's medium-sized
firm. Why? His uncle
promised to turn over his
stake in the agency. The
future looks bright until
Brian discovers his uncle
slumped on his desk with
a bullet through his
brain.
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The triumphant end of the
war has not allowed
beautiful but deadly Anna
Fehrbach, alias the
Countess von Widerstand,
to retire gracefully.
Working for the SS her
principal antagonist was
the Soviet Union, and to
Joseph Stalin and his
henchman Lavrenty Ber
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As the UK struggles with
a hopeless war in the
Middle East, the worst
recession in a hundred
years and a fraud scandal
which has rocked the
government to its core,
the Prime Minister is
determined to host an
unrivalled summer of
sporting achievement at
the London Olympics to
propel the country into a
new era.
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Nicky Marlow needs a job.
He's engaged to be
married. So when his
fiancee points out the
position with an English
armaments manufacturer in
Italy, he jumps at the
chance. Soon after he
arrives, however, he
learns the sinister truth
about his predecessor's
departure and finds
himself courted by two
agents with dangerously
different agendas.
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A conservative account is
forced to flee to the
remote eastern shore of
Nova Scotia and assume a
new identity after he
helps to send several
Mafia dons to jail.
However, the steamroller
hospitality of the
rambunctious inhabitants
overwhelms any hope that
he has to keep his
profile lower than low.
Soon, he is embroiled in
their nefarious doings.
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When Ryan Dudley ventures
out on horseback and his
horse returns without
him, Lane and Harper are
summoned to unravel the
mystery. Dudley's
disappearance marks the
first anniversary of a
young boy's murder in the
same neighbourhood, and
evidence indicates the
two incidents are
connected.
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Henry Loving is a
'lifter', hired to
extract information from
his victims by any means.
He sets his sights on a
Washington, D.C police
detective and he's
quickly put under
government protection.
Protection Officer Corte
is assigned to keep the
family safe. But he knows
firsthand how brutal the
lifter can be after
losing someone close to
him, 6 years earlier.
Tensions soon increase
within the family and
soon becomes a contest
between protector and
lifter. With Loving
closing in, Corte must
decide whether to protect
the family or use them as
bait to exact revenge...
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Aileen Seaton, a woman
lawyer and former fencing
champion, hears a dying
man's confession. He
swears the best-selling
Scottish writer, Calum
Weir, is innocent of the
double murder of his wife
and her lover. When
Aileen meets Weir, in
prison for life, she
realises he remembers
nothing of the horrific
murders.
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When a close
colleague is brutally
attacked, Inspector John
Rebus is drawn into
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Somebody wants Behn
McAvoy dead. He's sure of
this because he has just
had to drown an assailant
in his fishing hole. But
who would want to kill an
ageing hockey player from
a minor league team?
Perhaps it is an ex-con
in need of cash to fund a
new scam or a
self-adoring team-mate
who can parlay Behn's
demise into an NHL
career.
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Electricity is as lethal
as it vital, taking only
one spark of genius can
generate panic and death.
The Watchmaker - one of
the few assassins to have
been able to slip Lincoln
Rhyme's net. With his
identity still a mystery,
he has set his murderous
sights on more innocent
victims. Rhyme must now
balance the two
investigations as they
hurtle towards their
deadly conclusions.
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Following the brutal
abduction and murder of
two young girls, a third
is now missing,
presumably gone to follow
the same fate. Detective
Sergeant John Rebus,
smoking and drinking too
much, his daughter
spirited away south by
his disenchanted wife,
is one of many policemen
hunting the serial
killer. Then the messages
arrive: knotted string
and matchstick crosses -
taunting Rebus with
pieces of a puzzle only
he can solve.
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Psychopath Gary Soneji is
back, obsesses with
gaining revenge on
detective Alex Cross.
Soneji seems determined
to go down in a blaze of
glory and he wants Alex
Cross to be there. Will
this be the final
showdown? This book has
515 pages and is 19.7cm x
12.7cm x 3.2cm
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When Mattie Winston's
friend Izzy suggests
she'd be a natural as a
deputy coroner, she
reluctantly gives it a
try. Now, instead of
taking patients' pulses,
she's weighing their
hearts. But living in
Izzy's cottage, which
happens to be next door
to her ex's house, is a
little too close for
comfort, and Mattie
can't resist spying on
him one night.
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Collects the best crime
fiction from the gaslight
era. This title includes
such legendary thieves as
- Arsene Lupin and A J
Raffles, Colonel Clay
and Simon Carne, Romney
Pringle, Get Rich Quick
Wallingford, and the
Infallible Godahl -
burgling London and
Paris, conning New York
and Ostend, laughing all
the way to the bank.
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Le Guide, France's
premier gastronomic
guide, is failing to
whet the appetite of its
audience in America.
Bribed by the Director
with offers of some time
off, Monsieur
Pamplemousse agrees to
flex his literary muscles
in a bid to address the
problem by writing a
play.
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Thea Osborne and her
spaniel Hepzibah embark
on their second
house-sitting commission
with few worries. Despite
her first disastrous
venture, in which she
became drawn into a
murder case, Thea is
convinced that lightening
will not strike twice,
and arrives at the
idyllic Frampton Mansell
with renewed enthusiasm.
However it seems she is
jinxed: within days of
her arrival she finds a
body hanging from the
rafters of one of the
barns. But was it
suicide...or murder?
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Just when Alex Cross's
life is calming down, he
is drawn back into the
game to confront a
criminal mastermind like
no other. The elaborate
murders that have stunned
Washington, DC, are the
wildest that Alex Cross
and his new girlfriend,
Detective Brianna Stone,
have ever seen. This
maniac adores an
audience, and stages his
killings as spectacles in
public settings. Alex is
pursuing a genius of
terror who has the whole
city on edge as it waits
for his next move. And
the killer loves the
attention, no doubt
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A middle-aged couple are
found stabbed to death.
Their teenage daughter is
missing. The events are
all the more shocking,
the papers say, because
they have taken place in
a small village in the
prettiest of English
Country Counties.
Alison, a young local
journalist, is
determined to find out
what has really happened.
She lives in the same
village as the victims,
but her connection with
the family is about to
become more intimate. In
her own past, there is a
shadow so dark that even
she is unaware of it.
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Death in Bordeaux is the
first in a trilogy that
will take Lannes through
the war and up to the
grisly, but inevitable
purge of those found
guilty of German
collaboration. However,
this is also a novel that
explores the moral
complexity of France's
time of trial, and the
reasons why it has taken
its people so long to
emerge from the shadow of
war.
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When his sexton finds a
corpse in the wrong
grave, the rector of
Fenchurch St Paul asks
Lord Peter Wimsey to find
out who the dead man was
and how he came to be
there. The lore of
bell-ringing and a
brilliantly-evoked
village in the remote
fens of East Anglia are
the unforgettable
background to a story of
an old unsolved crime and
its violent unravelling
twenty years later. 'I
admire her novels.. . she
has great fertility of
invention, ingenuity and
a wonderful eye for
detail' Ruth Rendell.
This book has 374 pages
and is 17.7 x 11.4 x 2.5
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In Western Nebraska,
what started as a group
of teens getting
toxicated on drugs, with
three people dead the FBI
profiler Maggie O'Dell
tries to figure out what
happened, on the other
side of the east coast
and deadly outbreak has
overcome the east coast
and infected children at
a local school. Despite
miles that separate both
cases, Maggie uncovers
secrets that were meant
to stay hidden, what are
those secrets? 19.5cm x
12.5cm x 2.5cm, Pages
400
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Detective Lindsay Boxer
is jogging along a
beautiful San Francisco
street as a townhouse
owned by an internet
magnate explodes into
flames ripping through
the neighbourhood. 3
people die and a sinister
note signed 'August
Spies' is found at the
scene. Soon a wave of
violence sweeps through
the city and it seems
whoever is behind it is
intent on killing someone
every 3 days. Even more
terrifying, the 4
friends that make up the
Women's Murder Club
discover that the killer
has targeted one of their
own. And Lindsay learns
that one member of the
club is hiding a secret
so dangerous and
unbelievable that it
could destroy them all.
This book has 372 pages
and is 19.7cm x 12.7cm x
2.3cm
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A fatal shooting in a
notorious drug dealers'
squat in north London,
and the murder squad is
gathering. Determined to
find answers, DI Anna
Travis tries to put all
thoughts of her previous
boss - and lover - James
Langton far out of reach,
and strikes out on her
own. She knows that the
victim had recently
married, and that his
grieving widow Julia is a
glamorous, wealthy
woman. Then Anna
discovers that Julia's
ex-partner was one of the
most wanted
drug-traffickers in the
Western world, handsome,
charismatic and
supremely dangerous.
Energized by her
findings, Anna comes
under increasing fire
from her formidable new
boss to toe the line. A
new personal relationship
beckons, but then into
Anna's life comes the
last person she ever
wanted to see again...
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Praise for Dean Koontz:
'Odd Thomas is certainly
a page-turner -- this is
a read-at-a-sitting novel
-- with a terrific final
twist' Observer 'A
terrific pursuit story!
clever,
up-to-the-minute, and
riveting' Guardian
'There's surprise after
surprise, including a
killer finale! a
read-in-one-go novel'
Independent on Sunday
'Velocity hits its pace
from the first page and
races through to a
suitably climactic
ending' Sydney Sunday
Telegraph 'Dean Koontz is
not just a master of our
darkest dreams, but also
a literary juggler' The
Times 'Psychologically
complex, masterly and
satisfying' The New York
Times 'One of the great
masters of suspense,
Koontz has an undeniable
gift for playing on the
reader's innermost fears.
.. What we have come to
expect from Koontz are
exciting, fast-paced
thrillers that make your
flesh creep. Once again,
he doesn't disappoint'
Northern Echo 'A modern
Swift! a master
satirist.' Entertainment
Weekly 'If Stephen King
is the Rolling Stones of
novels, Koontz is the
Beatles.' Playboy 'Dean
Koontz writes
page-turners,
middle-of-the-night
sneak-up-behind-you
suspense thrillers. He
touches our hearts and
tingles our spines.'
Washington Post Book
World 'Tumbling,
hallucinogenic prose.
Serious writers might do
well to study his
technique.' New York
Times Book Review
'Fast-paced and dark!
Koontz knows we live in a
world where evil delights
in justifying itself!
Classic literature that
deserves a place on the
bookshelf beside Orwell's
1984 and Bradbury's
Fahrenheit 451.'
California Literary
Review 'Koontz is writing
right where popular
culture swells into
something larger, just
as it did for Homer,
Shakespeare, and
Dickens. He's got the
gift.' Australian 'Koontz
is a superb plotter and
wordsmith. He chronicles
the hopes and fears of
our time in broad strokes
and fine detail, using
popular fiction to
explore the human
condition' USA Today
'Inspires both chills and
serious thought! has the
power to scare the
daylights out of us'
People 'The poet laureate
of paranoid pop fiction'
Denver Post 'Koontz
achieves a literary
miracle! stunning
physical description,
unique turns of phrase'
Boston Globe 'Near
Dickensian powers of
description' Los Angeles
Times. This book has 374
pages and is 23.5 x 15 x
0.4 cm
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Detective Inspector Angel
is called out to
investigate the murder of
millionaire film
writer/producer, Peter
Santana. His body is
found in a lonely
farmhouse where he used
to hide himself away to
write. Angel is mystified
to find among the clues a
dead pig in a silk
nightdress in Santana's
bed.
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To celebrate the release
of her novel Barefoot on
Baker Street, Charlotte
Anne Walters undertook
the task of reading and
reviewing one of the
original Sherlock Holmes
short stories every day
until she had completed
all 56. The reviews were
posted daily on
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Remembrance Day is a
proud day for Camilla's
good friend Mrs Violet
Parnell, one of five
thousand Canadian women
who went overseas during
World War II. But the day
after Remembrance Day,
Mrs Parnell vanishes.
Camilla, with only a few
letters and documents to
guide her, follows her
friend to Tuscany.
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The discovery of Bradley
Pine's body in a lay-by
off a busy road clearly
signals the end of his
bid to win the local
bye-election. Why would
the killer run the risk
of dumping the body in
such a public place, DCI
Charlie Woodend asks
himself? And, why should
he, post mortem, decide
to reduce his victim's
mouth to a pulp, and
partly disembowel him?
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DB Cooper hijacked a
flight in 1971, claimed
his ransom, parachuted
out of the plane over the
dense woods of the
Pacific Northwest with
$200, 000 strapped to his
body. This work presents
a true story and the
starting point of an
odyssey, to Mexico and
back, on a collision
course with the FBI.
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When a young journalist,
Bertram Fletcher
Robinson, meets his
writer hero Arthur Conan
Doyle on a troop ship
coming back from South
Africa, he is delighted
- especially when the
creator of Sherlock
Holmes suggests they
collaborate on a 'real
creeper' of a story.
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Former Royal Navy diver
Carter uses his special
skills to plunder
antiquities from virgin
wrecks on the
Mediterranean Sea bed.
His wife, the love of
his life, is one of the
191 victims of the Madrid
train bombings of March
2004.The terrorists
destroyed hi
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Nathan has never been
able to forget the worst
night of his life: the
party that led to the
sudden, shocking death
of a young woman. Only he
and Bob, an old
acquaintance, know what
really happened and they
have resolved to keep it
that way. But one rainy
night, years later, Bob
appears at Nathan's door
with terrifying news,
and old wounds are
suddenly reopened,
threatening to tear
Nathan's whole world
apart. Because Nathan has
his own secrets now.
Secrets that could
destroy everything he has
fought to build. And
maybe Bob doesn't realise
just how far Nathan will
go to protect them...
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Reilly Steel is a
forensic investigator who
is Quantico-trained and
California born and bred,
imagined Dublin to be a
far cry from San
Francisco, a sleepy
backwater where she can
lay past ghosts to rest
and start anew. She's
arrived in town to drag
the Irish crime lab into
the 21st century, plus
keep tabs on her
Irish-born father who's
increasingly seeking
solace in the bottle
after a family tragedy. A
brutal serial killer soon
puts paid to that. A
young man and woman are
found dead in an
apartment, the bullet
wounds on their bodies
suggest a suicide pact
but Reilly's instincts
are screaming that
something's seriously
amiss. Soon enough, more
and more bodies are found
and it is soon apparent
that there is a twisted
murderer is at work. The
size of this book is
19.7cm in height and
12.8cm wide with 405
pages.
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Walking home late one
night from a party, Napa
Valley restaurant owner
Sunny McCoskey happens
upon the shocking sight
of a murdered woman,
bound and hanging from
the tree of a local
vineyard. Shortly before,
she'd seen a truck
leaving a local winery,
driving without its
headlights on.
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The Republicans have
descended on Minneapolis
for their convention and
crashing the party are a
few hard cases the police
would rather stayed away.
Chief among them is a
crew of professional
stick-up men who've
spotted several lucrative
opportunities, ranging
from political moneymen
with briefcases full of
cash, to that convention
hotel with the weakness
in its security system.
All that's headache
enough for Lucas
Davenport - but what's
about to hit him is even
worse. Pimp and petty
thief Randy Whitcomb
blames Davenport for the
stray bullet that put him
in a wheelchair. But he's
not going for Davenport
himself. Not when he has
a pretty, fourteen year
old daughter that
Whitcomb can target
instead. And then
there's the young man
with the. 50-caliber
sniper rifle and the
right-wing-crazy
background, roaming
through a city filled
with the most powerful
politicians on Earth...
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The Light of Allah has
emerged as the premier
Islamic terrorist and he
demands that the
President of the United
States releases the
prisoners in Guantanamo
Bay or the US will face
nuclear attack. Only one
man has a chance to stop
the attack, and he's
aboard the USS Sheboygan.
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Hibou, the fermette in
the St Sauver region of
France, had looked so
pretty back in the summer
when the Wardle-Smith
family had journeyed
across the Channel to
view it. It should have
been the stuff dreams are
made of. But for the
unlucky Wardle-Smiths the
dream wasn't to come true
and their plans for a new
life are sabotaged from
the start.
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It is the night of the
August, 2003 blackout
when Santiago is killed
-- August 14, when the
lights go out up and down
the US East Coast. And
also the night that Artie
Cohen, forever single,
still regretting the loss
of Lily Hanes who has
left him, gets married
to Maxine Crabbe.
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Former special forces
agent Drew Connor is
walking out in New
Hampshire's White
Mountain range with his
girlfriend as a
thunderstorm hits. Taking
shelter in what Sheila
thinks is a relay station
for a state utility,
they realise that they
have enter something much
more sinister. Telephone
hotlines. Bullet-proof
checkpoints. A sign by a
map that reads Internment
Centres. Drew's instinct
is to get Sheila out as
quick as possible. But
when they stop at a
general store, and the
police open fire without
question, their worst
fears are confirmed.
Someone wants them dead
for what they've seen...
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Twenty years ago, Tommy
Molto charged his
colleague Rusty Sabich
with the murder of a
former lover; when a
shocking turn of events
transformed Prosecutor
Rusty from the accuser
into the accused. Rusty
was cleared, but the
seismic trial left both
men reeling. Molto's name
was dragged through the
mud and while Rusty
regained his career, he
lost much more.. .Now,
Rusty - sixty years old
and a chief judge - wakes
to a new nightmare. His
wife Barbara has died in
suspicious circumstances
and once again, he is
the prime suspect.
Reunited with his
charismatic lawyer Sandy
Stern, Rusty will do
anything to convince his
beloved son Nat of his
innocence. But what is he
hiding? In an explosive
trial which will expose
lies, jealousy,
revenge, corruption and
the darker side of human
nature, Rusty Sabich and
Tommy Molto will battle
it out to finally
discover the real meaning
of truth, and of
justice.
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The award-winning and
Number One bestselling
Val McDermid crafts a
electrifying
psychological suspense
thriller that mixes
history, heritage and
heinous crimes. A 200
year-old-secret is now a
matter of life and death.
And it could be worth a
fortune. It's summer in
the Lake District and
heavy rain over the fells
has uncovered a bizarrely
tattooed body. Could it
be linked to the old
rumour that Fletcher
Christian, mutinous
First Mate on the Bounty,
had secretly returned to
England? Scholar Jane
Gresham wants to find
out. She believes that
the Lakeland poet William
Wordsworth, a friend of
Christian's, may have
sheltered the fugitive
and turned his tale into
an epic poem
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A clandestine corporate
organization employs Dr
Simon Oakland, a
research scientist well
known for his work on
ageing to come up with a
medical solution to
alleviate prison
overcrowding. Detectives
Palmer Dorian and Tucker
Browning, called in to
investiga
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When a clandestine
corporate organization
employs Dr Simon Oakland,
a research scientist
well known for his work
on ageing to come up with
a medical solution to
alleviate prison
overcrowding, they
unleash more evil than
they had ever dreamed
existed.
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Since 9/11, the door
between the pilots and
the passengers on an
airliner must be locked
and impossible to break
down. But what if the
pilots are dead? Tristie
Merritt leads and
renegade band of
ex-soldiers. Their daring
scam will take millions
from a furious British
government and give it to
veterans
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1918 A young Sherlock
Holms and young
apprentice Mary Russell
enter British occupied
Palestine, what they
discover will lead them
to many dangers and anger
many people, in the
jewel-like city of
Jerusalem they will meet
their adversary whose
greed or power will
ignite a battle between
Sherlock and the villain.
19.7cm x 12.8cm x 2.3cm,
pages 414
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Jeff Talley left his
high-stress job as a
frontline negotiator with
the LAPD's SWAT unit when
he failed to prevent a
man from killing his
family and then himself.
Talley takes the Chief of
Police job in a sleepy,
affluent suburb, but he
is soon plunged back into
the high-pressure world
he left behind when three
young men, fleeing a
robbery, burst into a
home and take a family
hostage. For Talley, the
nightmare has barely
begun. Because this isn't
just any house. It
belongs to an accountant
who launders money for
LA's renegade Mafia
family - and they don't
want the police
involved...
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James McLevy, an
Edinburgh policeman, was
one of the first
exponents of the crime
genre and a likely
influence on the creator
of Sherlock Holmes. This
book features a
collection of stories
based on some of the 2,
220 cases he dealt with
in the course of his
career, evoking the
spirit of the city, and
the vivid descriptions of
its criminal classes.
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NOWHERE TO RUN - FBI
agent Ren Bryce's hunt
for some of the country's
most dangerous killers is
about to turn into a
nightmare. There is
unfinished business
between Ren and those she
is pursuing, and soon
she is forced to confront
both personal and
professional
traumas. NOWHERE TO HIDE
- Then someone close to
Ren is murdered and
secrets from her past
look set to be revealed,
throwing her into a world
of fear, paranoia and
danger. NO-ONE TO TRUST -
Dark forces are at work
and someone is determined
to destroy Ren's life.
But time is running out
and Ren must catch a
killer before he catches
her...
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When Johnny Silver's
brother, Carlo, the
head of an investment
bank, disappears along
with ten million euros,
Johnny, an ex-mercenary
on the run, is persuaded
to come out of hiding to
track him down. The trail
leads Johnny into the
world of gambling
human-trafficking to a
crime that shocks the
core of a man who had
thought he had seen
everything.
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When the man who called
himself Gary McNab was
bludgeoned to death,
there was no shortage of
suspects, including his
brother, Jonathan and
sister, Lydia. McNab's
real name was Simon
Charrington, a member of
the wealthy and powerful
family headed by Jonathan
who had every reason to
hate the victim.
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From the rowdy
backstreets of Dublin,
full of earthy homour and
spirit, emerges a young
boxing hopeful - Sparrow
McCabe. Sparrow's dream
is the World Lightweight
Championship. But when he
finally has it in his
grasp he can't deliver
the finishing punch.
Sparrow's life falls
apart, and fifteen years
later he's a bum, a
loser. Then something
happens that convinces
him that there are still
things worth fighting
for.. .
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When newly retired
headmistress, Harriet
Quigley, needs a good
rest and somewhere
comfortable to recover
from a hospital stay,
she believes Firstone
Grange will be the ideal
place. Luxurious and
perfectly run by a
competent and
understanding matron, it
seems wonderful at first
glance.
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When the new Mrs Thorsen
disappears, Maggy finds
herself in a murder
investigation involving
Rachel's hotelier family.
The Slatterys believe
that Maggy's ex-husband
Ted killed Rachel, and
will spare no expense to
prove it. Torn between
wanting to see her
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An orthodox Jew is shot
dead in Montreal, the
mutilated body barely
recognisable. Extreme
heat has accelerated
decomposition, and made
it virtually impossible
to determine the bullet
trajectory. But just as
forensics anthropologist
Dr Temperance Brennan is
attempting to make sense
of the fracture
patterning, a mysterious
stranger slips her a
photograph of a skeleton,
assuring her it holds
the key to the victim
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Inspector Lognon - an
embittered but dedicated
detective - is shot. To
everyone's amazement, it
emerges that Lognon had
spent the last ten nights
in the room of a
beautiful young woman -
who has disappeared. In
retreading Lognon's
secretive last days,
Maigret's investigations
lead him into the murky
world of art-collecting
and forgery.
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For two local young men,
Pete Karras and Joey
Recevo, the easiest way
to find work after the
war is by providing a
little muscle for a local
boss who runs a
protection racket with
the Mafia. The trouble
with Pete Karras is that
he is just too soft on
his fellow immigrants,
and the last thing the
boss wants is for his mob
to get soft.
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Archie Dyson was hanged
for the murders of
several young women. His
antique shop was closed
for 50 years; then a
couple buy it and reopen
the shop. The glass on a
photograph of Archie
Dyson is broken and the
blood that drips onto it
restores Archie back to
life. Once again the
bodies of young women are
found in the
neighbourhood.
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Nineteen-year-old Hootie
is a mixed up kid. His
late dad was a Crow
Indian; his mother,
remarried to a Jamaican,
is black. His sister is a
qualified attorney. But
Hootie is neither black,
nor white, nor Latino,
nor Asian. He's been an
outsider all his lif
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An ancient cargo long
thought lost is about to
be found. With terrible
consequences.. .Dirk Pitt
is in the Middle East
doing routine survey work
when a spot of lucks
leads him to an Ottoman
wreck with a very curious
cargo. While
investigating the find,
Pitt interrupts a night
raid on Istanbul's
Topkapi Palace Museum.
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Joseph O'Loughlin has the
perfect life, a
successful career as a
clinical psychologist,
and a beautiful wife and
loving daughter. However,
nothing can be taken for
granted and soon he finds
out that his perfect
existence is only a loose
thread away from
unravelling. When a
strange case of a young
woman is found with
multiple self inflicted
stab wounds, Joe is
called upon to find out
why. The body is all too
familiar and turns out to
be a former colleague and
when a patient of Joe's
alludes to his won
involvement, Joe finds
himself caught in a
complex web of deceit.
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Judge Calvin Thomas is
rumoured to have left for
Vegas with a younger
woman on his arm, but
instead, his body is
found in a nearby ghost
town. Former
investigator, Chloe
Newcombe's friend, who
was working on a
controversial story about
the judge, has
disappeared. Fearing he
too has been killed,
Chloe decides to
undertake her own
investigation.
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It has been twenty years
since Phil Hunt had made
the worst mistake he ever
made. Phil has done his
time and has been saved
by a woman's love. He
wants to lead a simple,
quiet life but he still
needs to make a living
and something that
involves being on the
wrong side of the law.
Follow Phil on his
journey as he is faced to
make terrible choices.
The size of the book is
19.8cm in height and 13cm
wide with 306 pages.
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Dulcie Schwartz is hard
at work on her doctoral
thesis, trying to
justify a new reading of
the overlooked Gothic
novel, The Ravages of
Umbria. But her thesis
adviser seems distracted,
and university politics
could scuttle her plans.
When Dulcie stumbles
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As one of the youngest
ever winners of the Grand
National, Nick 'Foxy'
Foxton's career as a
world class jockey is on
perfect track until a
near fatal accident cuts
his dream brutally short.
But when he returns to
Aintree as a spectator
years later, nothing can
prepare him for what
unfolds.
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Banished to the death
page at the Austin
Sentinel after sleeping
with her boss, Cauley
MacKinnon is eager to
shed her shameful title
as the Obituary Babe and
put her new journalism
degree to good use. When
her childhood friend
Scooter Barnes, exotic
pet store owner and
former Dallas Cowboy,
threatens suicide, she
sneaks into the crime
scene.
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DI Sally Speckle gets a
phone call from a man who
calls himself Fred
telling her that he has
left a birthday present
for her at the Old Mill.
The call makes no sense,
but it unnerves her
particularly as the call
is from a payphone in
Loston Mental Hospital.
Her present is the
battered body of a
faceless young woman.
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Mary Catherine has a rare
gift, she can talk to
animals. Flamboyantly
dressed four-time widow,
Mary Catherine pulls top
ratings for her pet
psychic radio show and
helps run an animal
shelter. Then one day
Mary Catherine hears
pitiful thoughts of
anguish coming from a
house. Rushing inside to
help, she finds an
injured turtle crying
bloody murder.
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Sport, fitness, games
and murder are the main
themes of this collection
of wicked and witty crime
fiction. From the gym to
the golf course to the
supposedly peaceful
practice of tai chi,
murder, rage and revenge
refuse to respect the
human quest for
immortality. Excessive
good health can lead to
an early demise in this
anthology.
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On the first day of the
Somme enlisted railwayman
Jim Stringer lies trapped
in a shell hole. He
calculates his chances of
survival - even before
they departed for France,
a member of Jim's unit
had been found dead.
During the stand-off that
follows, Jim and his
comrades must operate by
night the vitally
important trains.
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An elderly lady
approaches the front desk
at the Twelfth Precinct
in Copacabana and demands
to speak with the chief.
Two hours later, Dona
Laureta is dead. Veteran
police chief inspector
Espinosa quickly
pinpoints a suspect in
Hugo Breno, an
unassuming ba
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Piet Hoffman is the
Swedish Police force's
best undercover
operative. Not even his
family know of his double
identity but when a drug
deal with the Polish
mafia foes wrong, his
secret life begins to
crumble. Detective Ewert
Grens is charged with the
drug-relate killing. He
believes himself to be on
the trail of a dangerous
psychopath unaware of
Hoffman's true identity.
Hoffman must maintain his
cover at all costs, but
in Ewert Grens, he ahs
just made the most
relentless of enemies.
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As Quebec City shivers in
the grip of winter, its
ancient stone walls
cracking in the cold,
Chief Inspector Armand
Gamache plunges into the
strangest case of his
celebrated career. A man
has been
brutallybmurdered in one
of the city's oldest
buildings - a library
where the English
citizens of quebec
safeguard their history.
And the death opens a
door into the past,
exposing a mystery tthat
has lain dormant for
centuries, a mystery
Gamache must solve if
he's to catch a
present-day killer.
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When Yiva, a loving
mother and wife, fails
to come home from work,
her husband is not
initially suspicious. But
as time passes he becomes
frantic with worry. And
by the time he finally
contacts the police, he
is almost hysterical.
Given the mysterious
circumstances of her
disappearance, he
becomes the number one
suspect. But what no one
knows is that she's being
help hostage in the
cellar of the house
opposite her own. A
camera is rigged against
her house and Yiva can
only watch her family on
the screen. They cannot
see her - and they most
certainly cannot hear her
scream...
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Travelling alone from
India to England in 1940,
newly married Cissie
Humphreys is captured
after her ship is
torpedoed. Facing the
stark choice of either
prison or collaboration
with the enemy, she
works for their
propaganda service led by
Lord Haw-Haw and falls in
love with charismatic
Sean Munroe, an IRA
rebel. Where will it all
lead?
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Private Investigator V I
Warshawski is back to the
streets of her childhood,
a place in South
Chicago, reeking of bad
memories, which she left
a long time ago, to do a
favour for a friend. When
the mother of a local
girl asks her to look
into claims of sabotage
at the factory where she
works, she is caught up
in something far more
sinister.
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MP Gregor
Jack finds himself in
trouble after begin
caught in an Edinburgh
brothel
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San Francisco Forensic
Psychiatrist Jo Beckett
doesn't dissect the body
or the crime scene - she
dissects a life and a
mind, recreating the
victim as a person,
piecing together the
story of their death to
get to the truth. And
then she goes after the
killer. Autumn Reiniger
wants something special
for her twenty-first
birthday. Daddy's bought
her the car and the
apartment, but now she
wants excitement. Her
father signs up her an
five friends for a 'crime
spree experience' with
Edge adventures. They
warn the police,
ensuring that the
authorities will ignore
any squealing tyres or
desperate cries for help.
Then - when working on a
case nearby - Jo Beckett
encounters a group of men
carting six sullen
college kids to the woods
for a wilderness
adventure. Suspicious,
she takes a closer look.
And winds up with an
invite to a birthday
party she may never
leave...
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DC Gary Goodhew is
intelligent, intuitive
and the youngest
detective at Cambridge's
Parkside Station. He is
the first on the scene
when the body of a young
woman is discovered on
Midsummer Common and for
the first time in his
career is given the
chance to work on a
murder investigation.
Soon there is an identity
for the victim: Lorna
Spence. Richard Moran,
her boyfriend and
employer, has reported
her missing and is
distraught to discover
that she has been killed.
He claims she was loved
by his staff and his
sisters, reserved Alice
and vulnerable Jackie. He
says she had no enemies
but it isn't long before
Goodhew discovers plenty,
including her high
maintenance colleague
Victoria and Goodhew's
reckless former classmate
Bryn. They both swear
that they have nothing to
do with Lorna's death but
Goodhew knows someone is
lying. Then there is
another brutal murder and
Goodhew knows it is time
to use his own initiative
to flush out the killer,
even though it means
risking his job and
discovering the truth
about the one person he
hopes will be innocent.
This book has 298 pages
and is 19.2 x 12.8 x 2.2
cms
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An annual Halloween
Bonfire goes horribly
wrong when a body is
spotted in the middle of
the fire. Identifiable
only through his dental
records, the victim is
retired police
Superintendent David
Peters, an ex-colleague
of DI Christy Kennedy.
Kennedy soon discovers
that for Peters the means
always justified the end.
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Tucson Police detective
Sarah Burke and the rest
of her feisty, inventive
crew are called in to
investigate a horrific
double murder in a
high-dollar
neighbourhood. The tragic
destiny of a rich and
troubled family unfolds
against the backdrop of
the implo
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You've been warned twice.
Stop prying into Anne
Trulane's death. Laurel
Armand may look like a
fragile Southern belle,
but she's determined to
prove herself as a
journalist. When Susan
Fisher comes to see
Laurel and claims that
her sister Anne was
murdered, Laurel scents
a story - and she's
determined to get the
truth. On the night of
her death, Anne fled
into the darkness of the
New Orleans swamp. Laurel
wants to know what
terrified Anne. When a
copperhead snake is left
on her doorstep, Laurel
realises that the warning
means that she's close to
discovering an answer
that someone doesn't want
her to know.
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Things are heating up
between widow Bay Tanner,
sometime private
investigator, and Red,
local sheriff's sergeant
and her late husband's
brother. But a new case
that strikes too close to
home endangers more than
just her love life. An
unexpected call from her
housekeeper's son hints
that a recent hit-and-run
may have been more than
an accident.
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George Hennessey is
beginning to accept the
inevitable - that age is
catching up with him and
he needs to delegate to,
and nurture, his young
up and coming team. But
there is no substitute
for experience as he
marshals his troops to
investigate and eventu
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