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Now the death of a
journalist leads Allon to
Russia, where he finds
that, in terms of
spycraft, even he has
something to learn.
Hes playing by
Moscow rules now. It is
not the grim, gray
Moscow of Soviet times
but a new Moscow, awash
in oil wealth and choked
with bulletproof
Bentleys. A Moscow where
power resides once more
behind the walls of the
Kremlin and where critics
of the ruling class are
ruthlessly silenced. A
Moscow where a new
generation of Stalinists
is plotting to reclaim an
empire lost and to
challenge the global
dominance of its old
enemy, the United
States. One such man is
Ivan Kharkov, a former
KGB colonel who built a
global investment empire
on the rubble of the
Soviet Union. Hidden
within that empire,
however, is a more
lucrative and deadly
business. Kharkov is an
arms dealer?and he is
about to deliver
Russias most
sophisticated weapons to
al-Qaeda. Unless Allon
can learn the time and
place of the delivery,
the world will see the
deadliest terror attacks
since 9/11?and the clock
is ticking fast. Filled
with rich prose and
breathtaking turns of
plot, Moscow Rules is at
once superior
entertainment and a
searing cautionary tale
about the new threats
rising to the East?and
Silvas finest novel
yet.
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Private eye Sharon McCone
receives an e-mail asking
for help from her
emotionally disturbed
half brother Darcy
Blackhawk. She replies.
..but gets no response.
As Sharon digs deeper,
she discovers that Darcy
sent his message from an
Internet cafe in San
Francisco, a city he's
never been to before.
Sensing that her brother
is in terrible danger,
Sharon begins a search
for him throughout the
city. The investigation
leads her to the body of
a woman at the Palace of
Fine Arts, where a
witness had told her that
Darcy was headed. Then,
as she digs deeper,
Sharon uncovers a
connection to the
unsolved murder of a
young heiress to a
multimillion-dollar
banking fortune. Now
Sharon must race to solve
both murders and ensure
her brother's safety,
despite the imminent
danger that lurks within
her own family.
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What if King Arthur was
more than a myth? On a
starlit summer's night in
the Welsh mountains, an
old man is torn from
sleep as an ancient
prophecy unfolds. On the
other side of the
Atlantic, an American
antiques dealer lies
dying on the floor of his
shop, blood ebbing from
a fatal stab wound. In
San Francisco, Mitzi
Fallon begins her new job
as lead investigator for
the FBI's Historical,
Religious and Unsolved
Crimes Unit. When it
emerges that a priceless
Celtic relic has been
stolen from the murdered
antiques dealer, Mitzi
finds herself drawn into
a mystery that reaches
from the heart of the
modern US government back
to a man once dismissed
as myth: King Arthur. Sam
Christer, author of the
international smash hit,
The Stonehenge Legacy,
returns with his most
dramatic,
race-against-time
thriller yet. Packed with
heart-stopping,
addictive suspense and
historical intrigue, The
Camelot Code is a brand
new thriller that is
perfect for fans of Dan
Brown and Simon Toyne.
The King Arthur legend is
about to come to life...
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Ten days to Christmas and
Tracey Uphill, aged
eight, hasn't come home
from Sunday school. Her
mother, a pretty young
prostitute, is
desperate. Enter
Detective Inspector Jack
Frost, sloppy, scruffy
and insubordinate. To
help him investigate the
case of the missing
child, Frost has been
assigned a new sidekick,
the Chief Constable's
nephew. Fresh to
provincial Denton in an
oversmart suit,
Detective Constable Clive
Barnard is an easy target
for Frost's withering
satire. Assisted and
annoyed by Barnard,
Frost, complete with a
store of tasteless
anecdotes to fit every
occasion, proceeds with
the investigation in
typically unorthodox
style. After he's
consulted a local witch,
Dead Man's Hollow yields
up a skeleton. Frost
finds himself drawn into
an unsolved crime from
the past and risks not
only his career, but
also his life...
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Reggie Nadelson's new
Artie Cohen mystery
begins when a jogger
finds a kid's clothes
drenched in blood and
buried in the half frozen
earth near Brighton Beach
- the coast of Brooklyn.
It takes place in New
York, a city of islands
and rivers, bridges and
tunnels. All of it is set
between downtown
Manhattan where Artie
lives, an area still
traumatized by the loss
of the Twin towers, and
coastal Brooklyn.
Brighton Beach, all
boardwalk, beach and
Russians. Coney Island
with its wrecked
amusement park.
Sheepshead Bay with its
inlets and fishing boats.
The plot concerns the
killing of one child and
the abduction of another,
and the subsequent
outbreak of fear. Fear is
the real story here. The
fear that explodes when
two children are involved
and still others seem to
go missing. The way the
city is still locked in
the terror that's never
gone away since 9/11. The
constant presence of
barricades and barriers
and soldiers with AKs as
part of the New York
domestic landscape. It's
also about Artie's
relationship with the
Russian community in
Brooklyn, the way the
story reels him back over
and over, the way he can
never really escape.
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There was no sign of a
struggle, no wounds or
bruises. To Gently, it
looked like Vivienne had
simply lain down and
died, yet he knew she
had been murdered. The
Chief Inspector George
Gently Case Files Alan
Hunter The unflappable
Inspector George Gently
has become a household
name through the hit BBC
TV series starring Martin
Shaw. These are the
original books on which
the TV series was based,
although the George
Gently in Alan Hunter's
whodunits is somewhat
different to his TV
counterpart. He is more
calculating, more
analytical, and his
investigations are even
more enthralling.
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Detective Inspector
Charlie Priest is the
kind of officer who likes
to get on with the job,
though his unorthodox
ways have held him at
inspector level for a
record-breaking length of
time; however Priest does
get results. When Charlie
suspects a now-respected
businessman, with a
background of extortion
and GBH, of involvement
in an international art
fraud, he's taking on an
enemy with friends in
high places. But Charlie
can be persistent to the
point of recklessness
and, once he's realised
that there's a link to
the lethal doctored
heroin that's striking
down the local kids, no
threat will stop him...
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Details: As volunteers
clean up after a huge
outdoor rock concert in
Yorkshire in 1969, they
discover the body of a
young woman wrapped in a
sleeping bag. She has
been brutally murdered.
The detective assigned to
the case, Stanley
Chadwick, is a
hard-headed,
strait-laced veteran of
the Second World War. He
could not have less in
common with ? or less
regard for ? young,
disrespectful,
long-haired hippies,
smoking marijuana and
listening to the pulsing
sounds of rock and roll.
But he has a murder to
solve, and it looks as
if the victim was somehow
associated with the
up-and-coming psychedelic
pastoral band the Mad
Hatters. In the present,
Inspector Alan Banks is
investigating the murder
of a freelance music
journalist who was
working on a feature
about the Mad Hatters for
MOJO magazine. This is
not the first time that
the Mad Hatters, now
aging rock superstars,
have been brushed by
tragedy. Banks finds he
has to delve into the
past to find out exactly
what hornets? nest the
journalist inadvertently
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533 pages and measures:
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Details: This is a
companion to the hugely
successful "Inspector
Morse" TV series,
covering all 33 episodes
of the show, as well as
the original novels that
inspired the series and
other related media,
including the radio
plays. With a critique of
each episode, along with
useful facts, details of
the soundtracks and key
character beats, it also
includes a brief
discussion of the hugely
successful spin-off
series, Lewis. Ideal for:
Fans of the popular TV
show This paperback has
301 pages and measures
23.4cm x 15.1cm x 2cm
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1950s Ireland. As a
deep, bewildering fog
cloaks Dublin, a young
woman is found to have
vanished. When Phoebe
Griffin, still haunted
by the horrors of her
past, is unable to
discover news of her
friend; Quirke, fresh
from drying out in an
institution, responds to
his daughters
request for help. But as
Phoebe, Quirke and
Inspector Hackett speak
with those who knew
April, they begin to
realise that there may
have been more behind the
young womans
discretion and secrecy
than they could have
imagined. And while
Quirke finds himself
distracted from his
sobriety by a beautiful
young actress, Phoebe
watches helplessly as
Aprils family hush
up her disappearance,
terrified of a scandal;
and all possible leads
seem to dry up, bar one
she cannot bear to
contemplate... When
Quirke eventually makes a
disturbing discovery, he
is finally able to begin
unravelling the great,
complex web of love,
lies, jealousy and dark
secrets that April spun
her life from.
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This was no suicide,
however it looked - too
many people wanted Adrian
Stoll dead. From an
embarrassment of
suspects, Gently had a
very tangled tale to
unravel. The unflappable
Inspector George Gently
has become a household
name through the hit BBC
TV series starring Martin
Shaw. These are the
original books on which
the TV series was based,
although the George
Gently in Alan Hunter's
whodunits is somewhat
different to his TV
counterpart. He is more
calculating, more
analytical, and his
investigations are even
more enthralling.
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At first it seems like
nothing: a note, telling
her all the things he
wants to do to her,
flowers on her doorstep,
lingerie wrapped in
layers of tissue and
ribbon. But then Siobhan
notices that some things
in the house have moved.
A mug is chipped, her
diary lies open on a
different page. Alex has
never loved anyone like
this before. All he
waants is to be close to
Siobhan. To show her what
she means to him. Isn't
that what all lovers do?
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This enthralling
collection of Sherlock
Holmes adventures
comprises the first two
volumes of short stories
as they were originally
gathered together in book
form. Initially published
in "The Strand" magazine,
the first of the short
stories followed the
successful serialization
of Conan Doyle's first
two Holmes novels "A
Study in Scarlet" and
"The Sign of Four". "The
Adventures of Sherlock
Holmes" contains four of
Conan Doyle's own
all-time favorite Holmes
mysteries, The Adventure
of the Speckled Band, The
Red-Headed League, A
Scandal in Bohemia and
"The Five Orange Pips".
"The Memoirs of Sherlock
Holmes" has another three
of Conan Doyle's
favorites in "The
Adventure of the Reigate
Squire", The Adventure of
the Musgrave Ritual and
"The Adventure of the
Final Problem". It is in
"The Final Problem", of
course, that Dr Watson
sadly reports the death
of Holmes at the
Reichenbach Falls near
Meiringen in Switzerland.
Holmes' titanic struggle
with his arch enemy,
Professor Moriarty, had
seen them both apparently
plunge over a sheer drop,
although Watson never
actually saw Holmes'
body. This was Conan
Doyle's attempt to bring
an end to Holmes'
adventures, but he was
to be resurrected by
popular demand eight
years later. "The
Memoirs" also includes
"The Adventure of the
Greek Interpreter", in
which Holmes' brother,
Mycroft, appears for the
first time and "The
Adventure of the Gloria
Scott", in which Holmes
describes to Watson his
very first case.
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A man who calls himself
'the Teacher' is devising
a meticulous plan.
Cold-hearted and cunning,
it is time for everyone
to learn his name as he
teaches New York a lesson
it will never forget.
Intent on exacting
revenge and causing mass
hysteria, he embarks on
the worst killing spree
the city has ever seen.
The whole New York Police
Department is tested to
its limits; none more so
than Detective Michael
Bennett as the Teacher
leads him on a terrifying
chase that brings danger
perilously close to home.
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The Frankenstein story is
updated to the 21st
century by the great
American storyteller Dean
Koontz. Now someone new
is playing god.
Frankenstein lives! And
so too does his monstrous
creation! but this
creature of legend is a
monster no more and his
scarred face bears
witness to his maker's
wrath. His name is
Deucalion. As a
devastating hurricane
approaches New Orleans,
Victor Helios, once know
as Frankenstein, has
unleased his benighted
creatures onto the
streets. As New Orleans
descends into chaos, his
engineered killers spin
out of control, and the
only hope rests with
Victor's first and failed
attempt to build the
perfect human, whose
damned path has led him
to the ultimate
confrontation with his
pitiless creator. But
first, Deucalion must
destroy a monstrosity not
even Victor's malignant
mind could have imagined
- an indestructible
entity that steps out of
humankind's collective
nightmare with one
purpose: to replace us.
This is a powerful
reworking of one of the
classic stories of all
time.
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The esteemed creator of
Paddington Bear concocts
another delicious
escapade for Monsieur
Pamplemousse and star
sniffer dog Pommes Frites
Monsieur Pamplemousse
finds himself in deep
water when an unfortunate
collision with a Mother
Superior is caught on
camera by the French
tabloids. To avoid media
attention, he is sent to
report on chef Andre
Dulac, currently in line
for Le Guide's top award
of the Golden Stock Pot
Lid. But Pamplemousse's
stay at the Hotel Dulac
is far from uneventful.
His encounters with
mysterious bloodstains,
a strangely vibrating
girl and a secret family
legacy open a can of
worms which threatens the
very sanctity of France's
premier gastronomic
bible.
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Details: It is 1921 and
Mary Russell--Sherlock
Holmes's brilliant
apprentice, now an
Oxford graduate with a
degree in theology - is
on the verge of acquiring
a sizable inheritance.
Independent at last,
with a passion for
divinity and detective
work, her most baffling
mystery may now involve
Holmes and the burgeoning
of a deeper affection
between herself and the
retired detective.
Russell's attentions turn
to the New Temple of God
and its leader, Margery
Childe, a charismatic
suffragette and a mystic,
whose draw on the young
theology scholar is
irresistible. But when
four bluestockings from
the Temple turn up dead
shortly after changing
their wills, could sins
of a capital nature be
afoot? Holmes and Russell
investigate, as their
partnership takes a
surprising turn. Ideal
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mystery fiction books and
for those who enjoy
reading the 'Mary Russell
and Sherlock Holmes'
novels. This paperback
book has 316 pages and
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Details: When Karen Drew
is found sitting in her
wheelchair staring out to
sea with her throat cut
one chilly morning, DI
Annie Cabbot, on loan to
Eastern Area, gets
lumbered with the case.
Back in Eastvale, that
same Sunday morning,
19-year-old Hayley
Daniels is found raped
and strangled in the
Maze, a tangle of narrow
alleys behind Eastvale's
market square, after a
drunken night on the town
with a group of friends,
and DCI Alan Banks is
called in. Banks finds
suspects galore, while
Annie seems to hit a
brick wall--until she
reaches a breakthrough
that spins her case in a
shocking and surprising
new direction, one that
also involves Banks. Then
another incident occurs
in the Maze which seems
to link the two cases in
a bizarre and mysterious
way. As Banks and Annie
dig into the past to
uncover the deeper
connections, they find
themselves also dealing
with the emotional
baggage and personal
demons of their own
relationship. And it soon
becomes clear that there
are two killers in their
midst, and that at any
moment either one might
strike again. Ideal for:
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thriller fiction books.
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Detective Inspector Jack
Frost, offically on
duty, is nevertheless
determined to sneak off
to a colleague's leaving
party. But first the
corpse of a well-known
local junkie is found
blocking the drain of a
Denton public lavatory -
and then, when Frost
attempts to join the
revels later on, the
nubile daughter of a
wealthy businessman is
reported missing. Sleepy
Denton has never known
anything like the crime
wave which now threatens
to submerge it. A robbery
occurs at the town's
notorious strip joint,
the pampered son of a
local MP is suspected of
a hit-and-run offence
and, to top it all, a
multiple rapist is on the
loose. Frost is reeling
under the strain, his
paperwork is still in
arrears and now, more
than ever, his
self-righteous colleagues
would love to see him
sacked. But the manic
Frost manages to assure
his superior that all is
under control. Now he has
only to convince
himself...
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There's blood in the
heather and a murderer on
the loose when Gently
pays a quite visit to the
Highlands of Scotland.
Had Brenda Merryn not
been such a stong-willed
woman and had she not
been so much in love with
George Gently, driving
all the way to Scotland
for a holiday with
Gently's sister and
brother-in-law might have
been a bit of a
challenge. Spying on a
heavily armed private
army of nationalists,
being held at gunpoint on
the hillside, being held
prisoner in a filthy
outhouse and becoming
involved in a murder
would be unthinkable. For
Gently, it's all in a
day's work and his
holiday is put on hold
while he stalks a
murderer in the
mountains, with Brenda
by his side.
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Good music, fine dining
and comfortable
surroundings - that's how
the Hotel Continental is
advertised. Fraud,
blackmail, torture and
murder - that's what it
becomes famous for. The
popular hotel on the
English coast built its
reputation on its
Viennese cuisine and
Austrian style but when
one of the guests is
found dead at the bottom
of the nearby cliffs
bearing the wounds of a
man who has been
systematically tortured,
Gently brushes aside the
hotel's facade of
respectability.
International intrigue
and a dark secret that
stretches from
Nazi-occupied Austria
across the Atlantic to
the back streets of New
York leave Gently
juggling with a deadly
conundrum.
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Denton is having more
than its fair share of
crime. A serial killer is
murdering local
prostitutes; a man
demolishing his garden
shed uncovers a
long-buried skeleton;
there is an armed robbery
at a local minimart and a
ram raid at a jewellers.
But Detective Inspector
Jack Frost's main concern
is for the safety of a
missing eight-year-old,
and soon after another
girl is reported missing,
her body is found...
raped and strangled. Then
Frost's prime suspect
hangs himself in his
cell, leaving a note
blaming Frost for driving
him to suicide. Coarse,
insubordinate and
fearless, DI Jack Frost
is in serious trouble.
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Details: A beautiful June
day in the Yorkshire
Dales, and a group of
children are spending the
last of their half-term
freedom swimming in the
river near Hindswell
Woods. But the idyll is
shattered by their
discovery of a man's
body, hanging from a
tree. DI Annie Cabott
soon discovers he is Mark
Hardcastle, the
well-liked and successful
set designer for the
Eastvale Theatre's
current production of
Othello. Everything
points to suicide, and
Annie is mystified. Why
would such a man want to
take his own life? Then
Annie's investigation
leads to another
shattering discovery,
and DCI Alan Banks is
called back from the
idyllic weekend he had
planned with his new
girlfriend. Banks soon
finds himself plunged
into a shadow-world where
nothing is what it seems,
where secrets and deceit
are the norm, and where
murder is seen as the
solution to a problem.
The deeper he digs the
more he discovers that
the monster he has
awakened will extend its
deadly reach to his
friends and family.
Nobody is safe. Ideal
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and for those who enjoy
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Details: A decade ago,
teenaged clairvoyant
Rebecca Ryan became
notorious for helping the
local police solve
high-profile cases. Then
came the shocking
kidnapping that hit close
to home; the first crime
she couldn't solve.
Haunted by guilt since
the day her beloved
brother was found
murdered, Rebecca has
finally made a fresh
start in New Orleans.
Then comes the
all-too-familar vision:
Mind-numbing terror.
Shattering pain. The grim
certainty that somewhere,
a child has been
kidnapped from his bed in
the middle of the night.
Back in quaint Sinclair,
West Virginia, Rebecca
intends to use her
psychic gift to find her
cousin's missing son
before it's too late. But
some people in town - and
in the Ryan household
itself - still resent her
for what her second sight
did. Some haven't
forgiven her for what it
couldn't do. And one
vengeful soul is
determined that Rebecca
and her family will once
again pay a deadly price.
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On a rainy night in
Denton, Detective
Inspector Jack Frost is
called to the site of a
macabre discovery in the
woods - that of a human
foot. Meanwhile a
multiple rapist is on the
loose, the local
supermarket reports
poisoned stock and a man
claims to have cut his
wife up into little
pieces, yet can't recall
where he hid them. But it
is when two young girls
are reported missing in
quick succession that the
Denton crime wave reaches
terrifying heights. As
the exhausted Frost
staggers from case to
case, pressured from all
sides and haunted by
memories of his wife,
something nasty arrives
at the station in the
form of Detective Chief
Inspector Skinner. The
scheming, slippery
Skinner clearly has his
eye on the
Superintendent's office,
but his first job is to
manipulate the transfer
of the unorthodox D.I.
Jack Frost to another
division. Will Frost find
the missing girls before
his new nemesis forces
him away from Denton once
and for all?
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Banks is back - and this
time he's investigating
the murder of one of his
own. Detective Inspector
Bill Reid is killed by a
crossbow in the tranquil
grounds of a police
rehabilitation centre,
and compromising photos
are found in his room.
DCI Banks, brought in to
investigate, is assailed
on all sides. By Joanna
Passero, the
Professional Standards
inspector who insists on
shadowing the
investigation in case of
police corruption. By his
own conviction that a
policeman shouldn't be
deemed guilty without
evidence. By Annie
Cabbot, back at work
after six months'
recuperation, and beset
by her own doubts and
demons. And by an English
girl who disappeared in
Estonia six years ago,
who seems to hold the
secret at the heart of
this case...
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Two years after the day
that her son, Matthew,
was kidnapped in broad
daylight in Central Park,
Alexandra Moreland still
finds herself torn
between hope and despair.
As no trace of Matthew
was ever found, she has
never been able to give
him up for dead. But now,
on what would have been
Matthew's fifth birthday,
photos surface that seem
to show Alexandra
kidnapping her own child.
Then, as her bank
accounts are suddenly
drained, and her
reputation as a
successful architect
comes under immense
pressure, Alexandra
begins to suspect that
someone is using her
credit cards to steal her
identity. But who would
want to ruin her so
completely? Hounded by
the press, under
investigation by the
police, attacked by both
her angry ex-husband and
a vindictive business
rival, Alexandra,
sustained only by her
belief that Matthew is
still alive, sets out to
discover who is behind
this cruel hoax. Little
does she realize that
with every step she takes
toward the truth, she is
putting herself -and
those she loves most - in
mortal danger.
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I was looking down,
watching the shark come.
It seemed to swell up in
size as it rushed towards
me. Every detail was
burned into my mind in
those frantic seconds. I
saw the hog's snout with
the two slotted nostrils,
the golden eyes with the
black pupils like
arrowheads, the broad
blue back from which
stood the tall
executioner's blade of
the dorsal fin. Harry
Fletcher, a man with a
chequered past, has
reformed and is making an
honest living as a
charter skipper fishing
for big game in the
seductive waters of the
Indian Ocean. Suddenly
men from the world of
violence Harry has put
behind him overturn his
good intentions,
involving him in a hectic
race to recover a
fabulous treasure from an
ancient wreck.
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If you were to guess how
a womanising,
middle-aged brewer was
murdered, you might say
he was shot by a jealous
husband or drowned in his
own beer - not savaged by
a horse. The strange
death of Charles Berney,
savaged and trampled to
death by a horse on a
windswept stretch of
moorland, came as he had
apparently settled down
with an attractive young
wife and was
concentrating on
developing his business.
He may have argued with
his wife at her birthday
party the night before
his death, but when he
set off for a business
meeting in London the
following morning, no
one expected him to end
up murdered on the moor.
How did he get there? The
answer comes only after
Gently has unravelled one
of the most bizarre cases
of his entire career
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Addictive, thrilling,
exhilarating...You won't
be able to put it down.
Ash Rashid is a former
homicide detective who
can't stand the thought
of handling another death
investigation. That's
until his niece's body is
found in the property of
one of the city's
wealthiest citizens. The
coroner calls it an
overdose, but the case
doesn't add up. Against
orders, Ash launches an
investigation to find his
niece's murderer. But the
longer he searches, the
darker the case gets -
and if he doesn't solve
it fast, his niece won't
be the only family member
he has to bury...Discover
for yourself the US crime
novel that became a word
of mouth phenomenon. The
Abbey is the beginning of
a major new series,
featuring one of the most
fascinating detectives in
the history of crime
fiction.
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A young boy is found dead
in a rubbish heap,
suffocated and with one
finger cut off. Another
boy is missing. A
psychopath is stabbing
babies as they lie
sleeping in their cots. A
fifteen-year-old has been
abducted, then found
naked by the roadside.
The corpse of a petty
criminal is discovered,
with the tops of three
fingers chopped off. The
small children of a
carpet fitter are
murdered; his wife's body
is found on the railway
line. A supermarket MD is
sent a ransom demand for
the missing boy,
accompanied by one of the
child's fingers... Jack
Frost, scruffy and
insubordinate,
foul-mouthed and
fearless, staggers from
crisis to crisis, his
bumbling modus operandi
disguising his
extraordinary powers of
detection.
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A serial killer is
terrorizing the senior
citizens of Denton, and
the local police are
succumbing to a flu
epidemic. Tired and
demoralized, the force
has to contend with a
seemingly perfect young
couple suffering arson
attacks and death
threats, a suspicious
suicide, burglaries,
pornographic videos,
poison-pen letters... In
uncertain charge of the
investigations is
Detective Inspector Jack
Frost, crumpled,
slapdash and foul-mouthed
as ever. He tries to cope
despite inadequate
back-up, but there is
never enough time; the
unsolved crimes pile up
and the vicious killings
go on. So Frost has to
cut corners and take
risks, knowing that his
Divisional Commander will
throw him to the wolves
if anything goes wrong.
And for Frost, things
always go wrong...
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During his time as an
inspector with the Paris
Surete, Monsieur
Pamplemousse had been 'in
at the death' on more
than one occasion, but
even he had to admit that
the phrase took on an
entirely new meaning when
he was present at the
spectacular ending to
Cuisine de Chavignol,
France's premier
television cookery
programme. Seated in the
front row of an invited
studio audience, he
watched in silent horror
as the eponymous host,
having downed an oyster
in close-up, uttered a
strangled cry and slowly
but surely sank from view
behind a kitchen worktop.
Pommes Frites, sniffer
dog extraordinaire, has
his own views on the
matter: Claude Chavignol
was a bad egg if ever
he'd seen one. Subsequent
events prove him right,
and soon he and his
master find themselves
caught up in a bizarre
world of unrequited lust,
murder and blackmail in
high places. Colourful,
comical and deliciously
entertaining, it is no
wonder that in this new
adventure "Monsieur
Pamplemousse Hits the
Headlines".
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The problem with being a
bounty hunter is it's all
on-the-job training. And
Stephanie Plum is still
learning the ways to get
yourself killed. Take the
case of Maxine
Norwicki...When Maxine
failed to turn up for her
day in court, Stephanie
was given the task of
bringing her in. Simple.
Except Maxine's boyfriend
has now begun receiving
mysterious, coded notes
from the runaway that
hint at buried treasure.
In fact the notes are so
indecipherable that
Stephanie has to call on
the help of Sally Sweet,
giant drag queen and
code-breaker
extraordinaire. And
Steph's knight errant,
cop Joe Morelli. is also
proving useful - although
he can't decide what he
wants most: Maxine's
bounty or Stephanie's
body. Meanwhile a friend
loses a finger, a mother
is scalped, an apartment
is firebombed and a store
clerk is murdered. And
out in the street, the
crazy treasure hunt game
goes on...'Stephanie Plum
is ass-kicking
form...utterly
delightful.' Cosmopolitan
'As smart and sassy as
high-gloss wet paint.'
Time Out ' Among the
great joys of
contemporary crime
fiction.' GQ 'All the
easy class and wit that
you expect to find in the
best American TV Comedy,
but too rarely find in
modern fiction.' GQ
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Interweaving real and
fictional elements, 'The
American Boy' is a major
literary historical crime
novel in the tradition of
'An Instance of the
Fingerpost' and
'Possession'. Repackaged
as part of the Perennial
fiction promotion.
England 1819: Thomas
Shield, a new master at
a school just outside
London, is tutor to a
young American boy and
the boy's sensitive best
friend, Charles Frant.
Drawn to Frant's
beautiful, unhappy
mother, Thomas becomes
caught up in her family's
twisted intrigues. Then a
brutal crime is
committed, with
consequences that
threaten to destroy
Thomas and all that he
has come to dearly value.
Despite his efforts,
Shield is caught up in a
deadly tangle of sex,
money, murder and lies
-- a tangle that grips
him even tighter as he
tries to escape from it.
And what of the strange
American child, at the
heart of these macabre
events -- what is the
secret of the boy named
Edgar Allan Poe?
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Mma Ramotswe and Mma
Makutsi have always
relied on the advice of
the classic guide to
their trade, The
Principles of Private
Detection. But who is the
eminent author, Mr
Clovis Andersen, and
what if he were to come
to Botswana? That seems a
very unlikely
possibility, and yet...
When Mr Andersen visits
Botswana on holiday, he
is delighted and
intrigued to stumble
across a roadside sign
that reveals the
existence of the No.1
Ladies' Detective Agency.
Professional courtesy
suggests that he call and
announce himself.
Meanwhile, Mma Makutsi
and Phuti Radiphuti are
embarking on married life
and building a new house
- a tricky business under
any circumstances but
especially hazardous when
the name of the
contractor is the Joy and
Light Building Company.
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He stared at the
unfamiliar watch on his
wrist. Three hours ago he
had stood on English
soil. Three hours ago he
had been Martin Hearne,
British Intelligence
agent. Now he was in
Nazi-occupied Brittany,
posing as Bertrand
Corlay. Hearne looked
down at the faded uniform
which had been Corlay's
felt for the papers in
the inside pocket. He was
ready. From now on he was
one step away from
death...
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Based on a true story,
mystery and intrigue in
pre-Civil War New York.
The sensational murder of
Dr. Harvey Burdell in his
lower Manhattan home made
front-page news across
the United States in
1857. "Who killed Dr.
Burdell?" was a question
that gripped the nation.
31 Bond Street, a debut
novel by Ellen Horan,
interweaves fiction with
actual events in a clever
historical narrative that
blends romance,
politics, greed and
sexual intrigue in a
suspenseful drama. The
story opens when an
errand boy discovers
Burdell's body in the
bedroom of his lavish
Bond Street home. The
novel's central
characters are Dr. Harvey
Burdell, a dentist and
unscrupulous businessman;
his lover, the
ambitious, Brooklyn-born
Emma Cunningham; the
District Attorney,
Abraham Oakey Hall (later
to become mayor of New
York); and Henry Clinton,
a prominent defense
lawyer. The enigmatic
relationship between Emma
and Dr. Burdell makes her
the prime suspect, and
her trial is nothing less
than sensational. Will
she hang? Were her
teenaged daughters
involved? What did the
servants know? Who was
the last person to see
Burdell alive? During the
trial, the two lawyers
fight for truth, justice
and their careers. This
novel is set against the
background of bustling,
corrupt New York City,
just four years before
the Civil War. The author
intertwines two main
narratives: the trial
through the perspective
of the defense attorney
Henry Clinton, and the
story of the lovely young
widow Emma Cunningham
whose search for a
husband brings her into
the arms and home of Dr.
Burdell.
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Maybe a phrase, a line,
a hint somewhere would
reveal a reason, any
reason, for the elderly
couples
disappearance. They?d
saved everything...
there was even a copy of
the ?certificate of
living existence?, that
nadir of bureaucratic
imbecility... What was
the ?protocol?, to use a
word dear to government
offices? Did one simply
write on a sheet of paper
something like: ?I, the
undersigned, Salvo
Montalbano, hereby
declare myself to be in
existence?, sign it,
and turn it in to the
appointed clerk? A young
Don Juan is found
murdered in front of his
apartment building early
one morning, and an
elderly couple is
reported missing after an
excursion to the ancient
site of Tindari ? two
seemingly unrelated cases
for Inspector Montalbano
to solve amid the daily
complications of life at
Vig?ta police
headquarters. But when
Montalbano discovers that
the couple and the
murdered young man lived
in the same building,
his investigation
stumbles onto Sicily's
brutal ?New Mafia?,
which leads him down a
path more evil and more
far-reaching than any he
has been down before.
Praise for Andrea
Camilleri: ?A joy to
read? The Times ?This
savagely funny police
procedural proves that
sardonic laughter is a
sound that translates
ever so smoothly into
English? New York Times
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The first novel in Debra
Webb's internationally
bestselling FACES OF EVIL
series, for fans of
Karen Rose, Katia Lief
and Mary Burton. Evil can
hide... In the frantic
race to catch a brutal
and obsessive serial
killer, Jess Harris
broke the rules and lost
everything. Her
reputation in tatters,
she has no choice but to
return to Birmingham, to
the hometown and the past
she ran away from long
ago. Behind many masks.
Dan Burnett, Police
Chief of Birmingham,
Alabama, is running out
of options. Four young
women are missing and in
desperation, he turns to
his estranged first love,
Special Agent Jess
Harris, whose skill and
experience offer a
glimmer of hope. Do you
know what it looks like?
As Jess and Dan race to
find the women, a fifth
disappears. And, for
Jess, the search becomes
all the more terrifying
when she receives a
startling personal
message. Can Jess
confront her past to save
five futures? Or is it
already too late?
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Two cases have pushed
Detective Lindsay Boxer
to the limit. The hunt
for a deranged murderer
with a taste for fire,
and a devastating new
lead in the high-profile
disappearance of the
governor's son combine in
an electrifying series of
stunning twists and
emotional surprises.
With the help
of her friends and fellow
members of the Women's
Murder Club - Yuki, an
attorney feeling the
strain of a high-profile
court case; Claire, a
medical examiner trying
to balance her career and
her pregnancy and Cindy,
crime reporter for the
San Francisco Chronicle -
Lindsay must race to find
the suspects and stop the
cold-blooded killers,
fast.
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As Vera Reynolds, drag
queen and night club
star, sways onstage
singing Falling in Love
Again, a
sixteen-year-old rent boy
lies in the older mans
apartment, engulfed in
flames. Detective Chief
Inspector Jane Tennison
has moved up the ranks,
fighting every step of
the way to break through
Scotland Yards glass
ceiling. Now, on her
first day as the head of
the Vice Squad, this
high-profile case
threatens to destroy
everything she has worked
for. For when Tennisons
investigation reveals an
influential public figure
as her prime suspect, a
man with connections to
politicians, judges,
and Scotland Yard, shes
given a very clear
message about the
direction some very
important people would
like her investigation to
take. Suddenly, in a
case defined by murky
details, one fact
becomes indisputably
clear - that for
Tennison, going after
the truth will mean
risking her happiness,
her career...and even her
life.
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Michael Forsythe might
be, as one of his
assailants puts it,
'un-fucking-killable',
but that doesn't seem to
deter people from trying.
He's living in Lima,
reasonably well-hidden by
the FBI's Witness
Protection Program, but
Bridget Callaghan, whose
fiance he murdered twelve
years ago, has an
enduring wish to see him
dead. So when her two
goon assassins pass him
the phone to speak to her
before they kill him,
Michael thinks she just
wants to relish the
moment. In fact, out of
desperation, she is
giving him a chance to
redeem himself. All he
has to do is return to
Ireland and find her
missing daughter. Before
midnight.Tenacious and
brutal, with the hunted
man's instinct for
trouble, Forsythe leaves
a trail of mayhem as he
tries to end the bloody
feud once and for all.
"The Bloomsday Dead"
pulsates with break-neck
action and wry literary
references; McKinty's
distinctly Irish voice
packs a ferocious punch.
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