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A story of passion and
heroism from a violent
land ? Mexico in the
1920s? ?a place and a
time when life was cheap
and survival was for
those who fought
dirtiest. A year after
the Revolution, violent
unrest still simmers
across rural Mexico. In
the northern foothills of
the Sierra Madre, the
country's most renowned
assassin turned psychotic
bandit has dispensed with
any need for rules.
Plenty of men had tried
to take Tomas de la
Plata. But never another
trained killer, who is
fighting to escape the
death sentence. Emmet
Keogh fled a bitter war
in Ireland, only to find
himself halfway across
the world and on the
wrong side of the law.
Now he has a choice. To
kill the most dangerous
man in Mexico ? or face
death by firing squad.
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An explosive new thriller
from the bestselling Faye
Kellerman featuring LA
detective Peter Decker
and Rina Lazarus. At
8.15am, a small green
suburb of Los Angeles is
turned into a fiery
inferno by a commuter
plane crash, plunging
the city's emergency
services into a major
crisis. A month later,
one mystery from the
wreckage still remains
unsolved. A woman's body
- initially thought to be
a stewardess - is instead
revealed to be an
undiscovered homicide,
decades old. Who is this
nameless victim? And why
is the stewardess still
missing? As they begin to
unravel years of
deception, Lieutenant
Peter Decker and his team
come closer and closer to
the shocking truth ? and
a confrontation with a
vicious killer.
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When her teenage son
Robbie's drink is spiked,
Olivia Somers is
devastated. She has spent
her adult life trying to
protect people and keep
them safe - not only as a
mother, but also in her
chosen profession as a
doctor. So she tries to
put it down to a horrible
accident, in spite of
the evidence suggesting
malicious intent, and
simply hopes no-one tries
to endanger those she
loves again. But someone
from the past is after
revenge. Someone closer
to her family than she
could possibly realise.
Someone who will stop at
nothing until they get
the vengeance they crave.
And, as she and her
family come under
increasing threat, the
oath that Olivia took
when she first became a
doctor - to do no harm to
others - will be tested
to its very limits.
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Lovejoy discovers how the
lure of gold brings out
the worst kind of
treasure seeker when,
broke as usual and
earning a crust as an
unlikely babysitter, he
stumbles across the
diaries of a painter that
appear to point to the
whereabouts of a fabled
hoard of Roman gold
coins. Lovejoy is tempted
to dismiss the whole
thing as a hoax, but
vile threats and violent
intimidation have a way
of changing his mind. He
sets out to unravel the
clues in the diaries,
with some particularly
nasty characters dogging
his every move.
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Recovering from the
tragic death of his wife,
Tony Sheridan goes to
stay with his
sister-in-law, Lucy,
and her husband. Their
home is a bizarre moated
house deep in the Rutland
countryside, known as
Otherways. Disturbed by
memories of his wife,
and a growing attraction
to Lucy, Sheridan is
also troubled by weird
and vivid dreams. Soon he
learns that Otherways is
a house steeped in a
history of murder and
wartime treason. And it
seems that these crimes
hold an eerie influence
over the present
inhabitants.
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The most dangerous and
elusive hitman in the
world is visiting New
York City - on
business?Percey Clay,
one of Americas foremost
pilots and the
uncompromising owner of a
struggling charter flight
service, was in the
wrong place at the wrong
time. Now she is the
target of the Coffin
Dancer. Brilliant
quadriplegic criminalist
Lincoln Rhyme knows the
killer only to well. He's
a man who's raised murder
to a form of high art;
the deadliest weapons
aren't guns or knives but
his uncanny knowledge of
human nature...and Rhyme
must combat both the
hitman's armoral genius
and Percey's headstrong
determination if he is to
save her life.
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A glamorous American
multi-millionairess,
Alice de Janz?
scandalized 1920s
Paris when she left her
aristocratic French
husband for an English
lover?whom she later
tried to kill in a failed
murder-suicide in the
Gare du Nord. Abandoning
Paris for the moneyed
British colonial society
known as Kenyas
Happy Valley, she became
the lover of the handsome
womanizer, Joss Hay,
Lord Erroll. In 1941,
Erroll was shot in his
car on an isolated road.
A cuckolded husband was
brought to trial and
acquitted, and the crime
remained tantalizingly
unsolved. Paul Spicer,
whose mother was a
confidante of
Alices, used
personal letters and his
own extensive research to
piece together what
really happened that
fateful evening. He
brings to life an era of
unimaginable wealth and
indulgence, where people
changed bed partners as
easily as they would
order a cocktail, and
where jealousy and hidden
passions brewed. At the
heart of The Temptress is
Alice, whose seductive
charms no man could
resist, and whose
unfulfilled quest for
love ended in her own
suicide at age forty-two.
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Small-time private
investigator Ray Lovell
veers between paralysis
and delirium in a
hospital bed. But before
the accident that landed
him there, he had
promised to find Rose
Janko. Rose was married
to the charismatic son of
a travelling gypsy
family, Ivo Janko. When
Ray starts to investigate
her disappearance he's
surprised that her family
are so hostile towards
him. The Jankos have not
had an easy past. They
are a clan touched by
tragedy - either they are
cursed, or they are
hiding a terrible secret.
Could it be that Rose's
discovery of that secret
led to her disappearance
all those years ago? Soon
Ray wishes that he'd
never asked the question.
In a novel that is
totally different from
Stef's extraordinary
debut The Tenderness of
Wolves, she shows
herself once more to be a
matchless storyteller.
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When the Cutter family's
next-door-neighbours,
the Langleys, are gunned
down in their house one
hot August night, the
Cutters' world is turned
upside down. That violent
death should have come so
close to them is shocking
enough in suburban
Promise Falls, but at
least the Cutters can
console themselves with
the thought that
lightning is unlikely to
strike twice in the same
place. Unless, of
course, the killers went
to the wrong house At
first the idea seems
crazy. But gradually we
discover that each of the
Cutter family has a
secret they'd rather keep
buried. What was on that
old computer teenage
Derek and his friend Adam
Langley had salvaged? And
where is it now? What
hold does a local
professor and bestselling
author have on Eileen
Cutter? And what does Jim
Cutter know about Mrs
Langley that even her
husband didn't? To find
out who killed the
Langleys and why,
everybody's secrets are
going to have to come
out. But the final secret
- the secret that could
save them or destroy them
- is in the one place
nobody would ever think
of looking.
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When the victim of a
violent gang rape accuses
five premier sportsmen of
the attack, she has no
idea that her suffering
has only just begun.
..It's a scandal that
rocks a nation of sports
fans. But, in spite of a
huge amount of evidence,
no one seems to believe
her. So when Dr Anya
Crichton, a forensic
expert in sexual assault,
is asked to become
involved by the team
managers, she simply
can't say no. But as she
investigates further,
Anya realises that the
scandals, violence and
abuses run much deeper,
and much further into the
past than she could ever
have imagined. And it's
down to her to find out
exactly who's
responsible. Before it
happens again.
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Dana sits in a courtroom
with her legs shackled as
a long list of charges is
read out, many of them
dangerous. But the panic
that grips her is not
because she has been
caught. She knows there
has been a terrible
mistake - she didn't
commit any of these
crimes. As Dana and her
lover Bridger set out to
clear her name and find
the person who is living
a blameless life of
criminal excess at her
expense, they begin to
test the life they have
built together to its
limits.
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In Soviet Russia, a
triple murder in Moscow
amusement centre, Gorky
Park, leaves three
corpses frozen in the
snow. But when Senior
Investigator in the
Moscow Prosecutor's
Office Arkady Renko
arrives, he finds that
the brutal murder leaves
the victims
unidentifiable with faces
and fingers missing.
Renko must battle
political and corporate
corruption
internationally, from
the USSR to the USA, to
uncover the truth - and
he must fight for his own
life in doing so.
Meanwhile, he is falling
in love with a beautiful,
headstrong dissident for
whom he may risk
everything.
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Oliver Grant is a
decorated soldier,
Military Intelligence
Major and a case-hardened
mercenary. So when the
stepson of a Mafia boss
is kidnapped and taken to
a Libyan prison fortress,
Grant is the perfect
choice to carry out the
rescue. Except for one
detail: he doesn?t want
the job. In an attempt to
change his mind,
Grants young sister
is snatched and he is
forced to comply ? he
knows that the Mafia
don?t make idle threats.
But then Grants
beautiful, innocent
lover also disappears,
and he realises that he
is involved in a game
that will be played to
the death?
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'When the bullets finally
ceased, the bodies lay
in a coiled embrace on
the lifeboat.' The
sinking of a cargo ship
and the slaughter of its
crew seemed a senseless
act of violence. But Clea
Rice knows the truth and
is determined to expose
the culprits. When Jordan
Tavistock is asked to
steal the indiscreet
letters of a friend, he
reluctantly obliges,
only to be caught
red-handed by another
burglar. The burglar is
Clea, who is looking for
something else entirely.
As Jordan finds himself
caught up in a web of
mystery and intrigue, he
wonders how he can trust
Clea when she will not
tell him who she is
working for, or even
what her real name is.
Only together, can they
find the answers to the
sinister questions
surrounding the sinking
of the ship. Answers that
some are prepared to kill
for to keep buried.
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An investigation consists
of a mass of voices, the
sort you can hear, and
the sort you can't. You
have to listen to the
soundless voices, Malin.
That's where the truth is
hidden.' Early one
morning in the coldest
winter in Swedish memory,
police detective Malin
Fors is called away from
the warm flat she shares
with her teenage
daughter. The naked body
of a man has been found
hanging from a tree on
the deserted, frozen
plain outside the town of
Link?ping. From the
outset Malin is
confronted with a host of
unanswered questions: Who
is the dead man? How did
he end up in a tree? And
where did the strange
wounds on his body come
from? Malin and her team
must search for the truth
in a community that seems
determined to keep its
secrets, and follow in
the frigid wake of a
killer to the darkest
corners of the human
heart.
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Three days that could
change the world's
political landscape... A
man wakes up to find
himself lying on the
ground in a railway
station, his mind
stripped bare of all
recollection. He has no
idea how he got there. He
does not even know his
own name. Convinced he is
a drunken down and out,
it isn't until a
newspaper report about a
satellite launch catches
his eye that he begins to
suspect all is not what
it seems... The year is
1958, and America is
about to launch its first
satellite, in a
desperate attempt to
match the Soviet Sputnik
and regain the lead in
the space race. As Luke
Lucas gradually unravels
the mystery of his
amnesia, he realizes
that his fate is bound up
with that of the rocket
that stands ready on
launch pad 26B at Cape
Canaveral. And as he
relearns the story of his
life, he uncovers
long-kept secrets about
his wife, his best
friend and the woman he
once loved more than life
itself.
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They came for me in
November nineteen
fifty-one and took me to
Mokotow prison.
Cambridge, the present
day. And out of the past,
a cry for help: Father
Anselm, the brilliant
Benedictine, receives a
visit from an old friend
with a dangerous story to
tell - the story of a
woman betrayed by time,
fate, and someone close
to her... someone still
unknown. As a young
woman, Roza Mojeska was
part of an underground
resistance group in
Communist Poland. But
after her arrest, an
agent of the secret
police makes her a
devil's bargain - and in
the dark of a government
prison, a terrible
choice is made. Now,
fifty years later,
Anselm is called upon to
investigate both Roza's
story and a mystery
dating back to the early
1980s, in the icy grip
of the Cold War. And as
he peels back years of
history, decades of
secrets, a half-century
of lies, he exposes a
truth that victim and
torturer would keep
hidden...
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It's Spring Break of
senior year. Anna, her
boyfriend Tate, her best
friend Elise, and a few
other close friends are
off to a debaucherous
trip to Aruba that
promises to be the time
of their lives. But when
Elise is found brutally
murdered, Anna finds
herself trapped in a
country not her own,
fighting against vile and
contemptuous accusations.
As Anna sets out to find
her friend's killer; she
discovers hard truths
about her friendships,
the slippery nature of
truth, and the ache of
young love. As she awaits
the judge's decree, it
becomes clear that
everyone around her
thinks she is not just
guilty, but dangerous.
When the truth comes out,
it is more shocking than
one could ever imagine...
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Forever Rumpole - a
hilarious new selection
of the very best Rumpole
stories by John Mortimer.
Horace Rumpole lives
alongside Mr Pickwick and
Bertie Wooster as one of
the immortal comic
characters in English
fiction. With his
curmudgeonly wit, his
literary allusions, his
disdain for personal
ambition and his lack of
pomposity, he has, in
the words of the Daily
Telegraph, 'ascended to
the pantheon of literary
immortals'. Forever
Rumpole contains seven
stories originally chosen
by the author himself as
his favourites, together
with a further seven from
the later period and the
opening chapters of a
Rumpole novel that Sir
John was working on when
he died in 2009. The book
also includes a
fascinating introduction
by Ann Mallalieu, fellow
lawyer and for many years
Sir John's colleague in
practice.
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Within the pages of very
rare books, some
centuries old, lie the
secrets of the
paranormal. Abby
Radwell's unusual psychic
talent has made her an
expert in such volumes -
and sometimes has taken
her into dangerous
territory. After a deadly
incident in the private
library of an obsessive
collector, Abby receives
a blackmail threat, and
rumours swirl that an old
alchemical text known as
The Key has reappeared on
the black market.
Convinced she needs an
investigator who can also
play bodyguard, she
hires Sam Coppersmith,
an expert in paranormal
crystals and amber.
Passion flares
immediately between them,
though neither entirely
trusts the other. But
when it comes to dealing
with a killer with
paranormal talents - and
a blackmailer who will
stop at nothing to obtain
an ancient alchemical
code - no one is safe.
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Kaylee can see death
coming. But how will she
face her own? Teen
banshee Kaylee and her
friends have barely
recovered from the
violent chaos unleashed
the last time their
school was invaded by
Netherworld entities when
she recieves the news she
s top of a reapear s list
and scheduled to die
within days! But
contemplating her own
impending demise will
have to wait, when it s
revealled that new maths
teach Mr. Beck s an
incubus who s just come
into his once-acentury
fertile period. And he s
looking for a few healthy
young girls capable of
carrying a non-human
infant to full term and
Kaylee s mortal best
friend Emma fits the bill
perfectly. But as Kaylee
fights to save her female
classmates, her dark
fate is closing in. And
as Kaylee s borrowed
lifeline nears its end,
and the men who love her
will do anything to save
her life. Even if it
costs their own.
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Leftovers, They had to
protect themselves
whatever the cost. From
the author of 'Such a
Pretty Girl' comes a
devastating novel of
desperation and revenge,
a shattering tale of the
tragedies that befall
young women who are
considered society's
leftovers.
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Reissue of the timeless
Higgins classic? Martin
Fallon was one of the
legendary heroes of the
Organisation. A fighter
in his teens, and a
leader north of the
border in his twenties.
By the age of forty he?d
spent nine years in
prison, turned to the
bottle and almost turned
his back on the gun. The
trouble is, the war
isn?t over. And everyone
wants Fallon back? The
Ulster Constabulary, who
still have a kings
ransom on his head. His
own colleagues, who use
the dirtiest trick in the
book to return their top
operator to the front
line. And a beautiful
woman named Anne Murray:
the only confessor to the
demons that a terrorist
like Fallon will carry to
the grave?
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Summer, 1936. The
writer, Josephine Tey,
joins her friends in the
holiday village of
Portmeirion to celebrate
her fortieth birthday.
Alfred Hitchcock and his
wife, Alma Reville, are
there to sign a deal to
film Josephines novel, A
Shilling for Candles,
and Hitchcock has one or
two tricks up his sleeve
to keep the holiday party
entertained - and expose
their deepest fears. But
things get out of hand
when one of Hollywoods
leading actresses is
brutally slashed to death
in a cemetery near the
village. The following
day, as fear and
suspicion take over in a
setting where nothing -
and no one - is quite
what it seems, Chief
Inspector Archie Penrose
becomes increasingly
unsatisfied with the way
the investigation is
ultimately resolved.
Several years later,
another horrific murder,
again linked to a
Hitchcock movie, drives
Penrose back to the scene
of the original crime to
uncover the shocking
truth.
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In the depths of a
freezing winter, Glasgow
finds itself at the mercy
of not one, but two
serial killers. This is
Detective Inspector
Lorimer's worst nightmare
and beyond anything he's
faced in his years on the
force. Can he find a link
between the brutal
slaying of prostitutes in
the back streets of the
city and the methodical
killing of several
unconnected businessmen?
When the latest victim
turns out to be a
prominent Scottish
politician, the media's
spotlight is shone on
Lorimer's investigation.
Psychologist and criminal
profiler Solly Brightman
is called in to help
solve the cases, but his
help may be futile as
they realise that someone
on the inside is leaking
confidential police
information. Meanwhile
two killers haunt the
snowy streets and Lorimer
must act fast, before
they strike again.
Evoking the gritty truth
of Glasgow like no other
writer, Alex Gray has
created in Lorimer the
most dynamic Scottish
detective since Rebus.
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Welcome to Fountain Reach
Ancient seat of the
Aubuchon dynasty Majestic
setting of the White
Stone tournament Alex
Verus's (not necessarily
reliable) reputation
attracts all sorts. Most
are plain bonkers. Yet
there's one invitation he
just can't refuse. At
Fountain Reach, Alex is
perfectly placed among
the noted and notorious
to figure out why
apprentices have been
vanishing. But the
tournament is a minefield
of ancient grudges and
new threats, and Alex
can't afford to miss a
trick as his elusive
adversary stays one step
ahead in this most
dangerous of games.
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Doncaster, and Jack
Carter is home for a
funeral - his brother
Frank's. Frank's car was
found at the bottom of a
cliff, with Frank
inside. He was not only
dead drunk but dead as
well. What could have
made sensible Frank down
a bottle of whisky and
get behind the wheel? For
Jack, his death doesn't
add up. So he decides to
talk to a few people, do
some sniffing around. He
does, but is soon told
to stop. By Gerald and
Les, his bosses from the
smoke. Not to mention the
men who run things in
Doncaster, who aren't
happy with Jack's little
holiday at home. They
want him back in London,
and fast. Now Frank was a
mild man and did as he
was told, but Jack's not
a bit like that.. .
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From the author of The
Kiss, a magical,
riveting story of doomed
love, set at the fall of
Russia's last Tsar. New
Years Day, St
Petersburg, 1917. Divers
pull the body of
Rasputin, the Mad Monk,
from the icy waters of
the Neva River. Within
hours, his daughters are
taken to the Royal
Palace, where the
Tsarina makes a shocking
request: would Masha,
eighteen, take on her
fathers role as
healer to the Tsarevitch
Alyosha? Two months
later, revolution has
toppled the Tsar, and
the entire family is
placed under house
arrest. Trapped together
in harsh conditions,
Masha and Alyosha find
solace in one
anothers company.
Two teenagers, with
radically different
experiences of the
Romanovs ill-fated
reign, create a private
realm of magic and love,
as Masha introduces
Alyosha to the wild and
beautiful land he will
never rule. ?A stupendous
work of historical
imagination? Peter Carey
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In 1959, British agents
masterminded the escape
of the Dalai Lama from
Tibet. Three years later,
Paul Chavasse is doing
it all over again? A
vitally important
scientist, holding
intelligence that could
shift the balance of
world power, is being
held in China. British
secret agent Paul
Chavasse, responsible
for extracting the Dalai
Lama from under Chinese
noses, is the perfect
man to slip through the
border, locate the
scientist and bring him
back to the West. But
Chavasses nerve,
stamina and loyalties
will all be tested as he
finds the Chinese are
reluctant to let their
asset go without a fight?
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Lovejoy has heard of more
nutters who have claimed
to be in possession of
the one, true Holy Grail
than he has had hot
dinners. He's not too
impressed with the
eccentric clergyman
making the latest claim -
especially when the good
vicar turns out to be one
of the finest forgers
Lovejoy has ever met. But
when the vicar and his
lady companion end up
dead it becomes clear
that someone else is
after the old man's
artefact. To solve the
mystery and protect a
precious piece of
history, Lovejoy puts
his life on the line and
acquires a surprising new
partner.
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Captivating and
evocative, Letter from a
Stranger will take you on
an unforgettable journey
from idyllic Connecticut
to exotic Istanbul to
war-torn Berlin then back
to the present day. When
award-winning film maker
Justine Nolan returns to
her beautiful childhood
home, she is intrigued
by an envelope she finds
in her absent
mothers post. But
the letter inside
contains a shocking
revelation. If genuine it
will change everything
she believes about her
familys recent
history, her mother and
her adored grandmother,
Gabriele. With the
support of her beloved
twin brother, Richard,
Justine resolves to
uncover the truth. To do
so she must travel to
Istanbul ? the teeming,
beguiling city on the
cusp of East and West. It
is a place which holds
its own secrets, leading
her to a fascinating man
who appears to know more
than he is prepared to
disclose. Yet even when
her quest succeeds,
Justine is faced with a
further mystery:
Gabrieles
background is not what it
seems. Justine is given a
book of memories in which
the real story unfolds,
taking her back to the
darkest days of European
history, with its
suffering and astonishing
acts of bravery. At the
heart of it lie the final
facts of Gabrieles
identity ? and her own.
The letter from a
stranger has brought her
not only to the truth
about her family but also
a chance to heal the
wounds of past betrayals,
to embrace a new love
and new life.
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Freddie Jackson thinks he
owns the underworld when
he gets out of prison.
He's done his time, made
the right connections,
and now he's ready to use
them. His wife Jackie
just wants her husband
home, but she's
forgotten the rows, the
violence, and the girls
Freddie can't leave
alone. Bitter,
resentful, and
increasingly unstable,
Jackie watches her life
crumble while her little
sister Maggie's star
rises. In love with
Freddie's cousin Jimmy,
Maggie is determined not
to end up like her
sister. Families should
stick together, but
behind closed doors,
jealousy and betrayal can
fester until everyone's
life is infected. And for
the Jacksons, loyalty
cannot win out. Because
in their world you can
trust no one. In their
world everyone is on the
take.
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There's plenty of drama,
of the wrong kind, when
a fading pop star wanting
to launch an acting
career at Bath's Theatre
Royal gets taken to
hospital with third
degree burns. In the best
theatrical tradition,
the show goes on, but
the agony turns to
murder. Bath's top
detective, Peter
Diamond, is on the case
- but for reasons he
can't understand, he
suffers a physical
reaction amounting to
phobia each time he goes
near the theatre. Before
he can find the killer,
he must face his own
demons...
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When Lovejoy witnesses a
car crash that turns out
to be a murder - with one
of his oldest
antique-dealer friends
the victim - he sets out
on a trail of revenge
that leaves him pondering
several bewildering
questions. Why did his
friend buy up a load of
junk furniture? What did
he want with an old
doctor's bag? Why was his
friend killed? Who was
trying to kill Lovejoy
and - most perplexing of
all - what the hell is he
doing potholing through
underground tunnels
dodging armed hit men?
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Thirteen years ago,
surgeon Edward Hammond
performed a life-saving
operation on Serbian
gangster Dragan Gazi. Now
Gazi is standing trial
for war crimes at the
international court in
The Hague. After Hammond
saved his life, Gazi's
men went on to slaughter
thousands in the Balkan
civil wars. Now, in
exchange for keeping
Hammond's dirty little
secret, Gazi's family
want a small favour: to
find the man who knows
what happened to Gazi's
money. But Italian
financier Marco Piravani
doesn't want to be found.
And no sooner has Hammond
tracked him down than he
disappears again. Hammond
has no choice but to set
off across Europe in
pursuit. In Blood Count,
every action has a
consequence and every
question must have an
answer. Only then might
Hammond be able to lay
the past to rest.
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CERN Institute,
Switzerland: a
world-renowned scientist
is found brutally
murdered with a
mysterious symbol seared
onto his chest.The
Vatican, Rome: the
College of Cardinals
assembles to elect a new
pope. Somewhere beneath
them, an unstoppable
bomb of terrifying power
relentlessly counts down
to oblivion.In a
breathtaking race against
time, Harvard professor
Robert Langdon must
decipher a labyrinthine
trail of ancient symbols
if he is to defeat those
responsible - the
Illuminati, a secret
brotherhood presumed
extinct for nearly four
hundred years, reborn to
continue their deadly
vendetta against their
most hated enemy, the
Catholic Church.
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Three days that could
change the world's
political landscape.. .A
man wakes up to find
himself lying on the
ground in a railway
station, his mind
stripped bare of all
recollection. He has no
idea how he got there. He
does not even know his
own name. Convinced he is
a drunken down and out,
it isn't until a
newspaper report about a
satellite launch catches
his eye that he begins to
suspect all is not what
it seems.. .The year is
1958, and America is
about to launch its first
satellite, in a
desperate attempt to
match the Soviet Sputnik
and regain the lead in
the space race. As Luke
Lucas gradually unravels
the mystery of his
amnesia, he realizes
that his fate is bound up
with that of the rocket
that stands ready on
launch pad 26B at Cape
Canaveral. And as he
relearns the story of his
life, he uncovers
long-kept secrets about
his wife, his best
friend and the woman he
once loved more than life
itself
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True Love's First Kill.
..Grace Divine made the
ultimate sacrifice to
cure the boy she loves -
Daniel. She gave her soul
to save him, but in the
process she lost her
beloved brother, Jude.
Desperate to find Jude,
Grace befriends Tal - a
newcomer to town who
promises that he can help
her be a hero. But as the
two grow closer, the
wolf grows in Grace, and
her relationship with
Daniel begins to crumble.
Unaware of the dark path
she is walking, Grace
becomes prideful in her
new abilities - not
realising that an old
enemy has returned and a
deadly trap is about to
be sprung.
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The untimely death of
Richard the Lionheart
left his nephew Arthur
and his younger brother
John in contest for the
throne of England.
Reluctantly the barons
chose John, and so began
years of rule by a
ruthless and greedy
tyrant. Yet despite his
reputation, John, still
manages to seduce the
young and beautiful
Isabella of Angoul?me.
But in taking her as his
bride he makes an enemy
for life. And in the
tempestuous years that
follow many men come to
believe that the House of
Anjou was tainted by the
Devil's blood, the
loathsome monarch was
himself Evil Incarnate,
the very Prince of
Darkness
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Ethan Muller is
struggling to establish
his reputation as a
dealer in the cut-throat
world of contemporary art
when he is alerted to a
once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity: in a
decaying New York slum,
an elderly tenant has
disappeared, leaving
behind a staggeringly
large trove of original
drawings and paintings.
Nobody can tell Ethan
much about the old man,
except that he came and
went in solitude for
nearly forty years, his
genius hidden and
unacknowledged. Despite
the fact that, strictly
speaking, the artwork
doesn't belong to him,
Ethan takes the challenge
and makes a name for the
old man - and himself.
Soon Ethan has to
congratulate himself on
his own genius: for
storytelling and
salesmanship. But
suddenly the police are
interested in talking to
him. It seems that the
missing artist had a
nasty past, and the
drawings hanging in the
Muller Gallery have begun
to look a lot less like
art and a lot more like
evidence. Sucked into an
investigation four
decades cold, Ethan will
uncover a secret legacy
of shame and death, one
that will touch
horrifyingly close to
home - and leave him
fearing for his own life.
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A witness. Such a simple
concept, and yet for
Dexter Morgan a perfectly
well disguised serial
killer, the possibility
of a witness is
terrifying. Dexter is
being followed,
manipulated and mimicked,
leading him to
appreciate that no one
like to have a double,
especially when his
doubles goal is to
kill him. Like the five
previously bestselling
novels in the Dexter
Series, in Double Dexter
Jeff Lindsay demonstrates
the witty, macabre
originality that has
propelled him to
international success.
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In Florida,
investigating the
disappearance of her
boss, scientist Sabrina
Gallows discovers a
deadly secret that her
employers will kill to
keep hidden. In
Washington, DC,
Congressional aide Jason
Brill suspects his boss'
friendship with big
business may be more of a
liability than an asset.
Together, Sabrina and
Jason are unwittingly
drawn into a sinister
plot that puts corporate
greed and corruption
above human life. Each
must race against time to
reveal the truth about
the shadowy, powerful
players that lie at the
heart of this unspeakable
evil.
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The stunning new thriller
from the bestselling
author of Velocity and
Relentless. In the
Colorado mountains
something miraculous
comes into the life of
Grady Adams, a strong,
gentle man whose past
experiences have
alienated him from the
modern world and driven
him to live in the wilds.
When he sees it, he
knows that one of
Nature's great mysteries
has been revealed to him.
He takes his friend Cammy
Rivers to bear witness to
the phenomenal presence.
As a scientist, she is
stunned and awed. She
emails photos to
colleagues in far places
to try and find a name
for the wonderful beings.
Before they know what is
happening, Homeland
Security has quarantined
the wilderness around
them and sent in assorted
scientists to track down
and 'neutralize' the
threat to the known
world. Grady and Cammy
aren't sticking around to
be mere witnesses to this
atrocity ? determined to
prevent it, they go on
the run, and a pursuit
of hair-raising suspense
is under way, with no
happy ending in prospect?
Breathless is a unique
and riveting thriller
from the master of
suspense.
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Every antique dealer is a
bit of a detective,
following clues to find
the trophies that pay the
rent, but when Lovejoy
takes on the job of
tracking down a pair of
duelling pistols so rare
that he's not even sure
actually exist, he needs
all the instincts of a
detective to pick his way
through an unsolved
crime.Along the way, he
becomes convinced that
the weapons do exist but
that they have fallen
into the hands of a vile
murderer. Locating the
ancient weapons seems
like the least of his
problems when Lovejoy
then finds himself
fighting for his life in
a duel to the death!
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As an amateur jockey,
Roland Britten was lucky;
as an accountant he was
zealous. He knew he was
on the hate list of
several fraudsters, but
never thought pen-pushers
got kidnapped - not from
a racecourse. Not after
winning the Cheltenham
Gold Cup. The identity of
the kidnappers unknown,
the reason behind
Britten's abduction is a
mystery. Then, with the
help of old school
headmistress Hilary
Pinlock, he escapes and
begins to use his
accountant's logic to
track his abductors down.
But they have other
ideas.
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The bestselling thriller
debut of 2011 ? the
apocalyptic conspiracy
thriller that has set the
world alight? REVELATION
OR DEVASTATION? The
certainties of the modern
world are about to be
blown apart by a three
thousand year-old
conspiracy nurtured by
blood and lies ? A man
throws himself to his
death from the oldest
inhabited place on the
face of the earth, a
mountainous citadel in
the historic Turkish city
of Ruin. This is no
ordinary suicide but a
symbolic act. And thanks
to the media, it is
witnessed by the entire
world. But few understand
it. For charity worker
Kathryn Mann and a
handful of others in the
know, it is what they
have been waiting for.
The cowled and secretive
fanatics that live in the
Citadel suspect it could
mean the end of
everything they have
built ? and they will
kill, torture and break
every law to stop that.
For Liv Adamsen, New
York crime reporter, it
begins the next stage of
a journey into the heart
of her own identity. And
at that journey's end
lies a discovery that
will change EVERYTHING ?
SANCTUS is an apocalyptic
conspiracy thriller like
no other ? it re-sets the
bar for excitement and
fascination, and marks
the debut of a major
talent in Simon Toyne.
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On his train back to
Scotland for a
well-earned rest,
Inspector Grant learns
that a fellow passenger,
one Charles Martin, has
been found dead. It looks
like a case of
misadventure - but Grant
is not so sure. Teased by
some enigmatic lines of
verse that the deceased
had apparently scrawled
on a newspaper, he
follows a trail to the
remote Outer Hebrides.
And though it is the end
of his holiday, it is
also the beginning of an
intriguing investigation
into the bizarre
circumstances shrouding
Charles Martin's death...
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Thomas Chaloner is
relieved to be summoned
home from Tangier. Back
in London, and reunited
with his new wife, he is
nonetheless exasperated
by the reason for his
return home. His master,
the Earl of Clarendon,
has recalled him to
investigate petty theft
from the construction
site of Claredon's
embarrassingly sumptuous
new house near
Piccadilly. However,
within hours of his
return, the Chaloner is
embroiled in rumours of
assassination, a stolen
corpse and a scheme to
frame the Queen for
treason. Gradually he
realises that all these
events have links to the
violence and corruption
he has witnessed on the
north African coast, and
all are rooted at the
heart of the capital's
establishment. Courtiers
vying for a share of the
riches to be had from
trading overseas are not
going to have their
ambitions thwarted by
anyone, least of all by
Chaloner.
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When he was twelve years
old, Adam Ryan went
playing in the woods with
his two best friends. He
never saw them again.
Their bodies were never
found, and Adam himself
was discovered with his
back pressed against an
oak tree and his shoes
filled with blood. He had
no memory of what had
happened. Twenty years
on, Rob Ryan - the child
who came back - is a
detective in the Dublin
police force. He's
changed his name. No one
knows about his past.
Then a little girl's body
is found at the site of
the old tragedy and Rob
is drawn back into the
mystery. Knowing that he
would be thrown off the
case if his past were
revealed, Rob takes a
fateful decision to keep
quiet but hope that he
might also solve the
twenty-year-old mystery
of the woods.
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It is a cold January
morning and Shetland lies
buried beneath a deep
layer of snow. Trudging
home, Fran Hunters
eye is drawn to a vivid
splash of colour on the
white ground, ravens
circling above. It is the
strangled body of her
teenage neighbour
Catherine Ross. As Fran
opens her mouth to
scream, the ravens
continue their deadly
dance... The locals on
the quiet island
stubbornly focus their
gaze on one man ? loner
and simpleton Magnus
Tait. But when police
insist on opening out the
investigation a veil of
suspicion and fear is
thrown over the entire
community. For the first
time in years,
Catherines
neighbours nervously lock
their doors, whilst a
killer lives on in their
midst.
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A man is booted out of
his home after his wife
discovers that the
sweat-smudged footprint
on the inside of his
windscreen doesn't match
her own. Teenage cousins,
drugged by summer, meet
with a reckoning in the
woods. A boy runs off to
the carnival after his
stepfather bites him in a
brawl. In the stories of
Wells Tower, families
fall apart and messily,
hilariously try to
reassemble themselves.
His characters -
marauding Vikings,
washed-up entrepreneurs,
and jobbing hacks on
local papers - are adrift
from the mainstream,
confused by contemporary
masculinity, angry and
aimless. Combining
electric prose with
compassion and dark wit,
this is a major debut.
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In a secret room in
Washington DC a man named
John Tanner is asked to
stake his life and those
of his wife and children
on a gamble whose goals
and risks no one will
fully reveal to him. In a
small suburban town,
where only the nicest
people live, an odd
assortment of men and
women gathered for a
momentous weekend. And
friends, neighbours,
everyone and anyone could
be part of a monstrous
conspiracy of
international evil. The
machinery has already
been set in motion. And
at stake is the very
existence of America and
the future of the entire
free world
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When Shetland detective
Jimmy Perez finds a body
in a hut used by
fishermen it seems to be
a straightforward case of
suicide. He recognizes
the victim ? a stranger
with amnesia who had
disrupted a local party
the night before his
death. Yet this is no
desperate act of anguish,
but the work of a cold
and calculating killer.
As Perez investigates,
he finds himself mired in
the hidden secrets of the
small Biddista community.
Then another body is
found. Perez knows he
must break the cycle
before another death
occurs. But this is a
crazy time of year when
night blurs into day and
nothing is quite as it
seems.
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In April came the rains.
In August came the heat.
In November came the
horror. Its paying
a return visit. The small
resort of Tranquillity,
Maine, seems like the
perfect spot for Dr
Claire Elliot to shelter
her adolescent son,
Noah, from the
temptations of the big
city and the traumatic
memory of his father's
death. Claire's hopeful
that she can earn the
trust of the town as she
builds a new practice.
But all her plans unravel
with the onset of winter,
when an outbreak of
teenage violence, far
more deadly than anything
she has encountered in
the city, erupts in the
local school. In trying
to find a medical
explanation for this
murderous epidemic,
Claire stumbles upon an
insidious evil which has
blighted the town's past
and threatens its future.
Terrified that Noah too
is at risk, she must
prove her theory before
everything she loves is
destroyed.
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Danny Buchanan is a top
Washington lobbyist who
once earned a vast
fortune serving the
interests of giant
corporations. Appalled by
the desperate poverty he
witnessed on his global
travels, he decides to
use his political genius
to help the world's poor.
With the aid of his loyal
assistant, the
attractive and committed
Faith Lockhart, Danny
works tirelessly and in
secret to redress the
balance of power. But
Robert Thornhill has
rather different ideas of
public service. A
ruthless top-ranking
veteran of convert CIA
activity, he discovers
the secret of Danny's
political influence and
is determined to destroy
him...A searing and
utterly suspenseful tale
of an embattled group of
men and women fighting
the forces of lethal
corruption that operates
at the heart of the
Secret State
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The impossible has
suddenly become possible.
Longevity, the key to
eternal life, is no
longer working and
Pincent Pharma, the
creators of the drug,
are frightened. Without
Longevity there is
death?..and where there
is death, there is fear.
A virus is sweeping the
country, violently
killing thousands with
nothing to stop it.
Looking for a scapegoat,
Pincent Pharma accuse the
Underground of
deliberately
contaminating a batch of
the drugs, and Peter and
Anna are hunted down. But
someone knows more than
they are letting on.
Someone holds the key to
revealing the
truth....the truth that
will change everything.
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Packed with ingenious
twists and relentless
excitement, and starring
two of the most
compelling heroes in
crime fiction, The
Killing Room is a major
thriller event: the best
novel yet from one of the
world's best suspense
writers. In the heart of
Philadelphia, Detectives
Byrne and Balzano are
faced with a particularly
horrific case that has
ominous echoes of an
earlier one for Byrne.
Someone is murdering
seemingly random people
and leaving their bodies
in deconsecrated churches
throughout the city. Very
soon the detectives
realise that the killer
has planned seven murders
- exactly - and time is
running out. But every
time they sense they're
getting closer it's
literally another dead
end. A very clever,
determined and
terrifyingly sadistic
mind is at work.
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1947 Ten-year-old Fay
Allen of Roswell, New
Mexico, witnesses the
fiery crash of an
extraordinary craft
unlike anything she's
ever seen... 2012 More
than sixty years later,
army engineer Tyler Locke
rescues Fay from a pair
of assassins. She says
they were after a piece
of wreckage she obtained
from the Roswell crash -
and she claims to know
secrets about that
incident that have never
previously been revealed.
Tyler is initially
sceptical, but after he
is kidnapped by a
mysterious band of
mercenaries, he comes to
believe that Roswell
holds the key to his and
his countrymen's
survival. And he realises
that there is a desperate
race against time for him
to uncover its secrets...
Fast-paced and thrilling,
The Roswell Conspiracy
draws on actual details
from the Roswell Incident
to create a page-turning
and thought-provoking
thriller.
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The Detective Meet Jo
Birmingham. Single mum,
streetwise detective,
and spiky as hell.
Recently promoted, she
is one of the few female
detective superintendents
on the Dublin police
force. But with a failed
marriage behind her and
two young sons at home,
trying to strike the
right work-life balance
has run her ragged. The
Serial Killer When Jo
identifies the missing
link in a chain of brutal
killings, she comes
under fierce scrutiny
from her male colleagues
in the force, especially
her boss and ex-husband
Dan Mason. But as the
body count rises, so do
the body parts. As fear
stalks the city, it soon
becomes obvious both to
the police and to the
media that a serial
killer is at large. A
Terrifying Game of Cat
and Mouse And so Jo
embarks on a terrifying
psychological journey to
find out who the killer
is, and how he is
choosing his victims.
Soon she is involved in a
deadly game in which
there are no rules.
Because the killer is
waiting for her
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The Minivers' enemies are
triumphant. Emily is a
prisoner, shut up in the
home of her ex-security
guard. Rosamund is alone
in the world and in
charge of both their
fates. With the evil
Madame hot on her heels,
her only hope is to find
the room where the secret
of the Minivers'
mysterious existence has
been hidden since their
birth. Or else the
Minivers lose their
throne, and their
kingdom, forever. The
third story in a
four-book series of
exciting adventures about
two great new characters.
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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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What would it take to
make you a killer? One
day a total stranger
walks into your home and
offers you $100k in cash.
The only condition is
that if you do, someone
will die. The twist is,
that person has killed
before. Would you take
the money? When he's not
working for the
government Donovan Creed,
ruthless assassin, runs
a special line in
contract killings. Right
now he's involved in a
crazed social experiment,
but he's finding it hard
to reconcile with his
conscience...
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The disturbing new
thriller from the king of
southern gothic. When he
was a prosecuting
attorney Penn Cage sent
hardened killers to death
row. But it is as mayor
of his hometown -
Natchez, Mississippi -
that Penn will face his
most dangerous threat.
Urged by old friends to
restore the town to its
former glory, Penn has
ridden into office on a
tide of support for
change. But in its quest
for new jobs and fresh
money, Natchez has
turned to casino
gambling. Five
fantastical steamboats
float on the river beside
the old slave market like
props from Gone With the
Wind. But one boat isn't
like the others. Rumour
has it that the Magnolia
Queen has found a way to
pull the big players from
Las Vegas. And with them
comes an unquenchable
taste for one thing:
blood sport, and the
dark vices that go with
it. When a childhood
friend of Penn's who
brings him evidence of
these crimes is brutally
murdered, the full
weight of Penn's failure
to protect this city hits
home. So begins his quest
to find the men
responsible. But it's a
hunt he begins alone,
for the local authorities
have been corrupted by
the money and power of
his hidden enemy. With
his family's life at
stake, Penn realizes his
only allies in his
one-man war are those
bound to him by blood or
honour.
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It is Halloween night,
and the local museum in
King's Lynn is preparing
for an unusual event -
the opening of a coffin
containing the bones of a
medieval bishop. But when
Ruth Galloway arrives,
she finds the museum's
curator lying dead beside
the coffin. Soon the
museum's wealthy owner
lies dead in his stables
too. These two deaths
could be from natural
causes but when he is
called in to investigate,
Nelson isn't convinced,
and it is only a matter
of time before Ruth and
DI Nelson cross paths
once more. When
threatening letters come
to light, events take an
even more sinister turn.
But as Ruth's friends
become involved, where
will her loyalties lie?
As her convictions are
tested, she and Nelson
must discover how
Aboriginal skulls, drug
smuggling and the mystery
of The Dreaming may hold
the answer to these
deaths, and their own
survival.
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Introducing the
extraordinary Maisie
Dobbs, private
investigator in 1920s
London. Her first case
combines a gripping
investigation with a
moving portrait of love
and war. It makes the
beginning of a wonderful
new detective series.
London, 1929. Having set
herself up as a private
investigator. Maisie
Dobbs is relieved when
her first client arrives.
Christopher Davenham
suspects that his wife is
conducting an affair. But
Maisie's investigations
confound her expectations
at every turn. And she is
forced by her findings to
revisit her own turbulent
experience of the Great
War. for Maisie, the
boundary between her
private and professional
life is suddenly blurred.
This is a world still
reeling in the aftermath
of war, a world in which
many secrets lie buried.
But Maisie is determined
to hunt down the truth.
however painful it maybe.
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Stewart Gilmour is back
in Stonemouth. After five
years in exile his
presence is required at
the funeral of patriarch
Joe Murstons, and
although the last time
Stu saw the Murstons he
was running for his life,
staying away now might
even be more dangerous
than turning up. An
estuary town north of
Aberdeen, Stonemouth,
with its five-mile beach,
can be beautiful on a
sunny day. On a bleak one
it can offer little more
than sea-fog, gangsters,
cheap drugs and a
suspension bridge
irresistible to suicides.
There supposed to be a
truce between Stewart and
the town's biggest crime
family, but its soon
clear that only he is
taking the promise
seriously. A drop into
the cold grey Stoun
begins to look like the
soft option, and as he
steps back into the
minefield of his past to
confront his guilt and
all that it has cost him,
Stu uncovers even darker
stories, and his
homecoming takes a more
lethal turn than ever he
had anticipated. Touch,
Funny, fast-paced and
touching, Stonemouth
cracks open adolescence,
love, brotherhood and
vengeance in a
rite-of-passage novel
like no other.
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Bessie Mundy, Alice
Burnham and Margaret
Lofty are three women
with one thing in common.
They are spinsters and
are desperate to marry.
Each woman meets a
smooth-talking stranger
who promises her a better
life. She falls under his
spell, and becomes his
wife. But marriage soon
turns into a terrifying
experience. In the dark
opening months of the
First World War, Britain
became engrossed by 'The
Brides in the Bath'
trial. The horror of the
killing fields of the
Western Front was the
backdrop to a murder
story whose elements were
of a different sort. This
was evil of an everyday,
insidious kind, played
out in lodging houses in
seaside towns, in the
confines of married life,
and brought to a
horrendous climax in that
most intimate of settings
- the bathroom. The
nation turned to a young
forensic pathologist,
Bernard Spilsbury, to
explain how it was that
young women were suddenly
expiring in their baths.
This was the age of
science. In fiction,
Sherlock Holmes applied a
scientific mind to
solving crimes. In
real-life, would
Spilsbury be as
infallible as the 'great
detective'?
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In a small village at the
foot of the Italian
Dolomites, the gardens
of a deserted farmhouse
have lain untouched for
decades. But the new
owner, keen for
renovations to begin, is
summoned urgently to the
house when his workmen
disturb a macabre grave.
Wild animals have done
their grisly work and the
human corpse is badly
decomposed. Then a
valuable signet ring is
found close by,
providing the first vital
clue. It leads
Commissario Guido
Brunetti right to the
heart of aristocratic
Venice, to a family
still grieving for their
abducted son.
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A young girl has
mysteriously disappeared
in Rome. As rain lashes
the ancient streets, two
men, Clemente and
Marcus, sit in a caf?
near the Piazza Navona
and pore over the details
of the case. They are
members of the ancient
Penitenzeri - a unique
Italian team, linked to
the Vatican, and trained
in the detection of true
evil. But they are not
alone. Sandra - a
brilliant forensics
expert with a tragic past
- is also working on the
case. When her path
crosses theirs, not only
do they make headway in
the case of the missing
girl, but they also
uncover a terrible secret
world, hidden in the
dark recesses of Rome. A
world that is as perfect
as it is evil...A
spellbinding literary
thriller from the author
of The Whisperer, this
novel offers a window
onto the hidden secrets
of Rome. Beautifully
capturing the atmosphere
of the city, it blends a
page-turning plot with
fascinating historical
fact.
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Masie Dobbs is a private
investigator like no
other. And her detective
skills are about to be
tested as never
before?London, 1930.
Joseph Waite is a man who
knows what he wants. As
one of Britain's
wealthiest men, the last
thing he needs is a
scandal. When his
daughter runs away from
home, he is determined
to keep the case away
from the Police and the
newspapers. So he turns
to a woman known for her
uniquely intuitive
approach to criminal
investigation, and for
her discretion - the
extraordinary Maisie
Dobbs. Waite's
instructions are to find
his daughter and bring
her home. But the task is
far from straightforward.
Maisie soon uncovers a
chilling link to a recent
murder case, and finds
herself revisiting the
tragedy of the Great War.
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From the outside, the
house was unremarkable.
Just one of many on an
ordinary, suburban
estate. But inside was a
different matter. With
pink ribbons and pink
walls, stuffed toy
animals everywhere and a
dining table laid out for
a tea party, it was a
doll's house. The doll
was sitting at the table.
Life size, with blonde,
pigtailed hair and rosy
red cheeks, dressed in
her best pink party
dress. Her finger and
thumb curled round the
handle of a fine china
teacup. An adult woman.
Covered in blood.
Eviscerated. Dead. In all
his years on the force,
DI Phil Brennan of the
Major Incident Squad has
never encountered a scene
like it. As he
investigates he uncovers
more bizarre revelations
and realises that he must
act fast; the next murder
has already been planned
and the victim is close
to home...
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In the early hours of a
Saturday morning, a body
is discovered in Piazza
de' Renzi. If it was just
a simple fall that killed
him, why is a senior
Carabiniere officer so
interested? Commissioner
Alec Blume is immediately
curious and the discovery
of the dead man's
notebooks reveals that
there is a great deal
more at stake than the
unfortunate death of a
down-and-out... What
secrets did he know that
might have made him a
target? What is the
significance of the
Galleria Orpiment? And
why are the authorities
so intent on blocking
Blume's investigations?
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One winters
afternoon, Sonia opens
the door of her beautiful
riverside home to
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When a man is discovered
dead by poisoning in his
empty home his beautiful
wife, Ayane,
immediately falls under
suspicion. All clues
point to Ayane being the
logical suspect, but how
could she have committed
the crime when she was
hundreds of miles away?
As Tokyo police detective
Kusanagi tries to unpick
a seemingly unrelated
sequence of events he
finds himself falling for
Ayane. When his judgement
becomes dangerously
clouded his assistant
must call on an old
friend for help; it will
take a genius to unravel
the most spectacular web
of deceit they have ever
faced... SALVATION OF A
SAINT is a magnificently
complex and page-turning
thriller starring
international crime
fiction's most enigmatic
sleuth.This is essential
reading for all fans of
exceptional crime
fiction.
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THE INTERNATIONAL
BESTSELLER Her name was
Henrietta Lacks, but
scientists know her as
HeLa. She was a poor
Southern tobacco farmer
whose cancer cells ?
taken without her
knowledge ? became one of
the most important tools
in medicine. The first
?immortal? human tissue
grown in culture, HeLa
cells were vital for
developing the polio
vaccine; uncovered
secrets of cancer,
viruses, and the effects
of the atom bomb; helped
lead to important
advances like in vitro
fertilization, cloning,
and gene mapping; and
have been bought and sold
by the billions. Yet
Henrietta herself remains
virtually unknown,
buried in an unmarked
grave. Now Rebecca Skloot
takes us on an
extraordinary journey in
search of Henrietta's
story, from the
?coloured? ward of Johns
Hopkins Hospital in the
1950s to East Baltimore
today, where her
children and
grandchildren live, and
struggle with the legacy
of her cells. Full of
warmth and questing
intelligence,
astonishing in scope and
impossible to put down,
The Immortal Life of
Henrietta Lacks captures
the beauty and drama of
scientific discovery, as
well as its human
consequences.
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she looked up at
the terraced house, with
the closed shutters and
the big room at the end
of the long unlit
corridor where the man
who smiled too much did
his work. She climbed the
steps and knocked on the
doo.? Dublin 1934:
Detective Stefan
Gillespie arrests a
German doctor and
encounters Hannah Rosen
desperate to find her
friend Susan, a Jewish
woman who had become
involved with a priest,
and has now disappeared.
When the bodies of a man
and woman are found
buried in the Dublin
mountains, it becomes
clear that this case is
about more than a missing
person. Stefan and Hannah
trace the evidence all
the way across Europe to
Danzig. In a strange city
where the Nazi Party are
gaining power, Stefan
and Hannah are inching
closer to the truth and
soon find themselves in
grave danger.
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The twenty-first book to
feature the classic
crime-solving detective,
Chief Inspector Wexford.
Searching for truffles in
a wood, a man and his
dog unearth something
slightly less savoury - a
human hand. The corpse,
as Chief Inspector
Wexford is informed
later, has lain buried
for ten years or so,
wrapped in a purple
cotton sheet. The post
mortem can not reveal the
precise cause of death.
The only clue to solving
this mysterious murder is
a crack in one of the
dead man's ribs. Wexford
knows it will be a
difficult job to identify
the dead body. Although
it covers a relatively
short period of time,
the police computer
stores a long list of
missing persons. People
disappear at an alarming
rate - hundreds each day.
And then, only about
twenty yards away from
the woodland burial site,
in the cellar of a
disused cottage, another
body is found. The
detection skills of
Wexford, Burden and the
other investigating
officers of the
Kingsmarkham Police Force
are tested to the utmost
to discover whether the
murders are connected and
to track down whoever is
responsible.
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In this classic thriller,
Ira Levin imagines Dr
Josef Mengeles
nightmarish plot to
restore the Third Reich.
Alive and hiding in South
America, thirty years
after the end of the
Second World War,
Mengele gathers a group
of former colleagues for
a sinister project - the
creation of the Fourth
Reich. Ageing Nazi hunter
Yakov Lieberman is
informed of the plot but
before he hears the
evidence, his source is
killed... Spanning
continents and inspired
by true events, what
follows is one of Levins
most masterful tales,
both timeless and
chillingly plausible.
Praise for Ira Levin &
Levin is the Swiss
watchmaker of the
suspense novel.
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Thrown out of the SAS for
insubordination, Gord
Brown now lives in
disillusioned exile on a
failing salmon farm in
the Scottish highlands.
Yet to the three
Guatemalan Indians who
track him down, he
represents the last hope
of freedom. They have
come to recruit a
fighting man to lead an
uprising against the
brutal military
dictatorship which is
killing their people.
Gord flies with them to
Cuba, then on with a
small band of men to a
rough landing strip in
the rainforest of
Guatemala. As the ragged
army marches through the
jungle and across the
hight mountains towards
Guatemala City, a
hopeless dream becomes a
burning reality. But the
forces pitted against
them are formidable.
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A three-year-old girl is
snatched from a beach.
Nobody heard a sound.
Nobody saw a thing. Rosie
Gilmour's much-needed
holiday is cut short when
the abduction story
breaks and she's sent to
cover it. Her instincts
tell her something's
wrong: such a crime must
surely have witnesses,
and the girl's mother's
story doesn't add up.
With a child's life at
stake, Rosie must dig
deeper into the seedy
depths of the area,
making dangerous enemies.
As she closes in on the
truth, she realises the
penalty for missing this
particular deadline could
be her own demise.
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Mickey Bolitar's year
can't get much worse.
After witnessing his
father's death and
sending his mom to rehab,
he's forced to live with
his estranged uncle Myron
and switch high schools.
A new school comes with
new friends and new
enemies, and lucky for
Mickey, it also comes
with a great new
girlfriend, Ashley. For
a while, it seems like
Mickey's train-wreck of a
life is finally improving
- until Ashley vanishes
without a trace.
Unwilling to let another
person walk out of his
life, Mickey follows
Ashley's trail into a
seedy underworld that
reveals that this
seemingly sweet, shy
girl isn't who she
claimed to be. And
neither was Mickey's
father. Soon, Mickey
learns about a conspiracy
so shocking that it makes
high school drama seem
like a luxury - and
leaves him questioning
everything about the life
he thought he knew. With
this new series, Coben
introduces an entirely
new generation of fans to
the masterful plotting
and wry humour that have
made him an
award-winning,
internationally
bestselling author.
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Melanie Stryder refuses
to fade away. The earth
has been invaded by a
species that takes over
the minds of their human
hosts while leaving their
bodies intact, and most
of humanity has
succumbed. Wanderer, the
invading 'soul' who has
been given Melanie's
body, knew about the
challenges of living
inside a human: the
overwhelming emotions,
the too-vivid memories.
But there was one
difficulty Wanderer
didn't expect: the former
tenant of her body
refusing to relinquish
possession of her mind.
Melanie fills Wanderer's
thoughts with visions of
the man Melanie loves -
Jared, a human who still
lives in hiding. Unable
to separate herself from
her body's desires,
Wanderer yearns for a man
she's never met. As
outside forces make
Wanderer and Melanie
unwilling allies, they
set off to search for the
man they both love.
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Battle and burial are
built into the history of
Lansdown Hill, so it is
no great shock when part
of a skeleton is
unearthed there. But
Peter Diamond, Bath's
Head of CID, can't
ignore the fresh corpse
found close to the folly
known as Beckford's
Tower. The hill becomes
the setting for one of
the most puzzling cases
he has investigated,
involving golf,
horseracing, Civil War
re-enactment and the
Cyrillic alphabet.
Inevitably, Diamond
butts heads with the
group of vigilantes who
call themselves the
Lansdown Society,
discovering in the
process that his boss
Georgina is a member. She
resolves to sideline
Diamond by sending him to
Bristol and handing the
skeleton investigation to
his deputy, Keith
Halliwell. Fortunately
matters don't pan out as
Georgina plans.
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Who killed Dr Harvey
Burdell? When the
brutally stabbed and
nearly decapitated body
of a society dentist is
found in his town house
at 31 Bond Street in
lower Manhattan, this is
the question that grips
America for months. All
the evidence points to
his elegant and
mysterious lodger and
housekeeper, Emma
Cunningham, who is
immediately put under
arrest and soon charged
with murder. A conviction
is sure to catapult
flamboyant district
attorney Abraham Oakey
Hall into the mayor's
seat. But one formidable
obstacle stands in his
way: the defence attorney
Henry Clinton who risks
his whole career to help
prove the vulnerable
widow's innocence.
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At the end of a harrowing
campaign, centurions
Marco and Cato are
sailing for Rome. Their
journey is interrupted
off the coast of Crete
when an Earthquake
strikes. The transport
ship is severely damaged,
and they are forced to
limp ashore. The province
is in chaos. Worse still
the slave population has
taken the opportunity to
revolt. Against a strong
legion, the renegades
would have little chance,
but the garrison troops
are of poor quality. As
Roman men and weaponry
fall to the enemy, the
balance of power is in
danger of switching.
Marco and Cato face a
rebellion that could
ignite an uprising across
the Empire. Against them
stands a powerful leader:
Ajax. A gladiator who has
fearlessly faced death
daily, Ajax i driven by
a desire for vengeance
both political and
personal. And he may
represent a force to
great fro Rome to
overcome.
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When an elderly woman is
shot in what appears to
be a tragic accident,
Shetland detective Jimmy
Perez is called to
investigate the mystery.
The sparse landscape and
the emptiness of the sea
have bred a fierce and
secretive people. As
Jimmy looks to the
islanders for answers,
he finds instead two
feuding families whose
envy, greed and
bitterness have lasted
generations. Then
theres another
murder and, as the
spring weather shrouds
the island in
claustrophobic mists,
Jimmy must dig up old
secrets to stop a new
killer from striking
again.
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Harvard professor Robert
Langdon receives an
urgent late-night phone
call while on business in
Paris: the elderly
curator of the Louvre has
been brutally murdered
inside the museum.
Alongside the body,
police have found a
series of baffling
codes.As Langdon and a
gifted French
cryptologist, Sophie
Neveu, begin to sort
through the bizarre
riddles, they are
stunned to find a trail
that leads to the works
of Leonardo Da Vinci -
and suggests the answer
to a mystery that
stretches deep into the
vault of history. Unless
Langdon and Neveu can
decipher the labyrinthine
code and quickly assemble
the pieces of the puzzle,
a stunning historical
truth will be lost
forever.
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