1857. Wily Jeremy Oxley, a conman, thief & murderer, is being escorted on the LNWR train to London with the hangman. But he has one last ace up his sleeve, a beautiful & ruthless accomplice willing to do anything to save her lover, including murder. Railway Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck learns that Oxley, his arch nemesis, has escaped & with dark memories of their shared past, he must fulfil his duty, at whatever the cost. With faithful Victor Leeming at his side, Colbeck must use all his skills to track his elusive enemy. But could he finally have met his match? ...

Will Hopkirk was all set to live the rest of his life with Diaglito's White Mountain Apaches, along with Sonseray, the Apache woman he married. But Diaglito was devastated when Tobias Hatch cold-bloodedly killed his twelve-year-old son, Choate. Nevertheless, Hophirk persuaded the war chief to use the white man's court to give him justice. ...

Like the death of wealthy merchant Matthew Webb, whose blood is spilled on the Strand one night, & the killing of an apparent vagrant during a royal procession. Intelligence agent Thomas Chaloner soon realises that both murders point in one direction: upwards, towards the great & supposedly good whose wily ploys seep from the sewers of Spitalfields to the palace of White Hall. Blood on the Strand weaves a delightful, chilling, labyrinthine and always intriguing web around Restoration London, breathing life
- both high & low
- into the past.

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Newspaper editor Nick Condon (James Cagney) is based in Tokyo, & puts his life & those of others at risk when he runs a story revealing Japan's plans to conquer China. When the reporter who wrote the story (Wallace Ford) & his wife (Rosemary de Camp) are both murdered, Condon teams up with a beautiful secret agent (Sylvia Sidney) to expose corruption in the Japanese government. ...

Blood on the Thistle is the tale of how a once proud Scottish family was devastated by war, & how the effects continued to ripple through time & generations. Until, a century later, the threads of this remarkable family are finally drawn together again, in a book that is at once a superb documentary account & a moving tribute to a generation. ...

It is Scotl&, 1020 AD & King Malcolm II is lying on his death bed...

When the most violent family makes a claim

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After his last case, among the gentle hills & lush vineyards of Piedmont, Inspector Zen finally receives the order he has been dreading all his professional life. His next posting is to Sicily, home of the Mafia. He is welcomed by the gruesome discovery of an unidentified, decomposed corpse sealed in a railway wagon on a disused siding. Set against the backdrop of the 3000 year old city of Catania, in the shadow of the smouldering volcano of Etna, Blood Rain finds Aurelio Zen at his most desperate & driven. This audiobook has 8 CDs & has a runtime of 720 minutes. ...

There are no laws in Saba's world. When her twin brother is stolen, she pursues his captors through a wild, wasted l&. She must become a warrior to survive. On this dangerous road she can become a warrior to survive. On this dangerous road she can trust no one. Not even the handsome thief who saves her life
- & steals her heart.
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Details:
Günter Koschorrek wrote his illicit diary on any scraps of paper he could lay his hands on, storing them

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Set at the time of the Russian Revolution, the end of a centuries old dynasty, the rise of the Bolsheviks sent shockwaves around the world. This is the story of one man who was there. It's real history
- about the riches & excesses, the glory of the Russian nobility, Nicholas & Alexandra, their hemophiliac son, Alexei, notorious Rasputin, Lenin & Trotsky who ruled from palaces where the Czars had once danced till dawn. The man was real too, his name was Arthur Ransome. He was a writer, accused of being a spy, perhaps even a double agent, & he left his wife & beloved daughter & fell in love with Russia & a Russian woman, Evgenia. Fictionalising history & blending it with real life, part i is told as a fairy tale. Wise & foolish kings, princesses, enchantresses (characters more suited to fairy tale than reality), wishes & magic, Russia with its vast cold plains & mighty cities, its riches & poverty, all play a part in the downfall of the Czars & rise of the new order. Part ii is about betrayal
- Ransome the spy, bleak & threatening. Part iii is a love story, a fairy tale, ending
- of Ransome's love for his daughter, Tabitha, & for Evgenia.


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