Wilkie Collins's fifth novel, The Dead Secret explores the relationship between a fallen woman, her illegitimate daughter & the recovery of a hidden secret. Set in rugged Cornwall, the novel blends romance with Gothic drama, & in characterization & setting, clearly anticipates the qualities of Collins's next novel, The Woman in White. ...

Kate Mc Bain (Shannon Tweed) is a beautiful & dedicated cop who will do anything to bring a criminal to justice, even if that



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Chilling horror from the makers of ' Saw'. Mary Shaw (Judith Roberts) was a popular entertainer until she was accused of murdering a young boy. After she was captured by the vengeful townspeople her tongue was cut out before she was mercilessly killed and ...

Russia in the 1840s. There is a stranger in town, & he is behaving oddly. The unctuous Pavel Chichikov goes around the local estates buying up 'dead souls'. These are the papers relating to serfs who have died since the last census, but who remain on the record & still attract a tax dem&. Chichikov is willing to relieve their owners of the tax burden by buying the titles for a song. What he does not say is that he then proposes to take out a huge mortgage against these fictitious citizens & buy himself a nice estate in Eastern Russia. Will he get away with it? Who will rumble him? Does this narrative contain a deeper message about Russia itself or the spiritual health of humanity? There is much interest & some suspense in considering these issues, but the real pleasure of this story lies elsewhere. It is an enjoyable comic romp through a retarded part of a backward country, a picaresque series of grotesque portraits, situations & conversations described with Gogolian humour based mainly on hyperbole. This is, quite simply, the funniest book in the Russian language before the twentieth century. ...

Stalking a poisoner at the local zoo, Inspector John Rebus comes across a paedophile taking pictures of children. When the social

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Two girls meet by chance on Londons Hampstead Heath
- well-mannered & smartly dressy Verity & dishevelled & grubby Ruby.




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Sookie comes to the rescue of a naked, amnesiac vampire
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IN AN EVIL WORLD, EVERYTHING IS FOR SALE? The body of a missing teenager is dredged from the seabed off the Sussex coast, missing vital organs. Soon after, a further two more bodies are found... Caitlin Beckett, a fifteen-year-old in Brighton will die if she does not receive an urgent transplant. When the health system threatens to let her down her mother takes drastic action & goes to an online broker in black-market organs. The broker can provide what she wants, but it will come at a price. As Superintendent Roy Grace investigates the recovered bodies, he unearths the trail of a gang of child traffickers operating from Eastern Europe. Soon Grace & his team will find themselves in a race against time to save the life of a young street kid, while a desperate mother will stop at nothing to save her daughters life... ? James manages to add enough surprises & drama that by the end you're rooting for the police & really don?t know if they will finally get their men? Sunday Express ? Another of James? sophisticated, complicated & well-informed snap-shots of the Brighton police at work? His research is obviously careful. Its well worth the effort, as the result is a superior thriller? Literary Review ...

Sookie Stackhouse is a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She's quiet, keeps to herself, & doesn't get out much
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On 1st May 1915, the luxury ocean liner Lusitania sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool. Her passengers were anxious. ...