France, 1964. The man was standing on the bottom of the therapy pool in the Clos du Lac sanitarium, his white cotton shirt billowing

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Ageing actress Madeline Ashton (Meryl Streep) is persuaded to take an elixir which brings her eternal life. Her rival for her husband Ernest's (Bruce Willis) affections, Helen Sharp (Goldie Hawn), has taken the same potion, & when the two of them try to ...

Detective Inspector Geraldine Steel relocates to London to take on another thrilling murder investigation...

While Geraldine

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In Death Comes Knocking, Graham Bartlett & Peter James have written a gripping account of the citys most challenging cases, taking the reader from crime scenes & incident rooms to the morgue, & introducing some of the real-life detectives who inspired Peter Jamess characters.

Whether its the murder of a dodgy nightclub owner & his family in Sussexs worst non-terrorist mass murder or the race to find the abductor of a young girl, tracking down the antique trades most notorious knocker boys or nailing an audacious ring of forgers, hunting for a cold-blooded killer who executed a surfer or catching a pair who kidnapped a businessman, leaving him severely beaten, to die on a hillside, the authors skilfully evoke the dangerous inside story of policing, the personal toll it takes & the dedication of those who risk their lives to keep the public safe.

This paperback book has 308 pages & measures: 19.7 x 12.9 x 2cm



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It’s been an enjoyable & murder-free time for Judith, Suzie & Becks – AKA the Marlow Murder Club – since the events of last year. The most exciting thing on the horizon is the upcoming wedding of Marlow grandee, Sir Peter Bailey, to his nurse, Jenny Page. Sir Peter is having a party at his grand mansion on the river Thames the day before the wedding, & Judith & Co. are looking forward to a bit of free champagne. But during the soiree, there’s a crash from inside the house, & when the Marlow Murder Club rush to investigate, they are shocked to find the groom-to-be crushed to death in his study. The study was locked from the inside, so the police don’t consider the death suspicious. But Judith disagrees. As far as she's concerned, Peter was murdered! & it’s up to the Marlow Murder Club to find the killer before he or she strikes again…   Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9780008476519 •†Author:   Robert Thorogood  •†Publisher:  HQ •†Format:   Paperback •†Pages:† 384 •†Dimension... ...

On a bitterly cold March night in Montreal, forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan is exhuming the remains of a nun proposed for sainthood in the grounds of an old church. Just hours later, Tempe is called to the scene of an horrific arson. A young family has perished, & there seems to be no witness, no motive, no explanation. From the charred remains of the inferno, to a trail of sinister cult activity & a terrifying showdown during an ice storm, Tempe faces a nerve-shattering test of both her forensic expertise & her instinct for survival... ...

Early one morning Guido Brunetti, Commissario of the Venice Police, confronts a grisly sight when the body of a young man is fished out of a fetid Venetian canal. All the clues point to a violent mugging, but for Brunetti, robbery seems altogether too convenient a motive. Then something very incriminating is discovered in the dead man's flat
- something which points to the existence of a high-level cabal
- & Brunetti becomes convinced that somebody, somewhere, is taking great pains to provide a ready-made solution to the crime.

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The protagonist, Brian Durston, is a bright young hotshot who left a big New York ad agency, & the fast track to mega bucks, to join his uncle's medium-sized firm. Why? His uncle promised to turn over his stake in the agency. The future looks bright until Brian discovers his uncle slumped on his desk with a bullet through his brain. ...

Crime fiction packed with Italian flavour, Death in August is the first Inspector Bordelli mystery set in 1960s' Florence
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Death in Bordeaux is the first in a trilogy that will take Lannes through the war & up to the grisly, but inevitable purge of those found guilty of German collaboration. However, this is also a novel that explores the moral complexity of France's time of trial, & the reasons why it has taken its people so long to emerge from the shadow of war. ...