Journalist Jerry Markham has been found dead, hidden in a boat by the marina.

Detective Inspector Willow Reeves is drafted

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From New York Times best-selling author, Kim Harrison, comes the first book in her brilliant Hollows series; packed with the perfect balance of wry humour & thrilling action, which will delight fans of thrillers & fantasy alike. Rachel Morgan lives in a world where a bioengineered virus wiped out most of the world's human population ? exposing the existence of supernatural communities that had long lived alongside humanity. Its her job as a white witch working for Inderland Security to protect the humans from things that go bump in the night. For the last five years Rachel has been tracking down lawbreaking Inderlanders in modern-day Cincinnati, but now she wants to leave & start her own agency. Her only problem: no one quits the I.S. Marked for death, Rachel will have to fend off fairy assassins & homicidal werewolves armed to the teeth with deadly curses. Unless she can appease her former employers by exposing the city's most prominent citizen as a drug lord, she might just be a dead witch walking. ...

Against the backdrop of Euro '96 & the soundtrack of Oasis, a summer of terror begins. Sal Kilkenny has two very frightened clients on her hands. Debbie Gosforth is the victim of a deranged stalker while teenager Luke Wallace is afraid he might be a murderer as he has, allegedly, stabbed his best friend Ahktar Khan to death. & then the IRA bomb Manchester's Arndale Centre & the city goes up in smoke... Praise for Cath Staincliffe:' Gritty, intelligent, humane & involving' Big Issue' Deftly organised, with several surprising twists. ' Evening Standard' Has her finger on the pulse of her city & that rare ability to write about love, motherhood & friendship without sentimentality' Val Mc Dermid' Modest, compassionate... a solid ingenious plotter with a sharp eye for domestic detail' Literary Review' Complex & satisfying' The Sunday Times'about as good as the British private eye novel gets' Time Out ...

The two boys never fitted in. Seventeen, the worst age, nothing to do but smoke weed; at least they have each other.

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Double-bill of classic espionage action, starring Richard Johnson as British adventurer Bulldog Drummond. In ' Deadlier Than the Male' (1966), when a group of seductively beautiful women start committing a series of political assassinations, Bulldog Drummond is called in to investigate. Before long Drummond has determined that his old rival Carl Petersen (Nigel Green) is responsible, & the scene is set for a taut confrontation in Petersen's isloated castle. ' Some Girls Do' (1969) sees Drummond trying to track down Petersen (James Villiers) before he can destroy a top-secret experimental fighter aircraft being tested by the British military. What Drummond hasn't reckoned with are Petersen's gang of deadly female androids who will stop at nothing to protect their master. ...

In the far northern reaches of the planet a rare breed of extreme fishermen hunt the Bering Sea. Adventure is their call, crab is their prey & a one hundred million dollar plunder is their reward. This season, two new skippers, Elliott Neese & Scott Campbell, join the veteran fleet & battle lines are drawn. ...

The complete fourth series of the Discovery Channel programme which follows a group of fishermen who battle 40-foot waves, freezing temperatures & a nearly 100-percent injury rate as they fish for crab off the Alaskan coast on the icy Bering Sea. It's one of the world's most dangerous jobs but also one of the most lucrative, offering tens of thousands of dollars for a few days' work. Approx run time is 720 mins ...

This year sees a fracture in the Bering Sea brotherhood. Old allies become mortal enemies & fishing turns personal. Last season 8 men lost their lives to the Bering Sea. This year catastrophe strikes at the heart of one of out featured boats. Jump on board for an awe-aspiring ride as we follow the crews of Deadliest Catch as they are pushed to the limits of their mental & physical endurance in the most exciting season to date. ...

Deadliest Catch takes you deep into the world of the Bering Sea as we follow seven vessels & their crews through the two most brutal fishing seasons on the planet: the King Crab season & the Opilio Crab season. Forty-foot waves, hurricane winds, sleep deprivation, & operating heavy machinery on a pitching deck, are just a few reasons the injury rate is one hundred percent. The rugged adventurers who fish these waters have the mindset of pirates
- high risk for high reward
- & putting life & limb on the line is just part of the job. The crabbing season kicks off in October & Captain Sig Hansen of the Northwestern, a 30-year veteran & a third generation fisherman, will match his skills against his old rivals, Phil Harris of the Cornelia Marie, Johnathan & Andy Hillstrand of the Time Bandit, & Captain Keith Colburn of the Wizard. The fleet will push hundreds of miles out to sea & fish 400 feet deep in search of the prized crustaceans. The captains will strategise, & the crews will be pushed to their limits of mental & physical endurance as they repeatedly drop & haul the 700-pound crab pots. Before the season is out, the men will face down huge storms, severe injury, a ticking clock
- & each other
- to bring in the highly lucrative crab harvest.



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Sig Hansen has been a star of the Channel 4's The Deadliest Catch from the pilot to the present. Seen in over 150 countries, the show attracts more than 49 million viewers per season, making it one of the most successful series in the history of cable TV. With its daredevil camera work, unpredictably dangerous weather, & a setting as unforgivable & unforgettable as the frigid Bering Sea, The Deadliest Catch is unlike anything else on television. But the weatherworn fishermen of the fishing vessel Northwestern have stories that don't come through on TV. For Sig Hansen & his brothers, commercial fishing is as much a part of their Norwegian heritage as their names. Descendents of the Vikings who roamed & ruled the northern seas for centuries, the Hansens' connection to the sea stretches from Alaska to Seattle & all the way to Norway. & after twenty years as a skipper on the commercial fishing vessel the Northwestern -- which was his father's before him -- Sig has lived to tell the tales. To be a successful fisherman, you need to be a mechanic, navigator, welder, painter, carpenter, & sometimes, a firefighter. To be a successful fisherman year after year, you need to be a survivor. This is the story of a family of survivors; part memoir & part adventure tale, North by Northwestern brings readers on deck, into the dockside bars & into the history of a family with a common destiny. Built around a gripping tale of a deadly shipwreck like The Perfect Storm, North by Northwestern is the multi-generational tale of the Hansen family, a clan of tough Norwegian-American fishermen who, through the popularity of The Deadliest Catch, have become modern folk-heroes. ...