Cass Lynch has achieved the post of third officer aboard her beloved Norwegian sail-training ship, Sorlandet.

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Five years after Charles II's triumphant return to London there is growing mistrust of his extravagant court & of corruption among his officials
- & when a cart laden with gunpowder explodes outside the General Letter Office, it is immediately clear that such an act is more than an expression of outrage at the inefficiency of the postal service. As intelligencer to the Lord Chamberlain, Thomas Chaloner cannot understand why a man of known incompetence is put in charge of investigating the attack while he is diverted to make enquiries about the poisoning of birds in the King's aviary in St James's Park. Then human rather than avian victims are poisoned, & Chaloner knows he has to ignore his master's instructions & use his own considerable wits to defeat an enemy whose deadly tentacles reach into the very heart of the government: an enemy who has the power & expertise to destroy anyone who stands in the way.. .
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Shares the sights, the sounds, the excitement, & the knowledge which fuelled the authors passion for Spain & the bullfight. This book contains some of his finest writing, inspired by the intense life, as well as the inevitable death, of those hot, violent afternoons. ...

Read by Boyd Gaines. Death in the Afternoon is an impassioned look at bullfighting by one of its true aficionados. It reflects Hemingway's conviction that bullfighting was more than mere sport & reveals a rich source of inspiration for his art. The unrivalled drama of bullfighting, with its rigorous combination of athleticism & artistry, & its requisite display of grace under pressure, ignited Hemingway's imagination. Seen through his eyes, bullfighting becomes a richly choreographed ballet, with performers who range from awkward amateurs to masters of great elegance & cunning. Death in the Afternoon is also a deeper contemplation of the nature of cowardice & bravery, sport & tragedy, & is enlivened throughout by Hemingway's sharp commentary on life & literature. ...

Occupied Paris, 1944. A swastika crowns the Eiffel Tower, Nazis march through the streets & in the dark heart of the city, a madman is at work? At a chic Right Bank address, a horrific pile of dismembered bodies is discovered. The property's owner, the well-to-do Dr Petiot, immediately becomes the prime suspect, but now he has vanished without a trace. As the police delve into the doctor's past, a disturbing history of violence & corruption is uncovered. What seems like a cut-&-dried case takes an unexpected turn. Is Petiot a sadistic killer or a hero of the Resistance? & who exactly are his victims? This book is a fascinating true account of a case that gripped wartime Paris, David King draws extensively on new sources to paint a chilling portrait of a murderer whose crimes devastated a city already in the grip of evil. ...

A full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of an Agatha Christie story. On a flight from Le Bourget to Croydon, on which Hercule Poirot is an apprehensive passenger, a woman is found dead. A doctor on board is inclined to put it down to a wasp-sting, but Poirot suspects that a poisoned dart is the real cause
- &, perhaps rather too conveniently, a blow pipe is dicovered stuffed down the back of his seat. Clearly the murder can only have been committed by one of the passengers or crew on the plane. But which one? Poirot, Japp & M. Fournier of the Surete will make their way through shoals of red herrings before reaching an utterly unexpected conclusion, Audiobooks, 2 CD, 85 minutes.
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Theo Osborne is thanking her lucky stars. After two disastrous housesitting incidents in which she unwillingly became embroiled in murder & mayhem, she is only too happy to have a bit of time to concentrate on her blossoming relationship with DI Phil Hollis. The couple has retreated to Phil ...

Market day in the ancient town of St Denis in south-west France. EU hygiene inspectors have been swooping on Frances markets, while the locals hide contraband cheese in their houses & call the Brussels bureaucrats Gestapo.

Police Captain Bruno Courreges supports their resistance. Although, here in what was once Vichy France, words like Gestapo & resistance still carry a profound resonance.

When an old man, head of an immigrant North African family, is found murdered, suspicion falls on the son of the local doctor, found in flagrante playing sex games surrounded by Nazi paraphernalia.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781787478114
• Author: Martin Walker
• Publisher: Quercus
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 342
• Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 2cm











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Faced with the violent death of his own father, even Assistant Superintendent David Kubu Bengu, Botswanas keenest mind, is baffled. Who would kill such a frail old man?

Set amidst the dark beauty of modern Botswana, A Death in the Family is a thrilling insight into a world of riots, corruption & greed, as a complex series of murders present the opera-loving, wine connoisseur detective with his most challenging case yet.

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Early one morning in Paris, the tranquillity of the Sorbonne University is shattered by a death. But why would Albert Cadas, a quiet, crumpled professor of medieval literature, have any reason to kill himself? Meanwhile, Valentine Savi, a talented young restorer, receives a visit from an enigmatic elderly gentleman with a unique commission: to restore a priceless manuscript whose time-worn pages promise to reveal the truth of a mystery that has fascinated scholars & writers for centuries. ...