Summer, 1936. The writer, Josephine Tey, joins her friends in the holiday village of Portmeirion to celebrate her fortieth birthday. Alfred Hitchcock & his wife, Alma Reville, are there to sign a deal to film Josephines novel, A Shilling for Candles, & Hitchcock has one or two tricks up his sleeve to keep the holiday party entertained
- & expose their deepest fears. But things get out of hand when one of Hollywoods leading actresses is brutally slashed to death in a cemetery near the village. The following day, as fear & suspicion take over in a setting where nothing
- & no one
- is quite what it seems, Chief Inspector Archie Penrose becomes increasingly unsatisfied with the way the investigation is ultimately resolved. Several years later, another horrific murder, again linked to a Hitchcock movie, drives Penrose back to the scene of the original crime to uncover the shocking truth.


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His name is carefully guarded from the general public but within the secretive inner circles of the ultra-rich. Dr Alex Hoffmann is a legend
- a visionary scientist whose computer software turns everything it touches into gold. Together with his partner, an investment banker, Hoffmann has developed a revolutionary form of artificial intelligence.
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Meet Alex Hoffmann: among the secretive inner circle of the ultra-rich, he is something of a legend. Based in Geneva, he has developed a revolutionary system that has the power to manipulate financial markets. Generating billions of dollars, it is a system that thrives on panic
- & feeds on fear.
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Alex Cross ventures into the rugged Montana wilderness
- where he will be the prey.

He's not on the job, but

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Books Crime Books The latest novel in the globally bestselling Alex Cross series. Alex Cross ventures into the rugged Montana wilderness
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Carol Bacchi tells of her battle with her baby son, & the difficulty she encountered encouraging him to eat. Surrounded by inept or dismissive medical practitioners, struggling with sleep deprivation, & alone with her fears, Fear of Food combines diary entries & personal reflections. ...

Examines the parallel histories of modern art & modern music & examines why one is embraced & understood & the other ignored, derided or regarded with bewilderment, as noisy, random nonsense perpetrated by, & listened to by the inexplicably crazed. ...

Fear of music so a great read that Garry Mulholland set out as a one-man mission to reclaim music criticism. A sexy book to look at & brilliantly written it will capture your imagination & make you re-live your music heydays. Pages 372, 18.3cm x 18.3cm x 2.4. ...

Halloween, 1861. A special train with two carriages steams across the Lake District at night on its way to a place notorious

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The worst day of Tim Blake's life started out with him making breakfast for his seventeen-year-old daughter Sydney. Syd was staying with him while she worked a summer job
- even if he wasn't entirely sure what her job at the Just Inn Time motel actually was
- & Tim hoped this quality father-daughter time would somehow help her deal with his divorce. When she didn't arrive home at her usual time, he thought she'd probably gone to the mall to hang with her friends. When she didn't answer her phone he began to worry. When she didn't come home at all, he began to panic. & when the people at the motel said they had no Sydney Blake working there, & never had, he began to see his life going into freefall. If she hadn't been working at the motel every day, what had she been doing? Something she couldn't
- or wouldn't
- tell her own father about? To find his daughter Tim doesn't need to simply track her down
- he needs to know who she really was, & what could have made her step out of her own life without leaving a trace. Only one thing has him convinced the worst hasn't already happened: the fact that some very scary people seem just as eager as he is to find her. The question is: who's going to find her first?




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