Details: The outrageous & irrepressible Baroness (Ida ' Jack') Troutbeck, Mistress of St Martha's, has another cultural
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A killer is on the loose, blurring the line between fact & fiction. His prey ? the writers of crime novels who have turned psychological profilers into the heroes of the nineties. But this killer is like no other. His bloodlust shatters all the conventional wisdom surrounding the motives & mechanics of how serial killers operate. & for one woman, the desperate hunt to uncover his identity becomes a matter of life & death. Professor Fiona Cameron is an academic psychologist who uses the computer technology to help police forces track serial offenders. She used to help the Met, but vowed never to work for them again when they went against her advice & badly screwed up an investigation as a consequence. Still smarting from the experience, she's working a case in Toledo when her lover, thriller writer Kit Martin, tells her a fellow crime novelist has been murdered. It's not her case, but Fiona can't help taking an interest. Which is just as well, because before too long the killer strikes again. & again. & Fiona is caught up in a race against time, not only to save a life, but to bring herself redemption, both personal & professional. Rich in atmosphere, ' Killing the Shadows' uses the backdrops of city & country to create an air of threatening menace, culminating in a tense confrontation between hunter & hunted, a confrontation that can only have one outcome. ...

Our culture's obsession with serial killers as its own dark shadow sometimes obscures the fact that people kill for other reasons than sex. In Killing the Shadows Val Mc Dermid's new detective, academic psychologist Fiona Cameron, has become something of a maverick because of her insistence on using other sorts of profiling as well as the standard psycho-sexual ones; she has refused to work for the Metropolitan police any more because of a murder they failed to solve because they took another psychologist's advice. Yet the woman murdered on Hampstead Heath preys on her conscience, along with her own murdered sister, as she works for the Spanish police on a killer who decorates the sights of Toledo with dead tourists. & then someone starts killing crime writers & Fiona's lover Kit is on the killer's list. Val Mc Dermid's ingenuity & solid sense of how crime & investigation works have made her one of the dominant figures in contemporary British crime writing. Killing the Shadows is one of her best books yet, both for its powerful critique of modern policing & for the serious questions it asks about our fascination with the deadliest of criminals. --Roz Kaveney. This book has 604 pages & is 17.4 x 11.2 x 4.2 cm ...

More people than ever are using alternative medicine. But, as expert Dr Paul Offit explains, these untested therapies are ineffective, expensive & even deadly. Now that homeopathic remedies are offered on the NHS, it's clear that various therapies once considered alternative or complementary, have become mainstream
- prescribed to burn fat, shrink prostates, alleviate colds, reduce stress, eliminate pain & prevent cancer. At the same time, uptake of effective vaccines such as MMR has fallen
- a disturbing trend which, in the case of the MMR, has lead to a sharp rise in the number of measles cases. In ' Killing Us Softly' Paul Offit reveals, alternative medicine
- an unregulated industry under no obligation to prove its claims or admit its risks
- can actually be very harmful. In ' Killing Us Softly' he exposes how: * Homeopathic asthma preparations & bogus cancer cures have replaced life-saving medicines. * Acupuncture needles have pierced hearts, lungs, & livers & transmitted viruses, including hepatitis B, hepatitis C & HIV. * Chiropractic manipulations have torn arteries. * Megavitamins increase the risk of cancer & heart disease-a fact well known to scientists but virtually unknown to the public. Using real-life case histories to back his argument, Dr Offit shows us why any medical treatment
- alternative or conventional
- must be properly evaluated. ' There's no such thing as alternative medicine. There's only medicine that works & medicine that doesn't.'





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China has ordered ten of these roving killers from Russia. Three have been delivered & are primed for attack, to take control of the Taiwan Strait. The US government will not allow the rest to be delivered. The war of words is over & a real battle is about to begin ...

Scottish fiddler Jake Maclver comes into Kirsty Muir's life & introduces her to a glamorous new world. Kirsty is left broken hearted when Jake disappears off on tour. Her heart is mended by Andrew, owner of a kilt shop & it seems as though Kirsty will ...

Travel consultant Addie Macrae is used to a jet-setting life. When she's sent on assignment to help a failing tour company in Edinburgh, she packs up her emotional baggage & turns on the professional charm. Rugged as the land he loves, Logan Sutherland's greatest joy is sharing the beauty of Scotland's hidden gems. But the last thing he wants is some American 'expert' pushing tourist traps & perpetuating myths about the Loch Ness Monster. While they wage an office war, Logan discovers Addie's hidden connection to Scotland &, hoping for a truce, takes her on a private tour to learn about her past. As the two bond over their love of the road less travelled, sparks fly. But time is running out & Addie's contract is nearly up. How can she return to America if she hasn't experienced all that Scotland
- & Logan
- have to offer? Product Information:  •†ISBN: 9781804188149 •†Author: Alexandra Kiley  •†Publisher: Bonnier Books Ltd •†Format:†  Paperback •†Pages:†383 •†Dimensions: 19....

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Squeeze the miniature Kim Jong-Un & watch as it poops out hilarious slime.

This Kim Jong-Un Squeezy Pooper Keyring is

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Kimi Räikkönen is the Finnish superstar Formula One driver with a reputation for being fast on the track & silent off it – until now!

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