One Sunday morning in 1993 a 16-year-old girl named Eliza Claps goes missing from a church in the centre of Potenza, Italy. Shortly before her disappearance, Elisa had met Danilo Restivo, a strange local boy with a fetish for cutting women's hair on the back of buses. Elisa's family are convinced that Resitvo is responsible for their daughter's disappearance, but he is protected by local big-wigs: by his Sicilian father, by a doctor with links to organised crime, by a priest who had vices of his own. Years went by & Elisa's family could find only false leads. 2002, & Restivo is now living in Bournemouth. In November that year, his neighbour is found murdered, with strands of her own hair in her hands. Once again the police are at a loss to pin anything on him. It's not until 2010, when Elisa's decomposed body is found in the church where she went missing, that the two cases are linked & Restivo is finally dealt with. Blood on the Altar combines a gripping true crime case with Jones's deep understanding of Italian culture
- the impunity it offers to the powerful
- he so expertly demonstrated in his bestseller: The Dark Heart of Italy.

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1857. Wily Jeremy Oxley, a conman, thief & murderer, is being escorted on the LNWR train to London with the hangman. But he has one last ace up his sleeve, a beautiful & ruthless accomplice willing to do anything to save her lover, including murder. Railway Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck learns that Oxley, his arch nemesis, has escaped & with dark memories of their shared past, he must fulfil his duty, at whatever the cost. With faithful Victor Leeming at his side, Colbeck must use all his skills to track his elusive enemy. But could he finally have met his match? ...

Will Hopkirk was all set to live the rest of his life with Diaglito's White Mountain Apaches, along with Sonseray, the Apache woman he married. But Diaglito was devastated when Tobias Hatch cold-bloodedly killed his twelve-year-old son, Choate. Nevertheless, Hophirk persuaded the war chief to use the white man's court to give him justice. ...

Like the death of wealthy merchant Matthew Webb, whose blood is spilled on the Strand one night, & the killing of an apparent vagrant during a royal procession. Intelligence agent Thomas Chaloner soon realises that both murders point in one direction: upwards, towards the great & supposedly good whose wily ploys seep from the sewers of Spitalfields to the palace of White Hall. Blood on the Strand weaves a delightful, chilling, labyrinthine and always intriguing web around Restoration London, breathing life
- both high & low
- into the past.

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Newspaper editor Nick Condon (James Cagney) is based in Tokyo, & puts his life & those of others at risk when he runs a story revealing Japan's plans to conquer China. When the reporter who wrote the story (Wallace Ford) & his wife (Rosemary de Camp) are both murdered, Condon teams up with a beautiful secret agent (Sylvia Sidney) to expose corruption in the Japanese government. ...

Alison really does have it all...

A loving family & a career on the rise
- she's just been given her first murder case

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It is Scotl&, 1020 AD & King Malcolm II is lying on his death bed...

When the most violent family makes a claim

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After his last case, among the gentle hills & lush vineyards of Piedmont, Inspector Zen finally receives the order he has been dreading all his professional life. His next posting is to Sicily, home of the Mafia. He is welcomed by the gruesome discovery of an unidentified, decomposed corpse sealed in a railway wagon on a disused siding. Set against the backdrop of the 3000 year old city of Catania, in the shadow of the smouldering volcano of Etna, Blood Rain finds Aurelio Zen at his most desperate & driven. This audiobook has 8 CDs & has a runtime of 720 minutes. ...

There are no laws in Saba's world. When her twin brother is stolen, she pursues his captors through a wild, wasted l&. She must become a warrior to survive. On this dangerous road she can become a warrior to survive. On this dangerous road she can trust no one. Not even the handsome thief who saves her life
- & steals her heart.
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Details:
Günter Koschorrek wrote his illicit diary on any scraps of paper he could lay his hands on, storing them

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