Addictive, fun & conveniently compact, this fantastic festive book is packed with over 150 crossword puzzles to complete!

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Portable, addictive & satisfying, this fantastic festive book is packed with over 150 word search puzzles to complete!

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The guys in the Regiment know they face their fiercest enemies when they fight the Taliban. No-one is tougher, more deadly
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At the end of the nineteenth century, serial murderer Joseph Vacher, dubbed " The Killer of Little Shepherds, terrorized the French countryside. He eluded authorities for years-until he ran up against prosecutor Emile Fourquet & Dr. Alexandre Lacassagne, the era's most renowned criminologist. The two men typified the Belle Epoque, a period of immense scientific achievement & fascination with its promise to reveal the secrets of the human condition. With high drama & stunning detail, Douglas Starr recounts the infamous crime & punishment of Vacher, interweaving the story of how Lacassagne & his colleagues developed forensics as we know it. We see one of the earliest uses of criminal profiling, as Fourquet painstakingly collects eyewitness accounts, leading to Vacher's arrest. & we see the twists & turns of the celebrated trial: to disprove Vacher's defense by reason of insanity, Fourquet recruits Lacassagne, who had revolutionized criminal science: refining the use of blood spatter evidence, systematizing the autopsy & doing ground-breaking research in psychology. Lacassagne's forensic investigation ranks among the greatest of all time, & its denouement is gripping. An important contribution to the history of medicine & criminal justice, impressively researched & thrillingly told. ...

At the end of the nineteenth century, serial murderer Joseph Vacher, dubbed " The Killer of Little Shepherds, terrorized the French countryside. He eluded authorities for years-until he ran up against prosecutor Emile Fourquet & Dr. Alexandre Lacassagne, the era's most renowned criminologist. The two men typified the Belle Epoque, a period of immense scientific achievement & fascination with its promise to reveal the secrets of the human condition. With high drama & stunning detail, Douglas Starr recounts the infamous crime & punishment of Vacher, interweaving the story of how Lacassagne & his colleagues developed forensics as we know it. We see one of the earliest uses of criminal profiling, as Fourquet painstakingly collects eyewitness accounts, leading to Vacher's arrest. & we see the twists & turns of the celebrated trial: to disprove Vacher's defense by reason of insanity, Fourquet recruits Lacassagne, who had revolutionized criminal science: refining the use of blood spatter evidence, systematizing the autopsy & doing ground-breaking research in psychology. Lacassagne's forensic investigation ranks among the greatest of all time, & its denouement is gripping. An important contribution to the history of medicine & criminal justice, impressively researched & thrillingly told. ...

Through the dark wood where the dead trees give no shelter Nanna Birk Larsen runs.. . There is a bright monocular eye that follows, like a hunter after a wounded deer. It moves in a slow approaching zigzag, marching through the Pineseskoven wastel&, through the Pentecost Forest. The chill water, the fear, his presence not so far away.. . There is one torchlight on her now, the single blazing eye. & it is here.. . Sarah Lund is looking forward to her last day as a detective with the Copenhagen Police department before moving to Sweden. But everything changes when nineteen-year-old student, Nanna Birk Larsen, is found raped & brutally murdered in the woods outside the city. Lund's plans to relocate are put on hold as she leads the investigation along with fellow detective Jan Meyer. While Nanna's family struggles to cope with their loss, local politician, Troels Hartmann, is in the middle of an election campaign to become the new mayor of Copenhagen. When links between City Hall & the murder suddenly come to light, the case takes an entirely different turn. Over the course of twenty days, suspect upon suspect emerges as violence, political intrigue cast their shadows over the hunt for the killer. ...

How do you catch a killer who doesn't exist? After twenty years on the force, Detective Chief Inspector Jack Logan thinks he has seen it all. He is wrong. When a nurse is murdered on her way home from nightshift, Jack & his team go on the hunt for her killer As more victims are uncovered, Jack finds himself tracking a murderer afflicted by a unique psychosis
- one that leaves him free to maim & kill without a shred of guilt or remorse. Facing a new type of killer in an unfamiliar city, DCI Jack Logan is about to be pushed to his limits by an enemy he cannot hope to underst&. Product Information:  •†ISBN: 9781804368176 •†Author: JD Kirk •†Publisher: Canelo •†Format:†  Paperback •†Pages: 320 •†Dimensions: 12.9 x 1.9 x 19.8 cm
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The winter before he was sixteen, amateur magician Pup made a Faustian pact & sold his soul to the devil. He wasn't quite sure what he was going to get in exchange. Pup's older sister, Dolly, is manically obsessed with her birthmark, believing it is responsible for her status as a social outcast. She becomes pathologically transfixed by Pup's dabbling in magic, desperate to believe he has occult powers that can cure her disfigurement, improve their lives, & kill their stepmother. As Dolly's obsession grows, a young mentally disturbed Irishman lurks just around the corner, inseparable from his sharpened set of knives... In this intense & deeply disturbing novel, Ruth Rendell explores a haunted world of obsession, delusions & murderous fantasy, with dazzling virtuosity. ...

Jack Higgins, the undisputed master of action & suspense is back with a brand new adventure featuring the unstoppable Sean Dillon. For intelligence operative Sean Dillon, it is a routine passport check. But the events it will lead to will be as bloody as any he has ever known. The man he stops at Heathrow airport is Caspar Rashid, born & bred in Engl&, but with family ties to a Bedouin tribe fiercely wedded to the old ways, as Rashid has just found out to his pain. His thirteen-year-old daughter, Sara, has been kidnapped by Rashid's own father & taken to Iraq to be married to a man known as the Hammer of God, one of the Middle East's most feared terrorists. Dillon has had his own run-ins with the tribe, & when the distraught man begs him for help, he sees a chance to settle some old scores but Dillon has no idea of the terrible chain of events he is about to unleash, nor of the implacable enemies he is about to gain. Before his journey is done, many men will die ? & Dillon may be one of them. ...

The fourth book in the FBI Profiler series from The Sunday Times & New York Times bestseller Lisa Gardner. WOULD YOU BE SMART ENOUGH... For three years, Atlanta was held in the grip of terror. It happened four times
- when the temperature in Atlanta soared to a scorching hundred degrees in the shade & tempers were frayed, two girls would go out to a bar never to seen alive again. The body of the first girl would hold the key to the survival of the second but, with the clock ticking, the killing hour always came round too quickly. Only when the final missing girl was found alive did the killing stop. Now, years later, the heat is rising on yet another scorching summer. & when trainee FBI agent Kimberly Quincy stumbles across the body of a young girl, furnished with clues to find a second, it appears that the killer is back & ready to play... Will Kimberley be able to find the girls before the madness starts all over again? WOULD YOU BE FAST ENOUGH TO SURVIVE?
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