It's the height of summer, & the wealthy Finney family have gathered at the Manoir Bellechasse to pay tribute to their late father. But as the temperature rises, old secrets & bitter rivalries begin to surface. When the heat wave boils over into a mighty storm, a dead body is left in its wake. Chief Inspector Gamache, a guest at the Bellechasse, finds himself with a building full of suspects. With the hotel locked down, the murderer is trapped. But a cornered predator is always the most dangerous of all. ...

Eleven months after discovering a brutal double murder in a sleepy Northumbrian town, Detective Chief Inspector Kate Daniels is still haunted by her failure to solve the case. Then the brutal killing of a man on Newcastle's Quayside gives Daniels another chance to get it right, & her first case as Senior Investigating Officer. When Daniels recognises the corpse, but fails to disclose the fact, her personal life swerves dangerously into her professional life. But much worse, she is now being watched. As Daniels steps closer to finding a killer, a killer is only a breath away from claiming his next victim... ...

Sisters Lulu & Merry share a terrible past. When Lulu was an only child, she let her drunken father into the family home & watched him kill her mother
- & then turn on six year-old Merry. Years later, clinging to the wreckage of their childhood, the sisters try to make sense of what happened. Bound by their love for each other but divided by private grief, forgiveness comes at a higher price then either could have imagined. A gripping & moving story of the ramifications of one violent act & the endurance of family loyalty
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The recent News Corporation scandal has catapulted Murdoch & his global media empire into the public eye as perhaps never before. In the English-speaking world, & increasingly in 'untapped' but potentially lucrative markets such as China, Murdoch wields an influence as political kingmaker second to none. How did he do it? How did this empire, a loose 'archipelago' of media islands large & small, come to be so successful & influential? How did it all come to the current, disastrous state? & will the empire survive the recent scandal that has outraged people around the world & rocked the media? Building on many years' research & featuring many previously undisclosed revelations, THE MURDOCH ARCHIPELAGO is the most up-to-date & definitive survey of Murdoch's life & times; how power flows from influence; & whether this should (or if it can) be regulated. ...

After the Great War, life can never be the same again. Wounds need healing, & the horror of violent death banished into memory.

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Jules Verne (1828-1905) is internationally famous as the author of a distinctive series of adventure stories describing new travel technologies which opened up the world & provided means to escape from it. The collective enthusiasm of generations of readers of his 'extraordinary voyages' was a key factor in the rise of modern science fiction. In The Mysterious Island a group of men escape imprisonment during the American Civil War by stealing a balloon. Blown across the world, they are air-wrecked on a remote desert isl&. In a manner reminiscent of Robinson Crusoe, the men apply their scientific knowledge & technical skill to exploit the island's bountiful resources, eventually constructing a sophisticated society in miniature. The book is also an intriguing mystery story, for the island has a secret. ...

Through detailed text & over 150 specially researched archive illustrations, this unique volume documents the greatest mysteries, methods of deduction & notorious criminals found in the Holmes canon. As well as bringing to life, the Victorian London crime scene that comprised the detective's fascinating world. While examining the various mediamanifestations of the stories, including their history in print & film & television adaptations. This book has 192 pages & is Approx. 30.5cm x 22.5cm x 2cm ...

I employ this thing called The Shovel List. "A shovel...?" " No. A Shovel List." " It's more of a conceptual thing. It's a list of all the people & things I hate so much that I want to hit them in the face with a shovel." Meet Helen
- youngest of the Walsh sisters & a law unto herself. She's easily bored, has an inability to filter her thoughts & was fired from every job she ever had before she found her true calling as a private investigator. But times are tough for PIs & Helen's had no choice but to take on the search for AWOL boyband has-been Wayne Diffney
- The Wacky One. It's not all bad this game of Where's Wayne. It may have brought her charming crook of an ex Jay Parker back into her life, but it's giving her an excuse to avoid the usual Walsh family dramas & the intense looks from her gorgeous boyfriend Artie that make her heart beat wildly with lust & panic in equal measure. But most of all it's an excellent distraction from the huge swarm of black vultures gathering over her head. If she hides out in her target's empty house on Mercy Close for long enough maybe they'll go away... But as Helen begins to unravel the mysteries secreted on Mercy Close she discovers a kindred spirit in a man unwilling to be found. Could someone be telling her to look a little closer to home...?

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Meet Helen Walsh.

Wasp-tongued private investigator Helen doesn't believe in love, fear or hot drinks.





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Books Modern Romance Books Marian Keyes, the No. 1 bestselling author of Rachel's Holiday, is back with her stunning new ...