Samuel Carver makes bad accidents happen to worse people. He's very good at his job. But nobody's perfect. & one of Carver's targets has got away. Now the world faces a new age of conflict driven by religious fanaticism. In Russia, the government have admitted they no longer know the whereabouts of one hundred small-scale 'suitcase nukes'. In Afghanistan & Kosovo, ruthless terrorists plot the downfall of their hated enemies. In Texas, a dying billionaire plots his own personal Armageddon. & Carver can do nothing to stop them. He was beaten & tortured & left to die, but Samuel Carver is a hard man to kill. When he awakes in a Swiss sanatorium from weeks of torment, he discovers that the woman he loves has vanished. Somehow he must find the strength to track her down. Carver's hunt will take him deep into the heart of a conspiracy in which the lives of millions are at stake. He must confront an agonizing choice between his duty & his heart, & face the ultimate sacrifice. As the clock ticks down to doomsday, who will survive the final, explosive conflagration? In The Survivor the worlds of fact & fiction collide in a thriller that grips from the first page to the last. ...

It's every cop's worst nightmare. Especially when his daughter's in the line of fire. In his first hour back from a six-month leave of absence, Detective Jacob Striker's day quickly turns into a nightmare. He is barely on scene five minutes at his daughter's high school when he encounters an Active Shooter situation. Three men wearing hockey masks
- Black, White, & Red
- have stormed the school with firearms & are killing indiscriminately. Striker takes immediate action. Within minutes two of the gunmen are dead, & Striker is close to ending the violence. But then the last gunman, Red Mask, does something unexpected. He runs up to his fallen comrade, racks the shotgun, & unloads five rounds, obliterating the man's face & hands. & before Striker can react, Red Mask escapes. Against the clock, Striker investigates the killings for which there is no known motive & no known suspect. Soon his investigation takes him to darker places, & he realizes that not everything at Saint Patrick's High is as it seems. The closer he gets to the truth, the more dangerous his world becomes. Until Striker himself is in the line of fire. & the violence follows him home... This book has 498 pages & is 19.8cm x 13cm x 3.2cm

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Joseph O' Loughlin appears to have the perfect life
- a beautiful wife, a loving daughter & a successful career as a clinical
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Joseph O' Loughlin has the perfect life, a successful career as a clinical psychologist, & a beautiful wife & loving daughter. However, nothing can be taken for granted & soon he finds out that his perfect existence is only a loose thread away from unravelling. When a strange case of a young woman is found with multiple self inflicted stab wounds, Joe is called upon to find out why. The body is all too familiar & turns out to be a former colleague & when a patient of Joe's alludes to his won involvement, Joe finds himself caught in a complex web of deceit. ...

It is midnight on 30th June 1860 & all is quiet in the Kent family's elegant house in Road, Wiltshire. The next morning, however, they wake to find that their youngest son has been the victim of an unimaginably gruesome murder. Even worse, the guilty party is surely one of their number
- the house was bolted from the inside. As Jack Whicher, the most celebrated detective of his day, arrives at Road to track down the killer, the murder provokes national hysteria at the thought of what might be festering behind the closed doors of respectable middle-class homes
- scheming servants, rebellious children, insanity, jealousy, loneliness & loathing. This true story has all the hallmarks of a classic gripping murder mystery. A body, a detective, a country house steeped in secrets & a whole family of suspects
- it is the original Victorian whodunit.


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Lottie Lane is all alone in the world...

As a chambermaid at one of London’s busiest inns, condemned to a life of drudgery

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An animated children's classic based on the classic fairy-tale of Swan Lake with the voices of John Cleese, Steven Wright, Jack Palance, & Sandy Duncan. The budding romance between Prince Derek & Princess Odette comes under threat with the interventio ...

Dr Andrew Marlow has a perfectly ordered life, full of devotion to his work & the painting hobby he loves. This order is destroyed when renowned artist Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery & becomes his patient. As Oliver refuses to speak, Marlow's only clue is the beautiful, haunted woman Oliver paints obsessively, day after day. Who is she, & what strange hold does she have over this tormented genius? Desperate to help, Marlow embarks on a journey that leads him into the lives of the women closest to Oliver, & to a dark story at the heart of French Impressionism ...

The coach started to move off. I felt frightened. All these weeks, looking forward to it, & now I didnt want to go. Please, Mum, let me go home. She was running alongside, waving her hanky & crying... Hed nagged his mother for weeks to let him go on the school exchange, swapping his home in the backstreets of a northern town for a posh house in London. With a proper family. With a dad. But now it was all going wrong. ...

Details: When Kirsty Wilson lands a room in a luxury Glasgow flat owned by Swedish fellow student Eva Magnusson
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