Forensic Investigator Reilly Steel is back, investigating murders as puzzling as they are gruesome. Read the clues. Decode the science. Reveal the murderer. That's Reilly Steel's mantra. Find the answers, solve the crime. But the Quantico trained forensic investigator is finding her skills aren't enough when a ferociously intelligent killer strikes Dublin. The modus operandi is as perplexing as it is macabre. What connects the two seemingly disparate, high-profile victims? Their corpses refuse to give up their secrets & the crime scenes prove a forensic investigator's worst nightmare. Reilly soon suspects that she may be dealing with a killer
- or killers
- who know all about crime scene investigation. The police are just as frustrated by the crimes' impenetrable nature & it's only when a third murder occurs
- equally graphic & elaborate in its execution
- that they discover that this particular killer is using a very specific blueprint for his crimes. Who is the killer's next victim, the real target? & what's his endgame?



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Afghanistan. In the heat & dust, young British army medic Elinor Nielson watches an Afghan girl walk into a hail of bullets. But when she runs to help, Ellie finds her gone. Who is she? & what's happened to her? What Ellie discovers makes her question everything she believes in
- even her feelings for the American lieutenant who takes her side.
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Alfred Hitchcock directs this cold war thriller. Famous nuclear physicist Michael Armstrong (Paul Newman) defects to East Germany with the intention of acquiring a secret formula from enemy scientist Gustav Lindt (Ludwig Donath). However, Armstong's missi ...

Alexi is a fifteen-year-old Trojan boy. Orphaned by the war & enslaved by Odysseus himself, Alexi has a very different view of the conquering heroes of legend. Despite a simmering anger towards his captors, Alexi gradually develops a grudging respect for them. ...

Offers a review of the MRCA story. It deals with the technical development & construction of the aircraft, pre-production flight testing & its service with the European nations who ordered the aeroplane. Its war service in the Gulf & Kosovo is fully dealt with, as are the programmes to keep it in service into the 21st century. ...

Through stories, this title helps young readers learn what it's like to be caught in a monster tornado. It

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Best-selling author Michael Morpurgo turns his storytelling skills to the drama & tragedy of the Spanish Civil War, illustrated by Michael Foreman. TORO, TORO is the story of a young boy growing up in Andalucia, Spain, on a farm rearing bulls for the bull ring. Antonito hand rears a little black calf & they become firm friends, but the boy doesn't yet understand the fate of the black bulls
- the corrida & death. Later, when he learns of the horrors of the bull fight, he frees Paco, the black bull, & rides with him into the hills. There they witness the bombing of their village (it's the year 1936, & the Spanish Civil War has started) & Antonito cannot go back
- his family & the farm are destroyed, & Paco has run off, wild with fright. He decides to stay in the hills, where he meets up with the Resistance fighters. During the War, Antonito hears stories round the campfire of the wonderful black bull, who becomes a symbol of freedom for them all. Could this really be Paco? But no-one has ever seen him. After the war, when Antonito is working as a muleteer in the mountains, he falls asleep & dreams of Paco. In the morning, he wakes to see hoof prints on the ground beside him...A delightful story, full of nostalgia & drama in the author's own inimitable style. Illustrated by Michael Foreman.

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Mike Filey's column ' The Way We Were' in the Toronto Sunday Sun has enjoyed an uninterrupted stretch as one of the paper's most popular features. This ninth volume features a variety of stories from this column, including a look at Toronto's 1904 inferno, the birth of Rex Heslop's Rexdale community, tales about the city's streetcars, & more. ...

Takes readers to a performance at the Royal Alexandra Theatre by Al Jolson, the opening of Sunnybrook Hospital, a game between the baseball Leafs & the Havana Sugar Kings
- with Fidel Castro throwing out the first pitch
- & many more famous, notorious, & entertaining episodes in the history of Toronto.

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The arrival, one sunny morning, of pale green wall-to-wall carpeting for the living room is the crowning jewel in Karen Whitney's long-anticipated transformation of her house into a beautiful home, renovated to the exacting standards of her own impeccable taste. ...