New York City is thrown into chaos by the assaults of the Bone Collector a serial kidnapper & killer who gives the police a chance to save his victims from death by leaving obscure clues. The cops go to Lincoln Rhyme an ex-NYPD forensics expert left paralysed after an accident on the job. Rhyme reluctantly postpones his ambitions towards suicide & puts together a forensic investigation team enlisting as his eyes & ears young police officer Amelia Sachs. Rhyme digs deep into the only world he has left
- his astonishing mind
- & slowly begins to narrow the noose around the Bone Collector. But the kidnapper is narrowing his own noose
- around Lincoln Rhyme.


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Car mechanic & sometime shapeshifter Mercy Thompson has learned the hard way why her race was almost exterminated. When European vampires immigrated to North America they found Mercy's people had a hidden talent
- for vampire slaying. Unfortunately for Mercy the queen of the local vampire seethe has discovered her true identity. She's also furious when she learns Mercy has crossed her & killed one of her vampires. Mercy may be protected from direct reprisals by the werewolf pack (and her interesting relationship with its Alpha) but that just means Marsilia will come after Mercy some other way. So Mercy had better prepare to watch her back.
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An excavation at the lost gardens of Earlsacre Hall is called to a halt when a skeleton is discovered under a 300 year old stone plinth a corpse that seems to have been buried alive. But DS Wesley Peterson has little time to indulge in his hobby of archaeology. He has a more recent murder case to solve. A man has been found stabbed to death in a caravan at a popular holiday park & the only clue to his identity is a newspaper cutting about the restoration of Earlsacre. Does local solicitor Brian Willerby have the answer? He seems eager to talk to Wesley but before he can reveal his secret he is found dead during a 'friendly' game of village cricket apparently struck by a cricket ball several times with some force. If Wesley is looking for a demon bowler this appears to let out most of the village side. But what is it about Earlsacre Hall that leads people to murder? ...

Kit Livingstone has been bequeathed by his great grandfather Cosimo an apparently impossible task: to piece together a 17th-century map whose fragments are scattered not just throughout this universe but other universes too. Aided by his girlfriend Mina herself in Hapsburg-Empire Prague Kit begins to make progress but realises that opponents in the shape of the Burley Men are equally determined to capture the map & they have a crucial advantage: the ability to manipulate the will of historical figures for their own ends. ...

Cambridge 1392. Matthew Bartholomew physician to Michaelhouse College is called to examine some mysterious bones found in the Kings Ditch. Next day he is called to the Ditch again: a student has been found dead there. Meanwhile there is unrest in the town & the strange disappearance of Dominica former lover of the dead student & daughter of Waterstone the well-known Principal of a Cambridge student hostel. Are these events connected? Then a skeletal hand is found in the Ditch hailed by townsfolk as the final remains of local martyr Simon d Ambrey & hence a holy relic. When Bartholomew finds that the hand is wearing a ring apparently identical to a pair that were worn by Dominica & her ex-lover & now missing he knows that his investigative skills are called for. ...

12-year-old twins Matt & Emily Calder are Animare: they can bring art to life & enter paintings at will. They must do everything in their power to prevent a breach in Hollow Earth: a supernatural place that holds all the demons devils & creatures ever imagined. The Hollow Earth Society are getting closer to finding the key that will release the beasts: an ancient bone quill whose powers can be only be used by a powerful Animare. The quill has been lost for centuries but important clues to its whereabouts lie somewhere on the island of Era Mina
- as does the entrance to Hollow Earth itself. Matt & Em must find the quill & protect it through their drawings through certain famous paintings & ultimately deep into the mists of time itself. But their lives in the relative safety of Auchinmurn Abbey are thrown into confusion with the arrival of a newcomer who threatens to ruin everything they have worked for. All too soon Matt makes a fateful decision which forces him to make a terrible choice
- save his family or save the world?

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900 A.D. & the kingdom of Mercia is under threat... Groomed for the priesthood since he was a boy young Wulfgar is a scholar not a hero. However when his mistress tasks him with recovering St Oswalds bones refusal is not an option. The holy relics of their beloved patron saint are the only hope the Lady of Mercia has of holding her kingdom. Rumoured to be hidden outside Lincoln buried deep in the badlands of the North. It will prove an incredibly dangerous journey requiring resources & courage Wulfgar did not know he possessed. & support from surprising allies along the way including a maverick priest & a Viking adventuress whose loyalties are far from clear... ...

Contains free paperback of Bones of Betrayal! Bill Brockton is exhuming a body to obtain a bone sample for a paternity test. A simple enough job until he discovers that the bodys limbs have all been removed. Digging deeper he soon finds himself embroiled in the massive & very illegal market for human body parts. He becomes drawn into the enterprise selling donated corpses to the postmortem chop shop
- in league with the FBI hoping to bring the organization down. All the while his friend & Medical Examiner Eddie Garcia is struggling with the aftermath of their last case. A massive dose of radiation has left him missing one hand & most of the fingers from the other. Hes on the waiting list for a transplant but with so many parts around Brockton is sorely tempted to jeopardize the investigation
- & his own principles
- to help his friend. Will he be able to live with himself if he does? Will he be able to live with himself if he doesnt?


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Roe Teagardens been kept pretty busy what with two weddings
- one of a former lover
- & a funeral for Jane Engle a member of

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Following the critically acclaimed & top ten Best Seller The Deadhouse Linda Fairstein now takes us behind the scenes of some of New Yorks magnificent & mysterious institutions in her most electrifying Alexandra Cooper thriller yet. The Bone Vault begins in the glorious Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan Museum of Art where wealthy donors have gathered to hear plans for a controversial new exhibit. An uneasy mix of scholarship & showbiz. The exhibition has raised fierce opposition from some of the museums elite: IMAX time trips & Rembrandt refrigerator magnets have no place for them at the Met. Assistant DA Alex Cooper off duty for the evening observes the proceedings with bemused interest until the Met director suddenly pulls her aside: the body of a young researcher has been found in an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus. Teaming up with cops Mike Chapman & Mercer Wallace Alex must penetrate the silent sentinels comprising New Yorks museum society investigating not only at the Met but also at the Museum of Natural History & the Cloisters to find a killer. Atmospheric chilling & shot through with procedural authenticity. ...