It starts with a tape delivered to psychologist Alex Delaware's house
- a recording of a soul-sickening scream followed by a twisted
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Three hundred years ago the settlers on the small Maine island of Sanctuary were betrayed by one of their own & slaughtered. Now a band of killers has returned to Sanctuary to seek revenge on a young woman & her son & the only people who stand in their way are a young rookie officer & the islands resident policeman the troubled giant known as Melancholy Joe Dupree. But Joe Dupree is no ordinary policeman. He is the guardian of the islands secrets the repository of its memories. He knows that Sanctuary has been steeped in violence & that its ghosts will tolerate the shedding of innocent blood no longer. On Sanctuary the hunters are about to become the hunted. ...

When a severed arm is discovered by a couple on honeymoon in the Florida Keys former police detective
- now reluctant restaurant
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A young woman walks home by herself the tapping of her high heels the only sound. At two o clock in the morning its cold the streets are deserted & she thinks shes all alone. Waiting for her sleeping soundly in his bed is her baby son. When he wakes the next morning his mother still isnt back. Shes never coming back. Because the streets werent as deserted as she thought. Three women are dead & Detective Inspector Lorraine Hunt is searching for a serial killer. In Houghton-le-Spring its Feast week a time when all hell is let loose as the fair comes to town & a frenzy of celebration & decadence provides a temporary distraction from the grim realities of everyday life. ...

Fang Kattalakis isn't just a wolf. He is the brother of two of the most powerful members of the Omegrion: the ruling council that enforces the laws of the Were-Hunters. & when war erupts among the lycanthropes sides must be chosen. Enemies are forced into shaky alliances. When Aimee the woman Fang loves is accused of betraying her people her only hope is that Fang believes in her. Yet in order to save her Fang must break the law of his people & the faith of his brothers. That breech could very well spell the end of both their races & change their world forever. ...

The Bad Mother's Handbook is the story of a year in the lives of Charlotte Karen & Nan none of whom can quite believe how things have turned out. Why is it all so difficult? Why do the most ridiculous mistakes have the most disastrous consequences? When are you too old to throw up in a flowerbed after too much vodka? When are you too young to be a mother? Both hilarious & wise it is a clear-eyed look at motherhood
- & childhood
- in its many guises from the moment the condom breaks to the moment you file for divorce or more optimistically from the moment you hear your baby's first cry to the moment you realize that there are as many sorts of mother as there are children & that love sometimes is the most important thing of all.

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Before Yummy Mummies & Slummy Mummies before the Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother before we wondered How She Does It there was The Bad Mother's Handbook. Hundreds of thousands of readers lived a year in the life of Charlotte Karen & Nan as they struggled with becoming mothers for the first time. & now they are back. Certainly older probably not wiser & definitely as hilariously catastrophic as before. For all those who have asked How to Be a Woman here is How To Be...A Bad Mother. ...

THE SECOND PATRICK MELROSE NOVEL. Twenty-two years old & in the grip of a massive addiction Patrick Melrose is forced to fly to New York to collect his father's ashes. Over the course of a weekend Patrick's remorseless search for drugs on the avenues of Manhattan haunted by old acquaintances & insistent inner voices sends him into a nightmarish spiral. Alone in his room at the Pierre Hotel he pushes body & mind to the very edge -- desperate always to stay one step ahead of his rapidly encroaching past. This title was originally published along with Never Mind & Some Hope as part of a 3-book package also called Some Hope. ...

One wild night midwife Patty Peel is called to attend a birth on the opposite side of Liverpool. She pedals off into the storm & delivers a baby girl in a filthy slum dwelling just as the mother dies. The drunk & violent father tells Patty to get rid of it so she takes the child away meaning to deliver it to the nearest orphanage. But Patty had spent her entire childhood in an institution & cannot bear to hand the baby over. However there are rough waters ahead. Patty has few friends & fears & despises men including her next door neighbour Darky Knight so how can she hope to bring up the child alone? She has no idea how the baby will affect the attitude of those around her nor how her life will change as a result... The Bad Penny is a heartwarming tale of love & courage in hard times from the hugely popular storyteller Katie Flynn. ...

The $600 billion pharmaceutical industry spends more on marketing than it does on research & development. New diseases are invented in order to swell profits. It distorts & suppresses the results of clinical trials if they are unfavourable. Patients pressure groups are covertly sponsored by pill manufacturers. Its offences are countless & the consequences are felt by us all. What we trust to cure us may be ineffectual or actually harmful. Ben Goldacre is Britains finest writer on medical matters today & Bad Pharma is a brilliant & savage attack on an industry rife with corruption. ...