Thirteen years ago surgeon Edward Hammond performed a life-saving operation on Serbian gangster Dragan Gazi. Now Gazi is standing trial for war crimes at the international court in The Hague. After Hammond saved his life Gazis men went on to slaughter thousands in the Balkan civil wars. Now in exchange for keeping Hammonds dirty little secret Gazis family want a small favour: to find the man who knows what happened to Gazis money. But Italian financier Marco Piravani doesnt want to be found. & no sooner has Hammond tracked him down than he disappears again. Hammond has no choice but to set off across Europe in pursuit. In Blood Count" every action has a consequence & every question must have an answer. Only then might Hammond be able to lay the past to rest..." ...

Exactly 150 years after the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 history came extremely close to repeating itself when another army set sail from the Continent with the intention of imposing foreign rule on Engl&. This time the invasion force was under the command of Louis the Lion son & heir of the powerful French king Philip Augustus. Taking advantage of the turmoil created in England by the civil war over Magna Carta & by King John's disastrous rule Prince Louis & his army of French soldiers & mercenaries allied with the barons of the English rebel forces. The prize was England itself. The invasion was one of the most dramatic episodes of British history. This is the first ever book on the subject. Blood Cries Afar tells a dramatic & violent but overlooked story with a broad appeal to those interested in the history of England & France the Middle Ages & war in an age of kings knights castles battles & brutality. ...

Barbara Vine's new novel is about blood
- blood in its metaphysical sense as the conductor of an inherited title & blood in its
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Two women are killed in the same horrific ritualistic manner. The murderer taunts the police with e-mails. It seems clear that a serial killer is at work selecting victims at random & living out some twisted fantasy. But as Jan Fabel & his murder team investigate further nothing is as it first seems. They are drawn into a dark half-world of Viking myth & legend of obscure religious cults of political intrigue & of a violent struggle to seize control of the city. & as Fabel desperately races to track down the killer before more killings take place he & his team come face to face with a cold brutal menace they could never have predicted. A greater evil than they could ever have imagined. ...

Joe Clayton thought the dangers of his undercover career were behind him. He was wrong. One grey October morning while working in a quiet Bristol street he hears the voice of the man who has sworn to destroy him. Minutes later Joe is running for his life again. Desperate for sanctuary he heads for the small Cornish town of Trelennan & the home of Diana Bamber widow of a former police colleague. But Diana reacts strangely to his arrival & gradually Joe discovers that Trelennan is far from the idyllic law-abiding resort it claims to be. The town is in the grip of one man. Leon Race doesnt welcome strangers especially ex-cops who start asking questions about missing women. Soon Joe is caught up in another undercover role but as he penetrates the web of secrets that ensnares the towns elite his own secret is at risk of discovery. & all the time his old enemy is circling... ...

It was a night of exquisite rapture that changed Lady Octavia Grenvilles life forever. Not only did she long for sexual pleasure
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On a cold night shortly before Christmas an immigrant street vendor is killed in Venices Campo Santo Stefano. The nearest witnesses to the event are the tourists who had been browsing the mans wares before his death
- fake handbags of every designer label
- but they have seen nothing that might be of much help to the police. When Commissario Brunetti arrives on the scene he finds it hard to understand why anyone would murder an illegal immigrant. They have few social connections & little money; in-fighting among them is the obvious answer. But once Brunetti begins investigating this unfamiliar Venetian underworld he discovers that matters of great value are at stake in the immigrant community...

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The latest novel in the gripping Peter Decker & Rina Lazarus series
- published in the USA as GUN GAMES
- from New York Times

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When a devastating earthquake in Masada Israel reveals a tomb buried in the heart of the mountain a trio of investigators
- Sergeant
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Now You See Her... Gillian is haunted by the disappearance of her little girl two years ago. A devastating fire burned down their home but she remains convinced her daughter survived. Now You Dont... Ten-year-old Tom lives by the towns neglected churchyard. Is he the only one who sees the strange solitary child playing there? & what is she trying to tell him? Now You Run... Theres a new vicar in town
- Harry
- & hes meeting the locals. But menacing events suggest he isnt welcome. What terrible secret is this town hiding?

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