This is a fascinating collection of true crime stories from the Highlands & Islands of Scotl&. Murders & unexplained deaths happen wherever there are people & despite its sparse population the Highlands have had more than their fair share. Now Jean Mc Lennan a honorary Sheriff from Wick investigates some of the most chilling crimes committed in the north over the last sixty years. This is an intriguing & authoritative look at the background to each crime the motives of those involved the crimes themselves & their repercussions. ...

This is a stunning blend of romance horror & magic. For Mab Prowd the practice of blood magic is as natural as breathing. Its ...

This is the second installment of the Chronicles of the Necromancer". Having escaped being murdered by his evil brother Jared Tris must take control of his magical abilities to summon the dead & gather an army big enough to claim back the throne of his dead father. But it isn't merely Jared that Tris must combat. The dark mage Foor Arontala has schemes to raise the Obsidian King." ...

As a child in the 1960s Luke Jennings was fascinated by the rivers & lakes around his Sussex home. Beneath their surfaces it seemed to him waited alien & mysterious worlds. With library books as his guide he applied himself to the task of learning to fish. His progress was slow & for years he caught nothing. But then a series of teachers presented themselves including an inspirational young intelligence officer from whom he learnt stealth deception & the art of the dry fly. So began an enlightening but often dark-shadowed journey of discovery. It would lead to bright streams & wild country but would end with his mentors capture torture & execution by the IRA. Blood Knots is about angling about great fish caught & lost but it is also about friendship honour & coming of age. As an adult Jennings has sought out lost & secretive waterways probing waters as deep as England at dead of night in search of giant pike. The quest as always is for more than the living quarry. For only by searching far beneath the surface Jennings suggests in this most moving & thought-provoking of memoirs can you connect with your own deep history. ...

As a child in the 1960s Luke Jennings was fascinated by the rivers & lakes around his Sussex home. Beneath their surfaces it seemed to him waited alien & mysterious worlds. With library books as his guide he applied himself to the task of learning to fish. His progress was slow & for years he caught nothing. But then a series of teachers presented themselves including an inspirational young intelligence officer from whom he learnt stealth deception & the art of the dry fly. So began an enlightening but often dark-shadowed journey of discovery. It would lead to bright streams & wild country but would end with his mentors capture torture & execution by the IRA. Blood Knots is about angling about great fish caught & lost but it is also about friendship honour & coming of age. As an adult Jennings has sought out lost & secretive waterways probing waters as deep as England at dead of night in search of giant pike. The quest as always is for more than the living quarry. For only by searching far beneath the surface Jennings suggests in this most moving & thought-provoking of memoirs can you connect with your own deep history. ...

When Fuyumi is captured Staz & the others split up to try to look for the missing girl. Saty's power of sight Bell's space-bending spying Liz's crystal ball & Staz's old-fashioned detective work lead them to their culprit: Bell's younger brother?! Like his sister Neru has dimension- warping abilities that have allowed him to whisk Fuyumi away to a room contained within his magical cloth. Caught between family & friends will Bell help Fuyumi return to Staz or will she plant herself firmly between them.. .? ...

Under the watchful eye of Detective Chief Superintendent James Langton Anna is given her first case. But is it a full-blown murder investigation or purely a missing persons case? An ominous pool of blood & no victim lead Anna on a desperate hunt for a man who has disappeared without trace. As Anna becomes obsessed with seemingly irrelevant details Langton fears that she is losing control of the case. They still have no body & Anna is under increasing pressure to make an arrest... ...

Under the watchful eye of Detective Chief Superintendent James Langton Anna is given her first case. But is it a full-blown murder investigation or purely a missing person's case? An ominous pool of blood & no victim lead Anna on a desperate hunt for a man who has disappeared without trace. As Anna becomes obsessed with seemingly irrelevant details Langton fears that she is losing control of the case. They still have no body & Anna is under increasing pressure to make an arrest... ...

Edward Hunter has it all-a beautiful wife & daughter a great job a bright future...and a very dark past. Twenty years ago a serial killer was caught convicted & locked away in New Zealands most hellish of penitentiaries. That man was Edwards father. Edward has struggled his entire life to put the nightmares of his childhood behind him. But a week before Christmas violence once again makes an unwelcome appearance into his world. Suddenly hes going to need the help of his father a man he hasnt seen since he was a boy. Is Edward destined to be just like him to become a man of blood? A true master of the genre that only comes along once in a generation Cleave unveils a brutally vivid picture of a killers mind & of a city of fallen angels captured at the ends of the earth. ...

Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence & depravity that attended Americas westward expansion brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel & the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas--Mexico border in the 1850s it traces the fortunes of the Kid a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered & the market for their scalps is thriving. Cormac Mc Carthys violent lyric masterpiece Blood Meridian acquires an amoral apocalyptic dimension through the Miltonic grandeur of the language.. . It is a barbarously poetic odyssey through a hell without purpose Irish Times Mc Carthys achievement is to establish a new mythology which is as potent & vivid as that of the movies yet one which has absolutely the opposite effect.. . He is a great writer Independent A bloody & starkly beautiful tale Stephen Amidon Sunday Times ...