Imprisoned in Liz's Toy Box Staz is surprised by a visit from his older brother the very man he came to Demon World Acropolis to seek out. But Blaz hasn't come to help Staz unlock the secrets of The Book of Human Resurrection. Instead he's come to release Staz's true vampire powers the very magic Blaz sealed away years ago by putting a bullet through his little brother's heart. Staz's strength is needed to conquer a terrible threat that has appeared in the Demon World & once again Staz finds himself a pawn in his brother's game. Unless he confronts this terror the secrets of his brother's book will remain a mystery & Fuyumi will remain a ghost
- if she doesn't disappear entirely first!
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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. ...

The Fuhrers orders were clear
- conquer Mount Elbrus highest peak in the Caucasus mountains. But there were problems: Elbrus was
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A fishermans son is snatched from home to fulfil his true destiny in this thrilling novel of ancient curses warring emperors forbidden love...and blood-sucking ninjas. Taro is a boy from a coastal village in rural Japan fated to become a fisherman like his father. But in just one night Taros world is turned upside down
- & his destiny is changed forever. Skilled in the art of silent & deadly combat ninjas are the agents of powerful nobles who rule sixteenth-century Japan. So why did a group of these highly trained assassins creep into a peasants hut & kill Taros father? & why did one ninja rescue Taro from their clutches saving his life at enormous cost? Now on the run with this mysterious saviour & his best friend Hiro Taro is determined to learn the way of the ninja to avenge his fathers death. But if they are to complete their perilous journey Taro must first evade the wrath of the warring Lords decipher an ancient curse resist forbidden love
- & come to terms with the blood-soaked secrets of a life lived in moonlight.

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The tears of Alexander shall flow giving bread & freedom.. .612 AD. Egypt the jewel of the Roman Empire seethes with unrest as bread runs short & the Persians plot an invasion. In Alexandria a city divided between Greeks & Egyptians by language religion & far too few soldiers the mummy of the Great Alexander dead for nine hundred years still has the power to calm the mob
- or inflame it.. . Aelric the young British clerk who has become a senator & the trusted henchman of Emperor Heraclius has come to Alexandria to send Egypt's harvest to Constantinople & to force the unwilling viceroy to give its land to the peasants. But the city
- with its factions & conspirators
- thwarts him at every turn. & when an old enemy from Constantinople arrives supposedly on a quest for a religious relic that could turn the course of the Persian war he will have to use all his cunning his charm & his talent for violence to survive.


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The feral warrior-kings of Fenris the Space Wolves are the sons of Leman Russ. Savage heroes few can match their ferocity in battle. After half a century apart Space Wolves Ingvar & Gunnlaugr are reunited. Sent to defend an important shrine world against the plague-ridden Death Guard the Grey Hunters clash with the pious Sisters of Battle who see the Space Wolves as little better than the enemy they fight. As enemies close in around them & treachery is revealed Gunnlaugr & his warriors must hold the defenders together
- even as hidden tensions threaten to tear their pack apart.
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The Blood of Crows" is the fourth instalment in Caro Ramsay's epic Anderson & Costello series. For one Scottish cop the beat is about to get dark & very bloody...DI Colin Anderson is having a bad week. His conviction of paedophile Skelpie Fairbairn is declared unsafe
- putting Fairbairn back on Glasgow's streets & leaving Anderson under investigation. Add to this a gangster torched alive a teenage boy tortured then dropped off a bridge & the suicide of a cop who worked an unsolved child kidnapping way back in 1996 & Anderson's got his hands full. Then one night a young girl is tied to the river bank & left for the tide. Anderson gets there but she dies in his arms. Working round the clock his team discover these strange crimes are linked to an elusive criminal mastermind known as The Puppeteer. But unable to find him unable to stop the murders Anderson is forced to follow the only lead he has
- Skelpie Fairbairn... But which is worse
- The devil you don't know or the one you do...? Caro Ramsay's Anderson & Costello thrillers have been widely recognised as one of the most significant new series in the genre in recent years & Ramsay's utterly unique investigators are ready to become the nation's favourite Scottish cop duo. " Absolution" is the amazing opening to this stunning series. Subsequent titles include " Dark Water" & " Singing to the Dead". Fans of Ian Rankin & Val Mc Dermid will love this series. Praise for Caro Ramsay: " Brilliant in twisting the tension tauter with each page". (" Guardian"). " Ramsay handles her characters with aplomb the dialogue crackles & the search for the killer has surprising twists & turns". (" Observer"). " Many shivers in store for readers followed by a shattering climax". (" The Times"). Caro Ramsay was born in Glasgow & now lives in a village on the west coast of Scotl&. " Absolution" is her first novel which was shortlisted for the CWA's New Blood Dagger for best debut of the year. This success was followed by two further DI Anderson & DS Costello novels " Singing to the Dead" & " Dark Water". The fourth book in the same series " The Blood of Crows" is also released this summer."


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