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 ...

The Fuhrers orders were clear
- conquer Mount Elbrus highest peak in the Caucasus mountains. But there were problems: Elbrus was
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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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For more than a hundred years humans dwarves gnomes & elves lived together in relative peace. But times have changed the uneasy peace is over & now the races once again fight each other
- & themselves: dwarves are killing their kinsmen & elves are murdering humans & elves at least those elves who are friendly to humans.. . Into this tumultuous time is born a child for whom the witchers of the world have been waiting. Ciri the granddaughter of Queen Calanthe the Lioness of Cintra has strange powers & a stranger destiny for prophecy names her the Flame one with the power to change the world
- for good or for evil.. . Geralt the witcher of Rivia has taken Ciri to the relative safety of the Witchers Settlement but it soon becomes clear that Ciri isnt like the other witchers. As the political situation grows ever dimmer & the threat of war hangs almost palpably over the land Geralt searches for someone to train Ciris unique powers. But someone else has an eye on the young girl someone who understand exactly what the prophecy means
- & exactly what Ciris power can do. This time Geralt may have met his match.


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Set in seventeenth-century Iran THE BLOOD OF FLOWERS is the powerful & haunting story of a young girls journey from innocence to adulthood. A village girls dreams of marriage end on the death of her father. Cast on the mercy of relatives in fabled Isfahan she & her mother are reduced to servitude until she reveals a talent for designing carpets
- an invaluable skill. Hope is short-lived for a disastrous headstrong act results in the girls disgrace. Caught between forces she can barely comprehend she faces a life lived at the whim of others
- unless she is prepared to risk everything & choose a future based on her own strength & will. THE BLOOD OF FLOWERS tells an unforgettable story: a tale of sensuality of the treachery of friendship of the power of love & of the fragile possibility of finding happiness against all odds.

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