Bloodline is the new Dick Francis novel from bestseller Felix Francis. When Mark Shillingford commentates on a race in which his twin sister Clare an accomplished & successful jockey comes in third he can't help but be suspicious. As a professional race-caller he knows she should have won. Did she lose on purpose? Was the race fixed? Why on earth would she do something so out of character? That night Mark confronts Clare with his suspicions but she storms off after an explosive argument. It's the last time Mark sees her alive. Hours later Clare jumps to her death from the balcony of a London hotel.. .or so it seems. Devastated by her death & almost overcome with guilt Mark goes in search of answers. What led Clare to take her own life? Or was it not suicide at all...? Felix Francis is the younger son of thriller-writing legend Dick Francis with whom he co-wrote the four most recent Dick Francis Novels Dead Heat Silks Even Money & Crossfire with Felix taking an increasingly greater role in the writing. Sadly Dick died in February 2010 but his work will live on through Felix. Gamble was Felix's first solo Dick Francis Novel. Praise for the Dick Francis novels: The Francis flair is clear for all to see". (Daily Mail). " The novel confirms Francis' seat at the head of crime fiction". (Racing Post). " From winning post to top of the bestseller list time after time". (Sunday Times). Felix trained as a physicist & spent seventeen years teaching A level physics before taking on the role as manager to his father & then as author. He lives in Oxfordshire." ...

One of Sidney Sheldons most popular & bestselling titles repackaged & reissued for a new generation of fans. The daughter of a rich & powerful father Elizabeth Roffe is young beautiful
- & sole heir to a billion dollar fortune. Then tragedy strikes. Her father is killed in a freak accident & Elizabeth must take command of his mighty global empire the pharmaceutical company Roffe & Sons. It makes Elizabeth the richest girl in the world. But someone somewhere is determined that she must die. From the backstreets of Istanbul to the upmarket offices of New York Bloodline is a hypnotic tale of love & ambition danger intrigue & death.
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This is the breath-taking second title in Katy Morans Bloodline" series. The Ghost is the fastest most cunning young criminal in Constantinople. Skilled at lying & deceit he has the power to twist the minds of men bending them to his will. He is both invisible & invincible. Or at least he thinks so
- till the day his father returns from the desert. A ruthless barbarian assassin Essa is not pleased to discover that his wild son Cai has become the citys most notorious thief. But sinister forces are moving against Cai & he finds himself captive on a trading ship. The Ghost no longer he is now a slave. But luck has not deserted him completely
- the ship is bound for Britain the home his barbarian parents fled long ago. When he becomes a slave to Wulfhere prince of Mercia Cai soon discovers that his Anglish masters know more about his family than he does
- what secrets have his mother & father been keeping from him? As Cai sharpens his skills of subterfuge & persuasion war threatens & he must choose: will he use his phenomenal talents for good or evil?"


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Bloodlines" is a new series from " Vampire Academy" author Richelle Mead. Sydney protects vampire secrets
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Stefan & Damon Salvatore are now vampires & must deal with the consequences of their fate. They escape their small hometown of Fell's Church which is overrun with vampire hunters & travel to New Orleans. While Stefan revels in his powers Damon continues to mourn the loss of Katherine the beautiful vampire that turned them both. But New Orleans offers temptations & dangers. Stefan falls in love with another human & his willpower is tested to the limit. Damon ends up captured by an evil sadistic vampire hunter. Stefan knows that he must save his brother but will it cost him his new love? ...

India the 1940s: a time of political turmoil & violence; a country on the verge of its tryst with destiny. Ross Monroe is a boxer a Catholic & an Anglo-Indian. Throughout his youth Ross is sustained by a single dream: to box his way to Olympic victory -- until a devastating betrayal by an Englishman sends him into exile & an obsession which will change his life for ever. In present-day England Owen Monroe aspiring novelist is writing the story of his fathers life in an attempt to avoid confronting the problems in his own. But family chronicle turns to amateur sleuthing when a chance discovery provides a clue to the whereabouts of his fathers long-lost enemy. The quest that follows takes Owen through the secrets of the Monroe past & into a love affair he could never have thought possible... ...

Karl Kane is a private investigator with a dark past. As a child he witnessed the brutal rape & murder of his mother. The same man sexually molested Karl leaving him for dead with horrific knife wounds covering his body. Years later Karl has a chance to avenge his mother's murder by killing the man responsible. The opportunity arises on one unforgettable Good Friday night. For reasons he later regards as cowardice Karl allows the opportunity to slip through his hands only to be shattered when two days later two young girls are sexually molested & then brutally murdered by the killer on Easter Sunday morning. Karl now holds himself responsible for their deaths. ...

Former soldier Ken Wharton witnessed the troubles in Northern Ireland first h&. Bloody Belfast" is a fascinating oral history given a chilling insight into the killing grounds of Belfasts streets. Whartons work is based on first hand accounts from the soldiers. The reader can walk the darkened dangerous streets of the Lower Falls the Divis Flats & New Lodge alongside the soldiers who braved the hate-filled mobs on the newer but no less violent streets of the Murph Turf Lodge & Andersonstown. The author has interviewed UDR soldier Glen Espie who survived being ambushed & shot by the IRA not once but twice & Army Dog Handler Dougie Durrant who through the incredible ability of his dog tracked an IRA gunman fresh from the murder of a soldier to where he was sitting in a hot bath in the Turf Lodge desperately trying to wash away the forensic evidence. Whartons reputation for honesty established from previous works has encouraged more former soldiers of Britains forgotten army to come forward to tell their stories of Bloody Belfast. The book continues the story of his previous work presenting the truth about a conflict which has sometimes been deliberately underplayed by the Establishment." ...

A gripping & thrilling Anita Blake Vampire Hunter novel When the monsters are involved its never just one dead body. One way or another the dead multiply. First there were the dead in the graveyard two hundred years dead. Id been hired to raise them to settle a dispute over who owned the land they were buried in. Then there were the three dead teenagers in the woods slaughtered in a way Id never seen before. & then they found the dead girl drained of blood & left in her bed. I knew what that meant of course. It didnt take a degree in preternatural studies to figure out that something was wrong. & I was right in the middle of it. My name is Anita Blake. Welcome to my life... ...

Here is the LOATHSOME LURID & DOWNRIGHT LAMENTABLE history of Liverpool! Beginning with the mysteries of the Druids & featuring astonishing tales of bloodshed battles & the Black Death Viking assaults Victorian gangland riots the mud blood & bullets of the Western Front & the falling bombs of the Blitz read it if you dare! With more than 70 illustrations (plus a grim & gruesome colour section on the infamous Maybrick poisoning) youll never look at the city in the same way again! ...