It came like a malignant shadow with seductive promises of power. & somewhere in the night.. .a small girl smiled as her mother burned.. . Asylum inmates slaughtered their attendants.. .in slimy tunnels once-human creatures gathered. Madness raged as the lights began to fade & humanity was attacked by an ancient unstoppable evil... ...

Drugs murder & life in the ghetto all feature in this haunting portrait of an urban generation shadowed & often erased by violence. Centre stage is the 19 year old Thai. On the one hand he has a steady job but hes also running with a neighbourhood gang. When in a haze of jealousy he kills another man he is forced to go on the run & in the weeks that follow he discovers aspects of life that he never dreamed of in his narrow ghetto existence. Kenji Jasper has written a work of fiction so real that it scares me
- E Lynn Harris
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Laszlo is afraid of the dark. The dark lives in the same house as Laszlo but mostly it spends its time in the basement. It doesn't visit Laszlo in his room. Until one night it does. With emotional insight & poetic economy Lemony Snicket & Jon Klassen bring to light a universal & empowering story about conquering fear. Join a brave boy on his journey to meet the dark & see why it will never bother him again. ...

It should have all been so easy for Vincent Madigan. Take four hundred grand from the thieves who stole it in the first place & who could they turn to for help? Madigan is charming resourceful & knows how to look after himself. The only problem is that hes up to his neck in debt to Sandia
- the drug king of East Harlem. This one heist will free Madigan from Sandias control & give him the chance he needs to get his life back on track. But things go wrong when Madigan is forced to kill his co-conspirators & a child is shot in the crossfire. Now both Sandia & the collected might of the NYPD are hunting him down & the one cop assigned to lead the case is the very last person he could have expected. Employing every deception & ruse he can think of Madigan must stay one step ahead in a battle of wits that will test him to his limits. Can he evade justice for his crimes or will his own conscience be his final undoing?
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It should have been easy for Vincent Madigan. Take four hundred thousand dollars away from some thieves & who could they go to for help? No one at all. Madigan is charming effective & knows how to look after himself. The only problem is that he's up to his neck in debt to the drug kingpin of Harlem. This one heist will free Madigan & finally give him a chance to get his life back on track. But things go wrong when Madigan is forced to kill his co-conspirators & a child is shot in the crossfire. Now both sides of the law are hunting him down & the cop assigned to lead the case is the very last person he could have expected.. . ...

Mario Puzo's first acclaimed novel before his creation of the international bestseller The Godfather". This is an astounding story of corruption & betrayal. Hardened by the brutality & desceration of three long years of war Walter Mosca returns to America a changed man. But he has no sooner arrived than he knows he must run back to the land of the enemy to find the woman who accepts the rage & cruelty of the world around her. In Germany where the bitter aftermath of war is everything apparent American cigarettes will buy almost anything. Mosca now faces a different kind of war one in which he must make a fateful decision
- between love & ambition passion & greed life & death..."
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The two figures had been on the bridge. He had grasped hold of her. To save her or to push her? Inspector William Monk is still feeling his way in a new post in the Thames River Police & knows he must solve the mystery to gain the respect of his men. Soon both he & Hester find themselves powerfully involved in the story of the dead woman Mary Havilland & her quest to vindicate her father found dead two months previously. An engineer working for the Argyll Construction Company James Havilland was convinced a major disaster would happen in the tunnels where London's desperately needed new sewer system was being built. Maddened by his obsession he'd apparently shot himself. Mary had never accepted that & now she was dead too. Was it chance or something more sinister? ...

Today I shot the girl I love. GCSEs are over & sixteen-year-old Imogen is looking forward to a perfect lazy English summer. But her world is turned upside down by three refugees all hiding from life. Anthony is fourteen already an outcast bullied & shunned by his peers. Farid is an asylum seeker from Afghanistan who has travelled across continents seeking peace. & Gordon Craig is a bitter lonely man. She knows all of them but she doesnt know how dangerous they are. Being part of their lives could cost Imogen her own. Supercharged with tension & drama Alan Gibbons novel is about what happens when the fabric of normality is ripped apart exposing the terrifying dark beneath. ...

The Number One bestselling crime series from the award-winning Stuart Mac Bride. In this sixth DS Logan Mc Rae thriller Scotland's finest see first-hand how starting again can be murder... Everyone deserves a second chance. Richard Knox has served his time so why shouldn't he be allowed to live wherever he wants? Yes in the past he was a violent rapist but he's seen the error of his ways. Found God. Wants to leave his dark past in Newcastle behind him & make a new start. Or so he says. Detective Sergeant Logan Mc Rae isn't exactly thrilled to be part of the team helping Knox settle into his new Aberdeen home. He's even less thrilled to be stuck with DSI Danby from Northumbria Police
- the man who put Knox behind bars for ten years
- supposedly here to 'keep an eye on things'. Only things are about to go very very wrong. Edinburgh gangster Malk the Knife wants a slice of the development boom Donald Trump's golf course is bringing to the Granite City whether local crime lord Wee Hamish Mowat likes it or not. Three heavies from Newcastle want a 'quiet word' with DSI Danby about a missing mob accountant. & Richard Knox's dark past isn't done with him yet...

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Events take an unexpected turn in this ninth awesome foray into the worlds of the Demonata... The Disciples are being manipulated by beings older than time. Only Kernel Fleck knows that something is wrong. But he is in the grip of a creature who cares nothing for the fate of humanity. Voices are calling to him from the darkness & he's powerless to resist. Kernel has already been to hell & back. Now he's about to go further... ...