Commissario Soneri returns home for a hard-earned autumn holiday hoping to spend a few days mushroom picking on the slopes of Montelupo. This isolated village relies on the salame factory founded in the post-war years by Palmiro Rodolfi & now run by his son Paride. On arrival Soneri is greeted by anxious rumours about the factory's solvency & the younger Rodolfi's whereabouts. Not long afterwards a decomposing body is found in the woods. In the shadow of Montelupo carabinieri prepare to apprehend their chief suspect
- an ageing woodsman who defended the same mountains from S.S. commandos during the war.
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The strange power: Kaitlyn is an artist but not an ordinary one; everything she draws comes true. When she is invited by Dr Xetes a scientist who is studying psychic abilities to join his school of talented individuals" in California Kaitlyn is only too happy to go. There she meets Rob a healer & Gabriel a dark lone wolf who apparently wants nothing to do with her. But with so much supernatural energy going around its hardly surprising that the psychics soon develop a telepathic link that cant be broken. The Possessed: Having learned the dark secrets of the psychic institute Kaitlyn & her new friends are on the run not even daring to contact their parents or old friends. As the group hide-out together they grow closer & Kaitlyn finally discovers Gabriels dark secret: hes a psychic vampire. In order to survive he needs to drain other peoples life-force but hes been holding back to keep others safe. Kaitlyn offers herself as a source
- & finds the experience not entirely un-enjoyable. The Passion: Back at the lab captured like animals Kaitlyn & her friends are still in danger from the evil Dr Xetes. To escape they will need to face the true meaning of what their psychic link really means. But Kaitlyn is battling with an internal conflict too: Rob or Gabriel? Sunlight or darkness? Shell need to search her heart for the answer."
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May 1941. At four in the morning a rust-streaked tramp freighter steams up the Tagus river to dock at the port of Lisbon. She is the Santa Rosa flies the flag of neutral Spain & is in Lisbon to load cork oak tinned sardines & drums of cooking oil bound for the Baltic port of Malmo. But she is not the Santa Rosa. She is the Noordendam a Dutch freighter under the command of Captain Eric De Haan. She sails for the intelligence division of the British Royal Navy & is involved in a secret mission. On board are a Polish engineer & British spy Spaniards who fought for Franco & Germans who fought against Hitler. For them this is a last desperate flight to freedom. ...

Juan Cabrillo & the Oregon crew return in Clive Cussler's Dark Watch". A deadly band of pirates is terrorizing the waters of the Far East
- & the crew of the Oregon may be the only people who can stop them... Juan Cabrillo & his expert team on the Oregon are used to working dirty dangerous jobs. While thwarting terrorist missiles Cabrillo & the crew stumble on pirates in the seas of China
- men who are more concerned with destroying ships with their Shock & Awe attacks than plundering their valuables. When the team grows desperate for all the information they can get one of Juan's best men risks everything to get closer to the truth. Soon the Oregon team will discover that the pirates are hiding a much more deadly power: an international conspiracy of slavery that will rock the very foundations of the world banks. Millions of dollars & thousands of lives are at stake
- & Juan Cabrillo is their only hope... Clive Cussler author of the bestselling " Dirk Pitt" novels including " Arctic Drift" & " Trojan Odyssey" & co-author Jack Du Brul see hero Juan Cabrillo face pirates & international conspiracy in the third instalment of " The Oregon Files" adventures " Dark Watch". Praise for Clive Cussler: " Cussler is hard to beat". (" Daily Mail"). Bestselling author Clive Cussler has kept millions of readers hooked with adventures at sea exotic locations cutting-edge science & page-turning pace for four decades. As well as the " Oregon Files" series there are also the "NUMA Files" the " Dirk Pitt" stories (which started it all) the " Isaac Bell" adventures & the " Fargo" series. The other titles in the " Oregon Files" are: " Golden Buddha" " Sacred Stone" " Skeleton Coast" " Plague Ship" " Corsair" " The Silent Sea" & " The Jungle" & are all available in Penguin paperback."


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Dark Water" by Caro Ramsay is the third in the Anderson & Costello series. They call him Mr Click...A bitterly cold February in Glasgow. Hanging from a rope in the attic of a deserted tenement is the body of a criminal believed hiding out on the Costa del Sol these last ten years. His face has been hideously disfigured. Investigating officers DI Anderson & DS Costello believe the dead man to be a suspect in a decade-old case: the rape & attempted murder of a young student. & there are other similar cases on file. But what has happened to the dead mans accomplice Mr Click? Then with the discovery of another young woman who was brutally attacked detectives Anderson & Costello realise that this terrifying psychopath has started working once more. They must use every trick in the book to stop him. For Mr Click has developed a taste for killing. & to satisfy his lust he will kill again & again... Reissued with a stunning new package Caro Ramsays Anderson & Costello thrillers have been widely recognised as one of the most significant new series in the genre in recent years & Ramsays utterly unique investigators are ready to become the nations 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 CWAs 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." ...

Agent Nick Stone expects his latest mission to be a straightforward part of the fight against Osama Bin Laden's network of terror. Despatched to Malaysia all he needs to do is assassinate a suspicious biochemist. But there are complications. Not least the attractive woman he is working alongside. Target neutralised Stone returns to the USA to find turmoil in his personal life. He is guardian to a teenage girl who is haunted by her traumatic past & attempting to numb it with a heavy drug dependency. Stone knows he is the only one who can help her but her scars run deeper than he thinks. Before long the conspiracy he has uncovered unravels to reveal a doomsday threat against the populations of New York London & Berlin. & Stone faces the ultimate trade-off: the life of someone he loves against those of millions he doesn't even know... ...

Mc Avoy lets his mind drift back to the chaos & bloodshed in the square. To that moment when the masked man appeared from the doorway of the church & looked into his eyes. Is there anything distinctive Sarge? asks Nielsen. Yes he says with the sudden sense that memory is important. There were tears in his eyes. DS Aector Mc Avoy is a man with a troubled past. His unwavering belief in justice has made him an outsider in the police force he serves. When three seemingly unconnected people are brutally murdered in the weeks before Christmas the police must work quickly to stop more deaths. It is only Mc Avoy who can see the connection between the victims. A killer is playing God
- & Mc Avoy must find a way to stop the deadly game. See Judys Review See Richards Review Download A Sample Chapter Of Dark Winter See David Mark talk about his book Read about the Author Exclusive Bonus Content Write a Review for Dark Winter Judys Review The Dark Winter is David Marks debut novel & very impressive it is. Mark has been a journalist for fifteen years; seven of them spent as crime reporter for The Yorkshire Post in its Hull office. The word is that its taken Mark years to convince a publisher that a crime novel set in Hull as opposed to London New York or Los Angeles will sell. That Quercus finally took him on is to its credit as this first novel is strong & compulsively readable. The Dark Winter is set in a bleak wintery Hull just before Christmas. Mark describes Hull colourfully as A city on its arse fighting recession & deprivation." The books protagonist is DS Aector Mc Avoy a gentle giant of a man deeply devoted to his little family. He is a man of honour & principle trying to keep his head down in a police department full of resentment rivalry & lies. It falls to Mc Avoy to investigate a serial killer who begins to murder a number of unlikely victims
- all of them linked only by the fact that they are all sole survivors of different tragic events from their pasts. These include the only man saved from the wreck of a sinking trawler a girl who miraculously escaped a massacre in Sierra Leone & a man who survived a domestic house fire that killed his wife & children. I loved it. Richards Review

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DS Aector Mc Avoy is a man with a troubled past. His unwavering belief in justice has made him an outsider in the police force he serves. When three seemingly unconnected people are brutally murdered in the weeks before Christmas the police must work quickly to stop more deaths. It is only Mc Avoy who can see the connection between the victims. A killer is playing God
- & Mc Avoy must find a way to stop the deadly game.
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The past is always with us but sometimes we fail to recognise it for what it is.' These were Jair Ohmsford's final thoughts as he walked away from the carnage at Dun Fee Aran having destroyed at last the book of dark magic known as the Ildatch. Following this great event told in The Wishsong of Shannara Jair discovers that he can draw on a form of magic that allows him to transform into other living creatures both human & non-human. The magic is both powerful & seductive for Jair can feel himself wanting to remain in each new form that he tries. Jair sets out for the family home of Shady Vale seeking peace from the temptations of his unwanted gift. But fate has other plans for the heir to the elven magics of Shannara & the shade of the Druid Allanon sets him & his sister Brin on a new path. The way is perilous but Jair can provide protection with his new magical ability. Of course that may be the most dangerous path of all.. . ...