Dexter Morgan isnt exactly the kind of man youd bring home to your mum. At heart hes the perfect gentleman: he has a shy girlfriend & seems to lead a quiet normal life bordering on the mundane. Despite the fact that he cant stand the sight of blood he works as a blood-spatter analyst for the Miami police. But Dexter also has a secret hobby: he is an accomplished serial killer. So far hes killed 36 people & has never been caught because he knows exactly how to hide the evidence. & while that may lead some people to assume hes not such a nice guy he tempers his insatiable hunger for brutality by only killing the bad guys. However Dexters well-organised life is suddenly disrupted when a second much more visible serial killer appears in Miami. Intrigued that the other killer favours a style similar to his own Dexter soon realises that the mysterious new arrival is not simply invading his turf but offering him a direct invitation to come out & play... ...

Felicity has decided to become a nun. She departs to visit convents in spite of her mothers imminent arrival & Fr. Anselms request that she & Fr. Antony recover a missing priceless Russian icon before the Patriarch of Moscow arrives at the community for Holy Week. Felicitys discernment journey takes her to Rempstone Norwich London & Walsingham but her discovery of a friends murdered body in a shallow grave the disappearance of more icons the shooting of a London art expert just after she visits him the disappearance of Antony & finally the abduction of Felicity & her mother teach her far more about motherhood life & love than she could learn in any convent retreat. Breathtaking chase scenes mystical worship services dashes through remote water-logged landscapes the wisdom of ancient holy women & the arcane rites of The Knights of St. John of Malta keep the pages turning. & will Felicity choose the veil
- or Antony?
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She wore a gold dress short-sleeved its skirt full-length & slightly flared. He could see the faint indentation on her left hand a pale circle of skin giving away the fact that until recently a wedding ring had been there. She looked peaceful lying there on the bed her arms resting easily together the left hand on the right a slender silver cross & chain encircling her neck & not a wrinkle not a fold of her dress out of place. & perhaps she truly was at peace. For she was dead. This was the sight that greeted Detective Inspector Frank Elder on his first case with the Serious Crimes Unit. His first case & never solved; no one was ever charged; the murderer never found. At liberty to walk the streets & to kill again. Eight years later Elders estranged wife contacts him in his Cornish hideaway. Her friends sister Claire
- a quiet & withdrawn widow in her fifties
- has mysteriously disappeared. Elder reluctantly agrees to dig around & see what he can find. Then Claire is found dead arranged with meticulous detail on her bed & it doesnt take long for Elder to make the connection. Its obviously the work of the same unbalanced individual & to find the killer Elder must shine a light into the darkest recesses of human behaviour the dark & twisted recesses of a disturbed human mind...

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N. S. Rubashov an old guard Communist falls victim to an unnamed government; with outstanding psychological insight Koestler traces his story through arrest imprisonment & trail in a classic novel which when first published famously drew attention to the nature of Stalins regime. ...

The triumphant finale to the Riftwar Saga
- Raymond E. Feists first classic bestselling fantasy trilogy. As Prince Arutha & his
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The adventure concludes with the triumphant finale in the Riftwar Saga. Raymond E. Feist is an internationally best-selling author. The battle may be over but war is coming... The Kingdom forces may have won the first conflict but the enemy has a strong grip on Midkemia & invasion now seems inevitable. Arutha travels north to confront the Dark Elves but without help Pug knows that Arutha's forces face slaughter. With Tomas he must scour the world
- & beyond
- to find the one person with enough power to give them a chance. If they fail Midkemia will be the first of many worlds to fall to a madman with the power to dominate death itself...A Darkness at Sethanon concludes Raymond E. Feist's bestselling Riftwar Saga.

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Darkness is the friend & enemy of those who hunt by night. Ellie & her friends have found safety after months of fighting. But the New Zealand Defence Force needs their help to infiltrate occupied Australian territory. & so the friends must fight on. ...

Between fighting the Kalith who try to invade the world & honing his hacking skills D.J. Claybornes life has become predictable. But lately someone--the mysterious Reggie"--has been breaching D.J.s own considerable firewalls to leave him messages. & D.J. knows he must do something to keep the hidden world of the Regents & their extraordinary warriors the Paladins well hidden. Reggie Morrison is part of a federal cyber-crime unit cracking down on computer crime. Her job? To investigate the top hackers & find out how they do it. But as she looks into D.J. she finds herself admiring the way his mind works. Although he does have a hobby of breaching classified security systems he does no real harm. But Reggie discovers that D.J. has some classified information of his own someone will stop at nothing to keep it under wraps. When D.J. gets her SOS hes hot on the feisty womans trail. But when that trail crosses the barrier into Kalithia Reggie & D.J. must fight both their mutual enemies & the powerful attraction that erupts between them." ...

Who is more foolish -- the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? Baba Lavelle is a stranger in New York. A stranger with a mission to break the Mafia stranglehold on the citys drug traffic & take it over himself. He has no guns no army of hoods no friends in high places. But he has the Power -- magical ancient & terrifyingly brutal. The power that thrives in darkness! ...

When Silvano Niccolo the driven charismatic leader of a Florentine political movement collapses at a rally his young party immediately comes under threat. & when it emerges that his long time partner Flavia has disappeared leaving behind not only a devastated husband but their newborn son the political becomes dangerously personal
- & Sandro Cellini is drafted in to investigate. The trail leads to a tired sea-side town & a modest hotel where Flavia chose to end her life. But Cellini isn't satisfied
- why would one so young & with so much to live for walk away from all she loves? As he digs into Flavia's secret world however Sandro uncovers the hidden life of a woman consumed with private passions & a deadly dark obsession. & as the private & public realms intersect he cannot forget that life in modern Italy has a perilous edge
- fuelled as much by rage as desire.


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