Michael Vyner recalls a terrible story one that happened to him. One that would be unbelievable if it werent true! Michaels parents are dead & he imagines that he will stay with the kindly lawyer executor of his parents will.. . Until he is invited to spend Christmas with his guardian in a large & desolate country house. His arrival on the first night suggests something is not quite right when he sees a woman out in the frozen mists standing alone in the marshes. But little can prepare him for the solitude of the house itself as he is kept from his guardian & finds himself spending the Christmas holiday wandering the silent corridors of the house seeking distraction. But lonely doesnt mean alone as Michael soon realises that the house & its grounds harbour many secrets dead & alive & Michael is set the task of unravelling some of the darkest secrets of all. A nail-biting story of hauntings & terror by the master of the genre Chris Priestley. ...

Private Investigator Karl Kane returns to the streets of Belfast investigating the discovery of a severed h&. Karl believes its the work of an elusive serial killer but the police are claiming a simple vendetta between local criminals. Karl embarks on a nightmarish journey as he attempts to solve the mystery & soon hes suspecting Mark Wilson his detested ex brother-in-law. But as the winter days become darker Karl discovers that Wilson is more than a match for him when it comes to dirty dealing & even dirtier fighting as he battles to keep from becoming the next victim. ...

When three bodies surface in the garden of a rented house in North London forensics discover prints which link back to an unsolved crime that no one in the Metropolitan Police wants to remember. The prime suspect of the first case was an officer from the force but since no conclusive evidence was ever found the police closed ranks to prevent the media frenzy that would surely follow his discovery. Now as the past case begins to link unavoidably with the present DC Ebony Willis is sent to see if she can uncover the whole truth about their suspect
- Carmichael. But private & reclusive will Carmichael prove a tricky & all too fascinating subject for Ebony to get to the bottom of?
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A new arrival to Lakehurst village can only mean trouble for Reverend Nick Lawrence... The residents of the sleepy Sussex village of Lakehurst are abuzz with the news of the arrival of Gerry Harlington a flamboyant American actor & the new owner of Abbots Manor with his glamorous wife. The local dramatic society recruits him as their director for their new show but his ideas are met with violent protest from the amateur actors. So when a corpse is discovered after the grand opening night Reverend Nick Lawrence doesnt have to look far to find potential suspects... ...

Jack Ryan Jr. returns in Dead or Alive" the gripping new thriller from Tom Clancy. The world's number one terrorist is about to unleash a holy war. Only one agency one man can stop him... The Campus was secretly created by President Jack Ryan to covertly eliminate terrorists. Now it faces its greatest threat: a sadistic killer known as the Emir. Mastermind of countless horrific attacks the Emir has eluded capture by every law enforcement agency in the world. & he is about to unleash a monumental strike at the heart of America. But on the Emir's trail is intelligence expert Jack Ryan Jr. Following in his legendary father's footsteps he & his allies at the Campus are on a manhunt that will take them across the globe into the shadowy arenas of political gamesmanship in a race to prevent the fall of the West. " Dead or Alive" is the nerve-shredding second thriller in Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan Jr. series. " The Teeth of the Tiger" was the first. Praise for Tom Clancy: " Heart-stopping action.. .entertaining & eminently topical". (" Washington Post"). " Classic Clancy.. .well-constructed tension & realistic action". (" Short List"). " Exhilarating. No other novelist is giving so full a picture of modern conflict". (" Sunday Times"). Thirty years ago Tom Clancy was a Maryland insurance broker with a passion for naval history. His first novel " The Hunt for Red October" catapulted on to " The New York Times" bestseller list after President Reagan pronounced it 'the perfect yarn'. Since then Clancy has established himself as an undisputed master at blending exceptional realism & authenticity intricate plotting & razor-sharp suspense. Grant Blackwood a US Navy veteran spent three years aboard a guided-missile frigate as operations specialist & pilot rescue swimmer. He is the author of the " Briggs Tanner" series: " The End of Enemies" " The Wall of Night" & " An Echo of War". He lives in Colorado." ...

Bones where there should be none & a chilling warning of an imminent killing challenge Detectives Ben Cooper & Diane Fry in their sixth novel. This death will be a model of perfection. The details will be precise the conception immaculate the execution flawless..." When a caller taunts the police with talk of a dead place & the threat of an imminent killing most think its a sick hoax. But Detective Diane Fry is sure theres a murderer at work. & when the voice calmly invites them to meet the flesh eater Fry fears it may be too late. Meanwhile her colleague DC Ben Cooper is investigating Derbyshires first case of body snatching entering the macabre world of those whose lives revolve around the deceased & their disposal. But does an obsession with death make for a killer? & what horrors will greet them when they finally find the dead place?" ...

There's a reckoning on the way.. .and Sookie has a knack for being in trouble's way; not least when she witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte's the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotte is known to be two-natured suspicion immediately falls on the anti-shifters in the area. Sookie suspects otherwise but before she can investigate something else
- something even more dangerous
- comes up. Sookie's lover Eric Northman & his 'child' Pam are plotting something in secret. Whatever it is they seem determined to keep Sookie out of it; almost as determined as Sookie is to find out what's going on. She can't sit on the sidelines when both her work & her love life under threat
- but as she's gradually drawn into their plans Sookie finds the situation is deadlier than she could ever have imagined.


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There's a reckoning on the way.. .and Sookie has a knack for being in trouble's way; not least when she witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte's the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotte is known to be two-natured suspicion immediately falls on the anti-shifters in the area. Sookie suspects otherwise but before she can investigate something else
- something even more dangerous
- comes up. Sookie's lover Eric Northman & his 'child' Pam are plotting something in secret. Whatever it is they seem determined to keep Sookie out of it; almost as determined as Sookie is to find out whats going on. She can't sit on the sidelines when both her work & her love life under threat
- but as she's gradually drawn into their plans Sookie finds the situation is deadlier than she could ever have imagined.


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We last saw Henry Smart his leg severed in an accident with a railway boxcar crawl into the Utah desert to die
- only to be discovered
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The Spenders are Britains Favourite Family
- they are glamorous rich & very very famous everything that their celebrity obsessed
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