Freshly promoted to the elite Major Crimes Team DI Joe Faraday is thrown into the deep end with the investigation into the murder of prison officer Paul Coughlin. Was the violent Coughlin killed by a recently released con he brutalised in prison? Or is his death a legacy of a wider more savage violence from twenty years before? Coughlin was an ex-petty officer in the Royal Navy. Not much liked he served on HMS Accolade a Type 21 frigate sunk during the Falklands war with the loss of 19 men. If Faraday is to solve the murder he must first penetrate the wall of silence thrown up by the Navy. But as he digs deeper he uncovers a disturbing connection to a crime that has waited twenty years to be avenged... ...

' We've got your daughter.' It's evening you're back late from work
- & the house is in darkness. You step inside & the phone rings.
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Shaun Mason is a man without a mission. Not even running the news organisation he built with his sister has the same urgency as it used to. Playing with dead things just doesn't seem as fun when you've lost as much as he has. But when a researcher from the Centre for Disease Control fakes her own death & appears on his doorstep with a ravenous pack of zombies in tow Shaun's relieved to find a new purpose in life. Because this researcher comes bearing news: the monster who attacked them may be destroyed but the conspiracy is far from dead. Now Shaun hits the road to find what truth can be found at the end of a shotgun. ...

When Cetin Ikmen is invited to a murder mystery evening at Istanbul's famous Pera Palas Hotel he finds himself embroiled in a deadly game of life imitating art. Walking in the steps of the great Agatha Christie Ikmen experiences fear & hatred which have echoes deep in his own past. ...

Whore you working for then Warshawski? My cousin. Boom Boom? Hes dead. I know. Thats why Im working for him. Boom Booms body was found floating near the docks chewed up & spat out by a ships propeller. More like brother & sister than cousins Vic & Boom Boom looked out for each other. Boom Boom grew up to be an ice hockey hero & Vic a private eye. & now V.I. Warshawski would like to know how exactly her cousin died.. . ...

Sookie has a murder investigation on her hands. A young girl has died at a vampire party
- & it looks as though her lover Eric
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Sookie has a murder investigation on her hands. A young girl has died at a vampire party
- & it looks as though her lover Eric
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- an absolute must-have for all DEADLY fans. Answers at the back of the book.
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The fourth chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew continues the adventures of the 14th century Cambridge physician when he is called to attend to two deaths from some poisoned wine. The opening of a new & very well-endowed college has created petty in-fighting amongst the academics as new appointments are made. The winter & spring have been appallingly wet there is a fever outbreak amongst the poorer townspeople & the country is not yet fully recovered from the aftermath of the plague. The increasing reputation & wealth of the Cambridge colleges are causing dangerous tensions between the town Church & University & then the poisoned wine kills the first victim
- a student. The second victim is Dittone the deputy master of the new college but there seems no connection between him & the student. Matthew must establish the facts before relations between town & gown spiral out of control.
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It's the Fiesta de San Juan in Spain the national celebration of the Summer Solstice & there's much excitement about a huge firework display in the village of St Marti. But Primavera Blackstone is more inflamed by the appearance of a mysterious writer Duncan Culshaw who is determined to rake through the ashes of her past. & when extortion & blackmail are mentioned Primavera realises the heat is on. Duncan has his fingers burned playing fast & loose with the fiercely protective Prim but when he marries a dying woman for her money threatening the inheritance of Prim's son Tom things are going to get explosive...but happily there's a new guardian angel in town. ...