His mission should have been straightforward: to keep one man alive for one week. One prisoner
- Super-intelligent & brutally violent
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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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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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Become part of Steve Backshall's world with this 24-page DEADLY book of BRAIN TEASERS full of crosswords wordsearches puzzles codes & quizzes about wild & lethal predators
- 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. ...

A sexual predator is at large on the streets of Imperial Vienna & Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt appeals to his friend psychoanalyst Dr. Max Liebermann for assistance. Early signs indicate that the killer is no ordinary 'lust murderer' but an entirely new phenomenon his particular deviance revealing the darker preoccupations of the age. To understand his behaviour Liebermann must employ the latest developments in psychoanalysis & make a journey into uncharted regions of the human mind. Alongside the unfolding of this disturbing case Liebermann must treat his own patients including a man who claims to have seen his double
- the doppelganger of Germanic folklore
- an experience believed to be an omen of death. As Liebermann discovers more about this seemingly harmless man he becomes convinced that his hallucinations are caused by a traumatic memory buried deep in his unconscious. Could a mysterious dream hold the key? As the investigations proceed Liebermann & Rheinhardt find themselves drawn into the worlds of art & couture worlds in which glamorous appearances mask the most sinister secrets.

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Haynes Pocket Manuals" are a new series of small books providing factual & practical information on a wide range of popular subjects including machines history & the natural world. Aimed at children they are written using language suitable for young readers & are fully illustrated in color throughout. " Deadly Creatures" provides information facts & figures on some of the most dangerous predators in the animal kingdom along with useful background topics such as killing methods weapons & armour behavior habitat & species extinction. Illustrated throughout in color " The Deadly Creatures Pocket Manual" is the ideal companion for young zoologists." ...

In Deadly Dare" theres a new craze at Theo & Rickys school. The rules are simple: write a dare put it in the bag & take turns to pick one out. But on the night Ricky does his dare & enters the deserted warehouse he disappears. What really happened to Ricky
- & how much does new girl Angela know? Theo needs to find the answers before its too late.. . Theres nothing unusual about getting emails from your dad.. .unless he died a few months ago. In " Computer Ghost" Jade asks Theo Ricky & Angela to help her find out whats going on. Could the mysterious desperate messages really be from a ghost? One things for sure. Whoever is behind them wants something badly
- & theyll stop at nothing to get it.. . Theo Ricky & Angela have to become " Lie Detectives" to uncover the truth about top inventor Darius Marriott after he comes to give a talk at school & collapses. Who is out to get him & why does their friend Bullet seem so involved? Theyre determined to get to the bottom of it all
- but that could prove to be much more dangerous than they think.. . Three gripping mysteries by bestselling Malorie Blackman now with a fresh new look."


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DEADLY DAYS IN HISTORY is the most horrible HORRIBLE HISTORIES book yet. Terry Deary & Martin Brown take a whirlwind tour through the most dreadful disastrous & deadly days in the whole of horrible history from the grim Great Fire of Rome to the vile St Valentines Day Massacre leaving the gory bits in (and the boring bits out). ...