When Pepper Roux was born his aunt foretold that he would not live past 14 years of age. Throughout his childhood his parents havent bothered with him much knowing that his life would be short-lived. So when Pepper wakes up on his 14th birthday he knows this will be the day that hell die. But as the day wears on & Pepper finds himself still alive he decides to set off to sea in an attempt to try & avoid death for as long as possible. As time goes on Pepper steps into many roles & personas & has numerous outrageous adventures. But can he stay one step ahead of death? Or will fate catch up with him? & if he does live which of his many lives will he choose to adopt? This riot of a story is a wonderful adventure & Pepper is an unforgettable character who stays with you long after his story has been told. ...

Chris Pascoe is fascinated by the English Civil War. He also likes beer. So when the thought came to him to set out on a pub crawl around the sites of the English Civil War it was an idea too good to ignore. Helped (or should that be hindered) by his best mate Pete Chris sets out to see for himself the sites of five years of English carnage & their nearest watering holes. Their trek might not be as bloody as the war they are following but with ghosts skinheads & drunken friends to deal with Chris has still got a battle on his hands to reach the journeys end. ...

A gripping Temperance Brennan from forensic anthropologist & bestsellng crime thriller writer Kathy Reichs. Another day. Another death. Death du Jour. My God how many such days would there be? On a bitterly cold March night in Montreal forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan is exhuming the remains of a nun proposed for sainthood in the grounds of an old church. Just hours later Tempe is called to the scene of a horrific arson. A young family has perished & there seems to be no witness no motive no explanation. From the charred remains of the inferno to a trail of sinister cult activity & a terrifying showdown during an ice storm Tempe faces a nerve-shattering test of both her forensic expertise & her instinct for survival. ...

A riveting military action adventure novel
- Band of Brothers mets Andy Mc Nab in a story of hard nosed mercenaries. In Helmand
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Master of the Hunt the fifteenth Earl of Candlesby has come to lead his riders once again. But this time he comes as a corpse wrapped in blankets across his horse a corner of his scarlet coat visible in the morning mist. Only three people see the body. One dies. Another vanishes. Now only one man knows how he was killed. Powerscourt is summoned to investigate murder in a crumbling house where the paper is peeling off the walls & the stuffed owls each only have one leg. The estate is virtually bankrupt as Powerscourt uncovers a world of jealousy revenge & hatred where the sons are as dissolute & dangerous as the father. The fifteenth earl had left a trail of duels theft & adultery across the flatlands of Lincolnshire. It takes another death & a deadly chase under the crumbling estate before Powerscourt unlocks the secret of death in a scarlet coat. Praise for David Dickinson: Splendid entertainment". (" Publishers Weekly"). " Detective fiction in the grand style". (James Naughtie). " Beguilingly real from start to finish...you have to pinch yourself to remind you that it is fiction
- or is it?" (Peter Snow). " Dickinsons customary historical tidbits & patches of local colour swathed in...appealing Victorian narrative". (" Kirkus Reviews")."
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Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime's first book the third volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries. DEATH IN A WHITE TIE The season has begun. Debutantes & chaperones are planning their gala dinners
- & the blackmailer is planning strategies to stalk his next victim. But Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn knows that something is up & has already planted his friend Lord Gospell at the dinner. But someone else has got there first...OVERTURE TO DEATH It was planned as an act of charity: a new piano for the parish hall & an amusing evening's entertainment to finance the gift. But all is doomed when Miss Campanula sits down to play. A chord is struck a shot rings out & Miss Campanula is dead. it seems to be a case of sinister infatuation for Roderick Alleyn...DEATH AT THE BAR A midsummer evening
- darts night at The Plume of Feathers a traditional Devonshire public house. A distinguished painter a celebrated actor a woman graduate a plump lady from County Clare & a local farmer all play their parts in a fatal experiment which calls for the investigative expertise of Inspector Alleyn...

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In the spring of 1940 the mutilated body of a homosexual is discovered in a street near the Bordeaux railway station. It looks like a straight-forward sex crime but when Superintendent Lannes is warned off the investigation his suspicion that there is a political motive for the murder seems justified. In defiance of authority he continues working on the case. & then another body is found... Meanwhile the Superintendent has other troubles. His eldest son Dominique is at the Front his wife Marguerite is depressed & when the Battle of France breaks out Bordeaux is filled with refugees fleeing the war. Suddenly civilian crime seems of little importance compared to the chaos that ensues. As Bordeaux becomes an occupied city Lannes chief suspect is untouchable protected by a relative in the Vichy government. Lannes himself is threatened with blackmail on account of his Jewish friends & Dominique is taken prisoner. Common sense should make Lannes abandon the investigation but honour & a natural obstinacy lead him to pursue it. However as events turn increasingly bleak Lannes begins to doubt it can ever be solved... ...

One of the wildest & most beautiful regions in Italy known for its rugged coastline & mountains Calabria is also home to the deadly Ndrangheta. An organised Mafia crime operation more feared in Italy than the Cosa Nostra or the Camorra it is shrouded in mystery. Chief Superintendent Michele Ferrara of Italys elite Anti-Mafia Investigation Department is tasked with investigating the deaths of several Calabria citizens
- some in New York some in the small isolated villages that dot the Calabrian countryside. To get to the bottom of the case Ferrara has to infiltrate the village of San Piero d Aspromonte deep in the Calabrian mountains. & there he must put his life on the line to learn more about a family at the centre of an ancient bloody feud...
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When the death up at the big house is announced to the village of Compton Dando few are surprised. Given that its the home of an unlikely bunch of New Age oddballs perhaps it was a only a matter of time before one of them came to a bad end. The verdict: an accident. But only weeks later another death is reported & this time theres no doubt about it
- its murder. To Chief Inspector Barnaby hurriedly summoned to the scene it is immediately apparent that the case is far from straightforward the suspects being among the most bizarre he has ever encountered...
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When the body of a theology student is found on a desolate stretch of East Anglian coast his wealthy father demands that Scotland Yard should re-examine the verdict of accidental death. Commander Adam Dalgliesh agrees to pay a visit to the young man's theological college St Anselm's a place he knew as a boy expecting no more than a nostalgic return to old haunts & a straightforward examination of the evidence. Instead he finds himself embroiled in intrigue conflict & dangerous secrets as the college is torn apart by a sacrilegious & horrifying murder... Beautifully-written...consummately plotted". (" Observer"). "" Death in Holy Orders" is pure pleasure". (" Spectator"). " Michael Jayston does an excellent job of breathing life into Adam Dalgliesh". " Daily Express". This is a suspenseful story of murder in a clerical college from bestselling author P.D. James read by Michael Jayston." ...