Thea Osbourne is thanking her lucky stars. After two disastrous housesitting incidents in which she has unwittingly become embroiled in murder & mayhem she is only too happy to have a bit of peace & quiet. The only positive thing that has come out of her experiences she thinks is her blossoming relationship with DI Phil Hollis & she relishes the thought of their spending some quality time together while she helps him clear out his late aunts cottage in the small village in which he grew up. Even meeting Phils childhood acquaintance the eccentric Ariadne with her abrupt manner & queer habits cannot detract from Theas happiness. But the bad luck that plagues the hapless Thea & her beloved spaniel Hepzibah is never far away. With autumn drawing in preparations for Samhain or Halloween are well underway when Ariadne discovers a very tangible reminder of the season of death on Notgrove Barrow: a body laid out like a sacrificial victim. Unlikely companions Thea & Ariadne find themselves thrown together as they try to uncover the events that led to the fatality. It soon becomes apparent that the cosy village has more than its share of secrets. But just how far will some go to keep them hidden... ...

Lets give em something to think about! Another day another mission. Now a fully fledged member of covert military squad Delta Unit Mitch is thrust straight back into the battle zone. & theres more at stake then ever before. The Mission: smuggle an undercover peace negotiator through war-torn Afghanistan to the secret hideout of a powerful Taliban leader. The Squad: elite Black-Ops soldiers
- Mitch Gaz Two Moons Tug Benny & Nelson
- codename Delta Unit. Six men set out on the mission. How many will come back?

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In Almagen a small village in the Andalucian mountains Staffe nurses himself back from the brink of death. One day his friend Manolo takes Staffe to visit Almeria & tells him about a body that has been found buried in an old greenhouse by the Mediterranean. Staffe becomes inexorably drawn to the case & befriends a journalist Raul who presents the killing as a simple case of drug-trafficking gone wrong but it soon emerges that this murder mirrors the methods of torture used during Spains brutal civil war. When Raul plunges to his death in a drunken car crash Almagens own secret past slowly rises to the surface... ...

Detective Max Camara is under pressure. A renowned paella chef has been found dead; the town hall are set on demolishing El Cabanyal the colourful fisherman's quarter on Valencia's sea-front; an abortionist has been kidnapped & with the Pope due to visit the city the police are summoned to offer protection from crowds of the faithful & the danger of anti-religionists alike. When one of Camara's long term adversaries is put in charge of the missing abortionist case tensions are quickly running high & with ominous cracks spreading across the walls of his flat Camara soon has nowhere to turn. ...

Art restorer & spy Gabriel Allon is sent to Vienna to discover the truth behind a bombing which killed an old friend
- a Nazi hunter.
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The Cold War is over. After two British agents die under mysterious & strangely old-fashioned circumstances in Germany Bond is paired up with beautiful CIA agent Easy St John. Hes been assigned to track down the surviving members of Cabal" a Cold War-era intelligence network that received a mysterious & unauthorised signal to disb&. Its not long before Bond & Easy find themselves playing a life-or-death game as they try to figure out who they can trust. All the while Cabal agents are dying one by one.. ." ...

During the Nazi occupation of Ukraine a match was set up between Dynamo Kievs players playing as FC Start & a German side. Kiev won. & when the Germans fielded a better side Kiev beat them too. & again & again. Until the half-starved FC Start players faced an international-calibre German side under the threat of execution if they didnt let the occupiers win... An astonishing true story. Highly readable exciting books that take the struggle out of reading the Wired & Wired Up series encourage & support reading practice by providing gripping age-appropriate stories at a manageable length & reading level. ...

Twelfth-century anatomist Adelia Aguilar must once again examine the dead as gruesome events are beginning to unfold... Henry II's favourite mistress Rosamund Clifford has been poisoned
- & rumour says by his jealous wife Eleanor of Aquitaine. If Henry believes the stories England will be torn apart as King battles Queen. In a race against time to prove Eleanor's innocence & with a dangerous assassin on the loose Adelia has never faced greater danger. The armies that might cause civil war lie behind her. The icy winds of a dreadful winter blow around her. & ahead she must brave the thorns of the impenetrable labyrinth that surrounds Fair Rosamund's tower & decipher the mystery of the dead woman who lies frozen within.
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Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects
- & hes bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death
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Light is chafing under Ls extreme surveillance but even 64 microphones & cameras hidden in his room arent enough to stop Light. He steps up the game but before the battle of wits can really begin a family emergency distracts him. But even though Light isnt using the Death Note right now someone else is! Whos the new Kira in town? ...