The Killer Cat is back for Christmas! A much-loved classic by Anne Fine. So go on ask me. Dear dear Tuffy. Why was your Christmas so horrible? Well. I couldnt climb the tree. I couldnt touch the dangly decorations. & Ellie made me part of her sing-along Christmas performance. Horrible horrible horrible! But I showed them. I was Tuffy the Acting Cat superstar. How was I supposed to know things would get so.. .messy? Anne Fine has written numerous highly acclaimed & prize-winning books for children & adults. The Tulip Touch won the Whitbread Childrens Book of the Year Award; Goggle-Eyes won the Guardian Childrens Fiction Award & the Carnegie Medal; Flour Babies won the Carnegie Medal & the Whitbread Childrens Book of the Year; & Bills New Frock won a Smarties Prize. Anne Fine was named Childrens Laureate in 2001 & was awarded an OBE in 2003. ...

Okay okay. So spank my furry little bum. I held a party. It was my birthday. How was I supposed to know it wouldn't be the only party around town on that dark & dreary Halloween night? So things ended up in a bit of a mess. (Well more than a mess really. It was a complete disaster.) But it was not my fault so don't blame me. ...

Love & lust are among the most powerful of emotions but when a joint thirst for violence is thrown into the mix it creates the ultimate lethal cocktail. Killer Couples explores the deadly dynamic that exists within the relationships of men & women whose romantic obsession leads them to commit acts of bloody devastation. Looking at case histories from around the world
- some well known others whose shocking truth is revealed for the first time
- it asks what kind of love proves itself by brutality against innocents what warped ties of loyalty bind a lover to a mate who murders & how the balance of power between a couple can become so twisted that other people become irrelevant & worse disposable. The seemingly normal can all too frequently hide a macabre depravity for terror torture & death. If they hadn't met these people might have continued through their lives in unremarkable obsurity. In all their horrific detail discover how their flaws & fantasies fused to create a monster that fed on the sadistic extermination of their victims. The couples in this book could be your neighbours even your friends. They're ordinary people with an extraordinary secret
- murder.


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The deaths of four British soldiers two of them ex SAS appear at first to be accidental. In fact they have been targeted by a group of hired assassins known as the Clinic. This group of contract killers is systematically tracking down elite servicemen & killing them one by one... Desperate to stop the murders a group of four men the Feather Men are recruited to hunt down the Clinic & avenge the soldiers deaths. But will they get to them in time & whats driving the Clinics own brutal form of justice? Ranulph Fiennes himself a former SAS officer uses his unique knowledge to craft this amazing thriller now a major film featuring Robert De Niro Jason Statham & Clive Owen. Previously published as The Feather Men. The film KILLER ELITE is released in the UK on the 23rd September 2011. ...

In District Attorney Alexandra Coopers line of work the discovery of a corpse isnt unusual. Not even the corpse of a young woman who was bound bludgeoned & tortured to death. Its the location which is unusual
- an abandoned Ferry Terminal at the southern tip of Manhattan. The ferries from here only went to one destination the now uninhabited Governors Isl&. Also known as Ghost Isl&. The corpse is identified as that of a part-time prostitute with a side-line in kink & a high-end client list. A list to kill for & clearly to die for...but the list is missing & so is another girl. Alex along with Mike Chapman & Mercer Wallace fear the killer will find more victims before they can identify him. & when another young woman disappears at an isolated site not far from Governors Island Alex has no hesitation in joining the desperate hunt for a singularly depraved murderer. A chase which catapults her into one of the most chilling encounters of her life.
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A murderer obsessed with comic strips... When Mayor Marsalis son Gerald is found dead in his studio his body is stained red & arranged like the cartoon character Linus
- with a blanket next to his ear & his thumb stuck in his mouth. Desperate Marsalis asks his ex-cop brother Jordan to investigate the murder. Yet the killer strikes again. This time Chandelle Stuart a film producer with strange sexual predilections is found leant against a piano like Lucy listening to Shroeder playing. Meanwhile a beautiful young detective Maureen Martini has moved from Rome to New York to forget the brutal murder of her boyfriend. After undergoing a corneal transplant she starts having distressing visions that somehow seem connected with the grisly murders. Thrown together Maureen & Jordan race against time to unmask this killer. But who is Snoopy? & who is Pig Pen? & why does this killer find pleasure in arranging his victims like comic-strip characters? In New York nothing is ever quite what it seems...
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'I pushed her back into the house without saying anything shut the door. We stood looking at each other inside. She dropped her hand slowly & tried to smile. Then all expression went out of her white face & it looked as intelligent as the bottom of a shoe box...I lit my cigarette puffed it slowly for a moment & then asked: What are you doing here?" Before creating Philip Marlowe Raymond Chandler perfected the hardboiled private detective story in the pages of " Blask Mask" magazine
- tough spare tales of gumshoes & murder laced with a weary lyricism & deadpan laconic wit. " Killer in the Rain" is vintage Chandler the groundwork for his classic first novel " The Big Sleep"."
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Cambridge 1354. Christmas approaches & the town is gripped by the worst blizzards in living memory. As the physician Matthew Bartholomew struggles to help the poorer citizens cope with freezing temperatures his colleagues prepare for the festivities. The weather has trapped many travellers in the town including Matthews erstwhile love Philippa. She & her wealthy husband are invited to Michaelhouse for the main feast & Matthew is horrified that he does not immediately recognise the over-weight sulky woman who once stole his heart. In some ways he is relieved to accept Brother Michaels orders to identify a man found dead apparently from exposure in a nearby church but the success of his mission brings him closer to Philippas circle for the man was her husbands servant. & then the husband himself is dead victim of an accident on the treacherous ice of the fens
- or was it a more sinister death somehow linked to the death of one of his business rivals months earlier in London? Susanna Gregory again brings medieval Cambridge to rich & vibrant life in a beautifully crafted mystery.
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Kakuro is the latest Japanese puzzle craze for all those who thought they had reached the limit in logic puzzles. Kakuro is all about numbers & like su doku it is solved by using logic with absolutely no guesswork. However Kakuro takes puzzling a step further: it requires simple arithmetic skills as well as reasoning. But don't worry if maths isn't your strong point. While some of the logic relies on you being able to add up the sums only ever involve a few single digits & the totals in this book are never more than 45. You don't need to be a maths whiz nor do you need to have a calculator handy. You will have no difficulty in doing the sums in your head. As with the incredibly addictive su doku the fun in doing kakuro is working out the logic that gets you from the starting position to the single solved grid of digits. So if you're bored with su doku
- kakuro is the next logical step.. .
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With a lucrative job great marriage & a beautiful house Bill Moore is a man with a plan. Its all working out just fine until the day he finds a card left on his desk printed with just one word: MODIFIED. From that moment his life begins to change
- at first barely noticeably then in more & more disturbing ways. Bill soon finds out in the most terrifying way that he has become the subject of a dark & deadly game.. .and that he has no choice but to fight back.
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