When a wealthy benefactor is found dead in Michaelhouse Brother Michael & Matthew Bartholomew must find the culprit before the College is accused of foul play. At the same time Cambridge is plagued by a mystery thief who is targeting rich pilgrims. Moreover pranksters are at large in the University staging a series of practical jokes that are growing increasingly dangerous & that are dividing scholars into bitterly opposed factions. Bartholomew & Michael soon learn that their various mysteries are connected & it becomes a race against time to catch the killer-thief before the University explodes into a violent conflict that could destroy it forever. ...

For the most varied range of sudoku puzzles with the widest range of difficulty available anywhere look no further than the Observer"s " Killer Sudoku". Combining elements of sudoku & kakuro these headscratchers will test the skills of even the most practised sudoku fan. This collection contains 150 previously unpublished puzzles of varying levels of difficulty so whether youre new to the Killer Sudoku grid or are a seasoned solver looking for a challenge this book will keep you occupied. Be warned though
- some of these puzzles are so fiendishly difficult they may well keep you up all night."
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Sudoku for the brave of heart! Sharp-minded solvers willing to venture into dangerous puzzle territory will find satisfaction navigating these killer sudoku. Each one looks like a regular sudoku but with a challenging twist: there are also additional boxes surrounding sets of squares. Those boxes contain tiny numbers that tell you the sum of the digits inside the box. Its a brain-stretching variation that will delight sudoku fans everywhere. ...

A fifteen-year-old boy firebombs a building as he listens to Vivaldis Winter Concerto splicing behind a red hot R n B track. A veteran musician is found dead in an alley with the pulse of an old time reggae classic playing in his pocket. Rap sensation Lord Tribulation discovers his new found stardom threatened when he finds himself in the middle of both incidents. His music is accused of inciting the firebombing & the dead musician is his father. With the beat of the media & government blasting down his neck LTs search for the truth about his fathers death takes him back to an old flame & on a retro trail to 1976. A time when music was politics & politics was music. A time when the heat-drenched streets of Notting Hill burst into open rebellion. A time that as LT gets closer to the truth could lead straight to his own murder.. . ...

Dubbed The mutilator by the media the original killer had murdered seven women one man & a child each of them tortured & dismembered their bodies staged & the signature of a yellow rose left at the crime scene; all within the space of seven days. On the seventh day however with the murderous decapitation of the child the killer was cornered by police & subsequently killed. Now on the seventh anniversary of the first murder detective Benjamin Miller & old flame D.C.I Meg Rainer are confronted with what appears to be a copycat killer & are in a race against time to track him down before he kills again;- each murder more brutal than the last & each clue leading to an unexpected turn of events forcing Ben & Meg to put aside their differences & work together to bring an end to the heinous murders the body count quickly rising before finally at the end of it all it is their own lives that are on the line. ...

The allies of the night prepare for the final deadly confrontation. Darren & Mr Crepsley will get more than they bargained for when they come face to face with the Vampaneze Lord. The allies of the night prepare for the final deadly confrontation. Darren & Mr Crepsley will get more than they bargained for when they come face to face with the Vampaneze Lord. Outnumbered outsmarted & desperate the hunters are on the run. Pursued by the vampaneze vigilante mobs & the police Darren Shan the Vampire Prince is public enemy Number One! With their enemies baying for blood the vampires prepare for deadly confrontation. Is this the end for Darren & his allies? ...

Leon is a small-time crook who's ridden his luck for three decades. When he starts splashing big money around the cops are desperate to know where it came from. They call in CHERUB a secret organisation with one essential advantage: even experienced criminals never suspect that children are spying on them. James' latest mission looks routine but the plot he begins to unravel isn't what anyone expected. & the only person who might know the truth is a reclusive eighteen-year-old boy. There's just one problem. The boy fell to his death thirteen months earlier. ...

Through the dark wood where the dead trees give no shelter Nanna Birk Larsen runs.. . There is a bright monocular eye that follows like a hunter after a wounded deer. It moves in a slow approaching zigzag marching through the Pineseskoven wasteland through the Pentecost Forest. The chill water the fear his presence not so far away.. . There is one torchlight on her now the single blazing eye. & it is here.. . Sarah Lund is looking forward to her last day as a detective with the Copenhagen Police department before moving to Sweden. But everything changes when nineteen-year-old student Nanna Birk Larsen is found raped & brutally murdered in the woods outside the city. Lunds plans to relocate are put on hold as she leads the investigation along with fellow detective Jan Meyer. While Nannas family struggles to cope with their loss local politician Troels Hartmann is in the middle of an election campaign to become the new mayor of Copenhagen. When links between City Hall & the murder suddenly come to light the case takes an entirely different turn. Over the course of twenty days suspect upon suspect emerges as violence political intrigue cast their shadows over the hunt for the killer. ...

Through the dark wood where the dead trees give no shelter Nanna Birk Larsen runs.. . There is a bright monocular eye that follows like a hunter after a wounded deer. It moves in a slow approaching zigzag marching through the Pineseskoven wasteland through the Pentecost Forest. The chill water the fear his presence not so far away.. . There is one torchlight on her now the single blazing eye. & it is here.. . Sarah Lund is looking forward to her last day as a detective with the Copenhagen police department before moving to Sweden. But everything changes when nineteen-year-old student Nanna Birk Larsen is found raped & brutally murdered in the woods outside the city. Lunds plans to relocate are put on hold as she leads the investigation along with fellow detective Jan Meyer. While Nannas family struggles to cope with their loss local politician Troels Hartmann is in the middle of an election campaign to become the new mayor of Copenhagen. When links between City Hall & the murder suddenly come to light the case takes an entirely different turn. Over the course of twenty days suspect upon suspect emerges as violence & political intrigue cast their shadows over the hunt for the killer. ...

Killing Charlie charts the extraordinary rise & spectacular fall of Charlie Wilson the most powerful villain to emerge from the ultimate British crime of the twentieth century: the Great Train Robbery. Wilson moved on from armed robbery to become an all-powerful figure in the drug underworld. But his life of greed & corruption would eventually end when his rivals decided to wipe him off the face of the earth
- with the tacit approval of Spanish British & US drug enforcement agencies. Killing Charlie is a roller-coaster ride through five decades of London's gangland including a long spell on the Costa del Crime & forays into the deadliest killing fields of all: South America. Meticulously researched it pulls the reader into Wilson's bizarre sordid crime-filled world
- one that took him from the mean streets of south London to even harsher prison corridors & from a quiet life in small-town Canada to the heated manic cocaine-fuelled Costa del Sol. Containing interviews with many of Charlie Wilson's former associates Killing Charlie also reveals how Wilson was feared by many other criminals; how his love of pretty women almost cost him his life; & how he desperately tried to 'retire' only to discover the inevitable
- that gangsters never rest in peace.


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