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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The chillingly brilliant read from the bestselling authors of Catch Your Death. Contains exclusive new & updated material. Doesnt love always feel this way? Alex Parkinson is in love with his writing tutor Siobhan. He has never loved anyone like this but how can he convince Siobhan that they are meant to be together? So Alex stalks her on Facebook & finds out where she lives buys her presents using her own credit card & sends her messages telling her exactly what he wants to do to her. He breaks into her house reads her diary & secretly listens to her while she takes a bath. Isnt that what all lovers do? But when a love rival appears on the scene Alex has to take drastic action & soon a young woman lies dead after tumbling from the roof of her house. Now there is no-one standing in the way of Alex & his true love. But someone is watching Alex too & he is about to discover that there is a thin line between love
- & hate...
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The winter before he was sixteen amateur magician Pup made a Faustian pact & sold his soul to the devil. He wasn't quite sure what he was going to get in exchange. Pup's older sister Dolly is manically obsessed with her birthmark believing it is responsible for her status as a social outcast. She becomes pathologically transfixed by Pup's dabbling in magic desperate to believe he has occult powers that can cure her disfigurement improve their lives & kill their stepmother. As Dolly's obsession grows a young mentally disturbed Irishman lurks just around the corner inseparable from his sharpened set of knives... In this intense & deeply disturbing novel Ruth Rendell explores a haunted world of obsession delusions & murderous fantasy with dazzling virtuosity. ...

Most people are familiar with references to Scottish battles such as Bannockburn & Flodden but know little if anything about those events. Rugby & soccer fans outside Scotland may wonder at the sign 1314 held up by Scottish fans & not know that it is the date of the Battle of Bannockburn when an English king was defeated on Scottish soil. The battle is also commemorated in Scotlands unofficial national anthem The Flower of Scotland. Battles fought on Scottish soil include those of the Scottish Wars of Independence those occasioned by the English Civil Wars & the Jacobite Rebellions. This book tells the stories of these battles & many others fought in Scotland from the Roman victory at Mons Graupius in AD 83 to the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie at Culloden Moor in 1746. ...

Killing Floor is the first book in the internationally popular series about Jack Reacher hero of the new blockbuster movie starring Tom Cruise. It presents Reacher for the first time as the tough ex-military cop of no fixed abode: a righter of wrongs the perfect action hero. Jack Reacher jumps off a bus & walks fourteen miles down a country road into Margrave Georgia. An arbitrary decision he's about to regret. Reacher is the only stranger in town on the day they have had their first homicide in thirty years. The cops arrest Reacher & the police chief turns eyewitness to place him at the scene. As nasty secrets leak out & the body count mounts one thing is for sure. They picked the wrong guy to take the fall. ...

ABSOLUTE POWERTOTAL MADNESSONLY ONE MAN CAN STOP ITIn the Regiment you might swear allegiance to Queen & country. But its your mates you take the bullets for. & your mates you kill to protect. So when Chet uncovers corruption at the very highest levels of power its Luke he wants to tell. Only Lukes got his hands full in Iraq. Which leaves Chet very much on his own. Just him the girl the war-mongering Prime Minister
- & a lethal assassin...
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On a rainy night in Denton Detective Inspector Jack Frost is called to the site of a macabre discovery in the woods
- that of a
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