Charlotte Kinder is in need of true escape when she heads from Ohio to Pembrook Park a Jane Austen-themed retreat in the British countryside. But as it turns out this vacation is no time to relax. Hearts are racing & stomachs fluttering in a tangle of intrigues
- real & pretend sinister & romantic
- increasingly tough to sort out. Its midnight in Austenland & Charlotte is about to prove herself a heroine worthy of Austen herself.

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Revenge courage & murky pasts collide in these two exclusive J. D. Robb short stories Midnight in Death Eve's name has made a Christmas list but it's not for being naughty or nice. It's for putting a serial killer behind bars. Now he's escaped & has her in his sights. With her husband Roarke at her side Eve must stop this madman from exacting his bloody revenge
- or die trying.. . Interlude in Death When respected Commander Skinner offers Lieutenant Eve Dallas a promotion if she'll give her husband Roarke up to custody she reacts badly. Roarke's Irish past is murky but he's a changed man
- so what is the Commander after? With Eve & Skinner at one of Roarke's holiday resorts for a police convention Skinner's thwarted vengeance soon brings death to their luxury surroundings.. .

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A father hunts for his daughters killer in the gripping true story Midnight in Peking" by Paul French -which finally solves the case. On a frozen morning in January 1937 in the dying days of colonial Peking a body was found under the haunted watchtower. It was Pamela Werner the teenage daughter of the citys former British consul ETC Werner. Her heart had been removed. A horrified world followed the hunt for Pamelas killer with a Chinese-British detective team pursuing suspects including a blood-soaked rickshaw puller the Triads & a lascivious grammar school headmaster. But the case was soon forgotten amid the carnage of the Japanese invasion...by all but ETC Werner. With a network of private investigators & informers he followed the trail deep into Pekings notorious Badlands & back to the gilded hotels of the colonial Quarter. Some 75 years later deep in the Scotland Yard archives British historian Paul French accidentally came across the lost case file prepared by ETC Werner. Unveiling an undercover sex cult heroin addicts & disappearing brothels the truth behind the crime can now be told
- & is more disturbing than anyone could imagine. Not just the unputdownable story of a savage murder Midnight in Peking is a sweepingly evocative account of the end of an era. " An instant true crime classic. Grips from the first page to the last". (David Peace author of " Red Riding" & " The Damned United"). " Fascinating & irresistible. I couldnt put it down". (John Berendt author of " Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil"). Written in the style of a gripping murder mystery but all the facts are true". (Kirsty Lang BBC Radio 4 (" Book of the Week")). " Engrossing true crime whodunnit...A terrific read". (Andrew Holgate " Sunday Times"). " Not only does Mr French succeed in solving the crime he resurrects a period that was filled with glitter as well as evil". (" The Economist"). " French has an easygoing prose style...well chosen"es bring a new vigour & crispness... He succeeds in giving voice to a tragic quest for justice". (" Sunday Telegraph"). " It is the storytelling flair that marks " Midnight in Peking" so highly above the run-of-the-mill true crime stories: with its false leads & twists it sucks the reader in like the best fiction". (" The Scotsman"). " The shocking true tale combined with prose you cant drag yourself away from makes " Midnight in Peking" a work of non fiction as compulsive as any bestselling crime novel. It also brings justice at last for a young woman whose murder nearly went unsolved". (" Sunday Express"). Born in London Paul French has lived in China for more than 10 years. He is a widely published analyst & commentator on China; his books include a history of North Korea a biography of Shanghai adman & adventurer Carl Crow & a history of foreign correspondents in China."
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Midnight in Peking" is a gripping true murder mystery by Paul French. The international bestseller
- as heard on BBC radio
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A journey into the heart of Sicily using art food history & literature to shed light on southern Italys legacy of political corruption & violent crime. The book takes as its starting point the ongoing trial of seven-times Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti. ...

Genteel society ladies who compare notes on their husbands' suicides. A hilariously foul-mouthed black drag queen. A voodoo priestess who works her roots in the graveyard at midnight. A morose inventor who owns a bottle of poison powerful enough to kill everyone in town. A prominent antiques dealer who hangs a Nazi flag from his window to disrupt the shooting of a movie. & a redneck gigolo whose conquests describe him as a 'walking streak of sex'. These are some of the real residents of Savannah Georgia a city whose eccentric mores are unerringly observed
- & whose dirty linen is gleefully aired
- in this utterly irresistible book. At once a true-crime murder story & a hugely entertaining & deliciously perverse travelogue Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil is as bracing & intoxicating as half-a-dozen mint juleps.

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Beautifully repacked edition of this stunning novel of contemporary & historical betrayal & revenge from the author of LADY ...

Its said that if the ravens ever leave the Tower of London then the Tower will crumble & the kingdom will fall. As it happens thats not so far from the truth.. . One by one the magical wards that guard the city are failing: the London Wall defiled with cryptic graffiti the ravens found dead at the Tower the London Stone destroyed. This is not good news. This array of supernatural defences
- a mix of international tourist attractions & forgotten urban legends
- formed a formidable magical shield. Protection for the City of London against.. .well thats the question isnt it? What could be so dangerous as to threaten an entire city? Against his better judgement resurrected sorcerer Matthew Swift is about to find out. & if hes lucky he might just live long enough to do something about it.. .

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Ellie Summer & Jasmine still have to find one more ingredient to save King Merry from getting stuck as a stink toad for ever. But mean Queen Malice is also about & she's determined to keep the girls from curing him. Can the girls defeat Queen Malice find the last ingredient & get the potion to King Merry before it's too late? ...

Elly Tash & Sierra are back for their most mysterious adventure yet. At a sleepover in Tash's tree house the girls are going through all of Old Man Blake's inventions trying to figure out what they are & what they're meant to do. When Tash pulls out a ghost detector the three of them can't resist trying it out. At first nothing happens but then it starts bleeping madly & when Elly looks out of the window & sees lights coming from the graveyard the girls know something's up. There are rumours that Sunday Island's haunted by the ghost of Old Man Blake so perhaps he's trying to tell them something about his inventions.. . But Sierra's sure that ghosts don't exist. So why is she scared of them? & if ghosts don't exist then who was it in the graveyard? Can the girls face their fears & solve the mystery? ...