It is August in Edinburgh & the Festival is in full swing...A brutally tortured body is discovered in one of the city's ancient subterranean streets & marks on the corpse cause Rebus to suspect the involvement of sectarian activists. The prospect of a terrorist atrocity in a city heaving with tourists is almost unthinkable. When the victim turns out to be the son of a notorious gangster Rebus realises he is sitting atop a volcano of mayhem
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Butterfly effect: The scientific theory that a single occurrence no matter how small can change the course of the universe forever. Hannah homeless & on the run. Gwen & Tehpoe kidnapped by violent rebels. Todd & Isabella threatened by piranha attack. Wai Yan hunted by a cruel dictator. Stian Olberg fighting to save his vessel from imminent destruction. For them & many others things will never be the same again. Some will live. Many will die. All are connected. The action is non-stop in this tense & compelling adventure. ...

Butterfly effect: The scientific theory that a single occurence no matter how small can change the course of the universe forever. A father & son diving off the coast of Hawaii with the sharks closing in. A scientist in a forest under attack from a savage bear. A young girl who has been kidnapped by drug dealers in Rio. The teenagers surfing on top of a speeding bullet train. For them & many others things will never be the same again. Some will live. Many will die. All are connected. The action is non-stop in this tense & compelling adventure. ...

The second novel in Ann Grangers wonderfully atmospheric Victorian mystery series. Lizzie Martin ladys companion has been sent from London to the New Forest to comfort a young woman whose baby has tragically died. A sad enough task but things take an even darker turn when a rat-catcher is found murdered in the garden & the young woman is discovered beside the body crying & covered in blood. Not knowing where else to turn Lizzie calls upon her friend Inspector Ben Ross from Scotland Yard to solve the horrific crime. ...

MORTAL ENGINES launched Philip Reeve's brilliantly-imagined creation the world of the Traction Era where mobile cities fight for survival in a post-apocalyptic future. The first instalment intrduces young apprentice Tom Natsworthy & the murderous Hester Shaw flung from the fast-moving city of London into heart-stopping adventures in the wastelands of the Great Hunting Ground No 11-to-16-year-old should miss the superbly imagined debut novel from Philip Reeve"
- The Times " This big brave brilliant book combines a thrilling adventure story with endless moral conundrums"
- Guardian"

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By day Harper Cole is a successful commodities trader working from his home in the isolated Mississippi Delta. But at night he is a system operator for EROS a sexually explicit on-line service that caters for the erotic appetites of an exclusive clientele. But Harpers secret life is about to be shattered when a twisted serial killer uses EROS to select & stalk his female victims. & suddenly he finds himself a prime suspect in the eyes of the FBI. In order to clear his name Harper knows he must lure the real killer into the open & impersonating a woman online someone he once loved he begins to play a very dangerous game with a psychopath. A psychopath that could destroy the very fabric of Harpers world. ...

Could you chose between the ones you love.. .? A gorgeous boyfriend & a long summer in Winter Mill to look forward to
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What did my father do? He killed my mother my sister & my brother then waited to kill me... Steve Farris is an architect who lives with his wife & son in the suburbs. His world changes drastically when he is contacted by Rebecca Soltero who wants to interview him for a book shes writing about men who murdered their families. For in 1959 Steves father shot his wife & their teenage daughter & son then vanished. Nine-year-old Stevie desperately missing his gifted older sister managed to block out all thoughts about the deaths. Now Rebecca lures him into talking & he is forced to acknowledge the questions that have haunted his subconscious mind: did his father mean to kill him too? What secret did his father & his sister share? The novel shifts back & forth in time from the present to the years before Steves birth to the immediate aftermath of the deaths but always comes back to the horrible deed
- the excruciating how & the unanswerable why.
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Thomas Nagels Mortal Questions explores some fundamental issues concerning the meaning nature & value of human life. Questions ...

During the US book tour for his memoir Hitch-22 Christopher Hitchens collapsed in his New York hotel room to excoriating pain in his chest & thorax. As he would later write in the first of a series of deeply moving Vanity Fair pieces he was being deported from the country of the well across the stark frontier that marks off the land of malady. Over the next year he underwent the brutal gamut of modern cancer treatment enduring catastrophic levels of suffering & eventually losing his voice. Mortality is the most meditative piece of writing Hitchens has ever produced; at once an unsparingly honest account of the ravages of his disease an examination of cancer etiquette & the coda to a lifetime of fierce debate & peerless prose. In this eloquent confrontation with mortality Hitchens returns a human face to a disease that has become a contemporary cipher of suffering. ...