A dark psychological thriller featuring Diane Fry & Ben Cooper in which a small community is ripped apart by arson & murder. ' Ingenious plotting & richly atmospheric' -- Reginald Hill. An assassination in the night -- an open window & three bullets from the darkness -- the victim a harmless middle-aged woman. But can she really be quite as innocent as she seems? The death of Rose Shepherd swarms with questions -- unlike the deaths of a woman & her two children in a house fire. A tragedy yes but an everyday one. Then DS Fry discovers a link between the two cases a link that crosses the borders between nations between right & wrong between madness & sanity. She & Ben Cooper discover why some people are scared to live -- & others are fated to die! ...

TWO WOMEN DEAD It was a vicious calculated murder. The killer selected his victim at Euston station followed her home on the tube strangled her to death in front of her child. At the same time killed in the same way a second body is discovered at the back of Kings Cross station. & this grisly event eerily echoes the murder of two other women stabbed to death months before on the same day. TWO KILLERS WORKING TOGETHER It is DI Tom Thorne who sees the link & comes to the horrifying conclusion. This is not a serial killer the police are up against. This is two of them
- & two killers are way more deadly than one.. .
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The fourth hilarious story about Splat the Cat the irresistible character from Rob Scotton bestselling creator of Russell the Sheep Its Halloween & Splat is determined to be the scariest cat in the class. Unfortunately hes just too much of a scaredy-cat. Hes afraid of a little spider & everyone says his costume looks more silly than scary. & when the teacher tells a ghost story in the dark Splat gets so frightened that he tips over his pumpkin jack-o-lantern. But when the lights go back on the entire class is scared silly by a small black furry creature with a big pumpkin head. Whoooo could it be? ...

From his gaol cell outlaw Will Scatlocke waits to be hanged. Before he swings Will
- known to his friends as Scarlet
- dictates

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Cathy Scarlet & Tom Feather have decided to create the best catering company in Dublin. They have the perfect premises heaps of talent & even a few contacts but not everyone seems as pleased by the idea of Scarlet Feather as they are. Toms parents are disappointed that he has turned his back on the family business. Cathys husband buries himself in work becoming ever more distant whilst his mother thinks Cathy should stay at home to look after him. & Toms relationship with his beautiful ambitious girlfriend becomes fraught as she struggles to realise her dream of becoming a model. As Cathy & Tom strive to maintain their emotional ties amidst catering triumphs & disasters they are supported & undermined by an enchanting cast of classic Binchy characters. ...

Hester Prynne is a beautiful young woman. She is also an outcast. In the eyes of her neighbours she has committed an unforgivable sin. Everyone knows that her little daughter Pearl is the product of an illicit affair but no one knows the identity of Pearl's father. Hester's refusal to name him brings more condemnation upon her. But she stands strong in the face of public scorn even when she is forced to wear the sign of her shame sewn onto her clothes: the scarlet letter 'A' for ' Adulteress' ...

This is an exquisite leatherbound edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's historical study of guilt & sin. This version of the landmark of American literature features a satin-ribbon bookmark distinctive stained edging & decorative marbled endpapers. In seventeenth-century Boston Hester Prynne shoulders the scorn of her fellow Puritan townsfolk for bearing a child out of wedlock. For her refusal to name the father of her daughter Pearl Hester is made to wear a scarlet 'A' stitched conspicuously upon her dress. But though she bears the stigma of the shame her peers would confer upon her others feel the guilt for her transgression more acutely notably the pious Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale the confessor with whom Hester & Pearl's destinies are intimately bound up. First published in 1850 Nathaniel Hawthorne's historical study of guilt & sin has since been lauded as the most important work of fiction by its distinguished author & a landmark of American literature. This exquisite collectible edition features an elegant bonded-leather binding a satin-ribbon bookmark distinctive stained edging & decorative marbled endpapers. It's the perfect gift for book-lovers & an artful addition to any home library. ...

William Marshal's prowess & loyalty as a knight in the English royal household has been rewarded by marriage to Isabelle de Clare heiress to great estates in England Normandy & Irel&. But their contentment & security is shattered when King Richard dies & is succeeded by his brother John who takes the Marshals' sons hostage & seizes their lands. Now William must face the conflict between remaining loyal or rebelling against these injustices
- & the struggle threatens to tear his marriage apart. Fiercely intelligent & courageous Isabelle too must come to terms with what the future holds.. . The Scarlet Lion is the final novel in an unforgettable standalone trilogy about William Marshal Earl of Pembroke Regent of England
- & one of the country's greatest forgotten heroes.

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What if you learned that your fiance was not who he claimed to be? Engaged to charming seductive Greg Anders Sara Shaw is happily anticipating her wedding in Edilean Virginia. The date has been set the flowers ordered; even her heirloom dress is ready. But just three weeks before the wedding Greg gets a call during the night & leaves without explanation. Two days later a strange man turns up at her apartment.. . Mike Newland is an undercover detective. His assignment is to use Sara to track down a woman who is one of the most notorious criminals in the country & who also happens to be the mother of the man Sara plans to marry. Mike thinks the job will be easy
- if he can figure out how to make Sara trust him. But Mike has no idea what this mission has in store for him. He has connections to Edilean dating back to his grandmothers time there in 1941 but hes worked hard to keep them private. As Mike & Sara get to know each other he cant help but share secrets that hes told no one else. & in return Sara opens up to Mike about things she could never reveal to Greg. As they work together to solve two mysteries will Mike & Saras growing love for each other be enough to heal the wounds of the past?
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A group of titled Englishmen under the leadership of a mysterious man valiantly aid condemned aristocrats in their escape from Paris to England during the French Revolution. Their leader is the Scarlet Pimpernel
- a man whose audacity & clever disguises foil the villainous agent Chauvelin. Who is he & can he keep one step ahead of the revolutionaries?
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