Lena Adams has spent her life struggling to forget her childhood in Reece the small town which nearly destroyed her. She's made a new life for herself as a police detective in Heartsdale a hundred miles away
- but nothing could prepare her for the violence which explodes when she is forced to return. A vicious murder leaves a young woman incinerated beyond recognition. & Lena is the only suspect. When Heartsdale police chief Jeffrey Tolliver Lena's boss receives word that his detective has been arrested he has no choice but to go to Lena's aid
- taking with him his wife medical examiner Sara Linton. But soon after their arrival a second victim is found. The town closes ranks. & both Jeffrey & Sara find themselves entangled in a horrifying underground world of bigotry & rage
- a violent world which shocks even them. But can they discover the truth before the killer strikes again?


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The sensational new novel featuring vampire-hunting heroine Anita Blake Anita Blake's reputation has taken some hits. Not on the work front where she has the highest kill count of all the legal vampire executioners in the country but on the personal front. No one seems to trust a woman who sleeps with the monsters. Still when a vampire serial killer sends her a head from Las Vegas Anita has to warn Sin City's local authorities what they're dealing with. Only it's worse than she thought. Several officers & one executioner have been slain
- paranormal style... Anita heads to Las Vegas where she's joined by three other federal marshals including the ruthless Edward hiding behind his mild-mannered persona. It's a good thing Edward always has her back because when she gets close to the bodies Anita senses 'tiger' too strongly to ignore it. The were-tigers are very powerful which means the odds of her rubbing someone important up the wrong way just got a lot higher...
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To the remote planet Spatterjay come three travellers with very different missions. Janer is directed there by the hornet Hive-mind; Erlin comes to find the sea captain who can teach her to live; & Keech
- dead for seven hundred years
- has unfinished business with a notorious criminal. Spatterjay is a watery world where the human population inhabits the safety of the Dome & only the quasi-immortal hoopers are safe outside amidst a fearful range of voracious life-forms. Somewhere out there is Spatterjay Hoop himself & monitor Keech cannot rest until he can bring this legendary renegade to justice for atrocious crimes committed centuries ago during the Prador Wars. Keech does not realise that Hoop's body is running free on an island wilderness while his living head is confined in a box on an Old Captain's ships. Nor does he know that the most brutal Prador of all is about to pay a visit intent on wiping out all evidence of his wartime atrocities. Which means major hell is about to erupt in this chaotic waterscape.

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Terrorists strike at the heart of the Edinburgh Festival in Quintin Jardines fantastic second novel in the highly popular Bob Skinner series. An explosion rocks Princes Street in the midst of the Edinburgh Festival. Responsibility is claimed by a group supposedly demanding political separation from Britain but as atrocities escalate Skinner realises this is no gang of fanatics but a highly professional team. But the Fighters havent reckoned with Assistant Chief Constable Bob Skinner head of the Edinburgh CID & security adviser to Secretary of State Alan Ballantyne... ...

Skinner must help a criminal in order to catch a killer in this sixth novel in the bestselling Edinburgh crime series. When an Edinburgh car showroom is torched leaving a charred body among the burnt-out luxury cars Deputy Chief Constable Bob Skinner wonders if a life of crime has finally caught up with one of the citys most elusive villains. But the corpse turns out not to be that of Jackie Charles the owner of the showroom but his wife Carole. Skinner now finds himself on the same side as his old enemy in the search for the killer... ...

Skinner faces both the biggest case of his career & crippling personal crisis in this thrilling fifth novel in Quintin Jardines bestselling Edinburgh crime series. A mid-air explosion; a plane plunges to disaster from the Scottish skies the British & American Defence Secretaries among the victims. Out of the blue Edinburghs Deputy Chief Constable Bob Skinner finds himself leading the biggest investigation of his career. As Skinners ordeal reaches its crescendo the police pursue their suspects one by one until at last they are brought to a dramatic thrilling but tragic conclusion. ...

Bob Skinner must challenge local beliefs & legends to solve a gruesome murder in this fourth installment in the fantastic Scottish crime series. A four-day tournament involving the worlds leading golfers is being staged to mark the opening of a new country club created on the Marquis of Kintures East Lothian estate. But on the previous Sunday afternoon one of Kintures business partners is found dead in his private jacuzzi in the clubhouse
- with his throat cut. The next day an anonymous letter is received by the local newspaper containing a fragment of a legendary witches curse upon anyone who desecrates their place of worship. When a second murder occurs this time by water ACC Bob Skinner finds himself facing the most challenging case of his career...
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The book that launched a legend: the first novel in the acclaimed Bob Skinner series. As head of Edinburghs CID Detective Chief Superintendent Bob Skinner has seen it all...but even he is shocked by the savagely mutilated corpse discovered in a dark alleyway. The victim is identified as a successful young lawyer & the motive for the brutal death remains a mystery. Then further seemingly random killings in the city begin to suggest a vicious serial killer is on the rampage. But when the lawyers fiancee is also murdered Skinner realises that someone is in deadly earnest... ...

Skinner is on the trail of organised crime & a cold-blooded killer in this gripping third novel in Quintin Jardines bestselling crime series. First the joyous birth of Skinners son...then the grim reality of murder in one of Edinburghs prosperous suburbs. A man has been found knifed in a luxury villa. The victim had run a chain of laundrettes saunas & pubs throughout the city but for some time the police suspected these to be the front for a drug distribution network. Moving from Scotland to northern Spain then back to a chilling climax in Edinburgh this complex & suspenseful thriller follows a tortuous & bloodsoaked trail... ...