For decades tired travellers have stopped at rest areas on America's epic highways to rest refuel & get a bite to eat but little do they know that one man's rest stop is another's hunting ground. For years the defenceless the weary & the stranded have been disappearing along the highways & byways vanishing without a trace. When FBI special agent Maggie O' Dell & her partner Tully discover the remains of a young woman in a highway ditch the one clue left behind is a map that will send Maggie & Tully on a frantic hunt crisscrossing the country to stop a madman before he kills again. As the body count rises & Maggie races against the clock to unmask the monster who's terrorising the nation's highways she turns for help to a former foe who seems to have an uncanny knack for guessing what the killer's next move will be. But as she gets closer to finding the killer it becomes eerily clear that Maggie is the ultimate target. ...

This is the ultimate beachcomber's book. A series of meditations prompted by walking on the wild estuarial beaches of Ainsdale Sands between Blackpool & Liverpool Strands" is about what is lost & buried then discovered about all the things you find on a beach dead or alive about flotsam & jetsam about mutability & transformation
- about sea-change. Every so often the sands shift enough to reveal great mysteries: the Star of Hope wrecked on Mad Wharf in 1883 & usually just visible as a few wooden stumps is suddenly raised one day up from the depths
- an entire wreck black & barnacled & on either side two more ruined ships taking the air for a while before sinking back under the s&. & stranger still perhaps are the prehistoric footprints of humans animals & birds on the beach: prints from the Late Mesolithic to mid-Neolithic period which are described as 'ephemeral archaeology' because they are preserved in the Holocene sediment revealed briefly & then destroyed by the next tide. " Strands" describes a year's worth of walking on the ultimate beach: inter-tidal & constantly turning up revelations: mermaid's purses lugworms sea potatoes messages in bottles buried cars beached whales & a perfect cup from a Cunard liner. Jean Sprackland a prize-winning poet & natural storyteller is the perfect guide to these shifting sands
- this place of transformation."


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Strands describes a year's worth of walking on the ultimate beach: inter-tidal & constantly turning up revelations: mermaid's purses lugworms sea potatoes messages in bottles buried cars beached whales & a perfect cup from a Cunard liner. This is a series of meditations prompted by walking on the wild estuarial beaches of Ainsdale Sands between Blackpool & Liverpool Strands is about what is lost & buried then discovered about all the things you find on a beach dead or alive about flotsam & jetsam about mutability & transformation
- about sea-change.
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When Alan Banks receives a disturbing message from his brother Roy he abandons the peaceful Yorkshire Dales for the bright lights of London to seek him out. But Roy seems to have vanished into thin air. Meanwhile DI Annie Cabbot is called to a quiet stretch of road just outside Eastvale where a young woman has been found dead in her car. In the victim's pocket scribbled on a slip of paper police discover Banks' name & address. Living in Roy's empty South Kensington house Banks finds himself digging into the life of the brother he never really knew nor even liked. & as he begins to uncover a few troubling surprises the two cases become sinisterly entwined. ' The Banks novels are simply put the best series now on the market'
- Stephen King.
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Carla Craig is passionately in love with Richard Mere
- he has a hold over her she cant resist. Even when her world is blown apart
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Everyone has a dark side. Dr Jekyll has discovered the ultimate drug. A chemical that can turn him into something else. Suddenly he can unleash his deepest cruelties in the guise of the sinister Hyde. Transforming himself at will he roams the streets of fog-bound London as his monstrous alter-ego. It seems he is master of his fate. It seems he is in complete control. But soon he will discover that his double life comes at a hideous price. ...

Harper Collins is proud to present its new range of best-loved essential classics. ' All human beings as we meet them are commingled out of good & evil.' After taking an elixir created in his laboratory mild mannered Dr Jekyll is transformed into the cruel & despicable Mr Hyde. Although seemingly harmless at first things soon descend into chaos & Jekyll quickly realises there is only one way to stop Hyde. Stevenson's quintessential novella of the Victorian era epitomizes the conflict between psychology science & religious morality but is fundamentally a triumphant study of the duality of human nature. ...

Utterson the lawyer is becoming increasingly anxious about the strange behavior of his friend Dr. Henry Jekyll & in particular by Jekyll's association with an ugly violent creature by the name of Edward Hyde. Utterson resolves to get to the bottom of the mystery & along the way uncovers a horrific story of murder & suffering which leads inevitably to the terrible revelation of Mr. Hyde's true identity. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde" is a masterpiece of Victorian literature & one of the most potent & enduring of modern myths. The adventures of Prince Florizel of Bohemia & his running battle with the sinister machinations of " The Suicide Club" are also included in this volume as well as " The Body Snatchers " " Markheim " & " Olalla"-three of Stevenson's memorable & well-observed short stories which deal with similarly gothic themes." ...

This title is suitable for children aged 10 years old & up. The respected Dr. Jekyll appears to have fallen under the spell of a disreputable character named Edward Hyde. Hyde has access to Jekylls bank account & Jekyll has named Hyde as his sole heir in a recently drafted will. & there is something even more disturbing about the close relationship between Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde... This handsome unabridged edition with striking illustrations by Scott Mc Kowen joins Sterlings beloved classics line & will be treasured in any familys library. ...

His innovative thriller as shocking now as when it was first published the Penguin Classics" edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's " The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde & Other Tales of Terror" is edited with an introduction by Robert Mighall. Published as a 'shilling shocker' Robert Louis Stevenson's dark psychological fantasy gave birth to the idea of the split personality. The story of respectable Dr Jekyll's strange association with the 'damnable young man' Edward Hyde; the hunt through fog-bound London for a killer; & the final revelation of Hyde's true identity is a chilling exploration of humanity's basest capacity for evil. The other stories in this volume also testify to Stevenson's inventiveness within the Gothic tradition: " Olalla" a tale of vampirism & tainted family blood & " The Body Snatcher" a gruesome fictionalisation of the exploits of the notorious Burke & Hare. This edition contains a critical introduction by Robert Mighall which discusses class criminality & the significance of the story's London setting. It also

Includes:: an essay on the scientific contexts of the novel & the development of the idea of the Jekyll-&-Hyde personality. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was born in Edinburgh the son of a prosperous civil engineer. Although he began his career as an essayist & travel writer the success of " Treasure Island" (1883) & " Kidnapped" (1886) established his reputation as a writer of tales of action & adventure. Stevenson's Calvinist upbringing lent him a preoccupation with predestination & a fascination with the presence of evil themes he explored in " The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde" (1886) & " The Master of Ballantrae" (1893). If you enjoyed " The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde" you might like " The Private Memoirs & Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg" also available in " Penguin Classics". " Every bit as claustrophobic creepy & chilling as when it first saw the light of day over a century ago". (Ian Rankin)."

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