Ann Rule was a writer working on the biggest story of her life tracking down a brutal mass-murderer. Little did she know that the young man who was her close friend was the savage slayer she was hunting. Ted Bundy was everyone's picture of a natural 'winner'
- handsome charming brilliant in law school successful with women on the verge of a dazzling career. On January 24 1989 Ted Bundy was executed for the murders of three young women; he subsequently confessed to taking the lives of a least thirty-five more young women coast to coast. This is his story
- the story of his magnetic power his unholy compulsion his demonic double life & his string of helpless victims. It was written by a woman who thought she knew Ted Bundy until she began to put all the evidence together & the whole terrifying picture emerged...

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The Stranger I Married
- the classic erotic romance
- by Sylvia Day
- author of the sensational international bestselling


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Epic ambitious & entertaining Stranger in a Strange Land" caused controversy & uproar when it was first published. Still topical & challenging today the story of Valentine Michael Smith the first man from Mars to visit Earth is in the great tradition of stories that endure through the power of the author's imagination that stretches from Gulliver's Travels to 1984." ...

Like the rest of the nation the Burracombe villagers are shocked when King George the Sixth dies suddenly in 1952. But in the midst of their grief the arrival of a stranger in the village on the very same day goes almost unnoticed as the villagers have their own concerns... Farmers daughter Val needs to find a home before she can marry her sweetheart; Hilary is struggling to come to terms with her new responsibilities & Stella is still getting to know the sister she thought she had lost during the war. While the children at the village school are as lively & inquisitive as ever there are still conflicts & feuds amongst the long-standing residents of Burracombe. Then a search for a family draws the whole village together & more than one person is led to question their own ideas about families & what they mean. ...

Jesse Stone is an ex LA cop who has taken the job of police chief in Paradise Massachusetts. His drinking & his damaged relationship with his wife define him as much as his supreme skill at policing his patch. When Crow an Apache hitman turns up in Jesse Stones office he is intrigued & very much on his guard. Ten years before Crow was part of a gang that had taken a woman in the town hostage when a bank raid went wrong. The hostages were released unharmed thanks to Crows moral view that you didnt kill women but he also got away with enough money not to have to work again. So why is Crow back in town? Why has he come to see Jesse? & why has he taken a job of kidnapping a young girl & her mother? All questions to which Jesse has to find answers as things start to go badly wrong in Paradise. ...

An evangelistic preacher in paint & self-proclaimed man of visions Reverend Howard Finster became one of the most widely known & prolific self-taught artists producing over 46 000 pieces of art by his death in 2001. Finster often referred to himself as a stranger from another world & Gods last red light on the planet earth. He saw himself as a sacred artist fulfilling his visionary prophesies revealed to him by God through a heavenly outer space world. Thus Finster believed he was to disperse warnings to people to save their souls from the horrors of hell. These experiences were very real to Finster & provided a seemingly limitless variety of images for his art & content for his rapid fire stream-of-consciousness monologues. This book provides an in-depth survey of Finsters career illustrating the variety of themes inherent in his work much of it relating to his visionary experiences including: Visions of Other Worlds Sermons in Paint Historical & Cultural Heroes & The Plant Farm Museum [ Paradise Garden]. Glen C. Davies is an artist muralist lecturer & curator. Other contributors are Phyllis Kind Jim Arient & N. J. Girardot. ...

Keye Street ex-FBI profiler & private detective always looks out for those closest to her. But sometimes looking after herself is quite enough to handle. Shes teetering on the brink not quite sure if shes winning or losing in her battle with herself. But when her cousin Miki Ashton sees a stranger inside her house its time for Keye to lend a h&. Meanwhile Keyes mentor Lieutenant Aaron Rauser is embroiled in a disturbing case. When a dog returns alone from its walk the hunt is on for the missing boy. As the mystery deepens & the bodies pile up Rauser needs Keyes expert profiling skills to unravel the killers bizarre signature
- tears. Battling her demons takes up a lot of Keyes time. But on top of that shes battling the bad guys. If she can ignore the voice from her past that is...
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Magic is not simply a matter of the occult arts but a whole way of thinking of dreaming the impossible. The supreme fiction of magical thinking is the Arabian Nights" with its flying carpets hidden treasure & sudden revelations. As part of her exploration into the prophetic enchantments of the Nights Marina Warner retells some of the most wonderful & lesser-known stories. She explores the figure of the dark magician or magus from Solomon to the wicked uncle in " Aladdin"; the complex vitality of the genies or jinn; & animal metamorphoses. With startling originality & impeccable research this groundbreaking book shows how magic in the deepest sense helped to create the modern world & how profoundly it is still inscribed in the way we think today." ...

He meets women. He gains their trust. He kills them. That's all Maeve Kerrigan knows about the man she is hunting. Three women have been strangled in their homes by the same sadistic killer. With no sign of a break-in every indication shows that they let in their attacker. But the evidence is pointing at a shocking suspect: DCI Josh Derwent Maeve's colleague. Maeve refuses to believe he could be involved but how well does she really know her partner? After all this is hardly the first time Derwent's been accused of murder... ...

DARE TO BREAK THE RULES When Morwenna Morgan defies her brothers orders & rescues a shipwreck victim from a Cornish beach she doesnt expect an instant attraction to the injured stranger. This is the kind of man Morwenna can imagine falling for
- not the unpleasant suitor her brothers forcing on her! Except the stranger is Lord Rupert Melford
- a government agent sent to entrap the Morgan family! He has to believe that Morwenna is part of a smuggling plot but her sweet nature & devotion to nursing him speak only of her innocence...

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