The beautiful woman appears to be just another corpse in the morgue. But when medical examiner Maura Isles looks down at the body she gets the fright of her life. The corpse opens its eyes. Now very much alive the woman is rushed to the hospital where she murders a security guard & seizes hostages one of whom is the heavily pregnant homicide detective Jane Rizzoli. But who is this woman & what does she want? Only Jane can solve the mystery
- if she survives the night.
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I remember Wills promise: Its not over. Ill find you.. . Then it dawns on me. He wont know what happened. Hell just think I left. Vanished. Jacinda did the unthinkable for love: she betrayed the most closely-guarded secret of her kind. Exposed for what she really is-a descendant of dragons with the ability to shift into human form-she must return to her pride knowing she might never see Will again. Back home Jacinda is shunned & her sister Tamra is the only one she can turn to. But Tamra is experiencing shocking changes of her own.. . Jacinda knows she should forget Will yet she clings to the hope that theyll be together again. So when the chance arrives to follow her heart will she risk everything? ...

No life is perfect. Everyone has secrets. For millions of Londoners the morning of 17 December is just like any other. But not for Sam Wren. An hour after leaving home he gets onto a tube train
- & never gets off again. No eyewitnesses. No trace of him on security cameras. Six months later he's still missing. Out of options & desperate for answers Sam's wife Julia hires David Raker to track him down. Raker has made a career out of finding the lost. He knows how they think. & in missing person cases the only certainty is that everyone has something to hide. But in this case the secrets go deeper than anyone imagined. For as Raker starts to suspect that even the police are lying to him someone is watching. Someone who knows what happened on the tube that day. & with Raker in his sights he'll do anything to keep Sam's secrets to himself...
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In the late 1930s in New York Marielle Patterson shares her life with her husband Malcolm & their little boy Teddy. But their lives are filled with secrets. Haunted by a past she has kept secret even from her husband Marielle secretly lights a candle each year for a child who died in a tragic accident when he was scarcely more than a baby. Then Marielle runs into her first love American expatriate Charles Delauney. & when her little Teddy is kidnapped Charles is first blamed then arrested as the Pattersons the New York Police & the FBI turn the country upside down looking for Teddy. A terrifying court drama seeks to put Charles Delauney behind bars as a series of revelations begin to unravel the truth about Marielle Charles & Malcolm. Piece by piece the uncovering of their pasts creates a complex mosaic of the motives & passions controlling their lives. Vanished is an intriguing tale of guilt desire & suspense & people one cant easily forget as they are drawn inexorably together seeking the child that...vanished. ...

From Norman Davies the acclaimed author of Europe: A History" comes the magical history of Europe's lost realms selected as a Book of the Year by the " Sunday Times" " Daily Telegraph" " New Statesman" " Independent" " Guardian" & " Financial Times". Europe's history is littered with kingdoms duchies empires & republics which have now disappeared but which were once fixtures on the map of their age. What happened to the once-great Mediterranean ' Empire of Aragon'? Where did the half-forgotten kingdoms of Burgundy go? Which current nations will one day become a distant memory too? This original & enthralling book peers through the cracks of history to discover the stories of lost realms across the centuries. " Dazzling provocative & brilliant". (Dominic Sandbrook " Sunday Times" Books of the Year). "A luminous account.. .there are few better ways of understanding the multilayered splendours & horrors of Europe's past than through the pages of this wise humane & unfailingly engaging book". (John Adamson " Sunday Telegraph"). "" Vanished Kingdoms" is great history & also great art. It is written with verve passion & profound empathy". (David Marquand " New Statesman" Books of the Year). "A magnificent achievement. Brocaded with scholarship the book is unlikely ever to be equalled". (Ian Thomson " Independent")." ...

Rupert Everett's first memoir
- Red Carpets & Other Banana Skins
- was an international bestseller & an instant classic on publication

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Rupert Everett's first memoir
- Red Carpets & Other Banana Skins
- was an international bestseller & an instant classic on publication

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Twenty years ago one-year-old Lauren disappeared in the most terrifying way imaginable. Snatched from a creche during a momentary blackout Lauren was never seen again & to this day her mother still grieves her loss. When ex-policeman Tom Lomax gets a mysterious offer from Sara Eaton heir to a massive fortune to fly to her private island all expenses paid he cannot help but be intrigued. Sara has received a troubling message & despite all the privileges in her life she now has no one to turn to & doesn't know whom she can trust. In a matter of hours both will be thrown headfirst into a race against time that will challenge everything they've believed in & change both their lives for ever. An action-packed nail-biting thriller with a heart-wrenching story of loss at its core The Vanishing is the brand new novel from acclaimed thriller writer John Connor. ...

This is a story about a snow-covered island you wont find on any map. Its the story of a girl Minou. A year ago her mother walked out into the rain & never came back. Its about a magician & a priest & a dog called No Name. Its about a fathers endless hunt for the truth. Its about a dead boy who listens & Minous search for her mothers voice. Its a story of how even the most isolated places have their own secrets. Its a story you will never forget. ...

THE VANISHING ACT OF ESME LENNOX is vintage Maggie O' Farrell: a stunning imagining of a life stolen & reclaimed. Edinburgh ...