Detective Catherine Mc Leod was always taught that in Glasgow they dont do whodunit. They do score-settling vendettas & petty revenge. & however she looks at it the discovery of a dead drug-dealer in a back alley means shes going to be busy. Meanwhile aspiring actress Jasmine Sharp is reluctantly
- & incompetently
- working for her uncle Jims private investigation business. When Jim goes missing Jasmine has to take on the investigator mantle for real & her only lead points to a professional assassin who has been dead for twenty years. Soon Jasmine stumbles into a web of corruption & secrets that leaves her running for her life.

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Detective Catherine Mc Leod was always taught that in Glasgow they dont do whodunit. They do score-settling. They do vendettas. They do petty revenge. They do cant-miss-whodunit. Its a lesson that has served her well but Glasgow is also a dangerous place to make assumptions. Either way she looks at it she recognises that the discovery of a dead drug-dealer in a back alley is merely a portent of further deaths to come. Elsewhere in the city aspiring actress Jasmine Sharp is reluctantly
- & incompetently
- earning a crust working for her uncle Jims private investigation business. When Jim goes missing Jasmine has to take on the investigator mantle for real & her only lead points to Glen Fallan a gangland enforcer & professional assassin whose reputation is rendered only slightly less terrifying by having been dead for twenty years. Cautiously tracing an accomplished killers footsteps Jasmine stumbles into a web of corruption & decades-hidden secrets that could tear apart an entire police force
- if she can stay alive long enough to tell the tale.


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A young boy visits a tropical rainforest in Queensland Australia. My father says there has been a forest here for over a million years " he tells us & we follow him through the ancient forest as he makes believe it is a time long ago. But how much longer will the forest remain he wonders?" ...

A fabulous drama of the Campion family struggling to stay together as World War Two rages over Liverpool Lou Campion has joined the WAAFs against the wishes of her parents & twin sister Sasha. Lou's always been a rebel but now finds that if she wants to succeed she'll have to follow extremely strict rules. Can she do this or will it all end in deep disgrace? Tragedy haunts the other members of the family as Katie's plans for the future are dashed Fran's young husband is close to death & Bella's impossible passion has to remain a close secret. Yet even in the darkest hour there is hope. The Campions find that they have a hero in their midst & while their city is crumbling their pride is intact. ...

Penelope Ashford may be rich but she also has a social conscience. As Portia Cynster's younger sister she is forceful wilful & blunt to a fault
- & she has for years devoted her considerable energy & intelligence to caring for the forgotten orphans in London's East End. But now her charges are mysteriously disappearing & in desperation Penelope turns to the one man she knows might be able to help her
- Barnaby Adair. Handsome scion of a noble house Adair has made a name for himself in certain circles where his powers of observation & deduction have seen him solve several unsavoury crimes. Despite his skills
- or perhaps because of them
- he makes Penelope distinctly uncomfortable but the stakes are too high. Throwing caution to the wind defying every rule for unmarried ladies she appears on his doorstep late one night determined to recruit his talents. However soon the pair are in more danger than they could have ever imagined.



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In November 1942 two nights after the Battle of El Alamein a young British army officer was captured. As the Nazis deliberated about what to do with him Richard Carver had particular reason to be afraid: unknown to anyone he was the stepson of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery the Allied Commander who had just inflicted the first serious defeat on the Third Reich... This gripping story tells of Richard's internment in a POW camp in northern Italy
- the same camp made famous by Eric Newby
- & of his subsequent escape. Having decided to risk making his way back to Allied HQ in the south he embarked on a gruelling 500-mile journey through German-occupied territory evading capture again & again & ultimately being saved by a family of brave Italian peasants who jeopardised not just their own lives but those of an entire village to hide him. In the winter of 1943 a year after he disappeared he staggered back into Army HQ to be greeted by his now famous stepfather with the words ' Where the hell have you been?' This is a great adventure story
- a reminder of a lost age when in the face of terrifying challenges a generation rose to extraordinary feats of valour in the service of a cause greater than themselves.


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Amid Icelands wild volcanic landscape rumours swirl of an eight-hundred-year-old manuscript inscribed with a long-lost saga about a ring of terrible power. A rediscovered saga alone would be worth a fortune but if the rumours can be believed there is something much more valuable about this one. Something worth killing for. Something that will cost Professor Agnar Haraldsson his life. Untangling murder from myth is Icel&-born Boston-raised homicide detective Magnus Jonson. Seconded to the Icelandic Police Force for his own protection after he runs afoul of a drug cartel back in Boston Magnus also has his own reasons for returning to the country of his birth for the first time in nearly two decades
- the unsolved murder of his father. & as Magnus is about to discover the past casts a long shadow in Icel&. Binding Icelands landscape & history secrets & superstitions in a strikingly original plot that will span several volumes Where the Shadows Lie is the first in a thrilling new series from an established master.
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Claire's husband has been keeping secrets. About the whereabouts of the witness to the murder trial he's prosecuting. & about the letters he's been getting threatening to kill their four-year-old unless he tells the blackmailer where the witness is hiding. With their daughter's life at stake it is left to Claire to untangle the web of lies & half-truths & find out just who might be responsible. & to stop them. Before it's too late. ...

One night Max puts on his wolf suit & makes mischief of one kind & another so his mother calls him ' Wild Thing' & sends him to bed without his supper. That night a forest begins to grow in Max's room & an ocean rushes by with a boat to take Max to the place where the wild things are. Max tames the wild things & crowns himself as their king & then the wild rumpus begins. But when Max has sent the monsters to bed & everything is quiet he starts to feel lonely & realises it is time to sail home to the place where someone loves him best of all. ...

When Max puts on his wolf suit & makes mischief his mother calls him ' Wild Thing' & sends him to bed without any supper. Alone in his room Max enters a magical world & sets sail across the sea to the place where the wild things are. The wild things roar their terrible roars & gnash their terrible teeth & roll their terrible eyes & show their terrible claws.. . But Max tames the wild things & is made their king. Will he ever want to go home? ...