Dr Anya Crichton pathologist & forensic physician is back on another chilling case that will stretch her forensic talents to the limit. This time Anya is on the trail of a violent serial rapist. Suspicion immediately falls on the deviant Geoffrey Willard recently released from prison after serving a full term for the brutal rape & murder of a fourteen year old girl. As Anya delves deeper into a myriad of forensic evidence she begins to suspect that Willard is innocent. When two of the victims are later stabbed to death a blood-smeared shirt holds the key to the truth. Only the killer knows that Anya has made a mistake. One that could prove fatal... ...

Jack Reacher walks alone. No job no ID no last known address. But he never turns down a plea for help. Now a woman tracks him down. A woman serving at the very heart of US power. A woman who needs Reachers assistance in her new job. Her job? Protecting the Vice-President of the United States. Her problem? Someone wants the VP dead. ...

Twelve-year-old Parisian boy Louis Whittaker has a lot on his plate
- his parents are locked in a custody battle over him & his
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The new bestseller from the original thrill-seeker
- Jack Higgins. In Higgins acclaimed bestseller Dark Justice intelligence operative
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The world changed forever when a massive wave of energy slammed into North America & wiped out 99 percent of the population. As the United States lay in ruins chaos erupted across the globe. Now while a skeleton American government tries to reconstruct the nation swarms of pirates & foreign militias plunder the lawless wasteland where even the president is fair prey. ...

Four bystanders in the wrong place at the wrong time. Witnesses to the shocking shooting of a teenage boy. A moment that changes their lives forever. Fiona a midwife is plagued by panic attacks & unable to work. Has she the strength to testify? Mike a delivery driver & family man faces an impossible decision when his frightened wife forces him to choose
- us or the court case. Cheryl a single-mother doesnt want her child to grow up in the same climate of fear. Dare she speak out & risk her own life? Zak a homeless man offers to talk in exchange for witness protection & the chance of a new start. Ordinary people in an extraordinary situation. Will the witnesses stand firm or be prevented from giving evidence? How will they cope with the emotional trauma of reliving the murder under pitiless cross-examination? This is a compassionate suspenseful & illuminating story exploring the real human cost of bearing witness. Praise for Cath Staincliffes The Kindest Thing": "A painfully honest exploration of an ordinary family under stress.. .A stunning piece of work." (Anne Cleeves). " Modest compassionate...a solid ingenious plotter with a sharp eye for domestic detail." (" Literary Review"). " Complex & satisfying". (" The Sunday Times"). " Its always exciting to see a writer get better & better & Cath Staincliffe is doing just that". (Val Mc Dermid)."
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Despite standing as chief prosecution witness in the Moors Murders trial David Smith was vilified by the public due to the accusations thrown at him by Myra Hindley & Ian Brady about his involvement in their crimes. Hindleys later confession that she & Brady had lied in an attempt to reduce their sentences did little to diminish the slurs against his name. For almost 45 years Smith was asked by writers & film-makers to tell his story. Apart from a handful of brief interviews he always refused. Carol Ann Lee met Smith during her research for One of Your Own her critically acclaimed biography of Hindley following which he finally agreed to reveal all. In Witness interviews archival research & most significantly David Smiths own vivid memoir are fused to create an unforgettable often harrowing account of his life before during & after the Moors Murders. ...

Nora Roberts
- the world's greatest storyteller. Abigail Lowery has a dark & terrifying secret. Aged just sixteen she witnessed
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Nora Roberts
- the world's greatest storyteller. Abigail Lowery has a dark & terrifying secret. Aged just sixteen she witnessed
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This book offers a complex & thought-provoking anthology of critical essays respecting the notion of the witness & phenomena of witnessing in Western culture since the Holocaust. Witness presents a new body of work in the field by an international collective of scholars concerned with resituating witnessing in its specifically contemporary problematic. This volume thus not only establishes links with existing currently canonical contributions to witness literature -- from Primo Levi through Victor Klemperer to Imre Kertesz -- it also goes on to provide a set of analyses of exemplary & very recent literary works in that area. Most significantly Witness extends & changes the previous scholarly tendency to focus strongly on historical evidence & the witness vocalisation of true remembrance so as to include difficult theoretical & interpretative questions posed by studies today of traumatic experience amnesia visual culture new media & technology. Amongst others the book

Includes:: contributions from the acclaimed Romanian-German author Herta Muller & such an internationally recognised scholar in trauma studies as Cathy Caruth.

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