A serial killer who wants to watch you burn... The media call him The Burning Man a brutal murderer who has beaten four young women to death before setting their bodies ablaze in secluded areas of London's parks. & now the fifth victim has been found... Maeve Kerrigan is an ambitious detective constable keen to make her mark on the murder task force. Her male colleagues believe Maeve's empathy makes her weak but the more she learns about the latest victim Rebecca Haworth from her grieving friends & family the more determined Maeve becomes to bring her murderer to justice. But how do you catch a killer no one has seen? & when so much of the evidence they leave behind has gone up in smoke? ...

Gripping & chilling with a killer twist THE BURNING AIR reaffirms Erin Kelly as one of Britain's foremost psychological thriller writers. Of course it was love for my children love for my son that caused me to act as I did. It was a lapse of judgement. If I could have foreseen the rippling aftershocks that followed I would have acted differently but by the time I realised the extent of the consequences it was too late. The Mac Brides have always gone to Far Barn in Devon for Bonfire Night but this year everything is different. Lydia the matriarch is dead; Sophie the eldest daughter is desperately trying to repair a crumbling marriage; & Felix the youngest of the family has brought a girlfriend with him for the first time. The girl Kerry seems odd in a way nobody can quite put their finger on
- but when they leave her looking after Sophie's baby daughter & return to find both Kerry & the baby gone they are forced to ask themselves if they have allowed a cuckoo into their nest.. .
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Sonny Boy Marsallas a New Orleans street hustler entrusts Detective Dave Robicheaux with a mysterious notebook kicking off a series of violent incidents & raising questions that need answers & fast... What did Sonnys girlfriend know that got her murdered? Why is Sonny known as Red Angel by Central American guerrillas? & what do the Mafia want with a desolate stretch of New Iberia? This time Sonny Boy may have pushed his luck with the Giacano family one deal too far. A rich sardonic & terrifying portrayal of contemporary America with a setting which is as charged as an electric storm. ...

Joss Lambert has always been a loner constrained by a secret from his past until he finds friendship & solace firstly with Guy Liddell a friend from school & then with Guy's family who welcome him into their farmhouse home. Joss increasingly comes to depend upon the Liddells & treats Alvesdon Farm as the one place where he feels not only appreciated but also truly happy. But in late 1930s England the idyll cannot last. With war looming Joss is forced to confront the past. He escapes through flying becoming a fighter pilot in the RAF. But with the onset of war even the Liddells' world is crumbling. As Joss is fighting for his life in the Battle of Britain so he begins to fall madly in love with Stella
- Guy's twin
- but with tragic consequences. Leaving England & the Liddells far behind he continues to fly amid the sand & heat of North Africa's deserts flying above the ' Desert Rats' of the 8th Army until his hopes & dreams are seemingly shattered for good...

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Flames & funerals circus feats & seduction neighbours & nakedness: Tracy Chevalier's Burning Bright sparkles with historical drama. London 1792. The Kellaways move from familiar rural Dorset to the tumult of a cramped unforgiving city. They are leaving behind a terrible loss a blow that only a completely new life may soften. Against the backdrop of a city jittery over the increasingly bloody French Revolution a surprising bond forms between Jem the youngest Kellaway boy & streetwise Londoner Maggie Butterfield. Their friendship takes a dramatic turn when they become entangled in the life of their neighbour the printer poet & radical William Blake. He is a guiding spirit as Jem & Maggie navigate the unpredictable exhilarating passage from innocence to experience. Their journey inspires one of Blake's most entrancing works. Georgian London is recreated as vividly in Burning Bright as 17th-century Delft was in Tracy Chevalier's bestselling masterpiece Girl with a Pearl Earring. This novel is perfect for fans of Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus & Essie Fox's Somnambulist. ...

Ten brilliant seminal hard-edged nerve-enhancing stories from the most influential science fiction writer of our time. Ten brilliant seminal hard-edged nerve-enhancing stories from the most influential science fiction writer of our time. Since they were first published in the 1980s Gibsons vision has become a touchstone
- his lapidary prose seethes with buzz-phrases newly minted yet destined to be current well in to the future. Lowlife characters ghosts & hallucinations haunt the malls & plazas of an intensely realized holographic world a name-brand society with cloned Ninja bodyguards retro fashions stunning ideas. Gibson in the year 2000 is the unchallenged guru prophet & voice of the new cybernetic world order & virtual reality.
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If only our country hadnt been invaded. If only we could have carried on the way we used to watching other peoples wars on television. Ellie & her friends are more determined than ever to make an impact on the enemy. But the constant fighting is beginning to take its toll on the group. Kevin is suffering an emotional breakdown & the friendship that has kept the gang together for so long is under strain. & while there is no time for love in a time of war Ellie cant forget her feelings for Lee...A tale of relentless action & gripping intensity from one of the worlds best storytellers. (Book 5 of The Tomorrow Series.) ...

A MAN WHO KILLS FOR MONEY X marks the spot
- & when that spot is a corpse's naked back & the X is carved in blood DI Tom Thorne
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More than three centuries ago Nicholas Winters irrevocably altered his genetic makeup in an obsession-fuelled competition with alchemist & Arcane Society founder Sylvester Jones. Driven to control their psychic abilities each man's decision has reverberated throughout the family line rewarding some with powers beyond their wildest dreams & cursing others to a life filled with madness & hallucinations. At the heart of this curse is the Burning Lamp. In BURNING LAMP by Jayne Ann Krentz writing as Amanda Quick FIRED UP by Jayne Ann Krentz & MIDNIGHT CRYSTAL by Jayne Ann Krentz writing as Jayne Castle you will meet the three men
- past present & future
- of the Burning Lamp descendants of Nicholas Winters. There is only one hope for them: each must find the artefact & a woman who can work the dreamlight energy that the device produces in order to reverse the dangerous psychical changes brought on by the curse
- or risk turning into a monster...


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The latest in the bestselling Alfred series from number one historical novelist Bernard Cornwell. In the last years of the ninth century King Alfred of Wessex is in failing health & his heir is an untested youth. The Danes who have failed so many times to conquer Wessex smell opportunity... First comes Harald Bloodhair a savage warrior leading a Viking horde who is encouraged to cruelty by his woman Skade. But Alfred still has the services of Uhtred his unwilling warlord who leads Harald into a trap & at Farnham in Surrey inflicts one of the greatest defeats the Vikings were ever to suffer. This novel the fifth in the magnificent series of England's history tells of the final assaults on Alfred's Wessex that Wessex survived to become England is because men like Uhtred defeated an enemy feared throughout Christendom. ...