Selina Kyle has prowled the skyline of Gotham City as Catwoman the protector of the East End for years. But one year ago she became pregnant & decided to leave the costumed world behind. Now a new inexperienced Catwoman continues Selinas trade cloaked in the shadows & tries to restore order in the streets while the original feline fatale has her hands full with the baby whos become the most important person in her life. Will it be too late for Selina to return when she questions her decision to step away from her crimefighting life? ...

Seventeen-year-old Haley Mc Waid never gave her parents a moments worry. Until one morning her mother wakes to find that Haley didnt come home the night before. Three months quickly pass without a word & everyone assumes the worst. Wendy Tynes is a reporter on a mission: to identify & bring down sexual predators via televised sting operations. Her latest target is Dan Mercer a social worker known as a friend to troubled teens. But his story soon becomes more complicated than Wendy could have imagined. CAUGHT tells the story of a missing girl the community stunned by her loss the predator who may have taken her & the reporter who suddenly realises she cant trust her own instincts about this story
- or the motives of the people around her...
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Set in a Northern town where right-wingers are determined to stir up hatred & racial prejudice CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE is about six teenagers whose lives are woven together by a series of shocking & tragic events. A British Muslim brother & sister two Irish brothers who take different sides & two lads out looking for trouble: all of them get caught in the crossfire. Inspired by the Oldham riots & the events of September 11th this is a book that needed to be written. It is a chilling account of what is happening in Britain today but as always Alan Gibbons writes with humour & understanding & is utterly on the wavelength of his many readers. ...

The deadliest Glasgow gang war of a generation
- the Daniel family versus the Lyons
- was sparked by an opportunistic cocaine

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The deadliest Glasgow gang war of a generation
- the Daniel family versus the Lyons
- was sparked by an opportunistic cocaine

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When Rose Trevelyan sees a young girl being carried away by someone who appears to be her father she thinks nothing of it. Until that is the appearance of a frantic mother who cannot find her child. Beth Jones is only four years old & her mother is adamant that the man Rose saw taking her away must be a stranger. Wracked with guilt for not intervening Rose once again finds herself entangled in a criminal investigation. As time passes it becomes clear that the chances of getting Beth back unharmed are very bleak indeed.. . ...

Get ready for more thrills spills & spells in 2012! Max Pendragon is not looking forward to attending Morgana Le Fays summer Spell School. Not only is his battered cauldron producing slimy sludge instead of perfect spells but ever since he & his sister Olivia foiled evil Morganas plot against King Arthur they have been wary of her plans for revenge. Max & Olivia soon discover that Spell School has more in store for them than they ever imagined. With the help of Merlin & a mysterious bard Caradoc will they be able to outwit Morgana & save Arthur for a second time? ...

Their dream became a nightmare... Nineteen year-old Julianna Starr has chosen Kate & Richard to be more than the parents of her child. Julianna knows that Richard is the man of her fantasies the one she's been waiting for. As tormented Julianna begins to mould herself in Kate's image she insinuates herself into Richard's life determined to tear their perfect marriage apart & have Richard for herself. But for Kate & Richard the nightmare has only begun. Because Julianna is not alone. From her dark past comes a man of unspeakable evil... ...

Nicky Marlow needs a job. He's engaged to be married & the employment market in Britain in 1937 is pretty slim. So when his fiancee points out the position with an English armaments manufacturer in Italy he jumps at the chance. Soon after he arrives however he learns the sinister truth about his predecessor's departure & finds himself courted by two agents with dangerously different agendas. In the process Marlow realizes that it's not so simple just to do the job he's paid for
- not in fascist Italy on the eve of a world war.
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An investigative reporter is found dead in Virginia's icy waters.. . New Year's Eve & the final murder scene of Virginia's bloodiest year takes Scarpetta thirty feet below the Elizabeth River's icy surface. A diver Ted Eddings is dead an investigative reporter who was a favourite at the Medical Examiner's office. Was Eddings probing the frigid depths of the Inactive Shipyard for a story or simply diving for sunken trinkets? & why did Scarpetta receive a phone call from someone reporting the death before the police were notified? The case envelops Scarpetta her niece Lucy & police captain Pete Marino in a world where both cutting-edge technology & old-fashioned detective work are critical offensive weapons. Together they follow the trail of death to a well of violence as dark & forbidding as water that swirled over Ted Eddings. For more about Patricia Cornwell & her books visit her website on www.patricia-cornwell.com ...