Ringil Eskiath scarred wielder of the kiriath-forged broadsword Ravensfriend is a man on the run
- from his past & the family who
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You cant keep a good wizard down
- even when he wants to stay that way. For years Harry Dresden has been Chicagos only professional
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Secret operations sealed orders high-risk military special operations.. .such dangerous missions have been at the core of the Star Trek Vanguard series since its inception. Four great nations-the Federation the Klingon Empire the Tholian Assembly & the Romulan Star Empire-have all taken tremendous risks in their race to learn & control the ancient technologies of the ancient interstellar hegemons known as the Shedai. Now get ready for an all-new adventure in the Taurus Reach on Starbase 47 with the starship crews undercover agents civilian colonists & alien power players of the Vanguard saga based on Star Trek: The Original Series. ...

At the centre of the Galaxy a planet-sized Machine of terrifying power & unfathomable purpose hurls entire star systems into a supermassive black hole. Wesley Crusher now a full-fledged Traveller knows the Machine must be stopped...but he has no idea how. He enlists the help of Captain Picard & the Enterprise crew who also fail to halt the unstoppable alien juggernaut's destructive labours. But they soon divine the Machine's true purpose which threatens to exterminate all life in the Milky Way Galaxy. With time running out Picard realizes he knows of only one person who might be able to stop the Machine in time to avert a galactic catastrophe-but he has no idea how to find him. ...

Farley is dying & we are by his side. As his mind begins to move back over his 75 years Farley takes us into his past & with the comic wit of a true Dubliner unravels his life
- its loves its losses & its betrayals
- right in front of our eyes.

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Stuart Mac Bride's Number One bestselling crime series opens with this award-winning debut. DS Logan Mc Rae & the police in Aberdeen hunt a child killer who stalks the frozen streets. Winter in Aberdeen: murder mayhem & terrible weather... It's DS Logan Mc Rae's first day back on the job after a year off on the sick & it couldn't get much worse. Three-year-old David Reid's body is discovered in a ditch strangled mutilated & a long time dead. & he's only the first. There's a serial killer stalking the Granite City & the local media are baying for blood. Soon the dead are piling up in the morgue almost as fast as the snow on the streets & Logan knows time is running out. More children are going missing. More are going to die. & if Logan isn't careful he could end up joining them... ...

The sixth Anya Crichton thriller in a series to rival Patricia Cornwells Kay Scarpetta books. It feels like the safest place on earth. A family-friendly floating palace. But as Anya Crichton soon discovers cruise ships arent all that they seem... Statistics tell us that a woman is twice as likely to be sexually assaulted on a cruise ship than on dry l&. Customers arent screened so the ships are a haven for sex offenders & paedophiles. With no policing & floating in international waters sexual assaults & passengers disappearing are uncommonly frequent... So when a teenage girl is discovered dead on the deck of the ship that she is holidaying on Anya feels compelled to get involved. Theres no apparent cause of death but Anyas forensics expertise uncovers more than the ships doctors can...or want to. With the killer still on board & subsequently a crew-member found shot it becomes clear that the safe haven of the cruise-ship is actually anything but. & as Anya comes under increasing pressure to abandon her investigations will she continue? Or do whatever it takes to keep her own family safe? The sixth book to feature forensic pathologist Anya Crichton is perfect for fans of Patricia Cornwell & Kathy Reichs. ...

Even the coldest case will eventually crack. November 1993. Scotland is in the grip of the coldest winter in living memory & the Lake of Menteith is frozen over. A young man & woman walk across the ice to the historic island of Inchmahome which lies in the middle of the lake. Only the man comes back. In the spring as staff prepare the abbey ruins for summer visitors they discover the unidentifiable remains of the body of a girl her skull violently crushed. Twenty years later present day. Retired detective Alan Narey is still haunted by the unsolved crime. Desperate to relieve her fathers conscience DS Rachel Narey returns to the Lake of Menteith & unofficially reopens the cold case. With the help of police photographer Tony Winter Rachel discovers that the one man her father had always suspected was the killer has recently died. Risking her job & reputation Narey prepares a dangerous gambit to uncover the killers identity
- little knowing who that truly is. Despite the freezing temperatures the ice cold case begins to thaw & with it a tide of secrets long frozen in time are suddenly & shockingly unleashed.
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You thought you could leave the past behind. Think again. Donnie Miller counts himself lucky. Living in a beautiful spacious house in the wild & remote landscape of central Canada he spends his days writing for the local newspaper working on a film script & acting as house-husb&. After a troubled & impoverished upbringing in Scotland he now has all he wants: a caring wife a bright & happy son a generous father-in-law. As the brutal northern winter begins to bite he can sit back & enjoy life. But his peace is soon broken. There are noises in the nearby woods signs of some mysterious watcher. When the family dog disappears Donnie makes a horrifying discovery. Is it wolves as the police suspect or something far more dangerous far darker? What secrets has Donnie been keeping? & why does he have the terrible sense that his dream was never going to last? A taut shocking & visceral thriller that will leave you gasping for breath Cold Hands is the first in an exciting new series by the remarkable John J. Niven. ...

Movie mogul Harry Nathans lonely death in a Beverley Hills swimming pool is the beginning of a trail of lust & conspiracy leading to the darkest corners of the international art world. Private investigator Lorraine Page faces her toughest fight ever as she takes on the case for fading starlet Cindy Nathan Harrys third wife. Lorraine believes the grieving widows story. Unlike her ex-colleagues in the police department who have already charged Cindy with murder... ...