When the body of a young woman is discovered in a derelict cottage in the middle of Los Angeles National Forest Homicide Detective Robert Hunter finds himself entering a horrific & recurring nightmare. Naked strung from two wooden posts the victim was sadistically tortured before meeting an excruciatingly painful death. All the skin has been ripped from her face
- while she was still alive. On the nape of her neck has been carved a strange double-cross: the signature of a psychopath known as the Crucifix Killer. But that's impossible. Because two years ago the Crucifix Killer was caught & executed. Could this therefore be a copycat killer? Or could the unthinkable be true? Is the real killer still out there ready to embark once again on a vicious & violent killing spree selecting his victims seemingly at random taunting Robert Hunter with his inability to catch him? Hunter & his rookie partner are about to enter a nightmare beyond imagining.
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The fingerprints say the murderer is the man whos just been executed.. . At 11.05 one December evening in Richmond Virginia convicted murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell is pronounced dead in the electric chair. At the morgue Dr Kay Scarpetta waits for Waddells body. Preparing to perform a post-mortem before the subject is dead is a strange feeling but Scarpetta has been here before. & Waddells death is not the only newsworthy event on this freezing night: the grotesquely wounded body of a young boy is found propped against a rubbish skip. To Scarpetta the two cases seem unrelated until she recalls that the body of Waddells victim had been arranged in a strikingly similar position.. . ...

This work is set in Scotland 1297. Passionate brave & fiercely loyal Margaret Kerr
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The mountain paths are as treacherous as they are steep
- the more so in the dark & in winter. Even for the fit the journey is
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The Illustrated Police News is often dismissed as a crude publication which aimed to thrill the undiscerning reader with gruesome pictures. Cruel Deeds & Calamities sets out to correct that belief by demonstrating the diversity of its subject matter examining its social & political agenda & revealing the power & compassion in its images. The Illustrated Police News was a promoter of social change & a campaigner against the evils of cruelty poverty drink & crime. It anticipated by many years the features of todays journalism in the rapidity with which it provided pictures of current news events its appeal to the emotions & the involvement of its readers in the reporting process. This is the first book exclusively about the Illustrated Police News to reproduce the pictures as high quality images provide a balanced account of its content & cover the full period of its publication. There is substantial new research into how the paper was produced the men who made it a success & the stories behind the pictures. ...

Cruel Harvest lifts the lid on the reality of Afghanistans skyrocketing drug trade & the role played by the US military. Conventional accounts blame the Taliban for the expansion of drug production. However in Cruel Harvest Julien Mercille shows that the US in fact shares responsibility by supporting drug lords refusing to adopt effective drug control policies & failing to crack down on drug money laundered through Western banks. Mercille argues that the best way to address drug problems is by reducing demand in consumer countries not by conducting counternarcotics missions in Afghanistan. ...

Readers can discover all the foul facts about Cruel Kings & Mean Queens including which king died after falling off the toilet why people thought King John was a werewolf & why Queen Anne feet were covered in garlic With a bold look these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another generation of Terry Deary fans. ...

In 1919 Sian Busby's great-grandmother Beth gave birth to triplets. One of the babies died at birth & 11 days later Beth drowned the surviving twins in a bath of cold water. She was sentenced to an indefinite term of imprisonment at Broadmoor. The murder & the deep sense of shame it generated obviously affected Beth her husband & their surviving children to an extraordinary degree but it also resounded through the lives of her grandchildren & great-grandchildren. It gave rise to a collective anxiety about their family's ability to parent & an obsessive fear of hereditary insanity & depressive illness. In Sian's case ill-suppressed knowledge of the event manifested itself in recurring nightmares & contributed to a prolonged bout of post-natal depression. After the birth of her second son she decided to investigate the story once & for all & lay to rest the ghosts which have haunted the family for 80 years. ...

In 1919 Sian Busby's great-grandmother Beth gave birth to triplets. One of the babies died at birth & eleven days later she drowned the surviving twins in a bath of cold water. She was sentenced to an indefinite term of imprisonment at Broadmoor. The murder & the deep sense of shame it generated obviously affected Beth her husband & their surviving children to an extraordinary degree but it also resounded through the lives of her grandchildren & greatgrandchildren. In Sian's case ill-suppressed knowledge of the event manifested itself in recurring nightmares & contributed towards a prolonged bout of post-natal depression. After the birth of her second son she decided to investigate the story once & for all & lay to rest the ghosts which have haunted the family for 80 years... ...

Colby Cavendish has finally been invited to join the popular clique. Even though it meant ditching her old best friend for Amanda the coolest girl in school shell get to spend her senior year as a member of the in-crowd shes always envied. Colby even hooked up with her long-time crush Levi who didnt know she existed until she started hanging out with Amanda. Colby is excited about spending the summer holidays with her new friends but her world soon comes crashing down. Her parents begin a messy divorce & send her away to spend the summer in Greece with her aunt. & just like that Colby finds herself living on a remote island & worrying that her new friends have forgotten about her. But when she falls for a cute Greek native they strike up something deeper & more intense than a summer fling & Colbys forced to see herself in a new way...and the life she left behind. ...