The two figures had been on the bridge. He had grasped hold of her. To save her or to push her? Inspector William Monk is still feeling his way in a new post in the Thames River Police & knows he must solve the mystery to gain the respect of his men. Soon both he & Hester find themselves powerfully involved in the story of the dead woman Mary Havilland & her quest to vindicate her father found dead two months previously. An engineer working for the Argyll Construction Company James Havilland was convinced a major disaster would happen in the tunnels where London's desperately needed new sewer system was being built. Maddened by his obsession he'd apparently shot himself. Mary had never accepted that & now she was dead too. Was it chance or something more sinister? ...

Today I shot the girl I love. GCSEs are over & sixteen-year-old Imogen is looking forward to a perfect lazy English summer. But her world is turned upside down by three refugees all hiding from life. Anthony is fourteen already an outcast bullied & shunned by his peers. Farid is an asylum seeker from Afghanistan who has travelled across continents seeking peace. & Gordon Craig is a bitter lonely man. She knows all of them but she doesnt know how dangerous they are. Being part of their lives could cost Imogen her own. Supercharged with tension & drama Alan Gibbons novel is about what happens when the fabric of normality is ripped apart exposing the terrifying dark beneath. ...

The Number One bestselling crime series from the award-winning Stuart Mac Bride. In this sixth DS Logan Mc Rae thriller Scotland's finest see first-hand how starting again can be murder... Everyone deserves a second chance. Richard Knox has served his time so why shouldn't he be allowed to live wherever he wants? Yes in the past he was a violent rapist but he's seen the error of his ways. Found God. Wants to leave his dark past in Newcastle behind him & make a new start. Or so he says. Detective Sergeant Logan Mc Rae isn't exactly thrilled to be part of the team helping Knox settle into his new Aberdeen home. He's even less thrilled to be stuck with DSI Danby from Northumbria Police
- the man who put Knox behind bars for ten years
- supposedly here to 'keep an eye on things'. Only things are about to go very very wrong. Edinburgh gangster Malk the Knife wants a slice of the development boom Donald Trump's golf course is bringing to the Granite City whether local crime lord Wee Hamish Mowat likes it or not. Three heavies from Newcastle want a 'quiet word' with DSI Danby about a missing mob accountant. & Richard Knox's dark past isn't done with him yet...

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Events take an unexpected turn in this ninth awesome foray into the worlds of the Demonata... The Disciples are being manipulated by beings older than time. Only Kernel Fleck knows that something is wrong. But he is in the grip of a creature who cares nothing for the fate of humanity. Voices are calling to him from the darkness & he's powerless to resist. Kernel has already been to hell & back. Now he's about to go further... ...

The king of horrors demonic symphony in ten volumes now available in omnibus editions -- each containing two titles in the spine-chilling Demonata series. Dark Calling: The Disciples are being manipulated. Only Kernel Fleck knows that something is wrong. But he is in the grip of a creature who cares nothing for the fate of humanity. Voices are calling to him from the darkness & hes powerless to resist. Kernel has already been to hell & back. Now hes about to go further! Hells Heroes: Beranabus & Dervish are gone. Bec has formed an unholy alliance with Lord Loss. Kernel is blind held on Earth against his will. Grubbs is mad with grief & spinning out of control. * The demons are crossing. * The Disciples are falling. * The Shadow is waiting. Welcome to the end! ...

Carpathian vampire hunter Julian Savage is powerful but tormented. But he has one last duty to fulfill before he gives himself over to the dawn & certain death. He has to warn the famous singer Desari that she is being targeted by vicious human vampire hunters who will stop at nothing to hurt those they believe are vampires. But when Julian hears Desari sing he realises she is the woman he has always sought
- his lifemate. Desari is most definitely Julian's match but she has great powers of her own. & she is not happy when a mysterious stranger enters her mind & begins giving her orders!
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Adolf Hitler was an unlikely leader
- fuelled by hate incapable of forming normal human relationships unwilling to debate political
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From award-winning historian Mark Mazower Dark Continent: Europes Twentieth Century" retells the story of a century of division charting the struggles of rival ideologies to create a new world order for mankind. The end of the First World War saw old empires swept away & the opportunity to build a better society from the ruins. Yet the result was division & bloodshed on an unprecedented scale as liberal democracy communism & fascism struggled against one another for mastery of the world. " Dark Continent" radically overturns the myth of Europe as a safe haven of democracy to redefine our view of the twentieth century. " Original thought-provoking iconoclastic". (Frank Mc Lynn " Irish Times"). " Fascinating & forceful". (Martin Gilbert " Literary Review"). " Mazower leaves us in this wonderful book with an account of our century that anyone who takes an interest in Europes present & future will enlarge their mind by reading". (John Keegan " Daily Telegraph"). " There are few who can walk with A.J.P. Taylor. One is Mark Mazower.. .a tour de force". (Alex Danchev "TLS"). " Combines narrative verve with wise & humane analysis. For anyone who wants to know how Europe came to be the way it is in the years since 1900 this is the work to provide the answers". (David Cannadine Observer Books of the Year). Mark Mazower is the author of " Inside Hitlers Greece" " The Balkans" which won the Wolfson Prize for History " Salonika: City of Ghosts" which won both the Runciman Prize & the Duff Cooper Prize & " Hitlers Empire"." ...

A classic tale of espionage secret missions & exotic locations which out-Bonds Bond from the acclaimed master of action & suspense. Eight job advertisements. Eight jobs. Eight specialists in modern technology required. Eight scientists to fill them. Applicants to be married with no children & prepared to travel. Highly persuasive salaries. One criminal mastermind. Eight positions filled. Eight scientists
- & their wives
- disappear. Completely. One secret agent to stop him. Advertisment no.9. Sydney Australia. Fuel specialist required. Looks like a job for John Bentall...

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Born into a world of ice slave to her evil father Lara Calladine knew paralysing fear as a child. Only by escaping with her mysterious gifts unbroken did she survive to claim her great Carpathian heritage as a Dragonseeker. She walked her chosen path alone trusting no one. For beyond the frozen hall of her youth was a world of even greater mystery & danger. Now the worlds leading expert in the field of ice-cave study Lara is on a search for healing microorganisms but also for the source of her nightmares
- the cold dark corners of her childhood. Only one man has the will & the power to help her: Nicolas De La Cruz. Dangerous & arrogant centuries of hunting & killing have taken their toll on him but he still longs to feel sensual love without the hunger for blood. A tenuous trust emerges between Lara & Nicholas & a passion neither of them has ever experienced but as much as they long for a future as lifemates they are also haunted by the unknown dangers of the dark curse.
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