The setting is Steelton a struggling Midwestern town trying to save its decaying inner city by building a major league baseball stadium. Dark Lady introduces Assistant County Prosecutor Stella Marz who has escaped her alcoholic father & working class background to become head of the Prosecutors homicide unit. Her ambition is to become County Prosecutor. But this ambition indeed her very survival is threatened when her ex-lover Jack Kovak a drug lawyer is murdered & Stella leads the investigation. There are more deaths & revelations about Jack Kovaks dealings with the citys crime lord & a trail of wrong-doing that implicates officers in law enforcement possibly within her own office. As her inquiry draws her into a re-examination of her own complex past her certainty that she is being watched & followed leads her to fear for her own future. ...

For two thousand years Carpathian twins Gabriel & Lucian were vampire hunters. But then Lucian turned vampire forcing Gabriel to hunt him. Lucian & Gabriel battled each other for centuries until two hundred years ago when Gabriel sacrificed his freedom trapping Lucian & himself in the earth of a Parisian cemetery. Now modern construction work within the cemetery has disturbed their resting place & Gabriel & his dark brother Lucian are raised from the rubble. Weakened & in desperate need of blood Gabriel fears he will lose his own soul before he can restore his strength. Fate is on his side when Francesca a uniquely gifted healer comes to his aid. Gabriel instantly recognises that she is his lifemate & must convince Francesca before it is too late: Lucian is on their trail & will let nothing stand in the way of his eternal conflict with his brother. ...

A kiss that just wont happen. A disco at the end of the world. A teenage goth on a terror mission. & OAP kiddie-snatchers & scouse real-ale enthusiasts & occult weirdness in the backwoods.. . Dark Lies the Island" is a collection of unpredictable stories about love & cruelty crimes desperation & hope from the man Irvine Welsh has described as the most arresting & original writer to emerge from these islands in years. Every page is shot through with the riotous humour sympathy & blistering language that mark Kevin Barry as a pure entertainer & a unique teller of tales." ...

This title is the winner of the Sunday Times short story prize. It is shortlisted for the Edge Hill short story prize. A kiss that just won't happen. A disco at the end of the world. A teenage goth on a terror mission. & OAP kiddie-snatchers & scouse real-ale enthusiasts & occult weirdness in the backwoods... Dark Lies the Island is a collection of unpredictable stories about love & cruelty crimes desperation & hope from the man Irvine Welsh has described as 'the most arresting & original writer to emerge from these islands in years'. Every page is shot through with the riotous humour sympathy & blistering language that mark Kevin Barry as a pure entertainer & a unique teller of tales. ...

In the shadows of the night in Caldwell New York there's a deadly turf war going on between vampires & their slayers. There also exists a secret band of brothers like no other
- six vampire warriors defenders of their race. Among them none relishes killing their enemies more than Wrath the leader of the Black Dagger Brotherhood... The only pure-bred vampire left on the planet Wrath has a score to settle with the slayers who murdered his parents centuries ago. But when one of his most trusted fighters is killed
- orphaning a half-breed daughter unaware of her heritage or her fate
- Wrath must usher the beautiful female into the world of the undead... Racked by a restlessness in her body that wasn't there before Beth Randall is helpless against the dangerously sexy man who comes to her at night with shadows in his eyes. His tales of brotherhood & blood frighten her. But his touch ignites a dawning hunger that threatens to consume them both...


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The benefits of living in a digital globalised society are enormous; so too are the dangers. The world has become a law enforcers nightmare & every criminals dream. We bank online shop online date learn work & live online. But have the institutions that keep us safe on the streets learned to protect us in the burgeoning digital world? Have we become complacent about our personal security
- sharing our thoughts beliefs & the details of our daily lives with anyone who cares to relieve us of them? In this fascinating & compelling book Misha Glenny author of the international bestseller Mc Mafia" explores the three fundamental threats facing us in the 21st century: cyber crime cyber warfare & cyber industrial espionage. Governments & the private sector are losing billions of dollars each year fighting an ever-morphing often invisible often super-smart new breed of criminal: the hacker. Glenny has travelled & trawled the world. & by exploring the rise & fall of the criminal website " Dark Market" he has uncovered the most vivid alarming & illuminating stories. Whether Ji Lsi or Matrix Iceman Master Splynter or Lord Cyric; whether Detective Sergeant Chris Dawson in Scunthorpe or Agent Keith Mularski in Pittsburgh Glenny has tracked down & interviewed all the players
- the criminals the geeks the police the security experts & the victims
- & he places everyone & everything in a rich brew of politics economics & history. The result is simply unputdownable. " Dark Market" is authoritative & completely engrossing. Its a must-read for everyone who uses a computer: the essential crime book for our times."


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January 1937. Clouds of war are gathering over a fogbound London. Twenty-eight year old Jack is poor lonely & desperate to change his life. So when hes offered the chance to join an Arctic expedition he jumps at it. Spirits are high as the ship leaves Norway: five men & eight huskies crossing the Barents Sea by the light of the midnight sun. At last they reach the remote uninhabited bay where they will camp for the next year. Gruhuken. But the Arctic summer is brief. As night returns to claim the land Jack feels a creeping unease. One by one his companions are forced to leave. He faces a stark choice. Stay or go. Soon he will see the last of the sun as the polar night engulfs the camp in months of darkness. Soon he will reach the point of no return
- when the sea will freeze making escape impossible. & Gruhuken is not uninhabited. Jack is not alone. Something walks there in the dark...
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It is the 1960s & the charismatic & cunning Spenser Mallon is a campus guru attracting the devotion & demanding sexual favours of his young acolytes. After he invites his most fervent followers to attend a secret ritual in a local meadow the only thing that remains is a gruesomely dismembered body
- & the shattered souls of all who were present. Years later one man attempts to understand what happened to his wife & his friends by writing a book about this horrible night & its through this process that they begin to examine the unspeakable events that have bound them in ways they cannot fathom but that have haunted every one of them throughout their lives. As each of the old friends tries to come to grips with the darkness of the past they find themselves face to face with the evil triggered so many years earlier...
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Dayan has been searching for centuries to find the one woman who can complete him a true lifemate who can save him from the darkness in his soul. Despairing of ever finding her & on the run from his enemies something drives Dayan to stop at a bar & perform some of his music. Then Corrine Wentworth walks in & Dayan knows instantly that she is the one. Corrine wants nothing more than to surrender her life & soul to Dayan but she is suffering from a degenerative heart disease & pregnant with her late husbands child. She is also running from the men who killed her husband the same group of fanatics who are hunting Dayan & his kind. Dayan must call on his family & the greatest healers of the Carpathians to aid him in a race against time to save Corrine whose fate is now inextricably linked to his own. ...

The peaceful Eldarin were the last of three ancient races. The mystical Oltor healers & poets had fallen before the dread power of the cruel & sadistic Daroth. Yet in one awesome night the invincible Daroth had vanished from the face of the earth. Gone were their cities their armies their terror. The Great Northern Desert was their only legacy. Not a trace remained for a thousand years... The War of the Pearl had raged for seven years & the armies of the four Duchies were exhausted & weary of bloodshed. But the foremost of the Dukes Sirano of Romark possessed the Eldarin Pearl & was determined to unravel its secrets. Then on one unforgettable day a dark mon rose above the Great Northern Desert & a black tidal wave swept across the l&. In moments the desert had vanished beneath lush fields & forests & a great city could be seen glittering in the morning sunlight. From this city re-emerged the blood-hungry Daroth powerful & immortal immune to spear & sword. They had only one desire: to rid the world of humankind for ever. Now the fate of the human race rests on the talents of three heroes: Karis warrior-woman & strategist; Tarantio the deadliest swordsman of the age; & Duvodas the Healer who will learn a terrible truth. ...