Val Mc Dermid creator of TV's Wire in the Blood mixes fact with fiction dealing with one of the most important & symbolic moments in recent history. Twenty-five years ago the daughter of the richest man in Scotland & her baby son were kidnapped & held to ransom. But Catriona Grant ended up dead & little Adam's fate has remained a mystery ever since. When a new clue is discovered in a deserted Tuscan villa -- along with grisly evidence of a recent murder -- cold case expert DI Karen Pirie is assigned to follow the trail. She's already working a case from the same year. During the Miners' Strike of 1984 pit worker Mick Prentice vanished. He was presumed to have broken ranks & fled south with other 'scabs'! but Karen finds that the reported events of that night don't add up. Where did he really go? & is there a link to the Grant mystery? The truth is stranger -- & far darker -- than fiction. ...

Bristol has much to be proud of having prospered as a city & a major port for over six hundred years. But its past



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John Harvey has been described as the master of British crime & in A Darker Shade of Blue he has collected together some of his very best writing. From the killing fields of the East Midlands to the mean streets of London from the jazz clubs & clip joints of Soho to the barren fenlands of East Anglia this is a world of broken families & run-down estates revenge killings & prostitution drugs guns & corruption; a world of overstretched police forces & underpaid detectives men & women who strive nonetheless for a kind of justice; a world in which everything even friendship has a price. Featuring characters like Frank Elder who tried to turn his back on police work & failed; Jack Kiley ex-copper & one-time professional footballer now a London-based PI; & the renowned jazz loving & much-loved Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick John Harveys finely-crafted vignettes perfectly encapsulate life in the badlands of modern Britain. ...

Imagine a serial killer who has already struck a horrific number of times. A killer who discovers people's secrets
- the deepest
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The Todd family are strangers to city life when they move into a flat on the Scotland Road; their previous home was a canal barge. Harry gets a job as warehouse manager & his wife Martha works in a grocer's shop whilst Seraphina trains as a teacher Angela works in Bunney's Department Store & young Evie starts at regular school. Then circumstances change & Seraphina takes a job as a nippy in Lyon's Corner House. Customers vie for her favours including an old friend Toby. When war is declared the older girls join up leaving Evie & Martha to cope with rationing shortages & the terrible raids on Liverpool which devastate the city. Meanwhile Toby is a Japanese POW working on the infamous Burma railway & dreaming of Seraphina... Darkest Before Dawn is a warm passionate story that makes it easy to see why Katie Flynn is one of Britain's most popular saga writers. ...

The Night People are safe at last. After all the ugly pranks & vicious murders things have finally started to return to normal. The friends who are left try to forget & move on taking comfort by meeting up at their old hang out Nights. It was the ancient spirit of Angelica Fear that caused all the trouble. & now she's been destroyed once & for all. Burned in a fire. But if it's true that the horror is dead what did Angelica mean when her voice cried out from the flames?... The Evil Lives!"" ...

May 1940. Sergeant Jack Tanner has been posted to a training company on the south-east coast of England where the mysterious deaths of two Polish refugees lead him to believe there has been foul play. As the Germans launch their Blitzkrieg in Europe the entire company are sent to join the battle to stop Hitlers drive across the Low Countries. Pitted against the die-hard Nazis of the SS Deaths Head Division & the great panzer commander General Rommel himself it is left to Tanner to get his men back to Allied lines. But if they are to have any hope of surviving the mayhem of Dunkirk Tanner must first deal with an enemy far more deadly than the Germans... ...

Step into the wild world of the Warrior Cats -- wild cat excitement epic battles & tribal rivalry! Myths & legends surround the four cat clans in this thrilling feline fantasy adventure. The thrilling saga of battling cat clans concludes in the sixth book of this fantastic feline fantasy. Thunder Clan's darkest hour is upon them as Tigerstar's quest for power plunges all the Clans into the most terrible danger any cat has ever faced. Fireheart prepares to pit his wits against his arch-enemy but the real danger he must face is even more terrible. The time has come for phrophecies to unfold & for heroes to rise! ...

Dark secrets. Dangerous seduction. It all begins with a kiss... With a werewolf's uncanny instinct for danger
- & vampire blood
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Claudine Rafferty is rich reckless & beautiful. So when she throws herself into an arranged marriage with the eminently eligible but notorious Francois de Lorvoire everyone in Paris is amazed. Determined to cope with Francois' cruelty & indifference Claudine soon finds herself driven to find love in the arms of Armand St Jacques one of her husband's vignerons. But all is not what it seems in the de Lorvoire family. As Claudine learns more of Francois's sinister past she also inherits some of his most dangerous enemies. & against a background of betrayal & conspiracy she forced to learn not only whom she can trust but also whom she really loves... ...