She wore a gold dress short-sleeved its skirt full-length & slightly flared. He could see the faint indentation on her left hand a pale circle of skin giving away the fact that until recently a wedding ring had been there. She looked peaceful lying there on the bed her arms resting easily together the left hand on the right a slender silver cross & chain encircling her neck & not a wrinkle not a fold of her dress out of place. & perhaps she truly was at peace. For she was dead. This was the sight that greeted Detective Inspector Frank Elder on his first case with the Serious Crimes Unit. His first case & never solved; no one was ever charged; the murderer never found. At liberty to walk the streets & to kill again. Eight years later Elders estranged wife contacts him in his Cornish hideaway. Her friends sister Claire
- a quiet & withdrawn widow in her fifties
- has mysteriously disappeared. Elder reluctantly agrees to dig around & see what he can find. Then Claire is found dead arranged with meticulous detail on her bed & it doesnt take long for Elder to make the connection. Its obviously the work of the same unbalanced individual & to find the killer Elder must shine a light into the darkest recesses of human behaviour the dark & twisted recesses of a disturbed human mind...

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N. S. Rubashov an old guard Communist falls victim to an unnamed government; with outstanding psychological insight Koestler traces his story through arrest imprisonment & trail in a classic novel which when first published famously drew attention to the nature of Stalins regime. ...

The triumphant finale to the Riftwar Saga
- Raymond E. Feists first classic bestselling fantasy trilogy. As Prince Arutha & his
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The triumphant finale to the Riftwar Saga
- Raymond E. Feist's first classic bestselling fantasy trilogy The battle may be over
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The adventure concludes with the triumphant finale in the Riftwar Saga. Raymond E. Feist is an internationally best-selling author. The battle may be over but war is coming... The Kingdom forces may have won the first conflict but the enemy has a strong grip on Midkemia & invasion now seems inevitable. Arutha travels north to confront the Dark Elves but without help Pug knows that Arutha's forces face slaughter. With Tomas he must scour the world
- & beyond
- to find the one person with enough power to give them a chance. If they fail Midkemia will be the first of many worlds to fall to a madman with the power to dominate death itself...A Darkness at Sethanon concludes Raymond E. Feist's bestselling Riftwar Saga.

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Between fighting the Kalith who try to invade the world & honing his hacking skills D.J. Claybornes life has become predictable. But lately someone--the mysterious Reggie"--has been breaching D.J.s own considerable firewalls to leave him messages. & D.J. knows he must do something to keep the hidden world of the Regents & their extraordinary warriors the Paladins well hidden. Reggie Morrison is part of a federal cyber-crime unit cracking down on computer crime. Her job? To investigate the top hackers & find out how they do it. But as she looks into D.J. she finds herself admiring the way his mind works. Although he does have a hobby of breaching classified security systems he does no real harm. But Reggie discovers that D.J. has some classified information of his own someone will stop at nothing to keep it under wraps. When D.J. gets her SOS hes hot on the feisty womans trail. But when that trail crosses the barrier into Kalithia Reggie & D.J. must fight both their mutual enemies & the powerful attraction that erupts between them." ...

Who is more foolish -- the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? Baba Lavelle is a stranger in New York. A stranger with a mission to break the Mafia stranglehold on the citys drug traffic & take it over himself. He has no guns no army of hoods no friends in high places. But he has the Power -- magical ancient & terrifyingly brutal. The power that thrives in darkness! ...

When Silvano Niccolo the driven charismatic leader of a Florentine political movement collapses at a rally his young party immediately comes under threat. & when it emerges that his long time partner Flavia has disappeared leaving behind not only a devastated husband but their newborn son the political becomes dangerously personal
- & Sandro Cellini is drafted in to investigate. The trail leads to a tired sea-side town & a modest hotel where Flavia chose to end her life. But Cellini isn't satisfied
- why would one so young & with so much to live for walk away from all she loves? As he digs into Flavia's secret world however Sandro uncovers the hidden life of a woman consumed with private passions & a deadly dark obsession. & as the private & public realms intersect he cannot forget that life in modern Italy has a perilous edge
- fuelled as much by rage as desire.


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The sexy thrilling adventures continue in bestselling author Keri Arthurs new Dark Angels series set in the realm of danger & desire known as the Guardian World.. . Half-werewolf half-Aedh Risa Jones can enter the realm between life & death & she can see the Reapers who collect the souls of the dead. Now she is using her gifts
- & the investigative know-how of a man who broke her heart
- to find a cabal searching for the power to control time reality & fate. & this is besides her work for the Vampire Council half of whom want her dead. But for now the Council needs her alive. Someone is killing blood-whore addicted vampires & Risa must find the guilty party. If she succeeds she may finally convince the council to lift the execution order on her life. But before she succeeds she must first survive.. .

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April Dunne is having a rough time. There are vampires in her school. Not Goths or Emos in fancy dress. Dangerous blood-sucking semi-immortals. They run the school. They pretend to be students at it. & theyre using their influence to recruit smart rich students
- aka bleeders
- to their own cause. What is that cause? April isnt sure. But she knows they killed a rock star for it & innocents who got too close to the truth. One of them almost killed her. But thats nothing to whats coming next. Gabriel her kinda-boyfriend is dying & unless April can find a cure then not only is she going to be boyfriendless shes also going to lose one of her major allies in the school. & she really needs allies. Because it turns out April has an ability of her own one that could prove lethal to the Suckers whove taken over the school. If any of them figure out what she is then losing her boyfriend will be the least of her problems.. .

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