An antiques dealer is burned with a blowtorch & executed with a single shot to the back of the head. The only clues at the scene are a scrap of paper & an unusual choice of gun. Ex-cop Zatopek Zed van Heerden has just seven days to solve the case
- an almost impossible task made even harder when he discovers that until a few years ago there was no proof that the victim even existed.. .
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At Gottfried Academy just one kiss will take your breath away. Desire. Danger. Destiny. Little did I know that this is what I would find at Gottfried Academy. Coming from sunny California the mist-shrouded Academy was a shock with its strange customs ancient curriculum & study of Latin
- the language of the dead. Then I discovered that the school has more than one dark secret...I also discovered Dante. Intelligent elusive & devastatingly gorgeous most people cant decide whether they love hate or fear him. All I know is that when were together Ive never felt more alive
- or more afraid.

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ONE COP. ONE KILLER. TWO CAPTIVES OF THE PAST. Mat Joubert once a rising star of the South African police force had it all. Then his wife was murdered & his hopes died with her. Alcoholic depressed & overweight he is a shadow of his former self. Then a new killer appears on the streets of Cape Town murdering at random. Mat throws himself into the case viewing it as his last chance for redemption. But as their shared desire for revenge threatens to destroy both him & the mysterious killer he is hunting Mat soon learns that he is not the only one with ghosts to lay to rest.. . ...

When the bodies of a number of babies are found scattered around Islington the volatile Detective Sergeant Best is sent undercover to lodge next door to a suspected baby farm. He shadows an alleged 'child dropper' onto a Thames pleasure steamer & finds himself caught up in Britain's worst civilian tragedy
- the 1878 sinking of the Princess Alice
- a ghastly experience which will haunt Best forever. His determination to avenge the death of a young pregnant girl he had befriended & save the life of another becomes a crusade. Meanwhile his beloved Helen returns from Paris with the promise of a decision as to their future. Dead Born is the exciting sequel to Best's adventure's in Dead Image & is again based on historical fact.

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Somalia
- a lawless violent land ignored by the West ripped apart by civil war & famine fought over by drug-fuelled gun-crazy clan
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Sookie Stackhouse has one last adventure in store. Life has taken her from a waitress in Merlotte's Bar Bon Temps to part owner; from social outcast to the heart of her community; from a vampire's girlfriend to the wife of one of the most powerful vampires in the state. She has survived explosions revolutions & attempts on her life. Sookie has endured betrayal heartbreak & grief...and she has emerged a little stronger & little wiser every time. But with life comes new trials... The question is in the end: who will love who will live & who will be dead ever after? ...

One house. Ten contestants. Thirty cameras. Forty microphones. Yet again the public gorges its voyeuristic appetite as another group of unknown & unremarkable people submit themselves to the brutal exposure of the televised real-life soap opera House Arrest. Everybody knows the rules: total strangers are forced to live together while the rest of the country watches them do it. Who will crack first? Who will have sex with whom? Who will the public love & who will they hate? All the usual questions. & then suddenly there are some new ones. Who is the murderer? How did he or she manage to kill under the constant gaze of the thirty television cameras? Why did they do it? & who will be next? ...

Philip Noble is an eleven-year-old in crisis. His pub landlord father has died in a road accident & his mother is succumbing to the greasy charms of her dead husbands brother Uncle Alan. The remaining certainties of Philips life crumble away when his fathers ghost appears in the pub & declares Uncle Alan murdered him. Arming himself with weapons from the school chemistry cupboard Philip vows to carry out the ghosts relentless demands for revenge. But will Leah the gorgeous daughter of Uncle Alans God-fearing business partner Mr. Fairview prove too much of a distraction? & can the words of a ghost be trusted any more than the lies of the living? Philip makes his decision & when the moment comes to act he finds himself hurtling towards disaster. Just as Matt Haigs acclaimed & bestselling first novel The Last Family in England" was a brilliant reworking of Henry IV Part 1 with dogs in the major roles so " The Dead Fathers Club" gives more than a nod towards Hamlet. Hilariously funny it is full of poignant insights into the strange workings of the world seen through the eyes of a child." ...

This book is second in a br&-new series of murder mysteries. Miss Marple" for the younger reader! When ageing starlet Baby Sugarcandy is found dead at the bottom of the stairs in her Hollywood mansion it is assumed she tripped. However an autopsy reveals she was dead before she fell... When a number of strange deaths follow Poppy Fields decides to investigate." ...

Solving the mystery behind your death can be murder. Charlotte wakes up at Hotel Atessa home to murdered New York teenagers & HQ of The Dead Girls Detective Agency. Before she has time to adjust to her new erm dead self she's thrust into the arms of her new afterlife companions Lorna Nancy & the cute
- if slightly hostile
- dead boy Eddison. But where does this leave Charlotte & her boyfriend David? Is it possible to have a long-distance relationship from beyond the grave? The only way out of this limbo is to figure out who killed her or she'll have to spend eternity here. But who could hate her enough to want her dead?

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