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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Claire has her share of challenges. Like being a genius in a school that favours beauty over brains; homicidal girls in her dorm & finding out that her college town is overrun with the living dead. On the up side she has a new boyfriend with a vampire-hunting dad. But when a local fraternity throws the Dead Girls' Dance hell is really going to break loose. ...

When Jack Haines reports a break-in at his greenhouse the motive of the intruder is unclear. Other than the destruction of some expensive orchids no damage has been done & nothing seems to be missing. But Detectives Sloan & Crosby sense something sinister & soon their suspicions are confirmed. Similar reports are multiplying & sabotage is the word on everyones lips. The pair are drawn into an equally perplexing case when the mysterious Miss Enid Maude Osgathorp goes missing. Investigations begin at her deserted abode Canonry Cottage where the detectives soon discover that the house has been raided. Shattered glass is found in the larder & traces of blood bespatter the floor
- a disturbing event has taken place but the identity of the perpetrator is unknown. It soon becomes clear that the cases are linked but will this provide the clues necessary to solve the mystery? Detectives Sloan & Crosby aim to find out.. .
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I wondered if I was dying. I wasnt afraid to die but such was the pain in my gut I wished it would happen soon. The night before the 2 000 Guineas at Newmarket sees the great & the good of the horse-racing community gathered for a prestigious black-tie Gala dinner. It is a fitting testament to the glamour of the occasion that top chef Max Moreton is cooking the evenings meal. Max is something of a celebrity in Newmarket circles. He is founder of the racing towns favourite Michelin-starred restaurant the Hay Net. However spending the night retching in the throes of agony is the last thing Max expects. But much worse is to come.. .his food is suspected of putting twenty-four of the dinner guests in hospital. Maxs pride & professionalism tells him all is not as it seems. Within hours Maxs restaurant is forcibly closed his reputation teeters on the brink of ruin & a court case looms. But the day is far from over & soon Max Moreton finds himself desperately fighting for more than just his livelihood... Dead Heat" is the latest searing intrigue-filled blockbuster from the Grand Master of thriller writing." ...

The explosion was heard twenty miles away. It killed boatmen & wrecked the exotic villa of Lawrence Alma-Tadema the fashionable St Johns Wood artist. But what caused the 1874 Regents Park explosion? Fenian bombs? Sabotage by rival railways or other firms? Or was it something personal? & whose was the other body found in the canal? An artists model? The missing Kings Cross barmaid? Or another victim of the so-called Thames murderer? As he struggles to find the answers Scotland Yards Sergeant Ernest Best straddles the conflicting worlds of art wealth & privilege & that of the poverty-stricken canal boatmen in an intriguing mystery that will change his life forever. ...

If you think your family relationships are complicated think again: you haven't seen anything like the ones in Bon Temps Louisiana. Sookie Stackhouse is dealing with a whole host of family problems ranging from her own kin (a non-human fairy & a telepathic second cousin) demanding a place in her life to her lover Eric's vampire sire an ancient being who arrives with Eric's 'brother' in tow at a most inopportune moment. & Sookie's tracking down a distant relation of her ailing neighbour (and ex) Vampire Bill Compton. In addition to the multitude of family issues complicating her life the werewolf pack of Shreveport has asked Sookie for a special favour & since Sookie is an obliging young woman she agrees. But this favour for the wolves has dire results for Sookie who is still recovering from the trauma of her abduction during the Fairy War. ...