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. ...

If you think your family relationships are complicated think again: you havent 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 Erics vampire sire an ancient being who arrives with Erics brother in tow at a most inopportune moment. & Sookies 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. ...

What will you do? How far will you go? What will you become? Welcome to Banoi a tropical island where you can leave the stresses of the world behind... Welcome to the Royal Palms Resort
- which offers its guests from around the world the ultimate in luxury & relaxation... Welcome to the holiday paradise where your dreams should come true...but where a nightmare is about to begin...because a mysterious epidemic has suddenly & without warning broken out across the isl&. The local islanders hotel guests & workers alike are struck down
- only to rise again craving the flesh & the blood of the still living. For four of the holidaymakers & a handful of others scattered around Banoi who are seemingly unaffected by the plague they must face the awful terrifying reality of a zombie apocalypse. Now there is only one thing left to do: survive. Welcome to Dead Isl&...a paradise to die for.

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Aurelio Zen returns to his native Venice to investigate the disappearance of a rich American resident but he soon learns that amid the hazy light & shifting waters of the lagoon nothing is what it seems. As Zen is drawn deeper into the complex & ambiguous mysteries surrounding the discovery of a skeletal corpse on an ossuary island in the north lagoon he is also forced to confront a series of disturbing revelations about his own life. ...

Don't imagine for one moment that I'm not watching you... The Metropole Hotel Brighton. After a heady New Year's Eve ball a woman is brutally raped as she returns to her room. A week later another woman is attacked. Both victims' shoes are taken by the offender.. . Detective Superintendent Roy Grace soon realises that these new cases bear remarkable similarities to an unsolved series of crimes in the city back in 1997. The perpetrator had been dubbed ' Shoe Man' & was believed to have raped five women before murdering his sixth victim & vanishing. Could this be a copycat or has Shoe Man resurfaced? When more women are assaulted Grace becomes increasingly certain that they are dealing with the same man. & that by delving back into the past
- a time in which we see Grace & his missing wife Sandy still apparently happy together
- he may find the key to unlocking the current mystery. Soon Grace & his team will find themselves in a desperate race against the clock to identify & save the life of the new sixth victim...

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Don't imagine for one moment that I'm not watching you... After a New Year's Eve ball a woman is raped as she returns to her hotel room. A week later another woman is attacked. Superintendent Roy Grace realises that these new cases bear close similarities to an unsolved series of crimes in Brighton back in 1997. When more women are assaulted Grace becomes increasingly certain that they are dealing with the same twisted individual... This recording is unabridged. Typically abridged audiobooks are not more than 60 per cent of the author's work & as low as 30 per cent with characters & plotlines removed. ...

Dont imagine for one moment that Im not watching you... The Metropole Hotel Brighton. After a heady New Years Eve ball a woman is brutally raped as she returns to her room. A week later another woman is attacked. Both victims shoes are taken by the offender.. . Detective Superintendent Roy Grace soon realises that these new cases bear remarkable similarities to an unsolved series of crimes in the city back in 1997. The perpetrator had been dubbed Shoe Man & was believed to have raped five women before murdering his sixth victim & vanishing. Could this be a copycat or has Shoe Man resurfaced? When more women are assaulted Grace becomes increasingly certain that they are dealing with the same man. & that by delving back into the past
- a time in which we see Grace & his missing wife Sandy still apparently happy together
- he may find the key to unlocking the current mystery. Soon Grace & his team will find themselves in a desperate race against the clock to identify & save the life of the new sixth victim...

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MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle is summoned to a meeting with her boss Charles Wetherby head of the Service's Counter-Espionage Branch. His counterpart over at MI6 has received alarming intelligence from a high-placed Syrian source. A Middle East peace conference is planned to take place at Gleneagles in Scotland & several heads of state will attend. The Syrians have learned that two individuals are mounting an operation to disrupt the peace conference in a way designed to be spectacular laying the blame at Syria's door. The source claims that Syrian Intelligence will act against the pair presumably by killing them. No one knows who they are or what they are planning to do. Are they working together? Who is controlling them? Or is the whole story a carefully laid trail of misinformation? It is Liz's job to find out. But as she discovers the threat is far greater than she or anyone else could have imagined. The future of the whole of the Middle East is at stake & the conference deadline is drawing ever closer. ...

This is the story of Martin Mc Gartland who worked undercover as a British agent inside the Provisional IRA. Captured by the Provos he escaped & re-settled on the mainland but later discovered that he had been deliberately sacrificed by MI5. During his years in hiding he was arrested & taken to court many times. Eventually the Crown Prosecution Service advised by MI5 ordered his trial for attempting to pervert the course of justice. The jury found him not guilty but the court gave his name & new identity away. Mc Gartland travelled back to Belfast to try & discover why MI5 had attempted to organise his execution. ...