When orphaned Laura Marlin moves from a childrens home to live with her uncle in Cornwall she longs for a life of excitement just like the characters in her favourite detective novels. A real life adventure is on hand as she is deposited at her uncles spooky house.. . Why does her uncle Calvin Redfern forbid her to go to Dead Mans Cove? Whats the truth about Tariq the silent Indian boy who lives with the flamboyant Mukthars? Who is J? Who has left the message in a bottle for Laura to discover? Mysteries abound & who better to solve them than Laura Marlin ace detective? Accompanied by her trusty companion Skye a three-legged husky the dog shes always wanted Lauras adventures begin in this first captivating mystery winner of the 2011 Blue Peter Book of the Year Award. ...

A charity murder game at a Devon house turns into the real thing! Sir George & Lady Stubbs the hosts of a village fete hit upon the novel idea of staging a mock murder mystery. In good faith Ariadne Oliver the well known crime writer agrees to organise their murder hunt. Despite weeks of meticulous planning at the last minute Ariadne calls her friend Hercule Poirot for his expert assistance. Instinctively she senses that something sinister is about to happen! Beware -- nobody is quite what they seem! ...

Deep in the trenches of Flanders Fields men are dying in their thousands every day. So one more death shouldnt be a surprise. But then a body turns up with bizarre injuries & Sherlock Holmes former sidekick Dr John Watson
- unable to fight for his country due to injury but able to serve it through his medical expertise
- finds his suspicions raised. The face has a blue-ish tinge the jaw is clamped shut in a terrible rictus & the eyes are almost popping out of his head as if the man had seen unimaginable horror. Something is terribly wrong. But this is just the beginning. Soon more bodies appear & Watson must discover who is the killer in the trenches. Who can he trust? Who is the enemy? & can he find the perpetrator before he kills again? Surrounded by unimaginable carnage amidst a conflict thats ripping the world apart Watson must for once step out of the shadows & into the limelight if hes to solve the mystery behind the inexplicable deaths.

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From the ashes of mass destruction... Amid the tragic unfolding mayhem of the morning of 9/11 failed Brighton businessman & ne'er-do-well Ronnie Wilson sees the chance of a lifeline: to shed his debts disappear & reinvent himself in another country. Six years later the discovery of the skeletal remains of a woman's body in a storm drain in Brighton leads Detective Superintendent Roy Grace on an enquiry spanning the globe & into a desperate race against time to save the life of a woman being hunted down like an animal in the streets & alleys of Brighton. A real page-turner & the cliffhanging conclusion left me eagerly awaiting DS Grace's next outing." (Daily Express). " Tense beautifully paced & excellent on police atmosphere & procedure." (" The Times")." ...

I want them to suffer & I want them dead... Carly Chase is still traumatised after being in a fatal traffic accident which kills a teenage student from Brighton University. Then she receives news that turns her entire world into a living nightmare. The drivers of the other two vehicles involved have been found tortured & murdered. Now Detective Superintendant Roy Grace of the Sussex Police force issues a stark & urgent warning to Carly: She could be next. The police advise Carly her only option is to go into hiding & change her identity. The terrified woman disagrees
- she knows these people have ways of hunting you down anywhere. If the police are unable to stop them she has to find a way to do it herself. But already the killer is one step ahead of her watching waiting & ready...
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SOME WILL WAIT A LIFETIME TO TAKE THEIR REVENGE.. .A vicious robbery at a secluded Brighton mansion leaves its elderly occupant dying. & millions of pounds' worth of valuables have been taken. But as Detective Superintendent Roy Grace heading the enquiry rapidly learns there is one priceless item of sentimental value that the old woman's powerful family cherish above all else. & they are fully prepared to take the law into their own hands & will do anything absolutely anything to get it back. Within days Grace is racing against the clock following a murderous trail that leads him from the shady antiques world of Brighton across Europe & all the way back to the New York waterfront gang struggles of 1922 chasing a killer driven by the force of one man's greed & another man's fury. ...

The fifth book in the bestselling Dan ' Spider' Shepherd series. Former SAS trooper turned undercover cop Dan Spider Shepherd knows there are no easy solutions in the war against terrorism. But when a killer starts to target pardoned IRA terrorists Shepherd has to put his life on the line to protect his former enemies. While he is undercover in Belfast a grief-stricken Saudi whose two sons died under torture in the name of the War on Terror is planning to avenge their deaths by striking out at two people close to Shepherd. As the Muslim assassin closes in on his prey Shepherd realises that the only way to save lives is to become a killer himself. ...

November 1956. The world is in turmoil. While the Suez Crisis & the Hungarian Uprising boil away in the background Lennox has more immediate concerns like getting his personal life & his business back on track. So when a woman comes into Lennoxs office & hires him to follow her husband whom she suspects of leading a double life it seems the perfect case. Straightforward typical
- if a little sordid
- & most of all legal. But as he begins to dig deeper Lennox realizes that this is no ordinary case of marital infidelity. He finds himself caught by the police in a room with a dead body; pursued by shadowy members of the intelligence community; & once more a target of the Three Kings the crime bosses who between them run Glasgows underworld. Lennox must again draw on the violent war-damaged part of his personality that he has tried to keep buried in order to survive...

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Investigator Lennox just can't stay out of trouble. Lennox is looking for legitimate cases
- anything's better than working for
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WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE 2012. This is the gripping story of the men of the Welsh Guards & their bloody battle for survival in Afghanistan in 2009. Underequipped & overstretched they found themselves in the most intense fighting the British had experienced in a generation. They were led into battle by Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe a passionate believer in the justness of the war who was deeply dismayed by the way it was being resourced & conducted. Thorneloe was killed by an IED during Operation Panther's Claw the biggest operation mounted by the British in Helm&. Dead Men Risen draws on secret documents written by Thorneloe which raise questions from beyond the grave that will unnerve politicians & generals alike. The Welsh Guards also lost Major Sean Birchall commanding officer of IX Company & Lieutenant Mark Evison a platoon commander whose candid personal diary was unnervingly prophetic. Not since the Second World War had a single British battalion lost officers at the three key levels of leadership. Harnden transports the reader into the heart of a conflict in which a soldier has to be prepared to kill & die to ward off paralysing fear & watch comrades perish in agony. Given unprecedented access to the Welsh Guards Harnden conducted hundreds of interviews in Afghanistan England & Wales. He weaves the experiences of the guardsmen & the loved ones they left behind into a seamless & unsparing narrative that sits alongside a piercing analysis of the political & military strategy. No other book about modern warfare succeeds on so many levels. ...