It was meant to be a harmless stag night prank. A few hours later four of his best friends are dead & Michael Harrison has disappeared. With only three days to the wedding Detective Superintendent Grace
- a man haunted by the shadow of his own missing wife
- is contacted by Michaels beautiful distraught fiancee Ashley Harper. Grace discovers that the one man who ought to know Michael Harrisons whereabouts is saying nothing. But then he has a lot to gain
- more than anyone realizes. For one mans disaster is another mans fortune... Dead simple... James has got the gift for turning mind-stretching subjects into novels that are irresistibly readable as well as utterly believable". (Robert Goddard). "A brilliant idea superbly crafted. A terrific page-turner". (James Herbert)."


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Stalking a poisoner at the local zoo Inspector John Rebus comes across a paedophile taking pictures of children. When the social workers claim he is there for legitimate educational reasons Rebus is faced with a dilemma
- should he be outed to protect local kids or given a chance to start anew? As the locals begin a hate campaign Rebus gets a call from the past: the son of a friend has gone missing & no one else will make time to ask the right questions. & then a fragment of Scotlands criminal history is repatriated at the end of a life sentence for murder. Once more Rebuss cup of trouble runneth over & the ghosts of past misdeeds return to haunt Edinburghs streets.
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Nikolai Gogols epic poem in prose Dead Souls" is a damning indictment of a corrupt society translated from the Russian with an introduction & notes by Robert A. Maguire in " Penguin Classics". Chichikov a mysterious stranger arrives in the provincial town of N visiting a succession of landowners & making each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census saving their owners from paying tax on them & to use these dead souls as collateral to re-invent himself as a aristocrat. In this ebullient picaresque masterpiece Gogol created a grotesque gallery of human types from the bear-like Sobakevich to the insubstantial fool Manilov & above all the devilish con man Chichikov. " Dead Souls" (1842) Russias first major novel is one of the most unusual works of nineteenth-century fiction & a devastating satire on social hypocrisy. In his introduction Robert A. Maguire discusses Gogols life & literary career his depiction of Russian society & the language & narrative techniques employed in " Dead Souls". This edition also

Includes:: a chronology further reading appendices a glossary map & notes. Nikolai Gogol (1809-52) was born in the Ukraine. His experience of St Petersburg life informed a savagely satirical play " The Government Inspector" & a series of brilliant short stories including " Nevsky Prospekt" & " Diary of a Madman". For over a decade Gogol laboured on his comic epic " Dead Souls"
- before renouncing literature & burning parts of the manuscript shortly before he died. If you enjoyed " Dead Souls" you might like Fyodor Dostoyevsksys " The Brothers Karamazov" also available in " Penguin Classics". " Gogol was a strange creature but then genius is always strange". (Vladimir Nabokov). "I admire the way in which Maguire has kept his own brilliantly variegated vocabulary away from 20th-century phrases without ever looking parodic or antiquarian". (A.S. Byatt author of " Possession")."


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The novel is a prequel to the game. Geophysicist Michael Altman joins a team excavating an underwater crater. Close proximity to the artefact they uncover named ' The Black Marker' causes visions of the dead vivid dreams & violent murders. This is the story of the origin of ' The Black Marker' the foundation of the Church of Unitology & a discovery that will change the world. ...

ONE OF THE HOTTEST GAMING FRANCHISES OF THE DECADE! Anticipating the release of Dead Space 3 " we collect " Dead Space: Salvage 1-6" in a stunning graphic novel including never-seen before materials! When a group of freelance miners find the abandoned USG Ishimura in deep space their once-fortunate luck turns into a catastrophe. With the Earth Government racing to reclaim the ship & an army of Necromorphs wreaking havoc on board do the miners have any hope of surviving?" ...

Following the events of the smash video game hit Dead Space 2 Sergeant John Carver's wife & son are attacked by fanatics trying to liberate the Marker site where she works. Racing to help Carver teams up with Ellie Langford survivor of an earlier Necromorph outbreak & Earth Gov Captain Robert Norton to unlock deep secrets about the Markers in an epic battle that will determine the fate of mankind. ...

Sookie comes to the rescue of a naked amnesiac vampire
- & ends up in the middle of a war between witches werewolves & vampires!
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IN AN EVIL WORLD EVERYTHING IS FOR SALE... The body of a missing teenager is dredged from the seabed off the Sussex coast missing vital organs. Soon after a further two more bodies are found.. . Caitlin Beckett a fifteen-year-old in Brighton will die if she does not receive an urgent transplant. When the health system threatens to let her down her mother takes drastic action & goes to an online broker in black-market organs. The broker can provide what she wants but it will come at a price. As Superintendent Roy Grace investigates the recovered bodies he unearths the trail of a gang of child traffickers operating from Eastern Europe. Soon Grace & his team will find themselves in a race against time to save the life of a young street kid while a desperate mother will stop at nothing to save her daughter's life.. .' James manages to add enough surprises & drama that by the end you're rooting for the police & really don't know if they will finally get their men' Sunday Express ' Another of James' sophisticated complicated & well-informed snap-shots of the Brighton police at work... His research is obviously careful. It's well worth the effort as the result is a superior thriller' Literary Review ...

IN AN EVIL WORLD EVERYTHING IS FOR SALE... The body of a missing teenager is dredged from the seabed off the Sussex coast missing vital organs. Soon after a further two more bodies are found.. . Caitlin Beckett a fifteen-year-old in Brighton will die if she does not receive an urgent transplant. When the health system threatens to let her down her mother takes drastic action & goes to an online broker in black-market organs. The broker can provide what she wants but it will come at a price. As Superintendent Roy Grace investigates the recovered bodies he unearths the trail of a gang of child traffickers operating from Eastern Europe. Soon Grace & his team will find themselves in a race against time to save the life of a young street kid while a desperate mother will stop at nothing to save her daughter's life.. .' James manages to add enough surprises & drama that by the end you're rooting for the police & really don't know if they will finally get their men' Sunday Express ' Another of James' sophisticated complicated & well-informed snap-shots of the Brighton police at work... His research is obviously careful. It's well worth the effort as the result is a superior thriller' Literary Review ...

The cataclysmic conclusion to Koontz's brilliant reworking of the classic tale. The war against humanity is raging. As the small town of Rainbow Falls Montana comes under siege scattered survivors come together to weather the onslaught. Victor Frankenstein's nihilistic plan is to remake the future: a future in which mankind will be annihilated. To accomplish this aim he has created nothing less than the shock troops of the Apocalypse. Now the alliance of the good must make their last best stand & do battle against overwhelming odds. & Deucalion Frankenstein's original & flawed attempt at replicating life must finally confront his evil creator. In a climax that will shatter every expectation the fate of humanity hangs in the balance... ...