The Dead Tracks" is the second in the David Raker series from Tim Weaver. A serial killer more terrifying than you could ever imagine... Seventeen-year-old Megan Carver was an unlikely runaway. A straight
- a student from a happy home she studied hard & rarely got into trouble. Six months on she's never been found. Missing persons investigator David Raker knows what it's like to grieve. He knows the shadowy world of the lost too. So when he's hired by Megan's parents to find out what happened he recognizes their pain
- but knows that the darkest secrets can be buried deep. & Megan's secrets could cost him his life. Because as Raker investigates her disappearance he realizes everything is a lie. People close to her are dead. Others are too terrified to talk. & soon the conspiracy of silence leads Raker towards a forest on the edge of the city. A place with a horrifying history
- which was once the hunting ground for a brutal twisted serial killer. A place known as the Dead Tracks... Hot on the heels of " Chasing the Dead" " The Dead Tracks" by Tim Weaver revisits David Raker & his complex missing persons cases. Fans of Mo Hayder's " Gone" & Michael Marshall Smith's " The Straw Men" should look this way. Praise for Tim Weaver: " Impressive debut... Fans of Mo Hayder will be in seventh hell". (" Guardian"). " Perfect plotting great characterisation & the kind of payoff that a thriller of this calibre deserves". (Bookgeeks). "A taut thriller". (Barry Forshaw). Tim Weaver was born in 1977. At eighteen he left school & started working in magazine journalism & has since gone on to develop a successful career writing about films TV sport games & technology. He is married with a young daughter & lives near Bath. " Vanished" is Tim's third David Raker novel which follow his highly acclaimed debut " Chasing the Dead" & its sequel " The Dead Tracks". Tortured by his wife's early death David Raker is one of the most charismatic sensitive & unique missing persons investigators in current crime fiction."


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Sookie Stackhouse is a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She's quiet keeps to herself & doesn't get out much
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Late afternoon Virginia & a woman is on the run. Her husband a former US Senator named Lincoln Bowe has been missing for days. Kidnapped? Murdered? She doesnt know
- but she thinks she knows whos involved & why. & that she may be next. Hours later Jake Winters mobile phone rings. An Army Intelligence veteran Winter specializes in forensic bureaucracy. The Pentagon the FBI CIA Homeland Security
- when something goes wrong Winter kicks over rocks until he finds out what really happened. The White House is his main client & the chief of staff is on the phone now. If Bowe isnt located soon all hell will break loose. All hell breaks loose anyway when the blackened body shows up barb-wired to a tree missing its head. Just what did Bowe know that got him killed? & who exactly are the mysterious Watchmen shadowing Winters every move? Can he survive long enough to find out?

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Dead Water is the fifth book in Ann Cleeves' Shetland series -- which is now the major BBC1 drama starring Douglas Henshall SHETL&. When the body of journalist Jerry Markham is found in a traditional Shetland boat outside the house of the Fiscal down at the Marina young Detective Inspector Willow Reeves is drafted in to head up the investigation. Since the death of his fiancee Inspector Jimmy Perez has been out of the loop but his interest in this new case is stirred & he decides to help the inquiry. Markham -- originally a Shetlander but who had made a name for himself in London -- had left the islands years before. In his wake he left a scandal involving a young girl Evie Watt who is now engaged to a seaman. He had few friends in Shetland so why was he back? Willow & Jimmy are led to Sullum Voe the heart of Shetland's North Sea oil & gas industry. It soon emerges from their investigation that Markham was chasing a story in his final days. One that must have been significant enough to warrant his death.. . Also available in the Shetland series are Raven Black White Nights Red Bones & Blue Lightning. Ann Cleeves' Vera Stanhope series (ITV television drama VERA) contains five titles of which The Glass Room is the most recent. ...

After a crashing fall champion rider Phil Nicholas returns to racing but though his body has healed his mind has not. Flashbacks of his accident invade his dreams rob him of his sleep
- & freeze him in the saddle. While Phil is battling to overcome his fear his weighing-room colleague Adrian Moore is viciously attacked after losing a race he should have won. It's the start of a vendetta by someone determined to hurt those who break the rules of racing. If Phil wants to save the sport
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The body of a young teenage hooker is found washed up on the beach near Glasgow. This stark event barely captures a headline in the cynical world of tabloid newspapers. This is Glasgow in the 1990s & she's just another dead heroin addict. But Tracey Eadie was only fourteen years old & came from a children's home in Glasgow. How did she get from there to where she is now? One of Tracey's friends on the street contacts Rosie Gilmour a tabloid journalist. She gives Rosie a tip off that's dynamite too hot to print but impossible to ignore. Rosie has covered many dark stories in her career. Her background has plenty in common with Tracey's & her own life could have gone either way. Her investigation exposes a sordid tale of corruption & child abuse that leads from the murky streets of Glasgow to the very top of the establishment. For Rosie it is the only story worth telling but she soon discovers that the forces united against her will stop at nothing to make sure nobody ever gets to the truth. ...

Have you ever heard the story on the news of a politician being found dead" or "committing suicide" & it seemed a little strange to you? You think " There's something they're not telling me". Well after you read " Dead Wrong" you'll realize that your instincts were correct. For years the government has put out hits on people that they find "expendable" or who they felt was "talking too much". David Wayne is here to show you that not only were these people murdered but that it was done by our own government! Find out how Marilyn Monroe was murdered who really shot Martin Luther King Jr. & many other cover-ups throughout our country's history. The extensive research & fact-checking done shows how our government has taken matters into their own hands & has acted as though they were assassins plotting murder however they saw fit. If you thought 'big brother' was watching you now realize that not only are the watching you but their doing it through the scope of a sniper rifle. " Dead Wrong" will give you the straight facts on some of the most controversial cases this country has ever seen & learn quickly that what the government tells you is not always to be believed. It's a scary truth but it is a truth indeed." ...

Jamaica used to be the source of much of Britain's wealth a tropical paradise for the planters a Babylonian exile for the Africans shipped to the Caribbean. It became independent in 1962. Jamaica is now a country in despair. It has become a cockpit of gang warfare drug crime & poverty. Haunted by the legacy of imperialism its social & racial divisions seem entrenched. Its extraordinary musical tradition & physical beauty are shadowed by casual murder police brutality & political corruption. Ian Thomson shows a side of Jamaica that tourists rarely see. He met ordinary Jamaicans in their homes & workplaces; & his encounters with the white elite who still own most of Jamaica's businesses & newspapers are unforgettable. Thomson brings alive the country's unique racial & ethnic mix; the all-pervading influence of the USA; & the increasing disillusionment felt by its people who can't rely on the state for their most basic security. At the heart of the book is Jamaica's tense uneasy relationship with Britain to whom it remains politically & culturally bound. ...

The two things that conjured up that horrible night were his run of luck at the Wheel of Fortune & the mask.. . Meet Johnny Smith. A young man whose streak of luck ends dramatically in a major car crash. Followed by blackness. A long long time in cold limbo. When he wakes up life has been turned upside down. His fiancee has met someone else. & Johnny is cursed with the power to perceive evil in mens souls. Hes had these hunches since he had an ice-skating accident as a child. Now he has an ability to see into the future. An ability which will bring him into a terrifying confrontation with a charismatic power-hungry & dangerous man.. . ...

Carrie Ryans sensational new novel reveals more of the secrets of the world after the return of the Unconsecrated & introduces a new heroine who must tangle with her mothers secrets. Gabry lives a quiet life secure in her town next to the sea & behind the Barrier. Shes content to let her friends dream of the Dark City up the coast while she watches from the top of her lighthouse. Home is all shes ever known & & all she needs for happiness. But life after the Return is never safe & there are threats even the Barrier cant hold back. Gabrys mother thought she left her secrets behind in the Forest of Hands & Teeth but like the dead in their world secrets dont stay buried. & now Gabrys world is crumbling. One night beyond the Barrier.. . One boy Gabrys known forever & one veiled in mystery.. . One reckless moment & half of Gabrys generation is dead the other half imprisoned. Now Gabry knows only one thing: if she has any hope of a future she must face the forest of her mothers past. ...