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
- & the woman he loves
- it's time for him to recover his nerve...


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From New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison comes the first book in an exciting urban fantasy series; packed with the perfect balance of wry humour & thrilling action which will delight fans of thrillers & fantasy alike. Rachel Morgan is a white witch & runner working for Inderland Security in an alternate world where a bioengineered virus wiped out a great deal of the worlds human population
- exposing the existence of the supernatural communities that had long lived alongside humanity. For the last five years Rachel has been tracking down law-breaking Inderlanders in modern-day Cincinnati but now she wants to leave & start her own agency. Her only problem is that no one quits the I.S. Marked for death Rachel will have to fend off fairy assassins & homicidal weres armed with an assortment of nasty curses. Shes a dead witch walking unless she can appease her former employers by exposing the citys most prominent citizen as a drug lord. But making an enemy of the ambiguous Trent Kalamack is just as deadly as leaving the I.S.
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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. ...

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. ...

Bay Tremayne heir to a viscountcy & manager of his fathers Dorset estate has one burning ambition
- to be selected to ride on the
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Weakened by events in Darujhistan the Malazan Empire teeters on the brink of anarchy. In the vast dominion of Seven Cities in the Holy Desert Raraku the seer Sha'ik gathers an army around her in preparation for the long-prophesied uprising named the Whirlwind. Unprecedented in its size & savagery it will embroil in one of the bloodiest conflicts it has ever known: a maelstrom of fanaticism & bloodlust that will shape destinies & give birth to legends... In the Otataral mines Felisin youngest daughter of the disgraced House of Paran dreams of revenge against the sister who sentenced her to a life of slavery. Escape leads her to raraku where her soul will be reborn & her future made clear. The now-outlawed Bridgeburners Fiddler & the assassin Kalam have vowed to return the once god-possessed Apsalar to her homeland & to confront & kill the Empress Laseen but events will overtake them too. Meanwhile Coltaine the charismatic commander of the Malaz 7th Army will lead his battered war-weary troops in a last valient running battle to save the lives of thirty thousand refugees & in so doing secure an illustrious place in the Empire's chequered history. & into this blighted land come two ancient wanderers Mappo & his half-Jaghut companion Icarium bearers of a devastating secret that threatens to break free of its chains... Set in a brilliantly-realized world ravaged by anarchy & dark uncontrollable magic Deadhouse Gates is the thrilling brutal second chapter in the Malazan Book of the Fallen. A powerful novel of war intrigue & betrayal it confirms Steven Erikson as a storyteller of breathtaking skill imagination & originality
- a new master of epic fantasy.
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