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The fourth chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew continues the adventures of the 14th century Cambridge physician when he is called to attend to two deaths from some poisoned wine. The opening of a new & very well-endowed college has created petty in-fighting amongst the academics as new appointments are made. The winter & spring have been appallingly wet there is a fever outbreak amongst the poorer townspeople & the country is not yet fully recovered from the aftermath of the plague. The increasing reputation & wealth of the Cambridge colleges are causing dangerous tensions between the town Church & University & then the poisoned wine kills the first victim
- a student. The second victim is Dittone the deputy master of the new college but there seems no connection between him & the student. Matthew must establish the facts before relations between town & gown spiral out of control.
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It's the Fiesta de San Juan in Spain the national celebration of the Summer Solstice & there's much excitement about a huge firework display in the village of St Marti. But Primavera Blackstone is more inflamed by the appearance of a mysterious writer Duncan Culshaw who is determined to rake through the ashes of her past. & when extortion & blackmail are mentioned Primavera realises the heat is on. Duncan has his fingers burned playing fast & loose with the fiercely protective Prim but when he marries a dying woman for her money threatening the inheritance of Prim's son Tom things are going to get explosive...but happily there's a new guardian angel in town. ...

It's the Fiesta de San Juan in Spain the national celebration of the Summer Solstice & there's much excitement about a huge firework display in the village of St Marti. But Primavera Blackstone is more inflamed by the appearance of a mysterious writer Duncan Culshaw who is determined to rake through the ashes of her past. & when extortion & blackmail are mentioned Primavera realises the heat is on. Duncan has his fingers burned playing fast & loose with the fiercely protective Prim but when he marries a dying woman for her money threatening the inheritance of Prim's son Tom things are going to get explosive...but happily there's a new guardian angel in town. ...

A sexual predator is at large on the streets of Imperial Vienna & Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt appeals to his friend psychoanalyst Dr. Max Liebermann for assistance. Early signs indicate that the killer is no ordinary 'lust murderer' but an entirely new phenomenon his particular deviance revealing the darker preoccupations of the age. To understand his behaviour Liebermann must employ the latest developments in psychoanalysis & make a journey into uncharted regions of the human mind. Alongside the unfolding of this disturbing case Liebermann must treat his own patients including a man who claims to have seen his double
- the doppelganger of Germanic folklore
- an experience believed to be an omen of death. As Liebermann discovers more about this seemingly harmless man he becomes convinced that his hallucinations are caused by a traumatic memory buried deep in his unconscious. Could a mysterious dream hold the key? As the investigations proceed Liebermann & Rheinhardt find themselves drawn into the worlds of art & couture worlds in which glamorous appearances mask the most sinister secrets.

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In Deadly Dare" theres a new craze at Theo & Rickys school. The rules are simple: write a dare put it in the bag & take turns to pick one out. But on the night Ricky does his dare & enters the deserted warehouse he disappears. What really happened to Ricky
- & how much does new girl Angela know? Theo needs to find the answers before its too late.. . Theres nothing unusual about getting emails from your dad.. .unless he died a few months ago. In " Computer Ghost" Jade asks Theo Ricky & Angela to help her find out whats going on. Could the mysterious desperate messages really be from a ghost? One things for sure. Whoever is behind them wants something badly
- & theyll stop at nothing to get it.. . Theo Ricky & Angela have to become " Lie Detectives" to uncover the truth about top inventor Darius Marriott after he comes to give a talk at school & collapses. Who is out to get him & why does their friend Bullet seem so involved? Theyre determined to get to the bottom of it all
- but that could prove to be much more dangerous than they think.. . Three gripping mysteries by bestselling Malorie Blackman now with a fresh new look."


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DEADLY DAYS IN HISTORY is the most horrible HORRIBLE HISTORIES book yet. Terry Deary & Martin Brown take a whirlwind tour through the most dreadful disastrous & deadly days in the whole of horrible history from the grim Great Fire of Rome to the vile St Valentines Day Massacre leaving the gory bits in (and the boring bits out). ...

Four a.m on a wet stretch of the A1 & a driver skids out of control. Quick on the scene Senior Investigating Officer Kate Daniels & partner DS Hank Gormley are presented with a horrifying image of carnage & mayhem that quickly becomes one of the worst road traffic accidents in Northumberland's history. But as the casualties mount up they soon realise that not all deaths were as a result of the accident.. . On the other side of town a house goes up in flames turning its two inhabitants into charred corpses. Seemingly unconnected with the traffic accident Kate sets about investigating both incidences separately. But it soon becomes apparent that all is not what it seems & Kate & her colleagues are one always step behind a ruthless killer who will stop at nothing to get what they want. ...

The third gripping Temperance Brennan novel from world-class forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs the international no. 1 bestselling crime thriller writer & the inspiration behind the hit TV series Bones. A nine-year-old girl is killed in crossfire on her way to ballet class. Soon afterwards the body of a teenager killed in North Carolina is found hundreds of miles away. Forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan knows she must stay professional but when the young girl's body is wheeled into the morgue she cannot help but react. & when an exhumation reveals the bones of yet another innocent in a hidden grave close to a biker gang headquarters Tempe begins a lone & risky investigation into the lawless underworld of organised crime. ...

Guardian Riley Jenson always seems to face the worst villains. & this time's no different. For it's no ordinary sorceress who can raise the dead to do her killing. But that's exactly what Riley expects to find at the end of a trail of female corpses used
- & discarded
- in a bizarre ritual of evil. With pressure mounting to catch the fiend the last thing Riley needs is the heat of the upcoming full moon bringing her werewolf hormones to a boil
- or the reappearance of a sexy bounty hunter the rogue wolf Kye Murphy. Riley has threatened Murphy with arrest if he doesn't back off the investigation but it's Riley who feels handcuffed by Kye's lupine charm. Torn between her vamp & wolf natures between her love for Quinn & her attraction to Kye Riley knows she's courting danger & indulging the deadliest desires. For her hunt through the supernatural underworld will bring her face-to-face with what lurks in a darkness where even monsters fear to tread.


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