A terrifying new serial-killer thriller featuring Carson Ryder hero of the bestselling The Hundredth Man. Thirty years after his death Marsden Hexcamps Art of the Final Moment remains as sought after as ever. But this is no ordinary collection. Hexcamps portfolio was completed with the aid of a devoted band of acolytes -- & half a dozen victims each of whom was slowly tortured to death so that their final agonies could be distilled into art. When tiny scraps of Hexcamps art begin appearing at murder scenes alongside gruesomely displayed corpses Detective Carson Ryder & his partner Harry Nautilus must go back three decades in search of answers. Meanwhile an auction has been announced & the death collectors are gathering. These wealthy connoisseurs of serial-killer memorabilia will pay millions to acquire Hexcamps art -- unless Carson & Harry can beat them in their quest for the anti-grail. ...

The year is 1803 & Darcy & Elizabeth have been married for six years. There are now two handsome & healthy sons in the nursery Elizabeth's beloved sister Jane & her husband Bingley live nearby & the orderly world of Pemberley seems unassailable. But all this is threatened when on the eve of the annual autumn ball the guests are preparing to retire for the night when a chaise appears rocking down the path from Pemberley's wild woodl&. As it pulls up Lydia Wickham
- Elizabeth's younger unreliable sister
- stumbles out screaming that her husband has been murdered. Inspired by a lifelong passion for the work of Jane Austen PD James masterfully recreates the world of Pride & Prejudice & combines it with the excitement & suspense of a brilliantly-crafted crime story. Death Comes to Pemberley is a distinguished work of fiction from one of the best-loved most- read writers of our time.

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The year is 1803 & Darcy & Elizabeth have been married for six years. There are now two handsome & healthy sons in the nursery Elizabeth's beloved sister Jane & her husband Bingley live nearby & the orderly world of Pemberley seems unassailable. But all this is threatened when on the eve of the annual autumn ball as the guests are preparing to retire for the night a chaise appears rocking down the path from Pemberley's wild woodl&. As it pulls up Lydia Wickham
- Elizabeth's younger unreliable sister
- stumbles out screaming that her husband has been murdered. Inspired by a lifelong passion for the work of Jane Austen P.D. James masterfully recreates the world of Pride & Prejudice" & combines it with the excitement & suspense of a brilliantly-crafted crime story. " Death Comes to Pemberley" is a distinguished work of fiction from one of the best-loved most- read writers of our time."

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On 8 CDs. Unit sales of comparative title The Private Patient Unabridged (CD ISBN: 9781408410080) reached over 9.6k in the first 11 months of release. P. D. James masterfully recreates the world of Pride & Prejudice & combines it with the excitement & suspense of a brilliantly-crafted crime story. The year is 1803 & Darcy & Elizabeth have been married for six years. There are now two handsome & healthy sons in the nursery Elizabeths beloved sister Jane & her husband Bingley live nearby & the orderly world of Pemberley seems unassailable. But all this is threatened when on the eve of the annual autumn ball the guests are preparing to retire for the night when a chaise appears rocking down the path from Pemberleys wild woodl&. As it pulls up Lydia Wickham
- Elizabeths younger unreliable sister
- stumbles out screaming that her husband has been murdered. Inspired by a lifelong passion for the work of Jane Austen PD James masterfully recreates the world of Pride & Prejudice & combines it with the excitement & suspense of a brilliantly-crafted crime story. Death Comes to Pemberley is a distinguished work of fiction from one of the best-loved most- read writers of our time.

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Once again Linda Fairstein uses her experience as Manhattans leading DA to create a tantalyzing web of intrigue betrayal & murder. Teaming up with longtime friends & colleagues Mike Chapman & Mercer Wallace Alex Cooper investigates the disappearance of a world-famous dancer who has vanished from the Metropolitan Opera House. Drawn behind the scenes of New Yorks theatrical community the team is haunted by ghosts of the dramatic old theatres
- & from their own pasts. At the same time Alex & Mercer are trying to collar a doctor whos been using his extensive knowledge of & access to drugs to overpower women before assualting them. A spell-binding thriller combining the unique history of New York with fresh insight into the latest forensic techniques.
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Chris Pascoe is fascinated by the English Civil War. He also likes beer. So when the thought came to him to set out on a pub crawl around the sites of the English Civil War it was an idea too good to ignore. Helped (or should that be hindered) by his best mate Pete Chris sets out to see for himself the sites of five years of English carnage & their nearest watering holes. Their trek might not be as bloody as the war they are following but with ghosts skinheads & drunken friends to deal with Chris has still got a battle on his hands to reach the journeys end. ...

A gripping Temperance Brennan from forensic anthropologist & bestsellng crime thriller writer Kathy Reichs. Another day. Another death. Death du Jour. My God how many such days would there be? On a bitterly cold March night in Montreal forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan is exhuming the remains of a nun proposed for sainthood in the grounds of an old church. Just hours later Tempe is called to the scene of a horrific arson. A young family has perished & there seems to be no witness no motive no explanation. From the charred remains of the inferno to a trail of sinister cult activity & a terrifying showdown during an ice storm Tempe faces a nerve-shattering test of both her forensic expertise & her instinct for survival. ...

A riveting military action adventure novel
- Band of Brothers mets Andy Mc Nab in a story of hard nosed mercenaries. In Helmand
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Master of the Hunt the fifteenth Earl of Candlesby has come to lead his riders once again. But this time he comes as a corpse wrapped in blankets across his horse a corner of his scarlet coat visible in the morning mist. Only three people see the body. One dies. Another vanishes. Now only one man knows how he was killed. Powerscourt is summoned to investigate murder in a crumbling house where the paper is peeling off the walls & the stuffed owls each only have one leg. The estate is virtually bankrupt as Powerscourt uncovers a world of jealousy revenge & hatred where the sons are as dissolute & dangerous as the father. The fifteenth earl had left a trail of duels theft & adultery across the flatlands of Lincolnshire. It takes another death & a deadly chase under the crumbling estate before Powerscourt unlocks the secret of death in a scarlet coat. Praise for David Dickinson: Splendid entertainment". (" Publishers Weekly"). " Detective fiction in the grand style". (James Naughtie). " Beguilingly real from start to finish...you have to pinch yourself to remind you that it is fiction
- or is it?" (Peter Snow). " Dickinsons customary historical tidbits & patches of local colour swathed in...appealing Victorian narrative". (" Kirkus Reviews")."
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Early one morning Guido Brunetti Commissario of the Venice Police confronts a grisly sight when the body of a young man is fished out of a fetid Venetian canal. All the clues point to a violent mugging but for Brunetti robbery seems altogether too convenient a motive. Then something very incriminating is discovered in the dead man's flat
- something which points to the existence of a high-level cabal
- & Brunetti becomes convinced that somebody somewhere is taking great pains to provide a ready-made solution to the crime.. .

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