Returning from holiday Hamish becomes unaccountably worried
- it's as if he senses a dark cloud of evil hanging over Lochdubh.
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Erast Fandorin returns to Moscow after an absence of six years only to find himself instantly embroiled in court politics & scandal. His old friend General Sobolev
- the famous Russian Achilles
- has been found dead in a hotel room & Fandorin suspects foul play. Using his now-famous powers of detection
- powers that belie his twenty-six years
- Fandorin embarks on an investigation during which the political & the personal may become dangerously blurred. With the assistance of some formidable martial arts skills acquired whilst Fandorin was in Japan our eccentric & ingenious hero must endeavour to discover not so much whodunit as why...



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Recovering addict Tommy Jarret has rented a chalet to check out reports of a sea monster near the village of Drim. Then he turns up dead apparently from a drug overdose & constable Hamish Macbeth finds the lads demise particularly fishy. Deciding to go undercover Hamish infiltrates the local drug dealing trade. But his plans looks doomed when hes teamed up with a tough Glaswegian detective inspector named Olivia Chater aka Concrete Knickers. For the Lochdubh lawman it would be equally dangerous to flounder.. .or fall in love. Praise for the Hamish Macbeth" series include: An enchanting series.. .M C Beaton has a foolproof plot for the village mystery
- " New York Times Book Review". Readers will enjoy the quirks & unique qualities of the cast.. . Beaton catches the beauty of the areas natural geography & succinctly describes its distinct flavour
- " Library Journal"."

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When a young girl is found strangled in a field in the Fens it looks like a routine job for the staff of the East Anglian Forensic Laboratory. But then the senior biologist is found dead in his lab & murder comes closer to home. Commander Adam Dalgliesh faces the most baffling inquiry of his career as the startling evidence begins to point to an unexpected conclusion."" ...

When a young girl is found murdered in a field the scientific examination of the exhibits is just a routine job for the staff of Hoggatts forensic science laboratory. But nothing could have prepared them for the brutal death of one of their own. When the senior biologist is found dead in his laboratory Commander Dalgliesh is called to the bleak fens of East Anglia where the murderer is lying in wait to strike again. ...

The most hated man in the most dour town in Scotland is sleeping with the fishes or
- more accurately
- has been dumped into

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The Black Dragons fall upon the world of Antagonis summoned to combat the plague of undeath that has engulfed the planet. Allying themselves with Inquisitor Werner Lettinger & a force of Sisters of Battle the Black Dragons endeavour to save the souls of the Imperial citizens who have succumbed to the contagion. But there is more than a mere infection at play
- the dread forces of Chaos lie behind the outbreak & the Black Dragons stand in the way of the Dark Gods' victory -
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Hazlehurst housing estate Glasgow Christmas Eve 2010. Fifteen-year-old Marnie & her little sister Nelly have just finished burying their parents in the back garden. Only Marnie & Nelly know how they got there. Lennie the old guy next door has taken a sudden interest in his two young neighbours & is keeping a close eye on them. He soon realises that the girls are all alone & need his help -- or does he need theirs? As the year ends & another begins the sisters friends their neighbours & the authorities -- not to mention the local drug dealer whos been sniffing around for their father -- gradually start to ask questions. & as one lie leads to another darker secrets about Marnies family come to light making things even more complicated. Written with fierce sympathy & beautiful precision The Death of Bees" is an enchanting & grimly comic tale of three lost souls who unable to answer for themselves can answer only for each other." ...

The highly anticipated return of Dalziel & Pascoe the hugely popular police duo & stars of the long-running BBC TV series in a new psychological thriller. Can it be true? Has the Fat Man really sung? Caught in a huge Semtex explosion it seems the only thing preventing Superintendent Andy Dalziel from stepping through Death's door is his size
- & sheer bloody-mindedness. While Andy lies in a coma an injured DCI Pascoe works to uncover what he feels sure is a conspiracy despite the security services believing the blast was an accident in which the terrorists blew themselves up. Who then are the mysterious Knights Templar bringing the war in Iraq back home with their gruesome acts of vengeance? What have they got to do with a best-selling novelist a beautiful temptress & a hit-and run on Yorkshire CID's most inept officer? & most importantly will Dalziel ever wake up to hear the truth..?
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Commissario Guido Brunetti is kicking his heels pondering the recent lack of crime in Venice when a beautiful young woman appears at his office door. Now calling herself Maria Testa his visitor is more familiar to Brunetti as Suor'lmmacolata the nun who once cared for his mother at the casa di cura in Dolo. But Maria has recently left her convent after the unexpected deaths of five patients. Brunetti offers to make some enquiries but finds now obvious cause for concern. Is Maria simply creating fears to justify abandoning her vocation? Or has she stumbled on to a deeply rooted far more sinister scenario
- & put her own life in very grave danger.. .?
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