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 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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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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Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is best known for War & Peace & Anna Karenina commonly regarded as amongst the greatest novels ever written. He also however wrote many masterly short stories & this volume contains four of the longest & best in distinguished translations that have stood the test of time. In the early story Family Happiness Tolstoy explores courtship & marriage from the point of view of a young wife. In The Kreutzer Sonata he gives us a terrifying study of marital breakdown in The Devil a powerful depiction of the power of sexual temptation & in perhaps the finest of all The Death of Ivan Ilyich he portrays the long agony of a man gradually coming to terms with his own mortality. ...

The Alliterative Morte Arthure"
- the title given to a four-thousand line poem written sometime around 1400
- was part

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The master of historical fiction presents the iconic story of King Alfred & the making of a nation. As the ninth century wanes England appears about to be plunged into chaos once more. For the Viking-raised but Saxon-born warrior Uhtred whose life seems to shadow the making of England this presents him with difficult choices. King Alfred is dying & his passing threatens the island of Britain to renewed warfare. Alfred wants his son Edward to succeed him but there are other Saxon claimants to the throne as well as ambitious pagan Vikings to the north. Uhtreds loyalty
- & his vows
- were to Alfred not to his son & despite his long years of service to Alfred he is still not committed to the Saxon cause. His own desire is to reclaim his long lost lands & castle to the north. But the challenge to him as the king s warrior is that he knows that he will either be the means of making Alfred s dream of a united & Christian England come to pass or be responsible for condemning it to oblivion. This novel is a dramatic story of the power of tribal commitment & the terrible difficulties of divided loyalties. This is the making of England magnificently brought to life by the master of historical fiction.

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