Reginald Hills best-selling duo Dalziel & Pascoe return in this brilliant complex & ultimately moving crime novel: Reginald Hill is probably the best living crime writer in the English-speaking world
- Independent In T.L. Beddoes play Deaths Jest-Book the dead wont lie still in the grave & the living often wish they could. & Reginald Hills novel is much the same
- except perhaps for a few more jests. The dead-pan joker Franny Roote is working on his dead friends unfinished biography of Beddoes & with unfinished business between himself & DCI Pascoe to deal with as well. Three times Pascoe has been wrong about Roote. This time hes determined to leave no grave-stone unturned as he tries to prove that the ex-con & aspiring academic is mad bad & dangerous to know. Meanwhile Edgar Wield Quixote-like rides to the rescue of a child in danger & finds hes got a rent-boy under his wing. In return the boy tips him off about the heist of a pricesless treasure & soon Wieldys torn between protecting the boy & doing his duty. His superiors might have worries but DC Hat Bowlers looking forward to a blissful New Year with the girl of his dreams. The trouble is that that girl is Rye Pomona & her dreams are filled with a horror too terrible to tell
- even though Charley Penn throws all his energies into trying to do exactly that. & over all this activity broods the huge form of Mid-Yorkshire CIDs First Mover DS Andy Dalziel. As trouble builds the Fat Man discovers (as many deities before him) that omniscience can be more trouble than its worth & that sometimes all omnipotence means is that you can have any colour you like as long as its black.


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Dorina Basarab is a dhampir
- half-human half-vampire
- & the only way she can stay sane is by unleashing her sometimes uncontrollable

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The king of horrors demonic symphony in ten volumes now available in omnibus editions
- each containing two titles in the spine-chilling
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On a wooded hillside in Tennessee blowflies bacteria & buzzards feast on human flesh unhindered by coffins or mausoleums. They're buried in shallow graves; submerged in tanks of water; concealed under slabs of concrete; locked in the boots & backseats of rusting cars. They are serving the needs of science in the cause of justice. In DEATH'S ACRE Dr Bill Bass the facility's founder & one of the world's leading forensic scientists describes how he created it & how the work of he & his colleagues have brought murderers to justice & cleared the names of the innocent. Within a riveting narrative he details his own career & the many criminal cases he has been involved in bringing forensic science vividly to life & highlighting its crucial role in modern day policing. ...

The hotly anticipated third book in Heather Killough-Walden's fantastic paranormal series THE LOST ANGELS. It's time for Azrael's story... As the former Archangel of Death Azrael has always stood apart from his brothers. Cursed to rule from the darkness he is not only one of the four favored archangels but the very first vampire & king among his kind. Sophie Bryce is a woman scarred by the dark secrets of her past. Though she is overwhelmingly attracted to the brooding archangel she simply cannot believe that she is the one fated to be with such an extraordinary being. But Azrael has known differently from the moment he laid eyes on Sophie & he will stop at nothing to win her heart
- even if he has to fight an army of unimaginable evils to do so...
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Lieutenant Sven Tveskoeg is in disgrace. His victory on Hekati & the emperor's favour have turned his patron against him: General Indigo Jaxx wants Sven dead. Exiled to Wildeside Sven waits for Jaxx's assassin. He hunts he fieldstrips his weapons he tries not to mind. At the age of 28 he's lived longer than he expected anyway. But then Sven finds himself offering to save the life of Jaxx's son. This means returning to Farlight where he finds that the emperor is missing his empire is collapsing there are murderous riots in the capital & General Jaxx stands on the edge of ruin. All Sven has to do is nothing. But when has he ever done anything that sensible... The devil-may-care not quite 100 per cent human mercenary soldier/killing machine known as Lieutenant Sven Tveskoeg & his like-minded team the Aux are back in this third explosive non-stop action-filled adventure. ...

Few survive the cage. Fewer still live to face the whipping post. Of those who do few are in a state to know what is happening to them. One of those who does is ex-Legion Etrangere sergeant Sven Tveskoeg. As this stubborn insubordinate son-of-a-bitch feels the first lash fall he hears the desert tribes attack & watches as they slaughter his comrades before they can execute him. Rescued from certain death Sven joins the tribes. Until his ruthless skills come to the attention of the Death's Head the infamous elite special ops force. They want Sven to sort out a little 'local difficulty'. But it seems all is not as it should be. Sven feels he's a pawn in a deadly game & pawns have an unfortunate habit of being sacrificed. But Death's Head Second Lieutenant Tveskoeg Obsidian Cross 3rd Class is nobody's sacrifice. & even a pawn can checkmate a king... ...

The Aux have been dropped on a far-flung planet called Hekati only it's in Uplift space & not really a planet at all. As for their mission it's so damn secret that General Jaxx hasn't even told Lieutenant Sven Tveskoeg what it's about. It appears a citizen of the United Free an empire not only more vast than Octo V's but far more technologically advanced has gone missing on this artificial world & it's up to Sven & the Aux to find the poor soul. But Hekati is a realm where nothing is quite as it seems & no one can be trusted. Smelling a rat Sven is so not happy
- & when he's not happy is when bad things start to happen
- & the body count starts to rise... The devil-may-care not-quite 100 percent human mercenary soldier-cum-killing machine Tveskoeg & the Death's Head squad are back: cue more extreme violence a mega death toll dirty sex fiendish plot twists & explosive non-stop action!

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Fresh hell from the Demonata
- you can't cheat death... The apocalypse came & the world burned. But it wasn't the end & out of
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A handsome young man arrives in St Petersburg at the house of Marya Morevna. He is Koschei the Tsar of Life & he is Marya's fate. For years she follows him in love & in war & bears the scars. But eventually Marya returns to her birthplace
- only to discover a starveling city haunted by death. Deathless is a fierce story of life & death love & power old memories deep myth & dark magic set against the history of Russia in the twentieth century. It is quite simply unforgettable.
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