When an engineer is sentenced to death for a petty transgression of guild law he flees the city leaving behind his wife & daughter. Forced into exile he seeks a terrible vengeance
- one that will leave a trail of death & destruction in its wake. But he will not be able to achieve this by himself. He must draw up his plans using the blood of others.. . In a compelling tale of intrigue & injustice K. J. Parkers embittered hero takes up arms against his enemies using the only weapons he has left to him: his ingenuity & his passion
- his devices & desires.

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Drug dealers beware. The Devil is coming to get you. Gangster Stephen French invented the perfect crime: robbing drug barons of their huge fortunes. In SAS-style swoops French raided their fortified mansions & tortured them with horrifying violence until they paid up. Through 'taxing' the richest & most powerful crimelords in the UK he netted over GBP20 million. French was no ordinary criminal. He was a world-champion fighter he studied psychology at university to master mind-control techniques & he used the teachings of Machiavelli & samurai warriors to outwit his enemies. The Devil also reveals French's complex relationship with Curtis Warren the wealthiest criminal in British history. The two were childhood pals then partners & finally bitter enemies. Now a legitimate businessman French built up a multimillion-pound empire. Having eventually turned his back on his former life he is now seeking to set the record straight. ...

America
- the land of opportunity a place where economic prosperity beckons: but not for PI Jack Taylor whos just been refused
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Willard is a tormented veteran of the carnage in the South Pacific who can't save his beautiful wife Charlotte from a slow death by cancer no matter how much sacrificial blood he pours on his 'prayer log'. Carl & Sandy Henderson a husb&-&-wife team of serial killers trawl America's highways searching for suitable models to photograph & exterminate. The spider-handling preacher Roy & his crippled virtuoso-guitar-playing sidekick are running from the law. & caught in the middle of all this is Arvin Willard & Charlotte's orphaned son who grows up to be a good but also violent man in his own right. ...

Hana Ibuki a cheerful soul waltzes into Marias life & befriends her right away. She even convinces wary classmates to join Marias choral group. Theres something suspicious about Hanas help however especially since misconceptions about Maria occur every time Hana is involved. Is Hana really a friend or actually a foe? ...

Maria encourages antagonistic Ayu to be true to her feelings but that simple action snowballs into a huge rift within their class! As secret crushes & hidden motives are revealed the backlash of honesty just might destroy Marias efforts in uniting everyone for the choral competition! ...

The start of her second year in high school brings someone unexpected into Maria's life
- Shintaro Kurosu a brash first-year student
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A new novel from Paulo Coelho author of The Alchemist. A stranger arrives in the small mountain village. He carries with him a backpack containing a notebook & eleven gold bars. Burying these in the vicinity the stranger strikes up a curious friendship with a young woman from the village
- Miss Prym. His mission is to discover whether human beings are essentially good or evil. In this stunning new novel Paulo Coelho's unusual protagonist sets the town a moral challenge from which they may never recover. A fascinating meditation on the human soul The Devil & Miss Prym illuminates the reality of good & evil within us all & our uniquely human capacity to choose between them.
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When Hillary & her girlfriends rent a country house for their summer vacation it is a pleasant surprise to find that its secretive & kinky owner Darius Harwood seems to be the most desirable man in the locale. That is before Hillary meets Haldane the blond & beautifully proportioned Norwegian sailor who works nearby. Intrigued by the sexual allure of two very different men Hillary cant resist exploring the possibilities on offer. But these opportunities for misbehaviour quickly lead her into a tricky situation & she is forced to make the most difficult decision of her life. ...

When the rains came they found the girl's face. Just her face. At least that was how it appeared... On a perfect summer evening in 1954 sixteen-year-old Nancy Denton walked into the woods of her hometown of Whytesburg Mississippi. She was never seen again. Two decades on Sheriff John Gaines witnesses a harrowing discovery. A young woman has been unearthed from the riverbank her body perfectly preserved yet she bears evidence of a brutal ritualistic killing. Nancy has come home at last but her return does not bring closure to her family nor to the townsfolk of Whytesburg. Already haunted by his experiences in Vietnam Gaines must now stretch his abilities to the limit pushing himself ever closer to breaking point. What really happened to the beautiful & vivacious Nancy? & why do her friends refuse to talk? As Gaines closes in on the truth he is forced to not only confront his own demons but to unearth secrets that have long remained hidden. & that truth so much darker than he could ever have imagined may be the one thing that finally destroys him. Intense gripping & hauntingly atmospheric The Devil & the River is the stunning new thriller from bestselling author R.J. Ellory. ...