An underground chamber is exposed in a seedy dilapidated house with sagging trim & peeling paint... In the dark cellar a ritualistic display is revealed. A human skull rests on a cauldron surrounded by slain chickens & bizarre figurines. Beads & antlers dangle overhead. Called to the scene is forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan. Bony architecture suggests that the skull is that of a young black female. But how did she die? & when? Then just as Tempe is working to determine post-mortem interval another body is discovered: a headless corpse carved with Satanic symbols. As citizen vigilantes blaming Devil-worshippers begin a witch-hunt intent on revenge Tempe struggles to keep her emotions in check. But the truth she eventually uncovers proves more shocking than even she could have imagined... ...

GUY ST EDMOND RETURNING WARRIOR WILL LET NOTHING STAND IN THE WAY OF HIS DESIRE Spoken of only in whispers
- & with a name that
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In the Rocky Mountains a horrible massacre ensues. Bodies are found purposefully positioned to form two symbols. One man recognises the warning behind the gruesome murders: Painter Crowe director of SIGMA has seen these symbols before & knows the deaths were a personal threat. One of the victims was his beloved cousin. Crowe joins forces with Commander Grayson Pierce to penetrate the shadowy heart of a dark cabal that has been manipulating American history. But can he discover the truth before it destroys all he holds dear? The truth lies hidden within the ruins of a cursed lost colony
- a place known only as THE DEVIL COLONY.
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Nobody
- & I mean nobody
- does this stuff better than Rollins LEE CHILD Deep in the Rocky Mountains a gruesome discovery
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Bens under a curse that will kill him unless he sells it on to someone else. Can he bring himself to do it? While he hesitates the body count rises... Spellbinding horror Barrington Stoke specialise in books for reluctant struggling & dyslexic readers. ...

This is an award winning first novel that immediately established Mosley as a great American writer. Los Angeles 1948: Easy Rawlins is a war veteran just fired from his job. Drinking in a friends bar he wonders how to meet his mortgage when a white man in a linen suit walks in offering good money if Easy will locate Miss Daphne Monet a blonde beauty with a reputation. In the sleazy fearful city Easy must rely on his instincts not just to solve the case but to save his life. ...

Lucifer Box
- the gorgeous butterfly of King Berties reign portraitist dandy & terribly good secret agent
- is feeling his age.

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The Devil in Disguise illuminates the impact of the two British revolutions of the seventeenth century & the shifts in religious political scientific literary economic social & moral culture that they brought about. It does so through the fascinating story of one family & their locality: the Cowpers of Hertford. Their dramatic history contains a murder mystery bigamy a scandal novel & a tyrannized wife all set against a backdrop of violently competing local factions rampant religious prejudice & the last conviction of a witch in Engl&. Spencer Cowper was accused of murdering a Quaker & his brother William had two illegitimate children by his second wife. Their scandalous lives became the source of public gossip much to the horror of their mother Sarah who poured out her heart in a diary that also chronicles her feeling of being enslaved to her husb&. Her two sons remained in the limelight. Both were instrumental in the prosecution of Henry Sacheverell a firebrand cleric who preached a sermon about the illegitimacy of resistance & religious toleration. His parliamentary trial in 1710 provoked serious riots in London. William Cowper also intervened in 1712 to secure the life of Jane Wenham whose trial provoked a wide-ranging debate about witchcraft beliefs. The Cowpers & their town are a microcosm of a changing world. Their story suggests that an early Enlightenment far from being simply a movement of ideas sparked by great thinkers was shaped & advanced by local & personal struggles. ...

Playing with fire! Drusilla Bennetts job from hell will soon be over. Ready to take her life back & walk away from the devil
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When Marco Pierre White's mother died when he was just six years old it transformed his life. Soon his father was urging him to earn his own keep & by sixteen he was working in his first restaurant. White went on to learn from some of the best chefs in the country such as Albert Roux Raymond Blanc & Pierre Koffmann. He survived the intense pressure of hundred-hour weeks in the heat of the kitchen developed his own style & then struck out on his own. At Harveys in Wandsworth which he opened in 1987 he developed a reputation as a stunning cook & a rock 'n' roll sex god of the kitchen. But he was also a man who might throw you out of his restaurant & his temper was legendary as younger chefs such as Gordon Ramsay & Heston Blumenthal would find out when they worked for him. He eventually opened several more restaurants won every honour going & then realised that it still wasn't enough. Here Marco takes the reader right into the heat of the kitchen with a sharp-edged wit & a sizzling pace that will fascinate anyone brave enough to open the pages of this book & enter his domain. ...