Unputdownable Bagshawe (Cosmopolitan). Another fantastic blockbuster from the author of GLAMOUR & PASSION. Three heads are better than one... What do a feisty New Yorker an LA rock chick & a dreamy English public school girl have in common? On paper not a lot. But even though they live thousands of miles apart & have never met Rose Fiorello Poppy Allen & Daisy Markham have the strongest of bonds. They just dont know it yet. A sinister secret is buried deep at the heart of all their pasts & sooner or later it has to come out. When that happens one things for certain: the three girls lives will never be the same again. But will it finally bring them together? After all when there are old scores to settle theres definitely strength in numbers... ...

Sonny Farehams lover
- & also her boss
- is the charismatic Tony Bridgeman a successful & ruthless man who usually gets what

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Felix Castor is a freelance exorcist & London is his stamping ground. At a time when the supernatural world is in upheaval & spilling over into the mundane reality of the living his skills have never been more in dem&. A good exorcist can charge what he likes
- & enjoy a hell of a life-style
- but there's a risk: sooner or later he's going to take on a spirit that's too strong for him. After a year spent in 'retirement' Castor is reluctantly drawn back to the life he rejected & accepts a seemingly simple exorcism case
- just to pay the bills you underst&. Trouble is the more he discovers about the ghost haunting the archive the more things don't add up. What should have been a perfectly straightforward exorcism is rapidly turning into the Who Can Kill Castor First Show with demons were-beings & ghosts all keen to claim the big prize. But that's OK; Castor knows how to deal with the dead. It's the living who piss him off...


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A womans charred body has been found inside a burned car atop a hill in Knoxville. Was this an accidental death or murder? Forensic anthropologist Bill Brockton is on the case torching bodies to research how fire consumes flesh & bone. Days later he receives a mysterious package
- a set of cremated remains that seems entirely unreal. As Dr Brockton investigates he uncovers a truth too horrifying to believe... Little does Dr Brockton know that his research is about to collide with reality. Disgraced medical examiner & Dr Brocktons nemesis Garland Hamilton has escaped from custody on the way to his trial. So begins a deadly game of cat & mouse with Dr Brocktons life at stake. Finally running Hamilton to ground Brockton finds only the incinerated remains of his enemy or does he? The answer along with the renowned anthropologists ultimate test comes in a searing moment of truth.
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Convicted of a series of horrific crimes against young women in the up-market California town of Santa Barbara wealthy playboy Charlie Mendez has fled across the US border into Mexico. As one bounty hunter after another meets a grisly end at the hands of the murderous drug cartel his family have hired to keep him safe it seems that Mendez is one fugitive destined to remain beyond the reach of the law. Or at least thats how it looks until one determined victim persuades high-end security specialist Ryan Lock & his partner retired Marine Ty Johnson to take on the case. Plunged into a nightmare world where no one can be trusted least of all the authorities the two men discover a city more deadly than any war zone. Worse still when an attractive young American touristis snatched from the streets it appears that Mendez has returned to his old ways. But in order to stop him before he claims another victim will Lock & Ty have to pay the Devils Bounty? ...

Rumours of plague threaten Cambridge again ten years after the Black Death had almost laid waste to the town. Neither the church nor its priests had defended people from the disease & now they turn elsewhere for protection to pagan ritual & magical potions. It is a ripe atmosphere to be exploited by the mysterious Sorcerer an anonymous magician whose increasing influence seems certain to oust both civil & church leaders from power. One murder another unexplained death a font filled with blood a desecreated grave
- all bear the hallmarks of the Sorcerers hand only the identity of the magician remains a mystery. A mystery which Matthew Barthlomew must solve before he loses his reputation.. .and his life.
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In the heart of summer in the dead of night something wakes you. The house is quiet. The children are sleeping. The kitchen is empty. Except for the body on the floor. A series of brutal home invasions is terrorizing the Peak District. Until now the burglars havent left a clue. This time theyve left a corpse. But as the death toll rises two intrepid cops begin to suspect that the robberies
- & the murders
- are not what they seem. Beneath the scorching summer sun a dangerous game is in play.. .and a merciless killer is hiding in plain sight. Packed with twists suspense & danger The Devils Edge is a gripping thriller to rival the very best of Peter Robinson & Peter James. PRAISE FOR STEPHEN BOOTH A modern master Guardian Wonderful Daily Mail One of our best storytellers Sunday Telegraph

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FBI agent Sean Reilly & archaeologist Tess Chaykin heroes of Raymond Khourys bestselling Templar novels return in another edge-of-your-seat thriller that reaches from present day back to 1700s Mexico
- & possibly beyond. What if there was a natural drug previously lost to history in the jungles of Central America capable of inducing an experience so momentous
- & so unsettling
- that it might shake the very foundations of Western civilization? What if powerful forces on both sides of the law got wind of that drug & launched a vicious uncompromising pursuit to possess it? In Raymond Khourys million-copy-selling Templar novels Reilly & Tess traveled the globe to unravel ancient mysteries with present-day ramifications. In The Devils Elixir they find themselves dragged into a race
- against the clock against a brutal drug kingpin known as El Brujo"
- the sorcerer
- & even against government authorities
- to merge two divergent trails one several hundred years old the other as current as a heartbeat that could drag humanity to the brink of self-destruction. Packed with the nonstop suspense & unexpected twists Raymond Khoury fans delight in The Devils Elixir is destined for bestseller lists everywhere."






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Have you ever wanted to bury a secret so deeply that no one will find out about it? With private security firms supplying bodyguards in every theatre of war who will notice the emergence of a sexual psychopath from the ranks of the mercenaries? Reuters correspondent Connie Burns is no stranger to the worlds troublespots including the vicious civil unrest in Sierra Leone & the war in Iraq. But as she begins to suspect that a foreigner is using the chaos of war to act out sadistic fantasies against women her efforts to bring him to justice leave her devastated. Degraded & terrified she goes into hiding in England & strikes up a friendship with Jess Derbyshire a loner whose reclusive nature may well be masking secrets of her own. Connie draws from the other womans strength & makes the hazardous decision to attempt a third unmasking of a serial killer.. . Knowing he will come looking for her.. . ...

Hannah Swensen has to admit life is pretty sweet. Things are going well in the romance department & her bakerys delectable confections are selling as fast as she can bake them. Even her good friend Claire is head over heels with her new husband Reverend Bob Knudson. If only they could find time to take their honeymoon! When Bobs childhood friend Matthew Walters comes to town it seems like divine intervention. Matthew like Bob is a Lutheran minister with a stubborn sweet tooth. Since hes on sabbatical Matthew is happy to fill in for Bob while he & Claire take that long-awaited honeymoon. It sounds like the perfect plan
- until Hannah finds Matthew face-down in a plateful of Devils Food Cake a single bullet in his head. It will take some sleuthing to sift out the killer but Hannah is sure of one thing: even the most half-baked murder plot can be oh so deadly...
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