Amelie a well-intentioned & eager young westerner goes to Japan to spend a year working at the Yumimoto Corporation. Returning to the land where she was born is the fulfilment of a dream for Amelie but working there turns into a comic nightmare of terror & self-abasement. Disturbing hilarious & totally convincing Fear & Trembling displays an elegant & shrewd understanding of the intricate ways Japanese relationships are made & spoiled. ...

Throughout history some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves
- & each other. They have
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For two women Ted Bundy Americas most notorious serial killer is the ultimate obsession. One is a cop whose sister may have been one of Bundys victims. The other is a deranged groupie who corresponded with Bundy in prison
- & raised her son to finish what he started. To charm & seduce innocent girls. To kidnap & brutalize more women than any serial killer in history. & to lure one obsessed cop into a trap as sick & demented as Bundy himself... Praise for Gregg Olsen: Olsen will have you on the edge of your seat." (Lee Child). " Wickedly clever...twisted." (Lisa Gardner). " Olsen is a top-notch writer." (Michael Connelly). " Olsen keeps the tension taut & pages turning." (Publishes " Weekly")."
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Following a string of disastrous house-sitting assignments & an equally troubled personal life Thea Osborne is understandably apprehensive about her latest commission: a wintry month in an isolated house with only an assortment of animals including her loyal spaniel Hepzie for company. With the summer lushness of the Cotswolds turned icy grey Thea spends her first few days exploring the beautiful hamlet of Hampnett meeting some of the locals. But then the weather turns extreme & so do events. When she stumbles across a man lying dead in a snow-covered field Thea finds herself once again at the heart of a mystery. ...

The young men who flew with RAF Bomber Command in World War Two were a complex mixture of individuals but they all shared the gift of teamwork. A crew of seven may have comprised all non-commissioned men & some crews included commissioned officers but not always flying as pilots. The outstanding fact was that each man relied on every other member of his crew to return from each mission safely. This book contains ten intriguing reminiscences of bomber aircrew; some were pilots others navigators flight engineers bomb-aimers or gunners. They flew as both commissioned or NCO airmen.. Understandably a common problem was that of coping with fear. Many former aircrew hold that anyone who claims to have felt no fear on operations is either lying or has allowed the years to blank out that fear. But there are a few who do maintain that they never felt afraid. For the majority though handling fear was something to be worked out by the individual. Some hit the bottle others womanized to excess; others tightened the gut & bit the lip; or drew the curtain & focused upon the plotting table or the wireless set. The passing years may have silvered what hair remains dulled the eye that formerly registered on the merest speck; lent a quiver to the hand that once controlled the stick penciled in the track manipulated the tuning dial set the bombsight tapped the gauge or rotated the turret. & yet for all the attributes of age their irrepressible youthfulness shines through. ...

The silent snow-covered streets of Oslo are a perfect scene of Christmas tranquillity. But over the tolling of bells for the last Sunday of Advent a black note sounds. A boy's body washes up near the shoreline of the city's Aker Bridge. His corpse is bloated by the water almost unrecognisable. Nobody has even bothered to report him missing. One week later the bishop of Bergen is found stabbed to death on a deserted street. Eva Karin Lysgaard is a popular public figure a sixty-two year-old grandmother: why was she on a lone errand in the deserted city on the night before Christmas? Johanne Vik criminal researcher & police profiler is called in to untangle the motivation behind the bishop's murder. But with her husband at the head of this increasingly high-profile investigation Vik's association with the case is under intense scrutiny. & why does Lysgaard's shocking death lead her towards the sad death of an unknown boy? ...

Compulsive daydreamer Isadora Wing doesnt want much
- just to be free & to find the perfect guiltless zipless sexual encounter.
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Sent to an Industrial School in Dublin at the age of seven Patrick Touher was forced into a tough regime of education & training prayer & punishment strict discipline & fearful nights. No allowances were made for emotion sentiment or boyhood worries & anyone who disturbed the routine was severely punished. Artane demanded absolute obedience absolute submission; Patrick's was an education in cruelty & fear. Patrick Touher spent eight long years in Artane Industrial School. Run by the Christian Brothers the school has become synonymous with the widespread abuse of children in Ireland in the 1940s & 1950s which is currently the subject of a Commission inquiry. This is the inside story of a childhood lived in the most horrific of circumstances. A moving & powerful true account Fear of the Collar" bears testament to the courage & determination of the children that society forgot." ...

The worst day of Tim Blake's life started out with him making breakfast for his seventeen-year-old daughter Sydney. Syd was staying with him while she worked a summer job
- even if he wasn't entirely sure what her job at the Just Inn Time motel actually was
- & Tim hoped this quality father-daughter time would somehow help her deal with his divorce. When she didn't arrive home at her usual time he thought she'd probably gone to the mall to hang with her friends. When she didn't answer her phone he began to worry. When she didn't come home at all he began to panic. & when the people at the motel said they had no Sydney Blake working there & never had he began to see his life going into freefall. If she hadn't been working at the motel every day what had she been doing? Something she couldn't
- or wouldn't
- tell her own father about? To find his daughter Tim doesn't need to simply track her down
- he needs to know who she really was & what could have made her step out of her own life without leaving a trace. Only one thing has him convinced the worst hasn't already happened: the fact that some very scary people seem just as eager as he is to find her. The question is: who's going to find her first?




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Since the earliest days of the Great Crusade Sanguinius
- angelic primarch of the IXth Legion
- was ever among the closest

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