In the fully painted psychological thriller & horror story House of Secrets" teenage runaway. Rain Harper becomes part of a supernatural justice system when she takes up residence in a haunted mansion. Holding court within the abandoned house five otherworldly ghostly spirits known as the Juris hypnotically summon people to their location & judge them for the secrets that they keep. Acting as a "witness" that binds the Juris trials to this plane of existence Rain is forced to validate their decisions as she simultaneously tries to save the defendants from their sentences." ...

THE GAMES AFOOT... It is November 1890 & London is gripped by a merciless winter. Sherlock Holmes & Dr Watson are enjoying tea by the fire when an agitated gentleman arrives unannounced at 221b Baker Street. He begs Holmes for help telling the unnerving story of a scar-faced man with piercing eyes who has stalked him in recent weeks. Intrigued by the mans tale Holmes & Watson find themselves swiftly drawn into a series of puzzling & sinister events stretching from the gas-lit streets of London to the teeming criminal underworld of Boston. As the pair delve deeper into the case they stumble across a whispered phrase the House of Silk: a mysterious entity & foe more deadly than any Holmes has encountered & a conspiracy that threatens to tear apart the very fabric of society itself With devilish plotting & excellent characterisation bestselling author Anthony Horowitz delivers a first-rate Sherlock Holmes mystery for a modern readership whilst remaining utterly true to the spirit of the original Conan Doyle books. Sherlock Holmes is back with all the nuance pace & powers of deduction that make him the worlds greatest & most celebrated detective. ...

THE GAMES AFOOT.. . It is November 1890 & London is gripped by a merciless winter. Sherlock Holmes & Dr Watson are enjoying tea by the fire when an agitated gentleman arrives unannounced at 221b Baker Street. He begs Holmes for help telling the unnerving story of a scar-faced man with piercing eyes who has stalked him in recent weeks. Intrigued Holmes & Watson find themselves swiftly drawn into a series of puzzling & sinister events stretching from the gas-lit streets of London to the teeming criminal underworld of Boston & the mysterious House of Silk.. . See Judys Review See Richards Review Download A Sample Chapter Of The House of Silk Read about the Author Exclusive Bonus Content Write a Review for The House of Silk Judys Review Ive never read a Sherlock Holmes story. To be honest they didnt hold any particular appeal for me. Obviously Ive seen the various films & TV versions & mostly enjoyed them but the books themselves? No thanks. Anthony Horowitz has changed all that. I cant wait to get stuck in to the originals
- if theyre as good as The House of Silk Ive got a massive treat coming. This book evokes a powerful sense of late-Victorian London. It is winter 1890; handsome cabs clatter along the frosty cobbled streets gas lamps flare in the gloom & telegram boys run to & fro with urgent messages. At 221b Baker Street Holmes & Watson are taking tea by a roaring fire when Mrs Hudson the faithful housekeeper shows a clearly agitated gentleman in. He has a story to tell. He is being stalked by a menacing scar-faced man who stares malevolently at him. It has been going on for weeks & their visitor is at the end of his tether. He begs Holmes for help. The games afoot Watson! & indeed it is. Horowitz spins an ever-more dramatic & dangerous story. What begins as a puzzle swiftly becomes a mystery with deeply sinister overtones. As Holmes & Watson become immersed in their investigations they begin to hear the whispered words the House of Silk... what does the phrase mean? What links Londons foggy streets with the violent underworld that seethes in the American city of Boston? This is quite simply one of the best detective mysteries I have read for a long time. Congratulations Mr Horowitz. Can we have another one please? Richards Review "
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THE GAME'S AFOOT.. . It is November 1890 & London is gripped by a merciless winter. Sherlock Holmes & Dr Watson are enjoying tea by the fire when an agitated gentleman arrives unannounced at 221b Baker Street. He begs Holmes for help telling the unnerving story of a scar-faced man with piercing eyes who has stalked him in recent weeks. Intrigued Holmes & Watson find themselves swiftly drawn into a series of puzzling & sinister events stretching from the gas-lit streets of London to the teeming criminal underworld of Boston & the mysterious ' House of Silk'.. . ...

Russia 1915: Sixteen year old farmers son Georgy Jachmenev steps in front of an assassins bullet intended for a senior member of the Russian Imperial Family & is instantly proclaimed a hero. Rewarded with the position of bodyguard to Alexei Romanov the only son of Tsar Nicholas II the course of his life is changed for ever. Privy to the secrets of Nicholas & Alexandra the machinations of Rasputin & the events which will lead to the final collapse of the autocracy Georgy is both a witness & participant in a drama that will echo down the century. Sixty-five years later visiting his wife Zoya as she lies in a London hospital memories of the life they have lived together flood his mind. & with them the consequences of the brutal fate of the Romanovs which has hung like a shroud over every aspect of their marriage... ...

In January 1850 Dostoyevsky was sent to a remote Siberian prison camp for his part in a political conspiracy. The four years he spent there startlingly re-created in The House of the Dead" were the most agonizing of his life. In this fictionalized account he recounts his soul-destroying incarceration through the cool detached tones of his narrator Aleksandr Petrovich Goryanchikov: the daily battle for survival the wooden plank beds the cabbage soup swimming with cockroaches his strange family of boastful ugly cruel convicts. Yet " The House of the Dead" is far more than a work of documentary realism: it is also a powerful novel of redemption describing one mans spiritual & moral death & the miracle of his gradual reawakening." ...

The House of the Dead is a stark account of Dostoyevskys own experience of penal servitude in Siberia. In graphic detail he describes the suffering of the convicts
- their squalor & degradation their terror & resignation from the rampages of a pyschopath to the brief serenity of Christmas Day. Amid the horror of labour in the sub-zero work camp we hear the stories of the prisoners & live through the freezing isolation & pain of day after day of misery. We see a young intellectual forced to live eat & sleep with men from a background of cruelty coarseness & brutality. The Gambler is set in a spa town with its casino & international clientele. Alexey Ivanovitch is a young tutor in the household of a general. He is both observer & actor in the tempest which surrounds his impoverished employer as he envies & mocks the airs & pretensions of his supposed superiors. Everyone is waiting for the death of Granny the generals rich aunt but so far from dying she turns up alive & well & makes her way to the casino..
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Welcome to the house of the mosque... Iran 1950. Spring has arrived & as the women prepare the festivities Sadiq waits for a suitor to knock on the door. Her uncle Nosrat returns from Tehran with a glamorous woman while on the rooftop Shahbal longs only for a television to watch the first moon landing. But not even the beloved grandmothers can foresee what will happen in the days & months to come. In this uplifting bestseller Kader Abdolah charts the triumphs & tragedies of a family on the brink of revolution. ...

As a girl Clara del Valle can read fortunes make objects move as if they had lives of their own & predict the future. Following the mysterious death of her sister Rosa the Beautiful Clara is mute for nine years. When she breaks her silence it is to announce that she will be married soon to the stern & volatile landowner Esteban Trueba. Set in an unnamed Latin American country over three generations The House of the Spirits" is a magnificent epic of a proud & passionate family secret loves & violent revolution." ...

Spanning four generations Isabel Allende's magnificent family saga is populated by a memorable often eccentric cast of characters. Together men & women spirits the forces of nature & of history converge in an unforgettable wholly absorbing & brilliantly realised novel that is as richly entertaining as it is a masterpiece of modern literature. ...