Following their collaboration in SPLIT SECOND ex-Secret Service agents Sean King & Michelle Maxwell have gone into partnership & are investigating the robbery of some secret documents at the residence of the incredibly wealthy Battle family. It seems like a straightforward case of domestic burglary but soon they begin to suspect links to larger more terrifying events now shaking the prosperous town of Writghtsburg.. . The unidentified corpse of an attractive young woman turns up in the woods; two high school kids one shot in the back the other in the face are found dead in their car; a successful lawyer is discovered stabbed to death in her own home. A serial killer is on the loose. The murderer kills in the manner of famous killers of the past but takes care to leave a stopped watch at the scene of each crime -- corresponding to the victim's position on his hit list. As the killing spree escalates it seems that the fractured Battle family are somehow involved & Maxwell & King suddenly find themselves racing to solve an intricate puzzle one that is full of tantalizing clues but barren of solid evidence & one that is leaving even the FBI confounded. & all the while the body count is rising.. . ...

A young boy is killed in a hit & run. Under the cover of rain & darkness the driver escapes the scene. But the incident will change his life forever as he becomes the victim of blackmail.. . Meanwhile Van Veeteren now retired from the Maardam police faces his greatest challenge yet when a family member becomes the victim of a terrible crime. & as the body count rises it gradually becomes clear that the person behind these murders is acting on their own dark logic.. . ...

In the dead of night in the pouring rain a drunk driver smashes his car into a young man. He abandons the body at the side of the road but the incident will set in motion a chain of events which will change his life forever. Soon Chief Inspector Van Veeteren now retired from the Maardam police force will face his greatest trial yet as someone close to him is inexplicably murdered. Van Veeteren's former colleagues desperate for answers struggle to decipher the clues to this appalling crime. But when another body is discovered it gradually becomes clear that this killer is acting on their own terrifying logic.. . ...

The third novel in the internationally bestselling EVERNIGHT series
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Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer & Pen/ Faulkner prizes The Hours is a daring & deeply affecting novel inspired by the life & work of Virginia Woolf. A passionate profound & haunting story of love & inheritance hope & despair. Exiled in Richmond in the 1920s taken from her beloved Bloomsbury & lovingly watched over by her husband Leonard Virginia Woolf struggles to tame her rebellious mind & make a start on her new novel. In the brooding heat of 1940s Los Angeles a young wife & mother yearns to escape the claustrophobia of suburban domesticity & read her precious copy of Mrs Dalloway. & in New York in the 1990s Clarissa Vaughan steps out of her smart Greenwich Village apartment & goes shopping for flowers for the party she is giving in honour of her life-long friend Richard an award-winning poet whose mind & body are being ravaged by AIDS. These are the characters in Michael Cunninghams exquisite & deeply moving new novel which takes Woolfs life & work as inspiration for a meditation on artistic behaviour failure love & madness. Moving effortlessy across the decades & between England & America Cunninghams elegant haunting prose explores the pain & trauma of creativity & the immutable relationship between writer & reader. ...

The House at Pooh Corner" is the second of only two storybooks written by A.A. Milne about Winnie-the-Pooh the most famous bear in the world. In its pages the reader is reunited with Pooh Christopher Robin & all the familiar characters from " Hundred Acre Wood". Join the friends as they build a house for Eeyore invent the noble game of Poohsticks & investigate the knotty question of what Tiggers like to eat. Delicate colourings of E. H. Shepards beloved illustrations are complemented by an exquisite jacket design making this prestige edition a must-have for Pooh collectors & all lovers of beautiful books." ...

The House at Pooh Corner" is the second of only two storybooks written by A.A. Milne about Winnie-the-Pooh the most famous bear in the world. In its pages the reader is reunited with Pooh Christopher Robin & all the familiar characters from " Hundred Acre Wood". Join the friends as they build a house for Eeyore invent the noble game of Poohsticks & investigate the knotty question of what Tiggers like to eat. Delicate colourings of E. H. Shepard's beloved illustrations are complemented by an exquisite jacket design making this prestige edition a must-have for Pooh collectors & all lovers of beautiful books." ...

Summer 1924: On the eve of a glittering Society party by the lake of a grand English country house a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses sisters Hannah & Emmeline Hartford will never speak to each other again. Winter 1999: Grace Bradley 98 one-time housemaid of Riverton Manor is visited by a young director making a film about the poets suicide. Ghosts awaken & memories long-consigned to the dark reaches of Graces mind begin to sneak back through the cracks. A shocking secret threatens to emerge; something history has forgotten but Grace never could. A thrilling mystery & a compelling love story The House at Riverton" will appeal to readers of Ian Mc Ewans " Atonement" L.P. Hartleys " The Go-Between" & lovers of the film " Gosford Park"." ...

Summer 1924: On the eve of a glittering Society party by the lake of a grand English country house a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses sisters Hannah & Emmeline Hartford will never speak to each other again. Winter 1999: Grace Bradley 98 one-time housemaid of Riverton Manor is visited by a young director making a film about the poets suicide. Ghosts awaken & memories long-consigned to the back of Graces mind begin to sneak back through the cracks. A shocking secret threatens to emerge; something history has forgotten but Grace never could... This recording is unabridged. Typically abridged audiobooks are not more than 60 per cent of the authors work & as low as 30 per cent with characters & plotlines removed. ...

A team of archaeologists investigating coastal erosion on the north Norfolk coast unearth six bodies buried at the foot of a cliff. How long have they been there? What could have happened to them? Forensics expert Ruth Galloway & DCI Nelson are drawn together again to unravel the past. Tests reveal that the bodies have lain preserved in the sand for sixty years. The mystery of their deaths stretches back to the Second World War a time when Great Britain was threatened by invasion. But someone wants the truth of the past to stay buried & will go to any lengths to keep it that way...even murder. ...