Altogether an enjoyable performance one of Mr Hills best Financial Times When Mary Dinwoodie is found choked in a ditch following a night out with her boyfriend a mysterious caller phones the local paper with a"ation from Hamlet. The career of the Yorkshire Choker is underway. If Superintendent Dalziel is unimpressed by the literary phone calls he is downright angry when Sergeant Wield calls in a clairvoyant. Linguists psychiatrists mediums
- its all a load of nonsense as far as he is concerned designed to make a fool of him. & meanwhile the Choker strikes again
- & again...

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The anchor of The OReilly Factor" recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history
- how one gunshot changed
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Kidnap murder slander & a legend unearthed. 1483: King Edward IV dies leaving two innocent young princes in line to the throne. But when scandal & conspiracy explodes around their claim Richard of Gloucester is proclaimed king. Shortly after the princes vanish & storm clouds begin to gather around the newly crowned King Richard III. Fighter philanderer & royal spy Henry Morane is tasked with investigating the princes' disappearance the attempted kidnap of the exiled Lancastrian leader Henry Tudor & the hunting out of traitors amid Richard's supporters. & at the bloody battle of Bosworth Field King Richard & Henry Morane will face a fatal trial that will dictate the path of history. With the mystery of C.J. Sansom & the epic adventure of Bernard Cornwell Robert Farrington's thrilling novel brings to life King Richard III as we now know him ...

When Jack Taylor blew town at the end of The Guards his alcoholism was a distant memory & sober dreams of a new life in London were shining in his eyes. In the opening pages of The Killing of the Tinkers Jack's back in Galway a year later with a new leather jacket on his back a pack of smokes in his pocket a few grams of coke in his waistband & a pint of Guinness on his mind. So much for new beginnings. Before long he's sunk into his old patterns lifting his head from the bar only every few days appraising his surroundings for mere minutes & then descending deep into the alcoholic drug-induced fugue he prefers to the real world. But a big gypsy walks into the bar one day during a moment of Jack's clarity & changes all that with a simple request. Jack knows the look in this man's eyes a look of hopelessness mixed with resolve topped off with a quietly simmering rage; he's seen it in the mirror. Recognizing a kindred soul Jack agrees to help him knowing but not admitting that getting involved is going to lead to more bad than good. But in Jack Taylor's world bad & good are part & parcel of the same lost cause & besides no one ever accused Jack of having good sense. Ken Bruen wowed critics & readers alike when he introduced Jack Taylor in The Guards; he'll blow them away with The Killing of the Tinkers a novel of gritty brilliance that cements Bruen's place among the greats of modern crime fiction. ...

Years ago V.I. Warshawskis Aunt Rosa treated the detectives beloved mother in an unforgiveable way. Now after shes accused of stealing $3 million from the Dominican priory where she works Rosa calls upon the ties of blood to clear her name. V.I. is not prepared to forgive so easily. Until suddenly no one else
- the FBI a threatening phone caller & even Aunt Rosa herself
- appears to want her on the case either. V.I. turns to an old friend for help. But the stakes are higher than she could have realised.. .

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He watches. Something terrible has happened in the snowbound village of Kingdom Come Wyoming. Twelve eerily identical houses stand dark & abandoned. The people who lived in them appear to have vanished seemingly into thin air. He waits. Maura Isles is driving through the area with a group of friends when they find themselves trapped in a snowstorm. They stumble into the abandoned village to take shelter. But their nightmare has only just begun. They Disappear. Days later Jane Rizzoli flies to Wyoming to search for her missing friend. A crashed vehicle has been found with four badly burned bodies still inside. Can one of the corpses be Maura's? Jane's hunt for the truth leads her to Kingdom Come. Where the person who was watching Maura now lies waiting for her.. . ...

Detective Chief Inspector Billy Mc Cartney discovers a headless corpse in the scrubland close to Liverpool docks. The slaying carries all the hallmarks of a gangland hit
- a message from the underworld to snitches cops & rival gangs. One mile away a girl staggers into a run-down bar dazed & confused. The bars owner a career criminal called Shakespeare cannot get a word out of her. DCI Mc Cartney is all too well aware that the clock is ticking. The body was one Kalan Rozaki youngest brother of a notorious crime family
- except Kalan is no criminal. For almost a year his brothers have been under full-time Drug Squad surveillance as Mc Cartney slowly closed the net on their heroin trafficking. Mc Cartneys chief informant on the case is someone with insider knowledge of the Rozaki clans operation.. .their newly deceased baby brother Kalan. Mc Cartneys investigation into Kalans murder peels back layer after layer of a decades-long dynasty of drug smuggling. Each revelation plunges Mc Cartney back into the dark heart of an unsolved drug crime that weighs heavy on his soul. He wants to catch the Rozakis
- badly
- but he wants the shadowy men behind their drug empire even more. The closer Mc Cartney gets to Kalans killer the closer he comes to facing down a lifetimes torment.



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Roses mother & Joshuas father have disappeared. Police inquiries have gone nowhere & the case it seems is closed: Rose & Joshua have been told that the police believe their parents are dead. But Rose & Joshua still hold out hope that they are alive. Joshua is determined to follow up his own inquiries which

Includes:: working out the meaning of the cryptic notebooks
- the murder notebooks
- they have discovered. Then Rose is distracted by odd desperate messages she receives from Rachel a former best friend from her school followed by the terrible news that Rachel is dead. But perhaps Rachels death will provide one more piece of the puzzle about what has happened to Rose & Joshuas parents.. .A taut & pacy thriller in The Murder Notebooks series from an acclaimed writer for teens.



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Nothing will ever be the same again... In the heart of Philadelphias badlands Homicide Detectives Byrne & Balzano are called out to a particularly chilling crime scene. Once the pillar of the neighbourhood an abandoned church has become a killing room. At first it looks like a random act of violence. But then a second body is found & a third. Each crime scene more disturbing than the last each murder more brutal. & it soon becomes horrifyingly clear that a cold calculating & terrifyingly precise mind is at work. With very few leads & a mastermind who always seems to be one step ahead Byrne & Balzano are faced with challenges they could never have imagined as they race against time to hunt down their killer before its too late... ...

' The thing is Detective... If you believe in God you've got to believe in the Devil.' Deepest winter. Darkest Philadelphia. A murder shocks the frozen city
- the most spectacular homicide in its 300-year-old history: an ex-cop has been lured to the basement of an abandoned chapel wrapped in barbed wire
- & kept alive for ten days. Twenty-four hours after the discovery Detectives Kevin Byrne & Jessica Balzano find another victim in another church encased in a pristine block of ice. Someone is transforming the city's cathederals into killing rooms someone who is determined to raise hell on earth. Packed with ingenious twists & relentless excitement The Killing Room is a novel of blistering thrills & heart-stopping suspense.

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