Anna Travis & James Langton return & must work together to capture one of the most terrifying killers they have ever encountered. A young girl is found dumped on the banks of the Thames. Horrifically mutilated & drained of blood her death is an ominous mirror image of an unsolved 1940s case in Los Angeles known as ' The Black Dahlia'. Detective Inspector Anna Travis must race against time to catch this copycat killer dubbed ' The Red Dahlia' from the flower his victim wore in her hair. But there are no suspects & a media frenzy is spiralling out of control. Anna turns to her mentor the volatile Detective Chief Inspector James Langton but the frictions of their romantic relationship are complicating the case. As Anna & Langton close in on the prime suspect they uncover a shocking web of sadistic sexual evil
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A phenomenally popular vampire romance sequence
- now showing on ITV2
- from the best selling author of Night World L. J. Smith.

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Sexual hunger; demonic violence; sinister logic
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The Green Men of Gressingham return with this sequel available for the first time as a 4u 2read. Full of twists turns & fiery surprises! The Green Men of Gressingham are struggling to find things to do now that they are no longer outlaws. But just when things are getting boring Lord Dashwood sends them on a very unusual mission! Can the Green Men complete it without setting their bottoms on fire? A hilarious story from an award-winning & hugely popular author. With a reading age of 7 it is particularly suitable for dyslexic reluctant & struggling readers. ...

Like the best memoirs this one is written with novelistic & poetic flair. Red Dust Road is a fantastic probing & heart-warming read
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Millie's cousin Geraldine is a show-off & a pain. So Millie plots revenge. She tells Geraldine about the ghost with red eyes who lives in the garden shed & comes out at night
- but manages to scare herself silly in the process! Everyone is furious but Millie & Geraldine end up the best of friends! This is a brilliant story about making friends with a funny slightly spooky twist.
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A novel of soldiers & spies in the Highlands of Vietnam Army cop Erik Rider is enjoying his war until hes sent to disrupt Vietcong opium fields in a remote Highland province. Rider lands in Cheo Reo home to hard-pressed soldiers intelligence operatives & profiteers of all stripes. The tiny U.S. contingent & their unenthusiastic Vietnamese allies are hopelessly outnumbered by infiltrating enemy infantry. & theyre all surrounded by sixty thousand Montagnard tribespeople who want their mountain homeland back. The Vietcong are onto Riders game & have placed a bounty on his head. As he hunts the opium fields skirmishes with enemy patrols & defends the undermanned US base Rider makes a disturbing discovery: someone close to home has a stake in the opium smuggling ring-and will kill to protect it. Written by a master & as authentic as Matterhorn or Dog Soldiers Red Flags is a riveting new addition to espionage fiction. ...

Railway Disasters are almost always the result of human fallibility
- a single mistake by an engine-driver guard or signalman or
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Following his adventures in THE DARK MOON THE JASPER FOREST & THE CRYSTAL DESERT Terrel travels ever onwards hoping that each step will take him closer to his homeland of Vadanis. Now Terrel finds himself in the war-torn land of Takkuk where no one can remember a time before conflict & no one but the powerful sorcerers know the cause of it. Horrified to learn that the powers of nature are being harnessed for use as weapons Terrel discovers that a volcano among the glaciers is home to a deadly presence.. . Look out for more information on this book & others on the Orbit website at www.orbitbooks.co.uk ...

Have you ever wondered what phrases such as 'square meal' 'load of old codswallop' 'egg on your face' or 'in the limelight' mean? Where do they come from? Have you ever taken a moment to wonder what we say actually means? The origins of hundreds of common phrases are explained in this irreverent journey through the most fascinating & richest regions of the English language. In a book that takes you all over the world from nautical origins to food & drink terms once you have learnt one phrase you will be eager to learn them all! From the drop of a hat to the bitter end
- you'll be surprised & intrigued & you'll never speak English in the same way again.
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