Afghanistan 2008. A Black Hawk helicopter carrying a senior CIA operative is shot down by a surface to air missile its lone passenger taken hostage by a fanatical new insurgent group. Knowing this man holds information vital to the ongoing conflict the CIA bring in Ryan Drake & his elite Shepherd team to find & rescue their lost operative. But nothing is what it seems & within hours of arriving in the war-torn country Drake & his team find themselves caught in a deadly conflict between a brutal terrorist warlord & the ruthless leader of a private military company. & lurking in the shadows is a woman from Drake's past determined to settle old scores. ...

Innocent people are dying. Who will be next? Find out in the second Detective Mark ' Heck' Heckenburg from 1 ebook bestseller Paul Finch. A vicious serial killer is holding the country to ransom publicly
- & gruesomely
- murdering his victims. When a man is burnt alive on a bonfire it seems like a tragic Guy Fawkes Night accident. But with the discovery of a young couple on Valentine's Day
- each with an arrow through the heart
- something more sinister becomes clear. A 'calendar killer' is on the loose. Detective Mark ' Heck' Heckenburg is up against it. With a rising body count & the public's eyes on him Heck must find the killer before he executes more victims. Because this killer has a plan. & nothing will stop him completing it. A heart-stopping & grisly thriller that will enthral fans of Stuart Mac Bride & Katia Lief.



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Perfect for fans of C.J. Sansom & The Name of the Rose the third historical thriller featuring Giordano Bruno heretic philosopher & spy. In the pursuit of power nothing is sacred... Summer 1584. The Protestant Prince William of Orange has been assassinated by a fanatical Catholic & there are whispers that Queen Elizabeth will be next. Fear haunts the streets of London & plague is driving many citizens away. Giordano Bruno radical philosopher & spy chooses to remain only to find that someone is following him through the city. Confronting his stalker he realizes it is the woman he once loved
- she is on the run having been accused of murder. Bruno travels to Canterbury to help clear her name & also on behalf of Sir Francis Walsingham. The Queens spymaster has long suspected Catholic influence in the ancient centre of pilgrimage & instructs Bruno to work to expose any enemy plots. As Bruno begins his hunt for the real killer he is drawn into the heart of a sinister conspiracy hiding in the shadow of Englands holiest shrine...
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Perfect for fans of C.J. Sansom & The Name of the Rose the third historical thriller featuring Giordano Bruno heretic philosopher & spy. In the pursuit of power nothing is sacred... Summer 1584. The Protestant Prince William of Orange has been assassinated by a fanatical Catholic & there are whispers that Queen Elizabeth will be next. Fear haunts the streets of London & plague is driving many citizens away. Giordano Bruno radical philosopher & spy chooses to remain only to find that someone is following him through the city. Confronting his stalker he realizes it is the woman he once loved
- she is on the run having been accused of murder. Bruno travels to Canterbury to help clear her name & also on behalf of Sir Francis Walsingham. The Queens spymaster has long suspected Catholic influence in the ancient centre of pilgrimage & instructs Bruno to work to expose any enemy plots. As Bruno begins his hunt for the real killer he is drawn into the heart of a sinister conspiracy hiding in the shadow of Englands holiest shrine...
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An elderly stroke victim dies without having arranged a will... Beautiful young Elinor Carlisle stood serenely in the dock accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard her rival in love. The evidence was damning: only Elinor had the motive the opportunity & the means to administer the fatal poison. Yet inside the hostile courtroom only one man still presumed Elinor was innocent until proven guilty: Hercule Poirot was all that stood between Elinor & the gallows... ...

The very first novel written by Jack Higgins re-packaged to celebrate 50 years of bestsellerdom. He guesses its around 3am. Gun runner & occasional smuggler Mark Hagen hears a scream through the fog. He finds a girl; young beautiful trouble. But as Mark Hagen himself said I love trouble angel. It makes life so much more interesting." Before long he is hauled into a chaotic chase involving The Red Chinese & a lot of gold. From feeling he had lost everything to suddenly fighting for his life Hagen must battle his inner demons & some truly terrifying enemies in a deadly game of power action & murder." ...

The Sunday Times & New York Times bestselling author of Damaged tells the true story of Donna who came into foster care aged ten having been abused victimised & rejected by her family. Donna had been in foster care with her two young brothers for three weeks when she is abruptly moved to Cathy's. When Donna arrives she is silent withdrawn & walks with her shoulders hunched forward & her head down. Donna is clearly a very haunted child & refuses to interact with Cathy's children Adrian & Paula. After patience & encouragement from Cathy Donna slowly starts to talk & tells Cathy that she blames herself for her & her brothers being placed in care. The social services were aware that Donna & her brothers had been neglected by their alcoholic mother but no one realised the extent of the abuse they were forced to suffer. The truth of the physical torment she was put through slowly emerges & as Donna grows to trust Cathy she tells her how her mother used to make her wash herself with wire wool so that she could get rid of her skin colour as her mother was so ashamed that Donna was mixed race. The psychological wounds caused by the bullying she received also start to resurface when Donna starts reenacting the ways she was treated at home by hitting & bullying Paula so much so that Cathy can't let Donna out of her sight. As the pressure begins to mount on Cathy to help this child things start to get worse & Donna begins behaving in erratic ways trashing her bedroom & being regularly abusive towards Cathy's children. Cathy begins to wonder if she can find a way to help this child or if Donna's scars run too deep. ...

The three members of the Saddle Club
- Carole Lisa & Stevie
- are the best of friends bonded by their special love of horses.

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The Music Fairies desperately need Rachel's & Kirsty's help! Jack Frost & his naughty goblins have stolen the fairies' Magical Musical Instruments which means that music is being ruined for everyone! Jack Frost plans to use the instruments to help him win a national talent competition in the human world & with the help of the enchanted instruments he's bound to win. If this happens humans will find out about Fairyland & then all the fairies will be in danger! Sadie's Magic Saxophone is in the hands of the troublesome goblins. Can Rachel & Kirsty help her to outwit them & take the instrument back? ...

A betrayal & a murder in pro-Nazi Spain spark a struggle for power that grips a family for generations in this sweeping historical thriller. When Isabel a Spanish aristocrat living in the pro-Nazi Spain of 1941 becomes involved in a plot to kill her Fascist husband she finds herself betrayed by her mysterious lover. The effects of her betrayal play out in a violent struggle for power in both family & government over three generations intertwining her story with that of a young lawyer named Maria forty years later. During the attempted Fascist coup of 1981 Maria is accused of plotting the prison escape of a man she successfully prosecuted for murder. As Maria's & Isabel's narratives unfold they encircle each other creating a page-turning literary thriller firmly rooted in history. ...