You are a police officer. This is what you do. You speak for the dead & the desperate living. When Anna Cameron is promoted to Chief Inspector & moved to a new division it should be a turning point for her. But if she thought having a female boss would make things easier shed reckoned without the fearsome JC Hamilton. Then her mother goes into a coma in a foreign country & an old woman disappears from a Glasgow care home under suspicious circumstances & Annas career & personal life both threaten to implode. The gang-related murder of a young Asian boy & an assault on one of her officers only serve to turn the screws tighter
- can Anna be both a good cop & a good person?
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Photographer Christabel is drawn to psychic phenomena & dark liasons. When she is persuaded by her husband to take a holiday at a mysterious mansion house in the country she foresees only long days of boredom. But Nicholas her deviously sensual husband has a hand in the unexpected events that begin to unravel. He is keen to ensure that Christabel's holiday is eventful & erotic & she is soon drawn into a web of eroticism with Nicholas's young male PA. Within this unusual & kinky threesome Christabel learns some lessons the jaded city could never teach her. ...

In 1978 a ' Factory for Sale' sign gave Alan Erasmus & Tony Wilson a name for their fledgling Manchester club night. Though they couldn't have known it at the time this was the launch of one of the most significant musical & cultural legacies of the late twentieth century. The club's electrifying live scene soon translated to vinyl & Factory Records went on to become the most innovative & celebrated record label of the next thirty years. Always breaking new musical ground Factory introduced the listening public to bands such as Joy Division whose Unknown Pleasures was the label's first album release New Order Durutti Column & Happy Mondays. Propelled onwards by the inspirational cultural entrepreneur Tony Wilson Factory always sought new ways to energise the popular consciousness such as the infamous Hacienda nightclub which enjoyed a chequered 15-year history after opening in 1982. Shadowplayers is the most complete authoritative & thoroughly researched account of how a group of provincial anarchists & entrepreneurs saw off bankers journalists & gun-toting gangsters to create the most influential record label of modern times. Based on both archive & contemporary sources the book tells the full story of Factory's heroic struggles its complex web of inventive idiosyncratic & tragic personalities & ultimately the acclaimed & much-loved music it produced. ...

As shadows threaten to consume the kingdom of Southmarch Barrick Eddon heir to March throne battles his way across the sinister Shadowlands. He must journey through this dangerous inhuman realm to fulfil a pact
- as this may be all that can prevent the atrocities of a full-scale war with the Twilight people of Qul-na-Qar. Meanwhile the assault upon Southmarch has truly begun. Yasammez the formidable head of the Qar army has ordered the attack believing that the pact between humans & Qar has been broken. Unless Ferras Vansen Captain of the Southmarch Royal Guard can convince her otherwise the humans are sure to meet the dark end that has been promised to them.. .
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Alex has escaped from Rule
- but what new horrors face her in the ravaged world outside? Tom is safe
- but what will he risk

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An awkward misfit nine-year-old Fulke Fitz Warin leaves his family for the household of Joscelin de Dinan Lord of Ludlow. Once there he begins to learn the knightly arts which he desperately hopes will free him from the shadows of his past. Joscelin's youngest daughter Hawise befriends Fulke when he most needs it. But as the years pass an enemy to Ludlow changes their friendship unalterably forcing them onto opposite sides of a cruel divide. When the menace to Ludlow intensifies Fulke must confront the future head on or fail on all counts all the while desperate to know if Hawise stands with or against him. ...

Somethings lying patiently in wait until the time is right... Thirteen years have passed since Yul fought for his life at the quarry & Stonewylde has flourished in a new golden age. But now the shadows are gathering. Wild & disobedient Leveret is the bad girl who disappears at night time & would rather roam the woods than sit in school. Only Clip recognises the girls magical sensitivity & believes she may be the one to lead Stonewylde out of the approaching darkness. The shadows thicken as Yul & Sylvie find that something-- or someone-- is tearing their beautiful relationship apart. As Stonewylde starts to disintegrate a sinister alliance is forming but they have no idea what evil theyre really up against.. . ...

Rome AD 71. Against his better judgement Marcus Didius Falco secretly disposes of a decayed corpse for the Emperor Vespasian then heads for the beautiful Bay of Naples with his best friend Petronius. He conveniently forgets to mention to his companion that this will be no holiday. They have been sent to investigate the murderous members of a failed coup now sunning themselves in luxurious villas & on fancy yachts. Nor does the idyllic seaside location help his doomed romance with Helena Justina. The deeper he probes the more it seems Helena is inextricably connected to the elite plotters in ways that the smitten Falco cannot bear to contemplate.. . ...

When Thea Osborne agrees at the last minute to house-sit for Oliver Meadows she expects a few days of peace with her spaniel Hepzie. Uncomfortable with the news of her mother's sudden involvement with an old flame & herself unsure of how to deal with her feelings for Drew Slocombe Thea hopes that some time alone in the historic town of Winchcombe will help to clear her head. But with the disturbing discovery of a dead body in the gardens of the house she quickly finds herself at the heart of a sinister mystery. Thea must work quickly to unravel the secrets kept by Oliver Meadows & his brother Fraser & discover exactly what lies beneath the surface of their turbulent relationship. But without Drew there to help her she finds it ever more difficult to uncover the truth. & amidst the chaos caused by the investigation will Thea find time to deal with her own problems? ...

Simon Serrailler is on sabbatical on a Scottish island recovering from an exhausting murder investigation when he is urgently summoned back to Lafferton. Two local prostitutes have been found strangled. By the time Serrailer has reached the town another girl has vanished. Is this a vendetta against prostitutes by someone with a warped mind? Or a series of killings by an angry punter? Then the wife of the new Dean at the Cathedral goes missing
- has the killer widened their net or is there more than one murderer at large?
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