The sensational new novel featuring vampire-hunting heroine Anita Blake Anita Blake's reputation has taken some hits. Not on the work front where she has the highest kill count of all the legal vampire executioners in the country but on the personal front. No one seems to trust a woman who sleeps with the monsters. Still when a vampire serial killer sends her a head from Las Vegas Anita has to warn Sin City's local authorities what they're dealing with. Only it's worse than she thought. Several officers & one executioner have been slain
- paranormal style... Anita heads to Las Vegas where she's joined by three other federal marshals including the ruthless Edward hiding behind his mild-mannered persona. It's a good thing Edward always has her back because when she gets close to the bodies Anita senses 'tiger' too strongly to ignore it. The were-tigers are very powerful which means the odds of her rubbing someone important up the wrong way just got a lot higher...
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To the remote planet Spatterjay come three travellers with very different missions. Janer is directed there by the hornet Hive-mind; Erlin comes to find the sea captain who can teach her to live; & Keech
- dead for seven hundred years
- has unfinished business with a notorious criminal. Spatterjay is a watery world where the human population inhabits the safety of the Dome & only the quasi-immortal hoopers are safe outside amidst a fearful range of voracious life-forms. Somewhere out there is Spatterjay Hoop himself & monitor Keech cannot rest until he can bring this legendary renegade to justice for atrocious crimes committed centuries ago during the Prador Wars. Keech does not realise that Hoop's body is running free on an island wilderness while his living head is confined in a box on an Old Captain's ships. Nor does he know that the most brutal Prador of all is about to pay a visit intent on wiping out all evidence of his wartime atrocities. Which means major hell is about to erupt in this chaotic waterscape.

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Terrorists strike at the heart of the Edinburgh Festival in Quintin Jardines fantastic second novel in the highly popular Bob Skinner series. An explosion rocks Princes Street in the midst of the Edinburgh Festival. Responsibility is claimed by a group supposedly demanding political separation from Britain but as atrocities escalate Skinner realises this is no gang of fanatics but a highly professional team. But the Fighters havent reckoned with Assistant Chief Constable Bob Skinner head of the Edinburgh CID & security adviser to Secretary of State Alan Ballantyne... ...

Skinner faces the greatest most personal tests of his career in this gripping crime thriller. Deputy Chief Constable Bob Skinner could be forgiven for thinking not only that someone up there doesnt like him but that someone down here is out to get him. Suffering the strain of a marriage on the rocks the last thing he needs is for his private life to be plastered across the front pages of a sleazy tabloid. To make matters worse two brutal murders & new allegations about Skinner himself make simultaneous headlines. Unless he can clear his name & uncover the secret behind the series of brutal crimes he stands to lose everything: his family his career & even his life & liberty. ...

Skinner must help a criminal in order to catch a killer in this sixth novel in the bestselling Edinburgh crime series. When an Edinburgh car showroom is torched leaving a charred body among the burnt-out luxury cars Deputy Chief Constable Bob Skinner wonders if a life of crime has finally caught up with one of the citys most elusive villains. But the corpse turns out not to be that of Jackie Charles the owner of the showroom but his wife Carole. Skinner now finds himself on the same side as his old enemy in the search for the killer... ...

Bob Skinner must challenge local beliefs & legends to solve a gruesome murder in this fourth installment in the fantastic Scottish crime series. A four-day tournament involving the worlds leading golfers is being staged to mark the opening of a new country club created on the Marquis of Kintures East Lothian estate. But on the previous Sunday afternoon one of Kintures business partners is found dead in his private jacuzzi in the clubhouse
- with his throat cut. The next day an anonymous letter is received by the local newspaper containing a fragment of a legendary witches curse upon anyone who desecrates their place of worship. When a second murder occurs this time by water ACC Bob Skinner finds himself facing the most challenging case of his career...
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The book that launched a legend: the first novel in the acclaimed Bob Skinner series. As head of Edinburghs CID Detective Chief Superintendent Bob Skinner has seen it all...but even he is shocked by the savagely mutilated corpse discovered in a dark alleyway. The victim is identified as a successful young lawyer & the motive for the brutal death remains a mystery. Then further seemingly random killings in the city begin to suggest a vicious serial killer is on the rampage. But when the lawyers fiancee is also murdered Skinner realises that someone is in deadly earnest... ...

Skinner is on the trail of organised crime & a cold-blooded killer in this gripping third novel in Quintin Jardines bestselling crime series. First the joyous birth of Skinners son...then the grim reality of murder in one of Edinburghs prosperous suburbs. A man has been found knifed in a luxury villa. The victim had run a chain of laundrettes saunas & pubs throughout the city but for some time the police suspected these to be the front for a drug distribution network. Moving from Scotland to northern Spain then back to a chilling climax in Edinburgh this complex & suspenseful thriller follows a tortuous & bloodsoaked trail... ...

Happily ever after? Or never ever Ever. Ever's mom loved fairy tales but at fifteen-years-old & weighing 302 lbs Ever Davies is sure that happily ever after" was never written for her. She lives under the constant scrutiny of everyone around her & " Skinny"
- the voice in her head
- makes sure she never forgets how fat & ugly she is. That is until Ever decides to take drastic action. With the help of her long-suffering friend Rat Ever embarks on the risky terrifying journey of gastric surgery. But while Ever's body gradually changes on the outside she soon finds that changing the person on the inside is much harder. & silencing Skinny is the hardest task of all."

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Whats good for the bitch is good for the bastard. Hundreds of thousands of women have been inspired to use their head & get real about the food they eat after reading the best-selling manifesto Skinny Bitch. But it turns out some men have been reading over their girlfriends shoulders. Professional athletes such as Milwaukee Brewers Prince Fielder & the Dallas Mavericks Jerry Stackhouse have adopted a whole new eating plan because of the book. Now authors Rory Freedman & Kim Barnouin think its time for the guys to have a book of their own. In Skinny Bastard theyll explain why the macho meat & potatoes diet is total crap why having a gut is un-cool (and a turn-off) & how to get buff on the right foods. Eating well shouldnt be a girlie thingand the Bitches will whip any man into shape with their straight-talk sound guidance & locker room language. ...