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Think Of The Children
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Detective Sergeant Jessica Daniel is first on the scene as a stolen car crashes on a misty wet Manchester morning. The driver is dead but the biggest shock awaits her when she discovers the body of a child wrapped in plastic in the boot of the car. As Jessica struggles to discover the identity of the driver a thin trail leads her to a set of clothes buried in the woods & a list of children's names abandoned in an allotment shed. With the winter chill setting in & parents looking for answers Jessica must find out who has been watching local children & how this connects to a case that has been unsolved for fourteen years. The fourth fantastic title in the ' Jessica Daniel' series from Amazon UK No. 1 bestseller Kerry Wilkinson. ...
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Thinker Failure Soldier Jailer

The Telegraph's obituaries pages are renowned for their quality of writing and capacity to distil the essence of a life from its most extraordinary moments. A unique mix of heroism ingenuity infamy and the bizarre Thinker Failure Soldier Jailer collects the very best of those obituaries to present an endlessly absorbing compendium of human endeavour. Organised day by day around the calendar year with each life presented on the date it ended the book features hundreds of remarkable stories. World statesmen jostle with glamorous celluloid stars pioneering boffins sit alongside chart-topping rock 'n' rollers while artists and their muses mingle with record-breaking sportsmen Victoria Cross winners spies showgirls and captains of industry - as well as the titans of rather more esoteric fields.
Here for instance can be found Britain's greatest goat breeder a hangman who campaigned to abolish the death penalty a priest to Soho's pimps a cross-dressing mountaineer and a minister who preached a gospel of avarice - donations in notes only please as 'change makes me nervous'. A treasure trove of human virtue vice and trivia Thinker Failure Soldier Jailer is the perfect gift for the armchair psychologist in all of us.
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The Telegraph's obituaries pages are renowned for their quality of writing & capacity to distil the essence of a life from its most extraordinary moments. A unique mix of heroism ingenuity infamy & the bizarre Thinker Failure Soldier Jailer collects the very best of those obituaries to present an endlessly absorbing compendium of human endeavour. Organised day by day around the calendar year with each life presented on the date it ended the book features hundreds of remarkable stories. World statesmen jostle with glamorous celluloid stars pioneering boffins sit alongside chart-topping rock 'n' rollers while artists & their muses mingle with record-breaking sportsmen Victoria Cross winners spies showgirls & captains of industry
- as well as the titans of rather more esoteric fields. Here for instance can be found Britain's greatest goat breeder a hangman who campaigned to abolish the death penalty a priest to Soho's pimps a cross-dressing mountaineer & a minister who preached a gospel of avarice
- donations in notes only please as 'change makes me nervous'. A treasure trove of human virtue vice & trivia Thinker Failure Soldier Jailer is the perfect gift for the armchair psychologist in all of us.

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