This morning I found a body. Soon the police will arrest me for murder. & after that my life will fall apart. Gaby Mortimer is the woman who has it all. But everything changes when she finds a body on the common near her home. Because the evidence keeps leading back to her. & the police seem sure she's guilty...UNDER YOUR SKIN is an unpredictable exquisitely twisty story which proves that there are only three rules in life that mean anything: Assume nothing Believe no one Check everything ...

As the world goes about its daily business criminals & cops engage in a deadly battle of wits. This incisive book delves intriguingly into the crimes that police have to deal with day after day. Murderers hitmen kidnappers drug dealers
- they all feature in this collection of true crime stories that come to you straight from the streets. Take the drug dealer who walked out of a restaurant bragging that hes killed a man with his bare-hands
- unaware that his fellow diner was an undercover policeman. Or the young mother whose death was written of as suicide but further investigation proved to be something much more sinister...

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John Moran & Carl Williams were the two biggest rival drug barons in Australia. They certainly werent partners but they werent sworn enemies. One day they had a meeting to end a dispute over drug money. Thinking he could scare his rival into submission Moran pulled the trigger on Carl but decided not to finish the job off. It turned out to be the biggest mistake of his life. Carl was hell bent on revenge. Within months most of the Moran family & a host of underworld figures would die in an astonishing spate of revenge killings which shook the public & the police to the core. Murder greed drugs sex & corruption abound in a story that reads like a piece of gangster fiction. But in Underbelly the bullets & the blood are grippingly real. This is true crime of the highest order
- the amazing story of a powerful man who did things his way & eventually orchestrated his own terrible downfall.
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Undercover lays bare the deceit betrayal & cold-blooded violation practised again & again by undercover police officers
- troubling
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Who makes most money from the demand for cappuccinos early in the morning at Waterloo Station? Why is it impossible to get a foot on the property ladder? How does the Mafia make money from laundries when street gangs pushing drugs dont? Who really benefits from immigration? How can China in just fifty years go from the worlds worst famine to one of the greatest economic revolutions of all time lifting a million people out of poverty a month? Looking at familiar situations in unfamiliar ways THE UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST is a fresh explanation of the fundamental principles of the modern economy illuminated by examples from the streets of London to the booming skyscrapers of Shanghai to the sleepy canals of Bruges. Leaving behind textbook jargon & equations Tim Harford will reveal the games of signals & negotiations contests of strength & battles of wit that drive not only the economy at large but the everyday choices we make. ...

Sophie & Katy should be the worst of enemies
- witches & witch hunters just aren't supposed to be friends! So they've got to try
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Keep those gadgets undercover with the Undercover Mini Sleeve. Designed to look like a tatty old envelope it hides cameras phones ipods & mp 3 players (and anything else small.) Following the outrageous success of the Undercover Laptop Sleeve this mini version safely & subtley holds phones mp 3 players & anything else that needs looking after. Made from tough waterproof material & padded with protective PE foam the velcro straps make the mini sleeves size adjustable. Plus red satin lining finishes this off nicely! ...

Fancy! A lot of working chaps beating a lot of gentlemen 1879 the third round of the FA Cup. A football team from the humble Lancashire cotton town of Darwen take on Remnants
- a Berkshire club of the moneyed & well-connected
- & beat them. It is footballs first ever giant killing. Their reward is a quarter-final with the mighty Old Etonians. It pitches rulers against ruled rich against poor champions against underdogs old tactics against new the inventors of the game against the upstarts. It is an encounter that is seen as symbolic & hidden at the heart of the encounter lies the bitterest controversy. Underdogs is a fascinating story that covers the very birth of football & its development towards the game we recognize today. Storyteller football connoisseur & historian Keith Dewhurst shows how 130 years ago at its beginning football was already reflecting the modern game closely
- money talks cheating abounds & victory is secured whatever the cost.


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My names Cameron Wolfe. I have a little bit of sense. I dont have much sense. My older brother Ruben gets me into plenty of trouble. I get Rube into as much trouble as he gets me into. I have a family yes that doesnt really function without tomato sauce. Thats me. Cameron & Ruben Wolfe are brothers. They spend most of their time throwing one-handed boxing matches (they only have the one pair of gloves) & plotting to rob the local dentists. But what Cameron really wants is to meet a girl
- a real girl not like the ones in the lingerie magazines. But who could ever love an underdog like Cameron Wolfe?
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