VENGEANCE features new stories by bestselling crime writers including Lee Child Michael Connelly Dennis Lehane & Karin Slaughter as well as some of today's brightest rising talents. The heroes in these stories include a cop who's seen too much a woman who has been pushed too far or just an ordinary person doing what the law will not. Some call them vigilantes others claim they are just another brand of criminal. Edited & with an introduction by Lee Child these stories reveal the shocking consequences when men & women take the law into their own hands. ...

Why would suicide need a witness? On the east coast of Ireland Victor Delahaye one of the country's most prominent citizens takes his business partner's son out sailing. But once at sea Davy Clancy is horrified to witness Delahaye take out a gun & shoot himself dead. This strange event captures the attention of Detective Inspector Hackett & his friend Pathologist Doctor Quirke. The Delahayes & Clancys have been rivals for generations & the suicide lays bare the perplexing characters at the heart of the mystery from Mona Delahaye's toxic young widow to Jonas & James his strange enigmatic twin sons; & Jack Clancy his down-trodden womanizing partner. & when a second death occurs one even more shocking than the first Quirke begins to realise that terrible secrets lie buried within these entangled families; & that in this world of jealousy ruthless ambition & pride -- nothing is quite as it seems.. . ...

The smell grew riper thicker. She began to breathe through her teeth. She'd smelled violent death too many times to mistake it.' When New York homicide lieutenant Eve Dallas makes the gruesome discovery of a mutilated & dismembered body the hunt is on to find an evil sadist. The murderer is close at hand; haunting Eve with cryptic riddles about his next crime
- riddles that always leave her with too little too late. But when the next butchered body is found murder gets personal. Eve may be newly married but the honeymoon is well & truly over. New husband Roarke's ugly past is catching up with him & his secret is the last vital clue in the search for a revengeful killer.
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With a revised binding & format AA Essential Guide Florence & Tuscany" gives you all the information you need to know for a memorable holiday. Pocket-size & packed full of information you really need the guide is great value for your money & an ideal choice to help you get the best out of Florence & Tuscany. The guide contains helpful advice for planning your trip with information about when to go getting there being there & getting around. There are website addresses & practical information throughout. The best things to see & do plus the unmissable ten best things to do & all other recommended sights are cross-referenced with grid locations so you can pinpoint them on the mapping." ...

Ideal for business or leisure ' City Pack Venice' is succinct with all the practical information you need for a perfect trip. Presented in a handy compact format the guide also contains a separate fold-out map within a concealed poppered pocket to help you navigate the city. This new edition lists Top 25 sights & experiences in one chapter & features 3 new sections; City Tours section contains self-guided tours that show you the best of the city; More To See sights is ideal if you have extra time on your hands & Focus On helps you get know the city in more depth. ...

Examines the way in which Venice's unusual topography has influenced the form & type of the city's buildings. The text looks at the city's most important monuments such as the Rialto Bridge & the Basilica of San Marco discusses important building types such as churches & palaces & also looks at the urban fabric of the middle-class & working-class districts of the city. The buildings are set in their historical context & the text is illustrated with photographs & paintings & prints by some of the artists who have recorded the canals & building of Venice from Carpaccio & Bellini to Ruskin. ...

Marble palaces balanced atop wooden poles commuters crossing the Grand Canal standing in gondolas prosecco" bottles popping in tight quarters: Venice defies all common sense & chooses wonder instead. Alison Bing Lonely Planet Writer Our Promise You can trust our travel information because Lonely Planet authors visit the places we write about each & every edition. We never accept freebies for positive coverage so you can rely on us to tell it like it is. Inside This Book 2 expert authors 29 maps 100 islands 149km of canals 1500 years of art & architecture Comprehensive map section Feature coverage of top sights Range of planning tools In-depth background on Venice s art & architecture" ...

When ex-priest Tom Shaman jaded from years in the LA ghetto decides on a last-minute trip to Venice he gets much more than the break hed been hoping for. A brutal killer is on the loose & Tom finds himself catapulted into a series of ritualistic killings unlike anything Venice has ever seen. Enlisted by the Italian police Tom teams up with investigator Valentina Morassi to dig deep into the citys darkest history stretching from an ancient civilisation in 700 BC & the sexual decadence of 18th century Italy to the gritty underworld of modern-day Venice. As Valentina & Tom trace the killings through the centuries they uncover a deadly secret a secret that generations have killed to protect: a priceless Etruscan mosaic known as the Gates of Hell... ...

This is the walking guide to Venice taking in the cultural highlights & illustrated with paintings photographs & engravings to reveal how the city became how it is today. None of Venices innumerable chroniclers have portrayed the Serenissimas character with quite such a combination of the scholarly the informal & the intimate. Over the years thousands of readers starting this book have been relieved to encounter its famously undemanding approach to the city
- Generally the first thing to do in Venice is to sit down & have a coffee: but by the time they get to the end of it all the same they will have learnt virtually everything that an educated stranger needs to know about the place its art & history besides being subtly entertained throughout. (from Jan Morris introduction to this new 8th revised edition published on the occasion of the titles 40th Anniversary).
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Whether youre a first-time tourist or seasoned traveller its virtually impossible to find yourself alone in Venice. The citys much architectural splendour its winding canals ancient piazzas & charming markets are marvellous to visit--and crowded with people in every season. In these hauntingly beautiful photographs Christopher Thomas takes readers on a solitary tour of the city Lord Byron once called the Most Serene Republic." As he did with his previous volume New York Sleeps Thomas uses long-term exposures & a now discontinued large-format Polaroid film to capture places bereft of humans in the early hours of the day. Readers can almost feel the ghosts of Titian Shakespeare Vivaldi & Henry James wandering these canals & cobblestones; & they can experience the city as it was intended to be: an ingeniously planned aesthetically delightful oasis of beauty light shadows
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