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Never has DI Wesley Peterson witnessed such a bizarre crime scene. The victim, Charles Marrick, has been murdered, his body drained of blood. Described by those who knew him as ‘evil’, it seems that Wesley isn’t going to have any shortage of suspects - until a popular local vet is murdered in an identical fashion...and a third body is discovered many miles away. And when Wesley’s archaeologist friend, Neil Watson, starts getting disturbing anonymous letters written in gory detail about macabre events at a medieval abbey - which Neil fears are being sent by the killer Wesley is looking for - Wesley wonders whether there could be a connection between all these deaths and Neil’s letters. And could Neil himself be in danger? As the sinister truth unfolds, both Wesley and Neil are

Lemaster and Julia Carlyle seem to have it all; successful African-Americans living in 'the heart of whitenes' in a small New England town, Lemaster is President of the university and Julia a dean at the divinity school. But when Julia's former lover, Kellen Zant, is found dead the murder opens a door into the racial tensions of the town's past, and one family's secrets.

As Julia searches for clues to uncover what Zant knew that was worth killing for, she begins to suspect a connection with the death of a young woman over thirty years before; a connection that may involve Lemaster's former university roommate and current President of the United States...

A murderer is on the loose on the streets of New York City: nicknamed the Doomsday Killer, he's claimed six victims in just two weeks, and the city is terrified. Even worse, the police are mystified: the victims have nothing in common, defying all profiling, and all that connects them is that each received a sick postcard in the mail before they died uaa postcard that announced their date of death. In desperation, the FBI assigns the case to maverick agent Will Piper, once the most accomplished serial killing expert in the bureau's history, now on a dissolute spiral to retirement. Battling his own demons, Will is soon drawn back into a world he both loves and hates, determined to catch the killer whatever it takes. But his search takes him in a direction he could never have predicted,

Superintendent Kincaid is torn away from a bitter family custody to an arson secene at a vacant warehouse in Southwark, Inside, the police discover a corpse burned beyond recognition. Meanwhile Kincaid's lover and former partner, DI Gemma James, is trying to cope with private concerns of her own, while concentrating on the disappearance of a young, beautiful hospital administrator who has vanished without a trace. Across the city, inside an old, dark, rambling house, a nameless woman is holding ten-year-old Harriet hostage. Fearful of her rigidly controlling captor and desperately worried about her feuding mother and father back at home, Harriet tries to escape... White the clock ticks, Kincaid and Gemma must call upon every resource as they work together on their most menacing case

A boy has been crucified in Galway city. People are shocked; the broadsheets debate how the brutal death reflects the state of the nation; the Irish Church is scandalized. No further action is taken. Then the sister of the murdered boy is burned alive and PI Jack Taylor decides to take matters into his own hands. Taylor's investigations take him to old city haunts where he encounters ghosts - living and dead. But what he eventually finds surpasses even his darkest imaginings.

When a disgraced former Iranian military chief of staff engineers an insurgency that threatens to destroy the theocratic regime in Iran, a new era appears to be dawning in the Middle East. But one must be wary of old enemies . . . On the run from the Pasdaran, the theocrat's terror army, and unable to count on support from his friends in the regular army, Iranian rebel leader General Hesarak al-Kan Buzhazi desperately turns to his old nemesis, U.S. Air Force Lieutenant-General Patrick McLanahan, for help. Unwilling to commit American forces in an Iranian civil war, and with time running out, the U.S. president authorizes McLanahan to utilize a new, top-secret fleet of globe-crossing spaceplanes, the XR-A9 Black Stallions, led by test pilot and astronaut Captain Hunter Noble. Within hou

Lover of a good bottle of local Rossi di Montalcino, smoker of Antico Toscano cigars - and head of Florence´s elite police force, the Squadra Mobile. With a rising murder rate and high levels of Mafia activity, Ferrara has an unenviable job. And when a spate of brutal murders hits Florence, Ferrara´s role becomes even more dangerous. It seems that a deadly serial killer is at work - killing one man in a shop selling religious artefacts, another in a quiet angiques showroom. Ferrara doesn´t understand what links the victims - but, with sick, teasing notes arriving him from the killer, he needs to solve the crime before he becomes the next victim...

Lincoln Tremayne, heir to a viscountcy and manager of his father’s Dorset estate, has one burning ambition—to be selected to ride on the British Olympic Three- Day Eventing Team. But his dream is about to be put on hold. Arriving at the stables late one night, Lincoln walks into a crisis. Thieves have viciously attacked the stable owner’s daughter, leaving her unconscious. As she lies in a coma, what appears to be freak chance sets Lincoln on the trail of the attackers. Disregarding the advice of the police and the increasingly unpleasant warnings from those involved, he juggles sleuthing with a demanding job and competitive riding career. But as the violence escalates, it becomes chillingly clear that someone is trying to kill him for reasons of their own—and the race is on to

On the outskirts of Paris, two men have been found with their throats cut. It is assumed that this is a drug-related incident of the kind so often uncovered in that area of town. But Adamsberg is convinced that there is more to it. Anxious to keep control of the case, he must call in a favor from the pathologist Ariane Lagarde, someone he had come up against twenty-three years previously. The trail also leads Adamsberg to a cemetery, where a grave has been disturbed with no apparent motive. Could this be the work of the elderly nurse - a serial killer caught by Adamsberg two years ago and recently escaped from prison?Meanwhile a new lieutenant has been assigned to the team. There is something disquieting about him, not least when it emerges that he is from a neighboring village in the

Slowness was Milan Kundera's first novel written in French. Disconcerted and enchanted, the reader follows him through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, separated in time by more than two hundred years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and ridiculous. As Kundera's readers would expect, Slowness is at the same time a formidable display of existential analysis. Slowness (and rapidity), discretion (and exhibitionism) are the principal concepts, and those which are to the reader like vital keys for understanding life in our contemporary world.

Shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards Shortlisted for the Cilip Carnegie Medal 2008 'I'd been kicked out of two boarding schools and the last thing I wanted was to be here, on the East Anglian coast, in a third. But without St. Oswald's, I would not have discovered the fisherman's hut with its roaring fire, its striped blankets, its sea monster stew. Without St. Oswald's, I would not have met the boy with the beautiful eyes, the flickering half-smile, and no past. Without St. Oswald's, I would not have met Finn. And without Finn, there would be no story. Shall we begin?'