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But as he further investigates the slaughter of the girl, the heat of a much bigger conspiracy begins to burn like an incendiary bomb, until many more are dead. Francis finds himself getting very close to something even the German Fuehrer, personally, is prepared to kill for...
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Alex Cross is about to be thrust into a case he will never forget. This time there isn't just one killer, there are two. One collects beautiful, intelligent women on college campuses on the east coast of the USA. The other is terrorising Los Angeles with a series of unspeakable murders. But the truly chilling news is that the two brilliant and elusive killers are communicating, co-operating, competing.
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Jack Higgins lived in Belfast till the age of twelve. Leaving school at fifteen, he spent three years with the Royal Horse Guards, serving on the East German border during the Cold War. His subsequent employment included occupations as diverse as circus roustabout, truck driver, clerk and, after taking an honours degree in sociology and social psychology, teacher and university lecturer.
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James Patterson published his first thriller in 1976 and since then has become one of the best-known and bestselling writers of all time, with more than 120 million copies of his books sold worldwide. He is the author of the two top-selling new detective series of the past decade: the Alex Cross novels, including Cross, Along Came a Spider and Kiss the Girls; and the Women's Murder Club series, whose most recent bestseller is The 6th Target. His charity, the James Patterson PageTurner Awards, has...
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Harry and Kiz are given a politically sensitive case when a DNA match connects a white supremacist to the 1988 murder of Rebecca Verloren, a sixteen-year-old girl. Becky was of mixed race, and the case appears to have a racial angle. This was LA before the riots and Rodney King; the city was a powder keg waiting for a match. The detectives who worked the case all those years ago seem to have done a decent job, but something doesn't fit. Meanwhile Harry's nemesis, Deputy Chief Irving, is watching...
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The Savage Gorge - Colin ForbesSynopsis:The Sensational Mystery Thriller It started with a scream of terror ... Tweed and Paula of the SIS take over the brutal murder case of two attractive women from the plodding Chief Inspector Reebeck. A vital clue leads thAbout the author:An international bestseller, each of Colin Forbes' books has been published worldwide. He is translated into thirty languages.
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And so begins a furious race against time to save Grace from unknown kidnappers. Grace's internet geek father John leads the search, forced to unite with his terrifying wife and even more terrifying father Ben, a battle-hardened Vietnam veteran.
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Since the phenomenal worldwide success of The Hunt for Red October, his controversial, ground-breaking first novel, Tom Clancy has become one of the world's fastest-selling authors. His bestselling novels, many of them featuring Jack Ryan, include Red Storm Rising, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, The Sum of All Fears, Without Remorse, Debt of Honourand Executive Orders. He is also the author of the non-fiction books Submarine, Armoured Warfare, Fighter Wingand Marine.
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On the surface Willy Patrick's future is rosy. She's just won a prestigious prize for her latest children's book, and she's about to marry a handsome and successful man, following the shocking murder of her husband and daughter two years ago. But Willy fears she's going mad. She keeps hearing her daughter's voice crying for help and is becoming convinced that her child is still alive and in need of rescue. Than she begins to suspect her fiance may have been involved in the murder of her family...
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When a convenience store robbery goes horribly wrong, the teenage gang responsible make a run for it. Hotly pursued by the police, they crash into the suburban home of an accountant and take the family hostage. But the gang have chosen the wrong accountant to take prisoner. He works for the mafia and holds all the local family's financial records. Soon, both the mob and the police are on the scene and it seems like there's no easy way out of the nightmarish three-way stand-off ...
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It is just before the outbreak of World War I and Britain must enlist the aid of Russia. Czar Nicholas's nephew is to visit London for secret naval talks with Lord Walden, who has lived in Russia and has a Russian wife, Lydia. But there are other people who are interested in the arrival of Prince Alexei: the Waldens' only daughter, Charlotte - wilful, idealistic, and with an awakening social conscience; Basil Thomson, head of the Special Branch; and, above all, Feliks Kschessinsky, the ruthless Russian...
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James Patterson first took the bestseller lists by storm with his phenomenally successful international No 1 bestseller 'Along Came a Spider'in 1993. It introduced homicide detective Alex Cross, his highly popular hero who has also appeared in Kiss the Girls, Jack & Jill, Cat & Mouse, Pop Goes the Weasel, Roses are Red, Violets are Blue, Four Blind Miceand The Big Bad Wolf. James Patterson lives in Palm Beach County, Florida, with his wife and their young son.
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Over the years, Ian Rankin has amassed an incredible portfolio of short stories. Published in crime magazines, composed for events, broadcast on radio, they all share the best qualities of his phenomenally popular novels. Now Ian Rankin's two critically acclaimed short story collections - A Good Hanging and Beggars Banquet - come together in one volume for the first time, along with Atonement, a blistering new Rebus story written especially for this collection.
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Jeffery Deaver is the bestselling author of twenty novels of suspense, including The Bone Collector which was made into a feature film, and Twisted, a collection of short stories. A two-time recipient of the Ellery Queen Reader's Award for Best Short Story of the year, he has been nominated for an Anthony Award and four Edgar Awards from the mystery writers of America. He won the WH Smith Thumping Good Read Award in 2001 and in 2004 won the Crime Writer's Association Steel Dagger for Garden of Beasts...
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London 1973. Hartley is a senior M16 officer and a shadowy contact tips him off that Royce could still be alive and being held in Colditz - now a lunatic asylum. Desperate to know what really happened to his comrade, Hartley sets out on a perilous mission. He's back in Colditz, and about to discover that Royce may have been involved in something far more sinister than trying to escape...
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Having narrowly survived an RCMP investigation into police corruption, John Cardinal is less than thrilled when the first victim is identified as a U.S citizen and the Mounties are called in to assist. It's the Canadian Secret Service, however, that pose the real problem. Is their interference in the case merely a question of preserving jurisdiction over cases involving terrorism- or something more sinister?
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Jack Higgins lived in Belfast till the age of twelve. Leaving school at fifteen, he spent three years with the Royal Horse Guards, serving on the East German border during the Cold War. His subsequent employment included occupations as diverse as circus roustabout, truck diver, clerk and, after taking an honours degree in sociology and social psychology, teacher and university lecturer.
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Crane is a young and carefree pilot. He's flying P-40 Tomahawk fighter planes for the notorious Flying Tigers, the American Volunteers who are helping the Allies defend against the Japanese. He's one of the best pilots in the air. But when he falls for the charms of a beautiful Anglo-Indian girl, she has a devastating affect on him. As the war ignites across the region, Crane is separated from her by the lightning Japanese advance into Burma. The Imperial Army creates chaos in Indo-China, killing...
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Geneva Settle is a bright young high school student from Harlem writing a paper about one of her ancestors, a former slave called Charles Singleton. Geneva is also the target of a ruthless professional killer. Criminalist Lincoln Rhyme and his policewoman partner Amelia Sachs are called into the case, working frantically to anticipate where the hired gun will strike next and how to stop him, all the while trying to get to the truth of Charles Singleton, and the reason that Geneva has been targeted...
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An enigmatic Russian spymaster makes contact with Jake Grafton in the aftermath of the savage attacks on the World Trade Center in New York to give him a warning. A disaffected Russian general has sold four tactical nuclear weapons to the Sword of Islam, a terrorist organization determined to mount a deadly strike designed to destroy the U.S. as a world power. The goal is nothing less than the final destruction of western civilization.
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Adorned with Clifford Harper's beautfiul illustrations, these tales show Cadfael at the height of his sleuthing form, with the complexities of plot, vividly evoked Shropshire backgrounds and warm understanding of the frailties of human nature that made Ellis Peters an international bestseller.
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Former US Air Force captain Dale Brown was born in Buffalo, New York, and now lives in Nevada. Act of War is his 17th novel. he graduated from Penn State University with a degree in Western European History and received a US Air Force commission in 1978. He was still serving in the air force when he wrote his highly acclaimed first novel Flight of the Old Dog Since then he has written a string of New York Times bestsellers, including, most recently, Air Battle Force and Plan of Attack.
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Exclusive - Tom recruits Manhattan superlawyer Kate Costello to help fight this case. She's a tough hire, because Kate is his ex-girlfriend and she's seen him at his worst - but she comes for the case. All the two have to do is discover who really executed three locals and why they went to such incredible lengths to set up Dante as the killer. Even as Tom wonders whether he can ever get Kate to forgive him for his past sins, the case takes on astonishing dimensions, revealing a world of illegal pleasures...
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It's morning. Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman is not due on shift for several hours. The phone rings: a woman is dead, suspected suicide. The dispatcher can't reveal the details; it's a Code 61. Something serious has happened over at the Mansion and he's not allowed to ask too many questions over the radio.
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Stuart MacBride has scrubbed toilets offshore, flunked out of university, set up his own graphic design company, got dragged into the heady world of the internet, developed massive applications for the oil industry, drunk heaps of wine and created the perfect recipe for mushroom soup. He lives, just left of the back of beyond, in north-east Scotland with his wife Fiona and enough potatoes to feed an army. Cold Graniteis his first novel.
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