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The shadows hide a deadly story . . .
1979. It is the winter of discontent, and reporter Allie Burns is chasing her first big scoop. There are few women in the newsroom and she needs something explosive for the boys' club to take her seriously.
Soon Allie and fellow journalist Danny Sullivan are exposing the criminal underbelly of respectable Scotland. They risk making powerful enemies - and Allie won't stop there.
When she discovers a home-grown terrorist threat, Allie comes up with a plan to infiltrate the group and make her name. But she's a woman in a man's world . . . and putting a foot wrong could be fatal.
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In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.It is 1993, and Thomas Penmarsh has lived in Finisterre, the house by the sea, all his life, sleeping each night in the room with the barred window. He's only forty-eight but has been an old man since one evening in 1967 when he lost everything he valued.However, now his controlling mother has died and he is master of the house. When Esmond, his cousin and childhood confidant comes to live with him, Thomas is overjoyed - Esmond always looks after him...But is Esmond all that he seems? And why is he so concerned that Alice wants to come home too? Darling Alice, whom neither has seen since that fateful night twenty-six years ago...

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Jack Irish has no shortage of friends. Jockeys and journos, lawyers ad standover men, people in nameless occupations who aren't in the phone book. These days, though, the only family he sees are Irish men in faded football team photographs on the pub wall.So when Des Connors, the last link to his father, calls to ask for help in the matter of a missing son, Jack is happy to lend a hand.But sometimes prodigal sons go missing for a reason. As Jack begins to dig, he discovers that Gary Connors was a man with something to hide.And his friends are people with darker, more deadly secrets.

In good condition - spine clean - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Imagine yourself in a bar. A man approaches you. He doesn't seem familiar but he knows your past, your job, hobbies and your ex-boyfriend's name. You go for a drink.This is your first - and last - mistake. You're the latest victim of the latest killer. A man who can rip away the thin carapace protecting the secrets of your life - before ending it.Streetwise cop Frank Bishop has been charged with the job of halting the mounting body count. He enlists the help of Wyatt Gillette, a young hacker who himself has fallen on the wrong side of the law. They must stalk this faceless criminal through both the real and the virtual universe, combining their old and new world skills to beat this mastermind. But how do you stop a man who knows your every move?You must go into the blue nowhere...

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.An evil wind blows through the air of Bass Strait, promising the birth of a charismatic child.On the far northwest coast of Tasmania at Cape Grimm lies the isolated community of Skye, which practises a religion that reveres the imagination.When Caleb Mean is born, his grandmother has a vision telling her he is the Chosen One.On Caleb's thirty-third birthday, he locks the whole community into the meeting hall and incinerates them.The only survivors are Caleb, his lover Virginia, and their baby daughter, Golden.How could such a thing happen? Do the answers lie in the history of Skye itself, founded by the unlikely survivors of a nineteenth-century shipwreck? Or do the only real clues lie in the dark truths of fairytales?

In good condition - has markings from use - has slight yellowing to page ends - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.On a hot late summer evening in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Dr. Kay Scarpetta and her investigative partner, Pete Marino, respond to a call about a dead bicyclist near the Kennedy School of Government. It appears that a young woman has been attacked with almost superhuman force.Even before Scarpetta's headquarters, the Cambridge Forensic Centre, has been officially notified about the case, Marino and Scarpetta's FBI agent husband, Benton Wesley, receive suspicious calls, allegedly from someone at Interpol. But it makes no sense. Why would the elite international police agency know about the case and even be interested? With breathtaking speed it becomes apparent that an onslaught of interference and harassment might be the work of an anonymous cyberbully named Tailend Charlie, who has been sending cryptic communications to Scarpetta for over a… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Detective Lincoln Rhyme, the foremost criminalist in the NYPD, is on the hunt for an elusive murderer known as the Coffin Dancer. He's a brilliant hit man who changes his appearance faster than he adds to his trail of victims, only one of whom has lived long enough to offer a clue: the assassin has an eerie tattoo on his arm of the Grim Reaper waltzing in front of a casket.Rhyme, paralyzed from a line-of-duty accident, is certain he's seen this killer before, and his suspicion of an earlier encounter fuels a bitter taste for vengeance. When the chameleon-like assassin targets three federal witnesses for death, the stakes reach a new high. Now Rhyme's brainpower and his protégée Detective Amelia Sachs's legwork are the only tools they have to track the cunning murderer through a darkly painted New York City—and they have only forty-eight hours before the Coffin Dancer… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.On a freezing December night, with a full moon hovering in the black skies over New York City, two people are brutally murdered - their prolonged deaths marked by eerie calling cards: moon-faced clocks ticking away the victim's last minutes on earth. Lincoln Rhyme and his team have only hours to stop the icy-cold, brilliant Watchmaker, whose obsession with time drives him to plan his carnage with the precision of a fine timepiece.Amelia is not only Lincoln's eyes and ears on the Watchmaker investigation. She's now lead detective on her own first homicide - a case that sets into motion clockwork gears of its own.A case with consequences which will endanger many lives, as well as Lincoln and Amelia's future together...

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Australia's super-spy, Alan McQueen, has been lured out of retirement. But any dreams Mac has of a cosy office job are shattered when he's dispatched to Singapore to oversee a covert mission. And when things go disastrously wrong, he not only has to defend his reputation in Australia but also stay out of jail in Vietnam.From the leafy suburbs of Singapore to the mean streets of Saigon, from the political infighting of Canberra to the old killing fields of Northern Cambodia, Mac has to use all his cunning - and a few unusual alliances - to get to the bottom of a conspiracy that could throw the world into a thermo-nuclear showdown.When nothing is what it seems, and death is only one mistake away, Mac finds himself both hunter and hunted as he pursues a truth that could save millions of lives.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.The new romantic thriller from a master storyteller.On a bright summer's day a young girl, carefree and smiling, receives an ominous warning from an old gypsy woman, a warning that she will never be able to forget. Some years later, another young woman is caught up, unwittingly, in Alex's sinister story.Imogen Voisey arrives at Upton Stowey House as governess to little Janine, daughter of the dangerously attractive Bradley Palmer. Janine's mother Alexandra died in mysterious circumstances and now Brad's second wife, Rosalie, has also disappeared. Rumours abound concerning the role of Brad Palmer in the fate of his two wives. Against her will and despite the powerful emotions his presence arouses in her, Imogen is forced to confront these rumours and establish, for herself and for Janine, the truth?

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Air Force One crashes into the sea, with the US President aboard. Is it an accident?Yellowstone National Park erupts in the most devastating volcanic catastrophe ever known. But, when evidence points to foreign terrorists, vengeance is swift and merciless.Guided by ruthless commercial interests, a new American President imposes martial law on a starving, demoralized population and plunges the nation into an overseas race against Russia and China to seize control of the world's most valuable remaining natural resources.Darkness falls across the globe, society collapses, liberty vanishes, and soon forces wielding unfettered power are transforming the United States into the greatest threat to global survival.After months of isolation in the Sudanese desert, Lieutenant Adam Burch learns that his parents have gone missing. Risking execution, he deserts his post and journeys back… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.'Some may call me a vigilante. I think I've just got problems to fix.'Right now, Joe Hunter's big problem is a missing little brother, last seen fleeing the site of a gruesome killing.Fixing it will bring Hunter up against the Harvestman, America's most feared serial killer, and his grisly souvenirs of death.But Joe's ready for a fight. And he's got nothing to lose but blood...

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Brain surgeon Allen Wyler has written a thriller on the bleeding edge of new millennium hospital technology.When a brain surgeon discovers that a revolutionary computerized medical records system is responsible for a series of patient deaths - and threatens many more - he must navigate a treacherous maze of conspiracy. And risk his life to expose it.A comatose man is given a fatal dose of insulin in the emergency room - even though he isn't diabetic.A ulcer patient dies of haemolytic shock after receiving a transfusion - of the wrong blood type.A recovering heart patient receives a double dose of the same medication - triggering a fatal cardiac arrest.When doctors and nurses at Seattle's prestigious Maynard Medical Centre start making preventable drug and treatment errors that kill their patients, neurosurgeon Dr. Tyler Mathews suspects that something is murderously wrong with… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Old Army buddies Fred Custer and Green Beret Hickey team up to rescue Jim Simpson, the beloved son of an old colleague. Jim's job was to handle the finances of a Halliburton-like company, but he discovers much to his dismay that the company is rotten to the core and people who should be dedicated to the mission are in fact dedicated to lining their own pockets. Now a whole lot of money has gone missing along with Jim. Custer and Hickey end up in Cairo, where they discover a dark torture prison deep within the heart of the Egyptian desert, nicknamed "The Death Factory." Action movie fans and military thriller readers will love this blend of fire-power, non-stop forward motion, and suspense.

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights of books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.When criminalist Lincoln Rhyme travels to a world-famous spinal cord injuries centre in North Carolina for some experimental surgery, he hopes the operation will give him slightly more movement. He knows that it may kill him.But before he has a chance to undergo surgery, Rhyme and his assistant Amelia are drafted in by the local police department to use their forensic skills to help find two women kidnapped by a psychotic young man known locally as the Insect Boy. A cat and mouse game through the abandoned swamps of North Carolina is to have more devastating consequences than either Lincoln or Amelia can anticipate.

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In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.A fast-paced military thriller about a Top Gun graduate who sets up his own flying school in the Nevada desert and fighter pilots who train at his school and go on to launch a military attack on a US nuclear plant in India.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.For two minutes she was dead.The assailant was vicious, the attack brutal - and it left her lifeless...until her pulse fluttered and she jolted awake. Now, a year later, detective Nan Vining is still questioning her strength, her safety, even her sanity: can she ever again be the cop - and mother - she was before? And will her attacker some day return to finish the job, before she can track him down herself?Shaky but determined, Vining rejoins the Pasadena PD, only to confront a murder case that strikes close to home: a slain policewoman has been discovered dumped on a hillside, her body bruised, her throat slit. Even as Vining struggles to recover her standing within the department, she can't help but fee; drawn to the murdered officer, Frankie Lynde - and deeply troubled by the baffling otherworldly visions that haunt her waking hours. Is her mind playing tricks or could… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.In New York City's work hard, play harder singles scene, a young woman looking for love can find herself the object of a deadly obsession...Fresh out of college and working her first job, Katie Porter's life is a carousel of gym visits and shopping, drinks and dates. With each meaningless encounter and disappointing new boyfriend, she is becoming more and more disillusioned - she just can't seem to find a man who really understands her.But someone thinks Katie's special - very special - and he's watching her.He's seen her at the gym; he's seen her at the coffee bar; he's seen her at her home. In fact, he's seen her almost everywhere, as he quietly follows her. But most of all, he sees her in his future...

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.To Americans, the scene is agonizingly familiar. The mangled steel of a U.S. warship in a foreign harbor. The revolving loops of CNN footage and faraway streets strewn with debris. But for Lieutenant Commander Alan Craik, the terrorist attack on the USNS Jonathan Harker is part of the job. Fighting terrorism from Pakistan to the Far East, Craik reacts to a spontaneous horror with calm action. But an enemy Craik doesn't know has carried out the bombing in the teeming port of Mombasa, Kenya—for reasons he cannot guess.While Alan Craik finds himself in the middle of a scene of carnage, his wife, Rose Siciliano Craik, is fighting her own battle, proving her flying prowess, rising to astronaut training school in Houston while trying to hold her family together. Now she herself has been forced to accept around-the-clock protection from NCIS—the Navy Criminal Investigative… Read More