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Berkley/Penguin, 2019. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Tim Robinson DJ art. CONDITION: NEW 2019 Berkley hardcover (black boards) and dust jacket, first Berkley edition, first printing. Tim Robinson DJ art. CONTENT: British intelligence operative and hardened assassin, Max McLean, battles a nightmarish enemy in this stunning debut thriller from an award winning war correspondent. When it comes to killing terrorists British intelligence has always had one man they could rely on, Max McLean. As an assassin, he's never missed, but Max has made one miscalculation and now he has to pay the price. His handlers send him to Sierra Leone on a seemingly one-way mission. What he finds is a horror from beyond his nightmares. Rebel forces are loose in the jungle and someone or something is slaughtering innocent villagers. It's his job to root out the monster behind these abominations, but he soon discovers that London may consider him the most disposable piece in this operation.

Mariner, 2022. 1 Movie Tie-In Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. No illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2022 Mariner Trade Paperback, first Movie Tie-in edition, first printing. Movie cover. CONTENT: London, 1893. When Cora Seaborne's brilliant, domineering husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was an unhappy one, and she never suited the role of society wife. Seeking refuge in fresh air and open space, she leaves the metropolis for coastal Essex, accompanied by her inquisitive and obsessive eleven-year-old son, Francis, and the boy's nanny, Martha, her fiercely protective friend. Once there, they hear rumors that after nearly three hundred years, the mythical Essex Serpent, a fearsome creature that once roamed the marshes, has returned. When a young man is mysteriously killed on New Year's Eve, the community's dread transforms to terror. Cora, a keen amateur naturalist with no patience for religion or superstition, is… Read More

Schwartz & Wade Books, 2018. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. B&W Chapter Decorations . CONDITION: What makes this book "As New?" Small red remainder mark bottom edges at spine. UNREAD 2018 Schwartz & Wade hardcover (red boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. B&W chapter decorations. CONTENT: Perfect for anyone fascinated by the Royal Wedding, Netflix's The Crown, or Wolf Hall, this is a pitch-perfect reimagining of the romance and tragedy of Henry VIII and his six wives, told from multiple points of view by some of your favorite authors. If you were one of King Henry VIII's six wives, who would you be? Would you be Anne Boleyn, who literally lost her head? Would you be the subject of rumor and scandal like Catherine Howard? Or would you get away and survive like Anna of Cleves? Meet them and Henry's other queens--each bound for divorce or death--in this epic and thrilling novel that reads like fantasy but really happened. Watch spellbound as each of these women attempts… Read More

London: Titan Books, 2019. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. No Illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2019 Titan Books (London) trade paperback, first edition, first printing. No illustrations. CONTENT: Sherlock Holmes has just uncovered the truth about the theft of a priceless ruby. The wealthy Lady Damury staged the theft and tried to frame her husband - but just as Holmes reveals the truth, Lady Damury is found murdered. Holmes deduces that this is no crime of passion, but the work of a ruthless killer with no connection to the jewel. With reports of a man in a strange, trance-like state, Holmes finds himself entangled in a dangerous game of cat and mouse with the sinister Dr Caligari... [The Author is one of Britain's leading Sherlockian writers. He was editor of Sherlock Holmes The Detective Magazine, authored several Holmes novels and the hit play Sherlock Holmes: The Last Act.]

London: Ashgate, 2015. 1st Edition Assumed 1st. Hardcover. New/New. B&W newspaper/magazine art repros; magazine articles. CONDITION: NEW 2015 Ashgate (London) hardcover (black boards) & dust jacket ( in mylar cover), first edition, assumed first printing. Illustrated throughout with B&W newspaper/magazine art and articles. CONTENT: Examining the Victorian serial as a text in its own right, Catherine Delafield re-reads five novels by Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, Dinah Craik and Wilkie Collins by situating them in the context of periodical publication. She traces the roles of the author and editor in the creation and dissemination of the texts and considers how first publication affected the consumption and reception of the novel through the periodical medium. Delafield contends that a novel in volume form has been separated from its original context, that is, from the pattern of consumption and reception presented by the serial. The novel's later re-publication still bears… Read More

Random House, 2020. 1st American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. No Illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2020 Random House hardcover (black boards) & dust jacket, first American edition, first printing. No illustrations but the cover photo is spectacular, IMHO. CONTENT: You never saw him. But he saw it all. When a vibrant young woman is murdered while on a video chat, a small-town detective wades into a circle of friends and lovers with dangerous secrets. Aidan Poole logs on to his laptop late at night to Skype his girlfriend, Zoe. To his horror, he realizes that there is someone else in her flat. Aidan can only listen to the sounds of a violent struggle taking place in the bathroom-and then the sound of silence. He is desperate to find out if Zoe is okay. But then why is he so hesitant to call the police? When Aidan's cryptic messages finally reach them, Detective Chief Inspector Jonah Sheens and his team take the case-and discover the body. They soon find that no one has a bad… Read More

Titan Books, 2017. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Really creepy cover art - no credit given. CONDITION: NEW 2017 Titan Books trade paperback, first edition, first printing. Cover art will make you feel creepy - no credit given, however. CONTENT: The Forest Holds Many Secrets. After losing her job and her partner in one fell swoop, journalist Elspeth Reeves is back in her mother's house in the sleepy village of Wilsby-under-Wychwood, wondering where it all went wrong. Then a body is found in the neighbouring Wychwoods: a woman ritually slaughtered, with cryptic symbols scattered around her corpse. Elspeth recognizes these from a local myth of the Carrion King, a Saxon magician who once held a malevolent court deep in the forest. As more murders follow, Elspeth joins her childhood friend DS Peter Shaw to investigate, and the two discover sinister village secrets harking back decades. An ancient pagan legend concerning a murderous mage casts its dark shadow over… Read More

UK: Titan Books, 2019. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Uncredited interesting cover art. CONDITION: NEW 2019 Titan Books trade paperback, first edition, first printing. CONTENT: Shortlisted for Neukom Literary Arts Award for Speculative Fiction, from Philip K. Dick Award-nominated author M.T. Hill, Zero Bomb is a startling science fiction mystery that asks: what do we do when technology replaces our need to work? The near future. Following the death of his daughter Martha, Remi flees the north of England for London. Here he tries to rebuild his life as a cycle courier, delivering subversive documents under the nose of an all-seeing state. But when a driverless car attempts to run him over, Remi soon discovers that his old life will not let him move on so easily. Someone is leaving coded messages for Remi across the city, and they seem to suggest that Martha is not dead at all. Unsure what to believe, and increasingly unable to trust his memory, Remi is slowly drawn… Read More