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The Fever of the Bone by Val Mcdermid

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'You should have been a detective. If there's one thing the last year has proved, it's how good you are at finding things out. Not simple things. Hard things. Things that nobody is supposed to be able to find out. Things that are buried so deep nobody even thinks twice about them. The sort of things that turn...

Season of the Machete by James Patterson

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Cool and glamorous, they could be a successful couple on a holiday. But Damian and Carrie Rose are psychopathic murderers for hire. Their new venue is a picture-perfect vacation island. Their adversary will be Peter Macdonald, the dashing young American who forsakes a life of leisure for a confrontation with...

The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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In "The Little Prince",a small boy leaves the tiny planet on which he lives alone, on a trip to Earth, where he is introduced to the vagaries of adult behaviour.

Past Mortem by Ben Elton

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With old friends like these, who needs enemies? It's a question short, mild mannered detective Edward Newson is forced to ask himself having in romantic desperation logged on to the Friends Reunited website searching for the girlfriends of his youth. Newson is not the only member of the Class of '86 who has been...

The Elfstones of Shannara by Terry Brooks

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Ancient Evil threatens the Elves: The ancient tree created by long-lost Elven magic, is dying. When Wil Ohmsford is summoned to guard the Amberle on a perilous quest to gather a new seed for a new tree, he is faced with the Reaper, the most fearsome of all Demons. And Wil is without power to control them....

A Fine Night for Dying by Jack Higgins

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The death of a gangster draws super-spy Paul Chavasse into a breathtaking new adventure on the high seas by one of the true masters of modern thriller writing, the bestselling author of Midnight Runner and The Keys of Hell. Weighted down by chain, the body of gangland boss Harvey Preston was dragged out of the...

The Dogs of Riga by Henning Mankell

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Sweden, winter, 1991. Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team receive an anonymous tip-off. A few days later a life raft is washed up on a beach. In it are two men, dressed in expensive suits, shot dead. The dead men were criminals, victims of what seems to have been a gangland hit. But what appears to be an...

Brainchild published by Transworld Publishers Ltd

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Alex Lonnsdale was one of the most popular kids in La Paloma - until the horrifying car accident. He seems the same, but if his parents, his friends and his girlfriend could see inside his brain and his dreams, they would be terrified.

The Influence by Ramsey Campbell

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Fatal by Michael Palmer

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In Chicago, a pregnant cafeteria worker suffering nothing more than the flu like symptoms begins haemorrhaging from every part of her body. In Boston, a brilliant musician, her face disfigured by an unknown disease, rapidly descends into lethal paranoia. In West Virginia, a miner suddenly goes berserk, causing a...

All Fall Down published by Transworld Publishers Ltd

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Something horrific is happening to the children of Eastbury, Massachusetts. Now, an entire town waits on the edge of panic for the next nightmare. There must be a reason for the terror. They all know it - but no one ever suspected.

The Key to Midnight by Dean Koontz

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Originally published under the pseudonym of Leigh Nichols and unavailable for over 5 years, a novel about a man who falls in love with a woman whose mind has been distorted by a bizarre experiment.

Siddhartha by Paulo Coelho, Hermann Hesse

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This edition has a new introduction by Paulo Coelho. "Siddhartha" is perhaps the most important and compelling moral allegory our troubled century has produced. Integrating Eastern and Western spiritual traditions with psychoanalysis and philosophy, this strangely simple tale, written with a deep and moving empathy...

On the Edge of Darkness by Barbara Erskine

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Stunning repackage of the story of a woman trapped in the wrong time. Abandoned by her twentieth century lover, she plots a terrible revenge on him and his family. Adam Craig is fourteen when, near an isolated Celtic stone in the wild Scottish Highlands, he meets Brid, whose exotic, gypsy-like dress and strange...

The White Lioness by Henning Mankell

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In peaceful southern Sweden, Louise Akerblom, an estate agent, pillar of the Methodist church, wife and mother, disappears. There is no explanation and no motive. Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team are called in to investigate. As Inspector Wallander is introduced to this missing persons case, he has a gut...

Pay the Devil by Jack Higgins

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Master storyteller Jack Higgins displays all his customary skills and imagination in a heart-pounding adventure with a less familiar setting -- 19th-century rural Ireland -- and featuring a swashbuckling new hero. At the end of the American Civil War, Confederate Colonel Clay Fitzgerald escapes to Ireland, where...

The Darkest Evening of the Year by Dean Koontz

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A fast-paced and emotionally devastating suspense novel from the bestselling author of Velocity,The Husband and the Good Guy Amy Redwing recklessly risks everything in her chosen field of dog rescue. When she confronts a violent drunk in order to rescue Nickie, a beautiful golden retriever, Amy has no misgivings....

Relics by Shaun Hutson

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A series of murders in which the victims are horrifically mutilated is triggered by the archaeological discovery of a hidden chamber filled with the skulls of children. Investigations reveal the possibility of an even greater evil. The author's other novels include "Shadows" and "Death Day".

The Dark Tower: v. 4: Wizard and Glass by Stephen King

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The Dark Tower beckons Roland, the Last Gunslinger, and the four companions he has gathered along the road. And, having narrowly escaped one world, they set out on a terrifying journey across the scarred urban wasteland to brave a new world where hidden dangers lie at every junction: a malevolent computer-run...

Hell Island by Matthew Reilly

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This revised edition of the short novel originally published in Australia is specially adapted for readers of all ages with reading difficulties. There is no hell like a man-made one...It is an island that doesn't appear on any maps. A secret location where classified experiments have been conducted. Experiments...

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