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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...

The Darker Side by Cody Mcfadyen

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Imagine a serial killer who has already struck a horrific number of times. A killer who discovers people's secrets -- the deepest, darkest secrets we keep even from ourselves -- and uses them to target and destroy his victims. The case begins with a shock, and the twists keep coming, when FBI Special Agent Smoky...

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 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.

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...

Beware! by Richard Laymon

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Using ancient black magic a dangerous, vindictive maniac is made all-powerful by his ability to become invisible. Raping and murdering his way around the States, he is biding his time before fulfilling his one desire - to get even with the high school belle who rejected him years before.

Dragon Tears by Dean Koontz

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From the author of HIDEAWAY and COLDFIRE, a novel of mystery and suspense set in California where a fanatically neat and tidy police officer and his chaotic and casual policewoman partner find themselves involved in a shoot-out in a restaurant, after which his orderly life begins to degenerate into one of terror...

One Door Away from Heaven by Dean Koontz

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Leilani Maddoc's tenth birthday is nine months away. Micky Bellsong is convinced that in nine months and one day, the girl will be dead. And no one seems to care but Micky herself. She has a history of making wrong choices and living only for her own desires, but her decision to save the child's life - and pit...

This Charming Man by Marian Keyes

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With "This Charming Man," Marian Keyes hits her stride as a novelist with her best novel yet, telling the stories of four women who are shaped by one man Paddy de Courcy is Ireland's debonair politician, the "John F. Kennedy Jr. of Dublin." His charm and charisma have taken hold of the country and the tabloids,...

From the Corner of His Eye by Dean Koontz

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Bartholomew Lampion was blinded at the age of three, when surgeons reluctantly removed his eyes to save him from a fast-spreading cancer, but although eyeless, Barty regained his sight when he was thirteen. This sudden ascent from a decade of darkness into the glory of light was not brought about by a holy healer....

The Face of Fear by Dean Koontz

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Graham Harris is a gifted clairvoyant, and during a television interview, he 'sees' a murder being committed. He knows that the killer is the man the police have named the Butcher - the slayer of nine young women. Learning of the psychic identification, the Butcher begins to stalk this 'witness' to his crime, and...

Intensity by Dean Koontz

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From the author of DARK RIVERS OF THE HEART, a thriller about a woman who finds herself on board a serial killer's motor home. Her sole aim is to survive, but is torn between self-preservation and helping the killer's next victim.

Winter Moon by Dean Koontz

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Cop Jack McGarvey longs to move his family out of violent Los Angeles, but the future looks dim. Then he receives an unexpected inheritance: a ranch in Montana. The McGarvey's set out to begin their new life - unaware that the city will soon seem like a safe haven compared to what lies ahead.

Fear Nothing by Dean Koontz

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Moonlight Bay is a small, picturesque place on the shores of the Pacific, apparently no different from any other seaside town. But when night falls, it's obvious that this place has many secrets...

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...

The Captive Queen of Scots by Jean Plaidy

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Scotland has been torn apart by civil war and the young and passionate Catholic Mary Queen of Scots is in the hands of her enemies. Under duress, Mary abdicates in favour of her son, James VI, and fleeing to England she boldly seeks refuge from her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I. But Elizabeth has never trusted the...

The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler

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Six people five women and a man meet once a month in California's Central Valley to discuss Jane Austen's novels. They are ordinary people, neither happy nor unhappy, but each of them is wounded in different ways, they are all mixed up about their lives and relationships. Over the six months they meet, marriages...

The Midwich Cuckoos by Wyndham