A.D. 79 - Rome's rich and shameless are relaxing in their luxury holiday villas on the coast. The Imperial Navy is peacefully at anchor at Misenum. Tourists are out and about in the resorts of Baiae, Herculaneum and Pompeii. Only one man is worried. Engineer Marius Attilius Primus has just taken charge of the Aqua Augusta, the enormous aqueduct that brings fresh water to a quarter of a million people in nine towns around the Bay of Naples. Springs are failing for the first time in generations. His predecessor has disappeared. And now there's a crisis on the Augusta's sixty-mile mainline, north of Pompeii on the slopes of Vesuvius. Attilus - decent, practical and incorruptible - assures Pliny, the scholarly naval commander, the he can repair the aqueduct before the reservoir runs dry. But as he makes his way to Vesuvius he finds there are forces in the world which even the world's only superpower cannot control.
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Pompeii: Robert Harris
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The Hawaii of 1930 was a colonial paradise of soft winds and smooth seas that lured the white man. The availability of cheap labour was also encouraging. Five families now control the wealth of the islands, the U.S. Navy patrols the Pacific from Pearl Harbour. The last Hawaiian family princess, Luahine, lives in exile on a distant island, stripped of her powers. Then the facade of genteel civilisation is shattered when Hester Murdoch, the young society wife of a Navy lieutenant, is found battered and bleeding on a lonely road. She unjustly accuses four local boys of rape and assault. The boys are brought to trial amidst unprecedented media attention, their only defence a scared young local lawyer. The verdict sets in motion a whirlwind of emotions, violence and passion. Based on the true story of the famous Massie murder and rape case that shook Hawaii in the 1930s. -
Landlords are never the most popular people, and there is little grief when the greedy, ruthless Mahendralal Bakhle is blown up in his boat on beautiful Periyar Lake. Suspicion falls on the boat-boy who died with him but Dominic Felse, a member of a party of young tourists who were accidentally involved with the tragedy, is not convinced of the boy's guilt. And when they move on, it seems the terror is still pursuing them. Violence and death erupt in the home of a very different landowner, where Dominic and his friends are guests, and follow them relentlessly south to the very tip of India where Dominic and the Swam Premanathanand, a man of peace, unravel a deadly Indian rope trick of hatred and murder.
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From the creator of Cadfael. When Herbert Terrell falls off a mountain during his annual climbing holiday in Czechoslovakia, accidental death seems to be the inevitable verdict. But his young step-daughter, Tossa, doesn't accept the inevitable. She'd been planning a summer holiday in Europe, so what could be simpler than to persuade her companions to the scene of the crime? Dominic Felse, a little bewitched by Tossa's brown eyes, is game for a change of plans, although ignorant of her real motive. And he's certainly not prepared for their touring holiday to become a deadly game of cat and mouse. A fragment of an English folk song, the plaintive lament of a pipe and an unexpected corpse are the clues the amateur sleuths must solve to discover the riddle of the piper on the mountain.
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Déjà Dead: Kathy Reichs
$6.00The bones of a woman are discovered in the grounds of an abandoned monastery and the case is handed to Dr.Temperance Brennan, Director of Forensic Anthropology for the province of Quebec. Researching recent disappearances in the city convinces Brennan that a serial killer is at work, despite the cynicism of Detective Claudel, heading the investigation Breannan's forensic expertise and contacts at Quantico finally convince him otherwise, but only after the body count rises...
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Alex Cross, Book IV. Psychopath Gary Soneji is back - filled with hatred and obsessed with revenge on Detective Alex Cross. Soneji is determined to go down in a blaze of glory and he wants Alex to be there. Will this be the final showdown?
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Spenser No XXIV. Ellis Alves is no angel, but his lawyer says he was framed for the murder of college student Melissa Henderson - and asks Spenser for help. From Boston's back streets to Manhattan's elite, Spenser and Hawk search for suspects - including Melissa's rich-brat tennis-star boyfriend. But when a man with a .22 puts Spenser in a coma, the hope for justice may die with the detective.
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It's the job offer of a lifetime: £120,000 a year, a top of the range BMW, and the chance to work with charismatic sportswear billionaire Nathan Strauss. But on the day that Chris Treiger celebrates his new job with Britain's most powerful PR firm, Nathan Strauss stuns the corporate world by falling off the balcony of his ninth floor hotel suite. Chris will now report to Nathan's brother Jacob and his sinister spin doctor - a man whose loyalty borders on the obsessive. Meanwhile, investigating the bizarre death of a leading financial analyst, Chris's ex-lover Judith Laing discovers he was on the point of revealing damaging evidence about Chris's new bosses. Chris refuses to believe her - until another death occurs.
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Sydney Bryant No. III. When P.I Sydney Bryant takes on a routine 'lover's profile' for smitten mate Victor, she has no idea it would lead to murder. But the mysterious blonde beauty was not quite what she appeared - and now she's dead. Someone has brutally stabbed Martina Saxon and left her lifeless body floating in the pool of her family mansion - leaving a whole lot of questions unanswered. At the top of the list is why the heiress to the mega rich Saxon family had taken a lowly reporters job on the local paper? While Sydney puzzles out what led Martina to give up bloodlines for headlines, she finds herself confronted by an entire family tree of suspects: from the besotted uncle to the conniving fiancee, from the jealous sibling to the Machiavellian matriarch. And now an anonymous source has put Sydney herself under a deadline: either find the killer or be his next victim.
