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Under Currents: Nora Roberts
$12.00From the outside, the house in Lakeview Terrace looks perfect and the Bigelows seem like the perfect family: the respected surgeon father, the glamorous, devoted mother and two beautiful children. But the perfect facade hides dark undercurrents. Teenager Zane and his younger sister Britt are terrorised by their violent father until one dark, brutal night when their father's temper takes a horrifying turn for the worse. Over time, Sane moves on and builds a new life for himself but a childhood like that can cast a shadow the length of a lifetime. Can Zane ever be free of his past? Or could those dark undercurrents rise back to the surface, forcing Zane to fight for his life again... -
Dr Richmond has just joined Connecticut's most prestigious medical practice - it's a career opportunity but it comes at a chilling price. A critical error of judgement put's a woman's life at grave risk, then a patient inexplicably dies. As there are more and more suspicious deaths, Richmond is blamed and he realises he's a crucial link in a diabolical conspiracy that runs deeper than he could ever imagine. Following an intricate chain of deception he enters the inner sanctum of a clandestine medical community where a shattering discovery await.
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Undertow: Sydney Bauer
$10.00Following an alleged conversation between respected attorney Rayna Martin and teenager Christina Hayes during a boating trip at Cape Ann, Massachusetts, one of them is dead and the other one is arrested for murder. Boston lawyer David Cavanagh faces his toughest case ever when what appears to be a tragic but blameless accident turns into something else entirely. With the victim's father one of the most powerful politicians in the U.S. Senate and the Assistant D.A. prepared to put his personal ambition ahead of legal justice, David finds his most dangerous battle is taking place outside the courtroom. Lies, deception, blackmail, threats - and finally the precision of an assassin's bullet combine make a shocking finale.
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Dublin, Ireland and Richmond, Virginia - separated by thousands of miles but linked by murder. Dr. Scarpetta, on a leisure stint in Ireland, has the perfect opportunity to find out if the murders on opposite sides of the Atlantic are linked. Five dismembered, beheaded bodies were found in Ireland years ago - now four have been discovered in the US. But the tenth corpse in Virginia is different. There are vital discrepancies and evidence that the elderly victim was already seriously ill. A copy-cat killing - ghoulish, but not unusual. But when the next body is found, Scarpetta discovers that the killer is armed with the most lethal weapon on earth - smallpox.
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Kay Scarpetta VIII. Dublin, Ireland and Richmond, Virginia - separated by thousands of miles but linked by murder. Dr. Scarpetta, on a leisure stint in Ireland, has the perfect opportunity to find out if the murders on opposite sides of the Atlantic are linked. Five dismembered, beheaded bodies were found in Ireland years ago - now four have been discovered in the US. But the tenth corpse in Virginia is different. There are vital discrepancies and evidence that the elderly victim was already seriously ill. A copy-cat killing - ghoulish, but not unusual. But when the next body is found, Scarpetta discovers that the killer is armed with the most lethal weapon on earth - smallpox. -
Vortex: Jon Cleary
$12.00In the small town of Friendship, Missouri, a tornado is approaching. The chief of police, unable to sleep, makes a tour of inspection before dawn and finds a farmhouse already destroyed by a twister, a small forerunner of the greater whirlwind. Crushed in the ruins is the body of a woman - not the farmer's wife, but the wife of Friendship's leading citizen. The twister is not the killer - who is? Family securities unravel, skeletons emerge from cupboards and the great tornado comes closer and closer. -
The body of a young Maori girl is found in a bush stream, and a mysterious red car is seen in the vicinity. This is no mere whodunnit or simple detective novel. The story traces the violation of a country's summer peace when a terrible crime is committed, unleashing a national anger that leaves no-one untouched. In the search for a scapegoat, one person will be relentlessly pursued. -
Was It Murder? James Hilton
$20.00When Colin Revell gained a reputation at Oxford as an amateur detective, he's asked by the Headmaster of his old school, Oakington, to make enquiries into a strange accident - a boy has been killed by the fall of a heavy, old-fashioned gas fitting in the dormitory. Revell finds nothing of interest - but then the corpse of the dead boy's elder brother is found in the school's swimming pool. Revell again rushes to Oakington; but now a Scotland Yard detective is investigating. An exceptionally diabolical crime is discovered but to prove it is a difficult problem which depends not on clues, but by exploring and exploiting the characters of the various suspects. A very different offering from the author of Goodbye, Mr Chips. Originally published as Murder At School by 'Glen Trevor'.
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When a light bulb falls in a Chicago subway tunnel, it releases a pathogen that could kill millions. While the mayor postures and poses, people start dying, especially on the city's grim west side. Hospitals become morgues, trains become hearses. Finally, the government acts by sealing off entire sections of the city - but are they keeping people out or in? The hunt for those behind this plot takes P.I Michael Kelly into the underworld of Chicago and the more frightening world of black biology - an emerging elite discipline where scientists play God and will stop at nothing to preserve their secrets.
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