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A woman has vanished while digging a dinosaur bone bed in the remote wilderness of Canada. Somehow, the only evidence has appeared in the inbox of Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta, over two thousand miles away in Boston. As events unfold with alarming speed, Scarpetta begins to suspect the palaeontologist's disappearance is connected to crimes much closer to home : a gruesome murder, inexplicable tortures, and trace evidence from the last living creatures of the dinosaur age. But danger and suspicion have penetrated even Scarpetta's closest circles. Feeling alone and betrayed, sh is tempted by someone from her past as she tracks a killer both cunning and cruel.

Here is a small fact : You are going to die. 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holdingits breath. Death has never been busier. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. Liesel steals books. This is her story and the story of the inhabitants of her street when the bomb begins to fall. Some important information : This novel is narrated by death. It's a small story, about : a girl - an accorionist - some fanatical Germans - a Jewish fist fighter - and quite a lot of thievery. Another thing you should know : Death will visit the book thief three times.

In the peaceful village of Old Sawrey, in the idyllic Lake District, Warren Howe is brutally slaughtered with his own scythe by a mysterious hooded figure. The police have several suspects, but there is insufficient evidence to make an arrest. Years later an anonymous tip-off sparks the interest of DCI Hannah Scarlett, who heads the local Cold Case Review Team. With the help of historian Daniel Kind, Hannah digs deeper in the quest for truth and discovers that, in Old Sawrey, old sins cast long shadows. Following the killer's trail, Hannah arrives at a shocking conclusion, one that will change lives forever.

Alison is as close to anonymous as she can get : with no ties and a backroom job, hers is a life lived under the radar. But once Alison was someone else : once she was Esme, a teenager whose bedroom sat at the top of a remote house on a bleak estuary. A girl whose family, if not happy, exactly, was no unhappier than anyone else's - or so she thought. Then one night violence was unleashed in the crooked house, in a nightmare that only Alison survived and from which she's been running ever since. Only when she falls for the charismatic Paul does Alison realise that to have any chance of happiness, she must return to her old life and face a closed community full of dark secrets.

Irene Stanley thought her world had come to an end when her husband found their 15-year-old son, Shep, murdered in their Oregon home. Daniel Robbin, who had spent his teenage years in and out of trouble, gave himself up to the police and was given the state's harshest sentence : death by lethal injection. Now, nineteen years later, as the superintendent of the state penitentiary prepares to execute Robbin, Irene Stanley must reveal something she has been hiding from her family. Her revelation stuns her family and cracks open the secret tat surrounded her son's death. Secrets that reveal how little she understood Shep, her husband, or herself.

The doomsday conspiracy Commander Robert Bellamy of US Naval Intelligence is dispatched on a top secret mission. A weather balloon carrying sensitive military information has crashed in Switzerland. Bellamy must locate the ten witnesses to the incident so that they can be sworn to secrecy. But as he conducts his search Bellamy begins to suspect that he, too, is being hunted, and by an unknown lethal force... that what he was told about the balloon is only one part of an almost unbelievable happening. From washington to Zurich, Rome and Paris, the story unfolds to reveal Bellamy's past - why the woman he loves the most cannot return his love, why his friends become his deadly enemies, and why the world must never learn the incredible secret hidden on the Swiss Alps. The stars shine down Lara Cameron - young, beautiful, a self-made tycoon - has outshone her competitors to reach the pinnacle of international fortune and renown. But the real Lara is a lonely figure, driven by a childhood obsession, trying at all costs to bury the ghosts of her terrible past. With her glittering marriage to a world-famous concert pianist, Lara is sure she has fulfilled her destiny. But what she cannot foresee is that terrifying, uncontrollable forces from her secret past are bent on destroying everything she has created, everything she values in life...

Tom Kirk : the world's greatest art thief Jennifer Browne : an FBI agent desperate for a second chance Cassius : the criminel mastermind controlling the art underworld In Paris a priest is murdered, the killers dumping his mutilated body into the Seine. Only he has taken a secret with him to his death. A secret that reveals itself during his autopsy and resurrects the spectre of a seventy-year-old heist. Jennifer Browne, a young and ambitious FBI agent is assigned to the case. This is her last chance to kick start a career that has stalled after one fatal error of judgement three years before. Her investigation uncovers a daring robbery from Fort Knox and Tom Kirk, a brilliant young art thief, is her prime suspect. Tom, caught between his desire to get out of the game and his partner's insistence that he complete one last job for the criminal mastermind Cassius, finds himself on the run in a race against time to clear his name. A race that takes him from London to Paris, Amsterdam to Istanbul in a search for the real thieves and the legendary Double Eagle.

The suicide A cluster of suicides among the elderly. Such things are not unknown to the police and the deaths are quickly dismissed as routine. Only one man is convinced that something more sinister is taking place. The suspicion However, no one listens to Tom Thorne any more. Having stepped out of line once too often, he's back in uniform and he hates it. Patronised ans abused by his new colleagues, Thorne's suspicions bout the suicides are dismissed by the Murder Squad he was once part of and he is forced to investigate alone. The secret Unable to trust anyone, Thorne must risk losing the people closest to him. He must gamble with the lives of those targeted by a killer unlike any he has hunted before. A man with the power to make people take their own lives...

A student has gone missing in Edinburgh and there's very little for Detective Inspector John Rebus to go on apart from his gut feeling that there's more to this case than a runaway high on unaccustomed freedom. Two leads emerge : a carved wooden doll in a tiny coffin and an internet role-playing game. Rebus concentrates on the coffin, eerily reminiscent of sixteen similar relics found on a hillside in 1836, leaving DC Siobhan Clarke to deal with the cyberspace Quizmaster. She's young enough to navigate the net, but with Rebus buried two hundred years in the past, DC Clarke is going to need more than just luck to save both their skins - professional and personal...

In a large house in London's fashionable Chelsea, a baby is awake in her cot. Well-fed and cared for, she is happily waiting for someone to pick her up. In the kitchen lie three decomposing corpses. Close to them is a hastily scrawled note. They've been dead for several days.

Tyrant, blackmailer, racketeer, murderer The Godfather His influence reaches every level of American society The Godfather Meet Don Corleone, a friendly man, a just man, a 'reasonable' man The Godfather Deadliest lord of the Costa Nostra

In the small Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo is shot dead at his desk as he works late one night. The killer leaves no clues. There are no witnesses, no one with a motive. But the police soon come to suspect Quincy Miller, a young black man who was once a client of Russo's. Quincy is tried, convicted, and sent to prison for life. For twenty-two years he languishes in prison, maintaining his innoncence. But no one listens. He has no lawyer, no advocate on the outside. In desperation, he writes a letter to Guardian Ministries, a small nonprofit run by Cullen Post, a lawyer who is also an Episcopal minister. Guardian accepts only a few innoncence cases at a time. Cullen Post travels the country fighting wrongful convictions and taking on clients forgotten by the system. With Quincy Miller, though, he gets far more than he bargained for. Powerful, ruthless people murdered Keith Russo, and they do not want Quincy Miller exonerated. They killed one lawyer twenty-two years ago, and they will kill another without a second thought.

The Vatican holds a terrifying secret. One it will kill to protect. 1978 - Pope John Paul I dies in mysterious circumstances. His successor, John Paul II, merges from the conclave - unaware that he is in mortal danger. It is only by the actions of a few loyal operatives that his assassination is prevented. Thirty years later, journalist Sarah Monteiro begins to uncover the sinister machinations of a covert agency, whose web of lies and injustice hides the true power behind the holy throne. It would seem that the dark forces are still at large, and Sarah faces a life-of-death struggle in the name of truth and faith.

Ron Williamson was a star college baseball player in the small town of Ada, Oklahoma. When he left to persue his dreams he seemed destined for glory. But years of injury, drinking, drugs and women took their toll. He returned to Ada a lonely drifter. In 1982, a 21 years-old cocktail waitress was raped and murdered. After five years of fruitless investigations the police arrested Williamson for want of any other suspect. The case against him was built on bogus evidence and the testimony of jailhouse snitches and convicts. He was found guilty at trial and sent to Death Row. This is a true story of the criminal justice system gone terribly wrong. Of vengeful prosecutors and incompetent defence lawyers. Of a m'an's journey to hell. A journey from wich he nearly didn't return.

When Faith's father is found dead under mysterious circumstances, she is determined to untangle the truth from the lies. Searching through his belongings for clues she discovers a strange tree. A tree that feeds off whispered lies and bears fruit that reveals hidden secrets. But as Faith's untruths spiral out of control, she discovers that where lies seduce, truths shatter...

The Capitol Building, Washington DC: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon believes he is here to give a lecture. He is wrong. Within minutes of his arrival, a shocking object is discovered. It is a gruesome invitation into an ancient world of hidden wisdom. When Langdon's mentor, Peter Solomon - prominent mason and philanthropist - is kidnapped, Langdon realizes that his only hope of saving his friend's life is to accept this mysterious summons. It is to take him on a breathless chase through Washington's dark history. All that was familiar is changed into a shadowy, mythical world in which Masonic secrets and never-before-seen revelations seem to be leading him to a single impossible and inconceivable truth...

Jack Reacher is having a bad day. Il would be a dumb idea to make it worse. Reacher sees a West Point class ring in a pawn shop window. It's tiny. It's a woman cadet's graduation present to herself. Why would she give it up ? Reacher was a West Pointer too, and he knows what she went through to get it. All he wants is to find the woman. He'll have to go through bikers, cops, crooks and low-life muscle. If she's ok, he'll walk away. If she's not... he'll stop at nothing. Best advice : stay out of his way.

Dennis Milne is a former cop and part-time assassin. He kills the bad guys - people who, in his opinion, deserve to die. Now he's in Manila, waiting for his next target : a young woman who's made some deadly enemies. DI Tina Boyd is in Manila hunting down the man responsible for the death of her lover. She knows he's dangerous. She knows he's ruthless. But she's determined to bring him to justice - even if it kills her. Two cops with pasts that haunt them - and a present that could see them both dead. They are about to meet. And when they do, it's payback time.

Michael Turner is still fighting the demons of his childhood. He grew up alone ; an orphan lost in a maze of institutions and foster homes, surviving on dreams of success, and of finding a place where he was wanted and could belong. Now, in his early twenties, he is at last beginning to escape his past. He has a loving fiancée, and is taking the first steps in a promising legal career. And when, unexpectedly, a powerful father figure enters his life, it seems that all Michael's childhood dreams are being realised. But dreams come with a price. Michael has allowed a dangerous cuckoo to enter the nest. One who is plagued by his own demons, who can manipulate the needs and vulnerabilities of others to dreadful effect...

Psychologist Kit Quinn is a young woman doing a dangerous job. She inhabits a world of gruesome crime scenes, tense interrogations and violent insanity. On returning to work after a brutal attack, she is asked by the police to advise them on an apparently simple murder inquiry. The body of a young woman has been found by a London canal. The prime suspect is the man who attacked and scarred Kit. Despite the insistence of the police, Kit refuses to accept the obvious answer and finds other crimes, other victims. Her obsessive search for the link between the cases leads her into the world of young street-people - the missing, the unloved ; those who try to save them and those who prey on them. Into the blood-dark heart of her own fears. Into the Red Room, and danger...