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'A masterpiece of the genre' If you mess with the Glass family,
don't expect to live to tell the tale... What was meant to be a
straightforward jewellery heist goes horribly wrong, and the
thieves are forced to take a hostage to make their escape. But when
they discover their prisoner is the infamous Nina Glass - one of
the bosses of the most dangerous criminal dynasty in London - they
soon realise they have made a terrible mistake. Greed wins out over
good sense and the gang decide to make the best of a bad situation.
They send Luke Glass a ransom note, but they're messing with the
wrong people. The Glass family have other problems. The crooked cop
they have on their payroll - DCI Oliver Stanford - makes an
unwelcome discovery. The insider they had all presumed dead, may in
fact have survived, and still be feeding information to the police.
Under attack from all sides, and desperate to save his sister, Luke
has the reputation and survival of the Glass family in his hands -
is this the end of their empire? Three people can keep a secret -
if two of them are dead... Pacey, explosive and unforgettable,
Hustle is perfect for fans of Martina Cole, Kimberley Chambers and
Mandasue Heller. What readers say about Owen Mullen: 'Owen Mullen
knows how to ramp up the action just when it's needed... he never
fails to give you hard-hitting thrillers that have moments that
will stay with you forever...' 'One of the very best thriller
writers I have ever read.' 'Owen Mullen writes a good story, he
really brings his characters to life and the endings are hard to
guess and never what you expected.'
An action-packed comedy about a fake family that includes a spy, an
assassin and a telepath! Master spy Twilight is unparalleled when
it comes to going undercover on dangerous missions for the
betterment of the world. But when he receives the ultimate
assignment-to get married and have a kid-he may finally be in over
his head! Not one to depend on others, Twilight has his work cut
out for him procuring both a wife and a child for his mission to
infiltrate an elite private school. What he doesn't know is that
the wife he's chosen is an assassin and the child he's adopted is a
telepath!
The next thrilling adventure, all NEW from MJ Porter Icel is a lone
wolf no more... Oath sworn to Wiglaf, King of Mercia and
acknowledged as a member of Ealdorman AElfstan's warrior band, Icel
continues to forge his own destiny on the path to becoming the
Warrior of Mercia. With King Ecgberht of Wessex defeated and
Londonium back under Mercian control, the Wessex invasion of Mercia
is over. But the Wessex king was never Mercia's only enemy. An
unknown danger lurks in the form of merciless Viking raiders, who
set their sights on infiltrating the waterways of the traitorous
breakaway kingdom of the East Angles, within touching distance of
Mercia's eastern borders. Icel must journey to the kingdom of the
East Angles and unite against a common enemy to ensure Mercia's
hard-won freedom prevails. Praise for MJ Porter 'Immediate and
personal' Bestselling author Matthew Harffy 'No lover of Dark Age
warfare is going to be disappointed. Personal, real, fascinating
and satisfying.' S.J.A. Turney 'If you love history, fiction,
adventure and great stories - You won't regret it!" Eric Schumacher
'MJ Porter recounts a sensitive, reluctant hero's coming-of-age
within a Dark Age realm riven by chaos and conflict' Bestselling
author Matthew Harffy 'Refreshing... I was reluctant to put the
book down' Historical Novel Society Readers are spell-bound 'So
real I felt I was there!... A page-turner' Reader review 'Wonderful
to read and hard to put down' Reader review 'I found the pages
flying by... A great book' Reader review
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Two-Way Murder
(Paperback)
E.C.R. Lorac; Introduction by Martin Edwards
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R260
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Discovery Miles 2 370
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A lost novel from the golden age of crime, published for the very
first time. It happened on a dark and misty night; the night of the
ball at The Prince's Hall, Fordings. Abuzz with rumours surrounding
the disappearance of Rosemary Reeve on the eve of last year's ball,
the date proves ill-fated again when two homebound partygoers, Nick
and Dilys, come to a swerving halt before a corpse on the road.
Arriving at the scene to the news that Nick has been attacked after
telephoning for the police, Inspector Turner suspects there may be
more to the case than deadly accident. It's not long before Waring
of the local C.I.D. is drawn into the investigation, faced with the
task of unravelling an increasingly tangled knot of misleading
alibis and deep-rooted local grievances. Written in the last years
of the author's life, this previously unpublished novel is a
tribute to Lorac's enduring skill for constructing an ingenious
puzzle, replete with memorable characters and gripping detective
work. This edition also includes an introduction by the CWA Diamond
Dagger Award-winning author Martin Edwards.
In this exuberantly strange story collection, Flores asks: Whose
reality? What rules? --Jean Chen Ho, author of The New York Times
Book Review These are marvelously unpredictable stories, anchored
by Fernando A. Flores's deadpan prose and his surefooted navigation
of those overlapping territories, the real and the fantastic, where
so much of the best contemporary fiction now lives. --Kelly Link,
author of Get in Trouble Psychedelic, dazzling stories set in the
cracks of the Texas-Mexico borderland, from an iconoclastic
storyteller and the author of Tears of the Trufflepig. No one
captures the border--its history and imagination, its danger,
contradiction, and redemption--like Fernando A. Flores, whose
stories reimagine and reinterpret the region's existence with
peerless style. In his immersive, uncanny borderland, things are
never what they seem: a world where the sun is both rising and
setting, and where conniving possums efficiently take over an
entire town and rewrite its history. The stories in Valleyesque
dance between the fantastical and the hyperreal with dexterous,
often hilarious flair. A dying Frederic Chopin stumbles through
Ciudad Juarez in the aftermath of his mother's death, attempting to
recover his beloved piano that was seized at the border, while a
muralist is taken on a psychedelic journey by an airbrushed
Emiliano Zapata T-shirt. A woman is engulfed by a used-clothing
warehouse with a life of its own, and a grieving mother
breathlessly chronicles the demise of a town decimated by violence.
In two separate stories, queso dip and musical rhythms are bottled
up and sold for mass consumption. And in the final tale, Flores
pieces together the adventures of a young Lee Harvey Oswald as he
starts a music career in Texas. Swinging between satire and
surrealism, grief and joy, Valleyesque is a boundary- and
border-pushing collection from a one-of-a-kind stylist and voice.
With the visceral imagination that made his debut novel, Tears of
the Trufflepig, a cult classic, Flores brings his vision of the
border to life--and beyond.
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Empire
(Hardcover)
Clifford D. Simak
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R749
Discovery Miles 7 490
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