Douglas Hunter works as a police detective till his wife leaves him. Attempting to locate her, he abuses his access to police databases, is forced to resign and sets up as a private detective. Alison Ogilvie believes her husband is cheating. She engages Hunter to check out a meeting in Dublin he is due to attend. There is no meeting. Hunter is visited by his old boss, DS Maureen MacNeil. Hostile as ever, she demands access to his house to keep tabs on the disused church next door. When Ogilvie fails to come home, Hunter traces the car but not Alan himself. They are visited by DS MacNeil. A body thought to be that of Alan Ogilvie has been found in a rented cottage. Ogilvie died of auto-erotic asphyxiation. Questioned on suspicion of withholding information concerning her husband's death, Alison contacts a lawyer, Louise Galbraith. Although the evidence linking both Alison and Hunter to Alan Ogilvie is circumstantial, MacNeil has dreamt up a conspiracy theory linking the disappearance of Hunter's wife and the death of Alison's husband. Alison finds a colleague of her husband dead in her bathroom. Wanted by the Irish police for the murder of a prostitute, he has broken in looking for somewhere to hide and in the process severed an artery in the lower arm. Alison wants to dispose of the body, Hunter insists on contacting the police. MacNeil's suspicions are confirmed. The church is raided by the police, the NCA and the Border Force. Thirteen people are detained, two being people smugglers. A man working on a blocked drain discovers bones in Hunter's garden. That morning a letter arrives from a lawyer acting for his wife demanding half the value of their house. Despite what DS MacNeil may think, his wife is still alive. A pathologist confirms the bones in the garden are those of a dog. MacNeil interviews Hunter on suspicion of murdering his wife. After rehearsing the existing evidence MacNeil goes on to the bones found in his garden. A pathologist has attended, the remains must be Susan's. It becomes clear that MacNeil's judgement is impaired. A test confirms MacNeil is using cocaine. MacNeil's boss, DI Maitland confirms that Alison is no longer suspected of anything, including any involvement in the death of her husband's colleague. The day after Alan Ogilvie's funeral, Alison turns up on Hunter's doorstep. Her sister has decided to stay on to support her over the festive period - the last thing she wants. They quarrel. Alison has left her own house to escape from her sister's children. Hunter and Alison spend the night together. Like Susan before her, Alison is less than impressed by his performance. They will have to work on it.

Offers solutions to vexing problems plaguing American politics, allowing students to exercise agency in confronting the fraught contemporary political scene. Brings together a powerhouse line-up of political science and communication scholars addressing a wide breadth of topics in a concise, consistent format designed for easy reading, teaching, and acting by students, professors, and citizens alike. Engages a multimethod, interdisciplinary approach, showing students different ways to study, analyze, and engage with politics.

Offers solutions to vexing problems plaguing American politics, allowing students to exercise agency in confronting the fraught contemporary political scene. Brings together a powerhouse line-up of political science and communication scholars addressing a wide breadth of topics in a concise, consistent format designed for easy reading, teaching, and acting by students, professors, and citizens alike. Engages a multimethod, interdisciplinary approach, showing students different ways to study, analyze, and engage with politics.

To the well-meaning people of Future World the problem is obvious: too many people. However, so is the solution: eliminate as many of their fellow human beings as they can - though for Catherine Cooper, Cindy Horvath and Gina Saito, this is easier said than done... at least until they get their hands on a bird flu virus made lethal in the lab. But as they work out how to use it to the most devastating effect, the German security service gets wind of their intention, as does an unscrupulous freelance agent from the United States. Following a succession of bizarre events, including a conversation with a cat, a fractured penis and the testimony of a Japanese sex doll, only the last woman standing, fish-whisperer Gina Saito, can hope to bring it off. However, the only way she can do this will involve her own death on foreign soil... Set in Berlin, Los Angeles, England and Japan, the unfolding events show that having a plan isn't enough: good intentions can lead to ludicrous results and, ultimately, death.

It isn't planned, nothing he does ever is, but when Frank is burned out of his flat he ends up living where he works. A maintenance man in a large department store, this is easier for him than most, and everything might just have worked out if he'd told other people what he was doing, especially his girlfriend, Pamela. But he doesn't, and his secret life soon becomes a comedy of unintended consequences, the only thing he has in common with the ambitious but hot-tempered Preston Blair. Set in 2004, when analogue is giving way to digital and family-owned stores are losing out to the competition, this is the entertaining follow-up to Hart's previous title, Time to Talk.

Maxwell Frei claims to be a photographer to qualify for cheap office space in an art collective known as The Warehouse. In fact he's a counsellor, and though his degree is not in psychology he has studied the subject and knows the score. Anti-depressants don't work and he has the evidence to prove it. As for the many therapies out there, they aren't worth a row of beans. His attitude is simple: he doesn't listen to the experts, he listens to his clients. And everything goes well till one of them steps in front of a moving car and the police come knocking on his door. Now the focus of a criminal investigation, Max is scrambling to keep his secret hidden from the collective while crafting explanations that will keep his girlfriend happy. Soon, however, the questions start to pile up. It's time to talk, but the more he says the worse it gets.