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In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.They thought that Jack Bauer was dead...but it turns out he's alive and still kicking...hard.The most critically acclaimed series on television, 24 continues to thrill audiences around the world with its combination of heart-pounding, exhilarating action and intricate, addictive plotting. In its most audacious year so far, multi Emmy Award-winning season five saw Jack come back from the dead to face down America's most deadly enemy yet...its own President. This third official companion goes behind the scenes of the ground-breaking show, offering exclusive insights into the making of 24.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.In the early morning hours of March 18, 1990, two men dressed as police officers entered Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, tied up the guards, and escaped with 500 million dollars' worth of paintings. The heist provoked a massive search for both the thieves and the lost masterpieces. But the paintings never surfaced and the mystery remained unsolved. Now, almost twenty years later, the case threatens to break wide open.When attorney Scott Finn agrees to help an old friend from Southie, Devon Malley, he has no idea of the trouble he is bringing upon himself. Members of Boston's criminal underworld start turning up dead, and the M.O. of the attacks suggests the involvement of someone trained by the IRA. But when Finn learns of Malley's role in the heist, he's quickly drawn into the crossfire, and into the renewed hunt for the missing artwork...A hunt that may cost Finn… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Monday's child is fair of face,Tuesday's child is full of grace,Wednesday's child is full of woe ...What happened to Azaria Chamberlain, Wednesday's Child, became the most publicised mystery in Australian history. For the first time, all the elements of that mystery have been brought together in this gripping book beginning with the night Mrs Lindy Chamberlain screamed at an Ayers Rock camping site that a dingo had taken her baby and ending with the verdict of the trial of Mrs Chamberlain and her husband Michael in Darwin. The book is the definitive account of the drama.

Large Print - in good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.In 1974, a revolutionary group calling itself the Dread Scott Brigade held up the old Shawmut Bank in Boston's Audubon Circle. Money was stolen, and a woman named Emily Gordon, a visitor in town cashing traveller's cheques, was shot and killed. Despite security camera photos and a letter from the group claiming responsibility, the perpetrators have remained at large for nearly three decades. Enter Paul Giacomin, the closest thing to a son Spenser has. When Paul's friend Daryl Gordon - daughter of the long-gone Emily - decides she needs closure about her mother's death, it's Spenser she turns to.

Large print - in good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.When a small boy called Matthew arrives at the police-department and announces he has been kidnapped, only Bergerac takes him seriously. But Bergerac has many other matters occupying this thoughts: the drunken waiter at Lil's (missing in bizarre circumstances), his battle with Hungerford over the arrests quota and, more important, the arrangements for his daughter's party. What Bergerac does not realise is that the kidnap is just a small part of a dirty game being played on Jersey. It is a game with no rules - and Christmas is not the time for charades.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Northern Ireland, 1963. This is the story of a time muffled and made claustrophobic by unprecedented snow falls, and of a community caught in the slow dance of this frozen land. Suddenly shaken free for the normal patterns of their lives by the extremity of the weather, the people find their intimate desires thrown into sharp relief, as they experience love, death and finally murder.In a house with windows flung defiantly wide, a wife dies before her husband can make his confession. Her coffin is pulled to the church on a sledge by Peter, a young man engulfed by his first feelings of love for an older, unattainable woman. Elsewhere, an old woman searches desperately for a wedding dress in her dream of love. When the electricity fails, a lonely headmaster is forced to close his school and in shadowy candlelight he is tempted into indiscretion. Meanwhile, in the very heart of… Read More

In very good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Fay Browne is a middle-aged solicitor living with her family in the small village of Renham. One fateful night, Fay witnesses a woman's apparent suicide in front of a train and becomes deeply involved with the inquest, convinced that the woman didn't jump but was in fact pushed.Her antique-dealer husband, Robert, leaves for the States, ostensibly on business with his secretary, Meg. But subsequent disastrous events lead Fay to suspect her husband for the first time in their marriage, while also beginning to doubt her own sanity.Fay takes it upon herself to investigate two further deaths, now convinced of a connection between them and determined to prove her absent husband's innocence.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Jack Irish has no shortage of friends. Jockeys and journos, lawyers ad standover men, people in nameless occupations who aren't in the phone book. These days, though, the only family he sees are Irish men in faded football team photographs on the pub wall.So when Des Connors, the last link to his father, calls to ask for help in the matter of a missing son, Jack is happy to lend a hand.But sometimes prodigal sons go missing for a reason. As Jack begins to dig, he discovers that Gary Connors was a man with something to hide.And his friends are people with darker, more deadly secrets.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Catherine McLeod is an investigative reporter for the Journal, one of Denver's major newspapers. Her relentless pursuit of the truth has earned her both accolades and enmity. But her recent coverage of the Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes filling to reclaim twenty-seven million acres of their ancestral lands has made her a target for assassination.After narrowly escaping an assailant's bullet in her own home, Catherine is convinced by her ex-husband to stay at his family's ranch in the mountains outside of Denver until the gunman is caught. Unwilling to stop working, she continues to follow the land-claim story - only to uncover an unsettling conspiracy. And as Catherine unravels the truth, she discovers some startling facts about her own heritage, making her would-be killer all the more desperate to find her...

In good condition - spine clean - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Imagine yourself in a bar. A man approaches you. He doesn't seem familiar but he knows your past, your job, hobbies and your ex-boyfriend's name. You go for a drink.This is your first - and last - mistake. You're the latest victim of the latest killer. A man who can rip away the thin carapace protecting the secrets of your life - before ending it.Streetwise cop Frank Bishop has been charged with the job of halting the mounting body count. He enlists the help of Wyatt Gillette, a young hacker who himself has fallen on the wrong side of the law. They must stalk this faceless criminal through both the real and the virtual universe, combining their old and new world skills to beat this mastermind. But how do you stop a man who knows your every move?You must go into the blue nowhere...

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.NICK HELLER: The man who beats the odds.When private investigator Nick Heller moves back to Boston to set up his own agency, he soon gets an urgent case even closer to home than expected.Alexandra Marcus - teenage daughter of hedge fund titan Marshall Marcus - has been kidnapped. But it's no ordinary kidnapping - and it's not even clear what they want. She's been abducted by professionals and buried alive in an underground casket. A video camera is streaming her desperate pleas live over the internet. With only limited supply of food and water, her time is quickly running out.Nick, a close friend of the family, is more determined than ever to catch the perpetrators. But when Marshall is arrested for fraud, Nick uncovers some powerful enemies and a conspiracy that reaches up to the very highest levels of government. Faced with opponents well-protected by wealth and position,… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.A beautiful young woman is found strangled, lying at the feet of gifted young legislator Matthew Hope. Before this, he was the most promising Alaska Native politician in the state. Now he's facing serious time and not talking to anyone.In desperation, a mysterious, wealthy patron of Hope's hires Nik Kane, disgraced ex-cop, to investigate the crime. Kane's journey to this spot began with a seemingly unjustified shooting and a brutal stretch in the state prison. From honoured police detective to scorned prisoner, Kane is trying to rebuild a life torn apart by lies. The Anchorage PD doesn't want him back. So he's left picking up investigative jobs where he can. This one doesn't sound too promising. Hope has offered no answers to detectives' queries. He can't account for the time leading up to their discovery of him with the body, and forensic evidence doesn't indicate any other… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.When Errol 'Handy' White returns to his native Los Angeles to attend the funeral of his old friend R.J. Burrow, who has been brutally murdered, a terrible secret threatens to reveal itself. Twenty-six years earlier, Handy, R.J. and O'Neal Holden pulled a heist that went horrible awry, and Handy's been waiting for it to come back and haunt them ever since. Was the murder linked to the past? Handy knows he can't leave until he finds out for sure.

In good condition - has markings from use - has slight yellowing to page ends - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.On a hot late summer evening in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Dr. Kay Scarpetta and her investigative partner, Pete Marino, respond to a call about a dead bicyclist near the Kennedy School of Government. It appears that a young woman has been attacked with almost superhuman force.Even before Scarpetta's headquarters, the Cambridge Forensic Centre, has been officially notified about the case, Marino and Scarpetta's FBI agent husband, Benton Wesley, receive suspicious calls, allegedly from someone at Interpol. But it makes no sense. Why would the elite international police agency know about the case and even be interested? With breathtaking speed it becomes apparent that an onslaught of interference and harassment might be the work of an anonymous cyberbully named Tailend Charlie, who has been sending cryptic communications to Scarpetta for over a… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Five years after Duncan Percival is left in a vegetative state after a vicious attack, he finally dies. It is now a murder investigation and Hennessey and Yellich are brought in to renew the evidence and re-interview the suspects, along with Detective Sergeant Ventnor who worked on the original investigation. As they delve deeper, bodies start turning up and the links to a criminal gang become clear. But who is the leader of the organization, and who is pulling the strings now that Duncan Percival is dead?Hennessey, Yellich and Ventnor are drawn into York's criminal underworld where grasses are punished and the gruesome Chelsea Smile is the favoured method of retribution...

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.When the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary, decaying city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks like a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he probes, the evidence begins to point to conspiracies far stranger, and more deadly, than anything he could have imagined. Soon his work puts him and those he cares for in danger. Borlu must travel to the only metropolis on Earth as strange as his own, across a border like no other.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Detective Lincoln Rhyme, the foremost criminalist in the NYPD, is on the hunt for an elusive murderer known as the Coffin Dancer. He's a brilliant hit man who changes his appearance faster than he adds to his trail of victims, only one of whom has lived long enough to offer a clue: the assassin has an eerie tattoo on his arm of the Grim Reaper waltzing in front of a casket.Rhyme, paralyzed from a line-of-duty accident, is certain he's seen this killer before, and his suspicion of an earlier encounter fuels a bitter taste for vengeance. When the chameleon-like assassin targets three federal witnesses for death, the stakes reach a new high. Now Rhyme's brainpower and his protégée Detective Amelia Sachs's legwork are the only tools they have to track the cunning murderer through a darkly painted New York City—and they have only forty-eight hours before the Coffin Dancer… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Lila Emerson is fascinated by other people's lives. As a house-sitter, she loves looking after the glamorous, sophisticated homes she could never afford herself. And as a writer, she enjoys watching the world go by, dreaming up stories for the people she sees from her window.But then one day she witnesses something only too real - the brutal and shocking murder of a young woman living across the street in New York. And now, because of what she saw, Lila's own life is in immediate danger from an audacious, single-minded assassin who kills for profit and for pleasure.With the police following a false lead, Lila is on her own. Her only hope is to team up with Ashley Archer, an artist with his own complicated reasons for getting involved. Lila wants to trust the passionate, quick-witted Ash - but is she letting her feelings blind her to his motives? Either way, Lila will never watch from the… Read More

In good condition - dust jacket has slight wear - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.The French would say that a crime of passion is 'to kill for love.' They believe - and rightly - that any human being, driven to the limits of endurance by uncontrollable feelings, is capable of committing an act as bloody, brutal and savage as any in history. Many crimes are motivated by passion, and are not merely versions of the eternal triangle, the killing for love or lust. Anger, frustration, greed, resentment and despair all play their part.In Crimes of Passion you will read about the shooting of the distinguished American architect Stamford White; Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain; the murder in the Red Barn - the killing of Maria Marten by the son of a local landowner; Edith Thompson, the suburban housewife whose passion led to her husband's death in a London street; good-time girl, Starr Faithful, whose last fling led to her… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Behind the closed doors and net curtains in perfectly ordinary cities, towns and villages something goes on... MURDERReconstructed in graphic detail, here are the true stories of twenty horrific killings - baffling murder cases with strangely obscure motives. The victims were wives, grandparents, children...the murderers were the sort of people that you meet every day...