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Ian Gidman's debts are growing by the month, and there's nothing he can do about it. His partner, Richard Tweedle, is favourably inclined towards some serious financial misappropriation at Ian's expense and, like a twig in a raging torrent, Ian's life is spun around by events beyond his control. Ian's wife, Nancy, is not the home-maker she purports to be, and soon their marriage is heading towards the rocks. Their son, Pete, is dating Tweedle's daughter who is hiding secrets of her own. When Ian's old school friend pays a visit and brings his sister, Claire, with him, Ian finds himself infatuated by her smile and her honesty. When Tweedle gains control of the business, Ian moves on. But just as he thinks the situation is improving, his former partner goes on the offensive once again and it seems that, even when he's thousands of miles away, Ian can't shake off his adversary. Meanwhile there's a ten million pound embezzlement going on, right under everyone's noses. Chasing Paper is at times, funny, at times sad. Sometimes full of hope, other times despair. It's a rollercoaster ride of emotions with an action-driven plot. But who's pulling the strings and orchestrating events? It has the feel of a lady's hand.

After a financial scam that went disastrously wrong, Nick and Sandy Ferris find themselves in The Hague in The Netherlands where Nick is made an offer he can't refuse. Sandy once again discovers the easy route to a healthy bank balance, and Theo has discovered God - or his version of God. But Theo is infatuated with Sandy and makes it his quest to track her down. Mind you, it's never going to be easy to remain incognito for someone who wears a monocle and a deerstalker hat. George, on the other hand is trying to escape his brother's hit man. He is so intent on staying under his brother's radar that he fails to see what's happening right under his nose. What he does spot, however, is Nick and Sandy Ferris hiding an interesting-looking package in the peaty waters of one of The Netherland's canals. Sean Legg, who didn't like being robbed the first time, is even more annoyed the second time. He sets out to find Nick and Sandy and give them a good talking to. Meanwhile, Rolien does all she can to drag Hjalmar away from his computer programme. If you're confused, relax, grab the book, and find out how it all ends.

When Sean Legg, the island's Chief Minister is kidnapped, only a select few are made aware. Sean soon discovers that his captors are Islamic fundamentalists who plan to set up a terrorist training camp on the island. Police constable Sarah Flemons and her dive buddy Penny Lomax, are enjoying an evening dive round the rocks of Peel Castle. They discover the entrance to a cave where they are met by another diver. Only Sarah survives the encounter, but she is taken captive in the same huge cavern under the rock where they are holding Sean. Clemence Quirk and Elinore Kinrade, along with their black Labrador, Millie spot unusual activity within the castle grounds. Clem and Eli are not the sort of youngsters to let a thing like that pass. So when the dynamic duo discover an underground passage, their natural curiosity gets the better of them. That's when they stumble across their Chief Minister. Meanwhile, Ken Stafford, formerly in the SAS brings in some of his former regiment friends with a cunning plan to free Sean Legg. Unfortunately, Sean's father-in-law, Nick Ferris, known for being nimble of foot when the police draw near, also becomes involved. It's all a recipe for an unforeseen ending.

Amy's on the run and scavenging in waste bins for her next meal. It's cold, it's raining, she has no money, nowhere to live, and her aunt wants her dead. If she turns herself in to the police, they will almost certainly imprison her. But even in prison she is still not safe from the long reach of her aunt. Now she's done what she's done, things are looking hopeless. Both her parents are dead and she has no friends to look to for help... until she meets Clem and Eli. But what can a couple of quirky teenage girls do? If you have to ask that question, you don't know Clemence Quirk and Elinore Kinrade, neither of whom are inclined to let Amy go without feeding her up and getting her some clean clothes. Amy finds reprieve at Clem's home, but it doesn't last for long as her aunt scours the island for her, using all her many contacts. Finally, Amy's aunt corners her in a network of partially flooded underground caverns. As the water level rises, there's only one way out, and Amy takes it, but her hoped-for exit is too small for her to get through. Death seems certain for both her and her aunt when the roof of the passage collapses allowing tons of contaminated water to crash down onto them. There's only one way to find out how it ends, and that's by downloading Out of the Window now.

When he left his cottage to pick a few vegetables from his garden, Reverend Aloicius Quayle hadn't intended lying face down on the cold earth with the morning sun on the back of his head and a vine of runner beans crushed under his chest. He also hadn't intended to have a twenty centimetre bone handled brushed stainless steel knife stuck in his lower back. But sometimes life doesn't work out as planned, as Reverend Quayle discovered. Before long more religious murders have Detective Inspector Angus Slooth and Detective Constable Sarah Flemons struggling to find the answers. How is the same gun involved in three unrelated murders over the course of seven years? And why are the murders linked by an old nursery rhyme? When Angus, a confirmed bachelor, meets Julie Benning, the probation and parole officer of one of the main suspects, he can't help falling head-over-heels in love with her. And his infatuation grows when he discovers she's a Wiccan witch with some extraordinary powers. A story of love, of hate, of hope, and of despair, On Whom The Axe Falls will leave you guessing right to the final chapter. Who killed whom? There's only one way to find out.

Lynn and Suyin both have good reason to hate Ambrose Carson. When nine wealthy Chinese businessmen include Ambrose in their investment plans, Suyin is nominated to act as their intermediary. But she is not all that she seems to be and is secretly driven by events of the past. Ambrose finds that getting the funds together for the planned investment does not run smoothly. He needs a few million more to match the Chinese investors and plans to short sell Domtech International shares after he has disposed of it's CEO, Dominic Dawson. When he instructs his hired thug to kill Dominic, the result is not one that he could have foreseen, and not one that he has any control over. While Lynn is making plans for the eventual showdown, she is unaware that Suyin has a secret agenda of her own. Enter The Vicar, a psychopathic killer with a dog collar. The Vicar is willing to dispose of anyone who has broken one of God's Ten Commandments. In China in Her Hand, it seems that the whole cast might be guilty of that.

Colonel Peter Challinor threatens to wipe out thousands of residents on the Isle of Man using the most toxic nerve agent ever synthesized. The hunt is on to find him and stop him, but time is short and he has plenty of places to hide. Hugh Bottomley arrives from the Ministry of Defence in London to help out where he can. But Sparky knows Bottomley's past, and it is one that Bottomley would like kept secret. Meanwhile, house-to-house enquiries turn up more than a toxic nerve agent. The arrival of Rolien van der Laan from The Netherlands, and the enigmatic Oddball from London, does nothing to simplify an increasingly complex situation. Though Rolien is looking for tax relief and an old flame, Oddball has just, it seems, found a new love in his life. Though they end up in a hotel room together, it's not the sort of happy ending either of them envisaged. Devil's Helmet brings together back stories of power, love, duplicity, and suspense. It's sometimes frightening, often thought-provoking, and always fast action. Until you reach the end, you only know that it's bound to end in tears for somebody. The question is, who?

Meet The Vicar. If you have read the earlier books in The Island Connection series, you will already have had a passing acquaintance with him. He's a psychopathic killer with a dog collar and reason for being who and what he is. Nothing satisfies The Vicar more than to send his chosen victims to God, so God can mete out his own justice. But The Vicar's methods are vicious and brutal, and his subjects are begging for death long before he finally sends them on their way to meet his boss. Detective Sergeant Sarah Flemons and her new partner, Constable Penny Chakyar, find themselves on a secretive mission in the Dordogne area of France. Fortunately for Sarah, Penny speaks excellent French. So too does The Vicar, who also finds himself on a mission of a different kind. Who is Hjalmar, and why does he have scars near his ears and two fingers missing on one hand? Michel LeBrun was also a man on a mission before his body was found in the woods. What was he trying to find before he was murdered? Sarah and Penny know nothing of The Vicar. Their task is to find out who killed Michel LeBrun, and why. Hjalmar knows nothing about Sarah and Penny, but knows all about The Vicar, which is why he grabs a knife when he finds him sitting in his kitchen asking for a cup of tea - Earl Grey, of course. And passion comes visiting when Penny and Hjalmar set eyes on each other on a warm summer evening. It's all very confusing - until you read The Vicar's Lot.

Meet Tommy Gee. He's a professional blaster - blows stuff up for a living. His family are crazy enough they could win an audition for Game of Thrones meets The Simpsons. Tommy's decision to spend a long weekend visiting his incense-burning mother in King's Lynn, on England's east coast, leaves behind eight dead bodies and a suicide. Not that they were all Tommy's fault, but he seems to be a magnet for chaos and the unpredictable. Add to the mix, Tommy's sultry pickpocket sister and his gangly deranged half-brother, and you have the recipe for a frenzied few days. When two Romanian mafia bosses are stirred into the melting pot, along with a sexy bank employee with a cunning plan, things are likely to move from complicated to dangerous before you can turn the page. But Tommy has never been one to worry too much about risks. Accompanied by Muffin, his chocolate-coloured Labrador whose only purpose in life is to find misplaced burgers or unwanted pork scratchings, Tommy Gee's long weekend finds him hanging upside-down in his burning car. Yet we shouldn't be surprised at that. It was just one of the many mishaps be brought on himself after he decided to rob a bank. This book contains a little strong language, some unnecessary violence, a sprinkling of gratuitous sex, a series of implausible situations, and a good dose of irreverent British humour. If you enjoy a gripping plot, thrilling action, and characters you can feel, then hit download, sit back and hold on tight. Tommy Gee has come to town.

While excavating on a construction site, an extraordinary and unrecognisable object is discovered buried in the rock. It looks like plastic, yet it had lain there while the sediments had formed into rock around it, nearly 400 million years ago. Even more unsettling for the inhabitants of the island is that the object emits a strange 'dark light' during the day, and glows red at night. 'The Pod' as the object becomes known, draws crowds from around the world. To the media, it is anything from an atomic bomb planted by Russia to the gathering of armies for the end of times battle between good and evil. Detective Chief Inspector Angus Slooth is charged with crowd control at the dig. To him, the pod is a pain in the chest, and one that will prove his downfall. Meanwhile, Sparky, the life-partner of DI Sarah Flemons, is tasked with protecting the most obnoxious young lady he has ever had the misfortune to meet. But there's more to Jo Kennaugh than meets the eye. A lot more - as Sparky soon discovers - and it will eventually threaten both their lives. While naked Wiccans run amok in the ancient Viking castle, and while local airheads, Elvis and Ozzie, are picking fights with the wrong people, DI Sarah Flemons knows something that she's not prepared to share. Not even with her best friend, Penny Chakyar. It's too important for sharing. Except, maybe, with a chosen few who are already bearers. Sometimes humorous, frequently charming, often chilling, and always full of suspense, 'Travellers' is a powerful story that leads to a sobering conclusion about the future of planet earth. Don't miss it.

In France, since 2013, the authorities will no longer search for adults who have been reported missing by family members. Approximately 15,000 people disappear each year without trace. Tristan Gautier has just become one of them. When Tristan's mother, Florence, receives a kidnap demand, it has come from someone in the commissariat de police near to the cemetery of P re Lachaise in Paris. Despite paying the ransom demand, Tristan is still help captive and the kidnappers make it clear they will kill their hostage unless they are paid even more money. The threat is real and Tristan's father, a former SAS specialist, plans to find where he is being held. But the plan falls apart when shots are fired. The only clues the family have now to Tristan's whereabouts come from a man who has been dead for 150 years. Enter Camille Laurent, a Sensitive whose advanced intuition allows her to communicate with the dead. Will she be able to help in time? To discover where Tristan is, they must try to unravel the secrets of the man's identity from just a handful of cryptic clues. Can Tristan last out that long or will the kidnappers dispose of him first? A story for lovers of a mystery, with a sprinkling of the supernatural, and a taught climax involving a helicopter and a hit man's prized car. Cenotaph for the Living will keep you guessing and on the edge of your seat right from the first page.