Constable and Robinson Digital
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Mrs Gentle has fooled everyone into thinking she is as sweet as she sounds - Gentle by name and gentle by nature. But local constable Hamish Macbeth isn't fooled. He believes this little old lady is actually quite sly and vicious, but he's in a minority of one. Or is he? ...
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In an instant her privileged world disappears and a new, dangerous and erotic one beckons...At the age of eighteen, Corinne Bishop is stolen from her happy, loving family by the malevolent vampire Dragos. After many years of captivity and torment, Corinne is rescued by the Order, a cadre of vampire ...
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Death on the Holy Mountain
Dickinson David
- Constable and robinson digital
- 1 September 2011
- 9781780334158
The year is 1905 and Powerscourt is sent to Ireland to investigate a series of art thefts from stately houses. Motive troubles Powerscourt; were these robberies merely for gain? A number of Old Masters had been left untouched and the ones taken were all ancient family portraits of the aristocratic P...
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All it took was one small item on the regional news for Kimberly Guyver and Rachel Golinski to know that their old life was catching up with them. They wondered how they'd been naive enough to think it wouldn't. They hoped they still had a chance to leave it behind - just one more time - but within ...
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The bodies are found in towns and cities around Puget Sound. The young women who are the victims had nothing in common - except the agony of their final moments. But somebody carefully chose them to stalk, capture, and torture... a depraved killer whose cunning is matched only by the depth of his bl...
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The Mammoth Book of the Best of Best New SF
Dozois Gardner
- Constable and robinson digital
- 27 March 2008
- 9781849015400
An anthology that features the works of Stephen Baxter, Greg Bear, William Gibson, Terry Bisson, Greg Egan, Ursula K Le Guin, Robert Reed, Robert Silverberg, Bruce Sterling, Charles Stross, Michael Swanwick, and Gene Wolfe. This title includes stories such as "Blood Music", "Bears Discover Fire", an...
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The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
Valente Catherynne M
- Constable and robinson digital
- 7 June 2012
- 9781780338620
September is a twelve-year-old girl, Somewhat Grown and Somewhat Heartless, and she longs for adventure. So when a Green Wind and a Leopard of Little Breezes invite her to Fairyland - well, of course, she accepts (mightn't you?). When she gets there, she finds a land crushed by the iron rule of a vi...
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The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 7
Jakubowski Maxim
- Constable and robinson digital
- 29 April 2010
- 9781849014601
The must-have annual anthology for every crime fiction fan -- the year's top new British short stories selected by leading crime critic Maxim Jakubowski.This great annual covers the full range of mystery fiction, from noir and hardboiled crime to ingenious puzzles and amateur sleuthing. Packed with ...
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He mutilates his victims. Slices their throats. And carves an X into their flesh. Five years ago, he claimed the lives of six women. Then the killings abruptly stopped - no one knows why. Ex-homicide detective Frank Quinn remembers. Which is why he's shocked to see one of the dead women in his offic...
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The women of Stepford are not all that they seem...All the beautiful people live in idyllic Stepford, Connecticut, an affluent, suburban Eden populated with successful, satisfied hubbies and beautiful, dutiful wives. For Joanna Eberhart, newly arrived with her husband and two children, it all seems ...
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The year is 1846. In a cold parsonage on the gloomy Yorkshire moors, a family seems cursed with disaster. A mother and two children dead. A father sick, without fortune, and hardened by the loss of his two most beloved family members. A son destroyed by alcohol and opiates. ...
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After eighteen years inside, Johnny Frank is coming out of jail with just one thing on his mind, to kill the man who put him there. But his plans soon go dramatically awry. As his past returns to haunt him, a vicious murder and kidnap force him back on the streets of London. He could choose simply t...
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Nothing has prepared her for the nightmare that is about to begin... Eve, the 34 year old daughter of recently deceased conman Alexander Weston, knows a good deal when she sees it -- and this one doesn't even come close. However, with vulnerable brother Terry being beaten in jail, she can't afford ...
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The discovery of a headless corpse jeopardises Queen Victoria's glittering Diamond Jubilee! In this second Lord Francis Powerscourt mystery, London is preparing for the 1897 Diamond Jubilee. But one morning a man's corpse with no head or hands is dragged out of the Thames. He is old, but not dest...
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Death Called to the Bar
Dickinson David
- Constable and robinson digital
- 1 September 2011
- 9781780334110
Queen's Inn is London's most fashionable Inn of Court. On 29th February 1902, at a Feast, senior barrister Alexander Dauntsey collapses into his soup and dies. He has been poisoned. Soon after his friend Woodford Stewart is shot dead, Lord Francis Powerscourt is summoned to discreetly investigate th...
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Death on the Nevskii Prospekt
Dickinson David
- Constable and robinson digital
- 1 September 2011
- 9781780334165
1904: Powerscourt comes out of retirement for one last time, heading for Russia in one of the strangest cases of his career.A British diplomat has been discovered, his throat cut, on one of the bridges spanning the Nevskii Prospekt in St Petersburg. It transpires the diplomat knew a secret - and tha...
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Crocodile on the Sandbank
Peters Elizabeth
- Constable and robinson digital
- 1 September 2011
- 9781780334462
Amelia Peabody, a thoroughly Victorian feminist who takes the stuffy world of archaeology by storm with her shocking men's pants and no-nonsense attitude, decides to use her substantial inheritance to see the world. On her travels, she rescues a gentlewoman in distress - Evelyn Barton-Forbes - and t...
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Deeds of the Disturber
Peters Elizabeth
- Constable and robinson digital
- 1 September 2011
- 9781780334479
Amelia and her husband Emerson set off for a archaeological site in the Sudan, only to be drawn into the search for an African explorer and his young bride who went missing twelve years back. They survive the desert, the death of their camels, and the perfidy of their guides, only to find themselves...
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At the May Day dancing at Glasgow Cross, Gil Cunningham sees not only the woman who is going to be murdered, but her murderer as well. Gil is a recently qualified lawyer whose family still expect him to enter the priesthood. When he finds the body of a young woman in the new building at Glasgow Cath...
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The Mammoth Book of Monsters
Jones Stephen
- Constable and robinson digital
- 4 August 2011
- 9781780332789
Monsterrific stories by top names in horror writing Vampires, Werewolves, Zombies, Ghouls . . . these and many other Creatures of the Night are featured in this bumper collection of stories by such authors as Clive Barker, Harlan Ellison, Ramsey Campbell, Brian Lumley, Tanith Lee, Michael Marshall S...
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The Mammoth Book of New Jules Verne Stories
Ashley Mike
- Constable and robinson digital
- 1 September 2011
- 9781780333588
A hundred years after the death of Jules Verne, the founding father of science fiction, The Mammoth Book of New Jules Verne Adventures celebrates his amazing vision. A host of top science fiction authors pay homage to Verne's genius with a series of breathtaking stories using as a springboard his ic...
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The Secrets of Freemasonry
Lomas Robert
- Constable and robinson digital
- 1 September 2011
- 9781780333687
Many people are curious about the existence of secret societies which claim to hold arcane religious or esoteric knowledge and pass it down through the generations via selected adepts. Classic Masonic writers including William Preston, Robert Gould, JSM Ward, AE Waite and WL Wilmshurst have written ...
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Reveals how slavery was first developed in the ancient world, and explores contemporary crimes of trafficking and bonded labour. This title shows how slavery has taken many forms in history and across the world - from the uprising of Spartacus, the plantations of the Indies, and the murderous forced...
