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June McClunaghan, a luckless waitress and ex-flight attendant, ends up in Seattle in the early 1990s after a life of post-Joycean, Cubs-style defeat, and learns to play bass guitar at the height of that good ol’ coffee-swilling “Grunge Mania.” She loves coffee, hates grunge, so she and her friend Dedra Fatiuchka try to start a trashy garage band instead.

Detective Matt Jackson has reached the end. His beloved wife, Polly, is the latest victim of 'NEON' - a serial killer who displays his victims in snaking neon lights - and he can't go on without her. Unable to take his life, Jackson hires a hitwoman to finish the job. But on the night of his own murder, he makes a breakthrough in the case, and at the last minute his hitwoman, Iris, is offered an irresistible alternative: help Jackson find and kill NEON in return for the detective's entire estate.

Roger Thompson could not swim so when the plane that he was on crashed in the sea he panicked. He managed to put on the life preserver but the sea was in the middle of the storm of all storms. A wooden crate appeared and all he had to was get over to it but the sea had other ideas. He had to struggle to get to it and when he did he had no plans to let it go again. The storm was still raging when the crate stopped moving and he hit his face on it. That was when he met Alice although she was unconscious and clinging to the coral reef and blocking his way on to the island. He fought to get ...

When Daniel Turner was made redundant, he took a job as a park ranger in Canada, leaving behind England and his wife. What he did not know, until he got out there, was that the park held many disturbing secrets. He discovered that his predecessor had been murdered, and that when the thaw arrived after the previous winter; several missing young girls had been found naked and frozen to death. When a similar cycle of events started again, shortly after his arrival, Danny decided it was time to track down the person who was responsible for these perverted crimes, but finds himself locked up in ...

We were introduced to Daniel Turner in book 1 of this series when he had left England to take a job as a park ranger in Canada. He became embroiled in the investigation of several young girls who went missing and were later found frozen to death. In book 2, Danny finds himself on the wrong end of a high-powered hunting rifle, investigates a murder/suicide case, and becomes involved with the search for a crashed plane and its 200 hundred passengers. However, in between these major events, there is plenty more going on in Ranger Daniel Turner's personal life, and the community around him.

We were introduced to Ranger Daniel Turner in book one of this series when he left England to become a park ranger in the wilds of Canada. After his investigations into a serial killers activities in book one, in book two he finds other things and falls in love, marrying a local woman with 3 children. Now after the honeymoon is over he decides to fight his fear of flying and learn to fly a helicopter. One of his new family falls ill and Danny needs to move Heaven and Earth to save the sick child. Klondike Bill take on an angry bear to save the boy he is looking after and Danny comes face to...

Robert Carnforth returned to take over from his womanizing father but had a lot of work ahead to drag the family name out of the mud. His father and grandfather saw to that. He appointed a poacher as gamekeeper and sacked the incumbent gamekeeper. That was the first change. When he knew that there was no school, he started one and found a teacher. The teacher an old friend from his school days was barred from teaching by the rich miller and that led to a dual. The miller thought he was better than Robert. He soon learnt that he had made a mistake when Robert shot him dead. Robert was ...

Life moved on for the team but they were being watched and stalked. Someone had plans for them and they were not nice plans. At first they did not know anything about it but they soon twigged. As soon as they started investigating, the man watching them ended up in the river. It was a dead end but they soon found out about it, the hard way.

When William Just tries to repair his plasma television, a funny thing happened. He could see a floor and a set of stairs but no matter how much he tried to change channels, that is all he saw. I annoyance he threw the remote at the screen. When the remote landed on the floor and slid over to the stairs, it got his attention in a big way. He finally plucked up the courage and climbed through the screen himself and found himself in the nineteenth century. He was not very rich and saw a chance of making money. He could sell Victorian items in the twenty first century and make a lot of money. ...

When a terrorist leader decided to commit global genocide by unleashing a killer virus. He found gullible supporters to travel to every corner of the world and make sure as many people there perished. They did not know that their serum was just a placebo, they were meant to die as well and only the leaders prodigy was going to inherit the Earth. His mistake was that one of his men survived through natural immunity and when the man returned the plague he carried killed his friends. When they found that the serum was just a placebo, the man had a new goal, to shake his leader's hand. In ...

ಶಕ್ತಿಧಾಮದ ಸತ್ಯಕಥೆಗಳು ಕೃತಿ ದೌರ್ಜನ್ಯಕ್ಕೊಳಗಾದ, ಅನಂತರ ಹೊಸ ಬದುಕಿನ ದಾರಿ ಕಂಡುಕೊಂಡ ಹಲವು ಮಹಿಳೆಯರ ಬದುಕಿನ ಸತ್ಯದರ್ಶನ ಮಾಡಿಸುತ್ತದೆ.

In der Stadt der Engel treibt etwas Teuflisches sein Unwesen ... und sein Blutdurst ist unstillbar ... Um die traumatischen Ereignisse in New York City zu verarbeiten, reist Penny Archer nach Los Angeles. Hier schlägt sich ihre Schwester Cassandra als Schauspielerin durch und steht nach einer jahrelangen Durststrecke endlich vor dem großen Durchbruch. Doch die Dreharbeiten zu Cassandras neustem Film werden kurz nach Pennys Ankunft von einigen grausamen Morden überschattet, die erschreckende Parallelen zu einer bis heute ungeklärten Mordserie aus den Achtzigerjahren aufweisen.

Inspector Clayton Moore investigates the case of the body of an old man who is dumped behind a block of flats. During this investigation he investigates other crimes and finds the culprit but the Leslie Felltham murder remains unsolved. With his wedding approaching the pressure to solve the crime mounts.

The fifth book in the Canadian Winters series. Follow Danny Turner's adventures in Canada and other countries.

When Hardy decided to cross the post apocalypse desert to keep away from the cannibals that now roamed his country, he took as much water as he could find. He had his meagre belongings on a sled with the water and walked out into the desert. He killed and ate anything that came within his reach as he travelled but water was always the problem. He found a crashed aeroplane and managed to distil water from the engine cooling system. He found other things there but to make his sled heavier was not worthwhile. When he walked on he travelled at night when it was cooler. As he walked he heard a ...

AT THE EDGE OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM, WE FOUND SOMETHING — AND IT TERRIFIED US. In a near-future New York City, humanity has united under a single purpose: to explore the stars. The Lens, a colossal telescope stationed at the edge of the solar system, receives its first message from the void — a revelation more unsettling than any alien life could be. In a desolate wasteland, a water miner dreams of victory in a brutal hauling competition, but when tragedy strikes, he faces an impossible choice between winning and preserving what little humanity he has left. A nine-year-old boy bears the ...

When the Minton Cruisers under 12 football team reached the safety of the hotel in Columbia, they thought their troubles were over but far from it, the captain's brother took over when he was taken to hospital and he did not believe a word they said. He thought that his brother had saved them and was injured doing it. In the end, Stuart, the spokesman for the group offered to go out in a helicopter to show them everything they told them was true. Some boys had no intentions of going back near the jungle and refused. Instead four went, including Stuart. To make things worse the helicopter ...

When the Minton Cruisers under 12 football team were offered the chance of a Football holiday in Florida, they all jumped at the chance but when the plane was hijacked and they found themselves stranded deep in the Colombian jungle, the mood changed.Their manager survived the crash as they did but as they were searching for survivors he was bitten by a snake. One of the boys were bitten at the same time.To get out of the jungle they would need to work as a team but up until now that had not really happened. Over night the manger died and the boy look very ill. They split into two factions, ...

The team decide to go on holiday and choose the place in the usual way. The dart lands on the map and it is an island but things are never that easy. Stevey buys a boat to take everyone out there but soon after they disembark to go to the island the boat is taken by pirates. The team find that they have to rescue their fathers so that they can then rescue their mothers. Meanwhile José Colebora has escaped from prison in Colombia and he wants revenge!

The book is set in prohibition era Chicago. Cally is the daughter of the local mob's bookkeeper. He milks money from the mob slowly over some time to be able to move away with his daughter. He wants his estranged wife to go with them but he doubts that that will happen. The day he chooses to leave another bookkeeper arrives to go over the mob books. He finds the thefts and they chase Dermot the bookkeeper to ask him about it. He is hit by a bus and ends up in hospital. Meanwhile Cally is asleep in bed at home blissfully unaware of any of it. Her father has given her a key to look after and ...