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In 2012, Mike and Christine Hawker disappeared. Vanished without a trace. Christine while making breakfast for the children, Mike, less than two hours later. They were never seen again. Described by all who knew them as the perfect family, the Hawkers were devoted to each other and had no known personal or financial issues. So why disappear? Mike Hawker’s body is discovered twelve years later, and DCI Meredith’s cold case review team take on the case.

Almost a decade after finding himself working for a shadowy government department, ex-Detective John Gallagher is sent on a task that will become his most testing yet. Armed only with a two inch revolver, 12 bullets, some cryptic clues, and a sense of humour, his mission is to assist a high ranking East German foreign intelligence operative to defect to the West.

Andy Field brings together history, science, psychology, queer theory, and pop culture with his love of urban life and his own experiences—both as a city-dweller and as a performance artist—to forge creative connections: walking hand-in-hand with strangers, knocking on doors, staging encounters in parked cars. In considering twelve different kinds of encounters, from car rides to video calls to dog-walker chats in the park, Field argues "that in the spontaneity and joy of our meetings with each other, we might find the faint outline of a better future."

Special Branch Detective Constable John Gallagher is seconded to a British Home Office Statistical Unit for what he considers a minor violation of trust. He's not well pleased; he knows nothing of statistics and had been hoping for a much less boring end to his year. To this very day, the summer of 1966 is revered by all of England as the year the Jules Rimet World Cup trophy came back to the home of football but behind all the excitement another, deadlier, game was being played, one with much more serious consequences.

Maggie Carter has had enough. Enough of working with politicians, enough of her husband, and enough of keeping secrets. The trouble is if she tells her secrets, dangerous people will be angry, and the one person she loves might end up hating her even more. A risk worth taking? Maggie lets her conscience guide her and Meredith and Hodge find themselves on the hunt of a serial killer.

TWO’S COMPANY is an action-packed crime thriller that will appeal to fans of Lee Child, Vince Flynn and Mark Dawson. Trent Rivera’s free-spirited lifestyle is a reaction to years in uniform. His only constants: a campervan; a cat, and the desire to atone for past sins. When he secures work in the small village of Castlethwaite, the ex-soldier believes he’s found the perfect place to wait out the winter and disappear from the world. But Trent Rivera doesn’t go looking for trouble. It finds him… Behind its respectable façade, his new place of employment is not what it seems.

Respected and successful barrister Bernadette Wiseman is dead, hanged in the hall of her home. With no sign of foul play and no note, the question raised is why? The police believe it was suicide, but Bernie’s partner, Annie, won’t accept that and instructs JJ Jenson to investigate. As JJ and his sidekick, Davie, dig around in Bernie’s apparently perfect life, they discover professional jealousies, sinister threats and dangerous enemies, but can they establish what actually happened? And more importantly, to honour Bernie’s own dedication to justice, can they prove it?

A charismatic Cuban, Alberto Mistro, offers five middle-aged couples an all-expenses paid holiday. Too good to be true? Of course! The Mistro family has a secret past, and the holiday makers find themselves in a race against time. They are required to solve a 600-year-old puzzle. If they succeed, they get to go home. If they fail...well, let’s just say, failure isn’t an option.

When you've grown up in a world of danger and adventure, and a daily game of survival with a giant white tiger as your best friend, getting used to the "rules" in this world can be very tricky! Now Sarah the Adventurer faces a new threat from an old enemy. The powerful witch "The Esmeralda" wants the bag that Sarah carries and its contents, and she will stop at nothing to get it. If everyone in this world has to suffer then so much the better; the witch will feed upon their pain and gain followers as she goes.

When reclusive writer Jock falls for vivacious tea shop owner, Sapphire, he is amazed that she seems to feel the same way about him. He watches with pride as Sapphire is crowned May Queen at the town's May Day celebrations, but his joy turns to heartbreak when she runs off into the crowd, never to return.

Charlie Birch is dead. A knife, thrust into his chest, has effortlessly sliced through his right ventricle, quite literally breaking his heart, which given his past behaviour, was perhaps a fitting end. An unexpected chain of events had placed a desperate Charlie and many of the Middle Mound villagers in the White Hart pub that morning. Then Charlie decided to hold them all hostage. That was his last mistake.

Nine gruesomely funny rhyming tales for gruesome boys. Hello my friend now are you ready, to hear the tale of Earwax Eddie? And Gemph Boy, what a smelly lad, who learned that farting’s not so bad! There’s Harry Slater, meek and mild, but underneath a willful child. Oh hold your nose, it’s Foot Cheese Fred! Don’t get too close - you’ll end up dead! Watch out - a new kid in the class, Big Bully Burt is bold as brass! Behold the splendid Pizza Pete - there’s not one topping he won’t eat (or is there?).

Ex-police officer, JJ Jenson, is a good man who has led a colourful but turbulent life. He’s seen death and destruction in its many forms. When personal tragedy strikes, JJ turns his back on his former life, and returns to his childhood home in search of peace, preferring to view life through the lens of his camera. But when his camera captures the death of local woman Amber Wilton, the world of murder and deceit drags JJ back into its fold. Working with an old adversary, JJ is determined to prove Amber was murdered and to catch her killer.

When DI JJ Jenson took on the case of the abduction of Daniel Boyd, he knew it would be tough, but little did he know everything would go wrong, and Daniel's murderer, Bryn Jenkins, would walk out of court a free man. A devastated JJ knew nothing would ever be the same again. Over ten years later, JJ receives some interesting photographs from an anonymous correspondent. Could they hold the clue to putting Jenkins behind bars where he belongs?

The story is about an orphaned fox called Charlie after his parents are killed he is all alone and meets new friends in the forest. He then get captured by the farmer and his friends mount a rescue to get him back and the adventure begins.

When Ben and Deborah leave the city to start a new life in the beautiful countryside, they can almost taste their perfect future—growing their own food, the kids running free, peace and silence. But as soon as they arrive in their new home, bad things start to happen. And it becomes clear that somebody out there wants them gone. But ex-crime reporter Deborah doesn't scare easily. This is the life she's dreamed of for her family, and she's not giving up on it without a fight. Deborah is determined to unmask whoever is trying to hurt them and starts to dig for the truth.

Cragfeld was a remote island in a magical world, once a happy place until its Kingdom was overpowered by a cruel Ice Queen who would do anything for the throne. Having imprisoned her own sister, the rightful Queen, in a tomb of ice, there was little hope for the people of Cragfeld who were under a dark curse.

Harry Heron: Into the Unknown continues the exciting story begun in Harry Heron: Midshipman's Journey, the flagship book in the series. A freak accident on board the HMS Spartan during a sea battle with the French navy in 1804 catapults Midshipman Harry Heron and his shipmates Ferghal O’Connor and Danny Gunn 400 years into the future, landing them on the NECS Vanguard, flagship of the World Treaty Organisation Fleet. Harry and his friends are faced with the challenge of learning new roles aboard a spaceship.