When Jack Taylor blew town at the end of The Guards his alcoholism was a distant memory & sober dreams of a new life in London were shining in his eyes. In the opening pages of The Killing of the Tinkers Jack's back in Galway a year later with a new leather jacket on his back a pack of smokes in his pocket a few grams of coke in his waistband & a pint of Guinness on his mind. So much for new beginnings. Before long he's sunk into his old patterns lifting his head from the bar only every few days appraising his surroundings for mere minutes & then descending deep into the alcoholic drug-induced fugue he prefers to the real world. But a big gypsy walks into the bar one day during a moment of Jack's clarity & changes all that with a simple request. Jack knows the look in this man's eyes a look of hopelessness mixed with resolve topped off with a quietly simmering rage; he's seen it in the mirror. Recognizing a kindred soul Jack agrees to help him knowing but not admitting that getting involved is going to lead to more bad than good. But in Jack Taylor's world bad & good are part & parcel of the same lost cause & besides no one ever accused Jack of having good sense. Ken Bruen wowed critics & readers alike when he introduced Jack Taylor in The Guards; he'll blow them away with The Killing of the Tinkers a novel of gritty brilliance that cements Bruen's place among the greats of modern crime fiction. ...

Years ago V.I. Warshawskis Aunt Rosa treated the detectives beloved mother in an unforgiveable way. Now after shes accused of stealing $3 million from the Dominican priory where she works Rosa calls upon the ties of blood to clear her name. V.I. is not prepared to forgive so easily. Until suddenly no one else
- the FBI a threatening phone caller & even Aunt Rosa herself
- appears to want her on the case either. V.I. turns to an old friend for help. But the stakes are higher than she could have realised.. .

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Killing Pablo charts the rise & spectacular fall of the Columbian drug lord Pablo Escobar the richest & most powerful criminal in history. The book exposes the massive illegal operation by covert US Special Forces & intelligence services to hunt down & assassinate Escobar. Killing Pablo combines the heart-stopping energy of a Tom Clancy techno-thriller & the stunning detail of award-winning investigative journalism. It is the most dramatic & detailed & account ever published of America's dirtiest clandestine war. ...

He watches. Something terrible has happened in the snowbound village of Kingdom Come Wyoming. Twelve eerily identical houses stand dark & abandoned. The people who lived in them appear to have vanished seemingly into thin air. He waits. Maura Isles is driving through the area with a group of friends when they find themselves trapped in a snowstorm. They stumble into the abandoned village to take shelter. But their nightmare has only just begun. They Disappear. Days later Jane Rizzoli flies to Wyoming to search for her missing friend. A crashed vehicle has been found with four badly burned bodies still inside. Can one of the corpses be Maura's? Jane's hunt for the truth leads her to Kingdom Come. Where the person who was watching Maura now lies waiting for her.. . ...

Detective Chief Inspector Billy Mc Cartney discovers a headless corpse in the scrubland close to Liverpool docks. The slaying carries all the hallmarks of a gangland hit
- a message from the underworld to snitches cops & rival gangs. One mile away a girl staggers into a run-down bar dazed & confused. The bars owner a career criminal called Shakespeare cannot get a word out of her. DCI Mc Cartney is all too well aware that the clock is ticking. The body was one Kalan Rozaki youngest brother of a notorious crime family
- except Kalan is no criminal. For almost a year his brothers have been under full-time Drug Squad surveillance as Mc Cartney slowly closed the net on their heroin trafficking. Mc Cartneys chief informant on the case is someone with insider knowledge of the Rozaki clans operation.. .their newly deceased baby brother Kalan. Mc Cartneys investigation into Kalans murder peels back layer after layer of a decades-long dynasty of drug smuggling. Each revelation plunges Mc Cartney back into the dark heart of an unsolved drug crime that weighs heavy on his soul. He wants to catch the Rozakis
- badly
- but he wants the shadowy men behind their drug empire even more. The closer Mc Cartney gets to Kalans killer the closer he comes to facing down a lifetimes torment.



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Nothing will ever be the same again... In the heart of Philadelphias badlands Homicide Detectives Byrne & Balzano are called out to a particularly chilling crime scene. Once the pillar of the neighbourhood an abandoned church has become a killing room. At first it looks like a random act of violence. But then a second body is found & a third. Each crime scene more disturbing than the last each murder more brutal. & it soon becomes horrifyingly clear that a cold calculating & terrifyingly precise mind is at work. With very few leads & a mastermind who always seems to be one step ahead Byrne & Balzano are faced with challenges they could never have imagined as they race against time to hunt down their killer before its too late... ...

' The thing is Detective... If you believe in God you've got to believe in the Devil.' Deepest winter. Darkest Philadelphia. A murder shocks the frozen city
- the most spectacular homicide in its 300-year-old history: an ex-cop has been lured to the basement of an abandoned chapel wrapped in barbed wire
- & kept alive for ten days. Twenty-four hours after the discovery Detectives Kevin Byrne & Jessica Balzano find another victim in another church encased in a pristine block of ice. Someone is transforming the city's cathederals into killing rooms someone who is determined to raise hell on earth. Packed with ingenious twists & relentless excitement The Killing Room is a novel of blistering thrills & heart-stopping suspense.

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This title is shortlisted for The CWA Gold Dagger for Non Fiction. David Dow is a leading death row attorney in Texas where 99 per cent of appeals are rejected. He knows his clients are guilty but he defends them because he believes murder is wrong. Henry Quaker is a quiet man charged with murdering his childhood sweetheart & their two children. All the evidence is against him: hes mentally unstable his gun is missing his sons blood was found in his car & hed taken out life insurance on his family immediately before their murder. But as Dow painstakingly pieces the case together he gradually becomes convinced that Quaker
- whose execution is just weeks away
- is actually innocent. This is the real story of Death Row; of corrupt lawyers judges who are hostile to the very idea of justice & executioners who rely on inmates for moral support. Killing Time" is a modern classic; both a searing & haunting memoir & a story that will have you holding your breath until the last page."

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More people than ever are using alternative medicine. But as expert Dr Paul Offit explains these untested therapies are ineffective expensive & even deadly. Now that homeopathic remedies are offered on the NHS it's clear that various therapies once considered alternative or complementary have become mainstream
- prescribed to burn fat shrink prostates alleviate colds reduce stress eliminate pain & prevent cancer. At the same time uptake of effective vaccines such as MMR has fallen
- a disturbing trend which in the case of the MMR has lead to a sharp rise in the number of measles cases. In ' Killing Us Softly' Paul Offit reveals alternative medicine
- an unregulated industry under no obligation to prove its claims or admit its risks
- can actually be very harmful. In ' Killing Us Softly' he exposes how: * Homeopathic asthma preparations & bogus cancer cures have replaced life-saving medicines. * Acupuncture needles have pierced hearts lungs & livers & transmitted viruses including hepatitis B hepatitis C & HIV. * Chiropractic manipulations have torn arteries. * Megavitamins increase the risk of cancer & heart disease-a fact well known to scientists but virtually unknown to the public. Using real-life case histories to back his argument Dr Offit shows us why any medical treatment
- alternative or conventional
- must be properly evaluated. ' There's no such thing as alternative medicine. There's only medicine that works & medicine that doesn't.'





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On a tour of duty in the Helmand River Valley the Grenadier Guards faced the toughest challenge of their lives... Carrying out patrols in the most fiercely contested land in Afghanistan the Guards were under fire almost constantly. The summer of 2007 saw some of the most frequent & intense combat yet beyond what anyone could have predicted. Based in isolated forward operating bases their nearest reinforcements were often miles away down a track strewn with deadly roadside bombs. The Killing Zone" is an action-packed & authentic insight into the real Afghanistan. This is what its like to deliberately draw fire on your own position so that your mates can escape an ambush to experience the adrenaline rush of being the first in to clear a Taliban compound & to rely on skill loyalty & quick-thinking to survive in one of the most dangerous places on earth." ...