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Perfect People is a compelling and thought-provoking thriller from bestselling Peter James. John and Naomi are grieving the death of their four-year-old son from a rare genetic disorder. They desperately want another child, but they realize the odds of their next child contracting the same...

The last time the dream came, Sam was seven years old, and that was the night her parents were to die. Twenty-five years later, Sam's nightmares are starting to come true once more. Now a successful TV commercials producer, juggling her roles of career woman, wife and mother, she attempts to shut them out.

This is a true story. For twenty years in the heart of Kansas, a serial rapist has been preying on female students at two large universities—Kansas State and the University of Kansas. He has stalked them to their off-campus apartments and in the middle of the night appeared in their bedrooms. The “Kansas College Rapist” has committed at least 15 attacks, but after years of investigations and over a thousand leads he is still at large. Now and for the first time, survivors of his attacks are stepping forward to tell their stories and publicly expose details about his crimes. Together, with the local police in Kansas and the U.S. Marshals, the series Midwest Monster is working to help to identify and capture the Kansas College Rapist.

Le temps est à la fois un allié et un ennemi redoutable : il y a des blessures qu'il efface, et des rancunes qu'il avive... jusqu'au jour où l'on est enfin libre de les assouvir. Brooklyn, 1922. En pleine nuit, un petit garçon se terre au fond de son lit : quatre hommes viennent de tuer sa mère et d'enlever son père, le n°2 du gang des White Hands. Désormais orphelin, il embarque pour l'Irlande avec sa sœur et sa tante. Sur le bateau, l'enfant jure de revenir chercher son père. Brighton, quatre-vingt-dix ans plus tard.

The Perfect Murder is a suspenseful and gripping novella from Peter James, the bestselling author of the phenomenally successful Roy Grace series. How do you commit the perfect murder? Victor Smiley and his wife Joan have been married for nearly twenty years. Victor secretly loathes Joan more...

In this remarkable collection, ten premier scholars of nineteenth-century America address the epochal impact of the Civil War by examining the conflict in terms of three Americas - antebellum, wartime, and postbellum nations. Moreover, they recognize the critical role in this transformative era of three groups of Americans - white northerners, white southerners, and African Americans in the North and South.

Da han skal giftes, øjner vennerne muligheden for omsider at gøre gengæld og arrangerer et temmelig morbidt indslag til hans polterabend. Men intet går som planlagt. Polterabenden slutter brat, da vennerne kører galt. De tre er dræbt på stedet, den sidste ligger i koma på hospitalet. Den vordende brudgom er der intet spor af, og ingen aner, hvor han er. Kriminalinspektør Roy Grace, der selv er plaget af sin kones mystiske forsvinden otte år tidligere, sættes på sagen.

It's a race against time as Detective Superintendent Roy Grace tries to stop a grieving mother from taking the law into her own hands in Dead Man's Grip, by award winning crime writer Peter James. A university student is killed in a tragic traffic accident while riding their bicycle. When two of...

The discovery of a woman's body and a link to the events of 9/11 takes Detective Superintendent Roy Grace around the world in Dead Man's Footsteps, by award winning crime author Peter James, read by actor Neil Perason. Amid the tragic mayhem of the morning of 9/11, failed Brighton businessman...

Detective Superintendent Roy Grace thinks he's found a serial killer, but not everything is as it seems in Not Dead Enough, by award winning crime author Peter James, read by actor Neil Pearson. A beautiful socialite is dead. Roy Grace’s leading suspect, her husband, was sixty miles away when...

Raka Varoule survived the events of Black Swan Planet and returns to Earth, but things have changed. What has happened to the people he knew and cared for, and is Marco still wearing assless chaps? Find out in Black Swan Antithesis.

Raka Varoule is a second-rate investigative reporter, traveling between the 27 worlds of the Galactic Empire exposing minor scandals. His big break comes when he weasels his way onto the emperor’s personal star-cruiser to report live, across the galaxy, how the emperor is celebrating his birthday. When he exposes the biggest scandal in galactic history, he narrowly escapes with the help of a drug runner, a dominatrix, and a monkey wearing assless chaps. Together, they search for an escape from the empire, a barbarian world outside Imperial control. Then things get weird.

Best-selling writer Orson Scott Card founded the online magazine Intergalactic Medicine Show in 2006. It has been a big success, drawing submissions from well-known science fiction and fantasy writers, as well as fostering some amazing new talents. This collection contains some of the best of those stories.

Il suo nome è Sandy. Forse la conoscete come l'amorevole moglie del detective sovrintendente Roy Grace. Ma in lei c'è molto di più di quanto sembri: una donna con un passato oscuro, un presente complicato e un futuro incerto. Fino al giorno della sua scomparsa. La sua sparizione ha messo in moto una ricerca a livello nazionale ma senza alcun risultato, così tutti si sono convinti che sia morta. Dove è finita Sandy? E perché è scappata? Cosa può spingere una donna a lasciarsi ogni cosa alle spalle e svanire nel nulla?

Un acosador obsesionado por Gaia anda suelto, incluso parece que ha viajado desde California a Brighton y ahí está, esperando, vigilando, acechando… Para el detective Roy Grace todo esto es una pesadilla hecha realidad.

Carly Chase está todavía traumatizada por el accidente de tráfico que tuvo hace unos diez días y en el que resultó muerto un estudiante de la universidad de Brighton. Roy Grace de la policía de Sussex advierte a Carly de la seriedad del peligro en el que se encuentra, porque ella podría ser la siguiente. Lo que desconoce, es que el asesino se ha anticipado y la observa, espera y se prepara.

No one gets inside the head of the murderer—or makes it a more thrilling read—than the late, great P. D. James. Fast on the heels of her latest best seller: a new, fiendishly entertaining gathering of previously uncollected stories, from the author of Death Comes to Pemberley and The Private...

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What does the Bible have to say about the many challenges we face in today’s world, both as individuals and as a community? The SPSJ Podcast seeks to encourage us to start thinking and talking about these things. It encourages us to engage with our faith, engage with the Bible. To not be afraid of bringing God into these issues by thinking theologically about them, knowing that God cares deeply about us and our world.

Linus Bailey's tenth birthday, if measured on some kind of "So how did it go then?" scale, would score a one. Maybe a bit less. It started well, but then things went very badly indeed. Linus' problem is that he makes things up. His mother, for instance, was found living as a head hunter in the Jungles of Borneo. His dad, a man called Nigel who Linus hasn't seen since he was two, is a Ninja Warrior currently living in Japan. His dad fights crime and saves people. Linus' Headmaster is evil and his jumper was knitted by slaves. Linus Bailey's childhood is my childhood—a childhood where, during ...