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THE BLOOD TREE
Independent Edinburgh: a tourist's paradise, a citizen's paradox. It's 2026. The birth-rate is down in the Council's "perfect city" and gangs of disaffected kids roam the streets. A break-in at the former Scottish Parliament archive is rapidly followed by two gruesome murders. Renegade investigator Quintilian Dalrymple is called in to establish a pattern and to stop the roots of violence spreading. But Quint's investigation is driven in a different direction when Edinburgh's brightest teenagers are abducted to the much-feared democratic city-state of Glasgow. What Quint finds there will change his life forever..
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Hearts In Atlantis
Stephen King, whose first novel, Carrie, was published in 1974, the year before the last U.S. troops withdrew from Vietnam, is the first hugely popular writer of the TV generation. Images from that war -- and the protests against it -- had flooded America's living rooms for a decade. Hearts in Atlantis, King's newest fiction, is composed of five interconnected, sequential narratives, set in the years from 1960 to 1999. Each story is deeply rooted in the sixties, and each is haunted by the Vietnam War.In Part One, "Low Men in Yellow Coats," eleven-year-old Bobby Garfield discovers a world of predatory malice in his own neighborhood. He also discovers that adults are sometimes not rescuers but at the heart of the terror.In the title story, a bunch of college kids get hooked on a card game, discover the possibility of protest...and confront their own collective heart of darkness, where laughter may be no more than the thinly disguised cry of the beast.In "Blind Willie" and "Why We're in Vietnam," two men who grew up with Bobby in suburban Connecticut try to fill the emptiness of the post-Vietnam era in an America which sometimes seems as hollow -- and as haunted -- as their own lives.And in "Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling," this remarkable book's denouement, Bobby returns to his hometown where one final secret, the hope of redemption, and his heart's desire may await him.Full of danger, full of suspense, most of all full of heart, Stephen King's new book will take some readers to a place they have never been...and others to a place they have never been able to completely leave.
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Everthing's Eventual
In this eerie, enchanting compilation, the author takes readers down a road less travelled (for good reason) in the blockbuster e-book 'Riding the Bullet'. Terror becomes deja vu all over again when you get 'That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French'. 'Lt's Theory of Pets' will make you stop and think before giving a dog to a loved one. And there are eleven more stories that will keep you awake until dawn. Nothing is quite as it seems. Expect the unexpected in Everything's Eventual, a veritable treasure trove of enthralling, witty, dark tales that could only come from the imagination of the greatest storyteller of our time.
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A Vote For Murder
It's a funny thing about holidays in the country, but after only a few days away you feel as if you've been out of circulation for a month
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Lawrence Sander's McNally's Chance
When Sabrina Wright, bestselling author of sumptuous tales of love lost and found, asks Archy McNally's help to find her missing husband, Archy quickly discovers it's not a simple domestic case. Sabrina's husband did not disappear: it was her daughter who ran off and Sabrina sent the girl's stepfather to find her. Both of them seem to have got lost...Gillian Wright fled to Palm Beach when she heard the true story of her birth: that Sabrina had the girl out of wedlock, put her up for adoption, then adopted her. But when local gossips get wind of the story, tongues wag and three different Palm Palm Beach names see the help of the posh resort's most discreet inquirer. When the gossip turns deadly, Archy must take a chance in order to unravel a thirty-year old mystery while walking a tightrope between client confidentiality and justice.