As volunteers clean up after a huge outdoor rock concert in Yorkshire in 1969, they discover the body of a young woman wrapped in a sleeping bag. She has been brutally murdered. The detective assigned to the case, Stanley Chadwick, is a hard-headed, strait-laced veteran of the Second World War. He could not have less in common with – or less regard for – young, disrespectful, long-haired hippies, smoking marijuana and listening to the pulsing sounds of rock and roll. But he has a murder to solve, and it looks as if the victim was somehow associated with the up-and-coming psychedelic pastoral band the Mad Hatters. In the present, Inspector Alan Banks is investigating the murder of a freelance music journalist, who was working on a feature about the Mad Hatters for “MOJO” magazine. This is not the first time that the Mad Hatters, now aging rock superstars, have been brushed by tragedy. Banks finds he has to delve into the past to find out exactly what hornet’s nest the journalist inadvertently stirred up. Views: 46
A fully updated edition of Luca Caioli's popular biography of possibly the best footballer ever. Still only 24, Lionel Messi is on course to become the greatest footballer of all time. The 2009 and 2010 FIFA Player of the Year, he is fast, elusive, and mesmerising.Luca Caioli draws on numerous exclusive testimonies to tell Messi's story including his parents and extended family, his coaches, and people who have played alongside him. In the final chapter Messi himself sizes up his life so far.Messi is a revealing portrait of soccer's most exciting player, updated to include the 2011 Champions League Final, when everyone, including the opposition, applauded Messi and his team. Views: 46
Based in the UK, Letters Around Midnight is a blog relating sexual experiences from a woman's perspective - but equally open to be read by men. Whether it is an intimate encounter at work, rest or play the tales are guaranteed to set your pulse racing. In this first volume of collected encounters we meet: Chrissy, a librarian whose love of books overflows into the reading room; Aleisha, a florist who blossoms in her back room with her Italian lover as he practices his linguistic skills; Jean, a teacher whose parent-teacher evening turns out to be just that; Alexa, a power-dressing lawyer with everything but the law in mind; Amanda, a boss who falls for her secretary; Anya, a barista who takes her cyclist lover for a spin; Cass, a die-hard biker chick with her eye and hand on the throttle; Karen, whose boyfriend prefers porn until she shows him what she can really do; Paula, a lover of jazz who gets more than she bargained for at a jazz session; Susie, a passionate lingerista... Views: 46
In 1990, in Quito, Ecuador, drug-virgin Ryan Jacobs is a young Cambridge chemist who ditches his future banking career so he can manufacture synthetic cocaine in Colombia instead of simply exporting the real stuff like everyone else. Flash forward to 2007 and Cannes in the South of France, where George Milton is holed-up in a faceless apartment waiting for a man called Carlos to come and kill him. His principal diversions are torturing neighbours and planning the purchase of a disused perfume factory. Ryan is George and George is Ryan. Separated by seventeen years, this is a story of how some people never learn from their mistakes. Jack Hillgate writes screenplays and novels: his first novel, 'The Jew with the Iron Cross', is an Amazon Bestseller spanning pre-war London, Nazi Germany and post-war Hollywood. His second, 'The Criminal Lawyer', is a romp through corruption and avarice in the world's legal and financial markets. 'Cocaine' is Hillgate's third novel, in two volumes, of which this is the first. Parts of it are based on personal experience. Views: 46
The New York Times bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series continues, with a novel that celebrates one of America's most romantic and enduring traditions.Sarah McClure arrived at Elm Creek Manor as a newlywed, never suspecting that her quilting lessons with master quilter Sylvia Bergstrom Compson would inspire the successful and enduring business Elm Creek Quilts, whose members have nurtured a circle of friendship spanning generations.The Wedding Quilt opens as the wedding day of Sarah's daughter Caroline approaches. As Sarah has learned, a union celebrates not only the betrothed couple's passage into wedlock, but also the contributions of those who have made the bride and groom the unique people they are. Thus Sarah's thoughts are filled with brides of Elm Creek Manor past and present-the traditions they honored, the legacies they bequeathed, and the wedding quilts that contain their stories in every stitch.A wedding quilt is a powerful metaphor: of... Views: 46
At the height of its power in World War Two, the Imperial Japanese war machine controlled much of the Far East. Their early, almost un-checked conquests allowed them to loot vast unrecorded hoards of treasure and huge amounts of gold bullion from the banks. Consequently tons of gold and silver were buried, in one hundred and seventy five separate sites, including many of the deep caves, which litter the Philippines. The victorious American army eventually captured General Yamashita and seeking revenge for their defeat earlier in the war, the Americans put the General on trial for war crimes. Unsurprisingly, with some thirty five thousand Philippine civilians massacred, in the latter stages of the Japanese occupation, he was found guilty. Unfortunately he was rather too hastily executed, and so the exact coordinates of the gold caches went to the grave with him. Tantalizingly some has since been recovered, but the location of the great majority remains a mystery to this day... Views: 46
A singularly effervescent novel pivoting around the disappearance of an American businessman in the Philippines and the long-suffering son, jilted lover, slick police commissioner, misguided villain, and supernatural saviors who all want a piece of him. Mourning the recent loss of his mother, twentysomething Benicio--aka Benny--travels to Manila to reconnect with his estranged father, Howard. But when he arrives his father is nowhere to be found--leaving an irritated son to conclude that Howard has let him down for the umpteenth time. However, his father has actually been kidnapped by a meth-addled cabdriver, with grand plans to sell him to local terrorists as bait in the country's never-ending power struggle between insurgents, separatists, and "democratic" muscle. Benicio's search for Howard reveals more about his father's womanizing ways and suspicious business deals, reopening the old hurts that he'd hoped to mend. Interspersed... Views: 46
POLITICAL PRISONER He awoke in a tiny lightless cell, groping for memory...memory that had been erased. Hope Hubris, Jupiter governor, progressive populist, warrior hero, and presidential candidate...a “mem-washed” tool of the enemy. And if his captors’ plan worked, Hope would destroy his own political career, leaving the fate of his planet in the hands of its corrupt presidential incumbent—Tocsin. But Hope Hubris had a destiny to fulfill. He had the cunning to discover code words that could reactivate his mind...the strength to resist addiction to their drugs...the power to win the support of his countrymen, and finally the courage to make an agonizing sacrifice that would ensure his planet’s future and his own destiny. Views: 46
Tales of the Golden Judge: 3-Book Bundle (Books 1-3) : A Paranormal Shifter Romance In Darker Shadows- Book 1 A Place in the Dark - Book 2 To See the Dawn - Book 3 Views: 46
