Twisted - Jeffery Deaver
R60,00
This collection includes sixteen stories, including one Lincoln Rhyme Christmastime story. The titles of the stories are:Without Jonathan; The Weekender; For Services Rendered; Beautiful; The Fall Guy; Eye To Eye;
Triangle; All The World’s A Stage; Gone Fishing; Nocturne; Lesser-Included Offense; The Blank Card;
Together; The Widow of Pine Creek; The Kneeling Soldier; The Christmas Present
Product code: 9780340833889
McNally's Trial - Lawrence Sanders
R50,00
When the body-count soars at the Whitcomb Funeral Homes, the treasurer suspects foul play and consults detective Archy McNally. He soon learns far more than he wants to about the death-styles of Florida's rich and famous.
Product code: 9780340639559
The Dogs in the Streets - Murray Davies
R60,00
The story revolves around an explosive narrative of personal justice and revenge. When a devastating terrorist bomb kills a loved one, the official police investigation stalls and political promises fall short, forcing the protagonist to take matters into their own hands.
Product code: 9781405051682
Have Mercy on Us All - Fred Vargas
R65,00
Joss le Guern, one-time sea captain and now town crier in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, announces the items of news that are left (with a fee) for him to "cry" three times a day. A number of enigmatic and disturbing messages are being slipped into his box, and he is becoming alarmed. Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg is visited by an extremely troubled woman. She keeps finding reversed 4s in black paint on the doors of her building. Between these strange marks and the town crier's frightening bulletins, Adamsberg begins to sense a connection, even a grotesque menace. Then charred and flea-bitten corpses are found. The press seizes on their plague-like symptoms, and the panic sets in. Adamsberg, a detective of formidable intelligence and intuition but with a fragile memory, enlists a mediaeval scholar to help him unravel the messages delivered to the town crier and relayed to the neighbourhood
Product code: 9781843431091
Cooking for Mr Right - Susan Volland
R45,00
Seattle chef Kate Linden feels life's opportunities are slipping away at the ripe old age of twenty-six, after she is suddenly fired from the city's hottest restaurant and her ex-boyfriend, Gaston, announces his forthcoming wedding to a woman he just met, and comes up with a grand--if misguided--scheme to transform her life.
Product code: 9780451215246
Living with an Alien - Pam Whyte
R65,00
1001 answers to 1001 questions asked by millions of people on dog behaviour
Product code: 9781874848851
The Never-ending days of being dead - Marcus Chown
R50,00
Learn how the big bang may have been spawned by a collision between 'island universes'; how a single remarkable number contains the answer to every question we could ever ask; how the most widely accepted theory of the universe's origin suggests that Elvis never died; and how a computer program a mere four lines long could be generating the stars, the galaxies and the tip of your nose. Chown fearlessly addresses the big questions on the nature of the universe, the nature of reality, and the place of life in the universe. Ultimately, he says, science is about the down-to-earth things that matter to all of us. Where did the universe come from? Where did we come from? What the hell are we doing here?
Product code: 9780571220557
Hollywood Moon - Joseph Wambaugh
R100,00
The story follows LAPD officers Dana Vaughn, Nate Weiss, and the eccentric duo nicknamed Flotsam and Jetsam as they navigate the chaotic streets of Hollywood to investigate a series of bizarre attacks and complex local crimes.
Product code: 9781847248862
The Nest - Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
R85,00
The story revolves around the Plumb family, four middle-aged siblings—Leo, Beatrice, Jack, and Melody—who share a joint trust fund they have affectionately called "The Nest". They have all spent years prematurely counting on this inheritance to bail them out of various self-inflicted financial crises. However, the family dynamic fractures when the oldest brother, Leo, gets into a catastrophic, drug-fueled car accident. To pay for his rehab and cover up the scandal, their mother drains the trust fund, forcing the dysfunctional siblings to confront their choices, relationships, and financial dependencies.
Product code: 9780062414212
Angel Rock - Darren Williams
R65,00
Set in a hardscrabble, back country town in 1969, this begins with two half-brothers who get lost in the wild wooded countryside around the small town of Angel Rock. Only the eldest, 13-year-old Tom, finds his way home. A story of psychological suspense. Notable for its description of the Australian countryside in all its harshness and beauty.
Product code: 9780007137152
The Blood Doctor - Barbara Vine
R65,00
The First Lord Nanther clearly hoped to be the subject of an admiring posthumous biography. Having built a name for himself as Queen Victoria's favored physician expert on blood diseases and particularly the royal disease of hemophilia he fastidiously set about recording the details of his eminent life, carefully cataloguing every significant letter, diary and medical essay that he'd written. But when the present Lord Nanther begins to research the life of his great-grandfather, he soon realizes there is little of interest in his ancestor's dry-as-dust account. Indeed, he begins to suspect that these old records conceal more than they reveal....
No Night is too long - Barbara Vine
R65,00
Set in Alaska and Suffolk, this story involves a brother (Ivo) and sister (Isabel), each of whom has a sexual relationship with Tim. When Ivo is left for dead on a remote arctic island, the way seems clear for Tim and Isabel. But nothing quite plays itself out in the way one might expect.
Product code: 9780670855605
The Brimstone Wedding - Barbara Vine
R75,00
Stella is a secretive, elegant, elderly lady dying of cancer. Only Jenny, her young care assistant, seems aware of Stella's mysterious past. Allowed to use Stella's house for meetings with her lover, Jenny discovers clues to Stella's past, and a dark, shocking secret is finally revealed.
Product code: 9780670866106
Audition - Barbara Walters
R95,00
Barbara Walters’s perception of the world was formed at a very early age. Her father, Lou Walters, was the owner and creative mind behind the legendary Latin Quarter nightclub, and it was his risk-taking lifestyle that gave Barbara her first taste of glamour. It also made her aware of the ups and downs, the insecurities, and even the tragedies that can occur when someone is willing to take great risks, for Lou Walters didn’t just make several fortunes—he also lost them. Barbara learned early about the damage that such an existence can do to relationships—between husband and wife as well as between parent and child. Through her roller-coaster ride of a childhood, Barbara had a close companion, her mentally challenged sister, Jackie. True, Jackie taught her younger sister much about patience and compassion, but Barbara also writes honestly about the resentment she often felt having a sister who was so “different” and the guilt that still haunts her.
All of this—the financial responsibility for her family, the fear, the love—played a large part in the choices she made as she grew up: the friendships she developed, the relationships she had, the marriages she tried to make work. Ultimately, thanks to her drive, combined with a decent amount of luck, she began a career in television. And what a career it has been! Against great odds, Barbara has made it to the top of a male-dominated industry. She was the first woman cohost of the Today show, the first female network news co-anchor, the host and producer of countless top-rated Specials, the star of 20/20, and the creator and cohost of The View. She has not just interviewed the world’s most fascinating figures, she has become a part of their world.
Product code: 9780307266460
The Word - Irving Wallace
R60,00
The Word is a fast-paced theological thriller centered around the discovery of a lost gospel—the "Gospel According to James," the younger brother of Jesus. The ancient document dramatically reshapes mankind's understanding of the New Testament, but it quickly sparks a web of international conspiracies, deep-state political maneuvering, and existential questions about faith, authenticity, and forgery.
Product code: 0304938556
A Curable Romantic - Joseph Skibell
R150,00
I fell in love with Emma Eckstein the moment I saw her from the fourth gallery of the Carl Theater, and this was also the night I met Sigmund Freud.” So goes the life, times, and loves of Dr. Jakob Sammelsohn, a fairly incurable romantic venturing optimistically through modern history.
Product code: 9781565129290
The Corsican Woman - Madge Swindells
R50,00
In 1970, Sybilia, a young woman living on Corsica at the end of World War II, who had fallen in love with an American soldier, discovers a terrible secret about the death of her lover, a discovery that sets the stage for conflict and tragedy.
Product code: CN8178
Beneath a Scarlet Sky - Mark Sullivan
R65,00
Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He’s a normal Italian teenager―obsessed with music, food, and girls―but his days of innocence are numbered. When his family home in Milan is destroyed by Allied bombs, Pino joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps, and falls for Anna, a beautiful widow six years his senior.In an attempt to protect him, Pino’s parents force him to enlist as a German soldier―a move they think will keep him out of combat. But after Pino is injured, he is recruited at the tender age of eighteen to become the personal driver for Adolf Hitler’s left hand in Italy, General Hans Leyers, one of the Third Reich’s most mysterious and powerful commanders.Now, with the opportunity to spy for the Allies inside the German High Command, Pino endures the horrors of the war and the Nazi occupation by fighting in secret, his courage bolstered by his love for Anna and for the life he dreams they will one day share.
Product code: 9781503943377
Testament - Kim Sherwood
R150,00
The story follows Eva, who is deeply impacted by the death of her grandfather, a charismatic painter and Holocaust survivor who kept many secrets about his past. When his identity papers are released alongside an archive of Nazi-looted art, Eva is forced to uncover the painful history of her family's survival, grief, and long-buried identities.
Product code: 9781786488664
The Law of Second Chances - James Sheehan
R90,00
Benny Avrile, an impoverished hood in New York City, is about to hit the big-time. His mark is a retired oil man who is visiting his mistress with $10,000 in his pocket. Benny is told that if he carries out the robbery he'll get a share of the profits - an offer that is far too good to refuse. But as he walks up to the oilman's car, gun in hand, a shot rings out, and the oilman falls dead. Benny is arrested and sentenced to death. Representing people on death row is what trial lawyer Jack Tobin does best. Based in Florida, he is meeting with Henry Wilson, a drug-user, career criminal, and one of the biggest men Jack has ever met. Henry has been on death row for seventeen years now and his execution by lethal injection is just six weeks away. Jack is convinced that Henry is innocent, but whether he can find a legal basis to delay execution and get Henry a new trial remains the question that may save Henry's life. The clock is ticking, two innocent men are facing the death penalty, yet the one person who Jack most wants to save - his beloved wife, Pat - has the least time of all ...
Product code: 9780593057216
Havana Bay - Martin Cruz Smith
R95,00
The body, at least what was left of it, was drifting in Havana Bay the morning Arkady arrived from Moscow. Only the day before, he had received an urgent message from the Russian embassy in Havana that his friend Pribluda was missing and asking that he come. The Cubans insisted that this corpse floating in an inner tube was Pribluda, but Arkady wasn't so sure. "You don't investigate assault, you don't investigate murder. Just what do you investigate?" Arkady asks Ofelia Osorio, a detective in the Policia Nacional de la Revolucion. "Or is it simply open season on Russians in Havana?" The comrades of the Cold War have parted bitterly, and the Russians who used to swarm through Havana's streets are now as rare as they are despised, much more so than Americans. Havana is overrun with color, music, and suspicion. The Revolution's heroes have outlived idealism. The Com-munist world has shrunk to Cuba. Paradise has become a stop on sex tours. It is a city of empty stores and talking drums, Karl Marx and sharp machetes, where an American radical rides around in Hemingway's car to tout island investments and a Wall Street developer on the run from the FBI flies a pirate flag.
Product code: 9780333766293
Puppy Love - Frauke Scheunemann
R60,00
The story is narrated by Hercules, a rescue dachshund puppy with exceptionally high standards. When his beloved owner, Caroline, is poorly treated by her dog-hating boyfriend, Hercules takes it upon himself to intervene. He goes on a humorous, determined quest to find his human companion the absolute perfect partner.
Product code: 9780857893147
Devil's Juggler - Murray Smith
R85,00
While a tough New York cop investigates a young woman's drug overdose, an Irish judge is blackmailed into helping the IRA, and the British Secret Intelligence Service attempts to plant an informer inside Colombia's most ruthless drug cartel.
Product code: 0671784641
Starboard - Nicola Skinner
R95,00
This is the story of Kirsten, an apparently happy and successful 11-year-old YouTube star who meets a ship that comes alive”¦ and is claimed by it as its new captain as it breaks free from its dry dock.Inspired by the true history of the SS Great Britain, Starboard is about the friendship, heroism and bravery that you can find in others, whether they’re made of flesh or iron. It’s about taking control of your own life and going on epic adventures. But most of all, it’s about finding out who you really dare to be, when you’re completely out of your depth”.
Product code: 9780008422417
Roseanna - Sjöwall & Wahlöö (A Martin Beck Novel)
R50,00
The first book in the classic Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s -- the novels that shaped the future of Scandinavian crime writing. Hugely acclaimed, the Martin Beck series were the original Scandinavian crime novels and have inspired the writings of Stieg Larsson, Henning Mankell and Jo Nesbo. Written in the 1960s, 10 books completed in 10 years, they are the work of Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo -- a husband and wife team from Sweden. They follow the fortunes of the detective Martin Beck, whose enigmatic, taciturn character has inspired countless other policemen in crime fiction; without his creation Ian Rankin's John Rebus or Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander may never have been conceived. The novels can be read separately, but are best read in chronological order, so the reader can follow the characters' development and get drawn into the series as a whole. 'Roseanna' begins on a July afternoon, the body of a young woman is dredged from Sweden's beautiful Lake Vattern. Three months later, all that Police Inspector Martin Beck knows is that her name is Roseanna, that she came from Lincoln, Nebraska, and that she could have been strangled by any one of eighty-five people.
Product code: 9780007439119
Martin Sloane - Michael Redhill
R75,00
The story spans two decades and follows a woman named Jolene Iolas. When her partner, an enigmatic artist named Martin Sloane, vanishes from their home without warning, Jolene is left consumed by grief. A decade later, a clue surfaces in Dublin, prompting her to travel there to uncover the truth behind his disappearance and explore the complex boundaries of love, memory, and art.
Product code: 9780434010257
Black Dog Summer - Miranda Sherry
R65,00
SOMETHING HAS GONE WRONG WITH MY DYING. Until the day of the attack, Sally and her teenage daughter Gigi lived a charmed bohemian life in the African bush. Now Sally is dead and Gigi has been sent to live with her aunt and uncle in the suburbs. But Gigi's arrival stirs up secrets that were buried long ago. And Sally, lingering in the shadows, is powerless to stop them...
Product code: 9781781859582
Big Fat Love - Peter Sheridan
R45,00
When Philo knocks on the door of the Good Shephard convent seeking sanctuary from her husband Tommo, it's not just her own life she's about to overhaul. Swearing and smoking like a trooper, she sticks out like a sore thumb amidst all that convent holiness, but to both the nuns and the OAPs at the day-care centre, whose bitternesses and loves have been simmering away for years, Philo's earthiness and honesty bring just the kind of lifeforce they've been missing. While fighting a battle with her weight and a war with social services, who've temporarily placed her children in a local orphange, Philo artlessly manages to heal social rifts that have split the community and her family for years. Sheridan's charming debut novel is beautifully characterised and alive with the sights and sounds of Dublin's North Wall. In turns moving, hilarious, raw and heart-warming, this gem of a story is hard to resist.
Product code: 9780330413374
Stalin's Ghost - Martin Cruz Smith
Moscow lies deep under snow, and Arkady Renko is on the trail of a suspect police officer, a former Black Beret who served with glory against the insurgency in Chechnya. But proof of the man's corruption is proving more elusive to gather. Then Renko's unpopular boss calls him in to handle a delicate matter: passengers riding the last metro of the night have reported seeing the ghost of Stalin waving to them from the platform edge. Every night at the same time, regular as clockwork. Meanwhile, his adopted son, Zhenya has disappeared, and his girlfriend, Eva, has reignited an affair with the very officer Arkady is investigating. Renko is assigned the help of an expert Stalinist, a decorated war hero and chess grandmaster. Not everyone, it seems, likes the fact that Stalin is dead..
Product code: 9780230013940
Stalin's Daughter - Rosemary Sullivan
R100,00
Born in the early years of the Soviet Union, Svetlana Stalin spent her youth inside the walls of the Kremlin. Communist Party privilege protected her from the mass starvation and purges that haunted Russia, but she did not escape tragedy—the loss of everyone she loved, including her mother, two brothers, aunts and uncles, and a lover twice her age, deliberately exiled to Siberia by her father. As she gradually learned about the extent of her father’s brutality after his death, Svetlana could no longer keep quiet and in 1967 shocked the world by defecting to the United States—leaving her two children behind. But although she was never a part of her father’s regime, she could not escape his legacy. Her life in America was fractured; she moved frequently, married disastrously, shunned other Russian exiles, and ultimately died in poverty in Wisconsin. With access to KGB, CIA, and Soviet government archives, as well as the close cooperation of Svetlana’s daughter, Rosemary Sullivan pieces together Svetlana’s incredible life in a masterful account of unprecedented intimacy. Epic in scope, it’s a revolutionary biography of a woman doomed to be a political prisoner of her father’s name. Sullivan explores a complicated character in her broader context without ever losing sight of her powerfully human story, in the process opening a closed, brutal world that continues to fascinate us. Illustrated with photographs.
Product code: 9780007491131