A comedy thriller featuring British detective, Inspector Robert Peel of the Quaystone Cops and Sarah Wilde, a glamorous lawyer from London.Peel must protect a politician in danger from the triple threats of assassination by the KGB, a group of anarchists and his wife.Sarah is now helping MI5 in their search for Soviet spies one of which is the lawyer she works for.Peel and Sarah join forces and travel to Amsterdam to enquire into the death of a Mafia hitman known as...

He hates his job.But murder forces him to be a detective.He has numerous girlfriends. But nobody to love.Until, that is, he meets Sarah Wilde.A comedy thriller featuring British detective, Inspector Robert Peel of the Quaystone Cops and Sarah Wilde, a glamorous lawyer from London,hunting a serial killer in an English coastal town.A special forces unit, led by the dashing Captain Sutherland, helps in the hunt because MI5 believe the killer is ...

Now in its eight edition, The New Politics of the Old South is the best and most comprehensive analysis and history of political behavior and shifting demographics in America's southern states. Edited by leading scholars Charles S. Bullock III and Mark J. Rozell, this book has been updated through the 2024 elections to provide the most accurate and useful snapshot of the state of southern politics, and the ways in which they have developed over time. The southern electorate is a f...

Now in its seventh edition, The New Politics of the Old South is the best and most comprehensive analysis and history of political behaviors and shifting demographics in America’s southern states. Edited by leading scholars Charles S. Bullock III and Mark J. Rozell, this book has been updated through the 2020 elections to provide the most accurate and useful snapshot of the state of southern politics, and the ways in which they have developed over time. The southern electorate is ...

From bestselling author Peter Robinson comes this atmospheric, suspenseful, and thrilling standalone novel.Through the years of success in Hollywood composing film scores, Chris always promised his wife they'd return to the Yorkshire Dales one day. Now a widower, Chris feels he must not forget his promise. Back in the Dales, he rents an isolated house that will allow him the space to grieve and the peace to compose his piano sonata. But when he finds that the house...

As our country's politicians engage in bitter partisan battles, focused on protecting their own jobs but not on doing the nation's business, and political pundits shout louder and shriller to improve their ratings, it's no wonder that Americans have little faith in their government. But is America as divided as the politicians and talking heads would have us believe? Do half of Americans stand on the right and the other half on the left with a no-man's-land between them?Hardly. Fort...

Nominated for a 2023 Lefty AwardAn April 2022 Loan Stars Top 10A shallow grave, a missing person, and near-fatal arson keep Lane, Darling, and the Nelson police on high alert in the latest mystery in this Globe and Mail bestselling series.It’s early spring 1948 and Lane arrives in New Denver to find that her friend, Peter Barisoff, is not at home. Instead, in a nearby meadow, she encounters Tom, an Indigenous man in...

With a new epilogue on filibuster battles under the Biden administrationTHE CASE FOR ENDING THE FILIBUSTER"A truly excellent book… blistering and persuasive.” —Ezra Klein, New York TimesAn insider’s account of how politicians representing a radical white minority of Americans have used “the world’s greatest deliberative body” to hijack our democracy.Our democracy is under assault from homegrown autho...

**'What a fool I've been not to have read Peter James until The Hawk Is Dead! A great story' – JAMES PATTERSON'A majestic treat!' – THE TIMESRoy Grace never dreamed a murder investigation would take him deep into Buckingham Palace . . .**Her Majesty, Queen Camilla, is aboard the Royal Train heading to a charity event in Sussex when disaster strikes – the train is derailed.A tragic accident or a planned attack?When, minutes later, a ...

“Voting rights journalist Ari Berman has been detailing threats to our democracy for years, and his new book Minority Rule is a timely and essential read. He expertly shows how Republicans are trying to rig our political system—and shares how we can fight back.” —Hillary Clinton on XA riveting account of the decades-long effort by reactionary white conservatives to undermine democracy and entrench their power—and the movement to st...

A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist shows how conservatives have pushed for a revolution in public education—one that threatens the existence of the traditional public schoolAmerica has relied on public schools for 150 years, but the system is increasingly under attack. With declining enrollment and diminished trust in public education, policies that steer tax dollars into private schools have grown rapidly. To understand how we got here, The Death of Public Sc...

The political autobiography of the insurgent presidential candidateBernie Sanders’s campaign for the presidency of the United States has galvanized people all over the country, putting economic, racial, and social justice into the spotlight, and raising hopes that Americans can take their country back from the billionaires and change the course of history.In this book, Sanders tells the story of a passionate and principled political life. He describes how, ...