Ten Little Thrills explores the thriller genre with ten diverse stories from the pen of Mackenzie Brown.Fans of Brown's noir influenced Prince of the City series will be pleased to find Vic Prince solving one of his earliest cases and from Brown's third novel Lost Boys, the brilliant Delbert Walsh attempts to catch a cold blooded killer on the fog soaked streets of 1950s London.Eight further stories will either set your pulse racing, or bring you out in a cold sweat, but for ...

On the day eleven-year-old Imelda Stone discovers the reason she has always felt different from other children, her beloved father storms out of their home in the middle of the night. Days pass and when the police are called, a body is not located, nevertheless Edward Stone is presumed dead. But Imelda knows he is very much alive. One night, she hears a voice calling to her from the old, dry well at the bottom of the garden and all of her hopes and fears are realised at once.An enem...

a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb; } tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; } tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5; }Liverpool, 1973. The city is a tinderbox of strikes, poverty, and political unrest. On a crumbling housing estate where shadows linger longer than daylight, boys have been vanishing for decades—swallowed whole by the streets, leaving behind nothing but whispers.Renowned criminologist Delbert Walsh has spent five agonizing years search...

Vic is encouraged to work other cases as the search continues for the collar of a missing Persian Blue cat, while he also tries to understand why dead men keep turning up in the Mersey. He at first must negotiate his best friend Percy's release from the Russians, who want to recover a cache of guns they believe he is holding. He is engaged by the wife of a wealthy business man, Cyril Longthorne; who believes her husband is being held against his will by a group stealing his money. Vic is f...

Providing new insights into the contemporary creationist-evolution debates, this book looks at the Hindu cultural-religious traditions of India, the Hindu Dharma traditions. By focusing on the interaction of religion and science in a Hindu context, it offers a global context for understanding contemporary creationist-evolution conflicts and tensions utilizing a critical analysis of Hindu perspectives on these issues. The cultural and political as well as theological nature of these conflic...

This volume brings together diverse Asian religious perspectives to address critical issues in the encounter between tradition and modern western evolutionary thought. Such thought encompasses the biological theories of Charles Darwin, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Earnest Haeckel, Thomas Huxley, and later “neo-Darwinians,” as well as the more sociological evolutionary theories of thinkers such as Herbert Spencer, Pyotr Kropotkin, and Henri Bergson. The essays in this volume cover responses from ...

I'm a father first, football player second, and everything else third.I've worked hard the last three years to create a life of routine and structure for my daughter. I don't trust easily and I've never liked the idea of hiring a stranger to care for Cece when I'm away for practice and games. But when I find myself out of options. An unexpected offer comes to the table.I've known Summer Kincaid since we were kids. For the last twenty years, she's been best ...

This bundle contains Pure Romance in Harlequin comics: "To Marry a Stranger", "Powerful Persuasion", and "The Marine & the Princess".

This volume offers an alternative vision for education and has been written for those who are passionate about teaching and learning, in schools, universities and in the community, and providing people with the values, knowledge and skills needed to face complex social and environmental challenges. Working across boundaries the socio-ecological educator is a visionary who strives to build community connections and strengthen relationships with the natural world. The ideas and real-world ca...

Paul O'Grady is one of Britain's very best loved entertainers. He is known and adored by millions, whether as the creator of the acid-tongued Blonde Bombsite, Lily Savage, or the presenter of the fantastically successful, award-winning Paul O'Grady Show on Channel 4.Now, in his own unique voice, Paul O'Grady tells story of his early life in Irish Catholic Birkenhead that started him on the long and winding road from mischievous altar boy to national treasure. It is a brill...

A collection of gripping short stories in the Cliff Hardy series from highly successful Australian crime fiction writer, Peter Corris.'The godfather of Australian crime fiction.'Cliff Hardy is in action again: trying to keep one step ahead of his client's troubles - and his own.He goes from sleazy backstreets to boardrooms in skyscrapers - dealing with everyone from fashion models and teenage junkies to urban developers and crooked funeral ...

Maxim Jakubowski has once again compiled a blockbuster collection of the year's most outstanding short crime fiction published in the UK. His aim is always to present the whole breadth of crime, mystery and thriller writing, from gentle stories of detection to puzzling historical labyrinths full of devious characters and sharp social comment about our imperfect society in some savage, and often scary stories.Last year saw a fifth Crime Writers Association Short Story Dagger award f...