Andy Cooper, a veteran detective on the St. Louis County Police Department faces his most challenging cases as his son, Michael begins his senior year in high school. A professor is discovered atop the atrium at the University of Missouri and Andy meets his new partner, Jason Trimble, a rookie, at the site of her murder.As autumn turns into a brutal winter, dismembered and frozen bodies are discarded along the interstate. The case is stalled until Andy gets his first solid lead fro...

New and experimental ways to capture landscape in acrylics.Landscape artist Paul Bailey's fascination with the natural world is sensationally conveyed in his colourful and semi-abstract paintings. In Experimental Nature in Acrylics, he reveals his techniques for the first time – making it simple for readers to produce their own work that is abstract, evocative and full of vivid colour.Through easy-to-follow explanations and step-by-step demonstrations, Paul...

The haunting novel from Paul Bailey, whose work has been short-listed twice for the Booker Prize.At the age of seventy, Andrew Peters looks back across the years to remember life with his doting Uncle Rudolf, who rescued him from fascist Romania as a child. Vivid, often hilarious, stories of Rudolf’s brilliant but blighted singing career are intertwined with the slow unfolding of secrets that have shadowed Andrew’s otherwise happy life. Told in matchless prose, this deeply moving n...

'A very funny book, but never jeering, full of pity, but unsentimentally harsh with the tragedy of old age which institutional kindness cannot cushion' Financial Times.Following the death from leukaemia of her daughter, Celia, Mrs Gadny goes to live with her sullen stepson Henry. But she finds little affection or contentment either with him, or with his selfish wife Thelma, or with their ungrateful children. She is sent to an old people's home, 'The Jerusa...

Sam Bartell returns in a new mystery for fans of Consenting BehaviorEvery small town has its secrets and Dalton is no different...except these secrets are proving deadly. Chicago private investigator Sam Bartell finds himself caught up in his most baffling mystery to date as a visit to his comatose father leads to the discovery that a serial killer is loose in his hometown.As Sam works to uncover the killer's identity, the body count continues to rise. Will Sam solve the my...

Paige Decker has a fantastic career unraveling the mysteries of her patients' DNA-until a man named Carl Parker, who claims he has been falsely convicted of murder, asks her coworker Leo Cunningham to help investigate. Delving into the savage killings and burials of three women in a nearby state park, Leo requests new DNA analysis. When the results come back, they reveal startling discoveries that ultimately lead to his murder. Against the advice of her new boss, Paige teams up with Leo's ...

A rising star on the Chicago Police Force and living with the love of his life, Maddy Richards, Sam Bartel thought he had it all. Then both his career and his relationship end, leaving Sam to start all over again. Sam opens a private investigation agency only to have Maddy step back into his life, begging him to solve her brother's murder. As Sam struggles with the feelings he still has for Maddy, the clues lead him straight to the sexual addiction clinic her new husband owns. As the myste...

A "luminous" story of love and sorrow spanning from London to Romania, from a prize-winning novelist ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).Kitty Crozier first laid eyes on Virgil Florescu, a dissident poet who swam across the Danube to escape Ceausescu's Romania, in the hospital. She woke up after surgery to find a stranger sitting beside her bed gazing at her. He just smiled, then stood and left the room.She next sees him in London's Green Park pic...

Ma Jianzhong was a close adviser to the powerful Qing government official, Li Hong-zhang, and wrote several essays between 1878 and 1890 outlining his plans for economic and administrative reform. He was the first Chinese to advocate the creation of a specialized and professional diplomatic corps. His contribution to the late nineteenth-century Chinese discourse on the state and the economy has hitherto been neglected. Paul Bailey's translation of his essays will contribute to a wider unde...

In May 1927, nineteen-year-old Dinu Grigorescu, a skinny boy with literary ambitions, is newly arrived in Paris. He has been sent from Bucharest, the city of his childhood, by his wealthy father to embark upon a bohemian adventure and relish the unique pleasures of Parisian life.An innocent in a new city, still grieving the sudden loss of his beloved mother Elena seven years earlier, Dinu is encouraged to enjoy la vie de Bohème by his distant cousin, Eduard. But tentativel...

'Superhero Syndrome' is a heroic romantic horror that is centered in Freeport, New York. A village on the south shore of Long Island. Robert Smith, a 27 year old man who works behind the customer service counter of a local grocery store 'Cheep prices' is immensely depressed of his life. Although he passionately hates his job, after 8 years he still could not find the motivation to get up, search for better opportunity, and leave. He was trapped, and he knew that he only had himself to blam...

This is Vinson Chard's second book recounting stories about his time working as a Chemical Engineer. He 'spills the beans' on all the shenanigans perpetrated in the world of hazardous waste. The stories are of his hazardous and light-hearted misadventures while on these excursions and the colourful characters he meets along with way, with curious incidents like being shown some of the seedier areas of a Yorkshire city.There are stories of political intrigue at boardroom level, with...