Growing up to become a member of the IRA after his father is killed by British soldiers, Billy Quinn becomes an unsuspecting pawn in a terrorist plot that targets an innocent girl and her doting grandfather. 25,000 first printing.
It is the summer of 1997, and Karen is a strait-laced, straight-A university student. When she meets the glamorous Biba, An orphanwho lives in a crumbling old mansion in Highgate with her brother, she is soon drawn into their world.
"Secrets that were never to be revealed"--Cover.
The rich stew of the author's creations—SingleEarth, vampires, shapeshifters, Tristes, the Bruja Guilds—are at full boil here in the story of two 20-ish young women trying to out run their very different pasts, and figure out where they ...
Janet Booth was watching television in her basement with a friend when a news flash came on. A man had been shot at his home in north Cheyenne, the announcer said. Details at ten. Booth and her friend looked at each other. A shooting!
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I wish I had written it."--Stephen King With its hip London backdrop and expert pacing, Erin Kelly's masterful debut, The Poison Tree, delivers all the way through to its shocker of an ending. London, 1997.
Moving to Oxford to take up her doctorate in the wake of her failed marriage, Terry Williams discovers that her new home had been the scene of a rape and murder that continues to affect the seemingly everyday people around her.
In her compelling debut, Erin Kelly evokes the brooding atmosphere of "Rebecca" in a contemporary and completely convincing novel of tangled family desires.--"New York Times"-bestselling author Sara Paretsky.
'Bravo, sir!'someone said ina strange, hollow voice.'Well said, Your Majesty!' The King looked around, his eyes bulging. 'Was that you, Theakston? Good God, what's amisswith your voice, man?' LordTheakston kept hiscountenance and ...
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