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From the New York Times bestselling author Mercedes Lackey, fan favourite Vanyel returns as the protagonist to a Valdemar novel for the first time in over 30 years in a magical adventure of friendship and intrigue.Herald-Mage Vanyel has been good friends with the acerbic, take-no-prisoners Healer Vixen for quite some time, since they shared a circuit on the Pelagirs Border. He tempers her somewhat prickly demeanor; she has no patience with his Byronic Brooding. Theyve often run into each other out in the borderlands where he is most needed, and in a crisis, they work together like the proverbial well-oiled machine.And a crisis is what seems to be occurring, this time in the south, in the unclaimed lands between Valdemar and with Rethwellan. Someone, or several someones, its not clear yet, is possibly coordinating attacks both physical and magical across the border, but the attacks are seemingly at random, and without rhyme or reason.Discovering what is truly going on will take as much spycraft as magic, and will need someone who will be welcome without question outside of Valdemar. That is where Vixen comes in: even prickly-tempered Healers are welcome everywhere. This will be the first time they have been paired up for what looks to be a long mission. Can their friendship handle that much close contact? Will they uncover what is really going on in the south?And what if this is all a trap, designed specifically to trap Vanyel, the most powerful Herald-Mage Valdemar has to protect the Crown?

An unoccupied flat. A freshly dressed bed. The body of a young woman laid out neatly on the duvet. The dead girl looks familiar troublingly familiar but Detective Inspector Cassie May cant place her. And to compound her troubles, Cassie has just started dating the flats owner, James Flynn.When her boyfriend is accused of murder, an ambitious young DI risks her career and her life by defying her bosses, the security services, and a crime syndicate, to prove the innocence of a man who seems more worried about the long-buried secrets she might unearth than the murder charge hanging over him.Set across the leafiest of Sheffield suburbs, the sink estates of South Manchester, and the bleak and snowy Pennine moors that separate them, The Wythenshawe Dandy presents a discomforting picture of a world where privilege and wretchedness coexist.

What links a prostitute, a Flemish painter and a tower watchman? All three claim to have seen a ghost on the same street in fifteenth-century Tallinn. And all of them have been found dead soon after.Melchior Wakenstede, apothecary, is charged with unearthing the truth behind these seemingly-supernatural murders. But when a pious and powerful merchant dies, along with a castrated and disfigured tramp, Melchior perceives a more medical connection between the deaths.Melchior must rise above the competing interests of merchant guilds, religious orders and Teutonic knights, to get to the bottom of the mystery.

Former spy Felicity Jardine is caught up in the long tentacles of an operation at the Greek Embassy in the 1980s, in this gripping new spy thriller by the author of A Sting in her Tale.After a month of various people clearing up various messes, Felicity Jardine is finally cleared to go back to her little village cottage. But when a celebratory cream tea with her new and well-connected friend Percy is interrupted by a snipers bullet, shes off again, to a safe house in Notting Hill. There her only contact is her former colleague Matthew, still with MI6, who offers her a bit of investigation she can do online to pass the time. But Felicity is not one to work from home when she can be out and getting stuck in, especially when someone on the inside seems to be betraying her...

A humorous, tender novel about found families and the people who shape our livesYuko has had four different surnames and been brought up in several families, and by various step-parents. Despite not being related by blood, they have all always cared deeply for her. Through it all, pragmatic and resilient, Yuko has navigated lifes changes and its occasional conflicts without bitterness, always managing to find a kind of equilibrium. As an adult, Yuko falls in love with Hayase, a talented pianist shes known since her school years. Now a married woman, she embarks on a journey to reconnect with the various parental figures from her past to seek their blessing for her marriage. Along the way, she revisits her former life and the people in it and gains a deeper understanding of what truly defines a family.

They gather at Saints Climb, the only house on an island off the Somerset coast. Seven men with nowhere else to be at Christmas. Father and son George and Xavier Starvely; James, a taciturn archaeologist uneasy with the living; Victor, a French widower; Rick, the groundskeeper; and Chris and Nathan, the two men who want to make a documentary about this place and its extraordinary collection of medieval art. And the housekeeper Marianne, who seems to find peace in serving. Erected around the stone labyrinth built into the floor by monks, Saints Climb is a house heavy with loneliness.Xavier Starvely is a successful academic with a real life elsewhere. Yet he is wracked with guilt over the fragmentary memories of a childhood tragedy, and when his guests arrive on the island for Christmas, the deaths begin afresh.A labyrinth is different from a maze. There are no false turns or dead ends: there is only one winding path, which, followed faithfully, will always lead to the centre. What will each find at the centre of the labyrinth? And can it save them?

Secret cults, forbidden knowledge, and cryptic prophecies await in this companion collection to Shadows Over Innsmouth, containing 12 more short stories inspired by the legendary horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.Featuring stories from some of the biggest names in horror fiction, including H. P. Lovecraft, Ramsey Campbell, Kim Newman, Caitlin R. Kiernan, and many more.This newly redesigned edition also includes a revised and updated Introduction and Contributor Notes, along with additional artwork exclusive to this printing.In this companion to the acclaimed anthology Shadows Over Innsmouth, World Fantasy Award-winning editor Stephen Jones assembles some of todays most talented horror authorsthe finest of the modern Lovecraftian acolytes.Return to Innsmouth with these 12 haunting horror stories and encounter a scientist who stumbles upon a secret cult, a thief whose heist goes horrifically awry, and a magician who usurps a prophecy only to bring about something much, much worseplus H. P. Lovecrafts previously discarded draft of The Shadow Over Innsmouth! This newly redesigned edition also includes a revised and updated Introduction and Contributor Notes, along with additional artwork exclusive to this printing.Featuring stories from: H. P. Lovecraft Ramsey Campbell Hugh B. Cave Basil Copper John Glasby Caitlin R. Kiernan Brian Lumley Richard A. Lupoff Paul McAuley Kim Newman Michael Marshall Smith Steve Rasnic Tem

In this thrilling sequel to The Gryphon King, old rivalries and new threats pull Bataar and Nohra into a swirling cauldron of gods, monsters and djinn.Sweeping Southwest Asian-inspired epic fantasy starring morally gray characters and lady knights, perfect for fans of Godkiller and Shannon Chakraborty. With Bataars campaign to conquer Dumakra victorious, he turns his eyes to Aglea in the north, where pagan berserkers rule over inhospitable marshes and ritualistically butcher unicorns. Prince Nassar and his entourage have also fled to Aglea to rally his supporterstaking the ghoulish variant of vermilrot they unearthed from the abandoned depths of Anhabar with them.Nohra and Bataar are soon to be married. Nohra has not forgiven the rhahs sins against Kalafar or her family, but her thirst for vengeance wars with her feelings for Qaira. Bataars supernatural gifts are increasingly powerful, and his hold on Dumakra more secure by the day. Serving him is now the only path Nohra can see that ends with her younger brother one day restored to Kalafars throne.The power struggle between Bataar and Nassar fast becomes a swirling conflict of religions and gods: the Agleans revere Darya for her demonic powers; Nohra and Qaira are heralded as the two manifestations of Dumakras Goddess; and Bataar is the walking embodiment of his peoples Preeminent spirit. In this febrile atmosphere, the ghoul sickness is spreading rapidly, and monsters continue to encroach on human towns, causing violence and dismay. The war, and the world, hang in the balance. Just one wrong move could tip everything into chaos.

When Nazi forces invade Oslo, quiet librarian Liv Dahl becomes an unlikely resistance leader, risking everything to safeguard secrets and lives. As danger tightens around her, Liv must outwit Gestapo agents, protect hidden allies, and navigate a forbidden romance with a mysterious spy. But when betrayal strikes and Liv is deported to Ravensbruck concentration camp, survival becomes her only mission. An unforgettable heart-wrenching story of a woman who dares to resist, and the quiet heroism that changes the course of lives including her own.

Its summer in London, and things are quiet. But while Holmes and Watson chafe at their inactivity, a train, carrying a vital encoded communication, is entering a tunnel in an obscure region of the Balkans - never to be seen again.The case of the disappearing train is only the beginning of the nations difficulties. The missing message must be found and decoded, and a diplomats wife must be rescued from the clutches of a pernicious blackmailer.The nation is in danger, and if a diplomatic scandal of disastrous proportions is to be avoided, Sherlock Holmes brilliance may not be enough.

A dark mystery for Sherlock Holmes. and of course Mrs Hudson!A man is accidentally knocked down outside 221B Baker Street by a carriage. His dying words are he has seen a man rise from the grave. At the same time a visitor arrives with a mystery of unparalleled international importance. The Viscount Wrexham is missing, presumed dead, in strange circumstances. In the North, rumours stir of a dead man haunting the moors. Broomheath Hall is, apparently, beset by ghostly lights and spectres. What does it all mean? Can arcane knowledge bring people back from the dead? And what is the connection with the Cumberland town of Alston? The redoubtable Mrs Hudson - Sherlock Holmes housekeeper and the Great Detectives best kept secret - and her assistant Flotsam are once again thrown into dark adventure full of gripping twists and murderous intrigue. Together with Holmes and Dr. Watson they must race against the forces of darkness to uncover the truth behind the mysterious document known as the Lazarus Testament. As mystery after mystery is slowly uncovered, everyones future hangs in the balance. The puzzle must be solved. But not before a slice of Dundee cake...

A pitch-black, Dexter-like thriller from the winner of the 2024 Crime Writers Associations Debut Dagger, in which a Tokyo paparazzo commits murders in order to generate the photos his magazines readership ghoulishly demands. A razor-sharp skewering of our darkest fantasies and obsession with true crime for fans of Bella Mackies How to Kill Your Family and Oyinkan Braithwaites My Sister, The Serial Killer.A pitch-black, Dexter-like thriller from the winner of the 2024 Crime Writers Associations Debut Dagger, in which a Tokyo paparazzo commits murders in order to generate the photos his magazines readership ghoulishly demands. A razor-sharp skewering of our darkest fantasies and obsession with true crime for fans of Bella Mackies How to Kill Your Family and Oyinkan Braithwaites My Sister, The Serial Killer.Ken Kato is a half-British, half-Japanese photojournalist working for a low-brow weekly magazine in Tokyo. He achieved fame with a photograph of a boy who drowned in the tsunami that hit Japan in 2011, who he could have saved had he not been more concerned with finding the right light and composition for his shot.Four years later, he has failed to repeat that success and, facing irrelevancy (and, worse, redundancy), he decides to turn serial killer to generate his own attention-grabbing pictures for which hes inevitably always first on the scene. His magazine then publishes the pictures, causing a sensation in a society where murder is almost unheard of, and tripling its sales figures.Hoping to impress his colleague Hayashis estranged wife Makoto, who he is stalking after a short affair (though she clearly sees things differently), Kato murders only men and women with the same name as her. Inevitably the police are suspicious, but can find no evidence as he is meticulous in his planning and execution. Katos editor is also suspicious, but is willing to ignore the evidence in front of him as sales boom.A pitch-dark satire on where ambition will take us, as well as our ghoulish obsession with true crime and our fascination with morally repellent serial killers (especially if theyre good-looking and charismatic), The Makoto Murders asks plenty of uncomfortable questions of the reader while never forgetting its first and foremost a page-turning thriller.

"Compelling, riotous, and utterly fresh!" Sunyi Dean, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Book EatersMonster Hunter and Empire of the Vampire collide in the adventurous sequel to Seven Recipes for Revolution, guaranteed to make you crave delicious fantasy dishes.Three years after eating the rich, Paprick Bessa is an infamous warchef known as the Butcher. Numbed by grief and war with the ousted rulers, Paprick no longer enjoys cooking and cant create new recipes. So when Ranch finally reaches a tenuous ceasefire with the Rare, Paprick seizes the chance to reheat his passions, opening a restaurant with a menu all his own.But conspiracy interrupts the opening night, his own emphon destroy the restaurant, and all signs point to the neighbouring Empire of the Badgeboar. Whoever orchestrated this threatens to destroy everything Paprick and Ranchs common fought for, and the Butcher leaves no threat breathing. To find the attacker and stop another all-out war, Paprick, his partner Cori, and his kitchen brigade journey west to curry favour with the Empires questionable elite and investigate its mysterious religions.Treacherous forces and dire prophecies lie in wait for Papricks arrival, and all the while, the Rare re-arm in the east. Facing magics and flavours unlike any hes ever tasted, Paprick will have to choose what matters most: his people, his passions, or his partner. He cant save all three.

Winner of the Mishima Yukio Prize Winner of the Tsubota Joji Literature Prize Nominated for the Akutagawa PrizeTraveling Practice follows a novelist and his spirited niece as they embark on a walk across the Japanese countryside during the last days before the pandemic. Through their journey, the book masterfully explores themes of memory and the power of writing to capture fleeting moments and preserve them. Nominated for the prestigious Akutagawa Prize and winner of both the Mishima Yukio Prize and the Tsubota Joji Literature Prize, Traveling Practices quiet, reflective tone and focus on the characters inner lives elevate it beyond a simple travel story, establishing it as a significant work of literary fiction.

When a self-styled Angel of Death begins granting the dying a final act of mercy on the streets of Newcastle, DCI Jack Parker is forced to confront both a ruthless killer and his own advancing dementia. The gripping third instalment in Trevor Woods addictive, gritty DCI Jack Parker series.__________Killer or saint?Death is stalking the streets of Newcastle. An anonymous killer is offering the terminally ill a dignified escape. Mercy to some. Murder to others.DCI Jack Parker doesnt want the case. He has a secret of his own an early-onset dementia diagnosis hes desperate to conceal. But the signs are becoming impossible to ignore. As his mind begins to betray him, the city faces its own moral reckoning.While politicians debate a contentious new law and the self-styled Angel of Death selects another victim, Jacks world is shaken when the killings are traced to a carers support group one his wife, Helen, has been attending in secret.Yet his deepest fear is also his darkest temptation. Because when his disease becomes unbearable, Jack cant escape one haunting question: could the Angel of Death be the saviour hes been waiting for?_______________Praise for the DCI Jack Parker series:Weaves together an incredibly clever plot with a beautiful, soulful story. An absolutely magnificent bookVictoria DowdSuch a great story, so cleverly written. Taut, tender and full of very human twists. This is the start of something big William ShawOne of the best hooks for a novel Ive seen this year, and artfully executed by a writer at the top of his game. An absolute masterpiece of teasing tension thatll drag you by the scruff of the neck to the very last pageRobert RutherfordA juicy theme for a series of police procedurals . . . exquisiteThe TimesCrime fiction at its very best - the keep-you-guessing story is peopled with characters you cant help caring about. A superb start to this intriguing series Frances QuinnA super-smart and highly original police thriller, written with huge heart Doug JohnstoneTold with Woods signature directness, its serpentine twists keep the reader guessing. It heralds an exciting new series Daily MailWood crafts characters that drip with humour and heart and you will not want to stop reading when you startSun

During Cornwalls Dark Sky Festival, children begin to disappear, with mermaid charms left behind. Grieving DI Ben Kitto desperately races to stop a killer before his own young son is next. The bestselling, critically acclaimed Isle of Scilly series continuesA classy, edge-of-the-seat thriller which will keep you guessing throughout!B.A. PARISAn absolute master of pace, plotting and characterELLY GRIFFITHSRhodes does a superb job of balancing a portrayal of a tiny community oppressed by secretsSunday Express No one produces more elegantly written work than RhodesFinancial Times_______DI BEN KITTO RETURNSA COAST IN CELEBRATIONWhen DI Ben Kitto sees a baby thrown into Penzance harbour, he prays its a trick of the light. But the threat is real. The child survives barely and soon a chilling pattern emerges. As the Dark Sky Festival brings dancers, dreamers and stargazers to Cornwalls coast, children begin to vanish.A KILLER IN THE CROWDA small mermaid figurine is found beside each scene, echoing the legend of the Mermaid of Zennor, who lured a man to his death beneath the waves. Still reeling from a devastating bereavement and determined to protect his young son, Ben is pulled back into the field and into a deadly investigation. When the killers messages begin arriving at his home, the threat becomes terrifyingly personal.A FINAL RECKONINGSuspicions fall on familiar faces. When the summer solstice approaches, Ben must confront the boundaries of love, loss and obsession. In a final, desperate chase along the headland, only his bond with Noah and the loyalty of his dog, Shadow can prevent tragedy from repeating itself.Praise for Kate RhodesDark, intense, and expertly craftedRACHEL ABBOTTAn atmospheric and moving depiction of a tightly knit community in a rugged and often dangerous landscape tense and deftly plottedGuardian[A] superb seriesDaily MailA truly absorbing, chilling storyPeoples FriendKate Rhodes directs her cast of suspects with consummate skill, keeping us guessing right to the heartbreaking endLOUISE CANDLISHA vividly realised protagonist whose complex and harrowing history rivals the central crime storylineSOPHIE HANNAHExpertly weaves a sense of place and character into a tense and intriguing storyMETROThe whole book tingles with tension. I hope it does for the Scilly Isles what Ann Cleeves did for ShetlandMEL MCGRATHEvocative, immersive, twistySARAH VAUGHANGripping, clever and impossible to put downERIN KELLY

Lindisfarne in 1494 is a place of secrets.The scribe Linnet is running from her criminal past and seeking sanctuary in the island of her childhood. Shes friendless in the monastery, the monks resentful of a woman scribe, and her only company is Tom the fisherman and a child, Isabelle watchful, clever and unlikeable with her partly tamed raven Pol.The monastery bursar Oswyn threatens to expose Linnets past but she isnt the only one with secrets to hide. Intent upon uncovering the monks misdeeds is the fanatic inspector, sent by the new Bishop of Durham to write a report on the monastery. When Oswyn is found drowned, Linnet suspects the death is not accidental. After another death, Linnet realises theres a killer amongst the brethren, and her own precarious position makes her vulnerable unless she can first identify who it could be

A powerful, unsettling, universal novel about love and identity"For as long as I can remember, I was never taught how to love. I must say, things havent changed much": So begins the nameless protagonists journal. An anthropologist from Senegal, thirty-three years of age (half of which spent in France), he doesnt know how to love, or who to be. Various encounters draw him out of self-imposed isolation, but his emotional journey is chaotic and marked by an inability to open up to others. Questions of identity plague him, torn as he is between feeling French or Senegalese, and trapped in a paradoxical work routine that consists of researching an Africa whose codes he no longer understands. By turn cynical, melancholic, tender and euphoric, Black Male is a reflection on racism and de-colonisation, and a vibrant, incisive narrative that takes us right inside the life of an immigrant in search of simple happiness, love, and freedom.

From the drowned kingdoms of Ys and Lyonesse to the phantom islands of the Atlantic, this book journeys through the stories born where land meets sea. We meet the Kappa water spirits and Mayazakis inspirational Yakushima island, the Inuit of the Arctic islands and their tales of selkies and transformation, and trace Mami Wata the black mermaid said to have accompanied slave ships the Outer Banks. We encounter the taniwha sea monsters of Aotearoa and the fairy people of the dry islands of the Cajun swamps, discover flooded Valles in both Wales and the Seneca Nation, and hear whaling tales from New England.These stories highlight issues of rising sea levels, water pollution, displaced people, isolation, mismanaged fishing and the legal rights of water.

An archaeologist travels to a distant planet to spend time among a mysterious community: a people who live in temperature-controlled domes, worship a deity called Dog, and repeat an elliptical phrase from which they draw their name: mulai, the tree comes. The descendants of a long-forgotten space mission, the Mulai have abandoned the social norms that once bound them to Earth. Over centuries of isolation, their language has become more about change than stability, and the ways they eat, write, reproduce, bury their dead and understand gender have all transformed into something almost unrecognizable. As the archaeologist records his attempts to understand their world a strange negative of our own questions of translation, meaning-making and the ultimate precarity of civilization come to the fore. Drawing on Borges, Le Guin and Calvino, The Mulai is a mind-bending work of metafiction whose interlocking puzzles resound with Munir Hachemis singularly playful and eclectic style.