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Falco returns home to Rome for his eleventh appearance in this highly popular and successful series. As a reward for his Census work Falco has at last been made an equestrian. Yet imperial favour, coupled with his new duties as Procurator of the Sacred Poultry of the Senate and People of Rome, brings its own complications. Not only is he now ensconced in all the trappings of the Establishment and state religion but Falco also has a troublesome new partner, Aelianus, to deal with.
Private and public business merge as he is sent to investigate the disappearance of a young girl selected to be a Vestal Virgin. Closely watched by his ex-partner Petronius and the vigiles who are just waiting for him to slip up, Falco is sorely determined to solve this mystery. Meanwhile Aelianus is nagging him for advice about a corpse he stumbled over in the Sacred Grove of the Arval Brothers - an event which may be strangely linked to the missing girl.

Praise for Lindsey Davis Two for the Lions
'Witty and literate... Two for the Lions is the tenth Falco novel; he's showing no signs of flagging.' The Times
Three Hands in the Fountain
'Rich with Roman skulduggery' Scotland on Sunday
A Dying Light in Corduba
'The cast of characters are as various, corrupt, nasty and gnarled as the best of Dickens, described with similar scope and loving attention' Mail on Sunday

A bomb explodes in a busy Montreal street. A mob lawyer blown apart, an innocent child murdered. Watching and powerless to prevent it is Montreal's most illustrious policeman - Émile Cinq-Mars. Then the corpse of a young man, Artinian, is found hung from a rafter with the inscription M-5 dangling round his neck. M5, March 5th, a calling card in English. When Cinq-Mars discovers that Artinian had infiltrated the mob for a foreign agent he is drawn back to the bombing.
Linking the two crimes, the detective finds himself in the midst of the Canadian mob's move to control all crime in the country, their ambition fuelled by a new ally whose ruthlessness knows no limits - the Russian mafia, and in particular an enigmatic crime boss known as the Czar. Whom the Czar cannot buy off he kills but even he cannot risk murdering the famous Émile Cinq-Mars. However, another mole, Julia Murdick, is infiltrating the Czar's organisation, another young idealist risking her life to fight the mob. Can she help Cinq-Mars catch the Czar? Can he save her from almost certain death when her cover is blown - just as Artinian's was?

' ... it has murder,, mayhem and loads of laughs.' Cosmopolitan
... excellently funny crime novel...'. The Express on Sunday
'A series that sparkles brighter with every new instalment.' Time Out

Arrow are proud to present Strawberry Tattoo, the crime thriller from Lauren Henderson featuring her sassy heroine, Sam Jones.

The new thriller from the author of Monstrum
The Arctic city of Murmansk, capital of the Kola region of north Russia, early in the new century. Inspector Constantin Vadim is back in his Arctic home town after a short and nearly catastrophic appointment in Moscow.
But now he is faced with personal tragedy: one night his young wife, Natalya, a doctor, answers an emergency medical call twelve hours later she still hasn't come back. An accident seems the first possibility. Or even a lover. But soon a more terrifying answer emerges as Vadim's desperate investigation reveals that a second missing woman, an American consular official, was abducted on the same night.
Now against a background of the brutal child labour colonies of the Kola Peninsula, Vadim, in uneasy partnership with a black FBI woman agent seconded from Moscow, struggles to establish the full story of Natalya's disappearance and the identity of a bafflingly deranged killer.

The setting is Steelton, a struggling midwestern town trying to save its decaying inner city by building a major league baseball stadium.
Dark Lady introduces Assistant County Prosecutor Stella Mart, who has escaped her alcoholic father and working class background to become head of the Prosecutor's homicide unit. Her ambition is to become County Prosecutor.
But this ambition, indeed her very survival, is threatened when her ex-lover Jack Kovak, a drug lawyer, is murdered, and Stella leads the investigation. There are more deaths and revelations about Jack Kovak's dealings with the city's crime lord, and a trail of wrong-doing, that implicates officers in law enforcement, possibly within her own office.
As her inquiry draws her into a re-examination of her own complex past, her certainty that she is being watched and followed, leads her to fear for her own future.

Sequel to "The Godfather", this describes the ending of Michael Corleone's exile in Sicily, his search for Salvatore Giuliano and his troubles, as he confronts brutal and unfamiliar treacheries in the deceitful society within which he moves.

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The stunning new novel from the award-winning author of Dèjã Dead, the international number one bestseller.

March in Montreal: It is a bitterly cold night and in the grounds of an abandoned convent forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan digs carefully. She is there to exhume the remains of Élisabeth Nicolet, a nun who died in 1888 and is now proposed for possible sainthood. But the body has been moved to an unmarked grave in a far corner of the cemetery. Why have the nun's remains been disturbed? And what will Tempe discover when the frozen ground finally yields to her tools?
As St Patrick's Day approaches, Tempe is called to the scene of an horrific arson: a young family has perished in mysterious circumstances. From the charred remains of the arson, to a trail of sinister cult activity in South Carolina and a terrifying showdown during an ice storm, Tempe gathers her evidence. 'Another day. Another death. Death du Jour My God how many such days?'

Dèjã Dead:
'A brilliant novel. Unputdownable' Minette Walters
'Without ever slowing the pace of an irresistibly compelling thriller Kathy Reichs shows us what it feels like being an ordinary woman in a profession in which murder is commonplace... Better than Patricia Cornwell' Sunday Express 'Dèjã Dead is terrific and terrifying in its own right, easily rising above Cornwellian similarities' The Times

When someone in the town of Haughton batters Trisha Stanton Smith into oblivion, drenches her house in petrol and drops a match, the obvious suspect is her ex-husband, who abused her mercilessly throughout the marriage. Despite his claim of an alibi, Piers Stanton Smith goes to prison for life.
Detective Inspector Barry Dugdale, who investigated Trisha's murder, had his own reasons for wanting Stanton Smith in prison. Two years later, when the alibi evidence is unexpectedly confirmed and Stanton Smith's conviction quashed, Dugdale and two colleagues are accused of corruption and suspended from duty.
Superintendent Michael McKenna, charged with investigating whether or not Dugdale deliberately suppressed vital evidence, moves with his team from North Wales to the bleak Pennine landscape around Haughton. He is pursued by a journalist championing Stanton Smith's cause; haunted by Trisha's sister, father and friends; feared by the police whose fate he holds in his hands; and eluded by the reclusive daughter of Haughton's most notorious prostitute. Unravelling lies, mischief and the patterns of love and hatred, McKenna finally uncovers the truth behind a cloak of shameful secrets.

'Among the new stars of British crime writing' Susanna Yager, Sunday Telegraph

Alison Taylor has a son and a daughter, and has lived in North Wales for many years. Her interests include baroque and classical music, art and riding.

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Don Winslow California Fire and Ice Pbk published April 2000 by Arrow at £5.99 ISBN: 0099238624

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Money, vengeance, the Russian Mafia: they all come together in a searingly tense thriller by the acclaimed author of Isle of Joy and The Death and Life of Bobby Z.

The woman on the bed had died in the fire. Pamela Vale, aged 34. She had been beautiful, and had been heavily insured. Her husband showed little grief. Her children seemed terrified.
Insurance investigator Jack Wade is sure he knows what happened. All he has to do is to gather the evidence to prove it. And Wade is the best there is: fires talk to him, tell him exactly what happened, and how.
But not everyone shares Wade's belief that the woman was murdered. California Fire and Life is ready to pay out Nicky Vale's claim on his wife's accidental death and the destruction of their house. As Wade fights the decision, as he gathers more evidence, he begins to uncover a world of corruption where nothing is quite what it seems, a world where it's not fire that talks, but money...

Don Winslow was born in New York City in 1953. He works as an independent consultant to various corporations on issues involving litigation arising from criminal behaviour. He lives with his wife and son in Riverton, Connecticut, and Dana Point, California.

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