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Although we often search social and historical documents for clues to our past, biological “documents” perhaps hold the most important evidence of our heritage. The traits we inherit from our parents and pass on to our offspring are encoded in our genes and DNA and reveal much about both our orig...

Formalizing study of the natural world may seem like a daunting task considering the sheer breadth and variety of living things that inhabit the planet. From the microscopic organisms in the world’s most remote locations to those in the human body, evidence of the intricate structures and mechani...

The Sunday Times number one bestselling ninth book in the Women's Murder Club detective series. A psychopathic killer targets San Francisco's most innocent and vulnerable. A young mother and her infant child are ruthlessly gunned down while returning to their car in the garage of...

A psychopathic killer targets San Francisco's most innocent and vulnerable A young mother and her infant child are ruthlessly gunned down while returning to their car in the garage of a shopping mall. There are no witnesses, and Detective Lindsay Boxer is left with only one shred of evidence: a ...

'Thrilling entertainment for readers who like their horror raw and bloody' (Publishers Weekly). This book is the second part in David Wellington's vampire trilogy. A hundred vampires wouldn't just be a problem. They would be an army. An army of blood-fuelled killing machines. Laura Caxton vowed n...

Come back to Cedar Cove, where old flames are reignited by new intrigues, and friendship is the best medicine of all I'm not much of a letter writer. As the sheriff here, I'm used to writing incident reports, not chatty letters. But my daughter, Megan told me I had to do this. So here goes. I'll ...

The Terror Is Just Beginning... In the second shattering installment of Jack Douglas's six-part Quake, a handful of survivors rise from the ruins of a shattered New York City—and the real battle begins... Caught in the chaos of the most massive earthquake in American history, Assistant U.S. Attor...

The number one bestselling eighth instalment in the Women's Murder Club - a fashion designer, a software tycoon and a millionaire heiress are all murdered in mysterious circumstances ... Detective Lindsay Boxer is quickly assigned to the high-profile investigation. Few people are as in...

Framed for murder, Lupin must clear his name or face the gallows Millionaire diamond collector Rudolf Kesselbach is in a Paris hotel room, contemplating the stroke of genius that is about to make him one of the wealthiest men in Europe, when a shadow steals into the room—a shadow with fine clot...

This creepy collection of true life tales takes the reader on a tour through the streets, cemeteries, alehouses, attics and docks of Liverpool. Drawing on historical and contemporary sources and containing many tales which have never before been published, it unearths a chilling range of supernat...