Headline A Gathering of Ghosts Мейтленд Карен

By the pricking of my thumbs • Lincoln, 1380. A raven-haired widow is newly arrived in John of Gaunt's city, with her two unnaturally beautiful children in tow • The widow Catlin seems kind, helping wool merchant Robert of Bassingham care for his ill wife. Surely it makes sense for Catlin and her family to move into Robert's home? • But when first Robert's wife - and then others - start dying unnatural deaths, the whispers turn to witchcraft. The reign of Richard II brings bloody revolution, but does it also give shelter to the black arts? • And which is more deadly for the innocents of Lincoln?

Наступил 1348 год, и первая жертва чумы достигла берегов Англии. По всей стране вспыхивает паника, и небольшая группа путешественников собирается вместе, чтобы спастись от смертельной болезни, не подозревая, что на самом деле с ними путешествует нечто гораздо более смертоносное • Разношерстная компания - покрытый шрамами торговец святыми реликвиями, фокусник, два музыканта, целитель и уродливый рассказчик - все они скрывают секреты и ложь. И в их сердце живет странное, холодное дитя - Наригорм, которая читает руны • Но по мере того, как закон и порядок нарушаются по всей стране, а битва за выживание становится все более ожесточенной, Наригорм безжалостно заставляет каждого из своих попутчиков раскрыть правду... и каждого, в свою очередь, обрекает на жестокую и неестественную смерть

Колтон Дрисколл – патологический лжец. Но его психотерапевт Сэм Ривз, к своему ужасу, уверен, что о своей причастности к убийству он не соврал. Сэм видит в своём пациенте опасного преступника и, чтобы предотвратить смерть ещё одной невинной девушки, он обращается в полицию Сан Диего • Детектив Кит МакКиттрик расследует убийства в надежде выяснить, что же случилось с Рен, её приёмной сестрой. Анонимный звонок приводит её к трупу девушки, явно ставшей жертвой серийного убийцы. Серийного убийцы, которого за последние двадцать лет так и не смогли поймать. А ещё у детектива получается узнать, что наводка поступила от доктора Сэма Ривза • Сможет ли Кит не дать маньяку нанести очередной удар? И так ли уж чисты намерения Сэма Ривза? Возможно, он столь словоохотлив отнюдь не из благих побуждений… • Эта книга в твёрдом переплёте с суперобложкой и покрытием софттач непременно подойдёт в подарок ценителям детективных триллеров

Поздним вечером, всего за пятнадцать минут до полуночи, в Новом Орлеане умер Рокки Хеберт • По официальной версии, он покончил с собой, но его сына не устраивает это объяснение, и он обращается в детективное агентство, чтобы понять, что случилось на самом деле • Молли Саттон знает, каково это, потерять отца при трагических обстоятельствах. Именно поэтому она готова на всё, чтобы раскрыть дело. Поэтому – и из-за её чувств к Гейбу, которые становятся всё сильнее • Вскоре они понимают, что Роки вёл собственное расследование. Расследование коррупционной схемы, в которой замешано руководство местной полиции. У них даже получается выяснить, кто поможет им докопаться до истины. Им нужен юноша Ксавье Морроу, свидетель убийство, произошедшего несколько лет назад

Vincent is an apprentice librarian who stumbles upon a secret powerful enough to destroy his master. With the foolish arrogance of youth, he attempts blackmail but the attempt fails and Vincent finds himself on the run and in possession of an intricately carved silver raven's head • Any attempt to sell the head fails ... until Vincent tries to palm it off on the intimidating Lord Sylvain - unbeknown to Vincent, a powerful Alchemist with an all-consuming quest. Once more Vincent's life is in danger because Sylvain and his neighbours, the menacing White Canons, consider him a predestined sacrifice in their shocking experiment • Chilling and with compelling hints of the supernatural, The Raven's Head is a triumph for Karen Maitland, Queen of the Dark Ages

We have all heard the story of Cinderella, the beautiful child cast out to slave amongst the ashes. But what of her stepsisters, the homely pair exiled into ignominy by the fame of their lovely sibling? What fate befell those untouched by beauty ... and what curses accompanied Cinderella's looks? • Set against the backdrop of seventeenth-century Holland, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister tells the story of Iris, an unlikely heroine who finds herself swept from the lowly streets of Haarlem to a strange world of wealth, artifice, and ambition. Iris's path quickly becomes intertwined with that of Clara, the mysterious and unnaturally beautiful girl destined to become her sister. While Clara retreats to the cinders of the family hearth, Iris seeks out the shadowy secrets of her new household - and the treacherous truth of her former life

Spring, 1312. Edward II of England is absorbed with his favourite, Peter Gaveston, while his young wife, Isabella, is with child. Isabella's father, the ruthless Philip of France, dreams of a grandson wearing the Crown of the Confessor and starts to meddle - even if that means murder • Amaury de Craon, Philip's Master of Secrets, is despatched to carry out his deadly deeds and Edward II summons Sir Hugh Corbett, Keeper of the Secret Seal, to intercept. Both master spies lodge at the Benedictine abbey of St Michael's in the forest of Ashdown. Supposedly a house of prayer, the abbey holds sinister secrets and treasures which include the world's most exquisite diamond, The Glory of Heaven. However, shortly after their arrival, the diamond is stolen and its guardian murdered

The marvellous land of Oz is knotted with social unrest: The Emerald City is mounting an invasion of Munchkinland, Glinda is under house arrest, and the Cowardly Lion is on the run from the law. And look who’s knocking at the door. It’s none other than Dorothy. Yes, that Dorothy • Amid all this chaos, Elphaba’s granddaughter, the tiny green baby born at the close of Son of a Witch, has come of age. Now, Rain will take up her broom in an Oz wracked by war • Out of Oz is a magical journey rife with revelations and reversals, reprisals and surprises – the hallmarks of the brilliant and unique imagination of Gregory Maguire

The largely untold story of the rise and fall of one of the most powerful, opulent and glittering dynasties in history • It is 1494 when the tragic death of the ruler of Ferghana leaves his only son, twelve-year-old Babur, facing a seemingly impossible challenge: to live up to the example of his great ancestor, Tamburlaine, whose conquests stretched from Delhi to the Mediterranean, from wealthy Persia to the wildernesses along the Volga. But Babur is dangerously young to inherit a kingdom and, from that moment, his precarious reign will be fraught with danger, in a world of tribal rivalries, rampaging armies and ruthlessly ambitious enemies

Ireland AD 672. The abbey of Muman at Imleach Iubhair is being renovated when its guests' hostel burns to the ground. There is one fatality: Bishop Brodulf of Luxovium, a distinguished visitor and cousin to the King of Franks. Sister Fidelma is asked by Abbot Cuan to investigate the unfortunate incident and soon finds that the bishop had been stabbed to death before the fire had even started • Thrown into a world of treachery and jealousy, where religious beliefs are vehemently disputed, Fidelma and her companions, Eadulf and Enda, face a barrier of deceit. The abbey, a leading ecclesiastical teaching institution as well as a conhospitae, housing both men and women, is divided into factions. Can Abbot Cuan trust Prioress Suanach, who is in charge of the sisterhood? Can the professors trust each other as well as their students? Moreover, can suspicion be levelled at the builders working on the abbey under their dominant Master Builder, Sitae? As more deaths follow, Fidelma must use her wit and ingenuity to unravel the complexities of this intricate mystery

In the brilliant fourth book from Andy McDermott, Nina Wilde must battle the Covenant of Genesis if she is to find the world's greatest archaeological treasure • Off the coast of Indonesia, archaeologist Nina Wilde makes an explosive find: evidence of a settlement that existed over a hundred thousand years before any previously known civilisation. But when her ship is attacked, it becomes clear that the clandestine religious group calling itself the Covenant of Genesis will stop at nothing to prevent her from revealing this knowledge • With her fiance Eddie Chase, Nina embarks upon a dangerous worldwide search to expose the Covenant of Genesis and the incredible secret they will kill to conceal. Is she about to discover the greatest legend of all time?

Daphne du Maurier meets CSI in this exhilarating debutSussex, 1780. Anatomist and recluse Gabriel Crowther is reluctantly drawn into the lives of local high society when a dead body is found by impulsive, frustrated Harriet Westerman. Her lands share a boundary with the great estate of the county, Thornleigh Hall, home of the crippled Earl of Sussex, his beautiful second wife and his alcoholic younger son. The Earl's heir disappeared after a family dispute some fifteen years earlier, and has not been seen since. Meanwhile, inLondon, two children lose their father in a violent attack. Their new young guardian, a young writer, attempts to protect them in the confusion of the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots as he dodges his creditors among the alleyways, and learns more of his wards' complicated history -- which may lead back toSussex