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Reissue of the sixth installment of the bestselling David Raker Missing Persons series • Colm Healy used to be one of the Met's best detectives. Until, haunted by the unsolved murders of a mother and her twin daughters, his failure to find an elusive killer left his life in ruins • Missing persons investigator David Raker is the only friend Healy has left. As they reopen the investigation together, Raker learns the hard way how this case breeds obsession - and how an unsolvable puzzle can break even the best detective • Their search takes them down a trail of darkness, unravelling a thread of tragedy, and forces them to sacrifice everything they have left

The missing pieces in your past can be deadly . . . Will Rebekah find hers before it's too late? • Two missing women • Rebekah Murphy is stranded on an island closed for the winter. Her family doesn't know where she is. And now a killer is on her trail. She needs to survive long enough to make it back home - but what's waiting there could be even worse • Two pieces of the same puzzle • Detective Travis can't find Louise Mason. The case has no leads and is getting colder by the day. Then Travis gets an anonymous tip-off -but is this a clue or part of something more sinister? • What links these apparently unrelated cases? • Who is causing young women to disappear? • And when does missing mean murder?

CCTV footage captures Cate and Aiden Gascoigne driving home seconds before their car plunges into a ravine and explodes • When fire crews arrive, the vehicle is empty • Cate and Aiden have vanished • Missing persons investigator David Raker has solved too many impossible cases. He knows that behind every disappearance lies a dark tale waiting to be uncovered • What he doesn't know is how dark this one is - or how close it will get to him

A compulsively readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside world and one journalist's daring and adventurous journey • When war correspondent Tim Butcher was sent to cover Africa in 2000 he quickly became obsessed with the idea of recreating H.M. Stanley's famous nineteenth century trans-Africa expedition - but travelling alone • Despite warnings that his plan was 'suicidal', Butcher set out for the Congo's eastern border with just a rucksack and a few thousand dollars hidden in his boots. Making his way in an assortment of vessels including a motorbike and a dugout canoe, helped along by a cast of unlikely characters, he followed in the footsteps of the great Victorian adventurers • Butcher's journey was a remarkable feat, but the story of the Congo, told expertly and vividly in this book, is more remarkable still

No goodbye • When Leonard Franks and his wife Ellie left London for their dream retirement in the seclusion of Dartmoor, everything seemed perfect. But then Leonard heads outside to fetch firewood from the back of the house - and never returns • No trace • Nine months later, Leonard's family turn to David Raker - a missing persons investigator with a gift for finding the lost. But nothing can prepare Raker for what he's about to uncover • Nowhere to hide • Because, at the heart of this disappearance lies a devastating secret. And by the time Raker realises what it is, and how deep the lies go, it's not just him in danger - it's everyone he cares about

Cameron Kelsey is 13 years old. He is not well and needs a new heart. Doctors want to give him a pig's heart. Cameron cannot decide if he wants the pig's heart, and some groups are very angry about doctors using animals in this way • Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online • Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content • The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR)

"Такое белое сердце" - захватывающий международный бестселлер и шедевр, удостоенный премии IMPAC Хавьера Мариаса, чей долгожданный новый роман "Влюбленности" был опубликован в 2013 году. Это издание Penguin Modern Classics содержит новое введение Джонатана Коу • "Такое белое сердце" начинается с того, что в середине семейного обеда Тереза, только что вышедшая замуж, идет в ванную, расстегивает блузку и стреляет себе в сердце. Что заставило ее покончить с собой сразу после медового месяца? Годы спустя эта тайна завораживает молодого новобрачного Хуана, чей отец был женат на Терезе до того, как женился на матери Хуана. По мере того как Хуан приближается к истине, он начинает сомневаться в своих собственных отношениях и в том, действительно ли он хочет знать, что произошло

One year ago, Alex Towne's body was found • One month ago, his mother saw him on the street • One week ago, David Raker agreed to look for him • Now he wishes he hadn't • Mary Towne's son, Alex, went missing six years ago. Five years later he finally turned up - as a corpse in a car wreck. Missing persons investigator David Raker doesn't want the work: it's clearly a sad but hopeless case of mistaken identity brought to him by a woman unable to let go of her son. But haunted by a loss of his own, Raker reluctantly agrees • Big mistake • For as he digs deeper, he discovers that Alex's life was not the innocent one his mother believed. Buried in his past are secrets that were never meant to be found - and dark, dangerous men willing to kill to protect them

He got on the train. He didn't get off. So where did he go? • On a normal London moening, Sam Wren gets onto a tue triain - and then never gets off again • No eyewitnesses. No trace of him on security cameras. Six months later, he's still missing • Out of options and desperate for answers, Sam's wife Julia hires David Raker to track him down. Raker has made a career out of finding the lost. He knows how they think. And, in missing person cases, the only certainty is that everyone has something to hide • But in this case the secrets go deeper than anyone imagined

Straight-A student Megan Carver was an unlikely runaway. But six months on, she's never been found • Missing persons investigator David Raker knows what it's like to grieve. He knows the shadowy world of the lost, too. So when he's hired by Megan's parents to find out what happened to her, he recognises their pain - but knows that the darkest secrets can be buried deep • The more Raker digs, the more he realises everything is a lie. People close to Megan are dead. Others are too terrified to talk. And at the centre of it all is a place like no other • They call it The Dead Tracks • And there, Megan's secrets could cost Raker his life

Nine neighbours gather for a dinner party • But by the next morning, they had disappeared without a trace • No bodies. No evidence. No clues • Two and a half years later, it remains a mystery. Desperate for answers, the families of the missing turn to investigator David Raker • How did an entire village vanish overnight? • And is he looking for nine missing people, or nine dead bodies?