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  • Cover scan of The Extinction Of Snow

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    The Extinction Of Snow
    Frederick Lightfoot - Paperback - Sandstone
    A woman receives an email from her son which reads: 'I am sacred. Comfot me.' Does he mean scared? And does he mean 'come for me' or 'comfort me?' Shortly after that she learns of his death, an apparent road traffic accident on a French country road. A piece of music plays over in her head telling her that something is not right about the version of events she has been told. She decides to investigate, and this leads her on a bewildering journey across England, on to Paris, and eventually to the French village where he died.
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    The Hidden Target
    Helen MacInnes - Paperback - Titan Books
    For Nina O'Connell the trip around the world was the holiday of a lifetime. She thought her new friends were students, but terrorism was the only degree James Kiley was pursuing. For Nina a light-hearted adventure soon becomes a game of life and death.
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    Dead Water
    Ann Cleeves - Paperback - Pan Books
    When the body of journalist Jerry Markham is found in a traditional Shetland boat, outside the house of the Fiscal down at the Marina, young Detective Inspector Willow Reeves is drafted in from the Hebrides to head up the investigation.
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    Sacrifice
    Will Jordan - Paperback - Arrow Books
    Afghanistan, 2008. A helicopter carrying a senior CIA operative is shot down, its lone passenger taken hostage by a fanatical new insurgent group. The CIA bring in Ryan Drake and his elite Shepherd squad to rescue their lost operative. But nothing is what it seems, and within hours of arriving, Drake and his team find themselves caught in a deadly conflict.
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    Prelude To Terror
    Helen MacInnes - Paperback - Titan Books
    New York art expert Colin Grant is sent to Vienna to bid on a priceless Old Master on behalf of a Texan millionaire. No sooner has Grant landed in Austria than his seemingly simple assignment turns into a nightmare, as he finds himself at the centre of a conspiracy to unleash a wave of international terrorism.
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    Gone Again
    Douglas Johnstone - Paperback - Faber and Faber
    As Mark Douglas photographs a pod of whales stranded in the waters off Edinburgh's Portobello Beach, he is called by his son's school: his wife, Lauren, hasn't turned up to collect their son. Calm at first, Mark collects Nathan and takes him home but as the hours slowly crawl by he increasingly starts to worry. With brilliantly controlled reveals, we learn some of the painful secrets of the couple's shared past, not least that it isn't the first time Lauren has disappeared.
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    The Green Lady
    Paul Johnston - Paperback - Severn House Paperbacks
    Alex Mavros is hired by the wife of one of Greece's richest men to find her 14-year-old daughter. Since Lia Poulou went missing three months earlier, there has been no ransom demand or any trace of her. But how can Mavros find the girl if he's forbidden to question anyone who knew her?
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    Ride A Pale Horse
    Helen MacInnes - Paperback - Titan
    When Karen Cornell, a journalist on assignment in Czechoslovakia, agrees to help a would-be defector by carrying top-secret documents to Washington, she is pulled into a web of terrorism, assassination, blackmail, espionage and treason in the highest levels. One false move could cost Karen her life and throw the world into war.
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    The Horch And The Rotterdam Ingots
    R. W. Strachan - Hardback - Book Guild
    May 1940. Four Wehrmacht officers attempt a heist on the 4000 gold ingots they are charged with removing from a Rotterdam bank vault, seeking to siphon off 40 for themselves. As the plan unravels, 10 ingots are concealed within a staff car. Seventy years later a young English oil executive discovers the car under a tarpaulin.
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    The Famous And The Dead
    T. Jefferson Parker - Paperback - Sandstone
    Deputy Charlie Hood is working undercover on the iron river that flows across the U.S.-Mexican border. Charlie knows all of Bradley Jones's secrets, the question is is what he'll do with them.

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