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A brilliant whodunnit mystery perfect for fans of M.C. Beaton and Richard Osman!

Colin Bateman grew up in the pleasant seaside town of Bangor in Northern Ireland. Ten miles away, the IRA, the UDA and the UVF were blowing Belfast apart, but he was more concerned with making his first million through the GBA - the Gerbil Breeding Association (sadly short-lived when his gerbils turned out to be cannibals). Inspired by All the President' s Men and The Odessa File to become a crusading journalist, Bateman joined the local paper when he was a seventeen-year-old punk rocker, where instead of bringing down Presidents and finding Nazis, he found himself being hunted down by the notorious Kilcooley Strollers, a dance troupe with an axe to grind.So close to the Troubles, yet so far away - Thunder and Lightning is the story of one boy' s journey through the rather soft side of life in a town which lacked tough streets but boasted many cul-de-sacs. A town where an occasional terrorist bomb was seen as an opportunity to profiteer and where his father became a paramilitary by accident.

Learn how to embroider all the elements of a typical English country garden and then apply your knowledge to create twelve exciting projects to keep or give as gifts.

An eight-part serial novel about journalist Rob Cullen's fight to save a Northern Irish newspaper. Will he succeed in rescuing The Bangor Express, or will he die trying?

Dan Starkey returns! An exciting, compelling, endlessly inventive new novel featuring one of Bateman's best loved characters.

Peace time Belfast seems like the perfect spot for media billionaire's daughter Alison Wolff to study anonymously, but when she disappears following a massacre at a student party nobody knows if she has been kidnapped for ransom or caught in the crossfire. Hired to find Alison, Dan Starkey discovers that Belfast's underworld has shifted rapidly since he was in his journalistic prime. Religion and politics have taken a back seat to drugs and greed, defended with a ruthlessness undreamt of even in the worst days of The Troubles. This is the street violence of Mexico with an Irish twist. In response to the drug wars a new fire and brimstone church movement springs up, but when the controversial new abortion clinic is firebombed, they get the blame and Dan is hired to prove their guilt.In a Belfast rapidly descending back into a city of violence, Dan suddenly finds himself struggling to cope with two very different investigations..... or could they possibly be connected?

Very black and very funny, MAID OF THE MIST is master storyteller Bateman at his very best.

EMPIRE STATE is a vintage Bateman adventure: wild, romantic and darkly, dangerously funny.

When notorious gangster 'Fat Sam' Mahood is murdered, the chief suspect is arrested nearby. But he seems to have suffered a breakdown. Incarcerated in a mental institution, he's known only as the Man in the White Suit. The suspect remains an enigma until Nurse Brenda calls on Mystery Man, former patient and owner of No Alibis, Belfast's finest mystery bookshop, to bring his powers of investigation to bear... However, before our hero can even begin, the Man in the White Suit is arrested for the murder of a fellow patient. But is he a double murderer or a helpless scapegoat? Intrigue, conspiracy, and ancient Latin curses all combine to give the Small Bookseller with No Name his most difficult case to date.