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The fingerprints say the murderer is the man who's just been executed ... At 11.05 one December evening in Richmond, Virginia, convicted murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell is pronounced dead in the electric chair. At the morgue Dr Kay Scarpetta waits for Waddell's body. Preparing to perform a post-mortem before the subject is dead is a strange feeling, but Scarpetta has been here before. And Waddell's death is not the only newsworthy event on this freezing night: the grotesquely wounded body of a young boy is found propped against a rubbish skip. To Scarpetta the two cases seem unrelated, until she recalls that the body of Waddell's victim had been arranged in a strikingly similar position ...

A novel about a murder investigation involving a killer who uses the Internet to contact his pursuer.

Rebus is off the case literally. A few days into a murder inquiry following the brutal death of an Edinburgh art dealer, Rebus blows up at DCS Gill Templer. He is sent to the Scottish Police College for 'retraining' in other words, he's in the Last Chance Saloon. Rebus is given an old, unsolved case to work on, in order to teach him and others the merits of teamwork. But there are those in the team who have their own secrets and they'll stop at nothing to protect them. As if this wasn't enough, Rebus is asked to act as a go between for gangster 'Big Ger' Cafferty. And as newly promoted DS Siobhan Clarke works the case of the murdered art dealer, she is brought closer to Cafferty than she could ever have anticipated ...

On the eve of the first Scottish parliament in three hundred years, Edinburgh is a city rife with political passions and expectations. Queensbury House, the home of Scotland's new rulers, falls in the middle of John Rebus' turf, keeping him busy with ceremonial tasks. That quickly changes, however, when a long-dead body is discovered in a Queensbury House fireplace, a homeless man throws himself off a bridge - leaving behind a suitcase full of cash - and an up-and-coming politician is found murdered. The links between the three deaths lead Rebus to a confrontation with one of Edinburgh's most notorious criminals, a man he thought he'd put in jail for life. Someone's going to make a lot of money out of Scotland's independence - and, as Rebus knows all too well, where there's big money at stake, darkness gathers.

Dr. Kay Scarpetta matches wits with a sadistic killer who infiltrates the FBI's top-secret artificial intelligence system and closes in on Scarpetta herself

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING KAY SCARPETTA NOVEL FROM PATRICIA CORNWELL When an eleven-year-old girl is found murdered, Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner for the Commonwealth of Virginia, gets another chance at stopping one of the most heartless and horrifying serial killers of her career: the demented Temple Gault.

It is New Year's Eve and Dr. Kay Scarpetta plunges into the murky depths of a ship graveyard to recover he very human remains of Ted Eddings, an investigative reporter.

Alain de Botton's The Consolations of Philosophy takes the discipline of logic and the mind back to its roots. Drawing inspiration from six of the finest minds in history - Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche - he addresses lack of money, the pain of love, inadequacy, anxiety and conformity. De Botton's book led one critic to call philosophy 'the new rock and roll'.

A murder has been committed - but as the victim is a rapist, recently released from prison, no one is that concerned about the crime. That is, until Detective Inspector John Rebus and DS Siobhan Clarke uncover evidence that a serial killer is on the loose . . . When Rebus also starts looking into the apparent suicide of an MP, he is abruptly warned off the case, not least because the G8 leaders have gathered in Scotland, and Rebus's bosses want him well out of the way. But Rebus has never been one to stick to the rules, and when Siobhan has a very personal reason for hunting down a riot cop, it looks as though both Rebus and Clarke may be up against their own side . . .

'It was 28th April. Wet, naturally, the grass percolating water as John Rebus walked to the grave of his father, dead five years to the day.' This is our first glimpse of the Scottish policeman with the puzzling name... before Ian Rankin hit the bestseller lists, before Rebus became a national institution... A story of the brutal abduction and murder of young girls, at first it seems that Detective Sergeant John Rebus, smoking and drinking too much, his own young daughter spirited away south by his disenchanted wife, is just one of many policemen hunting the killer. Then messages begin to arrive: knotted string and matchstick crosses - taunting Rebus with pieces of a puzzle only he can solve. So begins the case that introduced the crime world to one of its most compelling characters. Whether you're turning the pages for the first time, or reliving the mystery, KNOTS AND CROSSES is unmissable reading.

Dr. Kay Scarpetta is up against a serial killer who targets young lovers. Four couples have disappeared, only to turn up dead months afterward...Now a fifth pair is missing, and the mother of the girl is a powerhouse recently named by the president to head his war on drugs.

An Alternate Cover Edition for this ISBN can be found here. The meticulously dismembered body of a woman is discovered in the grounds of an abandoned monastery. 'Too decomposed for standard autopsy. Request anthropologic expertise.' Enter Dr Temperance Brennan, Director of Forensic Anthropology for the province of Quebec, who has been researching recent disappearances in the city. Despite the cynicism of Detective Claudel who heads the investigation, Brennan is convinced that a serial killer is at work. Her forensic expertise finally convinces Claudel, but only after the body count has risen... Tempe takes matters into her own hands, but her determined probing places those closest to her in mortal danger. Can Tempe make her crucial breakthrough before the killer strikes again?

Bombay, 1993. Chamdi ha dieci anni e vive alle porte della città, lontano dai violenti scontri tra induisti e musulmani, dalle moschee bruciate e dai negozi svaligiati. La sua non è una vera casa, è un orfanotrofio, perché i genitori lo hanno abbandonato appena nato. Il suo mondo è fatto del colore acceso delle bouganville, delle canzoni, dei giochi. E delle preghiere silenziose perché qualcuno arrivi e lo porti via. Ma lui ha un grande sogno, che Bombay si trasformi in una città senza tristezza, un luogo in cui i bambini possono giocare per le strade e in cui non ci sono figli senza genitori. Chamdi sa che quella degli orfani è una vita a metà, i loro occhi non splendono, hanno solo una luce presa in prestito: per questo sembrano tristi anche quando ridono. Così decide di andarsene, di partire alla ricerca del padre, con in tasca una manciata di petali di bouganville. Perdendosi per i vicoli sporchi e affollati, Chamdi incontra Sumdi e la sorella Guddi, che per strada ci vivono fin dalla nascita. E in breve si trova a chiedere l'elemosina insieme a una spaventosa corte dei miracoli al servizio di un bandito senza pietà. Eppure Chamdi non vuole abbandonare i suoi sogni, e quando Guddi sarà in pericolo di vita, scoprirà quanto sia fragile l'innocenza ma quanto forte possa essere l'amicizia.

The memoirs of Irish Times journalist Nuala O'Faolain. The book traces her life from childhood in Dublin, through university, to her career in TV and the press, touching on her mother's alcoholism and her growing acceptance of age. This extended edition includes a selection of her journalism.

Iran, 1920. Shapur, dieci anni, è ansioso per il viaggio a Yadz con suo padre, dove spera di assaporare dolci prelibatezze. Tuttavia, un incidente segna la sua vita: suo padre, umiliato da un reale musulmano, decide di lasciare la sua terra per cercare un destino migliore. Il loro viaggio li porta a Dahanu, vicino a Bombay, dove scoprono un frutto dolcissimo che cambierà le loro vite. Ottant’anni dopo, Shapur è diventato ricchissimo grazie a quella terra e al suo frutto, che considera la sua piantagione e la sua eredità. Ora, pronto a ritirarsi, ha scelto Zairos, il suo giovane e viziato erede, per custodire le sue memorie. Tuttavia, quando Zairos si innamora di una schiava warli, Shapur è costretto a mettere in discussione tutto ciò in cui ha sempre creduto. Questo amore proibito lo porterà a scoprire un segreto di famiglia che il nonno aveva cercato di nascondere per oltre cinquant’anni.