Simon Vance
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When a Member of Parliament shows up at New Scotland Yard requesting an investigation into the suicide of the son of one of his constituents in the beautiful town of Ludlow, the Assistant Commissioner sees two opportunities in this request: the first is to have an MP owing him a favour, and the second is to get rid of Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, whose career at the Met has been hanging by a thread for quite some time. So he assigns Havers to...
2) Swann's way
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The first volume of Proust's seven-part novel "In Search of Lost Time," also known as "A Remembrance of Things Past," "Swann's Way" is the auspicious beginning of Proust's most prominent work. A mature, unnamed man recalls the details of his commonplace, idyllic existence as a sensitive and intuitive boy in Combray. For a time, the story is narrated through his younger mind in beautiful, almost dream-like prose. In a subsequent section of the volume,...
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Millennium novels (Stieg Larsson) volume 5
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Lisbeth Salander has never been able to uncover the most telling facts of her traumatic childhood, the secrets that might finally, fully explain her to herself. Now, when she sees a chance to uncover them once and for all, she enlists the help of Mikael Blomkvist. Once again, Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist, together, are the fierce heart of a thrilling full-tilt novel that takes on some of the most insidious problems facing the world at this...
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"Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers and Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley are back in the next Lynley novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George. When a police detective is taken off life support after falling into a coma, only an autopsy reveals the murderous act that precipitated her death. She'd been working on a special task force within North London's Nigerian community, and Acting Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley is...
5) Tigana
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Tigana is the internationally celebrated epic of a beleaguered country struggling to be free. It is the tale of a people so cursed by the dark sorceries of the tyrant king Brandin that even the very name of their once beautiful home cannot be spoken or remembered. But, years after their homeland's devastation, a handful of men and women set in motion a dangerous crusade--to overthrow their conquerors and bring back to the world the lost brightness
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The bestselling author of the groundbreaking novels "Under Heaven" and "River of Stars" evokes a world inspired by the conflicts and dramas of Renaissance Europe. There's a young artist travelling to the dangerous east to paint the grand khalif; an angry woman, posing as a doctor's wife, but sent by Seressa as a spy and a boy trains to become a soldier in the elite infantry of the khalif - to win glory in the war everyone knows is coming.
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"From the internationally bestselling author of Tigana, The Lions of Al-Rassan, and, most recently, Children of Earth and Sky, comes a masterful new novel set in a vivid, enthralling world inspired by Italy in the early Renaissance. In this fascinating, decadent, often violent setting, in which mercenaries destroy city-states for the highest bidder and women remain desperately limited in their life options, the lives of a few extraordinary figures...
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Millennium novels (Stieg Larsson) volume 6
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New York Times Bestseller
National Bestseller
The sixth DRAGON TATTOO story—more than 90 million copies sold worldwide—the crime-fiction phenomenon featuring Lisbeth Salander.
Book four in the series, The Girl in the Spider's Web, is now a major film from Sony Pictures starring Claire Foy—out in November 2018.
"Rest easy, Lisbeth Salander fans—our punk hacker heroine is in...
National Bestseller
The sixth DRAGON TATTOO story—more than 90 million copies sold worldwide—the crime-fiction phenomenon featuring Lisbeth Salander.
Book four in the series, The Girl in the Spider's Web, is now a major film from Sony Pictures starring Claire Foy—out in November 2018.
"Rest easy, Lisbeth Salander fans—our punk hacker heroine is in...
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"On a dark night along a lonely stretch of coast, a small ship sends two people ashore. Their purpose is assassination. They have been hired by two of the most dangerous men alive to alter the balance of power in the world. If they succeed, the consequences will affect the destinies of empires, and lives both great and small. One of those arriving at that beach is a woman abducted by corsairs as a child and sold into years of servitude. Having escaped,...