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She once told him that if anything ever happened to her, it would be quieter than an arrest — and considerably more final. Now Leila Khan is dead, killed by a driver who never stopped, and London has already begun writing her death down as an accident nobody will ever solve.Detective Chief...

British politics faces its extinction event. Political satire for a country that has forgotten how to laugh together. For fans of The Thick of It. Disgraced MPs saving the country. Yep, seriously. The Right Members Club has existed for over four hundred years to protect British politics from one thing: competence. Membership is reserved for disgraced MPs. Mark Fallow fits perfectly. Newly elected, immediately ruined, nationally humiliated. Then everything breaks.

While on leave from the British Army, Captain Nelson receives devastating news regarding his niece's killer. He seeks justice for her and falls headlong into a world of violent European gangs, police corruption, and a decades-old family secret that connects everything. MI6 Agent Pascoe learns that Nelson's family holds the key to her current operation and will do anything to get him on side. But when he goes rogue, she has a choice: arrest him and tank her case, or join him and throw away the rule book.

Tom Shearer is sixty-one, recovering from a stroke, and working in a sub-basement nobody visits. The Cold Case Unit is where the Metropolitan Police puts the files it has given up on, and the officers it hasn't quite given up on yet. For Shearer, it is somewhere to be useful while the clock runs down. Until he finds three files that shouldn't look alike — and do. Three deaths, three verdicts, three psychiatric assessments written in language so certain, so clean, that no honest clinician could have produced them. And one name at the bottom of each.

Thirty-five years ago, a boy died on the moor above Skelderby. A frightened young man went to prison for it. Everyone was satisfied. Everyone was wrong. Acting DCI Tom Shearer didn't ask for a cold case unit, and he didn't ask for this one — a stroke, a divorce, and a quiet posting back to the county he grew up in were supposed to be the end of the story, not the start of a new one. But a single overlooked line in a thirty-five-year-old file is enough. Somebody knew more than they said. Somebody has been living comfortably on it ever since.

Dive into the transformative world of systems thinking, where you'll learn to analyze complex scenarios, identify hidden connections, and anticipate unintended consequences. This practical guide provides actionable strategies to apply systems thinking in your everyday life – from improving personal productivity to tackling global challenges.

1066 changed history. But it didn't kill the darkness. In an England where Harold Godwinson killed William the Conqueror and the Anglish Commonwealth has stood for a thousand years, one oath holds the realm together: No man or householder shall be yoked.

Generations have passed since the Unsundered god, Sartum, destroyed the City in Blue, the center of mortal use of magic. The betrayal of Sartum by William Reis and Myriam VolFar in the waning hours of that conflict has shaped the world of Alos and continues to do so. In the south, magic runs free. Though mostly bound to magical creatures and places, mortals are able to use the power that flows through the very land and its people. In the north, the lands are clean from the infection of magic.

In a last-ditch effort to retake control of the seas, a coalition of desperate pirates launch an offensive against the might of the British Navy. In the aftermath, the survivors would find themselves shipwrecked on a strange island and they are not alone. Here there be monsters, the kind not seen for billions of years and they're hungry.

After narrowly surviving a vicious knife attack, gangland detective Eoin Miller thinks he’s earned a break from hunting down thieves, runaways, and stolen drug money. But when crime boss Veronica Gaines tips him off to a particularly sensitive new case, his Romani blood won’t let him say no.

Overthinking is real... but many of your fears are not. How do you combat an enemy that lives in your head? Look no further than this book. You come up with this great idea for a product, a project, or even just a new way to organize your files at work. You feel elated for all of two minutes before diving into a selfsabotaging spiral of panic and doubt. Here are some other scenarios that might be familiar to you. You've come up with the perfect barb for an insult delivered at a cocktail party... 20 years ago. You've also lain awake at 3 a.m., rehashing some offhand comment made by your spouse.

Escorting Eric is Rob Radcliffe’s hugely anticipated sequel to debut novel Meat Market, and this time it is Stu’s turn to tell the story. Stu’s best mate Greg has just been dumped and Stu has taken it upon himself to show Greg the way back to singledom. This is Stu’s calling. The professional male escort has found a protégé to mentor.

Born deaf and discovering encroaching blindness at the age of 16, Anthony Lawton’s future appeared to be full of locked doors. Prejudice. Delayed education. Distorted speech. Limited sight. But when benign strangers intercede and inner gifts reveal themselves the opportunity to pursue a childhood dream of speaking and participating in mainstream society become a realisable vision. He would need to do this before the consequences of dual sensory loss would again close the doors.

It used to be easy, walking into a bar on the prowl with his mates. The flirting game, being on the pull, sowing one’s wild oats. In his early twenties it was a game Scott Bradley knew how to play well. Then life got in the way. Now, 15 years, three relationships, and two children later, Scott is ready to head back out there to have a play at that single game once again.

In a world where the gods hold all the power, Layten and his friends thought they understood the rules. But after being captured by the most powerful caster in Alos, Calmar, they find themselves trapped in a land where magic reigns supreme. With Vilom still plotting to carry out Sartum's task, Layten and his friends must navigate a world they never knew existed.

If letters addressed to you were being left at the crime scenes of a notorious serial killer, what would you do? Rory is a killer on a mission. They will stop at nothing to find the killer of their precious 'El'. They don’t care what or who they have to take out to get answers. If that means taking out a few unfavourable people along the way and making sure to leave Detective Stone a little love note at every scene, then so be it. Detective Stone has been in the detective business for over ten years. Nothing fazes him anymore, well, until Rory shows up that is.

Queen Sealyn’s failure to break Glatania’s curse is etched in the lives lost, the relentless uncertainty shadowing her people, and her own imprisonment. Sealyn must endure brutal torture and confront the ominous beast lurking in her prison cell, yet her greatest challenge may be holding on to hope amid the darkness. King Jace’s grief-stricken army of Elysians and Glatanian rebels finally embarks on a perilous quest to discover Sealyn’s fate. Their journey hits a crisis when the ship carrying Queen Sealyn’s mother is forced to seek refuge in enemy waters.

Even though he’s worked his way to the top of the West Midlands criminal heap as right-hand man to crime boss Veronica Gaines, ex-cop Eoin Miller still has to deal with the dregs of the underworld to earn his pay. That’s why he’s dispatched to a low-end hotel to work damage control after a hooker kills a local lowlife. But when one of his comrades is mysteriously murdered at the scene, and a suspicious fire claims two more victims, a simple clean-up job turns absolutely filthy.

Half-Romani detective Eoin Miller finds people for a living—usually people who would do anything to remain hidden. Ironic considering Eoin has done all he can to lose himself in a downward spiral that has cost him his job, his respect, his wife, and anything else that ever mattered. But he’s not inclined to dwell on what he’s given up, and Eoin prefers it that way.

Welcome to Alos–a world torn between the thriving, magic-free lands of the North and the untamed, mystical realms of the South. Under the vigilant guidance of Sartum, the Unsundered, the North flourishes, protected from the dark corruption of magic by the Anchors–an ancient order with the power to absorb and eradicate malevolent forces.