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When Cain retired from the CIA, he moved to Florence, Italy to get away from his past. He’s had nine years to enjoy fine wine, good food, and the Tuscan countryside. But now his old boss has tracked him down, and he needs Cain to do one last job. What starts as a simple trade entangles Cain in...

Maria is in over her head with Oscar, a guy she recorded a couple of sexy videos for when she needed the cash. Now he's demanding she make more, and he'll stop at nothing to get what he wants. Oscar's dangerous, an ex-loan shark turned digital pimp in the island's organised crime network. He's in deep too, and if he can't get Maria to record more videos he could wake up to find his testicles in a food blender.

A cryptic message from an old friend leads Joe Grabarz to an abandoned farmhouse in the middle of the South Downs. But Joe is too late, someone else has got there first: his friend is dead, and all the evidence points to him. Ten years ago the farmhouse was the scene of three infamous murders when a young boy killed his mother, father, and little sister. Now an adult, he was released from prison with a new identity.

Nice, France — Retired CIA agent, Cain, is living a quiet life, trying to stay out of trouble. But he can’t turn off his old instincts like a lightswitch. When an unsuspecting American woman becomes the target of criminals, he can’t sit back and do nothing. What starts as one good deed puts Cain in the sights of highly-trained mercenaries, brings him to the attention of INTERPOL, and puts him on a collision course with evil personified.

Emma and Nathan moved to the country to get away from it all. To start again. But this damn stranger just keeps bringing it all up again. And he's scaring them. He says he was run off the road by a maniac. They wish they'd never answered the door. Let's just hope the police arrive soon, then this will all be over.

Everyone thinks their summer camp officers are evil. Every summer camp feels like a fight for survival. Every child thinks there is something lurking in the woods. But maybe this time they’re right....

When Cain retired from the CIA, he moved to Florence, Italy to get away from his past. He's had nine years to enjoy fine wine, good food, and the Tuscan countryside. But now his old boss has tracked him down, and he needs Cain to do one last job. What starts as a simple trade entangles Cain in a web of secrets involving the mafia, an NSA whistleblower, and his own past. With the Italian police and international assassins on his trail, he'll have to survive the night to solve the mystery of who wants him dead.

Smart Business Moves is a Podcast hosted by Tom Stewart and Liz Trotter. Each week, Tom and Liz interview a professional in the cleaning industry.

It’s been three days and now everyone in Brighton is looking for her. There is an army of police searching, her picture is on every front page, and the public can’t get enough of it. Gangs of good citizens are going door to door, turning their neighbors’ houses upside down, but still no one can find her. For Brighton’s No.1 Private Detective, Joe Grabarz, it brings back too many memories of his first case, another missing girl, when he learnt too many lessons the hard way.

Ben longs to be Prime Minister one day. But with no political connections, he is about to crash out of a Master's degree with no future ahead. So when by chance he becomes fast friends with a young Arab prince, and is offered a job in his government, he jumps at the chance to get on the political ladder. Amal dreads the throne. And with Ben’s help he wants to reform his country, steering it onto a path towards democracy. But with the king’s health failing, revolutionaries in the street, and terrorism threatening everyone, the country is ready to tear itself apart.

Blacklisted by the police. Being sued by a client. And broke. Things can’t get any worse for Brighton’s No. 1 Private Detective, Joe Grabarz, in this blistering debut novel from award-winning writer Tom Trott. That’s when his best friend’s body washes up on the beach. Could it really have been 10 years? How could his life have ended like this? He needs answers. But with the city in the grips of organised crime, and struggling to deal with an influx of legal highs, who cares about just another dead drug dealer?

A student data scientist from England knows that somewhere in a small town in Norway someone is going to be murdered. The victim is unknown. The killer is a mystery. The police don’t believe her. But she knows it will happen. Now she has to stop a murder. She’s not a detective, she doesn’t speak the language, she doesn’t even like to fly. She's going to need some help, but who can she turn to? Well… there is one person in this remote Norwegian town that the locals say might be able to help.

'This isn't 'just' a fitness book - it's designed to build a confident, happy and inspired brain that will allow you to pursue a beautifully healthy body. With a few tweaks here and there, suddenly, fitness can be fun - something you live for, and that helps you to live better. I hope that my...