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Inspector Max Betancourt is working a new beat, one he didn’t ask for. Following the disappearance of his wife, his life and career have fallen apart. Once a rising star of Singapore CID, Betancourt has been relegated to the Marine Division, with tedious dockyard disputes and goods inspections among his new duties.

In the early hours of 15 April 1912, after the majestic liner Titanic had split apart and the 1,500 men, women and children struggled to stay alive in the freezing Atlantic, the sea was alive with the sound of screaming. Then, as the ship sank to the ocean floor and the passengers slowly died...

Mr Phipps’s days of freelance assassinations may be behind him, along with the big pay outs, but after the debacle of one particular London day, working for MI6 again is not so bad. Phipps is headed back to Germany on the trail of a former Stasi agent mixed up in a lucrative people smuggling...

The seventh audiobook in Griff Hosker's epic Lord Edward's Archer series of historical adventures. Stirling Bridge is a haunting memory for King Edward. When Scottish rebels threaten his northern borders the king acts swiftly to quash it. William Wallace remains a threat and hiding across the...

A local fisherman finds the body of a missing American archaeologist. Detective Inspector Betancourt, of the Singapore Marine Police, is first on the scene. Something doesn't quite add up. He finds out that the archaeologist, Richard Fulbright, was close to deciphering the previously-untranslatable script on a pre-colonial relic known as the Singapore Stone. This was no accidental drowning.

B2B sales has evolved from a product-focused transactional approach to a consultative one placing emphasis on asking the right questions, understanding the customer’s needs, identifying their issues and pitching the right solution to solve them.

The Roman Empire is crumbling, and a shadow looms in the east.... 376 AD: The Eastern Roman Empire is alone against the tide of barbarians swelling on her borders. Emperor Valens juggles the paltry border defenses to stave off invasion from the Goths north of the Danube. Meanwhile, in...

381 AD: The Gothic War draws to a brutal climax, and the victor's name will be written in blood... The great struggle between the Eastern Roman Empire and the Gothic Horde rumbles into its fifth year. It seems that there can be no end to the conflict, for although the Goths are masters of the...

The Roman Empire is crumbling, and a shadow looms in the east.... 376 AD: The Eastern Roman Empire is alone against the tide of barbarians swelling on her borders. Emperor Valens juggles the paltry border defenses to stave off invasion from the Goths north of the Danube. Meanwhile, in...

A mutilated body apparently washed up on a windswept beach. A violent criminal gang preys on moped riders across the area. A teenage girl is desperate to escape sexual exploitation. It’s a tough introduction to Merseyside for Detective Inspector April Decent, who’s just arrived from her native Yorkshire. Together with new colleague Skeeter Warlock, Decent quickly discovers there’s a sinister link between them all, one that will bring them face-to-face with some uncomfortable home truths.

Brilliant but burnt-out English lawyer Ella Blake accepts an apparently simple brief: Investigate the mysterious disappearance of an African American polymath from his room at Cambridge University. The inquiry quickly becomes the greatest challenge of her life - solving the mystery of Genesis. Facing danger at every turn, can Ella find the answers to the riddles and clues left by the missing genius? Reunited with her estranged daughter, the inquiry sends them on a quest across the world and through ancient texts.

This exclusive, limited edition box set includes the seventh, eighth, and ninth books in the best-selling Knight & Culverhouse crime thriller series.

Lilly has no choice but to trust the tough, sexy ex-special forces operative to guide her out of the Afghan mountains to safety. As Grant leads her across the unforgiving terrain, risking his life to protect her, Lilly can’t deny her growing feelings or the intense physical attraction between them. Grant feels it too, but giving in to his desire would mean betraying his best mate’s memory, and that’s not something he’s prepared to do. Not even for the girl of his dreams.

International Emmy nominated writer Mark Boutros offers a guide to creating characters who are engaging, emotionally driven, and memorable. With experience writing comedy, drama, and novels, Mark shares a mixture of theory, exercises, and pitfalls, getting you thinking about the questions you should always have in your mind during character creation. This is an invaluable tool for beginner and experienced writers.

You have spent a few decades working, earning a salary, and saving into company and personal pensions along the way. Now, retirement is approaching. How will you turn your savings into a salary to pay for essentials and - and nonessentials - in retirement? How will you make sure that you don’t run out of money in retirement? What do the UK pension freedoms mean for you? In this one-of-a-kind audiobook, personal finance experts Richard Dyson and Richard Evans answer these questions.

377 AD: Numerius Vitellius Pavo and the men of the XI Claudia return to Constantinople from their brutal Persian sortie to hear widespread tales of Thracia’s plight and the precarious mountain blockades. Each of them knows what is at stake should those passes fall: the heartland of the...

Deep winter, 376 AD: Emperor Valens has withdrawn the field armies from Moesia and Thracia to fight in the Persian War. The impoverished limitanei legions left behind to defend the banks of the River Danubius are now all that stand between the war-hungry Goths and heart of the Eastern Roman...

A body lies amongst the undergrowth in Mildenheath Woods. His hands are bound behind his back, and he's been killed execution-style. But the victim isn't a gangland kingpin: he's a well-liked young man, never in any trouble, who had his whole life ahead of him. But as Jack Culverhouse and Wendy...

Former police detective Steph Grant has moved to the picturesque coastal Suffolk town of Southwold to rebuild her life following a bereavement, and gets a job working as the receptionist at a local sixth form college. But when a student is found murdered in the music block, Steph is convinced to take up a new role as a civilian detective by her former boss, Chief Inspector Philip Hale.

When justice is the target, Warbow's aim is true. In an age where loyalty is as powerful as steel, Gerald Warbow finds himself entwined in a web of intrigue and valour. Held against his will in Westminster, Warbow is once again drawn into the shadows of royal service when he is tasked with...