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Action-packed Viking fiction from the author of the Charlemagne's Cross Series. Perfect for fans of Matthew Harffy, Bernard Cornwell and Peter Gibbons. The gods want chaos. He wants no part of their game. Can one man defy the will of the gods? Bruised and battered from a disastrous raid, Ulf and his companions are set to return to their home. But the gods have other ideas. A violent sea storm pushes them back onto the treacherous land of Francia. With their ship damaged, Ulf and his Norse brothers are left stranded.

Before the ascent of Donald Trump, there was “Hail to the Chief,” in which the poet traces the incredible rise and fall and comeback of the Clintons, from Bill’s Arkansas roots to Hill’s swearing in as the 45th president of the United States, and lovingly recreates the forbidden White House romance that rocked the nation.

Newly promoted Detective Greg Geldard is back in Norfolk, ready to build a life in his new home. He barely has time to unpack before he's plunged into a baffling murder investigation. A farmworker spots a human arm among a crate of dead turkeys. It’s DCI Geldard’s first day with Norfolk Police, and he didn’t expect to be dealing with murder quite so soon. It looks like an accident. But a closer inspection reveals signs of foul play — the victim suffered a vicious blow to the head. Days later, a second body is washed up a few miles away on Caister beach, a single stab wound to the chest.

Originally with the Met, he transferred to rural Yorkshire where he never quite managed to fit in. His latest case takes him from the windswept moors to the deceptively calm waters of the Norfolk Broads. This is finally somewhere he wants to call home. A human skeleton is unearthed in a forgotten World War 2 bunker on a remote Yorkshire farm. Detective Geldard welcomes the distraction. His wife is away on a solo trip to America, and he’s starting to tire of ready meals and wondering what she’s getting up to.

Ed Teach buried his dogs. Then his wife. Retirement was supposed to be quiet. Instead, it tasted like ash in an empty house on the edge of nowhere. But Ed's old life wasn't done with him. His poker buddies—men who weren't exactly from around here—peeled off their faces, handed him a badge, and pointed south. Boca Chica. SpaceX. One last mission. With nothing left to lose and a death wish riding shotgun, Ed rolls in towing an Airstream, ready for whatever Elon Musk throws his way. Acting CEO while the boss handles D.C.? Sure. Orbiting fuel tankers? Fine.

Detective Greg Geldard is finally settling into life in the Norfolk Broads, a place he wants to call home. But the silent waterways are deceptive. And amongst the brooding marshes, a deadly plot is in motion. Detective Geldard is wolfing down a quick sandwich lunch at his desk when he gets the call. There's been a devastating explosion at the local Science Park. Multiple casualties. Geldard races to the scene — it's carnage. Body parts lie scattered on the ground. Seven people dead. Sixteen unaccounted for. Professor Lai, Head of Chemistry, is one of the missing.

When DI Grant McKenzie's world is thrown into chaos by the sudden disappearance of his twenty-one-year-old nephew, he is determined to uncover the truth no matter the cost. Set in Scotland, this heart-stopping mystery thriller will keep you on the edge of your seat.

Born on the gallows, the corpse of his mother swinging from the rope above, the villagers brand him The Bane of the North and leave him out for the Fug to claim - a deadly fog ruled by Draugr - Viking warriors that had long ago fallen in battle. They didn’t expect to find him the next day, tattooed with the mark of an ancient god.

When a powerful tidal surge churns up a set of bones deep in the marshes of South Essex, DS Tomek Bowen’s hopes for a quiet winter are quickly washed away. Forensic examination reveals the remains belonged to a young child who died more than thirty years before. Who was the victim? Why was he killed? And why does his death bear such striking resemblance to Tomek’s brother’s? This Christmas, Tomek could get one or two more presents than he bargained for. Death’s Past is the enthralling tenth book in the DS Tomek Bowen Essex Murder Mystery series by Jack Probyn.

In the ruthless labs of Helix Innovations, geneticist Dr. Emily Harper uncovers a shocking secret: a hidden sequence in every living organism that determines the precise moment of death. Her discovery triggers a moral dilemma—whether to allow Helix to exploit it for profit, stay silent, or give it up to an organization craving control.

The DS Tomek Bowen Series are fast-paced crime fiction stories featuring DS Tomek Bowen. The third set of three full-length audiobooks in this gripping series are brought together for the first time in this great value boxset.

When an elderly book lover is murdered in an attic full of books, DI Grant McKenzie and his team are baffled regarding the motive. Everybody insists they loved the man and would never wish him harm. The only clue may lie in the bookkeeper’s last social media post, in which he stated he had in his possession the ‘Whitlock Tome’, a book said to have been written during the First World War, that disappeared during the 1920s and is rumoured to have encoded within it the whereabouts of a valuable family heirloom or secret.

The only thing that kept him going were the voices of his ancestors, screaming for blood... Ulf and his shield brothers are sent on a raid against an old enemy — Francia, a mighty kingdom to the south, now ravaged by civil war. During the perilous sea voyage, Ulf can only focus on one thing. He demands closure: to find the man who slaughtered his family — Griml.

Bane, Alruna and Garik knights, embark on a perilous journey to the Empire on a quest to find and bring home a lost hero. Fraught with danger in the unforgiving land, they find themselves amidst a rebellion. As the stakes grow higher and the challenges more desperate, they must overcome the will of Gharl himself.

A new threat looms over Garik Castle, forcing Bane and Alruna to once again defy the odds to defend the realm. Their quest begins with finding the key to unlocking the Fug and uniting the fractured clans. As the war between gods intensifies and the end of days draws near, the fate of mankind rests in the hands of a mortal.

Now the governor of Transalpine Gaul, Marcus Agrippa, is tasked with quelling a rebellion of the Aquitani tribes, led by the charismatic Brannus, who has sworn to eradicate every Roman from the province or die trying. But Agrippa's troubles are only just beginning, for things are not quite what they seem, with powerful forces working behind the scenes to ensure that he fails and never returns to Rome.

43 BC, Rome: As Gaius Octavius Thurinus—now known as Gaius Julius Caesar—crosses the Rubicon and marches on the Eternal City with eight legions at his back, the Roman Senate comes to their senses and agrees to make him consul. Not yet twenty years old, Octavius becomes the youngest consul in the history of the Roman Republic—but his ambitions won't stop there.

Fifteen years ago, the remote Russian city of Nobilsk goes dark. Three hundred kilometres north of the Arctic Circle, this closed city is shrouded in secrecy and home to a level-four security bio-research facility. But when a Russian virologist sends a desperate message to the British Consulate, claiming that the worst has happened, it's all hands on deck. SAS trooper Solomon Church, alongside a small team, are dropped into the Siberian tundra with a vital mission: extract the virologist, secure his research, and destroy everything else.

In Peder Victorious: A Tale of the Pioneers Twenty Years Later, O.E. Rölvaag continues his sweeping chronicle of Norwegian settlers on the Dakota plains, tracing the next generation as they grapple with what it means to belong in a new world. Set decades after Giants in the Earth, the novel follows Peder Victorious—Per Hansa’s son—through the turbulent years of self-discovery and assimilation.

When one of Tweed’s sector chiefs is found dead at the foot of a Greek mountain, Tweed vows to use every resource at his disposal to find the killer and avenge the man’s death. The investigation quickly leads Tweed and his team to another unsolved murder, committed forty years ago during a World War Two Commando raid on the Greek island of Siros.