A bloodied and bruised girl runs out of the woods and into the path of oncoming traffic. The police are shocked to discover that she's a missing schoolgirl they've been trying to find for the past three weeks. Traumatized by her ordeal, she's unable to tell them what happened to her.A woman's body is found crucified in a barn on the Yorkshire Moors. Evidence found at the crime scene links her to the schoolgirl.Hot on the heels of a commendation for her work on a serial kill...

Two boys are missing. No one is talking.Detective Inspector Tom Brand has moved from London to his childhood home in the sleepy village of Relby to look after his elderly father and take a job as lead detective in the village's new police station.Before he has a chance to settle into his new life, tragedy strikes. Two twelve-year-old boys pretending to be detectives in a mysterious game disappear. Tom is thrown into the most important case of his career. Fa...

There's a killer in her house but no one believes her.Kate moves into the top floor of a rambling house on the coast hoping to start a new life. After a rough year, this move to the seaside town of Whitby is a fresh start, a chance to forget the past.But Kate begins to feel that she's being watched all the time, even within the walls of her new home. She hears footsteps in the attic and sees a car driving over the moors in the dead of night.DI Danic...

Thirty years ago, seven-year-old Mitch Walker was left for dead in the woods while his five-year-old sister Sarah was abducted.Now, circumstances pull him back to the place where Sarah vanished. He finds evidence linking his sister to a number of girls whose disappearances remain a mystery and has to face the fact that she may have been a victim of a serial killer known as the Blackden Edge Murderer.Elly Cooper, ex-journalist and bestselling author, has bee...

An unsolved case from DCI Battle's past returns to haunt him when it seems that a killer from over a decade ago has struck again.Daisy Riddle went missing fifteen years ago and Battle failed to keep his promise to bring her home. Now, her dead body has been discovered.What happened to her, and where has she been all this time?Battle must overcome his guilt in order to catch Daisy's killer, a task that becomes desperate when another girl is taken.

A game of witches and spells . . . and thirteen magical bones.I'm back in Dearmont, and confused as hell. The world I left behind was on the brink of an apocalypse but now it's business as usual. New case, new mystery, new danger. Sounds fun, right?When a mega-rich guy with a penchant for occult relics creates a televised competition to find thirteen magical bones, I'm all in. I have to win this thing to make sure the supernatural equivalent of a nuclear bo...

If you love someone, set them free . . . If they come back, they could be a zombieSomeone is trying to kill Charles Hawthorne, one of the richest men in Maine. And they're using magic to do it.He suspects the members of his own family and hires me to check them out. I soon discover that Charles Hawthorne has a dark secret lurking in his past; a secret that may have come back to haunt him.With an ancient wizard bugging me to chase down the Midnight C...

Be careful what you wish for . . . it might be inhabited by a demonWhen a case takes me to the wilderness of Northern Maine, I'm not even sure there's a paranormal angle. Two girls walked into the woods one night and only one of them came back. She's so traumatized by what she saw that she hasn't spoken a word since.The police come up empty-handed so the girl's father hires me to find out what happened. Getting out of Dearmont for a while seems like a good ...

Smile, and the world smiles with you. Cause an apocalypse, and the Hounds drag you to Purgatory.After the events of Final Magic, Alec finds himself in a place where life is cheap and death is a constant companion.Time to win new friends and avoid new enemies.

In "Feminism in Greek Literature," Frederick Adam Wright delves into the hidden narratives of women in ancient Greek literature, revealing their strength, agency, and resistance against patriarchal norms. Through meticulous analysis of texts from Homer to Euripides, Wright uncovers the subtle and overt ways in which female characters challenged societal expectations, defied gender roles, and asserted their voices. This groundbreaking work sheds new light on the complexities of gender dynam...

Perversion of Love aims to explore the reasons why we as Christians may struggle to love ourselves and others through the lens of what Dr. Gary Chapman defined, and what has been accepted by popular culture, as the five love languages. Christians have been given a Great Commission which is to spread the Gospel and make disciples. The method by which we fulfill this commission is the greatest commandments-to love God and love our neighbors as ourselves. God created us to love, but we have a...

Key Advances in Clinical Informatics: Transforming Health Care through Health Information Technology provides a state-of-the-art overview of the most current subjects in clinical informatics. Leading international authorities write short, accessible, well-referenced chapters which bring readers up-to-date with key developments and likely future advances in the relevant subject areas. This book encompasses topics such as inpatient and outpatient clinical information systems, clinical decisi...