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In June 1941 a baffling Luftwaffe radio message is picked up by the decoders of Allied intelligence. It mentions a new invention with the codename Freya - the Viking goddess of love.

Deputy Chief Virginia West likes her boss, but when a number of visiting businessmen are murdered in her city by a maniac with a penchant for painting his victims bright orange, she objects to his

Composer Lucas Corinth returns to the Alpine town of his boyhood to be guest of honour at the premiere of his new opera, "The Horn of Roland".

Catherine and Reg Hamlin left Australia in 1959 on a short contract to establish a midwifery school in Ethiopia.

Sexual temptation, homicidal maniacs, car crashes are all part of Stephanie Plum's daily routine. But all that pales into insignificance when Grandma Mazur moves in.

Matthew lies in a hospital bed, wondering what place there is for a blind man in the new social order of a Britain adjusting to post-war austerity.

In the west, one man has the specialised knowledge and equipment to hunt down rogue grizzlies and mountain lions.

Of political treachery and corruption at the top of British government. The Chief Whip uses every means to become Prime Minister.

Twelve short stories, each underlining the remarkable versatility of the writer. Some will make you shift uneasily in your chair, others will give satisfaction.

When Joel inherits a prosperous stud farm from a great-uncle whom he had never met, he decides to unravel the mystery of his uncles fortune.

Life was good for Liz and Jack Sutherland. In eighteen years of marriage, they had built a family, a successful law practice and a home, near San Francisco.

An account of her turbulent and rather sad life, sympathetically and understandingly written.

A Russian atomic missile submarine captain defects with his boat to the West. Both Navies chase it - one to capture it, the other to destroy it.

A compassionate fictional account of survival during the Korean War by an old peasant and his wife when sheltering in a ditch they find a semi-conscious, wounded boy.

His own story, by the man, once a paralysed child, who overcame his affliction through faith and determination.