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Pretending she is holidaying abroad, she drives away from her West Country home into the wintry English countryside. As her solitary adventure palls she meets Tom, another lone traveller who insinuates himself into her life. Together they travel to Scotland. Audacious and dishonest, he exerts a strange fascination over her. By the time she suspects he is a man who kills women, it is too late. Her deception has made her the perfect victim.
This is an invaluable resource for anyone planning to write any type of crime fiction, from whodunnits to thrillers. It is full of exercises to get the reader writing and includes a range of quotations and tips from a whole host of established names.
Alice tells herself that Stark Point is quaint and charming - just the place to revive her relationship with boyfriend Charles. But deep in her heart, she knows he hates the bleak Somerset Levels which fascinate her so much. But things change dramatically when her not-quite-divorced husband turns up and drags her into the forty-year-old mystery of the disappearance of a local couple. Suddenly Alice finds herself the sole defender of Joe Keenthorne, shunned because the whole rural community thinks he got away with murder all those years ago. Then someone starts to vandalize her picture-perfect cottage . . .
A superb new suspense novel, acclaimed nationwide, of an amnesiac woman and the man who claims she's his wife. The author builds gradually to unrelenting terror as the victim is caught in a nightmare of loneliness and insecurity . . . a tense, psychological thriller--Booklist.
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Jim Grant was Executive Director of UNICEF from 1980 to 1995, during which period he launched a worldwide child survival and development revolution. The practical result was that by 1995, 25 million children were alive who would otherwise have died, with millions more living with better health and nutrition. This volume contains eight articles by Jim Grant's close colleagues which draw out the lessons of Grant's vision and leadership, which have relevance in many other contexts
Robin's brave joke that first day came back to her. 'All paths lead to the graveyard.' Now it didn't seem witty, it was mere fact... Nether Hampton appears on the surface to be the classic Somerset village. All the ingredients are there: the traditional village pub, the Gothic church, fox-hunting squires, wealthy incomers, crusty old retired generals, an archaeologist digging up the remains of a Norman castle and, this being the 1980s, even some young, tearaway punks. Into these placid surroundings drops Rain Morgan, gossip columnist for the Daily Post, simply looking to relax away from the Fleet Street rat race. Almost immediately, the bodies begin to turn up. Born in London in 1942, Lesley...
In Western religious traditions, God is conventionally conceived as a humanlike creator, lawgiver, and king, a being both accessible and actively present in history. Yet there is a concurrent and strong tradition of a God who actively hides. The two traditions have led to a tension between a God who is simultaneously accessible to humanity and yet inaccessible, a God who is both immanent and transcendent, present and absent. Western Gnostic, esoteric, and mystical thinking capitalizes on the hidden and hiding God. He becomes the hallmark of the mystics, Gnostics, sages, and artists who attempt to make accessible to humans the God who is secreted away. 'Histories of the Hidden God' explores this tradition from antiquity to today. The essays focus on three essential themes: the concealment of the hidden God; the human quest for the hidden God, and revelations of the hidden God.
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