Mind games

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Nick Stone

Miami, 1981. Cocaine Central.Murder Capital, USA.A man about to face evil.A city about to catch fire.When Detective Max Mingus and his partner, Joe Liston, are called to the scene of a death at Miami's Primate Park, it looks like another routine — if slightly bizarre — investigation. That is, until two things turn up: the victim's family, slaughtered, and a partly digested tarot card in the dead man's stomach — the King of Swords.An increasingly bloody trail leads Max and Joe first to a sinister fortune-teller and her scheming pimp son, then to the infamous Solomon Boukman. Few have ever met the most feared criminal in Miami, but rumors abound of a forked tongue, voodooesque ceremonies, and friends in very high places.Against a backdrop of black magic and police corruption, Max and Joe must distinguish the good guys from the bad — and track down some answers.What is the significance of the King of Swords? What makes those who have swallowed the card go on a killing spree just before they die? And can Max find out the truth about Solomon Boukman before death's shadow reaches his own front door?The King of Swords is a feat of black magic, combining a thrilling plot, unforgettable characters, and the uniquely menacing atmosphere that made Nick Stone's Mr. Clarinet the most celebrated crime debut of 2006.

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David Ferry

A new verse rendering of the great epic of ancient Mesopotamia, one of the oldest works in Western Literature. Ferry makes Gilgamesh available in the kind of energetic and readable translation that Robert Fitzgerald and Richard Lattimore have provided for readers in their translations of Homer and Virgil.

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Victoria Leigh

GRIFF -- A Flirting Father Who Caught Her Staring -- and Wouldn't Let Go... He usually wasn't jealous of his high-spirited three-year-old, but Griff Ross envied his son Harry when he found the boy in Sharron Capwell's arms! Her lush mouth made him long to kiss her breathless, while her soft curves tempted him with visions of her bare shoulders touched only by moonlight and his hands. His slow drawl gave Sharron irresistible goose bumps, but did she dare run wild with him? He Tempted Her to Yearn for What She'd Never Known. She tasted of honey and wine, made him burn with pleasure as no woman ever had, but Griff insisted he wanted only a friend and lover, still hurt by a betrayal he'd never forgiven. Thrilling to the ecstasy he taught her, Sharron struggled with her need to be his wife and Harry's mother, sure it was a dream she'd never share. Once both admitted what they couldn't deny, would forever belong enough?

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Pauline Bell

What DCI Mitchell does know is that the fire in an office complex was deliberately started, but what he doesn't know is if it is the work of a serial arsonist he is chasing. One victim of the fire was an Asian woman, the other a white man. Could the fire be a copycat arson attack, to mask the real crime, a racially motivated murder? Or is Mitchell dealing with an incident involving family dishonour and revenge?