The scorpio illusion

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William Marantz

When country-singer-turned-talkjock Val Virgo (aka Izzy Miller) receives a phone-in death threat from a self-styled aboriginal militant, he laughs it off as a sick joke. When he wakes up in a hospital bed, having narrowly survived the bombing of his apartment, he is no longer amused. Why would any self-respecting "terrorist" go after a glorified disk jockey? In search of the answer to this vital question Virgo takes a trip down memory lane, to the mean streets of his misspent youth, one step ahead of the mad bomber, finding love along the way. The race against time comes to an explosive conclusion when our hero discovers a long-lost enemy virtually on his doorstep - one hour too late

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Elizabeth Levy

Shortly after sixteen-year-old Dani volunteers to work undercover in a police investigation of illegal liquor sales to teenagers, she finds herself being framed as an accomplice in a liquor store holdup.

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Ruth Rendell

Murder, perversion, corruption, blackmail, secret terrors that lead to unspeakable acts, hidden fears that erupt in irrational violence…All these, of course, are part of someone else’s world. They happen out there, far from the ordinary streets and ordinary people who live in your neighbourhood, your town. They have nothing to do with the everyday lives of people like you. Or do they? The New Girlfriend and Other Stories – an extraordinary collection of sleek and sinister stories from the writer described by Scott Turow as ‘one of the greatest novelists currently at work in our language’.

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Isaac Asimov

Collection of mystery short stories: "The Fourth Homonym" (1985) "Unique Is Where You Find It" (1985) "The Lucky Piece" (1990) "Triple Devil" (1985) "Sunset on the Water" (1986) "Where Is He?" (1986) "The Old Purse" (1987) "The Quiet Place" (1988) "The Four-Leaf Clover" (1990) "The Envelope" (1989) "The Alibi" (1989) "The Recipe" (1990)