Pan Books Paths of the Dead Anderson Lin

Forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod investigate a brutal series of killings on Scotland's Isle of Skye, in Time for the Dead, a gripping crime novel by Lin Anderson • When forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod returns to her roots on Scotland’s Isle of Skye, a chance encounter in the woods behind a nearby activities centre leads her to what seems to be a crime scene, but without a victim. Could this be linked to a group of army medics, who visited the centre while on leave from Afghanistan and can no longer be located on the island? • Enlisting the help of local tracker dog Blaze, Rhona starts searching for a connection • Two days later a body is found at the base of the famous cliff known as Kilt Rock, face and identity obliterated by the fall, which leads Rhona to suspect the missing medics may be on the island for reasons other than relaxation

The sins of the dead are all consuming • While illegally street racing in the underground tunnels of Glasgow, four Harley-Davidson riders make a horrifying discovery: a dead man left in the darkness, hands together on his chest as if peacefully laid to rest. The cause of death is unclear, the only clues being a half glass of red wine and a partially eaten chunk of bread by his side that echo the ancient religious practice of sin-eating • Called to the scene, forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod is perplexed by the lack of evidence. But when another body is found near her own flat, laid out in a similar manner, she fears a forensically aware killer stalks the city and is marking the victims with their unique signature. Even more worryingly, the killer appears to be using skills they may have learned while attending her forensic science lectures at Glasgow University

Follow the Dead is the thrilling twelfth book in Lin Anderson's forensic crime series featuring Rhona MacLeod • On holiday in the Scottish Highlands, forensic scientist Dr Rhona MacLeod joins a mountain rescue team on Cairngorm summit, where a mysterious plane has crash-landed on the frozen Loch A'an. Added to that, a nearby climbing expedition has left three young people dead, with a fourth still missing • Meanwhile in Glasgow, DS McNab's raid on the Delta Club produces far more than just a massive haul of cocaine. Questioning one of the underage girls found partying with the city's elite reveals she was smuggled into Scotland via Norway, and it seems the crashed plane in the Cairngorms may be linked to the club. But before McNab can discover more, the girl is abducted

Understanding the modern city and the powerful forces within it is the life’s work of Harvard urban economist Edward Glaeser, who at forty is hailed as one of the world’s most exciting urban thinkers. Travelling from city to city, speaking to planners and politicians across the world, he uncovers questions large and small whose answers are both counterintuitive and deeply significant. Should New Orleans be rebuilt? Why can’t my nephew afford an apartment in New York? Is London the new financial capital of the world? Is my job headed to Bangalore? In Triumph of the City, Glaeser takes us around the world and into the mind of the modern city – from Mumbai to Paris to Rio to Detroit to Shanghai, and to any number of points in between – to reveal how cities think, why they behave in the manners that they do, and what wisdom they share with the people who inhabit them

Winter of the World is the second novel in Ken Follett's uniquely ambitious Century trilogy. On its own or read in sequence with Fall of Giants and Edge of Eternity, this is a spellbinding epic of global conflict and personal drama • A Battle of Ideals • It is 1933 and, at Cambridge, Lloyd Williams is drawn to irresistible socialite Daisy Peshkov, who represents everything that his left-wing family despise. But Daisy is more interested in aristocratic Boy Fitzherbert, a leader in the British Union of Fascists • An Evil Uprising • Berlin is in turmoil. Eleven-year-old Carla von Ulrich struggles to understand the tensions disrupting her family as Hitler strengthens his grip on Germany. Many are resolved to oppose Hitler’s brutal regime – but are they willing to betray their country? • A Global Conflict on a Scale Never Seen Before • Shaken by the tyranny and the prospect of war, the lives of five families become ever more enmeshed

From Annie Murray, the bestselling author of The Bells of Bournville Green, comes Secrets of the Chocolate Girls, another gritty family saga about love, war and chocolate • September 1940, Birmingham • While her husband and daughter work at the Cadbury's Bournville factory, Ann Gilby has her hands full at home with her other daughter, Sheila, newly returned home with baby Elaine. With Sheila's husband away doing his bit in the RAF, Ann knows she should be grateful to have all her children safe under one roof. But she can't help but fear for their uncertain future as bombs fall ever closer to her Birmingham home. Part of her yearns for the carefree days of her youth when she also worked the line at Cadburys, filling trays of chocolate shells

Археолог, разведчица, арабист, лингвист, писательница, поэтесса, фотограф, альпинистка и созидательница нации, Гертруда Белл родилась в 1868 году в мире привилегий и изобилия, но она отвернулась от всего этого из-за своей страсти к арабским народам, став архитектором независимого королевства Ирак и увидев, как оно меняется. его первый король Фейсал благополучно взошел на трон в 1921 году. "Королева пустыни. Необыкновенная жизнь Гертруды Белл", написанная Джорджиной Хауэлл - это ее история, живо рассказанная и безупречно исследованная, основанная на собственных трудах Гертруды, как опубликованных, так и неопубликованных • Книга на английском языке • Archaeologist, spy, Arabist, linguist, author, poet, photographer, mountaineer and nation builder, Gertrude Bell was born in 1868 into a world of privilege and plenty, but she turned her back on all that for her passion for the Arab peoples, becoming the architect of the independent kingdom of Iraq and seeing its first king Faisal safely onto the throne in 1921

Amanda Owen loves her traditional life on her hill farm alongside her nine children and husband Clive. And, as readers of her previous bestsellers will know, every day at Ravenseat brings surprises. In Adventures of the Yorkshire Shepherdess Amanda takes us from her family's desperate race to save a missing calf to finding her bra has been repurposed as a house martin's nest, and from wild swimming to the brutal winter that almost brought her to her knees. As busy as she is with her family and flock though, an exciting new project soon catches her eye • Ravenseat is a tenant farm and may not stay in the family, so when Amanda discovers a nearby farmhouse up for sale, she knows it is her chance to create roots for her children. The old house needs a lot of renovation and money is tight, so Amanda sets about the work herself, with some help from a travelling monk, a visiting plumber and Clive

Некоторые мечты столь масштабны, что их исполнение обеспечит мечтателю место в анналах истории. Но что если кто-то воплотит подобный проект в жизнь, не оставив современникам и потомкам свидетельств успеха? • Такая участь постигла Джорджа Мэллори, героя нашей истории. Однажды он сказал американскому репортёру, что хотел покорить Эверест "просто потому, что он есть". Ему было тридцать семь лет на момент его третьей попытки в 1924 году, когда он пропал из виду в шестистах футах от вершины. В 1999 году нашли его тело. И до сих пор неизвестно, удалось ли ему достичь пика • Книга на английском языке • Some people have dreams that are so magnificent that if they were to achieve them, their place in history would be guaranteed. But what if one man had such a dream…and once he'd fulfilled it, there was no proof that he had achieved his ambition? • This is the story of such a man: George Mallory

Глазго, 1932-й год. Когда зятя одного из богатейших кораблестроителей города находят в реке Клайд с перерезанным горлом, расследование его убийства поручают инспектору Джимми Дрегхорну. Даже несмотря на сложные отношения, связывающие его и Ислу Локхарт, вдову жертвы • Чтобы понять, кто и почему желал убитому смерти, Дрегхорну и его напарнику, Арчи МакДэйду по прозвищу Бонни, придётся погрузиться в мрачные тайны города, сталкиваясь и с его скорым на расправу преступным миром, и с вероломством высших эшелонов общества Глазго • А тем временем жестокий убийца оставляет за собой след из трупов. Дело становится всё запутаннее, и напрашивается вопрос: получится ли у Дрегхорна поймать преступника? Или же он даже не доживёт до конца расследования? • Откройте для себя мрачный криминальный роман Робби Моррисона, действие которого разворачивается в Глазго образца 1932-го года - городе, который так и не оправился после Первой мировой войны и который разрывают на части банды и религиозные разногласия

For Hawk, being a hero weighs heavily on her wings • In the City of the Dead, life happens in the shadows. That's why a war is brewing against an enemy no one can see • Hawk and Maximum Ride never back down from a conflict, but as the dead begin to outnumber the living, they'll need to work together now more than ever