A talent for murderAfter an unexpected, whirlwind romance, quiet librarian Martha married Alan. But when she thinks she sees his mask slip, she starts to fear that the conferences he travels the country to attend might be a cover for something far more sinister. As she secretly starts to map his movements she unearths a string of dead women, but could these two things really be linked? Unsure of her own instincts, Martha turns to an old friend, Lily Kintner, who once

which turned from a brilliant plan to an epic tragedy in just 9 days

Her pretty face still hangs like a watchful queen from the posters on the walls of the town's church

No longer the leading role in his own private melodrama

Others think it all started with his discovery

and the brilliant

this complete autobiography starts in the early years of the twentieth century

Maria's killer has never been found

Although the raid itself is well documented

emotional lives

This volume contains a selection of early works by Yevgeni Yevtushenko who blazed a trail for a generation of Soviet poets with a confident poetic voice that moves effortlessly between social and personal themes

it was important

David Horspool tracks each game as a driver of social change: horse-racing's obsession with blood and money turned an aristocratic pastime into a national sport