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The Hitler Book
The Secret Dossier Prepared for Stalin from the interrogation of Hitler’s closest personal aides

The Hitler Book                 Edited by Henrik Eberle and Matthias Uhl
                           With a Foreword by Richard Overy
                          John Murray. Pages 370. £8.15

A compelling first-hand narrative of a decade of service in Hitler’s headquarters, for over fifty years the testimony of his two closer assistants was kept under lock and key in a Russian archive. Never before published in its entirety, it is groundbreaking not only as one of the most authentic sources of information on the Third Reich and its innermost circles but also as a portrait of a tyrant for a tyrant.

An unexpected and original perspective on the Third Reich and its leader, and a timely reminder that the heart of the terrible transformation wrought by the European crisis in the twentieth century was the contest between two extraordinary tyrants.

Belfast Confidential
by Colin Bateman
Headline. Pages 410.£6.00

Belfast ConfidentialThey say moving house in one of the most stressful things you can do. Well, as far as Dan Starkey’s concerned, ‘they can stick it where the sun don’t shine because right now helping his wife with the unpacking is the least of his worries...

No sooner has Dan moved into his new Belfast home, than his best mate, Mouse, is murdered — leaving him to catch a killer, become editor of the obscenely successful scandal magazine, Belfast Confidential, and compile the much-coveted power list edition. In Belfast this list can make or break you and in Dan’s case he may never eat lunch in his town again.

Plunged into the cut-throat world of local celebrity he finds himself contending with loony lifestyle gurus, art-loving gangsters, toothless informants, jet-setting owners of sports car factories and the realisation that his final deadline might be looming. Yep — right now lugging furniture about looks like a walk in the park.

Dan Starkey — journalist of ill repute and international man of inaction-returns in a true de force with enough plot to build a housing estate on.

Now You See Me
by Margaret Murphy
Hodder and Stoughton
Pages 392. £6.90

Now You See MeThe author of The Dispossessed returns to Liverpool with a chilling story of secret lives, organised crime and murder. When Megan Ward goes missing. suspicion falls on the stalker seen outside her house. The police would love it to be so simple, but the closer they look the more mysterious Megan herself becomes. They find no photos, no passport, no family or friends from an earlier life. Only the corrupted computer files in Megan’s strangely impersonal room.

Meanwhile Patrick Doran, owner of Safe Hands Security, is living his own nightmare. A hacker has breached his computer network where he thought he had safely buried his past.

Then her landlady is murdered — and the shadowy Megan re-emerges. The woman who doesn’t exist becomes very real, very elusive and very dangerous. Now You See Me sees the return of Chief Inspector Jeff Rickman. Sergeant Lee Foster and Constable Naomi Hart — the Liverpool police team introduced in the dispossessed. As Rickman struggles to hold his family together while conducting a complex and demanding murder investigation, his team begins a journey into Liverpool’s netherworld. where the past haunts the present, violence is cheap and punishment is swift and merciless.

Culminating in a heart-stopping confrontation between hunter and hunted, the novel will remain in the imagination long after the closing paragraph.

Cover Up
by John Francome.
Headline. Pages 313. £6.00

Cover UpWhat’s the worse way to die? At the end of a rope driven by your own shame and despair? Or savaged in the jaws of a black-hearted stallion who has hated you for years?

If only the bankrupt gambler and the stable girl were alive to give us the answer...

For a jockey they say there’s no thrill like riding a big winner but Rob Harding has found something better — that’s breeding one. His three-year-old colt Goldeneye is the product of Rob’s own stud farm and, when the horse wins the Two Thousands Guineas at Newmarket, it looks like he might give Rob’s business a much-needed shot in the arm. But no amount of prize money can deflect the tragedy that’s waiting round the corner.

Rob’s head girl Ivana would also revel in Goldeneye’s triumph except for the terrifying reappearance of her sadisstic ex-lover Milos. She’s run a long way to escape from him-but it looks like she hasn’t run far enough.

Cover Up is an exhilarating twists-and-turns murder mystery set in the high-stakes world of horse-racing and written by one of its legendary figures.

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