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New York Times bestseller John Lescroart's most popular character, lawyer Dismas Hardy, in his most personal case so far.Defence attorney Dismas Hardy takes on his most personal case yet

When Moses McGuire's daughter is raped by her ex-boyfriend, Rick Jessup, he vows to get his revenge. So when Rick is found dead the next day, Moses is arrested for murder.

Dismas Hardy has no hesitation in defending his old friend but as the evidence against him starts piling up Hardy can't help wondering, what if he's actually guilty? And to make matters even more complicated, the case threatens to bring to light an old secret that could destroy Hardy's career.

With the trial going against him, Hardy must draw on all his legal ingenuity until he sees a new way forward that might just save them all. But at what price?

The Ophelia Cut pits lifelong friends against one another, where truth does not always lead to justice and where long buried secrets still have the power to redeem or destroy.John Lescroart is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty three novels. His books have been printed in 16 languages and published in more than 75 countries.One of America's most thought provoking thriller writers who, with a strong cross-genre appeal, will sell to the Michael Connolly and John Grisham markets and beyond'Today's best legal thriller series' Lee ChildAn innovative mix of print and digital publishing as we're making the entire backlist available as ebooks here for the first timePraise for John Lescroart: 'The courtroom drama king' Independent; 'High-class...first rate' Sunday Telegraph; 'Breathtaking' LA Times; 'Brilliant' Washington Post; 'Compulsively readable' San Francisco Chronicle

EMPIRE STATE is a vintage Bateman adventure: wild, romantic and darkly, dangerously funny.

Nathan Jones - scarred for life by one night of horror in his Northern Irish past. And also by having the same name as a Supremes song.

Hoping for a fresh start, Nathan moves to New York but when his girlfriend leaves him,

he only has his new job for company - that of a security guard at the Empire State building. Recently acquired by a computer billionaire, the building is about to be visited by President Michael Keneally, an army of FBI men, and George Burley of Alabama, a white supremacist with the President at the top of his assassination Top Ten.

Wildly dark and wonderfully entertaining, EMPIRE STATE takes the world of politics - international, racial and sexual - and holds it hostage at the top of one of the most famous buildings on Earth.

'Bateman on epic form in gloriously over-the-top saga''A hugely enjoyable novel...blessed with a beautiful sense of irony...it's like Carl Hiaasen, Tom Wolfe, and Roddy Doyle at their best'Bateman was a journalist in Northern Ireland before becoming a full-time writer. His first novel, DIVORCING JACK, won the Betty Trask Prize, and all his novels have been critically acclaimed. He wrote the screenplays for the feature films DIVORCING JACK and WILD ABOUT HARRY and the popular TV series MURPHY`S LAW starring James Nesbitt. Bateman lives in Ireland with his family.Bateman featured in the Daily Telegraph's Top 50 Crime Writers to Read Before You DieBateman's MYSTERY MAN was a Richard & Judy choice and has sold over 100,000 copiesBBC TV have bought the rights to Bateman's Mystery Man series and are considering a major TV productionBateman is loved by critics, booksellers, writers and readers alike: 'Funny and haunting in equal measure, MYSTERY MAN is Bateman at the top of his game' Sunday Independent, Dublin; 'Funny as well as gripping' Ian Rankin; 'Bateman has a truly unique voice...he is a dark and brilliant champion of words' James Nesbitt; 'Witty, fast-paced and throbbing with menace' Time OutBateman has been awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of Ulster for services to literature, a fantastic accolade for this prolific and incredibly talented writer

From the bestselling author of the Artemis Fowl children's titles comes a brilliant, darkly comic follow-up to the adult crime debut PLUGGEDThe superb follow-up to Eoin Colfer's highly acclaimed PLUGGED, written with the warmth and wit of his Artemis Fowl series.

Dan McEvoy doesn't set out to get into violent confrontations with New Jersey's gangster overlords but he's long since found that once you're on their radar, there's only one way to slip off it. So he's learned his own way to fight back, aiming to outwit rather than kill unless he really has no choice. But when Dan's glam step-gran Edit shows up on the hunt for his dishevelled aunt Evelyn, it quickly becomes clear that family can provide the deadliest threat of all. In a city of gun-happy criminals, bent cops and a tough-talking woman detective whose inspires terror and lust in equal measure, Dan may just have reached the point where sharp wit won't cut the mustard. But can he play the heavies at their own game?Eoin Colfer's first Artemis Fowl book was published in 2001 and he has now published eight books in that series as well as many others. He lives in Ireland with his wife and two children.Eoin Colfer's much-loved Artemis Fowl novels have sold over 1.5 million copies. ARTEMIS FOWL, the first book in the series, was shortlisted for the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year and won the WHSmith Children's Book of the Year AwardIn 2009, Eoin wrote AND ANOTHER THING..., the sixth book in Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, which was widely acclaimed

Praise for PLUGGED:

'I loved the voice. I loved the dark streets. I love the story' Harlan Coben

'Colfer is an engaging and inventive writer with a strong sense of the rhythm of a story...always entertaining page by page' Guardian

'This is Sopranos territory - where terrible deeds are mixed with the painful banalities of life in a way that brings laughter among the tears and gnaws at your heart. It's a fine debut' Daily Mail

Adapted for film, but also a bona-fide Bateman novel in its own right, WILD ABOUT HARRY is this 'dark and brilliant champion of words' at his very best.

Meet Harry McKee - a sleazy local chat show host. Once a loving husband, he's become a drunken unfaithful slob. His wife is divorcing him and taking him to the cleaners. Even his kids won't speak to him.

On his last night as a married man he winds up drunk and is beaten up. When he keels over the next day at the divorce hearing his wife and solicitor assume he's pulling a fast one. He eventually wakes from a week-long coma but he's lost his memory - everything since 1974.

Inside his sagging middle-aged body, Harry feels eighteen again. Though he doesn't know it yet, he has been given the chance to get back his life, his wife and his self-respect. If only he could remember how it all went wrong and why his family hate him...

'Bateman has barged fearlessly into the previously unsuspected middle ground between Carl Hiaasen and Irvine Welsh and claimed it for his own'Bateman was a journalist in Northern Ireland before becoming a full-time writer. His first novel, DIVORCING JACK, won the Betty Trask Prize, and all his novels have been critically acclaimed. He wrote the screenplays for the feature films DIVORCING JACK and WILD ABOUT HARRY and the popular TV series MURPHY`S LAW starring James Nesbitt. Bateman lives in Ireland with his family.Bateman featured in the Daily Telegraph's Top 50 Crime Writers to Read Before You DieBateman's MYSTERY MAN was a Richard & Judy choice and has sold over 100,000 copiesBBC TV have bought the rights to Bateman's Mystery Man series and are considering a major TV productionBateman is loved by critics, booksellers, writers and readers alike: 'Funny and haunting in equal measure, MYSTERY MAN is Bateman at the top of his game' Sunday Independent, Dublin; 'Funny as well as gripping' Ian Rankin; 'Bateman has a truly unique voice...he is a dark and brilliant champion of words' James Nesbitt; 'Witty, fast-paced and throbbing with menace' Time OutBateman has been awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of Ulster for services to literature, a fantastic accolade for this prolific and incredibly talented writer

Dark and irreverent, MOHAMMED MAGUIRE is a wickedly funny fable by bestselling author Bateman.

When the Marines destroy a terrorist training camp in the Libyan desert, they also kill both the parents of a ten-year-old boy, Mohammed Maguire.

Brought back to Ireland, the land of his mother's birth, young Mohammed is treated as a public relations commodity by both sides of an argument that he doesn't understand - but which he can see with the clear eyes of a child.

Wickedly funny and wonderfully abrasive, MOHAMMED MAGUIRE is Bateman at his very best.

'It is as if Spike Milligan teamed up with Flann O'Brien with the idea of writing a farce about Northern Ireland in the 80s. We are offered free-wheeling lunacy, satire, raw comedy and wonderful abrasive dialogue'Bateman was a journalist in Northern Ireland before becoming a full-time writer. His first novel, DIVORCING JACK, won the Betty Trask Prize, and all his novels have been critically acclaimed. He wrote the screenplays for the feature films DIVORCING JACK and WILD ABOUT HARRY and the popular TV series MURPHY`S LAW starring James Nesbitt. Bateman lives in Ireland with his family.Bateman featured in the Daily Telegraph's Top 50 Crime Writers to Read Before You DieBateman's MYSTERY MAN was a Richard & Judy choice and has sold over 100,000 copiesBBC TV have bought the rights to Bateman's Mystery Man series and are considering a major TV productionBateman is loved by critics, booksellers, writers and readers alike: 'Funny and haunting in equal measure, MYSTERY MAN is Bateman at the top of his game' Sunday Independent, Dublin; 'Funny as well as gripping' Ian Rankin; 'Bateman has a truly unique voice...he is a dark and brilliant champion of words' James Nesbitt; 'Witty, fast-paced and throbbing with menace' Time OutBateman has been awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of Ulster for services to literature, a fantastic accolade for this prolific and incredibly talented writer