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Russell James
Books in Order: 73 titles
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Passage Up The Mekong
In 1938, Rick and Rose Sinclair run an antique shop. One of Rick's shady friends offers him the deal of a lifetime on a large, beautiful hand that had been sculpted out of polished jade. The purchase drains their savings and incenses Rose, who is con...
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Search For The City Of Gold
For centuries, stories had circulated of an Aztec city so rich that precious gems adorned the buildings and the streets were paved with gold. But like so many Aztec locations, this one had been abandoned and swallowed by the jungle. Since the time of...
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Under the Skeleton Flag
It is 1718 and Doctor Baxter Whitcomb decides to leave his medical practice in London for the challenge and adventure of practicing in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. But while crossing the ocean, his ship is boarded by pirates. And not just any pirate...
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Desolation Canyon
It seems like the perfect trip when paleontologist Grant Coleman joins a geology professor and an anthropologist to explore an unmapped canyon far out in the Utah desert. The sponsor's team leader promises Grant he can take home all the fossils he fi...
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Generation Omega
In a world where children are forbidden, one couple will not comply...The human race is dying.In the near future, genetic mutation causes everyone born after a certain date to mature into psychopaths. Massacres plague the nation. For the safety of al...
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Atoll X
Billionaire Parker Rothman is building a resort on a private island in the South Pacific. He's uncovered marine fossils during construction and offers paleontologist Grant Coleman the opportunity to come catalog them. The offer includes all expenses ...
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Demon Dagger
A Demon Hunter with a gift that becomes a curse. A Demon that hunts the hunter. A thrilling tale of darkness and vengeance for fans of the TV series 'Supernatural'."A thrilling game of supernatural cat and mouse." - Publishers Weekly"A fast-paced thr...
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Lambs Among Wolves
Evil may soon consume mankind, if the demons have their way.After the death of her father, young Cyndi Fisher travels to Paris to meet the grandfather she never knew. That man turns out to be Father Jack Cahill, a renegade exorcist who was unaware he...
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Mammoth Island
As paleontologist Grant Coleman waits to board a plane for a much-needed Hawaiian vacation, thugs knock him out and kidnap him. He awakens on a cargo aircraft in flight to find he's an unwilling member of an expedition to a secret Arctic location cal...
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She Had To Die
After five years she’s back: the girl Nick Chance fell for at school. She went on to university, while he stayed in Bristol and tried to make a career in rock groups. Now he plays sax in a jazz/rock group, Blue Delta, due to play for the first ...
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Farallon Island
Nate Thalmann wants to escape his life as a Prohibition Era bootlegger. He moves with his pregnant wife Alice to the Farallon Island lighthouse, situated on a rocky islet twenty-seven miles off the California coast. Joining three other keepers and th...
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The Portal
Three hundred years ago, on an isolated island in Long Island Sound, Satan tried to open a doorway to Hell. Now he's returned to finish the task.A black speedboat arrives at the small island community of Stone Harbor. Its mysterious passenger, Joey O...
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Dragons of Kilauea
The tranquil forests of Hawaii's Volcanoes National Park hide a dangerous secret. For centuries, fire-breathing dragons have slumbered in the bowels of the volcano Kilauea. But acts of inexplicable arson and horrific murders around the island appear ...
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Lord Oakburn's Daughters
This swirling tale contains all the hallmarks of the classic Victorian 'Shocker': a mystery, a romance and, for one family, lives transformed. We have embellished it with the addition of critiques and extensive notes and a collection of superb wood e...
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Man's Estate
In late Victorian England, two fathers must choose between daughters and sons.Man’s Estate, the third in the Croome saga, takes place in 1893 when the story splits between lives in the growing town of Croome and the quite different life in the ...
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Talking With Timothy
Author Russell James went to the local animal shelter to pick out a cat.A cat picked him out instead.Timothy, an orange tabby, came home to join his new sister Mallory. He brought a sense of superiority, a feeling of entitlement, a vendetta against a...
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Claws
National Park Service Rangers Kathy West and Nathan Toland are the only ones stationed at Fort Jefferson, a restored Civil War fort sixty miles off Key West, Florida. Two overnight campers go missing, but before the rangers can investigate, shady Hom...
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The Captain's Ward
Coming of age in Victorian England.In 1887, twelve-year-old orphan Lucy Richards is taken secretly into the care of a half-pay captain in an isolated farmhouse several miles from the small town of Croome. Lucy's mother founded hospitals in India and ...
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The Playing Card Killer
"A masterfully crafted, horrifically powerful story. Expect the unexpected in this deliciously twisted tale." - Cemetery DanceBrian Sheridan may be losing his mind.Asleep, he's plagued by dreams of murder, women strangled with a red velvet rope then ...
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The Curse of the Viper King
Paleontologist Grant Coleman and environmentalist Janaina Silva, lost in the Amazon rain forest, discover an isolated logging camp, and the chance to hitch a ride back to civilization. But the workers uncover a fossil of a giant snake, almost fifteen...
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Monsters In The Clouds
Paleontologist Grant Coleman and activist Janaina Silva are recruited by Thana Katsoros for a top secret expedition, one in search of a live Apatosaurus on a plateau deep in the Amazonian rain forest. But their plane crashes short of their destinatio...
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After She Drowned
1891. Victorian England. In the small country town of Croome where the local lead mine is losing money, the year begins with a tragic drowning.Recently arrived in Croome the new vicar, Matthew Rolfe, has escaped the tragedy of his past and hopes to l...
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Cavern of the Damned
Broke and desperate, paleontologist Grant Coleman gets the chance of a lifetime exploring a long-sealed cave, the fabled home of gigantic creatures. NPS Ranger McKinley Stinson discovers a rancher's prize bull has been butchered by an airborne killer...
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Return to Q Island
Millions long to break out of quarantine. One man needs to break in. The paleovirus has swept Long Island, turning residents into psychotic killers. A government quarantine traps Patrick in Connecticut, separated from his mother and pregnant sister o...
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Marissa Anselmo and the City Beneath the Sea
At sixteen, Marissa Anselmo discovers she has a choice. She can live a life above the water or beneath it. Thousands of years ago, sorcerers separated two warring Mediterranean peoples, teleporting satyrs into northern Europe, and submerging the huma...
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Mother Naked
A dark comedy about hypocrisy. For Ruth's 100th birthday the family gathers in a remote hotel. They deplore her scandalous past -- but might they have worse secrets of their own? Ruth worked at the Windmill in her youth and behind her back is criti...
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Forever Out of Time
Acclaimed author Russell James delivers nine fantastic time travel short stories: • A psychologist tries to cure an agoraphobic patient of his belief that passing through doorways accelerates time. Can he do it before a construction project brings ...
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Naked Painted Bodies
Do I want to go to Hunter's sleepover birthday party? With an older sister has gorgeous as Danielle sleeping in the same house, likely barely dressed in a nearby bedroom -- heck yeah I do! But the night gets interesting when Hunter's younger brothe...
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Naked and Unsupervised
I don't get it. I ask a couple simple questions: "What is sex?" and "What is jacking off?" And I get riddle involving a jimmy-john, a yahoo, and screaming for Jesus. I guess it's my fault for asking Uncle Dax in the first place. Now, I have to find t...
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Special Delivery*
When the mail must get through, leave it to a kangaroo.Meet Roopert - an irresistible little kangaroo - whose adventures delivering the mail almost end in disaster. Only Roopert's best friend Amelia the beetle will give Roopert any chance of deliveri...
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Naked Series: 3 Book Bundle
The entire Naked series in one book. A fantastic collection of three stories, revealing inner thoughts of three different boys coming face-to-face with the scary prospect of being naked.
Part One: Naked a Camp Freedom Mitchell's Story
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The Naked Club
As if finding a hidden fort in the woods behind my house wasn't cool enough, I discover my favorite friend Mitchell, who recently moved away, lives just on the other side of the woods. Things get interesting when my cousin Ryder convinces me to make ...
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Naked at Camp Freedom
I can't believe this new kid Xander. Forced to bunk with each other at Camp Freedom while surrounded by fifty other boys who are all a couple years older, Xander hits me with the strangest question: "Do you like me?" What does he mean by that? Betwee...
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The Newly Discovered Diaries of Doctor Kristal
A black comedy set in the Swinging Sixties (1963-4) and revealed through the diaries of a doctor -- 35 years old and still a virgin -- whose curious obsessions drive him to start murdering his patients.Doctor Kristal is picky, pedantic and super-...
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Blood Red Roses
The spirits of the dead cry for justice. In the waning days of the Civil War, orphaned teen Jebediah Abernathy has been indentured to one of the most notorious plantations in Mississippi, Beechwood. Ramses, the sadistic overseer, rules completely...
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Dark Vengeance
Will the blood of innocents release the evil trapped at Galaxy Farm? A coven of witches has moved into the tiny town near Galaxy Farm. They know about the evil entity that lies trapped there, and they hope to resurrect it and set it free to renew...
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Deeper Into Darkness
Russell James returns with a second collection of thirteen horrific short stories. • A mysterious pinball machine arrives at the mansion of an aging porn king. He finds that this gift has itself a gift to give. Accepting both may be his last mistak...
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Island Girl
In 1851, Harrison Bartlett boards the brigantine Enchantress, escaping to the East Indies from the painful memory of his late wife. His ship sinks in a Pacific storm. The sole survivor, he washes ashore on a deserted volcanic island. Struggling to su...
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Black Magic
In this magic shop the magic is real. And the trick is on you. Citrus Glade is a dying town that needs new businesses, but the one that just opened is doing much more harm than good. Stranger Lyle Miller's magic shop seems to only stock what its ...
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Rafael's Gold
In this new thriller from Russell James a 21st century quest for sunken treasure is interlaced with love and tragedy from the time of the Spanish Armada. King Philip's quest to defeat and subdue upstart Britain under Queen Elizabeth 1st is in stark c...
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The Exhibitionists
'On the night Parliament burnt down, a child was conceived out of wedlock, a baby was abandoned, and another thrown into the Thames.' The year is 1834 and J.M.W. Turner is sketching Parliament burn. Unnoticed, a hackney cab drives past, the passenger...
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Vensus Has People!
Captain Austyn Parsons commands the Aphrodite 3, a methane extraction ship orbiting Venus. But this trip proves less than mundane as flying creatures are sucked through the collection hoses and clog up the vents leading to the ship. This leads Parson...
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Brace Yourself
Betrayal and murder at a country house shooting party. When this story appeared in a characteristically yellow and black Victor Gollancz anthology, 'Crime Yellow', the Times review picked it out as 'a splendid country house shocker from Russell James...
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Terri's Tales
From one of Britain's masters of crime writing, here are two stories to whet your appetite, presented here in bargain-price format. The first, A Piece of Cake, has been anthologised several times already, and tells of the night Terri waited at home f...
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My Bullet Sweetly Sings
"When beauty's the prizeWhat mortal fears dying?"Tim Hawk plans his assassinations well, rehearsing them with cool detachment, and his professionalism makes him a rising star in Kazan's gang. Hawk's only other interest, an unexpected love for baroque...
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The London Sextet
This collection of six stories has been brought together for the first time within one book. Five are set in London, though the first brings some of his London characters out for a day's shooting in the Cotswolds. (This is the story singled out in th...
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Requiem for a Daughter
In a quiet London street, a gunman holds his little child as hostage until, after a dramatic police siege, the smoke clears to reveal a sickening outcome. Firearms Officer Abi Wilde is suspended. As if that wasn't bad enough, her CO19 work partner To...
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Undercover Marshal
The town of Dry Acres is under the oppression of a crooked alliance between outlaw Mark Grayson and his protector, Mayor and Sheriff Henry Binalt. When the local newspaper editor, Gil Radford, is murdered before he can expose the corruption, his niec...
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No One Gets Hurt
One of the UK's finest genre writers."-Booklist. When a young woman is gruesomely murdered, her friend and fellow reporter Kirsty Rice feels bound to investigate. Just as she enters the murky world of call girls, porn, and internet sex, she discovers...
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Pick Any Title
'Lord Clive' bought his lordship at a 'Lord of the Manor' sale where titles fetch anything from two thousand to two hundred thousand pounds. Why not buy another cheap and sell it high? Why stop at only one customer? When some of his American buyers, ...
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Painting in the Dark
There are two main threads to the book: a modern crime story and the recollections of an 85-year-old woman with dark secrets in her past. Set during the British General Election of 1997 when Tony Blair swept to power, the story bounces back to the 19...
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Oh No, Not My Baby
James has a way with characters. Few are precisely what they seem, and our desire to learn who they really are and what actually happened makes this one a page-turner" - Booklist. It should have been a dream come true. Nick Chance fancied her at scho...
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Count Me Out
South-east London gangland meets the alternative lifestyle of a travelling fair. Jet Heywood is a fairground boxer past his prime who, after a street brawl, finds himself nursing a head wound. His brother Scott has long wanted out of his dead-end lif...
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Slaughter Music
Determined to become the right-hand man of London mobster Al Kazan, Tim Hawk is delighted to be put in charge of Kazan's young new bride, just as a full-scale mob war begins to undermine Kazan's criminal empire...
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Underground
Reissue of the first book from the British crime writer whom Ian Rankin would later call 'The Godfather of British Noir'.The hero of this tense thriller has been lying low in the urban decay of south-east London, waiting to be called on for his 'job'...
