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Cricket For Dummies, Third Edition will help you understand the basics of cricket, the internationally popular sport that has leagues around the globe. With this guide, you can enjoy watching matches, and even set up a casual game with friends. The book includes clear explanations of the rules, step-by-step guides to strategy and tactics, and info on all the most popular tournaments around the globe. Learn about the cricket greats of today and yesterday, plus get updates on the latest developments, including Major League Cricket and the Cricket World Cup.

They say the dead walk amongst us – could that be true? Well, in Fairfield, that unremarkable Hertfordshire town, there are a few that do – apparently. Thirty-three years after his death, Terry awakes to discover an old acquaintance by his side suggesting that he needs to atone – who is this woman – demon or diva?

Meredith & Hodge are excellent detectives, but often secretive and conflicted in both their working and personal relationship. However, nothing gets in the way of them solving a case.

Trying his best to live a normal life, Sam is called back to his crusade by the abusive behavior of a celebrity billionaire in Out of Reach. In Days Gone By, the chance to finally discover what happened on a mission gone wrong over a decade ago sets Sam off on a battle with the soon-to-be-president of France. And in The Fighter, Sam is recruited by an off-the-books government agency to enter an underground fighting tournament as their one and only chance to get close to a brutal arms dealer.

Detective Patsy Hodge has left her old life behind to start a new job with Bristol CID. She attends a suspicious death with her new boss: straight-talking, no nonsense Detective Inspector John Meredith. Within days the body count begins to rise, as victims, old and new, are discovered to have died by lethal injection. Assisted suicide or euthanasia? Meredith calls it murder.

A charismatic Cuban, Alberto Mistro, offers five middle-aged couples an all-expenses paid holiday. Too good to be true? Of course! The Mistro family has a secret past, and the holiday makers find themselves in a race against time. They are required to solve a 600-year-old puzzle. If they succeed, they get to go home. If they fail...well, let’s just say, failure isn’t an option.

Relive the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s in this witty and gripping time travel series. Evoke the memories and discover the mystery. The impossible dilemma of two identical men from different eras, a mysterious time-shifting event, and a future that holds the consequences of his past mistakes. Courtesy of a random time-shifting event in 1976, Jason Apsley time travelled from 2019 to 1976 and unwittingly displaced ‘other’ Jason, who has no choice but to continue his life forty years in the future.

DCI John Meredith has one day left in the job when his friend Ben Jacobs is arrested for murder. According to the numerous witnesses in the nightclub where Jacobs works, Jacobs stabbed Aiden O’Brien in a motiveless attack. Meredith believes all is not as it seems and is determined to prove his friend’s innocence, even if it means letting down Patsy Hodge, allowing the secret intelligence service to call the shots, and ignoring his increasing ill-health.

Meredith and Hodge are stranded up a mountain with two dead bodies and a murderer on the loose, Christmas is put on hold until they can catch the killer. John Meredith has been coerced into joining a group of friends, in a castle on top of a mountain, for the Christmas holiday. His irritation at being dragged away from home soon dissipates, as he relaxes in the picturesque surroundings, enjoying the company of good friends. Even the sudden snowstorm is accepted without complaint; it will be a white Christmas. But then Patsy Hodge discovers a dead body in the salt box.

Meredith finds himself stuck between the Russian Mafia and the Secret Intelligence Service. But whose side has he chosen? His team are investigating a series of horrific murders involving the Russians, and are beginning to question where his loyalties lie. Even Patsy Hodge has her doubts. Hodge is working on an assignment that appears to be safe and boring. When she discovers there is a connection to the Russians, her relationship with Meredith places her in danger. Has Meredith overplayed his hand? The secrets and lies are mounting up and not everyone will get out alive.

Meredith's team are horrified when the daughter of one of their own is taken from the park by a stranger. Her disappearance is only the beginning of a series of abductions of young girls in the area. To catch the abductor, the team must first work out what motivates him, but time is running out, and he might just slip their net. Hodge begins to question her new career as a private investigator. But a seemingly mundane case soon finds Patsy, herself, being interrogated and hand-picked for a very different assignment.

A self-confessed murderer has kidnapped one of Meredith’s officers. They want Meredith to prove an apparent suicide was, in fact, murder. He’s working against the clock, as the kidnapped officer has been locked away with limited food and water. Hodge is searching for the ex-husband of a prison inmate. She needs to establish he’s still alive, or her client could be charged with his murder.

Meredith is keeping secrets from Hodge which can only lead to trouble and raise questions as to whether their relationship can survive. But their personal issues must take a back seat as Meredith investigates a series of mysterious and motiveless murders. His interest in proving the innocence of the main suspect is raising eyebrows. Patsy Hodge takes her first major case as a private investigator. She needs to find out if a successful business woman was raped by a colleague. Both cases need to be solved before Meredith and Hodge join the murder victims.

Special Branch Detective Constable John Gallagher is seconded to a British Home Office Statistical Unit for what he considers a minor violation of trust. He's not well pleased; he knows nothing of statistics and had been hoping for a much less boring end to his year. To this very day, the summer of 1966 is revered by all of England as the year the Jules Rimet World Cup trophy came back to the home of football but behind all the excitement another, deadlier, game was being played, one with much more serious consequences.

After his one man war on crime takes him to the depths of the Ukrainian underworld, Sam Pope is accosted by an elite United States military outfit known as Blackridge. Under the threat of incarceration for his crimes, Sam agrees to join their squad when he finds out they are hunting his former mentor through Europe - Sergeant Carl Marsden.

Terry and Deana, the most unlikely guardian angels, face their third and undeniably most challenging mission when their past returns to haunt them. If they are to atone, they must successfully help Virginia … a woman neither has met but, unbeknown to them, was intrinsically entwined in their lives.… the ghostly duo are in for a shock.

Charlie Birch is dead. A knife, thrust into his chest, has effortlessly sliced through his right ventricle, quite literally breaking his heart, which given his past behaviour, was perhaps a fitting end. An unexpected chain of events had placed a desperate Charlie and many of the Middle Mound villagers in the White Hart pub that morning. Then Charlie decided to hold them all hostage. That was his last mistake.

When reclusive writer Jock falls for vivacious tea shop owner, Sapphire, he is amazed that she seems to feel the same way about him. He watches with pride as Sapphire is crowned May Queen at the town's May Day celebrations, but his joy turns to heartbreak when she runs off into the crowd, never to return.

Over three years ago, Amara Singh made the decision to step away from her life as a detective and join Directive One, a covert government team that worked off the grid for the good of the nation. As her career is blossoming, she soon stumbles across the name Vladimir Balikov and his links to a potential nuclear attack. Balikov is a ghost. A man of unspeakable wealth but no digital footprint. All they have is an annual visit to Budapest, where he hosts an underground fighting tournament, where his wealthy supporters pit desperate criminals against each other in a fight to the death.

Join Meredith & Hodge in the murky world of crime, in this three-book boxed set full of mystery, murder and intrigue.