Murderous Maths: All Shapes and Sizes is full of facts, tricks and tips about why shapes are super and measurements are magic! Updated for the relaunch of the primary national curriculum in autumn 2014, children can learn all about tricky triangles, vicious circles, spangled angles and much more with simple explanations and hilarious characters.
Agatha Raisin and The Murderous Marriage by M.C. Beaton
The morning of Agatha Raisin's long-awaited marriage to her attractive and elusive neighbor, James Lacey, dawns bright and clear. But the storm clouds of the day before would have been more appropriate. A new anti-wrinkle cream turns Agatha's face into one large red rash, James refuses to discuss his feelings for her, and then Agatha's first husband, Jimmy Raisin, reappears just in time to keep her from committing bigamy. The ensuing brouhaha - Agatha tries to strangle Jimmy, whom she had thought long
Bo Blackman is not adjusting to her new life as a fledgling vampire particularly well. Drinking blood sickens her and, despite her new enhanced physical skills and the attention she's receiving from Lord Montserrat, she's desperate to find a cure. When her illegal search takes her to the door of Fingertips and Frolics, a small family-run magic shop, she becomes embroiled in a dangerous game of tit-for-tat with murderous consequences. To complicate matters further, she's forced to also take on a case of apparent kidnapping. But with no ransom demand and a client she despises, it may be more of a struggle to solve than she realises.
When I think of all the wild animals with which I've returned to America since I started bringing 'em back alive. I wonder why I haven't had many more anxious moments. I have had to make a study of such hard-boiled details of the collecting business as the best way to get a snarling tiger out of a pit into a cage without getting messed up in the process. How to transfer a murderous king cobra from a crude native container to a modern snake box, how to ... But perhaps it would be better if I told you some of my adventures.
Christie delivers a tale of deception and murder in an extended family of upper-caste Egyptians of 2000 BC. Rarely have the sniveling sounded so uxorious, the good so innocent, or the murderous so deceiving.
