John Barber

When Brian Bennett, Group Commissioning Editor of the Rutherford Echo invites DCI Steve Winwood as his 'plus one' to the VIP opening of the Shed Community Theatre Steve fears the worst. He is not wrong. But it is Brian who finds a dead body in the gents toilet apparently having slipped or been deliberately pushed, and cracked his skull on the urinal. The body is identified by two of his university colleagues Professor Daish-Cook and Professor Rufus...

Set six years after the Arab Spring, Morocco remains home to remarkable levels of violence against women. Dr. Jack Lockhart, an American professor of forestry, arrives in Morocco to research the famed argan forests and develops a beautiful, father-daughter relationship with a young woman, Indela. Unbelievably, Indela's boyfriend, Mansour, attacks Indela in Jack's presence. When Jack confronts Mansour, Indela defends Mansour and rejects Jack. Distressed...

The Master of the Mystic Arts and the One-Man War on Crime unite their unique talents in the strangest team-up in comics! Because, when mafia demons strike, it'll take the combined skills of Doctor Strange and the Punisher to stop them! But does this mean that Stephen Strange is about to adopt Frank Castle's lethal ways? Or will the Punisher be learning some new tricks? The Sorcerer Supreme must work on being a little more grounded, while Frank has...

Long ago, on the distant land of Cybertron, Optimus Prime's mentor, Sentinel Prime, sought to stop the war between the Autobots and the Decepticons, but his ship was shot down before his mysterious cargo could bring peace, or so the Autobots thought. When a component of Sentinel's ship mysteriously shows up on Earth, Optimus Prime discovers that his old mentor may be far from gone, but Megatron and his Decepticon forces may have their own plans for...

Long ago, on the distant land of Cybertron, Optimus Prime's mentor, Sentinel Prime, sought to stop the war between the Autobots and the Decepticons, but his ship was shot down before his mysterious cargo could bring peace, or so the Autobots thought. When a component of Sentinel's ship mysteriously shows up on Earth, Optimus Prime discovers that his old mentor may be far from gone, but Megatron and his Decepticon forces may have their own plans for...

Long ago, on the distant land of Cybertron, Optimus Prime's mentor, Sentinel Prime, sought to stop the war between the Autobots and the Decepticons, but his ship was shot down before his mysterious cargo could bring peace, or so the Autobots thought. When a component of Sentinel's ship mysteriously shows up on Earth, Optimus Prime discovers that his old mentor may be far from gone, but Megatron and his Decepticon forces may have their own plans for...

"These ARE the droids you're looking for! First, R2-D2 tries to stop an Imperial spy from revealing a Rebel secret. But will C-3PO help, or just get in the way? Then, in a story set in the time of the Clone Wars, Anakin and Padmé are desperate to get away from the endless fights, both on the battlefield and the floor of the Senate. But when their vacation goes haywire, will RD-D2 and 3PO be able to set things right?"--Page [4] of cover.