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FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB A brand new series. An iconic new detective team. And a thrilling new murder to solve . . . ----- Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life. He does the odd bit of investigation work, but he prefers his familiar habits and routines: the pub quiz, his favourite bench, his cat waiting for him when he comes home. His days of adventure are over: adrenaline is daughter-in-law Amy’s business now. Amy Wheeler thinks adrenaline is good for the soul. As a private security officer, she doesn’t stay still long enough for habits or routines. She’s currently on a remote island keeping world-famous author Rosie D’Antonio alive. Which was meant to be an easy job . . . Then a dead body, a bag of money and a killer with their sights on Amy have her sending an SOS to the only person she trusts. A breakneck race around the world begins, but can Amy and Steve stay one step ahead of a deadly enemy? Product Information: • ISBN: 9780241608364 • Author: Richard Osman • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Format: Hardback • Pages: 464 • Dimensions: 24.1 x 16.2 x 4cm
Shocking news reaches the Thursday Murder Club. An old friend in the antiques business has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing. As the gang springs into action they encounter art forgers, online fraudsters and drug dealers, as well as heartache close to home. With the body count rising, the package still missing and trouble firmly on their tail, has their luck finally run out? And who will be the last devil to die? Product Information: • ISBN: 9780241992401 • Author: Richard Osman • Publisher: Penguin • Format: Paperback • Pages: 432 • Dimensions: 12.7 x 2.8 x 19.7cm
The Inmate is a propulsive, mind-bending thriller about how we define guilt―and who has to pay for it, from bestselling author Freida McFadden. The guiltiest people aren't always the ones behind bars… As a new nurse practitioner at a maximum-security prison, Brooke Sullivan is taught three crucial rules: Treat all prisoners with respect. Never reveal any personal information. Never EVER become too friendly with the inmates. But nobody knows that Brooke has already broken the rules. Nobody knows about her intimate connection to Shane Nelson, one of the penitentiary's most notorious and dangerous inmates. They certainly don't know that Shane was Brooke's high school sweetheart―the star quarterback, the golden boy who's serving a life sentence for a series of grisly murders. Or that Brooke's testimony was what put him there. But Shane knows. He knows more than anyone. And he will never forget. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781464221385 • Author: Freida McFadden • Publisher: Sourcebooks, Poisoned Pen Press • Format: Paperback • Pages: 336 • Dimensions: 12.8 x 2.0 x 19.7 cm
The first book in the number 1 bestselling Thursday Murder Club series by TV presenter Richard Osman. In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders. But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves. Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer before it's too late? 'Thrilling, moving, laugh-out-loud funny' – Mark Billingham 'Mystery fans are going to be enthralled' – Harlan Coben Product Information: • ISBN: 9780241988268 • Author: Richard Osman • Publisher: Penguin • Format: Paperback • Pages: 400 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.4 cm
An addictive, unpredictable thriller that will keep you asking the question: what is the truth? Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams. They think they've found it when they visit the remote manor that once belonged to Dr. Adrienne Hale, a renowned psychiatrist who vanished without a trace years ago. But when a violent winter storm traps them at the estate, the house begins to lose its appeal. Stuck inside and growing restless, Tricia stumbles on a collection of audio transcripts from Dr. Hale's sessions with patients. As Tricia listens to the cassette tapes, she learns about the terrifying chain of events leading up to the doctor's mysterious disappearance. With each tape, another shocking piece of the puzzle falls into place, and a web of lies slowly unravels. But by the time Tricia reaches the final cassette, the one that reveals the entire horrifying story, it will be too late… Product Information: • ISBN: 9781464221361 • Author: Frieda McFadden • Publisher: Sourcebooks, Poisoned Pen Press • Format: Paperback • Pages: 320 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 1.9 cm
Some doors are locked for a reason… While eleven-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing women in the basement. Until the day the police arrived at their front door. Decades later, Nora's father is spending his life behind bars, and Nora is a successful surgeon with a quiet, solitary existence. Nobody knows about her past, and she'll do anything to keep it that way. Then one of her young female patients is murdered, killed in the same unique and horrific manner that her father used to kill his victims. Somebody knows who Nora is. Somebody wants her to take the fall for this unthinkable crime. But she's not like her father. The police can't pin anything on her. As long as they don't look in her basement… Product Information: • ISBN: 9781464221354 • Author: Freida McFadden • Publisher: Sourcebooks, Poisoned Pen Press • Format: Paperback • Pages: 320 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 1.9 cm
A dark, twisting thriller about a group of friends lost in the woods: one by one, they each will fall, and only the killer will return home alive... A night spent sleeping on dirt and leaves is not how Claire Matchett expected to spend her vacation. She thought this would be a break from the stresses of work and raising her young children. A chance to repair her damaged marriage. A week of hiking and hot tubs with friends. It sounded like heaven. Then Claire's minivan breaks down on a lonely dirt road. With no cell reception, the group has no choice but to hike the rest of the way to their hotel. But it turns out the woods aren't as easy to navigate as they thought. Hours later, they are lost. Hopelessly lost. And as they navigate deeper into the woods, the members of their party are struck down mysteriously one by one. Has a wild animal been hunting them? Or is the hunter one of them? But as more time passes, one thing becomes clear: Only one of them will return home alive. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781464221392 • Author: Freida McFadden • Publisher: Sourcebooks, Poisoned Pen Press • Format: Paperback • Pages: 272 • Dimensions: 12.9 x 1.7 x 19.8 cm
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden. All families have secrets. But some secrets are deadly. Erika Cass has a perfect family and a perfect life. Until, one quiet evening, two detectives show up at her front door. "Mrs. Cass, we were hoping your son could answer a few questions about the girl who disappeared last night..." A high school girl has vanished from their quiet neighbourhood, and the police suspect the worst. Erika's teenage son, Liam, was the last person to see the girl alive. Erika has always sensed something… different in her seemingly perfect oldest child. He’s charming, smart and popular, but mothers have the best instincts. Erika knows there’s more to her son than meets the eye. She wants to believe he's innocent, but as the evidence mounts, she can't deny the truth? Liam may have done the unthinkable. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781464228599 • Author: Freida McFadden • Publisher: Sourcebooks, Poisoned Pen Press • Format: Paperback • Pages: 320 • Dimensions: 19.9 x 12.9 x 2cm
A chilling story of twisted secrets and long-awaited revenge by Freida McFadden... Lesson #1: trust no one Eve has a good life. She gets up each day, gets a kiss from her husband Nate, and heads off to teach math at the local high school. All is as it should be. Except… Last year, Caseham High was rocked by a scandal, with one student, Addie, at its center. And this year, Eve is dismayed to find the girl in her class. Addie can't be trusted. She lies. She hurts people. She destroys lives. At least, that's what everyone says. But nobody knows the real Addie. Nobody knows the secrets that could destroy her. And Addie will do anything to keep it quiet. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781464221378 • Author: Freida McFadden • Publisher: Sourcebooks, Poisoned Pen Press • Format: Paperback • Pages: 400 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.4cm
In the picturesque village of Kibblesworth, DI Tom Stonem is dreaming of a quiet Christmas alone. But in the shadow of the Angel of the North, a body lies waiting. The dead man is posed with a child’s Christmas list in his pocket, and the first mysterious item – 1. No angel – is crossed off. When a second body is found – a woman, stabbed in the abdomen after her work Christmas do – Stonem is convinced there’s a grim connection between the crime scenes and the seemingly innocent list. 2. Red partee dress. Could this be a murderer’s twisted code? As a blizzard rages in the Tyne & Wear countryside, the body count is snowballing. Can Stonem stop the killer before they get everyone on their Christmas list? Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008616298 • Author: Chris Frost • Publisher: HarperCollins • Format: Paperback • Pages: 304 • Dimensions: 12.9 x 2.8 x 19.8cm
Two women. An office filled with secrets. One terrible crime that can't be taken back. Dawn Schiff is strange. At least, everyone thinks so at Vixed, the nutritional supplement company where Dawn works as an accountant. She never says the right thing. She has no friends. And she is always at her desk at precisely 8:45 a.m. So when Dawn doesn't show up to the office one morning, her coworker Natalie Farrell-beautiful, popular, top sales rep five years running-is surprised. Then she receives an unsettling, anonymous phone call that changes everything… It turns out Dawn wasn't just an awkward outsider-she was being targeted by someone close. And now Natalie is irrevocably tied to Dawn as she finds herself caught in a twisted game of cat and mouse that leaves her wondering: who's the real victim? But one thing is incredibly clear: somebody hated Dawn Schiff. Enough to kill. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781464221347 • Author: Freida McFadden • Publisher: Sourcebooks, Poisoned Pen Press • Format: Paperback • Pages: 368 • Dimensions: 12.8 x 19.7 x 2.7 cm
Are there dark secrets hidden on this island? When a wealthy lawyer is found murdered in her Sandbanks mansion, along with an unidentified companion, DCI Lesley Clarke finds herself plunged into a case with many suspects. Was it the victim's ex-husband, resentful at her new lifestyle? The housekeeper who found the bodies? Or could it have been a murder-suicide? Lesley and her team must unravel the evidence, while also investigating the disappearance of local Sadie Dawes, who went missing after looking into the death of Lesley’s predecessor. It seems that this playground for the rich might be harbouring a mystery … and maybe a killer. An absolutely unputdownable crime thriller that will hook fans of Elly Griffiths and Ann Cleeves. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781804367643 • Author: Rachel McLean • Publisher: Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd • Format: Paperback • Pages: 352 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.1cm
This Christmas, the hunters become the hunted… When four trail hunters go missing in the fells of Cumbria on Christmas Eve, the race is on to find them before nightfall – when the temperature plummets. After hours of searching, the first body is found… Not frozen in the snow, but brutally murdered and bearing a warning:the real hunt has begun. As a snowstorm descends, three lives hang in the balance. But can the killer be caught before the trail goes cold? Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008621025 • Author: Alex Pine • Publisher: Avon • Format: Paperback • Pages: 384 • Dimensions: 12.8 x 2.4 x 19.8cm
Christmas has arrived in Cumbria, and wedding bells are ringing. But an ice-cold killer is waiting in the fells… As the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve, DI James Walker receives a phone call that puts paid to his Christmas break. During the wedding of the year at a lakeside hotel, the bride’s sister has vanished. When Rachel left the wedding breakfast before her speech, newly-wed Libby was furious. But as the night went on with no sign of her maid-of-honour, Libby started to realise something was very, very wrong… Before the wedding night is out, the lake is being searched for a body. Something old, something new. One guest is a killer. The question is: who? Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008520267 • Author: Alex Pine • Publisher: Avon • Format: Paperback • Pages: 384 • Dimensions: 12.8 x 2.2 x 19.8cm
The first Myron Bolitar thriller from the Number 1. bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix show Fool Me Once. Talent agent Myron Bolitar is poised on the edge of the big time. So is Christian Steele, a footballer and Myron’s prized client. But when Christian gets a phone call from a former girlfriend-a woman who everyone, including the police, believes is dead-the deal goes dangerously wrong. Trying to unravel the truth about a family’s tragedy, a woman’s secret, and a man’s lies, Myron discovers the dark side of his business-where talent make you rich, but the truth can get you killed. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781398723870 • Author: Harlan Coben • Publisher: Orion Publishing • Format: Paperback • Pages: 400 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 13 x 2.5cm
THE SERIAL KILLER ISN’T ON TRIAL. HE’S ON THE JURY… Murder wasn’t the hard part. It was just the start of the game. Joshua Kane has been preparing for this moment his whole life. He’s done it before. But this is the big one. This is the murder trial of the century. And Kane has killed to get the best seat in the house. But there’s someone on his tail. Someone who suspects that the killer isn’t the man on trial. Kane knows time is running out – he just needs to get to the conviction without being discovered. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781035414994 • Author: Steve Cavanagh • Publisher: Hodder Headline • Format: Paperback • Pages: 368 • Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 3 cm
A body on the beach plunges DCI Lesley Clarke into a case that will test her to the limit. While DCI Lesley Clarke is now settled in her home in Dorset, her team at the Major Incident squad is close to collapse. Just as Lesley feels she is getting closer to answers as to what is troubling her squad, she's forced to work on the other side of Dorset after a body is uncovered by a landslide at Lyme Regis's beach. Who is the body and what is the connection to DCI Mackie, Arthur Kelvin, and her girlfriend's law firm? With a case that seems to have more questions than answers, it's going to take Lesley everything she has to track down a killer... Product Information: • ISBN: 9781804367650 • Author: Rachel McLean • Publisher: Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd • Format: Paperback • Pages: 336 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 2cm
When a young man is found frozen to death on a Highland street in mid-December, DCI Jack Logan initially puts it down to a Christmas night out gone tragically wrong. But, when a post mortem reveals something more sinister, Jack discovers he is dealing with a cold, calculating killer with a long line of victims, a talent for torture, and a perverse sense of justice. Half a decade ago, the press dubbed him ‘The Iceman’ - a twisted vigilante who successfully evaded capture for two years, before melting away into the night. Now, The Iceman has come back. His naughty list is longer than ever. And it contains some worryingly familiar names… A Snowball’s Chance in Hell is the ninth book in the internationally bestselling DCI Jack Logan Scottish crime fiction series. Perfect for fans of Ian Rankin, Stuart Macbride, and Val McDermid. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781804368237 • Author: JD Kirk • Publisher: Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd • Format: Paperback • Pages: 352 • Dimensions: 19.84 x 12.85 x 1.96 cm
Every marriage has its secrets… Beth and Tom Hardcastle are the envy of their neighbourhood – they have the perfect marriage, the perfect house, the perfect family. When the police knock on their door one evening, Beth panics. Tom should be back from work by now – what if he’s crashed his car? She fears the worst. But the worst is beyond imagining. As the interrogation begins, Beth will find herself questioning everything she believed about her husband. They’re saying he’s a monster. And they’re saying she knew. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008414078 • Author: Alice Hunter • Publisher: Avon • Format: Paperback • Pages: 384 • Dimensions: 12.9 x 2.4 x 19.8 cm
She thought she’d left her past behind.,she was wrong… Despite a childhood in the care system, Anna Price has beaten the odds and built for herself the perfect life, complete with beautiful seaside home, devoted husband and a job she loves. Then a policeman appears at Anna’s door: her estranged brother Henry is a wanted serial killer, and the police need Anna’s help to catch him before he strikes again. When an envelope turns up on her doorstep, Anna suddenly finds herself caught in a sick game. One that she remembers all too well from childhood – one that, this time, she must win at all costs… Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008562212 • Author: Alice Hunter • Publisher: Avon • Format: Paperback • Pages: 352 • Dimensions: 12.9 x 2.2 x 19.8 cm