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Even sleepy, picturesque coastal towns have their secrets. Welcome to Solva, where a burned-out car, a corpse, and a hauntingly precise execution greets a morning walker. DCI Evan Warlow faces a case steeped in fear and the worst of modern crimes.

It's been 17 months since the Bloodsmith butchered his first victim, and Operation Maypole is still no nearer catching him. The media is whipping up a storm, and the top brass are demanding results, but the investigation is sinking fast. Now isn't the time to get distracted with other cases, but Detective Sergeant Lucy McVeigh doesn't have much choice. When Benedict Strachan was just 11, he hunted down and killed a homeless man. No one's ever figured out why Benedict did it, but now, after 16 years, he's back on the streets again.

Jeffery Archer is a New York Times best-selling author, published in over 37 languages across 97 countries. Jeffrey Archer's debut novel Not A Penny More, Not A Penny Less from 1976 is dramatised here in seven parts by Betty Davis; as well as his later work A Matter of Honour, which was recently rediscovered in the collection of an amateur archivist after the recording was lost on delivery to the BBC archives. The sound quality of A Matter of Honour may be affected as a result.

After accepting a date with an older man, Vivian finds herself in a life-or-death situation with two undercover drug enforcement agents. These guys are as crooked as they are dangerous. Marcus wants to control her and use her for sex. And Lenny just wants her dead. The only way to escape their grasp and the constant threat of death is to play by their rules. She discovers the lure of danger combined with the fascination of her sexual evolution exciting. She falls in love with a monster. And becomes entangled in a relationship filled with manipulation and obsession.

Dogs have long been man’s best friend, but the Bug Man’s friends is a rare breed . . . the cadaver dog. All roads lead to the White House for John Henry Braden, the charismatic senator from Virginia aristocracy whose beautiful wife Victoria is the talk of Washington and the crown jewel of...

Posadas County, sitting along New Mexico's southern border, has enjoyed a surge in visitors, jobs, and prosperity since rancher Miles Waddell used much of his inherited half billion to create an internationally renowned astronomy complex atop Torrance Mesa. Passion, not profit, drives Waddell. Yet benefits include a narrow-gauge train linking the village of Posadas to NightZone. But a ripple of unease is felt across the county with the arrival of developer - no, speculator - Kyle Thompson.

People started dying, and personalities started to change. Who was murdering people and dumping their bodies in Queen’s Park near the café? Why were the bodies mutilated? What did any of that have to do with Sam? If you like your BLT with a side of murder, manipulation, and massacre, where the tip you leave just might be a part of yourself, then welcome to the Amazing Bee Café.

Que ferons-nous quand notre planète en aura assez? Le monde se meurt. Face à la pollution galopante, à la surpopulation et à l'élévation du niveau de la mer, l'élite dirigeante élabore un plan audacieux, mais terrible. Lorsque le cerveau de ce plan fait marche arrière et cache au monde entier ce plan ingénieux, sa vie est soudainement menacée par un facteur des plus inattendus.