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Emma is house-sitting on the rainy Washington coast with only her golden retriever for company. She likes the isolation, the peace and quiet, and the opportunity to read. But her latest pick, a poorly written and gruesome horror novel, is disappointing and Emma leaves a one-star review. A message dings back - the author, H.G. Kane, has replied and he's furious. Emma brushes it off, until disturbing incidents start to occur. Scratches in the night. A figure crawling around in the shadows.

The setting itself is elemental P. D. James: the bleak coast of East Anglia, where atop a sweep of low cliffs stands the small theological college of St. Anselm’s. On the shore not far away, smothered beneath a fall of sand, lies the body of one of the school’s young ordinands. He is the son...

The fifth mystery in the acclaimed and bestselling Adam Dalgliesh series by “the reigning mistress of murder”(Time), P.D. James, is now available on CD. Just recovered from a grave illness, Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called to the bedside of an elderly priest. When Dalgliesh arrives, Father...

Megan Miller is an ordinary woman with a young family - until a shocking discovery shatters her perfect world. When two young boys are brutally murdered in their tight-knit village community, Megan slowly begins to realize the signs all point to the lovable local primary school teacher - her husband. But when she begins to delve deeper into her husband's secret life, she makes discoveries that will make her question everything she knows - and make her fear for her young daughter's life.

While hiking in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, FBI Special Agent Kendra Dean and her K9 partner, Baxter, stumble upon a dead body stashed in the woods. The discovery changes both of their lives forever. Special Agent Rick Sanchez hunts a serial murderer who is targeting women on a multi-state killing spree. Kendra Dean, an agent Rick met on a joint mission six months ago, has found the most recent victim. Rick and Kendra once shared a tempting chemistry but time and miles made their spark a distant memory.

Sixteen-year-old Jesse Brooks joins his town’s junior fire program hoping to earn respect—and maybe outrun the shadow of his father’s legacy. But when a sudden wind shift sends the fire jumping the line during a supervised training operation, Jesse is separated from his crew and lost in the mountains with nothing but his instincts and what little gear he carried in. As the days stretch and the fire closes in behind him, Jesse must rely on more than survival skills. Out here, the hardest battle isn’t against the fire—it’s staying whole when everything else burns.

Jack Brogan earned his nickname 'Blood' on the icy shores of the Falkland Islands, a name forged in a conflict he'd rather forget. Now, in the quiet cathedral city of Norwich, 1987, he's just a Detective Constable hoping for a peaceful life. But peace is a luxury a serial killer won't allow. A shadow is stalking the streets, leaving a trail of bodies and a chilling calling card: a perfectly sharpened piece of flint. Each victim is a mystery. Each shard of stone, a silent accusation.

Nick and his crew have saved a lot of people from monsters. But what happens when they don't WANT to be saved? The monster? The Mnemophage. It's diet? Every embarrassing memory you've ever lain awake at 2AM regretting. The problem? The town that's been feeding it their collective memories of...

For Melissa May, happily married to Gavin for the best part of 30 years, life couldn’t get much better. Her world is ripped apart when she discovers Gavin is HIV positive. The shock of his duplicity and irresponsible behavior reawakens a psychiatric condition Melissa has battled since childhood. Fueled by rage and a heightened sense of right and wrong, Melissa takes matters into her own hands.

Thirty years ago, four-year-old Georgina Adams was kidnapped from a fair in Franklin, Tennessee. She was taken away from her sister, her parents, her community. Neither she nor the people who knew her were ever the same again. This is her story.

Gretel tells the story of 17-year-old Lucy, taken against her will five years ago. Caged up with no one left to protect her, she must survive the night or become the killer’s latest victim. After he killed her, she wept. Body bags and chainsaws stripped the night clean. Her mind a mess of revulsion as the silence took over and the girls pleaded for their lives. Had it been five years already? Trapped down in the darkness, away from reality. Now Jess was gone, brutally murdered; she was like a lamb to the slaughter…and tonight was the feast.

Exactly 4317 stitches, his father had told him once. All the king's horses and all the king's men had put Henry Franks back together again. One year ago, a terrible accident robbed Henry Franks of his mother and his memories. The past 16 years have vanished. All Henry has now are scars and a distant father - the only one who can tell Henry who he is. If only he could trust his father.

Detective Vince Tanaka is ready to leave his NYPD career behind for a fresh start with the FBI and his family in San Diego. But when bodies begin appearing in churches across Manhattan—eyes removed and replaced with silver coins—Vince is pulled back into the cold case that's haunted him for three years: The Ritualist.

Mason had killed him in cold blood years ago, but somehow, the Lullaby Killer is back. He’s taunting Mason with letters printed in blood. They threaten a slow, painful death…but not before his secrets are spilled. Desperate to keep the weight of his crimes from crushing his family, Mason is forced back into his run-and-gun life as a private investigator, as he tracks down the man bent on destroying his life - the man who will do anything to ruin him. Mason is caught up in his most dangerous case yet.

After suffering through years of abuse, Tori just wants answers and to find a way to reclaim her life and keep her son, Webster, safe. In the midst of Tori’s confusion, in comes Pierce to save the day. Against her better judgement, Tori gives her love and trust to Pierce, but did she make the right decision?

Detective Richard “Dick” Marshall has been missing for 12 years. Leaving his old life behind after a case gone bad, he fell off the radar. Ever since then, bodies began surfacing across the country. Happily married women slaughtered in a random pattern, but all the deaths seemed to be linked to one person - The Wife Slayer. Agent Eva Parks of the FBI, formerly Detective Marshall’s partner, is on The Wife Slayer case. When a familiar face is spotted at each crime scene, she realizes she knows the killer.

Eleanor and Jack Harvey just celebrated their 25th anniversary. On what should have been a perfect night, Eleanor receives a message from a voice from her past. Over the course of a few months, the mysterious stranger ups his game to a deadly obsession and their happy life together takes a heinous turn for the worse. Stalked, followed, threatened, tormented, Eleanor's life spirals out of control while her elusive stalker gets closer and closer. He seems to know her only too well and is always one step ahead.

Agent Adams is handed another missing persons case—this time, it's Julia Monroe, a twenty-four-year-old Harvard graduate who had only just returned to her family's Bethesda home. Julia vanishes without a trace. No signs of forced entry. No goodbye note. Just an empty bedroom and a family unraveling by the hour. The deeper Adams digs, the stranger the story becomes. Julia's mother is more irritated than distraught. Her brother recalls a gardener with a too-slick smile. And the timeline doesn't add up—Julia was last seen walking in the opposite direction of where she said she was going.

Amanda Flynn's life is falling apart. Her spineless cheating husband has taken her beloved children. Her paedophile father, who went to prison vowing revenge, has been abruptly released. And now someone in the shadows is watching her every move. When one by one her father and his cohorts turn up dead, Amanda finds herself at the centre of several murder investigations;with no alibi and a diagnosis of Multiple Personality Disorder. Abandoned, scared and fighting to clear her name as more and more damning evidence comes to light, Amanda begins to doubt her own sanity.

Cameron is broke and drowning in addiction. What began as a search for an occasional high has spiraled into a life of lies, theft, and self-destruction. His father and sister have tried to help him — time and again — but each act of kindness is met with another betrayal. When Cameron loses his job and his last place to stay, desperation takes hold and life goes wrong. Terribly wrong. Now, with blood on his hands and no more bridges left to burn, Cameron must face the truth: was it an accident… or something far darker lurking within?