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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...

A band of battle-scarred crusaders, haunted by loss and fractured faith, take shelter in a storm-lashed tower, with a creature they captured on the battlefield. Behind barred doors lurks a presence that whispers like scripture yet reeks of damnation.

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.

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.

A new string of murders—each echoing a familiar, haunting pattern—forces Agent Adams to confront the chilling possibility: the case isn't over. As she fights to untangle the truth, she realizes they're all connected. But how far will she go for justice—and what will it cost her? The focus now shifts to the mystery that has haunted the investigation from the beginning: What happened to Charlotte Mercer? The girl who vanished without a trace many years ago. The girl who may hold the final piece of the puzzle.

Jennifer is a woman of stark contradictions. She spends her nights hunting down those who evade the justice system. Yet behind her cold, calculating exterior lies a dangerous obsession—a compulsion to save the vulnerable, no matter the cost. Untethered by conventional morality, Jennifer feels an undeniable drive to protect the innocent, even as her brutal methods and twisted moral compass lead her to cross unimaginable lines.

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...

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.

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.

Are you ready for a rollercoaster of emotions? Step into Sharon’s world. A woman who both loves and hates her husband of twenty years. Sharon's life should be perfect with her three children by her side. But behind closed doors, her husband's constant irritating moods and infuriating behavior leaves her feeling trapped and desperate. Every day, she finds herself imagining all the ways she could kill him, but will she actually go through with it?

Brock Larson is a successful criminal defense lawyer. Wealthy, charming, and ruthless in the courtroom, he has a long list of victories—and a darker list of secrets. Behind closed doors, he preys on the vulnerable women who come to him for help, twisting their desperation into his private playground.

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.

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?

Officer Pete Roland knows how the system works—and how it fails. He’s spent years watching murderers walk free, rapists strike deals, and predators vanish into legal loopholes. Every failure chips away at his soul. So he makes a choice. By day, he’s a respected cop. By night, he’s judge, jury, and executioner—hunting down the worst of the worst and delivering justice the courts never will. When his latest target is a powerful mob boss with the police in his pocket, he uncovers a deeper rot. Some of their own are dirty. Other cops—protected by silence, protected by the badge.

In this fast-moving suspense novel, Detective Adam Stanley searches for Miles Muldoon, a hardworking, career-minded businessman, and Pinevale’s latest serial killer. Evidence puts Muldoon at each scene giving the police a prima facie case against him.

Detective inspector Adam Stanley returns to face his most challenging case yet. Someone is randomly killing ordinary Pinevale citizens. Each time DI Stanley gets close to the killer, the killer turns up dead - the next victim in someone’s crazy game. Meanwhile, his girlfriend’s brother, Andrew, currently on remand for murder, escapes and kidnaps his own 11-year-old daughter. However, tragedy strikes, leaving the girl in grave danger. Suffering a potentially fatal blow himself, how can DI Stanley possibly save anyone?

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.

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.