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Another gripping thriller from Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Alice Feeney! 'One of my favourite thriller writers' Harlan Coben 'I'm a huge Feeney fan' Chris Whitaker * * * * * Aimee Sinclair: the actress everyone thinks they know but can’t remember where from. But I know...

In an enthralling new historical novel from national bestselling author Kate Quinn, two women a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947 are brought together in a mesmerizing story...

After suffering the tragic loss of her best friend, Lottie Beck is struggling. Aged eighteen, she's flunked school and spends her days lying in a darkened room, doing nothing. Finally, she is forced to get a job in Silver Birches Care Home. Once there, and after meeting the residents, particularly the feisty, no-nonsense Bobby, she settles in, appreciating how much history lies behind each person. A history she can read, in her own special way, via the simple touch of a hand.

This was never supposed to happen. My desire to rid the world of these vile people who make others suffer was never supposed to bleed into my personal life, but here I am… sorting out the pieces to keep my two lives separate. Of course, Gabriel is the good that keeps me balanced. He makes me laugh, he makes me happy, and he makes me feel emotions I never thought were possible.

Despite winning Gabriel’s heart, my trials are not yet over when I’m stuck competing with Gabriel’s cat for his affection (why is she only evil when he’s not looking?), dealing with coworkers trying to befriend me (I should have blackmailed more of them), and worst of all... meeting Gabriel’s parents (whose affection I will win with lavish presents).

July 2015, Sevenoaks. 12-year-old schoolgirl Alice Johnson went missing while doing her paper round, her bag found discarded on the pavement. At 08.00, she was spotted standing in heavy rain at the side of the busy by-pass. At 11.00, she was seen talking to the driver of a black car in Tonbridge. After that, nothing. Alice was never found. Nine years later the body of another schoolgirl, Joleen Price, is pulled from a nearby lake and a local man named Vince Burns detained. Convinced that Burns is guilty in both cases, SIO Dave Armstrong calls in the Finder.

Monte Carlo, inizio anni 2000. In un mondo pre-smartphone, dove la tecnologia è ancora analogica e le radio regnano sovrane, un serial killer che si fa chiamare "Nessuno" terrorizza il Principato con delitti macabri, scarnificando i volti delle vittime. Prima di uccidere, telefona a Radio Monte Carlo durante Voices, lo show del dj Jean-Loup Verdier, trasformando le frequenze in un teatro dell'orrore. Frank Ottobre, ex agente dell'FBI distrutto dal senso di colpa, arriva a Monte Carlo su invito dell'amico Nicolas Hulot.

Though I was born with the ability to see the dead, I struggled with it until my brother was killed and his ghost was left behind. Now, I’m determined to figure out who is responsible for his death…the problem is that Detective Maddox Booker, the one working the case, is a grumpy and stubborn man who wants nothing to do with me and definitely doesn’t believe in ghosts. It doesn’t help that I keep finding myself looking ridiculous in front of the detective, thanks to interfering ghosts who enjoy laughing at my expense.

Eden Fox, eine aufstrebende Künstlerin, hat eigentlich alles erreicht, was man sich wünschen kann: eine beneidenswerte Karriere, ein Mann an ihrer Seite, ein bezauberndes altes Anwesen, das sie seit Kurzem ihr Zuhause nennt. Dann kommt sie am Tag ihrer ersten großen Ausstellung vom Joggen zurück und nichts mehr ist, wie es einmal war: Der Hausschlüssel passt plötzlich nicht mehr ins Schloss. Eine fremde Frau, die ihr unheimlicherweise wie eine Doppelgängerin gleicht, öffnet die Tür. Dahinter ihr Ehemann, der behauptet, die Fremde sei seine Frau.

Brought to you by Penguin. ONE LIE TO SAVE HER FUTURE. ONE DECISION TO DESTROY HIS. An intensely gripping, unbelievably tense new psychological thriller from global bestselling author Lucinda Berry that asks one haunting question: If you had to choose, which child would you save? Ella and...

After discovering her husband Jason’s latest affair, Alice knows their marriage is over. But Jason refuses to walk away from their children—or their home. So they strike a desperate deal: they’ll keep the house, taking turns living there. Half a week each. Simple. But the arrangement quickly becomes suffocating. Each time Alice returns, her space has changed—Jason’s mess taking over, her belongings misplaced.

Clare Riordan and her son Mikey are abducted from Clapham Common early one morning. Hours later, the boy is found wandering disorientated. Soon after, a pack of Clare's blood is left on a doorstep in the heart of the City of London. Alice Quentin is brought in to help the traumatised child...

How far would you go to keep a secret? Alice has a perfect life - a great job, happy kids, a wonderful husband. Until he goes missing one night; she receives a suspicious phone call; things don't quite add up. Alice needs to know what's going on. But when she uncovers the truth, she faces a brutal choice. And how can she be sure it is the truth?Sometimes it's better not to know.

Keisha Lewis mourned the loss of her wife, Alice, who disappeared two years ago. There was a search, there was grief beyond what she thought was possible. There was a funeral. But then Keisha began to see her wife, again and again, in the background of news reports from all over America. Alice isn’t dead. And she is showing up at the scene of every tragedy in the country. Keisha shrugs off her old life and hits the road as a trucker - hoping on some level that travelling the length of the country will lead her to the person she loves. 

Callum is lured to an isolated boathouse by an attractive older woman. When she gets him alone, she knocks him out with a single blow. Surrounded by hills and lakes, Still Waters is home to a close-knit community of wealthy retirees. It's an unlikely setting for violence. The police don't take Callum's disappearance seriously: he's 24-years-old, after all. But Callum's mother, a Still Waters resident, knows that something is very wrong. Then a body is discovered floating in the lake. Head bashed in. But it's not Callum. And someone tweets: Come out to play one last time, Alice. 

EDGAR AWARD WINNER In this powerful new thriller, Alice Vega and Max Caplan return, uncovering a network of white supremacists in their search for a long-lost counter-culture hero. "Alice Vega is sensational—I want to see lots more of her." —Lee Child, #1 New York Times best-selling...

Mulholland Books presents... CROSSBONES YARD Ray and Marie Benson killed 13 women before they were caught, tried and imprisoned. Five of their victims were never found. Six years later, psychologist Alice Quentin discovers a woman's body on the waste ground at Crossbones Yard. The wounds are...

The girl was lying on the steps of the Foundling Museum, dressed all in white. Four girls have disappeared in North London. Three are already dead. Britain's most prolific child killer, Louis Kinsella, has been locked up in Northwood high-security hospital for over a decade. Now more innocents...

The page-turning follow-up to acclaimed thriller Two Girls Down features the tenacious PI Alice Vega and her electric partnership with Max Caplan, as they follow a shocking murder investigation to it’s even more shocking conclusion. On the outskirts of San Diego, the bodies of two young...

In the small village of Fortbridge, it's hard to keep a secret. But bestselling crime writer Camilla Harton-Gray is faced with a twist she couldn't see coming: her very own stalker, whose behaviour seems to take a leaf out of Camilla's own novels. Grappling with a bizarre set of clues, stubborn coworkers and a crisis of confidence, DS Alice Washington knows this is her chance to get it together and prove herself. But as the pressure builds and Alice's grip on her instincts hangs by a thread, it becomes clear that Camilla's stalker will do anything to keep their identity hidden...