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When a burned body is found in a disused signal box, suspicion falls on lonely teenager Gabriel Webb. There's no doubt he was at the scene of the crime, but does he really deserve what awaits him in prison? DS Imogen Grey is certain there's more to the case than meets the eye. But while she struggles to convince those around her of the truth, her partner, DS Adrian Miles, is distracted by his own demons. When a brutal double murder is reported, their investigation is stopped in its tracks.

When a boy leaps to his death from a bridge in the northern town of Umeå, Sweden, police discover drugs scattered in the snow near his body. The town has seen a dramatic increase in narcotic use among its youth, but nobody knows where the pills are coming from.

They arrive alive. They always leave dead. But before they go, they tell me everything. My name’s Jack Steen, night nurse in an asylum for the criminally insane—where mercy is optional, and every secret comes with a pulse that’s fading fast. My job isn’t to save them. It’s to listen. For years, I’ve recorded their deathbed confessions in the dead of night, one story at a time. What began as whispers caught on tape has now been transcribed—unedited, unfiltered, raw. These aren’t stories meant to be read so much as listened to, in the quiet hours when even your own heartbeat sounds too loud.

In The Angel Of Darkness, Caleb Carr brings back the vivid world of his bestselling The Alienist but with a twist: this story is told by the former street urchin Stevie Taggert, whose rough life has given him wisdom beyond his years. Thus New York City, and the groundbreaking alienist Dr...

Henry Siphuncle has a selfless mission: releasing his patients forever from their distasteful imperfections. It’s for their own good. And the world’s. Even Henry’s own wife didn’t survive his disgust. Nameless has tracked him across the country to an isolated rural community, where the residents are grateful for their new free clinic. For Henry, it might just be the end of the road.

Paige wakes up, tied to a tree in the middle of a woodland, drugged and bruised. With no idea how long she’s been held captive, Paige must fight to survive. Paige and Leo work on a plan to escape their restraints and get free, but before they can, their captors return, and they must fight for their lives.

She looked like she’d drifted off to sleep, curled up in her white dress, blonde hair floating in the breeze. They called it the Angel Murder. Eighteen-year-old Angelica Brock is found dead at a local beauty spot, dressed in a pure white nightgown, her white-blonde hair arranged around her. For years her death is a mystery, her killer the one who got away for a whole generation of police.

Grant, an ambitious photographer, is possessed by a young mental patient's strange drawings and becomes the disturbed young artist's confidant and guardian in a relationship that pushes Grant's own sanity to the edge.

Fifteen years ago, a deranged young man abducted a teenage girl in a parking lot. He chose her for her innocence. Punished her for her beauty. Dowsed her with gasoline and tried to purify her with fire. Detective Jacob Rein managed to stop the lunatic and lock him up for life. Now the girl who survived that horrible ordeal has been found dead, an apparent suicide. Near her body is a letter from "The Master" - a bloodchilling promise to finish what he started.

Gregori Vailean’s life has turned into a nightmare, and—unsurprisingly—it’s a nightmare he knows all-too-well. It’s the nightmare. His mother’s nightmare. The nightmare that started all of this: A city plagued by a hate-born curse—its streets charred and stained with blood—as a waning army of supernatural warriors struggle in vain. It’s a hellish scene, one that Gregori, his mother, and even Xander Stryker saw coming…

In modern day Edinburgh our reality is beginning to break down. A suicide victim fails in his attempt but ends up face to face with an Angel, an imprisoned serial killer draws pictures of real events he couldn't have seen, while a teenage tearaway runs amok believing his life to be a violent video game.

Paige packed up her life in Cardiff to move in with her mother and stepfather in Oxford, hoping to escape her cheating ex-boyfriend, Rufus, and start anew. With some help, she swiftly finds a job as a research assistant to a retired yet eccentric professor, Hugh Eckland, and quickly discovers that the seemingly quaint atmosphere of her new home is only skin-deep as unnerving secrets start to make their way to the surface. Her life started to take a turn for the worst as a series of anonymous and cryptic text messages lead her deeper into the shady underbelly of the university.

En la humilde bahía pesquera de Pasajes, en los años 70, rodeada de muelles de pesca, estibadores, humedad y salazón, se forja una fuerte amistad entre Pakutxa y Celeste, dos niñas de cinco años. Entre juegos, complicidades y travesuras, la desdicha se cruza en su camino y una trágica fatalidad las separa. Celeste, la protagonista de esta historia, sufrirá un trauma que se prolongará durante buena parte de su vida, con consecuencias terribles para ella misma y para cuantos la rodean.

DI Saul has just 24 hours to find out who the killer of the body is. 24 hours to work out how the woman in the cell is linked with the murder. 24 hours in which at every turn, his own life seems to be inextricably linked with the events that unfold. 24 hours before the container in the room explodes....

Paige left the only life she’s ever known in Cardiff to move to Oxford, hoping to escape her cheating ex-boyfriend Rufus, and start anew. At Oxford, with some help, she swiftly finds a job as a research assistant to a retired yet eccentric professor, Hugh Eckland, and quickly discovers that the seemingly quaint atmosphere of her new home is only skin-deep, as unnerving secrets start to make their way to the surface.

In a suburban home where every shadow hides a deadly secret, a determined young woman refuses to accept her sister’s death as suicide. They said it was a simple case, a tragic end. As she uncovers the abusive grip of the controlling Andrew, creaking floorboards and musty cellars reveal truths that could doom her unborn child—or set her free. Time is running out. The neighborhood may sleep soundly, but inside this unassuming house on a quiet suburban street, a deadly game of cat and mouse has begun.

In The Angel Of Darkness, Caleb Carr brings back the vivid world of his bestselling The Alienist but with a twist: this story is told by the former street urchin Stevie Taggert, whose rough life has given him wisdom beyond his years. Thus New York City, and the groundbreaking alienist Dr...

Criminal profiler Pete Sullivan knows evil. When the disgraced ex-seminarian responds to a murder scene at a cathedral, he's certain nothing can shock him. But the moment he steps into the carnage, the nature of the archbishop's murder leaves him reeling. Pete steels himself to do his job, but he must partner with a person from his past. Her mercurial behavior complicates the investigation. Pete follows clues to another sensationalized crime that could lead to more tragedy.

Detective Masuto investigates a Hollywood kidnapping that leads to a shocking conspiracy. Angel is Hollywood royalty. Her husband, Mike Barton, is one of the silver screen’s most bankable stars, and their marriage has all the hallmarks of a Beverly Hills fairy tale. But everything about Angel’s past is kept secret, including her real name. When reporters ask why Mike dubbed her Angel, she says that she must have fallen from heaven. No one knows where Angel Barton is from, and now no one knows where she has gone.

Trapped in a hellish stadium and surrounded by death, Gregori and his friends find themselves facing a threat he’s not sure they can survive—a threat the world, itself, might not survive—but they have no other option but to fight....