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Brought to you by Penguin. THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 3 BESTSELLER AND RICHARD & JUDY PICK DAVID RAKER IS BACK WITH ANOTHER HEART-POUNDING MISSING PERSONS CASE CCTV footage captures Cate and Aiden Gascoigne driving home seconds before their car plunges into a ravine and explodes. When fire crews...

Brought to you by Penguin. One family... On a beautiful summer's day, at a remote lake in the middle of Dartmoor, three members of the Fowler family take a dinghy out onto the water, leaving mother Sarah at the shore. Less than sixty seconds later, she checks to see where they are. The boat is...

Murder, loyalty and vengeance collide in Jessie Keane’s gritty fourth novel. Lily King has spent years behind bars Convicted of murdering her husband, London villain Leo King, she hasn’t been missed. Everyone believes she got what she deserved, but Lily knows she was fitted up. Now she’s...

Brought to you by Penguin. Two disappearances. Two families. One secret. Missing persons investigator David Raker returns to crack a cold case wide open. ONE DAY AGO... On the night Tom Brenner and his nine-year-old son Leo visit the Seven Peaks theme park, they head straight for the ghost house...

In Blackbird, the highly anticipated ninth installment of the Hart's Ridge small-town mystery series, Deputy Taylor Gray finds herself supporting a colleague through a painful journey of letting go. Meanwhile, a young woman and her children must flee from her abusive ex-partner, seeking refuge and safety. Deputy Gray becomes entangled in their plight, blurring the lines between duty and personal conviction.

2014: The Commonwealth Games are coming to Glasgow and security is extra tight, particularly after a mysterious bomb explodes in nearby rural Stirlingshire. As the opening ceremony for the Games draws ever closer, the police desperately seek the culprits. But Detective Superintendent Lorimer has other concerns on his mind. One is a beautiful red-haired woman from his past whose husband dies suddenly on his watch.

Eve and Liza, Mother and Daughter, live a quiet life in their remote home; a rustic gatehouse of a country mansion. At first glance their lives appear quite ordinary, except that Liza has almost no knowledge of the outside world, has never played with a child her own age and has witnessed her mother commit murder, on multiple occasions.

When a skull is found in Lough Coyne, facial reconstruction expert Dr Carla Steele is drawn into a 14-year-old case – but not all cases are cold, as Carla discovers when she and local Garda DS Jack Maguire find the brutally murdered body of a local woman close to the water's edge. Together with Carla's partner, criminal psychologist Grace Franicosi, Carla and Jack uncover a tragic story with very dangerous and current implications. Since the disappearance of her best friend, Carla has dedicated her career to bringing the dead home, but this time it's the living who are counting on her.

Birds, Strangers and Psychos is a thrilling anthology that brings together the biggest names in mystery and crime fiction to pay homage to Alfred Hitchcock, the legendary filmmaker whose name is synonymous with suspense. Acclaimed editor Maxim Jakubowski curates 24 original short stories, each inspired by the mood, tension, and style that defined Hitchcock’s groundbreaking work.

A thrilling novel about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice from a writer and producer of the Emmy-winning Fox TV show Empire. "In Bluebird, Bluebird Attica Locke had both mastered the thriller and exceeded it." —Ann Patchett When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays...

Now happily living in Sweden, Kriminalinspektör Stella Cole faces off against a psychopath who leaves no clues beyond the victims’ bizarrely altered corpses. As the death-toll mounts, Stella reaches into her own murderous past for clues to the killer’s motives. Because she knows exactly how serial killers evade capture….

Homicide detective Frost Easton doesn't like coincidences. When a series of bizarre deaths rock San Francisco - as seemingly random women suffer violent psychotic breaks - Frost looks for a connection that leads him to psychiatrist Francesca Stein. Frankie's controversial therapy helps people erase their most terrifying memories...and all the victims were her patients.

'The ending of this suspenseful blend of scientific thriller and whodunit packs a real wallop.' - Publishers Weekly The panic is real. The cure is a lie. Gotland is known for its picturesque ruins and summer sun, but a shadow has fallen over the island. In this gripping seventh installment of...

A secret only stays a secret of nobody else knows. Friends are a luxury you can't afford. Jennifer Bradley has a big secret, one that can get her killed if the wrong person finds out. She has the mob boss's grandson; he calls her "Mommy" and, guess what? The Mob boss just found out he has a grandson. Her secret is blown. Now there's a contract out on her and she does the only thing she can do, run.

The public think Ava's a monster. Ava thinks she's blameless. In prison, they called her Butcher Bird—but Ava's not in prison any more. Released after 25 years to a new identity and a new home, Ava finally has the quiet life she's always wanted. But someone knows who she is. The lies she's told are about to unravel. 

Detective Tom Fabian's past is catching up with him. It has been years since the most high-profile case of his career - when his evidence put infamous serial killer Christopher Wisher behind bars forever. But when Wisher summons a reluctant Fabian to his prison cell to hand over a diary, he realises that Wisher’s twisted games are far from over. Shortly after Fabian’s visit, Wisher is found dead in his cell. And a few days later, the police find a woman’s body bearing Wisher’s signature, a dead songbird....

Eine Entdeckung, für die Menschen töten würden. "Ich glaube, ich fange an, zu verstehen. Diese Entdeckungen müssen Milliarden wert sein." Eine mysteriöse Mordserie erschüttert München. Im Forschungs- und Innovationszentrum eines Automobilherstellers stirbt ein Ingenieur bei einer Wasserstoffexplosion. Noch am selben Tag wird ein Physiker der TU München in einen tödlichen Autounfall verwickelt. Bloßer Zufall? Als nur einen Tag später ein Vorstandsmitglied des Automobilkonzerns vom Dach des Firmengebäudes in den Tod springt, wird es Zeit zu handeln.

La Melancolia de los Hombres Pajaroe este thriller, muy recomendable para escuchar en un viaje largo o durante una semana de puesta en forma paseando, nos encontramos con un empresario de éxito, propietario de barcos, aviones e incluso bancos, que de repente, cuando su hija aparece brutalmente asesinada, se da cuenta que su escala de valores está más que trastocada.En el exótico e incomparable marco de la isla de Pascua van a coincidir una serie de personajes variopintos invitados a la inauguración de un hotel de lujo por parte del empresario Camargo.