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June Dawson has come a long way from her rough East End background. She now lives in a nice little cul-de-sac in Rainham with her ultra-respectable husband and a lovely social life. But her world collapses when daughter Debbie announces that she is pregnant by her low-life drug addict boyfriend, Billy McDaid. June feels as though she is being sucked back into the world of villains and thugs she thought she had escaped forever.

Hendes datter, med de smaragdgrønne øjne og det sødeste smil, betyder alt for hende. “Mor,” siger den lille pige og rører hendes ansigt med rystende fingre, inden hun bliver vristet væk. Kommer hun nogensinde til at se sit barn igen? Da den enlige mor Alison Nolan tager på ferie med sin 6-årige datter, Hazel, glæder hun sig til at tilbringe kvalitetstid med sin lille pige. En ferie ved Silent Lake, hvor sneklædte tinder er omgivet af efterårets gyldne farver, er lige, hvad de trænger til. Men efter få timer forsvinder Alison og Hazel ud i den blå luft.

*** From the acclaimed author of THE LAST THING TO BURN comes a new thriller about identity, rivalry and deceit. *** THE LAST THING A TWIN EXPECTS IS TO BE ALONE ... Molly lives a quiet, contained life in London. Naturally risk averse, she gains comfort from security and structure. Every day the...

'Deeply layered, fiendishly clever and absorbing' Matt Hilton, author of the Joe Hunter series The first gritty thriller in the Avison Fluke series by M. W. Craven, the acclaimed author of The Puppet Show. Detective Inspector Avison Fluke is a man on the edge. He has committed a crime to get...

Bloomsbury presents Born Bad by Heather Burnside, read by Penelope Rawlins. Book 1 in this gritty Manchester crime trilogy. When your enemies get close, family loyalty is all you can trust. Brother and sister Peter and Adele Robinson never stood a chance. Dragged up by an alcoholic, violent...

A powerful, gritty novel set in the criminal underworld of Manchester from bestselling author Marnie Riches. *The battle is on* When gang leader Paddy O’Brien is stabbed in his brother’s famous nightclub, Manchester’s criminal underworld is shaken to the core. Tensions are running high...

DI Owen Sheen vowed to his father never to return to Ireland. But years have passed, and Sheen needs answers to the questions he has surrounding his brother’s death. He is on loan from the Met under the belief he will be helping set up a new Historical Offences Team. On arrival to Ireland, plans change, and he finds himself partnered with newly promoted DC Aoife McCusker to work on her first appointed murder investigation.

Jennifer Hanson comes home and catches her 12-year-old son, Shane, stabbing their cat to death. Thankfully, he doesn't see her. She has long known Shane has a brain with psychopathic tendencies. Ever since he accidentally shot his father to death at age six, she has done everything she can to ensure Shane doesn't become a full-blown psychopath. She can tell he's changing, becoming increasingly dangerous, but she can't stomach putting him in a psych ward. But then she finds pictures of a dead girl in his phone, a girl everyone thought had died accidentally.

Elle payera au fort prix de sa vie le crime qui aura fait d’elle un monstre à l’égal de l’homme qui, lui, voit sa violence partout exaucé.

På havnen i Ringkøbing kender de ham som "Russeren"; en fredelig ældre mand, som passer sin båd og drikker øl med mændene på kajen. Indtil han en dag bliver myrdet med en gift, som den russiske efterretningstjeneste er kendt for at bruge. Mordet på Russeren indleder "Forræderens børn", Leif Davidsens hæsblæsende spiondrama, der trækker tråde til Putins Rusland og byder på et gensyn med søskendeparret Tor og Laila, som vi mødte i Djævelen i hullet fra 2016.

Join Cassie on a thrilling journey into the heart of Savannah's mysteries, where secrets are currency, trust is fragile, and every revelation could cost her everything. Will she find the strength to face the past and unravel the enigma that threatens not only her future but the lives of countless others? Dive into this gripping tale, where danger lurks in the shadows, and uncovering the truth could mean paying the ultimate price.

Toby is a pooch in need of a short back and sides. Unfortunately, an unscheduled appointment at Toby's local poodle parlor proves particularly perilous for the poor proprietor in more ways than one. Her poor poodle is left pining. But when you have a spellbound hound on the case, it turns out murder can be stylish after all!

I didn't mean to kill him. The last thing I want is the director of my film—my first big role—dead. Now the cops are here, and even though it's obviously self-defense, I'm done for...my life is over. I'll never work in this town again even if I manage to avoid jail time. I'll be infamous instead of famous. Temperance Johnson is straight out of central casting—a spy master with tiger's eyes and unnatural grace—a real killer. He offers me a solution. He'll sweep all this under the rug and help me reach my goals if I work for him. Well, for the government.

NightfallSome soldiers don’t come home to normal life. Alexis Graves is former British Army, living quietly in the East Midlands. Officially, she runs a small rural operation. Unofficially, she’s surrounded by people like herself, veterans who never quite fit back into the world they were told to return to. When opportunities begin to appear in the criminal undercurrent of the region, Alexis and her circle are drawn into something that demands discipline, secrecy, and absolute loyalty.

Three siblings, a pilot, university professor, and marijuana grow-operator, come together every Christmas. As always, their elderly parents present to them their thoughts in a recorded message. But this year's missive causes Frederick, Maria and Marcus to flinch, intense sentiments resurface. But before they can react, they are distracted by the sudden disappearance of the family's talkative parrot, Pock. Who has stolen him? Fingers are pointed, Gypsies are blamed.

After his father passes, James returns home and finds out that his younger brother has become ensnared in a deadly race against the mafia and needs his protection.

A recent college graduate, Rayla Rousseau has been leading a double life that’s given her life extraordinary meaning. Trained from the time she was seven by her grandmother to become the irrepressible thief she is, Rayla has worked for a secret sisterhood since her 13th birthday. In addition, Rayla’s maintained a solo thieving career since she turned 18. Now at 22, she’s a full-fledged high-end thief who steals from the vile, contemptible, and entitled wealthy, taking down real bad guys and keeping a fair amount of the spoils for her trouble.

Born to Hustle follows the lives of identical twin brothers as they learn to survive their abusive upbringing by identifying with fictional con men, imitating behaviors of gangsters and secret agents, to become the bad-ass boys in black. With no one to protect them, the twins grow up fearful of attachments to anyone else but one another. They learn to use being idents to hustle the world around them, becoming the ultimate grifters focused on becoming as rich as possible as quickly as possible.

In search of redemption from his sordid past, FBI Special Agent Alex Bailey takes on a new partner, Katherine Mitchel...and a new secret mission. Before being assigned their first joint case, Katherine uncovers damning evidence against a major crime ring known as The Syndicate.

I have been immersed in criminal activity from the day I was born. I was bred for the sole purpose of carrying on my father's reign of terror. I was born into the Bratva, and I would die in the Bratva. It was my destiny. I learned how to spot a fighter from a very early age, and Kathleen had that fighting spirit inside her. I wasn't sure what her story was, but she piqued my curiosity. In my gut, I also knew I'd left my mark on her. She'll never be the same, never recover from unwittingly drawing my attention.