Showing results for "Dead Girls" in Thriller & Suspense

How could things have gone so wrong between Syl Jameson and Viola Harrison? Syl and Viola are like sisters growing up in the small, stifling town of Love Hill. Though they are as different as light and dark, they connect. And for Syl, Viola’s family is a warm refuge away from the unaffectionate place that Syl calls home. But the reality is Syl can get a little needy and jealous. Viola can get a little toxic. And, like everyone in Love Hill, they have secrets. Eventually their friendship is bound to snap.

Freida McFadden meets Shari LaPena in a riveting, chilling novel of domestic suspense about a woman in a troubled marriage who joins an exclusive book club to reinvigorate her sense, but finds there's something sinister between the pages... Amelia knows her marriage isn’t normal. It’s always...

Maigret and his fellow inspector Lognon find themselves trying to outmanoeuver each other when they investigate the case of a mysterious young woman whose new life in Paris is tragically cut short. Maigret wouldn't have admitted that what intrigued him most was the victim's face. All he had seen of it so far was one profile. Was it the bruises that gave her that sullen air? She looked like a bad-tempered little girl. Her combed-back brown hair was very smooth but naturally wavy.

When her best friend Billie is found murdered, eleven-year-old Thera – fearless and forthright – considers it her duty to find the killer. Aided by a Ouija board, Billie’s ghost, and the spirits of four other dead girls, she’s determined to succeed. The trouble with Thera, though, is...

Famous, beautiful and talented, Heike Gunn has the world at her feet. Then, one day, she simply vanishes. Jack Parlabane has lost everything. A call from an old friend offers a chance for redemption - but only if he can find out what happened to Heike. From Berlin to Barcelona, from the streets...

‘Utterly compulsive’ Fiona Cummins FIVE MISSING. THE HUNT IS ON FOR NUMBER SIX. THE SERIAL KILLER With five girls already missing and two dead police officers to add to the body count, the hunt is on. But how do you catch a man who doesn’t exist? THE VICTIM Held captive for months, Erica...

In this twisty psychological thriller, a young woman still haunted by her brother’s murder is forced to question everything she thought she knew when the killer’s brother claims the wrong man went to prison. Jessica will never forgive herself. Five years ago, her brother and best friend were...

Bloomsbury presents Dead Girls Dancing by Graham Masterton, read by Lucianne McEvoy. A tragic accident – or a vicious attack? In the middle of winter, a fire blazes through a dance studio. Seventeen young dancers die, their promising careers cut short by a tragic accident. But where others see...

Brought to you by Penguin. Get ready for the unmissable new thriller from the #1 internationally bestselling author of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder In seven days Jet Mason will be dead. Jet is the daughter of one of the wealthiest families in Woodstock, Vermont. Twenty-seven years old, she’s...

Hithechurch, a peaceful, out-of-the-way seaside town in Kent. When Charlie was young, she would visit with her family, making friends and playing down by the beach. Their favourite was telling scary stories; silly games of make-believe that would twist and weave old wife’s tales to scare each other. They would laugh and try to shake off the shiver than ran down their backs and made the hair on their necks stand on end.

A serial killer stalks women in rural Ohio. He is deranged but brilliant, known only by the grotesque nickname the media has given him - The Doll Parts Killer. The name is apt. He dismembers his victims and leaves them in garbage bags in public places. A residential neighborhood. Next to a roller rink. Behind a Burger King. The investigation is a disaster. No physical evidence. Unreliable witnesses. To make matters worse, the FBI has lost contact with the star profiler working the case.

Cosma war eigentlich eine ganz normale Schülerin, doch ihr Tod bringt Düsteres zu Tage – und nicht nur Freundschaften ins Wanken. Die charismatische Schülerin Cosma Passadakis war klarer Mittelpunkt ihrer Clique. Als sie tot im Straßengraben gefunden wird, sind Eva und Shirin, Luke und ihr Freund Nico verzweifelt. Wer hat ihre Freundin auf dem Gewissen? Die Polizei ermittelt, ihre Freunde auch. Und entdecken dabei, dass in Cosmas perfektem Leben nichts so war, wie es scheint. Wer war ihre Mitschülerin, Vertraute und Freundin wirklich?

When her best friend Billie is found murdered, eleven-year-old Thera – fearless and forthright – considers it her duty to find the killer. Aided by a Ouija board, Billie’s ghost, and the spirits of four other dead girls, she’s determined to succeed. The trouble with Thera, though, is...

When a violent storm hits Graveyard Falls, it unearths the unimaginable: skeletons of teenage girls, each dressed in white and holding a candle. It's clear to FBI agent Beth Fields that this is the work of a long-standing killer - but could it be the one she escaped years ago? She has no memory of the man who held her captive and murdered her friend. But even though someone was jailed for the crime, she's always feared that the real killer is still out there...waiting and watching.

She’s right. It can never happen again. She won’t let it. Ten years have passed, and Ren Taylor is back at square one, having accepted a job at her old high school. She’d hoped to make peace with the past but now she’s thrust back into it: her murdered teenage sister is still...

With the first disappearance, the townspeople begin to mistrust outsiders. When the second girl goes missing, neighbors and childhood friends start to eye each other warily. And with the third disappearance, the sleepy little town awakens to a full-blown nightmare. The Church of Dead Girls displays Stephen Dobyns' remarkable gifts for exploring human nature, probing the ruinous effects of suspicion.

I may not remember everything, but I know he won’t hurt anyone else. I won’t let him. It’s been two months since a serial killer brutally attacked police detective Alisha Green and left her for dead. Two months since she could effortlessly recall simple things, since her mind felt remotely...

The beautiful young woman on the stretcher could be on her honeymoon. Chestnut hair tumbles around a pretty face, rose petals tangled in the loose strands. But the bandage around her forehead tells a different tale, as emergency room nurse Jessie Novak desperately battles to keep her alive. Jessie’s thoughts are racing - who shot this beautiful young woman and, more importantly, why? Ann Hart’s life hangs by a thread, and Jessie cannot bear to see this beautiful young woman die without justice being done.

When Savannah moves home to the small town of Humble, Georgia, she has no intention of getting involved in a kidnapping investigation. But when her older brother Mac becomes the main suspect, Savannah launches a secret investigation in order to clear her brother’s name. Savannah has inherited a gift, one that might reveal who the culprit is if she can stay one step ahead of the killer, who is closer than she thinks.

A half-century-old curse lies over the small community of Ridgewater ever since Sarah Chase died in a car accident during a teen-angst-driven game of chicken back in 1962. She perished in the back seat of a 1961 Impala, accompanied by a group of boys who called themselves "the big four". She screamed as the car careened through a guardrail and plunged into the icy river water beneath. The four boys survived. Sarah did not.