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Set in the bleak environments of London’s homeless community, The Echo is the mystery thriller from crime queen Minette Walters. It was the smell that Mrs Powell noticed first. Slightly sweet. Slightly unpleasant . . . It shocked her badly to find a dead man in the corner, his head slumped on...

Carly has grown accustomed to the eerie enchantment of Thornwood Manor, but the secrets of her family's past continue to unveil themselves. Her grandmother's stories, particularly those about the enigmatic Emma, are more than just tales —they're keys to Carly's magical heritage. When Carly begins to unlock the mysteries of a haunted music box that has been in her possession since the beginning, she discovers its connection to Velvet Manor in Scotland.

Thea Osborne agrees to do a second spell of house-sitting for Lucy Sinclair in her new home in Northleach. Lucy is scheduled for an operation on her back in Oxford and needs Thea to look after things for a few days. Thea is glad of the change of scene and soon meets several of the townsfolk, and it appears that few of them have any liking for Lucy. When a man is found dead in a Northleach house and turns out to be Lucy's stepson, Thea is once again at the very heart of a police investigation.

Hazel Ross isn't your average pet photographer to the stars. She's got a secret: she can see other people's memories, playing out right in front of her. When a desperate plea for help yanks her from her glitzy life, Hazel plunges headfirst into a century-old romantic mystery. Scientist Jo...

After surviving a terrible attack, Quinn Fleming has recovered in every way but one—her ability to retain new memories. Now, months later, it appears to the outside world as if the San Diego florist’s life is back to normal. But Quinn is barely holding on, relying on a notebook she carries with her at all times, a record of her entire existence since the assault. So when she witnesses a murder in the shadowy alley behind the florist shop, Quinn immediately writes down every terrifying detail of the incident before her amnesia wipes it away.

Charleston is a city that never forgets its dead.When gifted medium Eve Graves is called to a wealthy estate on Wadmalaw Island, she expects a routine case… helping a family connect with their deceased loved ones. Instead, she meets a terrified teenage boy who insists something is hunting the...

Shortlisted for the 2024 Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction 'Theo. Come to Oliver's winery. Search for Four Dogs Missing. You'll find me there. We need to talk.' While estranged twins Oliver and Theo Wingfield are identical in appearance, they couldn't be more different. Theo, an...

Everyone is guilty of something. Handywoman Barb Young has lived in the sleepy coastal town of Bullford Point for over fifty years - and frankly, in that time, not much has happened, unless you count that business where a bush turkey managed to board the ferry a couple of years ago. When Joe...

Fifteen years ago her mother's killer got away. Has he finally struck again? A woman in her 30s. Found naked and stabbed on the kitchen floor. Discovered by her 12-year-old daughter after school. As top Savannah crime reporter Harper McClain stares at the horrific scene before her, one thought screams through her mind. This murder is identical to another murder she has witnessed. Her mother's murder....

A decades-old disappearance. A woman determined to uncover the truth. A family’s past buried deep in the shadows of the Vietnam War. In Echoes from a Missing Generation, a gripping split-time novel, the mysteries of the past ripple into the present—where truth, love, and legacy collide. In 1970, Bristol Danes vanishes on the day he’s called up for the Vietnam War draft. His young wife, Clara, is left behind in the small Oregon town of Oscar’s Creek with unanswered questions and a lifetime of silence. Rumors swirl, secrets grow, and a recent local murder casts a long, chilling shadow.

Unable to escape his own past, Rick Cahill risks his life for a woman who is hiding her own. Rick Cahill was never convicted of his wife’s murder, but he was never exonerated either. Not by the police. Not by the media. Not even by himself. Eight years later, police suspicion and his own guilt remain over his responsibility in his wife’s death. When he meets Melody Malana, a beautiful yet secretive TV reporter, he sees a chance to love again. When she is arrested for murder and asks Rick for help, the former cop says no, but the rest of him says yes, and he grasps at a chance for love and redemption.

In a world where ghosts are goofy, mischievous, and sometimes heartbreakingly human, one mismatched trio of investigators has spent their days wrangling vending machines, haunted camp counselors, and sentient foot-ticklers. But when a forgotten town beckons from the edge of memory—a place where time folds in on itself and even the living forget they exist—they’re pulled into a final confrontation with something ancient, hungry, and familiar.