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Victim. murderer. Serial killer. What next? The third darkly comic thriller in the highly addictive Sweetpea series featuring serial killer Rhiannon Lewis. Can a serial killer ever lose their taste for murder? Since confessing to her bloody murder spree, Rhiannon Lewis, the now-notorious Sweetpea killer, has been feeling out-of-sorts.Having fled the UK on a cruise ship to start her new life, Rhiannon should be feeling happy. But it’s hard to turn over a new leaf when she’s stuck in an oversized floating tin can with the Gammonati and screaming kids. 

Considered one of the best baseball novels of all time, this black comedy about a discontented businessman's obsession with a fantasy baseball league of his own creation is "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" meets William Gaddis meets John Updike's Rabbit, Run. Somewhere in a "major-league" American city, there lives a man named J. Henry Waugh—no-account accountant, barfly, and country music fan.

‘Exciting, contemporary, heartfelt and clever’ Greg Mosse ‘Riveting, real and raw . . . a powerful journey’ Balvinder Sopal ‘Wisely and wittily leaps into the heart of friendships’ Sabrina Mahfouz ‘Dares to subject modern feminism to a tough and timely cross-examination’ T.J...

When John Martin and his granddaughter Marion Martin decode alien symbols hidden in a creature’s DNA, their search for answers drags them deep inside Area 51. What they uncover is not just extraterrestrial — it’s technological possession. Beneath a forgotten lighthouse in Greece lies a portal that could rewrite human evolution — and destroy the Martin bloodline forever. As the Martins race through centuries of secrets, from the 1600s intrigues of Casanova to the JFK assassination, they confront a terrifying truth: What if the Alien AI has always been here — inside us?

Carla the florist is surrounded by the duplicitous and the craven - and that’s just her flowers. The human beings are infinitely worse, especially the men. There’s Gwynne, her oafish and cold-hearted brother, Gerald, the suave and sophisticated doctor whose hidden agenda is unspeakable, and finally there’s David, the handsome, dashing lawyer whose deceit hurts most of all. If only God weren’t a fictional character then surely they’d get their just deserts...except, it is only through their perfidy that love finds a way into her world.

Herman's busy crawling up out of the underclass, and he can't relax. He's on a knife edge - one false move and the man will send back down into the depths. Then, he gets a break. Uncle Sonny, a psychopathic taxi driver, dies in prison, and Herman inherits his house and car. But Sonny's legacy proves to be poisonous, and Herman finds himself fighting to stop history from repeating itself.