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Thea wakes from a coma, having forgotten much of the recent past. As well as learning to walk again, she studies the list of ‘facts’ she keeps on her phone, hoping something will unlock her memory. Her top three facts are: I was in Italy I was with the people I love the most I fell down a...

'Shocking... gripping' WOMAN & HOME 'So many twists and turns it made my head spin' JENNIE GODFREY 'Rebecca Hardy is a blazing new talent' HOLLY SEDDON Eighteen years ago teenager Alex sent a man to prison. She, and her two best friends from school, overheard the vicious murder of a mother and...

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager, read by Stephanie Cannon. 'Breathtaking. This swift, red-blooded thriller set my pulse thrumming' - A. J. Finn, bestselling author of The Woman in the Window ------------------------------------------------------...

Brought to you by Penguin. THE GRIPPING NEW THRILLER FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE COUPLE AT NO 9 Emilia Ward is just an ordinary mum living happily in suburban London with her husband and two children - a teenager from her first marriage, a little boy from her second. She also happens to...

One toxic family. Eight suspicious guests. Everyone is guilty. But who is a killer? Welcome to the luxury McAlpine Lodge… Nestled in the misty mountains, it’s the perfect getaway. Until a woman’s body is found. Everyone is a suspect. The cruel father. The toxic mother. The bitter family...

She was angry. She was fed up. It was time to take justice to the justices and other politicians who weren’t doing their jobs, especially the ones who had lied to obtain their positions in our political system. They’d forgotten that they were public officials that answer to the American people.

The truth is, everyone lies. All that matters is who lies the best… 'I was completely gripped by this Oman-set thriller, which blends fear of the unknown with human decision-making at its most dangerously flawed.' Louise Candlish 'A multi-layered thriller in which no one can be trusted set...

There’s a blood moon rising over the tiny Maine town of Coyote Cove when Chief Maggie Riley comes across the body of a man, blood seeping from stab wounds into the damp forest floor. As she desperately struggles to secure the scene as an approaching storm threatens to destroy all evidence, Heather, a local teenage girl, emerges from the woods terrified, a silent scream on her lips.

Beautiful, bright-eyed Michelle Jackson, a loving wife and mother, has been killed. Her husband Paul is accused of murdering her. Their little girl Emily, numb with grief, is refusing to speak. You’ll hate Paul for what he’s done. Everyone said they were the perfect couple, always holding hands. They did everything together. But when you hear about their whispered arguments and the terrible lies they both told, you’ll be certain Paul is guilty. But everything you think you know is wrong. After all, behind closed doors every marriage has secrets. And some are deadlier than others.

After a series of bad choices spirals into a murder investigation, Stephen Wilton is placed on suspension from the US Marshals. With his reputation in ruins and his freedom on the line, Wilton turns his focus to the cold case of his brother’s unsolved murder. When a crucial witness in the case turns up dead, Wilton is arrested.

Tom Mangold hat das Leben auf die Bretter geschickt: Einst gefeierter Mordermittler, dümpelt er heute - ständig auf Koks - als Hundefänger in einer Laubenkolonie vor sich hin. Als ihn eine herrenlose Hündin zu einer Leiche führt, kommt alles noch schlimmer. Er trifft auf eine betörend schöne Frau mit einem nachtschwarzen Geheimnis - und verliert sich in einem Strudel aus brutalem Mord und zerstörerischen Leidenschaften.

Brie Owen, a journalist who is haunted by the past, decided to leave Denton Falls behind her. After receiving a call from the killer wanting to play a game, Brie wonders if she will ever escape her dark past. Evil lurks in every shadow, leering at her attempted escape.

Der erste Teil der erfolgreichen Thriller-Serie um das Ermittlerduo Carol Jordan und Tony Hill beginnt mit dem Fund von vier männlichen Leichen in Yorkshire. Diese Entdeckung ist selbst für das hartgesottene Team der Mord-Kommission ein Schock: Offenbar wurden die Opfer vor ihrer Ermordung mit mittelalterlichen Folter-Instrumenten gequält und verstümmelt. Obwohl alles nach der Tat eines Serienkillers aussieht, besteht der Superintendent darauf, dass die Morde getrennt voneinander untersucht werden.

Die Mafia, wie sie noch niemand erzählt hat: die intime Beichte eines Mörders. In seinem fulminanten Roman porträtiert der italienische Autor Giosuè Calaciura einen Auftragskiller, der sich aus den kriminellen Strukturen, denen er verhaftet ist, auch mental nicht befreien kann. Es ist das prophetische Bekenntnis eines Mörders, der seinem Richter Opfer um Opfer die grausame und ungeheuerliche Geschichte seines Lebens erzählt. In der namenlosen italienischen Stadt - vielleicht Palermo - bestimmt der internationale Drogenhandel alles.

Als im Bahnhof Zürich-Enge eine Frau vom Zug überfahren wird, ahnt Rabbi Klein, dass es weder Selbstmord noch ein Unfall war. Er hat die Tote gut gekannt. Carmen Singer war ein aktives Mitglied der Cultusgemeinde, aber auch eine mehr als anstrengende Frau. Nach ihrem gewaltsamen Tod gerät Rabbi Kleins engstes Umfeld ins Visier der ermittelnden Kommissarin Bänziger. Doch auch Klein ist dem Verbrechen auf der Spur: Hat der langjährige Präsident der Gemeinde etwas zu verbergen? Und was hat die wohlhabende Julia Scheurer mit der Sache zu tun, deren Vater Liebesbriefe an eine Tote schrieb.