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THE TOP FIVE KINDLE BESTSELLER ‘AMAZING. I read it in one go. I was totally hooked.’ MARIAN KEYES ‘Utterly addictive. Compulsive, twisty, tense.’ CLAIRE DOUGLAS, author of Local Girl Missing Her name was Rose. You watched her die. And her death has created a vacancy. Rose Grahame had...

Dallas Homicide detectives Tori Hunter and Samantha Kennedy investigate the murder of a Catholic priest who is found naked and strangled to death. A sex scandal threatens to erupt and cover-ups are soon revealed as their only suspect is found shot dead - mere hours after the murder. Soon details of the murder begin to surface, and the secret life of a well-loved priest is exposed. Lies and deceptions unfold as the detectives work to solve the case - even as their superiors demand it be closed.

Detective Josie Quinn is horrified when she’s called to the house of a mother who had her newborn baby snatched from her arms. A woman caught fleeing the scene is Josie’s only lead, but when questioned it seems this mysterious girl doesn’t know who she is, where she’s from, or why she is so terrified.... Is she a witness, a suspect, or the next victim? As Josie digs deeper, a letter about a mix-up at a fertility clinic links the nameless girl and the missing child to a spate of killings across the county.

Jack Widow hunts a ruthless killer who targets AWOL servicewomen and takes dog tags as keepsakes in book six of Scott Blade's best-selling series. On a stormy beach, not a care in the world, Widow stumbles upon an abandoned, washed-up pair of army dog tags left behind. However, that's not all. The name is filed off - a dishonorable act. Widow wants to know why.

When young Josie Vance vanishes from Cove Park, California leaving behind her light-up sneakers, Special Agent Emily Ray leads the investigation to find her. She is the very best at finding abducted children. Twenty-eight years ago she was one of them. As she leads the hunt, the kidnapper sends a drawing. It depicts a little girl in pink leggings, standing before a brick house, clutching silver balloons. The address scrawled in the background is identical to where Emily was held captive.

Guilty. One word on a beggar’s cardboard sign. Now, he is dead; stabbed in a wintry Copenhagen street, the second homeless victim in as many weeks. Dagbladet reporter Jensen, stumbling across the body on her way to work, calls her ex lover DI Henrik Jungersen. As, inevitably, old passions are rekindled, so are old regrets, and that is just the start of Jensen’s troubles. When a third body turns up, it seems certain that a serial killer is on the loose. With her teenage apprentice, Gustav, Jensen soon finds herself putting everything on the line to discover exactly who is guilty. 

With the summer season on Sandhamn comes an unsettling mystery for Detective Inspector Thomas Andreasson. A bullied young boy has vanished from a sailing camp on neighboring Lökholmen Island. Has the terrorized eleven-year-old run away? Or, in this isolated vacation spot where strangers lurk, is it something more ominous?

Detective Josie Quinn lifts the baby from the pram, holding her close and gently soothing her. Josie scours the scene for the sweet little girl’s mother, but the park is deserted. Glancing down, something catches her eye. Nestled amongst the child’s soft pink blankets is a polaroid photo, the corner smudged with blood. The search for Cleo Tate has Josie and her team in a chokehold; the abandoned newborn needs her mother, and every second counts now lab results show the blood belongs to her. The blurred photo of a body of water is Josie’s only lead. But what does it mean?

Penguin presents, the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of No Name Lane by Howard Linskey, read by David Leon. The hunt for a serial killer unearths an unsolved cold case from over sixty years ago. Young girls are being abducted and murdered in the North-East. Out of favour Detective...

FBI Agent Margot Phalen refuses to think about serial killers until at least her second cup of coffee in the morning. Margot thought she'd escaped her past when she moved to a remote California ranch with her partner Wes and their motley crew of rescue animals. But when Wes is arrested for the...

Sheriff Walt Longmire had already rounded up a sizable posse of devoted listeners when the A&E television series Longmire sent the Wyoming lawman's popularity skyrocketing. Now, in Any Other Name, Walt is sinking into high-plains winter discontent when his former boss, Lucian Conally, asks him to take on a mercy case in an adjacent county. 

A boy’s body is found in bogland along the Irish border: a case as cold as the earth that has hidden it for so long. DI Owen Sheen has sworn to get justice for the unnamed boy and digs up links to a covert British Army unit that was tasked with creating Satanic panic in the 1970s. But when a vicious murderer begins to stalk Belfast’s streets, it’s clear that someone refuses to let the past remain buried.

Father Joseph Kümmel is not just a deeply religious and spiritual man. He's the leader of a closed religious community at Hilltop Farm - one which kills members who want to leave. When someone manages to get messages to DCI Jack Culverhouse and DS Wendy Knight about the goings-on at Hilltop Farm, they begin to uncover a web of dark deception and murderous intent. With a distinct lack of evidence and a community distrustful of the police, they're left fighting against the odds.

This case draws J. P. Beaumont into the cutting edge of biotechnology, where business as usual means ruthless betrayal of personal and trade secrets.

Mind the blood, hide any weapons, and get an alibi. Murder is not for the faint of heart, nor is this collection of stories set in Eastern Washington. Join an array of characters as they struggle through the worst moments of their lives. A husband hides his wife’s terrible crime. Two contract killers deliver a final punishment to a mob informant. A remorseful man is forced to share his prison cell with a homicidal maniac. A serial killer vacations through the Pacific Northwest.

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Eric Rickstad delivers the electrifying sequel to The Silent Girls, and features once again detectives Frank Rath and Sonja Test as they track a depraved killer through rural Vermont. Every murder tells a story. Some stories never end . . . In a...

Als Detective Josie Quinn zu einem großen Haus am Rande der Kleinstadt Denton gerufen wird, ist sie entsetzt über die Grausamkeit des Angriffs, den sie dort vorfindet: zerbrochenes Glas, zersplitterte Möbel und Blutspritzer auf dem Boden. Die Besitzerin, eine alleinerziehende Mutter, kämpft um ihr Leben und ihr neugeborenes Baby ist verschwunden.

Jo Nesbo meets Homeland in this sophisticated debut literary thriller about a Swedish security force agent sent to the US for a special assignment, which delivers a breathtaking global twist on the darkly riveting narrative tradition of Nordic noir. Ernst Grip of the Swedish security police has no idea why he is being summoned to the US.

Eine Ausgrabungsstelle am Rande Hamburgs. Archäologen machen eine schreckliche Entdeckung: Die Grabungsleiterin Melanie Dahl ist tot, ihr nackter Körper mit Runenzeichen bedeckt. Hauptkommissar Jörg Albrecht und seine hochschwangere Kollegin Hannah Friedrichs ermitteln in einem ihrer schwierigsten Fälle. Die Tote hatte sich mächtige Feinde gemacht, auch durch ihr Team ziehen sich tiefe Risse. Alle Spuren führen jedoch zu einer neuheidnischen Sekte.