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The Perfect Murder is a suspenseful and gripping novella from Peter James, the bestselling author of the phenomenally successful Roy Grace series. How do you commit the perfect murder? Victor Smiley and his wife Joan have been married for nearly twenty years. Victor secretly loathes Joan more...

After the killing of a prominent mob lawyer, NYPD homicide detectives Jacob Jackson and Caitlin Grimes start receive chilling, written “rules” for how to commit the perfect murder. "Rule number one for the perfect murder: Evidence is your enemy. Leave none behind." Jackson (Reid Scott) and Grimes (Cobie Smulders) race to find the killer, setting them on a collision course with the city’s crime underbelly, and a perpetrator who seems happy to toy with them. “Rule number two. No crimes of passion. The perfect murder is always business, never pleasure.”

Drugged and kidnapped from his Edinburgh home, the realisation soon dawns that he’s been locked inside a shipping container - but what Bart doesn’t know is that he’s now heading for France, where his unspeakable fate is already sealed.... DCI Ava Turner and DI Luc Callanach are working on separate cases that soon collide as it becomes clear that the men and women being shipped to France are being traded for women trafficked into Scotland. With so many lives at stake, it seems an impossible task - but there’s no option of failure when Bart and so many others will soon be dead...

The college community is shocked when the unthinkable happens: a famous, untouchable professor has been found murdered on campus. From harassed students to aggrieved colleagues, his list of secret enemies is long. Too long. The deeper Jessie digs, the more she realizes that nothing is as it seems. And that this killer may just strike again.

Wealthy couples are torn apart when a killer strikes at the heart of their perfect lives, leaving one dead and one to mourn.. LAPD's finest profiler, Jessie Hunt, is on the trail of this vengeful predator, but as she closes in, will the hunter has become the hunted?

Sin City has it all. Including a serial killer targeting police officers and their families. Given the stakes, former homicide detective Ransom Walsh can’t afford to stay on the sidelines. The city he served for 20 years hasn’t slowed down since retirement, and his skills as a former homicide detective are needed now more than ever. Ransom teams up with his former partner, Leesa Gardner, to chase down the murderer before another devastating blow is struck against the community and law enforcement.

Surrounded by the reminders of how social networking is changing relationships, George is left to make a decision which is life changing. In his 60s and tired of the way that people bury themselves in a false world, behind the anonymity of computer screens, George decides to take action.

A wealthy husband is found murdered, in the wake of his 50th birthday bash, a lavish affair that included a dozen couples, a private jet, and a debaucherous night. Jessie is in over her head, as she enters the world of ultra-wealth, and peels back the sordid relationships between couples and friends. So many people, it seemed, wanted their host dead. But the truth, Jessie finds, is far more complex - and far more sinister. A fast-paced, psychological, suspense thriller, with unforgettable characters, and heart-pounding suspense.

The first in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins is the world’s first locked-room mystery, a seemingly impossible crime story as powerful as any that have copied the scenario since. “The Detective Story Club”, launched by Collins in 1929, was a...

Jack Morrison has it all. He's the CEO of a successful company. He has a beautiful wife. And he's having an affair with one of the secretaries at his workplace. He is known for making the necessary cuts in business to make things work and decides to make another "cut" to make his life better. And that cut is getting rid of his wife. Jack decides to drown his wife in a lake but soon sees her apparition whenever he looks at anything that contains liquid. Is the haunting real or a figment of his imagination?