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Brought to by Penguin. What will it take to tell the truth when your life depends on a lie? A year ago, a father and his fiancée were brutally stabbed in their opulent London townhouse, sparking the most high-profile murder investigation in recent history. Blood spatter expert Doctor Claudia...

Maureen O'Donnell is a psychiatric patient, stuck in an affair with Douglas, a shady therapist. She’s about to end it with him when she wakes up one morning to find him in her living room with his throat slit. Viewed by the police as both a suspect and a witness, even Maureen’s family suspects her. Panic-stricken, she retraces Douglas' last days, finding a trail of rape and deception at a psychiatric hospital where she’d been an inmate. The patients won't talk and staff are afraid. Then a second brutalised corpse is discovered and Maureen realises that her life is in danger.

Brought to you by Penguin. 'Denise Mina is the cream of the crop, an author who pushes the crime novel in new and exciting directions and never fails to deliver.' IAN RANKIN When Margo goes in search of her birth mother for the first time, she meets her aunt, Nikki, instead. Margo learns that...

Maureen O'Donnell is facing the darkest episode in her life. She owes more than she makes in a year in back taxes; Angus Farrell, the psychologist who murdered her boyfriend, is up for trial; and her abusive father has arrived back in Glasgow. On top of it all, she has become embroiled in someone else's family feud. Ella McGee, an elderly stallholder at the fleamarket where Maureen is selling illegally imported cigarettes, is bringing a case against her son in the small claims court.

Brought to you by Penguin. Anna is back. Confidence reunites the reader with Anna and Finn - the stars of Denise Mina's critically acclaimed thriller Conviction (A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick). Anna and Finn investigate a young girl's disappearance which seems to be...

FROM THE AWARD-WINNING DENISE MINA COMES A RADICAL NEW TAKE ON ONE OF THE DARKEST EPISODES IN SCOTTISH HISTORY - THE BLOODY MURDER OF DAVID RIZZIO. This breathtakingly tense work is a tale of sex, seduction, secrets and lies, one that looks at history through a modern lens and explores the...

When Dr Susie Harriot is convicted of the brutal murder of Andrew Gow, a serial killer in her care, it looks certain that she will be given a life sentence, depriving her of her home, family and two-year-old daughter. Susie's husband, Lachlan, is convinced his wife is innocent, and is determined to find evidence to support an appeal. Every night he sits in Susie's study and goes through her papers – her case notes, her interviews with Gow, and the press cuttings from the trial.

The last time Maureen O'Donnell saw Ann Harris, she was nursing a couple of broken ribs and reeking of alcohol at the women's shelter. Now Ann has turned up dead hundreds of miles away, in London. Eager to escape some family difficulties of her own, Maureen travels to London to determine the circumstances of Ann's brutal death. In the seedy underworld of criminal exiles and dangerous drug lords, Maureen tries to piece together the horror of Ann's last days - and to save herself from a similarly ugly fate.

Brought to you by Penguin. "This is Marlowe." "Mr. Philip Marlowe?" She asked. I glanced at the clock. It was exactly eleven am, as if she had been waiting by the phone for an appointed hour, following someone else's orders to the letter. "What, d'you think we're a troupe of brothers? There is...

Delicious food, sleuthing cats, and small-town murder! Mallory Beck never imagined she’d be Honeysuckle Grove’s next amateur sleuth. After all, she was more at home with a muffin tin than a magnifying glass. But when a casserole delivery to a grieving family leads to her unexpectedly solving her first murder, Mallory realizes life in her quiet little town isn’t as peaceful as it seems.

När bussen gör en häftig inbromsning, mitt i Värmlands ingenstans, vet hon instinktivt att det är där hon ska gå av. Ett tips har styrt henne mot en ödsligt belägen hästgård - och där ska hon hitta sitt nästa offer. Varje månad tar hon livet av ännu en människa som på något sätt visat sig oförtjänt av att fortsätta leva. Nu lämnar hon april bakom sig. Det visar sig bo fler människor på gården än Denise Svärd hade väntat sig.

This story follows four women, Nicole, Jasmine, Veronica, and Erika. Each of these women is tethered to pain, injustice, and prejudices in their lives. At the center of it all lies Erika, and the costly decisions she's made that ultimately forces these women to confront their demons, as they try to break free from their shackled lives.