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When Charlotte is mugged and breaks her hip, her daughter, Rose, cannot accompany her employer, Lord Peters, to Manchester, which means his niece, Marion, has to go instead, which means she sends a text to her lover which is intercepted by his wife, which is…just the beginning of the ensuing chain of life-altering events.

In this engaging, utterly absorbing and brilliantly told novel, Penelope Lively shows us how one random event can change the courses of many lives.

The 12th novel in James Patterson's Alex Cross series. Alex Cross was a rising star in Washington, DC, Police Department when an unknown shooter killed his wife, Maria, in front of him. Years later, having left the FBI and returned to practising psychology, Alex finally feels his life is in order... Until his former partner, John Sampson, calls in a favour. John's tracking a serial rapist in Georgetown and he needs Alex to help find this brutal predator. When the case triggers a connection to Maria's death, could Alex have a chance to catch his wife's murderer? Will this be justice at long last? Or the endgame in his own deadly obsession? From the man the Sunday Telegraph called 'the master of the suspense genre', CROSS is the ultimate, high-velocity, high-emotion thriller, and the one Alex Cross's fans waited years to read.

Christopher Martin, the sole survivor of a torpedoed destroyer, is stranded upon a rock in the middle of the Atlantic. Pitted against him are the sea, the sun, the brutal cold and the aching terror of his isolation. To drink, there is a pool of rainwater; to eat, seaweed and anemones, preyed upon by feathered reptiles. As he descends into the abyss of his consciousness, weathering lightning strikes of memory, Martin must try to assemble the truth of his fate - piece by terrible piece.

'MAGNIFICENT' GUARDIAN 'A TOWERING ACHIEVEMENT' FINANCIAL TIMES 'INVENTIVE, BOLD, UNEXPECTED' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'Everything that makes the novel worthwhile and engaging is here' Guardian 'Not since William Boyd's Any Human Heart has a novel captured a single life with such invention and...

*Contains an exclusive Adam Fawley short story* From the Sunday Times bestselling author of the Tiktok sensation MURDER IN THE FAMILY and the DI Adam Fawley series comes a brand new gripping crime thriller about a figure from the past… You thought she was dead. She fooled you once. Will she...

A crime scene cleaner is on the trail of a serial killer in a breathtaking novel of psychological suspense by USA Today bestselling author Brianna Labuskes. Death pays well for Olive Hunt, a crime scene cleaner who channels her childhood traumas into erasing the suffering of others. After nearly...

Summer, 1993, and university student Alex Lane finds himself at the end of the summer term, broke and without plans. When offered the chance to join students – including beautiful, mercurial Ella – clearing out Solace House, a Victorian residence left by reclusive hoarder Edwin Flayne, he...

Toby Jugg, a fighter pilot shot down in combat, is now confined to his bed with little hope of walking again. He is also the heir to a considerable fortune—a fortune that is being administered by a board of trustees until he comes of age. But night after night, out there in the moonlight, Something was trying to get in at the bedroom window. A huge malevolent Something. Something not of this world. Inside, Toby thought first that he was hallucinating, then that he must be going mad, finally that this evil Something was real and striving to reach him.

This camping trip is Chris’s last chance to repair his relationship with his daughters, Kayla and Emma. Nothing’s been the same since they lost their mom. But things go wrong as soon as they get to the mountains. When they make camp, nine-year-old Emma runs off into the woods. By the time they find her, there’s a snowstorm rolling in. And Emma’s leg is badly broken. They need to find shelter, fast. They think they’re safe when they come across an old farmstead. The woman inside welcomes them in from the howling blizzard and straps up Emma’s leg.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Fear by Roald Dahl, read by Julian Rhind-Tutt, Kevin Eldon, Tom Felton and Rory Kinnear. Do you enjoy being scared? Featuring fourteen classic spine-chilling stories chosen by Roald Dahl, these terrible tales of ghostly goings-on will have you shivering...

""A love story spanning multiple millenniums, life-forms and variations on immortality, the book posits Victorian poetry as a weapon of empire, insists on nature's resilience in the face of genocide, and manipulates prose into something like a new language....Toward Eternity recognizes both the...

Some Secrets Were Never Meant To Be Found. Some Killers Never Meant To Be Stopped. Perfect for fans of Tess Gerritsen and Michael Crichton “A fast-paced conspiracy thriller that stays suspenseful and unsettling to the very last page.” Emlyn Rees, bestselling author of Hunted A terrifying...

Wer will schon ein Parfüm, das die Leute abschreckt? Max und Kevin entwickeln so ein Parfüm und Max testet es an sich selbst. Auf einmal mag ihn niemand mehr! Was ist zu tun? Max findet eine Lösung. Es handelt sich um KI-generierten Audio Content...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In the floating city of Eldotore, researcher Litia Winters has built her life around understanding what others overlook. Her work studying mana-core degradation is driven by the belief that the earliest signs of illness can be found before irreversible...

In this enthralling modern fairy tale from the acclaimed author of The Devil's Grip, two orphaned sisters grapple with the dark side of their Swedish village and the possibility of escape. After losing their parents in a car accident as toddlers, Jolly and Peggy grow up with a foster family in a...

Riotously funny and unexpectedly heartfelt, Boston Psychiatric is the story of a doctor who falls from the top of Boston’s medical elite into the controlled chaos of a struggling free clinic. Not long ago, Dr. Raj Malika’s future seemed all but guaranteed: He was the CEO of a billion-dollar pharmaceutical startup and winner of Boston’s “30 Hot Doctors Under 30.” Then came the trial that destroyed his career. Now he is a parolee with something to prove, assigned community service at Boston Psychiatric, a free clinic barely holding itself together.

Manchmal muss die Geschichte eines anderen Menschen enden, bevor es für dich ein Happy End geben kann. Eine rabenschwarze Story über Besessenheit, Ehrgeiz und den tödlichen Unterschied zwischen Wahrheit und Fiktion von der internationalen Bestsellerautorin Lisa Jewell. Fiddy und Louise Stone sind glücklich verheiratet – bis Louises Erfolg als Bestsellerautorin ihr gemeinsames Leben auf den Kopf stellt. Auf einmal hat sie alles – Ruhm, Macht und unglaublich viel Geld. Das verbittert Fiddy insgeheim.

Todo comienza con un olor. Un olor profundo e insoportable a descomposición: una presencia con capas de sentido que se instala en los pasillos de un clásico edificio bonaerense de los sesenta. Aldana, una vecina cuya resistencia al desorden y a las bacterias la mantiene en un estado de alerta...

Hay viajes en la vida que no siempre llevan a la esperanza. Se hacen porque no hay otra salida y quedarse significa conformarse con la cuadrícula del mapa en la que la existencia nos coloca o repetir los errores de nuestros padres y madres. Puta no soy relata la dolorosa e injusta historia de...

Una guerrilla ha resurgido. Un cacique se cree perseguido por el espíritu de su esposa recién fallecida. Una de sus dos hijas se sumerge en la locura, lo que obliga a su nieto a volver de la ciudad para cuidarla. La otra se hunde en el remordimiento. Su hijo no reconocido lucha contra lo que...