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What happened while they were sleeping? A school for the deaf takes an overnight trip to the snowy woods. Five teenagers go to sleep, but only four wake up. Leon is missing, and a teacher’s body is found in the forest. Sign-Language Interpreter Paige Northwood is brought in to help with interrogations. Everyone at the school has a motive for murder - but they all have an alibi. As Paige becomes increasingly involved, she suspects there’s something sinister going on.

Darby Kane, the author of the critically acclaimed and #1 International Bestseller Pretty Little Wife, has crafted another gripping and twisty suspense about an invitation to an exclusive club that comes with deadly consequences. They meet the second Tuesday of every month and vote…and then...

'I couldn't breathe…Absolutely brilliant' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ NetGalley reviewer Every body has secrets… Jayne and Steelie founded Agency 32/1 with one purpose in mind: using their specialist forensic skills to help police solve crimes. When a bundle of frozen body parts fall out...

The truth won’t stay buried forever . . . ‘A wonderfully twisty maze’ JAMES OSWALD Malcolm Kendwick is charming, handsome – and a suspected serial killer. When the partially clothed body of a woman is discovered on Dartmoor, all eyes are on one man. There wasn’t enough evidence to...

It's hard to sit still when your client is scheduled to die in 15 hours…. As he makes an 11th hour plea for mercy, lawyer Alex Sedaka is resigned to the fact that Clayton Burrows will be executed. Charged with the rape and murder of 18-year-old classmate Dorothy Olsen – a girl he mercilessly...

Saffron vowed to love Miles no matter what life threw at them both. But when her mother-in-law moves into their happy family home, Saffron’s shiny life begins to tarnish. Even as Caprice’s barbed comments turn to something more sinister, Saffron hopes the new nanny’s arrival will shield her from the worst of it. She’s starting to feel paranoid in her own home. Little does she realise that Caprice longs for a new daughter-in-law—and she’ll do anything to make that happen.

Someone old, someone cruel Debutante dropout Andrea Kendricks is beyond done with big hair, big gowns, and big egos—so being dragged to a high-society Texas wedding by her socialite mama, Cissy, gives her a bad case of déjà vu. As does running into her old prep-school bully, Olivia La Belle...

Margo hasn’t been back to Lake Moss since her friend went missing. But as she returns, the news breaks. Her hometown’s swimming hole has been Jessie’s grave for fifteen years. Digging out her old diary, and steeling herself to face unfriendly ghosts from her past, Margo sets out to help a documentary crew as they return to investigate the infamous case the police bungled.

Liz Catalano is shocked when a DNA ancestry test reveals she’s adopted. But she could never have imagined trying to connect with her unknown family would plunge her into an FBI investigation of a notorious serial killer. The Tri-State Killer has been abducting pairs of women for 40 years, evading all police efforts and leaving barely a trace behind. Can Liz figure out who in her new family is the cold-blooded killer? And can she save his newest victims before it’s too late?

The wife: it was a whirlwind romance and a shotgun wedding, but weeks into their marriage, Candace realises that moving in with Lane also means moving in with his possessive, uptight sister. The sister-in-law: Harper is the kind of woman who cooks homemade meals and dusts under the furniture. The husband: all Lane has ever wanted is a white-picket-fence life. The wife. The two-point-five kids. The happy little family.

‘AMAZING’ Marian Keyes I disappeared on a Tuesday afternoon. I was there one minute and the next I was gone. They’ve never found my body… It’s six in the morning during the hottest summer on record when Elizabeth O’Loughlin, out walking her dog, comes across Clare, a victim of a...

Tell Tale, a new Avon book, full description to follow when available...

Can she close the book on a killer close to home? PRAISE FOR SUE MINIX “A breathtaking race to the end.” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “A cozy mystery that checks all the boxes. I read late into the night.” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Page-turning good read!" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ It should be the most wonderful time...

THE MILLION-COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER RETURNS WITH A GRIPPING, EDGE-OF-YOUR-SEAT SERIAL KILLER THRILLER. AVAILABLE NOW! A face in the crowd. A killer in the shadows… ________ On the dark streets of Edinburgh, a killer is waiting. When a body is found, it is only the beginning. Soon there...

Can she close the book on a killer close to home? PRAISE FOR SUE MINIX “A breathtaking race to the end.” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “A cozy mystery that checks all the boxes. I read late into the night.” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Page-turning good read!" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ It should be the most wonderful time...

“Creepy, tense, and utterly gripping. I savored every superb word of this hypnotizing, unpredictable thriller” Samantha M. Bailey ‘On May 26, 2004, Jessie Germaine rode her bike into the forest and disappeared…into thin air.’ Margo hasn’t been back to Lake Moss since her friend went...

“Tense, twisty and full of toxic secrets – a chilly fight for survival guaranteed to give you shivers” – T.M. LOGAN, author of Lies and The Vacation Seven friends. One killer. You can run, but you can’t hide… The hike is meant to bring their nature group together. Emily, the sister...

Holly, jolly, and downright deadly—the third Santa Fe Café mystery unwraps surprises both naughty and nice . . . It’s the most picturesque time of theyear in Santa Fe, and Chef Rita Lafitte of Tres Amigas Café hopes the twinkling lights and tasty holiday treats will charm her visiting mom...

When TV talkshow host Elias Claymore is accused of raping a 19-year-old girl he turns to his friend Alex Sadaka to defend him. But Alex has a fight on his hands, for Claymore – a former Black Power activist – is anything but squeaky clean and this time even the DNA evidence is stacked...

“Shelley Shepard Gray writes with honesty, tenderness, and depth.” —Jillian Hart Found is the final book in the Secrets of Crittenden County trilogy by beloved author Shelley Shepard Gray, who writes powerful novels set in a world of strong faith and simple living. The New York Times...