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Bloomsbury presents The Devil's Bargain by Stella Rimington, read by Penelope Rawlins. I wanted more' DAVID GILMAN One lie put the nation at risk. Another might save it. Harry Bristow: policeman, father, chauffeur, fraud. In 1988 Harry made one mistake: he took a bribe, letting a man he knew as...

James Bond returns and the Double O agents make their last stand in this gripping and explosive spy thriller 'Razor-sharp…highly recommended' M.W. Craven ‘Tough, smart and thrilling. Just like 007 himself’ Charlie Higson 'Explodes into action' Vaseem Khan 'Moves at warp speed' Financial...

As Logan Martin begins his prison sentence for the brutal murder of his father, the eighteen-year-old’s aunt hires private investigator Teàrlach Paterson. She believes Logan is innocent and wants Teàrlach to uncover the truth. Teàrlach’s visit to the Martin family home yields two disturbing discoveries: a pentagram etched under the carpet in Logan's sister’s bedroom, and a link to the sinister deaths of their elderly neighbours—a journal with the same ominous symbol lies in the couple's home.

"A psychological thriller with more twists and turns than a Gordian knot! This book will keep you on the edge of your seat until the shocking end!' - GoodReads reviewer. It is a dream come true for ten-year-old Becky when her parents take her and her younger sister on a cruise to the Bahamas...

Il veut une femme qui l'aime inconditionnellement. Lorsque la dépouille d'une jeune femme est découverte, couverte d'ecchymoses et de messages troublants, le duo d'enquêteurs Emma Bajetzky et Alex Kuper se charge de sa première affaire commune. Au début, l'enquête piétine, mais lorsqu'ils...

Agent Sarah Black is back! Code Black is the third instalment of L.D. Sharpe's Pelican Black series: pacy, whip-smart spy thrillers...

Sarah Black is back and-with or without her MI6 handlers-is hungry for revenge. Scarred from her exploits in Tbilisi, she still has unfinished business in the murky world of global espionage. Namely the mastermind behind the foiled attack and the man who always seems to be one move ahead...

This is the second volume in the series. A year after The Leviathan, John Klade has gone off the grid. When a terrorist bombing in Athens leaves behind a phoenix symbol intertwined with the trident, Klade realizes the Brotherhood isn’t gone — it’s evolved. Yale Symbologist, Annabelle Johansson, now on a sabbatical and lecturing in Rome, is recruited by an EU counterterror unit to decode the symbol. She learns that a new sect — The Order of the Phoenix Tide — has risen, believing fire can “purify what the Deep cannot.

A phone call made from a fifty-year-old phone booth is never simpleA phone call in the night finds its way to Nash. But when it's as simple as whispered messages around a campfire, the message isn't the words but the message itself. Terrorism takes on a larger threat when the words come in radioactive. When Nash and Muna land in San Francisco, the phone calls have already woken the other alphabets, and they have fueled and readied the bus. This time, they are going to the heart of the uranium territory.

Prima de Il profumo della morte, c'è stata una storia. Una storia in cui la lotta tra bene e male è iniziata e ha lasciato un'eredità. È lì che è nato quel solco nell'animo di Néstor che lo ha portato sulla strada dei serial killer. Non è stata una storia banale, ma qualcosa che ha scosso i canoni della sanità mentale e ha lasciato una traccia scritta nei rapporti della polizia. Questo romanzo si svolge quando Néstor non era ancora il Néstor che conosciamo oggi. Un romanzo imprescindibile, perché per capire il presente bisogna conoscere il passato.

Alexander Blix is a broken man. Convicted for avenging his daughter's death, he is being held in one of Norway's high-security prisons. Inside, the other prisoners take every opportunity to humiliate the former police investigator. Outside, Blix's former colleagues are hunting for a terrifying killer. Walter Kroos has escaped from prison in Germany and is heading north. The only lead established by the police is that Kroos has a friend in Blix's prison ward. And now they need Blix's help.

It's 1966 and Queen Elizabeth II is touring the Caribbean aboard the Royal Yacht Britannia. Her schedule is measured in ten-minute increments for five weeks, and nothing can afford to go wrong. But something does. Early in the trip, the Queen's new diary secretary, Pamela Sinclair, is found dead...

A rash of poison pen letters has enveloped the sleepy English village of Walmsley Parva in cloud of suspicion and paranoia. But when rampant aspersions culminate in murder, enquiry agents Beryl Helliwell and Edwina Davenport must stamp out the evil-minded epistles.... 

The No. 1 New York Times bestseller! How far will Stephanie Plum go to protect the one person who means the most to her? The stakes have never been higher in this unputdownable thriller from Janet Evanovich. This isn't just another case. This is family. Grandma Mazur has decided to get married...

The gripping new mystery in Quintin Jardine's bestselling Bob Skinner series. Sir Robert Skinner's stock is rising - after retiring from the police service he's been promoted to head an international media organisation. Yet a series of unexplained deaths on his home turf in Scotland threaten to...

No longer a chief inspector, Chen Cao finds himself as director of the Shanghai Judicial System Reform Office. To outsiders, it’s a promotion, but Chen knows he’s being removed from the spotlight as he’s immediately placed on involuntary "convalescence leave" to stop him interfering with any cases. However, with various high-profile crimes making headlines and fears escalating over vigilante reprisals, Chen’s superiors know he must at least appear active.   

When a body is discovered during the building of the new Govan-Partick Bridge, it forces the reopening of a case that DCI Lomond would rather forget.

Brought to you by Penguin. It is Midsummer's Eve. Three young friends meet in a wood to act out an elaborate masque. But, unknown to them, they are being watched. Each is killed by a single bullet. Soon afterwards, one of Inspector Wallander's colleagues is found murdered. Is it the same killer...

Kyiv, 1919. The Soviets control the city, but White armies menace them from the West. No man trusts his neighbour and any spark of resistance may ignite into open rebellion. When Samson Kolechko's father is murdered, his last act is to save his son from a falling Cossack sabre. Deprived of his right ear instead of his head, Samson is left an orphan, with only his father's collection of abacuses for company. Until, that is, his flat is requisitioned by two Red Army soldiers, whose secret plans Samson is somehow able to overhear with uncanny clarity.

A night out turns into a nightmare for a young man who is killed in Dublin’s city centre. Once a street brawl or mugging is ruled out, it begins to look like he was targeted. But why? DI Aidan Burke struggles to get anything useful out of the man’s friends and family, so the investigation leads to his workplace. It is here that they establish he was in a relationship with a co-worker.