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The thrilling prequel to The Good Daughter – Karin Slaughter's incredible novel soon to be a major TV series starring Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy. This audio edition is read by Meghann Fahy, who plays Charlie in the TV show of The Good Daughter Sometimes the truth is the most devastating twist...

Clem Vallins thought he'd seen the worst Watersmeet had to offer. He was wrong. When fifteen-year-old Fiona Crumb vanishes from her home in the dead of night, Clem and his tenacious young constable Effie Shorrock have just hours to find her. Fiona has been mute since birth — and someone is counting on that. Then a chilling phone call arrives at the station. It's a girl's voice, strange and otherworldly: "You've got one day to find her. Because tomorrow, she'll be dead."

It’s the case Detective Alec Farnham can’t forget. He was the one who found his friend and mentor, DI Lou Catterick, collapsed in a deserted alleyway, her shirt drenched in blood. He was too late. With her dying breath, Lou utters a single word. Ghost. A year on, the investigation has stalled. The trail is cold. The killer still walks free. But Alec refuses to let go. He knows one thing for certain: Lou would never have given up on him. If he can only work out what she was trying to tell him, he knows he’d have the key to cracking the case.

Some monsters hide in the light… When a young woman is discovered crowned with burnt gorse in a disused quarry in rural Ayrshire, DCI Lomond is tasked with hunting a ritual killer. As his Major Investigations Team peel back the layers of the local communities, they find links to cold cases of...

Joy Ellis presents Book 16 in the DI Nikki Galena series...

Some secrets belong to the city. This one belongs to Harry Bosch. Growing up in MacLaren's Children's Center - a notorious care facility - Bosch had a friend. Together, they survived the dangers of that awful place. Until one night, when his friend was placed in the illegal confinement space...

'One of the best British crime writers' – Lee Child Roy Grace is back in this gripping instalment from number one bestselling author Peter James. Brighton is celebrating. A killer is waiting. And Roy Grace is the target . . . Brighton Pride is the biggest date on the city’s calendar with...

A teenage boy's body is found on a lonely country road at dawn. By the time police arrive, it has vanished without trace. The blanket that covered him remains. The witness is adamant the boy was dead. But when Detective Bob Foreman reaches the scene, there is nothing. No body. No blood. No explanation. With no forensic evidence and conflicting accounts, Foreman is running out of leads. He's already looking for a second missing boy. Last spotted on a moonlit towpath, and never seen again. At the same time, two children are displaying abilities that defy explanation.

A woman’s body lies in the heather, her neck broken. Her horse watches nervously from a few paces away. Despite looking like an accident, it doesn’t take long for DI Callum MacLean, newly arrived in Hampshire from Glasgow, to establish she was murdered. Nor does it take DS Daisy Donaldson, appearing soon after on horseback, long to identify the victim. Mary-Ellen Mitchell was a well-known and seemingly well-liked businesswoman, married to a respected local artist, and part of the close-knit community.

Someone is preying on Inverness's most vulnerable. They know when their victims are alone. They know how to get inside their homes. And they've made sure nobody's brave enough to say a word. No complaints. No witnesses. No crime anyone can prove. Tyler's boss wants him back on traffic duty. The message from everyone else is even clearer: keep your nose out of it. But doing what he’s told has never really been Tyler Neish’s strong point...

'There's a body in Lost Nation.' But the line goes dead before Chief Inspector Armand Gamache can question the caller. The head of homicide for the Sûreté du Québec has no idea where Lost Nation is, or who woke him in the small hours of the morning at his home in Three Pines. What he does...

One of the world’s favourite detectives returns . . . for the final time? A mystery from bestselling Faith Martin. Set in the beautiful Oxfordshire countryside. Former Detective Hillary Greene has solved some of the toughest cases in Thames Valley Police’s cold case history. But this could...

When a nurse is murdered on her way home from nightshift, Jack and his team go on the hunt for her killer. As more victims are uncovered, Jack finds himself tracking a murderer afflicted by a unique psychosis - one that leaves him free to maim and kill without a shred of remorse. Facing a new type of killer in an unfamiliar city, DCI Jack Logan is about to be pushed to his limits, before being forced to realize just how little he truly knows.

After years behind bars, former drug kingpin Bosco Maximuke is back on the streets, insisting he’s turned over a new leaf, and determined to win back the trust of his daughter. But when members of the criminal network that replaced him start turning up dead, suspicion falls squarely on Bosco. With old enemies closing in, and a trail of bodies stretching from Inverness to the most remote corners of the Highlands, one thing is clear - someone is settling scores.

Darlington is a small Northern town where everyone knows everyone. And Detectives Tanzy and Byrd know there’s a twisted serial killer in their midst... They find Julia Porter’s body tied to a chair in her quiet family home in the outskirts of Darlington. She’s covered in blood, and someone has cut out her eyes. Next to her is a message written in red crayon: She didn’t see it coming. Detectives Tanzy and Byrd have never seen the like of this in their town before. Then a few days later a woman is handed a package on the high street. It contains Julia Porter’s eyes ... It’s a warning.

DETECTIVE WILLIAM WISTING IS BACK TO SOLVE A CHILLING NEW CASE IN THE NO. 1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER THAT BRINGS DANGER CLOSE TO HOME Detective William Wisting has spent years solving the cases that others can’t. But when his daughter, Line, unearths information about the little-known past of...

Detective Mina Harker has built a reputation as the sharpest mind in the New Orleans Police Department, closing cases no one else can crack. But the case that's been haunting her for years is unlike anything else in her files. The victims leave behind no forensic evidence, no witnesses, and not a single drop of blood in their bodies. When FBI Special Agent Jon Weston enlists Harker to help track a serial killer who's striking in New Orleans, she knows two things: he's closer to the truth than he knows.

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Ian Rankin is an all-time, solid-gold UK crime fiction great - read The Heights and find out why' LEE CHILD ***** MURDER COMES TO LONDON'S MOST LUXURIOUS HIGH-RISE: AND EVERY RESIDENT IS A SUSPECT. The Heights: a gleaming, high-end high-rise looming over Hyde...

Inspector Purbright is a thoroughly English policeman: affable, polite, dogged and decent. Created by award-winning crime writer Colin Watson, he appeared in 12 Flaxborough mysteries, four of which were adapted for BBC TV under the title Murder Most English. These five radio dramatisations star Peter Jeffrey, John Pullen and John Rowe as Purbright.

Four gripping Scottish crime novels in one place! DI Jade Tanner is still reeling from the loss of her husband when she's offered the chance to lead Police Scotland's new Complex Crimes Unit. Unsure whether it's a promotion or a poisoned chalice, she accepts. Over a series of twisty and...