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Young married couple Heidi and Freddie just moved to Huntington Grove. All the neighbours see they are friendly and polite but why is one door in their house always locked? Across the street, Willow tries not to argue with her teenage daughter – even as her marriage is falling apart. And where does her husband really go each night, leaving the bed beside her cold?

In a small town, three mothers wave goodbye to their children at the school gates. Naomi has lived in Exton Cross since she was born, and she knows everything there is to know about everyone. Aleema hates it here. It’s been three years and she’s yet to make a single friend. And she’s sure the other mums whisper about her behind her back. Kelly is an outsider. New to the town, she arrives with nothing but her son—and a dark secret. By the end of the school day, one of their children will be missing. And rumours will swirl that one of them knows why.

Fiona Fisher lives a quiet and contented existence. A former nurse who married Jason, the doctor of her dreams, she is now a mother to his two daughters and living in the sort of cosy village home she’d always wished for.

Elodie Fray wants to be more like her perfect sister, Ada, the one her parents are actually proud of. When she decided to quit her job and pursue her dream of becoming an author, she thought it would be her time to shine, but a year on nothing has happened. And she's getting desperate. When Elodie makes one small mistake on a drunken night with a friend, things quickly spiral and suddenly everyone believes she has a book deal. Unable to find a way back from her little lie, her perfect dream becomes a perfect nightmare - and desperate times call for desperate measures.

It feels like all the air has been knocked out of me. My best friend is dead, killed at her own daughter’s birthday party. All I want to do is run into my husband’s loving arms. But he’s in handcuffs, covered in her blood. His voice quivers, almost sobbing as officers put him in the police car. ‘You don’t think I did this, do you? I was trying to save her.’ At first, I’m sure he couldn’t have done it. The man I love wouldn’t hurt anyone. But as I try to prove that he didn’t murder Lucy, secrets begin unravelling…

Amy is trapped in a nightmare with Jason, a controlling, violent husband. Then on a short cruise without him, Amy befriends Liz, a young woman traveling alone on her way to meet her birth mother for the first time. Liz looks so much like Amy that they could be sisters. When Amy regains consciousness after a terrible accident that takes the lives of many passengers, she finds that, because of a mix-up in personal effects, everyone believes she is Liz. Only she knows it is Liz who has gone missing, presumed dead.

It was an ordinary school day, the day I lost my little brother. One moment he was on the roundabout and then was gone. Gone. Missing. They all blamed me. I was in charge. Even though I was only ten years old. They sent me away. The hurt, the shame, the questions. The not knowing. I tried to move on. It’s been nineteen years in exile and now somebody wants me back. Someone with a dark secret.

Tommy Jr might be one of the youngest members of the Carter family, but he has plans to one day step into his Uncle Jonny’s shoes as head of the family. But when his young girlfriend Aimee announces she’s pregnant, everything changes. Although only nineteen, Tommy’s determined to be the best dad he can. Aimee’s dad Kevin Fox feels the Carters owe him big time and now he’s going to part of the family it’s time to pay up. But publicly rejected by the Carters, Kevin plots his revenge and Tommy Jr is firmly in his sights.

Meet Millie, a personal trainer and loyal friend; she sees the best in people. When a kind, good-looking workman helps her out with a flat tyre, she’s thankful but soon forgets it. When their paths cross again and he helps her out a second time, romance blossoms.

It is Acting Detective Superintendent Nick Dixon’s wedding day. Gig rowers find a body floating in Bridgwater Bay and when the victim is identified as a serving police officer, executed at point blank range with a 3D printed gun, the assistant chief constable is soon knocking on Dixon’s door—wedding night or not. It is the third such killing in as many weeks, but the first two victims were drug dealers, with no apparent connection to the dead officer other than the murder weapon itself.

Something happened to me when I was nine. My childhood memories before that fateful day are gone. Extinguished. The aftermath has become a living nightmare with a guilt that runs so deep that I’m not sure I can ever tell anyone. I fear I've left it too late. The burden of my secret and the hurt and pain that silence cost each and every member of my family is too overwhelming. But you can't avoid fate and now I have the opportunity to right the wrongs inflicted on us. There was no justice. Not then. Not now. But I can change that.

Winner of The Gilpin Hotel Prize for Fiction 2023 Eyes down to find a killer who’s playing to win… An irresistible slice of murder and mystery – there’s a killer on the loose in the Lake District, and the members of the Penrith Bingo Club have decided they’re the ones to catch the...

When David Conway attends a birthday party for his beautiful fiancée Pat, he expects a few drinks and a good time, but what he discovers is that his beloved is in fact in terrible danger. Following the clues, and a tip off about her missing bracelet, David and Pat are led first to a steel works then a circus, but instead of finding the bracelet they uncover both a body and a realisation that they have enemies - enemies who will stop at nothing to get what they want...

Beth and Tom Hardcastle are the envy of their neighbourhood—they have the perfect marriage, the perfect house, the perfect family. When the police knock on their door one evening, Beth panics. Tom should be back from work by now—what if he’s crashed his car? She fears the worst. But the worst is beyond imagining. As the interrogation begins, Beth will find herself questioning everything she believed about her husband.

Après le décès de leur mère, trois frère et sœurs, séparés depuis des années, se réunissent pour régler sa succession. Beth, l'aînée, n'a jamais quitté la petite ville du Wisconsin où ils ont grandi. Michael n'y est pas retourné depuis que leur père les a abandonnés. Nicole, elle, a été tenue à distance en raison de sa dépendance à la drogue. En fouillant dans les affaires de leurs parents, Beth, Nicole et Michael tombent sur une collection de vidéos personnelles et décident de replonger dans les souvenirs de leur enfance.

Jusqu'à quel point connaît-on son enfant ? Mike et Tia ne cessent de se poser la question : leur fils Adam, seize ans, a changé. Réfugié dans sa chambre, il ne quitte plus son ordinateur. Malgré leurs réticences, ils se décident à installer un logiciel de contrôle. Un jour, un mail inquiétant. Et Adam disparaît. Sans un mot...

Pour surveiller la baby-sitter, Maya installe une caméra dans son salon. Un jour, un homme apparaît à l'écran, jouant avec sa petite Lily. Un homme que Maya connaît bien : Joe, son mari... qu'elle vient d'enterrer. C'est le choc. Mort ou vivant, qui était vraiment Joe ? Doit-on croire tout ce que l'on voit ? Pour Maya, l'heure est venue de plonger dans un passé trouble ; un monde à la frontière entre vérité et illusions.

Lorsque Harriet Westaway reçoit un courrier lui annonçant un héritage conséquent provenant de sa grand-mère, cela semble être la réponse inespérée à tous ses problèmes. En effet, Harriet doit de l'argent, beaucoup d'argent, emprunté à un usurier sans scrupules, et cela risque fort de mettre sa vie en danger. Seul souci : ses grands-parents sont décédés vingt ans auparavant, et elle ne les a même jamais connus. La lettre a donc été adressée à la mauvaise personne. Mais Harriet qui gagne sa vie en tirant les cartes pour prédire l'avenir n'est plus à une affabulation près.

Simon Sax si potrebbe considerare un ragazzo fortunato: programmatore informatico americano, genio della matematica, a soli trent'anni sta per diventare miliardario. È infatti a un passo dal concludere un affare che gli cambierà la vita: venderà la sua grande invenzione – un sofisticato software – a una multinazionale. Eppure non è felice. Si sente solo. Il suo successo fa a pugni con una totale assenza di abilità in ambito sociale: le ragazze, per lui, sono sempre state una meta irraggiungibile.

Si estás leyendo esto, he desaparecido. Todos dicen que estoy paranoica, pero simplemente me estoy preparando, porque mis secretos me han puesto en grave peligro. Así que, si ocurre lo peor, esta carpeta contiene todo lo que mi mejor amiga necesitará para encontrarme, escondida en un lugar que solo ella podría adivinar. Desde que éramos niñas es la que me conoce mejor, y es la única capaz de unir las piezas y descubrir la verdad.