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A brutal triple murder. An abandoned psychiatric hospital. And a dark family secret. Fatal Return is the bloody opening to the Fatal psychological thriller series by Alex Hansen - an Audible Original. When her father suffers a heart attack, forensic psychologist Gillian moves back from New York to Rochester - much to the annoyance of her pubescent daughter Christina. The moving boxes are not even unpacked when the expert is already called to a crime scene: Sergeant Ryan Moore needs her support to solve a brutal triple murder in the woods of Devil's Bathtub.

“Does Max Nilsson live here?” These words from a woman I had never seen before changed my family’s lives entirely. This is a true story about a man who lived a double life: “A new day, a new life” was his motto. The man I fell in love with and who became my fiancé was a fraud. Being found out by chance brought out his madness. He started a campaign of persistent harassment, and I couldn’t get him out of my life. The more I delved into his life, the more appalling things I discovered. He screamed at me, telling me I could have anything I wanted if I stopped.

Don’t trust ANYONE… When a young woman makes a distressing middle-of-the-night call to 911, apparently running for her life in a quiet, exclusive beachside neighbourhood, miles from her home, everything suggests a domestic incident. Except no one has seen her since, and something doesn’t...

Set 300 years after the events of Alien: Out of the Shadows and Alien: River of Pain, Alien: Sea of Sorrows deals with the rediscovery of dormant Xenomorphs (Aliens) in the abandoned mines of LV-178, the planetoid from Alien: Out of the Shadows, which has now been terraformed and renamed New Galveston. The Weyland-Yutani Corporation, reformed after the collapse of the United Systems Military, continue their unceasing efforts to weaponise the creatures.

Therese is just an ordinary sales assistant working in a New York department store when an alluring woman in her 30s walks up to her counter. Standing there, Therese is wholly unprepared for the first shock of love. She is an awkward 19-year-old with a job she hates and a boyfriend she doesn't love; Carol is a sophisticated, bored suburban housewife in the throes of a divorce and a custody battle for her only daughter. As Therese becomes irresistibly drawn into Carol's world, she soon realises how much they both stand to lose....

The second novel by Donna Tartt, best-selling author of The Goldfinch (winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize), The Little Friend is a grandly ambitious and utterly riveting novel of childhood, innocence and evil. The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother’s Day a little boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was found hanging from a tree in his parents’ yard. Twelve years later Robin’s murder is still unsolved and his family remains devastated.

The new Eddie Flynn novel from the Sunday Times and million copy bestselling author of THIRTEEN, FIFTY FIFTY and THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE. 'This guy is the real deal. Trust me.' LEE CHILD 'Top notch thrills and courtroom drama' SHARI LAPENA 'A terrific writer. He has talent to burn.' DON WINSLOW...

*RIZZOLI & ISLES: NOW STREAMING ON NETFLIX!* Meet them in Tess Gerritsen’s bestselling series. Brought to you by Penguin. HE KNOWS EXACTLY WHERE IT HURTS... ‘This is crime-writing at its nerve-tingling best’ Harlan Coben A killer is targeting lone women, torturing and murdering them. The...

ENDLESS DARK. ENDLESS TERROR. Paradise-1. Earth's first deep space colony. For thousands of colonists, it was an opportunity for a new life. Until it went dark. No communication has been received from the colony for months. It falls to Firewatch Agent Alexandra Petrova and the crew of the...

A quasi-memoir written from the perspective of Gertrude Stein's lifelong partner, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas is a lively, playful account of the literary giant's vibrant life in the early twentieth century. Captivating and characteristically self-assured, this glittering memoir recounts Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas's artistically rich life in Paris.

After losing her fiancé and brothers in the Great War, and with her family's wealth gone, Beatrice must make her own living against her mother's disapproval. Fiercely independent, she dreams of becoming a headmistress one day. When a nearby country house is requisitioned for use as a military hospital, she volunteers to help, and works alongside David, the new doctor. Though drawn to him, Beatrice has loved and lost once, and her heart is buried with her fiancé in France.

Father of cyberpunk William Gibson’s original script for Alien III, written in 1987 as a sequel to Aliens, never made it to our screens, although it went on to achieve cult status among fans as the third instalment that might have been after being leaked online. This terrifying, cinematic multicast dramatisation - directed by the multi-award-winning Dirk Maggs - is the chance to experience William Gibson’s untold story and its terrifying, claustrophobic and dark encounters between humans and aliens, as a completely immersive audio experience.

A woman wakes up to discover her new husband is missing and sets out on a wild race of power, politics, and revenge in this international thriller from New York Times bestselling author Chris Pavone. You think you know a person... Ariel Price wakes up in Lisbon, alone. Her husband is gone – no...

A collection of radio readings of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s fiction – plus two bonus programmes Over the years the BBC has broadcast readings of many of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novels, novellas and short stories. This collection includes some of his most famous works alongside various...

THE DARK DEVOURS. The crew of the Artemis has escaped the nightmare of Paradise-1, but at great cost. Parker is gone. Petrova's past continues to haunt her. Worst of all, Erebus - a timeless entity of pure darkness - has been released from its prison. Now it's headed for Earth. Petrova must...

'A moving novel of strength and resistance in the face of evil but also an inspiring journey of resilience after loss' Erin Litteken 'I will never forget what the Nazi did to me. Never' 1940, Nazi-occupied Paris. A powerful story of love, tragedy and incredible courage, about one woman whose...

Amid the chaos and political upheaval of 1970s America, three very different women must accept the world as it is, or act to change it. Phyllis Patterson is a housewife in White Plains, Illinois. Her son Jimmy returns to the family home from Vietnam with a Korean wife and two children. Andrea Dworkin is an activist in Amsterdam. Muriel Rukeyser is a poet in New York.

'There was a history in this house, secrets he hadn't even got close to scratching the surface of' Something peculiar is going on at The Lloyd Estate. The enormous house and its vast grounds are rarely seen by outsiders. Only Audrey Lloyd the cantankerous elderly owner and only daughter to the...

Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why, despite the desperate need to address climate change, have even modest environmental efforts been defeated again and again? Why have protections for employees been decimated? Why do hedge-fund billionaires pay a far lower tax rate than middle-class workers? The conventional answer is that a popular uprising against "big government" led to the ascendancy of a broad-based conservative movement.

Bringing together Susan Sontag's most fearless and incisive writing, On Women examines the oppression of women and the tools necessary for liberation. First written in the 1970s during the height of second-wave feminism, Sontag's essays examine the 'biological division of labour', the double standard for ageing and the struggle for real power, topics which are strikingly relevant to our contemporary conversations. For any Sontag fan, this collection of lost essays is a revelation into her achievements as an essayist.