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Special Operative Eric Steele battles a renegade group of bioterrorists armed with a devastating virus in the fourth pulse-pounding military thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Outlaw...

Across the country, men and women are kidnapped in broad daylight and then disappear completely. These people are not being taken for ransom, Alex realizes. They are being bought and...

A lump of concrete dropped deliberately from a little stone bridge over a relatively unfrequented road kills the wrong person. The driver behind is spared. But only for a while......

Weeks went by when Ismay never thought of it at all. Then, something would bring it back or it would return in a dream. The dream began in the same...

Your time is up...Emily Parker is missing, kidnapped from a car park in broad daylight and the police are clueless as to her whereabouts.The only man her family can turn...

Full of betrayal, deceit and suspense, Die of Shame is the spectacular new book from number one bestseller Mark Billingham - author of Time of Death and In the Dark,...

From multi-million copy and SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author Ruth Rendell, this is a tense, taut and twisted psychological thriller about a dark mother-daughter relationship that will keep you hooked. Perfect...

The nation is stunned silent when presidential hopeful James Kilcannon is shot dead point blank, while sharing the stage at a benefit concert with his rock star girlfriend Stacy Tarrant....

From the pen of Sunday Times bestselling author Michael Palmer comes this unsettling, frightening and mesmerising medical thriller that ingeniously combines an accomplished plot with authentic scientific detail. A page...

The SAS mission conducted behind Iraqi lines is one of the most talked about stories of courage and survival in modern warfare. Of the eight members of the SAS regiment...

In Chicago, a pregnant cafeteria worker suffering nothing more malevolent than flu like symptoms begins haemorrhaging from every part of her body. In Boston, a brilliant musician, her face disfigured...

Dublin's Harmon Penitentiary is Europe's most dangerous jail.Dr Frank Ryan is in charge of looking after its inmates. It's a risky job - the last doctor was murdered - but...

A woman vanishes in the fog up on 'the Hill', an area locally known for its tranquillity and peace. The police are not alarmed; people usually disappear for their own...

The twentieth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford.A lump of concrete dropped deliberately from a little stone bridge over a relatively unfrequented road kills the wrong...

Johnny Angel is found brutally murdered with a dead prostitute in his bed and a needle full of heroin in his arm. It's all the more shocking because he's a...

A jury gathers in Manhattan to select a memorial for the victims of a devastating terrorist attack. Their fraught deliberations complete, the jurors open the envelope containing the anonymous winner's...

________________________________The pedal is to the medal in this chilling Olympic thriller - and the finish line is fast approaching...July 2012: The Games have arrived in London and the stage is...

Longlisted for the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the YearHe left for university and never came backArran went missing in Edinburgh fourteen years ago. The last time his...

Fans of Michael Connelly, Peter James and Robin Cook will love this tense and unputdownable medical page-turner from the pen of Sunday Times bestselling author Michael Palmer. Incredible medical knowledge...

Celia lives and works in Florence as a tour guide and thinks the forthcoming birthday celebrations for the young wife of wealthy businessman Lucas Marsh, will bring the usual mix...

Sotheby's, London, 1936. A paper by Sir Isaac Newton is sold at auction to a bookseller's agent and within minutes of leaving the auction house, he is killed and the...

Ex-FBI agent Saxon has dealt with many killers in her time but nothing can prepare her for the night of horror ahead...It's early evening on Halloween when the Dublin Murder...

Gordon and Sarah Rutherford are normal, happy people with successful fulfilling lives. A son they adore, a house on the beach, a safe, friendly and honest community in a picture-postcard...

It's Manchester, July 1996, the month after the IRA bomb, and the Evening News is carrying reports of two murders. On the front page there's a photograph of a glamorous...

On the night Brian Bishop murdered his wife, he was sixty miles away, asleep in bed at the time. At least, that's the way it looks to Detective Superintendent Roy...

In a novel of international intrigue, an American lawyer, Damon Pierce, attempts to save Bobby Okari, the West African leader of a protest movement, from execution by the country's corrupt...

FBI agent Ren Bryce takes on her most heart-wrenching case yet when a father's work places his young daughter in terrible danger... OUT OF SIGHTWhen a teenage girl is found...

London: 1840. The economy is sliding into recession; gangs of unemployed workers roam the streets; the city is on the verge of anarchy and a murderer prowls the capital's poor...

Carrie Grethen, partner in crime to William Temple Gault, has escaped from prison. She has also sent Kay Scarpetta a message making it clear she blames her for Gault's death...

Physically and psychologically bruised by her encounter with the killer Chandonne, Dr Kay Scarpetta has to leave her home in the hands of the police team investigating the attack. She...

The key to contentment in the Scottish climate is the right attitude to rain - just as in life the key to happiness lies in making the best of what...