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A young girl has mysteriously disappeared in Rome. As rain lashes the ancient streets, two men, Clemente and Marcus, sit in a cafe near the Piazza Navona and pore over...

It's summer on Gotland and an international group of archaeology students are excavating an ancient Viking site. The camaraderie and holiday spirits of the group are shattered when one of...

An instant NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY BESTSELLER!"I was knocked over by the momentum of an intense psychological thriller that doesn't let go until the final page. This is...

The latest gripping thriller from world-class forensic anthropologist, Kathy Reichs, bestselling author of Bare Bones and Monday Mourning 'Death by self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head' is the on-scene assessment,...

When journalist Michael Wilde is commissioned to write a feature about a remote research station deep in the frozen beauty of Antarctica he is prepared for some extraordinary sights. But...

Hays Baker and his wife Lizbeth possess super-human strength, extraordinary intelligence, stunning looks, and two beautiful children. Of course they do - they're Elites, endowed at birth with the very...

Outside of Pakistan, the world's highest concentration of al-Qaeda lurks in South-East Asia and there, Nick Stone's bosses get wind of an act of terror that will dwarf even the...

'I loved CLEAR MY NAME. It features two strong women, one in prison for murder, one working to reinvestigate the case. Add in secrets, lies, and family drama and it's...

'A gripping thriller' Sunday Times'Imaginative and unexpected' The Times'A cracking, uber-topical spy thriller' Financial Times'Enthralling and fast-moving... the stuff headlines are made of' Daily Mail_______________________________The world is on the brink...

The basis for DEEP WATER, now a major ITV TV series, starring Anna Friel.If you slept with a stranger for money, who'd really end up paying?'A page-turning thriller with heart'...

A page-turning psychological puzzle for fans of Shutter Island and True Detective'The detail is unerring ... and this magisterial grasp of time and place lends the story vivid veracity. The...

On a cold December night in 1920s Atlanta, a drunken white cop shoots a black gambler in one of the worst parts of town, and a cache of jewels goes...

Trapped in her seventeeth-century past, a brilliant writer exacts an ancient revenge in the twentieth...A child wanders, lost and alone, in the maze of New York...A lottery ticket turns up...

Phoebe stands on Pulteney Bridge, tights gashed from toe to thigh. The shock of mangled metal and blood-stained walls flashes through her mind as she tries to cover her face...

'A tantalising mystery, executed with perfection.' THOMAS ENGERHe was locked inside an abandoned house. But he's not the only one . . .When a dead man is found locked in...

Harry Barnett is leading a contented life in Vancouver with his wife and daughter when he is brought back to England by the death of his mother. He intends to...

The collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 sent shockwaves around the financial world. Never before had such a large and prestigious organisation been allowed to fail, and to fail...

'Kept me guessing right until the end. I devoured it.' Claire Douglas, author of LOCAL GIRL MISSING'A terrific page turner' Guardian*********A doting mother or a pushy parent?Karen Bloom expects perfection....

Married for ten years. Four children. She thought she knew her husband better than anyone.She was wrong. 'Heart-poundingly suspenseful and heart-wrenchingly insightful' J.P.Delaney, author of The Girl Before 'This compulsive,...

'I want you,' Gretchen said. 'I've always wanted you.' Investigative journalist Susan Ward is about to print the story of her career proving long-rumoured allegations about a respected senator's affair...

The Blue Demon is the eighth in the Nic Costa series, David Hewson's detective novels of love and death in the Eternal City.Twenty years ago, a mysterious group called the...

The new thriller from international bestselling brand author Elizabeth George Millionaire Guy Brouard has made his home on Guernsey and acted as patron and benefactor to many of the islanders....

In his sixteenth novel featuring the indomitable prosecutor Butch Karp, Robert K. Tanenbaum blends real-life headlines into exciting plotlines, brilliantly combining the seedy underworld of rap and the scandal-plagued Catholic...

LIPSTICK, LIES, AND LETHAL SECRETS: A DAZZLING NEW CRIME THRILLER FOR FANS OF JANICE HALLETT AND TOM HINDLE'What Miss Marple did with tweeds and knitting, Misty Divine does with rhinestones...

Only the weak fall in love. The strong survive on their own. Tina was weak once: a scrawny, vulnerable child, deserted by her father, bullied at school, an object of...

A powerful new Alex Cross thriller from number one bestseller James Patterson introduces the most vicious killer yet - a maniac who calls himself the Mastermind. The Mastermind orchestrates a...

Just as Alex Cross is beginning to feel that life is good and he is finally coming out of the depression he's been in since the death of his wife,...

Now the Mastermind is in prison, Alex Cross is ready to leave the Washington Police Force. And, finally, Alex has met a woman, Jamilla Hughes. With Nana and the kids,...

WELCOME TO MAKE-BELIEVE. YOU CREATE THE FANTASY, THEY CONTROL YOUR MIND.Cassie worked at Imagen, the tech giant behind the cutting-edge virtual reality experience Make-BelieveT, and she got to know the...