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Modern-day Iraq: During a raging sandstorm in a war zone, army chaplain Jaime Richards is shocked to be reunited with her old friend Adara Dunbar - and devastated when, in...

The body of a young teenage hooker is found washed up on the beach near Glasgow. This stark event barely captures a headline in the cynical world of tabloid newspapers....

A killer who won't forgive. A detective who can't forget.Haunted by his mother's brutal murder, detective Inspector Jake Sawyer returns to his rural hometown to investigate a series of gruesome...

The Spy is the third of Clive Cussler's brilliant historical thrillers. 1908, and American engineering geniuses are being killed off one by one . . .When a brilliant battleship gun...

Major Ray Kerman, a high-ranking SAS officer and renowned submariner, mysteriously disappears amidst a blood bath on the streets of Hebron. In the following months, a series of utterly devastating...

The theft of the Book of Kells -- an exquisite ninth-century amalgam of Christian doctrine and Celtic legend -- from the Trinity College library is, in itself, a most shocking...

' I loved this! A pacey, twisty tale that will keep you hooked right up until that shocking finale''A tense, cleverly plotted mystery with a twist I didn't see coming....

In his first adventure since the revelation that he's a parent, Dirk Pitt must uncover the truth behind the myth of another long-lost father-figure, Homer's Odysseus, if he's going to...

Tracy Crosswhite returns in the second book in the page-turning series by New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni.Homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite has returned to the police force after the...

In the new edge-of-your seat thriller from New York Times-bestselling author Alex Kava, Ryder Creed, his K9 search-and-rescue dogs and FBI agent Maggie O'Dell find themselves at the centre of...

TWO GIRLS WENT INTO THE WOODS.ONLY ONE CAME OUT. Have you read the spellbinding thriller everybody is talking about?'Highly recommended' Nuala Ellwood'Tense and creepy . . . brilliant' Harriet Tyce'Gripping'...

Kazuo Mori, PI, is struggling to make ends meet. When he falls in with a prostitute called Angel he is soon struggling for survival in a vicious game that has...

To catch a villain sometimes you just have to become one.From the bestselling author of Jailbird.Detective Constable Bailey Morgan is back doing what she does best - working undercover.This time...

'Simply put: nobody does it better.' Jeffrey Deaver'A writer with an unusual skill at thriller plotting.' Guardian'James Patterson is The Boss. End of.' Ian Rankin__________________________________The dynamics are simple in the...

The stunning new thriller from the author who brought you the jaw-dropping twist of I Let You Go, the gasp-out-loud ending of Let Me Lie, and the loveable, unpredictable Ffion...

At a mist-shrouded villa on Lake Como, an Italian nobleman is grooming a young English tenor for a career on the glittering operatic stage. But the enigmatic young singer and...

My perfect man is married. And his wife is missing. Can I really trust him-or am I next?Sophie wasn't expecting to find love in Sicily. But then she sees him:...

'Fans of MARTINA COLE will love this' Katerina Diamond A gripping new series from million-copy bestseller Mel Sherratt. 'I love all Mel Sherratt's books' IAN RANKIN 'Twists and turns and...

Suspense, intrigue and a classic love triangle set against the brooding atmosphere of a remote tarn in the Lake District, from the author of STILL WATER. Adam Turner is an...

THE CLEVER AND INTRIGUING CRIME MYSTERY FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE INSTANT TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, THE TURNGLASS.A new Sherlock Holmes novel, endorsed by the Conan Doyle Estate. 'A...

A gripping 1920s-set whodunnit, this debut features a queer sleuth who must solve a murder in a mansion on London's Hampstead Heath without revealing his sexuality, lest he be arrested...

Some wars rage forever.It all started harmlessly enough. An egged window. A deflated car tyre. A few garden gnomes knocked over. But then, the silent calls began - late nights...

One murder case. Seven suspects. Three amateur sleuths with the smarts to solve any mystery . . .__________________________________________It's a baking hot British summer, and the sleepy town of Market Foxleigh...

'All you have to do is find out why Harry is prepared to blame an innocent man. That's the thread. Follow it. You'll reach the Silent Ones. This is your...

It's thirty years since Harry Starks and his gang kept the underworld of Soho under control but the consequences of their brutal reign are still being felt. Julie McCluskey, the...