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Glamorous debutantes, heartbreak and discovering just what is worth fighting for in the new historical novel from Sunday Times bestseller Adele Parks.1914. Vivian, a young, impassioned debutante is hurried into...

They framed me.They abducted my wife.They took my child.I want him back.Sam Capra has one reason to live: to reclaim his baby son from the people who kidnapped him. Teaming...

After a brilliant career in ceramics spent making things and breaking things, now it is Jay herself who has cracked. Recovering from a breakdown, she and her husband Simon move...

Andy Prescott is the most laid-back young lawyer in Austin, Texas. Specialising in traffic law, he operates from a small room above a ramshackle tattoo parlour. He rides a trail...

Winner of the Petrona Award for Best Scandinavian Crime Novel 2014 In the middle of an unusually hot Swedish summer, a young woman studying at the Vaxjo Police Academy is...

Spying, lying and dying. Fans of 'Spooks' will be swept away by Steve Jackson's explosive debut novel. They say lightning never strikes twice. They are wrong. London has been bombed...

'A little bit Margery Allingham with hints of Mitford, definite tones of Eva Ibbotson and as delightful as I Capture the Castle, D is for Death is an instant classic....

348 393 9028: MEDUSA. After the heated pool, the air was distinctly cool, even down here in the sheltered terraces above lake Lugano. He keyed in the number, then turned...

In a flat near Reykjavik city centre, a young man lies dead in a pool of blood. There is no sign of a break-in: the only clues are a woman's...

OLD CRIMES, NEW CONSEQUENCESTHE PASTIn wartime Reykjavik, a young woman is found strangled behind the National Theatre, a rough and dangerous area of the city known as 'the shadow district'....

Now a major ITV series, The Long Call, adapted for television by screenwriter Kelly Jones and starring Ben Aldridge.'Matthew Venn is a keeper . . . stunning' - David Baldacci...

'A riveting murder mystery' Kiran Desai'Brilliant, brutal' The TimesIn the quiet village of Teetarpur, a child is found dead, hanging from a Jamun tree. Suspicion in the mainly Hindu community...

To live among wolves, first you must become one An unmissable new spy thriller from best-selling master of the genre, Alex Gerlis.War is coming to Europe.British spymaster Barnaby Allen begins...

A highway patrol trooper notices something strange on the side of the road: a homemade cross, fashioned as a memorial. Except the date being 'remembered' is the following day -...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FIREWATCHING AND NIGHTHAWKING 'A rollercoaster ride of a thriller . . . will keep you hanging on by your fingertips until the tense final moments'...

In his groundbreaking Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith created one of the iconic investigators of contemporary fiction, Arkady Renko. In Tatiana, Smith delivers his most ambitious and politically daring novel...

They never found the killer. All they knew, back in the winter of 1985, was that someone was taking teenagers, killing them and leaving their abused bodies in public parks....

PLAY FAIR . . . OR PLAY TO WIN?Falling in love with polar-opposite men was an intoxicating ride that nearly ended Sage Reese's life. Now it's time for Sage to...

'I had to pick my jaw up off the ground! One of the BEST books I have EVER read!' (Five stars) Reader ReviewYou can try to hide. But this gangland...

'I DEVOURED THIS STORY IN ONE SITTING.' Louise Jensen, author of The Sister A teenage girl is missing. Is your daughter involved, or is she next? When Karen Finch's seventeen-year-old...

'An intoxicating thriller' SUN (5 STARS, Book of the Week) Aspiring actress Elizabeth Smart lands her centre stage role: her mutilated body is found dumped in North London's red light...

On December 7, 1941, four brothers exploring a pit on a small island off the coast of Washington state make an extraordinary discovery, only to be interrupted by news of...

THE SECOND IN THE ORIGINAL LAIDLAW TRILOGY. WINNER OF THE CWA SILVER DAGGER.'In a class of his own' Guardian'Reads like a breathless scalpel through the bloody heart of a great...

Longlisted for the Theakston's Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year 2016.From the award-winning author of The Glasgow Trilogy, comes Every Night I Dream of Hell, a dark and thrilling...

'SUPERB' TELEGRAPH'YOU EITHER GOT IT OR YOU DON'T ... WATT ABSOLUTELY HAS' THE TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH'THE FINAL CHASE SCENE ... IS ONE OF THE BEST I'VE READ' OBSERVER...

**USA Today Bestseller**No WiFi, no distractions. No way out... Agatha's husband has bought her a first-class ticket on the scenic six-hour train from Toronto to Montreal as a gift-a one-day...

The electrifying third novel from the author of the nail-biting thriller, The Vanishing SeasonFBI agent Reed Markham is haunted by one painful unsolved mystery: who murdered his mother? Camilla was...

Everyone in the family had a secret. Which one has proved deadly?When Mallory Dawson gets a call from a former colleague, Elsa, describing a strange scene, she initially thinks nothing...

For nearly a year Bernie Rhodenbarr has gone straight..well of a fashion. But Bernie has a new landlord for his Greenwich Village bookstore - Bernie Stoppelagard - not a nice...