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Is it ever too late to start living for the first time? Florence is buoyant and colourful, an ageing tribute band singer who's full of life. And the complete opposite of staid Stuart, her new landlord. Stuart's not sure about having a lodger. And he's not used to the singing and dancing that now fills the house. Nor the pairs of voluminous knickers left to dry on every spare surface in the bathroom. Florence is everything Stuart has never allowed himself to be: bold, fearless, unabashedly herself. He's spent his life putting everyone's needs ahead of his own, avoiding risks and hiding from chances. Soon Florence is persuading Stuart to dance with her in the kitchen. And when his childhood sweetheart shows up again, it's Florence who encourages him to make his move. Florence can see how much he's changed, even if he won't admit it. But Stuart has changed. He's no longer the timid man he was when they first met. Life is about to give Stuart a second chance, if only he has enough courage to grasp it . . .

It's the day of the Christchurch Dog Show. The whole town is aquiver with excitement. The ladies of the Charity Shop Detective Agency are hoping to make lots of new furry friends.After a very dramatic Best Biscuit Catcher competition, Fiona, Sue and Daisy, from the Dogs Need Nice Homes charity shop, come across a shocking scene.The dog show's vet is performing CPR on a woman. The ladies rush over, but it's too late.Back at the shop, the ladies are shocked to learn that the poor woman was murdered. Someone injected Sylvia Steadman with something very nasty indeed.Then our silver sleuths uncover that Sylvia was the owner of ex-Crufts-winner Charlie. She must have had lots of very jealous competitors . . .There's barely time for elevenses. The charity shop detectives must roll up their sleeves - they have a killer to catch.Fans of The Thursday Murder Club, Janice Hallett, Simon Brett, Ian Moore and Sarah Yarwood-Lovett will adore this exciting new talent in cozy crime.

AN ENTHRALLING MURDER MYSTERY FULL OF SHOCKING TWISTS FROM A BESTSELLING AUTHOR.Sometimes you can just murder your ex. But would you?Corrie Dawes is exhausted after a long day catering for the wealthy residents of exclusive, gated Eden Park.She pulls open the back of her delivery van and screams. Inside, a man's body lays face down in a bowl of leftover trifle - with one of her vegetable knives lodged in his back.She immediately calls her husband, Detective Jack Dawes. When he arrives they discover the victim is none other than Tom Broadbent, Corrie's ex.Corrie hasn't seen or spoken to Tom in over twenty years. What is he doing in Kings Richington? And more importantly, how has he wound up dead in her van?Jack's been warned off the case, and the investigation is handed over to surly Detective Crumb. He's convinced Corrie lured Tom to her van and killed him - and he's determined to prove it.It's up to Corrie to clear her own name. Can she find the real killer? Or will she pay the price for someone else's dirty work?This entertaining and absorbing mystery is perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, L.J. Ross, J.R. Ellis, Ian Moore, Catherine Moloney, Richard Osman or Faith Martin.

¿¿¿¿¿ 'An engaging and multi-layered mystery.' Melyssa DISCOVER YOUR NEW FAVOURITE AMATEUR SLEUTH SERIES. A QUIRKY MURDER MYSTERY SET IN THE SLEEPY SOMERSET TOWN OF KINGSLEIGHMeet the workers of Kingsleigh Costsave. There's Bea, a maths whizz with a heart of gold. Ant, a hapless high-school drop-out. And wisecracking Dot, in her late fifties and always beautifully coiffed.A royal visit is coming to Kingsleigh. Definitely worth rolling out the red carpet for! The only problem is no one's actually seen the red carpet since the grand opening of the deli counter back in 2001 . . . Our loveable amateur sleuths are on the case. Ant is searching for the carpet, but Bea and the rest of the team have another problem on their hands. A young lad is spotted shoplifting and new security guard Evan gives chase down the high street. Later that day, the boy is found dead. Gentle giant Evan swears he let the boy go after rugby tackling him to the ground. So how did the lad wind up dead? The Supermarket Sleuths are on the case - and hopefully they'll find the missing carpet before the royals arrive!AN ABSOLUTELY GRIPPING COZY MYSTERY FULL OF TWISTS AND TURNS AND LOVEABLE CHARACTERS.If you love Richard Osman, Janice Hallett, Peter Boland, the Reverend Richard Coles and Ian Moore, prepare to be enchanted by this cozy character-driven mystery!ABOUT THE DETECTIVEBea Jordan has lived in Kingsleigh all her life. She works on the checkout at Costsave and really cares about her regulars. She puts her maths skills to use making sure her customers get the best value in their weekly shop. She lives a quiet life, until she ends up investigating murders . . .

She's changed her name. She's changed her life. She's moved away from everyone she's ever cared about. But he's going to find her . . . Sara is content to live a quiet life, living alone in her rambling old farmhouse in the sleepy Texas countryside. Her forever home. Then there's a knock at her door. It's a police detective. An escaped prisoner is on the loose. Convicted killer Thomas Barnard has been sighted just a few miles away. "If you see this man, do not open your door," he warns. Sara's peaceful little town is suddenly swarming with cops, reporters and television cameras. But it's not the escaped prisoner that frightens Sara the most. Her biggest fear is that he might find her here - in the one place on earth she thought she was safe. As storm clouds gather, a lethally dangerous man makes his way purposefully towards Sara's farmhouse. He's getting closer . . . but what is it he really wants? Sara is about to face a nightmare beyond her worst imagining . . .

A BRAND-NEW CRIME THRILLER SET ON THE SOUTH COAST OF ENGLAND. A box of treasure. A burned body and an old flame. Detective Inspector Andy Horton arrives at Portsmouth CID to find a rusty, old metal box on his desk. It was found in the mud at Sinah Lake and contains a collection of rare gold and silver coins. But why are there handcuffs attached to the box? Or more importantly, who was originally attached to it? Soon after, Horton is called out to an isolated stretch of Gosport shore where a body has been found in a burned-out car. But the vehicle and body are so badly charred that it's almost impossible to identify the victim. Then Horton is dealt a double blow when his old flame Harriet Ames drops a bombshell: she's been transferred to a local police team and they're going to be seeing a lot more of each other. Horton can't let Harriet distract him. Not now. Especially when another body has just been discovered . . . An absolutely gripping detective mystery perfect for fans of Ann Cleeves, Joy Ellis, Rachel McLean, Helen H. Durrant, Angela Marsons, Elly Griffiths, Karin Slaughter, Matt Brolly and Simon McCleave.THE DETECTIVEDI Andy Horton's mum walked out on him when he was a child and he grew up in a children's home. Now he lives onboard his yacht in Southsea Marina. He rides a Harley-Davidson and never wears a suit or tie - unless it's to go to court. He's an instinctive copper and a man of contrasts, which often lands him in trouble with his bosses. He has a desperate need to belong, and yet is always just on the outside. Self-contained, afraid to show his feelings, but he's a risk-taker that seeks justice.THE SETTINGPortsmouth boasts a vibrant waterfront, a diverse multicultural population, an international port, a historic dockyard, and is home of the Royal Navy. Portsmouth Harbour is one of the busiest in the world - and one of the best places to hide a body, it seems. Set against the backdrop of the sea, the Solent area of Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight is every detective's worst nightmare. The sea is ever-changing and often the best clues get swept away by the tide.

Matt and Liz may have retired from the police, but that doesn't guarantee a quiet life. An abandoned carpet bag full of mysterious handwritten notes. A body in a marshy lagoon. Matt is intrigued when his partner Liz brings home an old carpet bag she found dumped in the local library. It contains a pile of mysterious handwritten notes. Liz is convinced the bag belongs to Old Molly, a local woman who lives on the streets. The following day, a body is discovered in a marshy lagoon. It's Old Molly. Suffocated with an expensive men's handkerchief. Molly clearly knew something that got her killed. Liz believes she was trying to tell them something important. She calls on her nephew David to help decipher the carpet bag notes. Meanwhile Matt is hired to find teenage runaway Liam Cooper. Liam has been missing for ten days now, and Matt has a very bad feeling about him. A few days later, a second body is discovered in an old barn out on the fens. Matt and Liz must piece together the cryptic clues Molly has left for them before more people die. The answers lead to the remote fenland village of Marshdyke-St-Mary - and a series of shocking secrets stretching back many years.

I just met my new son-in-law . . . And he's my ex-husband.They're here. I watch them arrive from the kitchen window. My pregnant daughter and her new husband. They've barely known each other six months.I greet him with a tight smile that he recognizes as fake.Luke is no good for my beautiful, fragile Cerys. He'll break her heart. I know that because he broke mine - when he was married to me.I don't know what he wants. But I'm going to make it my business to find out.I'll do anything to keep my daughter safe. Don't underestimate me.AN EXHILARATING PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE WITH TWISTS THAT WILL LEAVE YOU BREATHLESS.

This brand-new novel by bestselling author Anya Mora will take you take you on an emotional rollercoaster.It's as if my heart is bursting out of my chest. I turn around, looking at the little girl behind me. Nine-year-old Jubilee, our new adopted daughter, is beaming. She's the little girl I always wanted and we're finally taking her home.Three months later.'This can't be happening,' I say. 'She can't be gone. She's just a little girl, our little girl. She was here in her bed last night. I remember. I . . .'I feel the panic rising, my worst fear surfacing. What if I brought her home - only to be taken?Jubilee is not the first girl to go missing in our town. They found a body out in the cornfield - bones broken, a beautiful young girl gone.Our community has already lost so many daughters. Mine will not be next.Perfect for fans of Freida McFadden, Jeneva Rose, Colleen Hoover and Keri Beevis

DISCOVER THE FIENDISHLY TWISTY, UTTERLY ADDICTIVE CRIME FICTION OF VICTORIA DOWD.**FROM THE WINNER OF THE PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021 AND SHORTLISTEE OF THE CWA DAGGER AWARD 2023**A winter wedding.A mysterious disappearance.A body under the ice.Handsome Spear proposes marriage and Ursula Smart suddenly has a glimpse of the sort of happy life she had never imagined for herself. Beginning with a small winter wedding, on the edge of a secluded, frozen lake, away from it all.But trouble is never far from the Smart women, especially when the atmosphere is already so frosty.Tensions start rising as soon as they arrive and it's not just Ursula's mother Pandora getting cabin fever.Poisoning. Stabbing. A mysterious disappearance. Who's targeting the wedding party?Then on a midnight jaunt, Ursula sees a face trapped under the ice, eyes staring in frozen horror. And her happy future begins to fall apart.Weddings should be joyous occasions. But there's a murderer at this one.

MEET ABBY FINCH. SHE'S THE BUSY MUM OF THREE, AN EXPERT GARDENER AND THE STAR OF YOUR NEW FAVOURITE COZY MURDER MYSTERY.Abby Finch heads to the old church hall armed with mistletoe and holly ready to help decorate in time for the festive season. But she arrives in time to witness a horrifying sight. Edward Marsh reaches to test the antique star at the top of the tree. There's a fizz and the lights go out.Abby hears the sickening thud of a body hitting the ground. When the lights turn back on Edward is dead.It soon becomes clear it was no accident.The real victim should have been Gregory Tatton, a dapper silver fox, popular with the ladies of the seniors' lunch club. And a known blackmailer . . .Abby is desperate to know the truth, but putting herself in danger isn't on her Christmas list.Who's been naughty? Who's been nice? Who's hiding the fact they're a murderer?Fans of Faith Martin, Jane Adams, Frances Evesham, M.C. Beaton, Clare Chase or Jeanne M. Dams will love this addictive cozy mystery!

An absolutely heartbreaking and uplifting story of hardship and hope in the aftermath of World War I.1922. After the horrors of the Great War, the close-knit Truscott family return to everyday life on their busy Hampshire farm.But the two Truscott sisters are on very different paths. Kate is happily married to Albert, content to be a mother and farmer's wife. Her younger sister Dot sets her heart on becoming a teacher.But an unforeseen tragedy means Dot must give up her place at college. Instead she resigns herself to becoming a lady's companion to wealthy Mrs Humboldt, who is a difficult woman to please.Accompanying Mrs H. to Eastbourne, Dot enters an intoxicating new world of cocktails, circuses and dance halls, a life far removed from her quiet Hampshire village. And soon this naïve country girl catches the eye of a sophisticated seducer . . .Dot must quickly learn the ways of the world if she is to forge her own path, on her own terms. But in her single-minded pursuit of her career, is she in danger of missing out on love altogether?

If you love Miss Marple or Agatha Raisin, you'll love Rina!Meet Rina Martin, a retired actress with a taste for tea, gardening and crime solving.She played a TV sleuth for years, but now she has to do it for real.Rina's friend Bridie Duggan is tying the knot! At a majestic country house on a private island. Rina and thirteen other guests row out for the ceremony.One of them has murder in mind . . .The next day, Rina's out exploring the island when she hears a blood-curdling scream. She races down the twisty steps to shore - to find a dead body!This guest didn't fall to their death. They were pushed.A storm is rolling in on Bridie's perfect day. Now there's no way on or off the island.Rina can't stand by and wait for the police to come to their rescue.But what if Rina's snooping just moved her from the guestlist to the kill list?If you love Agatha Christie, Jeanne M. Dams, Glenda Young, Stella Cameron and Frances Evesham, prepare to be hooked by this page-turning whodunnit mystery.

Four dead.One clinging to life.A tragic accident or is someone out to kill?Detective Dove Milson is called out to a gruesome scene under the pier: four bodies floating in a flooded escape room. The chamber is meant to flood with seawater as the tide rises. But the water release valve has been tampered with and the ladder out of the top hatch has been removed. The entrance has also been broken into, and the CCTV from the night is missing.What really happened after midnight in room 6?Dove discovers one of the dead was a person of interest in a cold case. Five years ago, a young woman was assaulted in an abandoned quarry and she's been in a coma ever since.What's the connection and are they related to a string of attacks on the beach?One thing is clear.Dove's in a dangerous game of cat and mouse with someone and only one of them will escape with their life.Perfect for fans of Cara Hunter, K.L. Slater, Robert Bryndza, Helen Fields, Helen H. Durrant and Angela Marsons.

It's New Year's Day. But there's no rest for Detective Markham and the gang.Not when they've found a body down at Beauclair Drive allotments!Headteacher Catherine Leckie loved nothing more than pottering in her shed. This time, someone was there waiting - and left her strangled body lying on the floor!It's up to Markham to puzzle out who. But the deeper he digs into Catherine's secrets, the more dirt he finds.Little does he suspect the body count's about to rise . . .When Markham's prime suspect is found pushing up daisies - on the same allotments - the gang realize no one is safe from this elusive killer.Can Markham crack the case before more green-fingered victims die?Perfect for fans of Faith Martin, Frances Lloyd, The Rev Richard Coles, Richard Osman and Sarah Yarwood-Lovett.

AS THE TEMPERATURE DROPS, THE BODY COUNT RISES.Firefighters race to put out a blaze at a remote farmhouse. They discover two young girls alone in the house.Their mother is gone - and in her place is the dead body of a man, frozen naked in the foetal position. Two chess pieces made of ice have been left on the doorstep.Then it happens again.A missing woman.A frozen body.Chess pieces made of ice.Detective Dove Milson and her team are on the case, but time is running out to stop a serial killer. Then ice sculptures are left outside Dove's front door.Is this check or checkmate?In this utterly gripping thriller, what's frozen in the past may destroy the present.The Ice Daughters is the unputdownable follow-up to Glass Dolls in D. E. White's bestselling Detective Dove Milson series.

After another disastrous relationship, single-mum Samantha just wants a fresh start - for her and her teenage daughter and best friend, Lily.Samantha accepts a post as matron in an exclusive residential home on the outskirts of a quiet village in the Peak District.But nothing is as it seems at the Hallow Croft residential home.Forty years ago, a girl was killed in the grounds.One of the residents is kept locked away from the others - 'for their own safety'.The previous matron disappeared. The only trace of her now is a scuffed diary.People even say a local coven of witches cursed the home and the Shuttleworth family who owns it.And now Samantha's daughter might be the curse's next victim.

A DARK, TWISTY AND UTTERLY COMPELLING PAGE-TURNER FROM A BESTSELLING AUTHOR.Meet pretty Ivy Henthorn. The daughter of a well-respected judge. A popular student at exclusive Wellington-Bell.And now she's dead.Ivy's body is found on a bench in Bingham Park, by a rough sleeper. Her head shows signs of blunt force trauma. Somebody positioned her arms peacefully over her chest.Did she know who her killer was?Detective Claudia Nunn soon discovers that Ivy was the secret force behind a savage revenge blog. She destroyed relationships and reputations without a second thought.Perhaps the real question is: did the killer know who she was?Claudia must break through a wall of secrets to uncover a deadly truth.But Claudia's got her own trauma to bear. And a startling revelation could bring her own house of cards tumbling down . . .Cold Hard Truth is a grippingly dark and utterly compulsive page-turner that will be devoured by fans of Helen H. Durrant, Rachel Abbott, Angela Marsons and L.J. Ross.

Two-year-old Abigail is fast asleep in the back of the car, clutching her little red lion. Tony, her father, steps out onto the pavement. The man he's meeting punches him in the face, knocking him to the ground. Before it all goes black, Tony sees his car speed away - with his little girl inside.When he finally gets home after the worst day of his life, the house is empty. His wife is gone too. The place is ransacked and the kitchen is streaked with blood.Someone out there has Tony's little girl. And his wife may already be dead.Detective April Fisher must race against time to find little Abi alive.This brand-new, electrifying crime thriller is perfect for fans of Charlie Gallagher, Angela Marsons, Rachel Abbott, D.S. Butler or Mark Billingham.

Winner of Best Crime Fiction at the 2024 National Indie Excellence AwardsFinalist for the 2024 Feathered Quill Award for Best Mystery ThrillerDebby Morris, mother of two, goes to a Christmas party at the historic Hollyhock Manor in Marlow, and never comes home.Her phone, handbag and Santa's elf hat are found in a park near the River Thames. The police issue a nationwide search, but Debby is not found.Planned disappearance or something more sinister?Then Debby's body, still in her elf costume, is discovered five miles downstream from where she disappeared.But the circumstances around Debby's death are murkier than the Thames in which she was found.Detective Rob Miller is pulled from compassionate leave and put in charge. He's still reeling from his last botched case, and now all eyes are on him - waiting to see if he'll crack.As if saving his career isn't enough, Rob and his team are now in a race against time to bring an ingenious killer to justice.

A NAIL-BITING PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER WITH ONE OF THE BIGGEST TWISTS YOU'LL READ THIS YEAR.After choir practice for midnight mass, college sophomore Rose Grandon takes a short-cut through Harbor Park. Grabbed from behind, she is violently assaulted, beaten and left for dead.The last thing she hears is a tenor voice singing Silent Night.Several hours later, the police find Rose lying in a ditch. Badly beaten - but alive.As she recovers in hospital, Rose is told she's pregnant. She has a terrible choice to make. She decides to keep the baby.Nine months later, she gives birth to a beautiful baby girl. She names her Mary.Rose lives quietly in her small Connecticut hometown raising her daughter - the one good thing to come out of her horrible ordeal. She begins to get her old self back.But her evil attacker has never been caught. He strikes twice a year. Once on Christmas Eve, once on Christmas Day.And until he's behind bars, Rose and her baby can never be safe.But now he's found out he has a daughter. And that changes everything . . .AN EXHILARATING BLEND OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE, NAIL-BITING TENSION AND A SHATTERING FINAL TWIST.Perfect for fans of Frieda McFadden, Daniel Hurst, T.M. Logan, Patricia MacDonald and Shari Lapena.

MEET DETECTIVE KATE HAMBLIN IN THIS BESTSELLING SERIES FROM A FORMER POLICE OFFICER.Six old friends. A weekend in a country hotel. A ruthless killer among them.Detective Kate and her husband Hayden are on their way home from a romantic mini-break when a ferocious storm blows in and their car breaks down. Stranded on a remote lane in the blizzard, they seek shelter in a nearby country hotel.They aren't the only guests. Six old university friends are meeting up for a reunion weekend.One of them hides a terrible secret.The next morning, a body is found in the hotel lake. A tragic accident it would appear.The following day, a second guest is found drowned in the bathtub.Two drownings in two days is no coincidence.Snowed in, with no signal and the phone lines down, Detective Kate must unmask the killer among them before more guests meet a grisly end.Perfect for fans of Rachel Abbott, Joy Ellis, Mel Sherratt, Angela Marsons and Helen H. Durrant.

If you love Martina Cole and Kimberley Chambers, don't miss Casey King's absolutely gripping and gritty crime thriller about betrayal, revenge and family secrets.It's a story as old as time. Girl meets boy. Their marriage promises peace between their feuding families. Then it all falls apart.TEN YEARS AGO SOMEONE TRIED TO KILL HER.Danielle Lewis's marriage to Jason Flynn brings together two warring Dublin crime families. It should be a joyous union.But someone tries to take her life.Danielle survives the shooting but loses her unborn son. She can't prove it, but she knows her shooting is related to the crime that both families trade in. Then Jason cheats on her, just when she needs him most. And Danielle has had it.She leaves Dublin and her family behind.NOW SHE'S BACK. AND SHE WANTS ANSWERS.After ten long years living in exile in London, Danielle returns.Her homecoming threatens the uneasy truce that has existed between the Lewises and the Flynns ever since she left.Danielle is willing to do what whatever it takes if it means finding out the truth.But what she discovers changes everything.WHO TRIED TO KILL HER, AND WHY?Fans of Kerry Kaya, Kimberley Chambers, Emmy Ellis, Emma Tallon, Caz Finlay and Martina Cole, get ready for the first novel in an explosive new gangland crime series packed with twists, turns and deceit.

A COZY MURDER MYSTERY SET IN A PICTURESQUE CUMBRIAN VILLAGE. Suzy Spencer is branching out - she's working with local retiree gardeners on a podcast about rewilding the graveyard garden in Norbridge. But a body is found in a wheelie bin and chaos begins . . . Queen bee of the gardening gang, Lorna Duxford, discovers the dead woman. She's been stabbed. It turns out the victim wasn't local - nobody knew her. So why did Lorna whisper 'Deirdre' when she saw her? Then the wife of another gardener dies in a car crash. But the police quickly discover that this was no accident. Someone is picking off the gardeners in the graveyard one by one . . . It's up to Suzy Spencer to get to the bottom of these sinister goings-on before anyone else pays the ultimate price. A cozy mystery full of red herrings and twists and turns, set in an idyllic English village. Perfect for fans of Rhys Bowen, Richard Osman, Jeanne M. Dams, Frances Evesham, Simon Brett and Margaret Mayhew.

A remote island. A missing girl. A woman with a troubled past.Becky is back on the tiny island where she was born, the island she swore she'd never return to.Apart from her former best friend Megan, everyone makes it clear she isn't wanted. The islanders have long memories. They haven't forgotten the scandal. What Becky did.Becky decides to leave as soon as she can. But first she must discover what happened to Violet.Violet disappeared exactly a year ago, the day of the summer festival. Everyone assumes she ran off to the mainland with her boyfriend. Only her sister believes something more sinister happened to her.Becky starts to ask questions - and becomes convinced that Violet never left the island. Someone in this remote, suspicious community knows exactly what happened to her. Someone who's determined to keep the truth hidden - whatever it takes.As Becky pieces the clues together, she is forced to confront the dark secrets of her own past. But has she got it tragically wrong . . . yet again?And then another teenage girl goes missing . . .

A pulse-pounding British crime thriller with an astonishing twist.Detective Bill Roach spent his police career hunting a notorious killer known as Jack the Knife. Now he must re-hone his skills to hunt another equally ruthless killer.1975It's the worst thing Detective Bill Roach has ever seen. The young woman's body is found beside a busy road. She's been disembowelled - while she was still alive. Placed on her chest is a cassette player. Inside is a sixty-minute tape, playing just one song over and over again: Mack the Knife.With his copper's instincts, Bill knows this isn't the last they'll hear of the killer they call Jack the Knife. He's right. The hunt for Jack won't end for almost fifty years.Present dayEighty-year-old former police detective Bill Roach sits at the bedside of elderly Gillian Lake, comforting her as she slips away. A popular resident at the Crown Woods Retirement Home, Bill sees it as an act of kindness to ensure his fellow residents don't die alone.But the post-mortem throws up shocking results. Gillian didn't die of old age. She was murdered.Bill never caught Jack the Knife. But now he has a chance to make good the past - and catch Gillian's killer.But Bill's hunt for the truth will expose dangerous secrets. Past secrets that will burst into the present . . . with horrifying results.Perfect for fans of Lynda la Plante, Rachel McLean, Angela Marsons, Patricia Gibney.

AN UTTERLY GRIPPING, ACTION-PACKED THRILLER THAT WILL HAVE YOU HOOKED.No bad deed goes unpunished.As a favour to his old friend Sir Gerald Campion, Nick Shannon is investigating the books at an advertising agency to make sure everything's kosher - his first mistake.His second is attending the company's annual fete for clients, employees and their families. It's a wholesome affair with a selection of rides and stalls selling homemade and artisan products.But the merriment comes to a grinding halt when a gut-wrenching scream escapes from the ghost train. Nick races to the scene to find Bradley, a prominent client, slumped in a train car with a knife sticking out of his chest. His final, cryptic whisper: McLuhan.Now Nick has two jobs: find a fraudster and catch a killer.With his wedding fast approaching, Nick's race against time becomes a high-stakes gamble, where each step could cost him dearly.The key to solving the enigma lies within Bradley's final word: McLuhan. But the closer Nick gets, the more danger he's in. Now Nick is entangled in a deadly dance where every move could be his last.Fans of Frederick Forsyth, David Baldacci, J.B. Turner, Rob Sinclair, Lee Child, Vince Flynn and Robert Ludlum will devour this series of addictive page-turners.

A battered body. A missing handbag. A false confession?The call comes on Monday afternoon. About to demolish a row of derelict cottages, workmen discover a body in the bedroom of Number 9. A young woman, expensively dressed in designer clothes. It's a mystery what she was doing there.She's been badly beaten. But with no handbag or phone to be found, her identity remains unknown.Then an elderly man comes forward claiming to be the killer.Case closed, it would appear. But there are things about the old man's story that don't add up. Detective Norman isn't convinced.Then a second body is discovered in a skip behind the cottages - and the case takes a disturbing new twist.Norman and his team are in a race against time to uncover the truth before more bodies turn up.This absolutely gripping detective mystery full of twists and turns is perfect for fans of Rachel McLean, J.D. Kirk, Pauline Rowson, Elly Griffiths, Matt Brolly and Simon McCleave.

A victim who's made her last mistake.A killer hiding in plain sight.Detective Siv Drummond faces her toughest case yet . . .One Saturday morning, Detective Siv is called to Lansdown Court, a secluded little seaside community of artists, entrepreneurs and drifters. Where someone just committed the ultimate crime.Behind the doors of Jem Calloway's studio, the walls, the canvases, everything is stained red. With blood.Slumped in Jem's chair, there's a dead woman. A knife plunged deep in her neck. She is Luanna Forbes, owner of the bijou gift shop next door.Jem says he has no idea how she got there. He spent the whole night at a party, in a drunken haze. Detective Siv has her doubts. Because her sergeant was at the same party.And something was eating Jem that night. A secret he couldn't tell.What - or who - made him hold his tongue?Siv must break through a wall of silence to uncover the truth. But in a tight-knit community where blood runs thicker than water, she's got her work cut out . . .Discover a stunningly accomplished police procedural with untold emotional depth. Fans of Joy Ellis, P.D. James, Ruth Rendell, Jane Adams, Tana French or Rachel Caine are sure to be enthralled.

First she was married. Then she was widowed. Now she's vanished without a trace.From the bestselling author of The Greenway, nominated for the CWA's John Creasey Award.PRAISE FOR JANE ADAMS:'Takes the psychological suspense novel into new realms of mystery.' Val McDermid'The elaborate duel between hunter and hunted makes absorbing reading.' The TimesThree years ago, Ashley Summers watched the love of her life drop dead in a supermarket car park. Now, her friends all say she needs to move on. Live her life. But she has no idea how . . .Until she meets Tim Bennett. He's kind, caring, like no one she's dated before.Ashley calls her family, eager for them to meet the new man in her life. She makes a date with them - a date she never manages to keep. Just like that, Ashley's gone.Distraught, the family turn to ex-detective Ray Flowers for answers. He doesn't usually take missing persons cases. But this one's personal.Tim Bennett. The name makes Ray's blood run cold. Tim is Ray's friend and a happily married father of three.Ashley's new boyfriend isn't who he says he is - and Ray will stop at nothing to hunt him down. But, little does he know, his adversary has eyes on him.A chilling threat to Ray, and everyone he holds dear, is enough to stop him in his tracks.This imposter's taken Ashley. What on earth does he want with Ray?An utterly addictive mystery thriller for readers who love Ann Cleeves, Joy Ellis, Gretta Mulrooney, Cara Hunter, Tana French, Louise Penny, and Elly Griffiths.