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'This is absolutely first class' Stephen Fry 'Simon Mason has created crime fiction's most entertaining double act in decades' Mick Herron 'Move over Morse' Val McDermid 'My favourite UK series' M W Craven On a warm and pleasant evening in Oxford, gentle city of poets and scholars, rioters...

Inspector William Monk is ordered to investigate in a manner that will give the least possible pain to the influential family. But Monk, brilliant and ambitious, is handicapped by lingering traces of amnesia and by the craven ineptitude of his supervisor, who would like nothing better than to see Monk fail.

Cassidy Livingston's new identity has begun to feel as comfortable as her favorite sweater. She's been tucked away on Lantern Beach for weeks, waiting to testify against a deadly gang, and is settling in to a new life she wants to last forever. When she thinks she spots someone malevolent from her past, panic swells inside her. If an enemy has found her, Cassidy won't be the only one who's a target. Everyone she's come to love will also be at risk.

Wrapping up a normal day at the office, criminal psychologist Kieran Finnegan is accosted by a desperate woman who shoves an infant into her arms and then flees, only to be murdered minutes later on a busy Manhattan street. Who was the woman? Where did the baby come from? Kieran can't stop thinking about the child and the victim, so her boyfriend, Craig Frasier, does what any good special agent boyfriend would do - he gets the FBI involved. And asks Kieran to keep out of it. But the Finnegans have a knack for getting into trouble....

For Inspector Esa Khattak and Sergeant Rachel Getty, the Syrian refugee crisis is about to become personal. Esa's childhood friend, Nathan Clare, calls him in distress: his sister, Audrey, has vanished from a Greek island where the siblings run an NGO. Audrey had been working to fast-track refugees to Canada, but now, she is implicated in the double-murder of a French Interpol agent and a young man who had fled the devastation in Syria. Esa and Rachel arrive in Greece to a shocking scene, witnessing for themselves the massive fallout of the Syrian war in the wretched refugee camps.

Baltimore homicide detective Lane O'Reily takes on the case of a lifetime when he is handed a murder investigation involving a string of young women. Desperate to solve the case before another victim turns up, he must rely heavily on his only witness, a survivor to the crimes. She begins harassing and stalking him, and with his marriage, career, and life on the line, he must decide if the obsessive witness is leading him down a path to the murderer, or down a trail littered with lies, betrayal and, ultimately, a dead end.

Riley Burke has it all: a successful advertising agency, a beautiful house, a trim sailboat, and a gorgeous wife. But no longer sure of his wife's love, he begins an affair, the first in their 10-year marriage. As Riley and his would-be lover wait on the dock in Newport Harbor for the launch to his boat, a young man nearby is attacked by a brutal thug. When Riley intervenes, he finds himself inextricably drawn into a chain of events that will change his life forever; he finds himself, suddenly, in dangerous waters.

Something appalling happened in the wood. When Gabriel Ash and his dog come to her aid, she thinks she's safe. But this is Norbold, where things aren't always as they seem. Detective Chief Inspector Gorman thinks this is his worst nightmare: a predatory paedophile who's prepared to kill rather than be taken. Constable Hazel Best thinks she's helping both the Somers family and her friend Ash, but her tendency to follow her heart rather than her orders is about to get her into trouble again.

At first it appears a mugging gone horribly wrong: one man dead and a woman left in a coma one Friday night in Washington, D.C. The woman is Arlington police detective Frank Mancini's niece and lives in the boarding house run by retired FBI-agent-turned-landlady Ethel Fiona Crestwater. Ethel and Frank are old friends, and so she volunteers to investigate the crime on Frank's behalf, as his hands are tied by jurisdictional issues. But what appears at first a random robbery soon proves more diabolical.

John Godwin thought he’d left his life as an EMT in the past. These days he works as a private investigator who spends his days keeping tabs on cheating spouses and insurance scammers in sunny Miami. But it only takes one phone call, one unexpected job with a fat paycheck, to send him right back to where he started. Death is stalking a privately owned luxury resort on an island just off the Florida Keys.

A gruesome murder in a cat rescue sanctuary splinters animal lovers and animal haters in a serene California mountain village. Village patrol officer, and animal activist, Holly Seabright, intrudes herself in the investigation to clear the name of the founder, a heroine among the animal rescue community. Hot shot homicide investigator Dex Stafford battles a cat allergy and a dislike for a place without a Starbucks - or even streetlights. Nothing goes his way. He and his partner disagree over the course of the investigation.

This coastal mystery and suspense thriller box set includes the first three books in The Dangerous Coast of Florida suspense series - Dead in the Water, Burned in the Water, and Poisoned in the Water.

John Godwin, former EMT and current private investigator, continues to make waves as his cooperation with the Miami PD brings him more high-profile cases. His contact in the Vice department asks him to look into a string of attacks on women using hallucinogenic drugs. He uncovers the grim details of how the crimes unfold: an innocent interaction with a stranger, memory loss, madness, violence, and then death. There is little evidence left at the scenes and even fewer clues. When the killer strikes someone close to John’s heart, it threatens to derail the investigation entirely.

John Godwin thought he’d left his life as an EMT in the past. These days, he was a private investigator who spent his days keeping tabs on cheating spouses and insurance scammers in sunny Miami. But after solving a few high-profile cases, his quiet retirement is proving to be anything but. When Damon Cosgrove, the eldest son of a wealthy Miami family, turns up dead - poisoned by an exotic pet - John will have to discover if it’s really an accident, or if the Cosgrove family is being hunted by a killer with a taste for poison.

กีรตินายตำรวจอนาคตไกลที่ต้องรับหน้าที่ดูแลขนิษฐาน้องสาวที่ชื่นชอบในเรื่องการสืบสวน วันหนึ่งเขาได้รับผิดชอบเกี่ยวกับคดีการฆาตกรรมที่เหี้ยมโหด ซึ่งเป็นการฆ่าคนเลียนแบบเกมในเว็บไซด์หนึ่ง ในวันแรกที่ไปเรียนในมหาวิทยาลัย ขนิษฐาได้เจอกลุ่มเพื่อนใหม่ ซึ่งมีเกวลี (นักศึกษาปี 1 คณะวิทยาศาสตร์สาขาคอมพิวเตอร์) นัดดา (นักศึกษาปี 1 คณะวิทยาศาสตร์สาขาคอมพิวเตอร์) และแน่วแน่ (นักศึกษาปี 1 คณะวิทยาศาสตร์สาขาคอมพิวเตอร์) ซึ่งทั้งสามคนเป็นเพื่อนสนิทกันอยู่ก่อนแล้ว

John Godwin thought he’d left his life as an EMT in the past. He thought he’s spend his time as a private investigator keeping tabs on cheating spouses and insurance scammers in sunny Miami. But John’s semi-retirement has been busier than he ever expected, and after helping solve a high-profile case, he’s also gained some unexpected notoriety and caught the eye of Miami Homicide Detective Jamie Greene.

El aristocrático clan de los Moidore, una de las mejores familias de Londres, a cuya mansión de Queen Anne Street acuden los más encumbrados personajes, nunca se había visto en vuelto en el escándalo. Ahora, sin embargo, la bella hija de sir Basil ha aparecido apuñalada en su propia cama y la noticia corre de boca en boca por la ciudad. El inspector William Monk recibe la orden de encontrar al asesino sin demora, aunque evitando causarle mayores trastornos a una familia ya abrumada por la tragedia.