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After Seattle PD's homicide unit fails to stop the killing of young runaway girls, undercover VICE officer Susan "Susie Q" Quinton is requested to assist on the case. Susan hunts the killer who prowls the streets at night, searching for his next victim, all the while battling her own demons. But while Susan might not be able to save herself, she vows to save the runaway girls before the killer strikes again.

We’ve all experienced it. That creeping sensation of eyes on your back, the faint echo of footsteps following yours. Across the country, a madman is carefully choosing his victims. Once he has you in his sights, he won’t let go. You think you’re in control of your own life? Think again. Because The Puppet Master is coming for you, and he won’t stop until you’re dead…

When the body of a young girl is found in a remote countryside lane, evidence suggests she was drugged, abused and thrown from a moving van - before being beaten to death. While DI Annie Cabbot investigates the circumstances in which a 14-year-old could possibly fall victim to such a crime, newly promoted Detective Superintendent Alan Banks must do the same - but the crime Banks is investigating is the coldest of cases.

The 22nd novel in number-one best-selling author Peter Robinson's critically acclaimed DCI Banks series. When two boys vanish under mysterious circumstances, the local community is filled with unease. And when a caravan belonging to one of the youths is burned to the ground, and a bloodstain is discovered in a disused World War Two hangar nearby, things quickly become much more sinister.

The gruesome double murder at an Eastvale property developer's luxury home should be an open and shut case for Superintendent Banks and his team of detectives. There's a clear link to the notoriously vicious Albanian mafia, men who left the country suspiciously soon after the death. Then they find a cache of spy-cam videos hidden in the house - and Annie and Gerry's investigation pivots to the rape of a young girl that could cast the murders in an entirely different light.

A young local student has apparently committed suicide. Her body is found in an abandoned car on a lonely country road. She didn't own a car. Didn't even drive. How did she get there? Where did she die? Who moved her, and why? Meanwhile a man in his 60s is found dead in a gully up on the wild moorland. He is wearing an expensive suit and carrying no identification. Post-mortem findings indicate he died from injuries sustained during the fall. But what was he doing up there? And why are there no signs of a car in the vicinity?

Just back from honeymoon, the last thing Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy wants to deal with is nuisance calls from an old lady ringing the police incessantly to report seemingly trivial incidents. The woman in question is Timony Weeks, a sixties’ child star in the once-popular soap Butterfield Farm, who lives in an isolated farmhouse. Is she putting on an act and wasting police time, or is someone really trying to frighten her?

On a snowy December morning, a young woman is found outside Patches nightclub in Leek. Half dead from the cold, she says she has been raped. As Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy - fresh from a disciplinary action - investigates, she learns that Kayleigh Harrison has made unsubstantiated allegations before against her stepfather. But there are possible links to a similar rape case six months previously. Is there a real case to investigate or not? Kayleigh holds the key, but how much of her story can be trusted?

Forensic psychiatrist Dr Claire Roget finds it impossible to refuse when she receives a desperate phone call from an old acquaintance, obstetrician Charles Tissot. One of his patients, Heather Krimble, alleges that Tissot seduced her at a party and that he is the father of her unborn child. His career on the line, Charles begs Claire to expose Heather's fragile mental state and discredit her wild claims....

A disgraced college lecturer is found murdered with £5,000 in his pocket on a disused railway line near his home. Since being dismissed from his job for sexual misconduct four years previously, he has been living a poverty-stricken and hermit-like existence in this isolated spot. The suspects range from several individuals at the college where he used to teach to a woman who knew the victim back in the early '70s at Essex University, then a hotbed of political activism.

DI Joanna Piercy is irritated at what she perceives to be an attempt to wrap her up in cotton wool during her pregnancy when she is asked to take on the case of Zachary Foster, a missing 96-year-old man suffering from dementia. Zachary has vanished from his residential care home on the edge of Leek during the night with his beloved old teddy bear. He can't have gone far, surely, but how did a frail, elderly man manage to abscond from a secure house at night? As Joanna investigates, it soon becomes clear that this apparently minor case is far more sinister than it first appears.

Athos, Pearl and their two-leggeds are guests at a beautiful palais in Vienna, Austria. A grand ball is to be held there to celebrate the eighteenth birthday of the family's daughter, and recently Bella, a young Malamute just like Athos, has also moved into the grand historic mansion. But instead of fun and games with the puppy and a glittering night at the ball, a murder takes place—for which Victoria Adler, the Master Sleuths' very own human, is arrested!

Missing Person: With a family missing, and after four years off the police force, Chase Grant finds himself back in the midst of a criminal investigation. But as he teams up with the FBI and the US Marshals working this high-profile case, Grant will be forced to confront his past. Deadly Webs: The clock starts the moment Grant gets the call from a parent, and the first 12 hours are crucial. If he missteps, then a child might not come home. But today was different. He got a call about a missing child. And then another, and another, and another....

The day before Detective Jim North is set to be married, an entire busload of children goes missing. Jim and his partner, Detective Kerry Martin, are called to assist in finding the missing bus. But a closer look at the case reveals a connection to Jim’s past that he had hoped was buried forever.

This bundle includes two audiobooks: The Vanishing of the Georgia Rose and Kidnapped.

When a young girl vanishes from a cabin in the woods, Missing Person Detectives Jim North and Kerry Martin work the case to find her. However, it doesn’t take long before these detectives realize the people behind the abduction are far deadlier than anyone they’ve come up against before. Jim and Kerry will navigate a secret society where money and power fuel dark desires: at any cost.

Fifteen years have passed since Jim North was abducted. He and another boy were placed in a cage and subjected to unspeakable horrors. But what haunts Jim more than his abduction is his escape. After abandoning the other boy who was captured, Jim has spent his life searching for him. Now, as a detective in Seattle’s fifth Precinct, Jim and his partner, Kerry Martin, will have a second chance to solve the case.

No parent should outlive their child. But in the small rural community of Maples, Kansas, that’s exactly what’s happening. With authorities unable to explain the mysterious deaths of several children, one detective turns to an old friend, whose history is intertwined with the misfortunes of the town.

Some truths are better left buried. When Rudy Montgomery disappears from his foster home early one morning, his foster parents, Ray and Mary Swisher are concerned. They decide to contact one of their grown children who happens to be a detective in Seattle's Missing Person Division. But as Jim North and his partner, Detective Kerry Martin, investigate Rudy's disappearance, they discover a far more nefarious plot.