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‘This is Ruth Ware like you’ve never read her before’ DAVID BALDACCI ‘She’s done it again!’ CLARE MACKINTOSH HER HUSBAND HAS BEEN MURDERED AND SHE'S THE ONLY SUSPECT. WHAT SHOULD SHE DO? Hired by companies to break into buildings and hack security systems, Jack and her husband Gabe...

When the London mob collides with the Russian Mafia, ex-SAS soldier Danny Pearson faces an impossible choice: end the war or watch his family die. Fresh from the SAS, Danny takes a job with his uncle Harry Knight—only to discover Harry's empire is under siege. South of the river, Viktor Volkov wants Harry's territory, and he'll burn London to get it. Bodies pile up. The fragile peace shatters when Viktor's ruthless older brother arrives from Moscow.

Natalie King has been hired to do a psychiatric evaluation for the children’s court. A simple custody dispute. But nothing is ever simple. Malik, claims his ex-wife Jenna is crazy and compulsive; Jenna claims Malik has been abusing their daughter Chelsea. But what if all the claims are true?...

Don't miss Neil Lancaster's brand-new espionage thriller series! No Mercy available to buy now. ‘I love DS Max Craigie and his team… Wildly entertaining and really pacy’ Liz Nugent He’ll watch you. A lawyer is found dead at sunrise on a lonely clifftop at Dunnet Head on the northernmost...

In a race against time and nature, there’s only one man you want on your side. 'Could I put the book down? Not a chance' New York Times 'An exhilarating action-infused mystery' Booktrib.com In northern California a small town teeters on the brink of disaster as flood waters bear down on it...

Billie, Mary Alice, Helen and Natalie have worked for the Museum, an elite network of assassins, for forty years. But now their talents are considered old-school and no one appreciates their real-world resourcefulness in an age of technology. When the foursome is sent on an all-expenses-paid trip to mark their retirement, they are targeted by one of their own. Only the Board, the top-level members of the Museum, can order the termination of field agents, and the women realise they've been marked for death.

As the streets of Paris are overrun with revolutionary fervour, England prepares for the inevitable war with France. Lieutenant Charles Hayden is a man of undeniable ability. The son of an Englishman, his allegiance to the English Crown is beyond dispute. But, with a French mother, and without...

THE THRILLING NEW INSTALMENT IN THE GLOBALLY BESTSELLING MICHAEL BENNETT SERIES. She came to Michael Bennett for protection. Now his whole family is in danger. When a frightened young actress arrives at his door claiming to have been attacked, Detective Michael Bennett immediately offers her a...

The 19th-century Egyptologist must rescue her kidnapped husband, find the culprit, and save her marriage in this delightful seventh adventure for beloved heroine Amelia Peabody. With Nefret, now a ward of Amelia and Emerson, and Ramses at home pursuing their studies, the couple returns to Amarna...

From the international bestselling author, the fourth adventure of Captain Alatriste, “the brooding charismatic hero of [Pérez-Reverte’s] wildly successful Spanish swashbuckling novels” (The New York Times) With The King’s Gold, bestselling author Arturo Pérez-Reverte continues to...

In the cosmopolitan world of seventeenth-century Madrid, Captain Alatriste and his protégé Íñigo are fish out of water. But the king is determined to keep the captain on retainer and—as a veteran with no other livelihood—he must remain, even as his “employment” brings him...

There’s only one Auntie Poldi: bewigged, cursing in Bavarian, and knocking back a wee shot of grappa as a pre-breakfast aperitif … or is there? No one is as they seem (and sound) in this hilarious new mystery featuring Sicily’s sultriest sleuth. Strange dealings are afoot in the Apostolic...

Danny’s already killed him twice…But Snipe Won’t Stay Dead and is out for revenge…Defeated by Danny after the death of terrorist Marcus Tenby, mercenary Nicholas Snipe is brought back to life in the back of the ambulance and whisked away to a government facility. When he comes out of a coma a year later, he has no recollection of the past few years.

'The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs Shears' house. It looked as if it was running on its side, the way dogs run when they think they are chasing a cat in a dream. But the dog was not running or asleep. The dog was dead. There was a garden fork sticking out...

The azure waters of a serene tropical paradise hide a sinister and murderous criminal undercurrent. A dark secret exposed leads to appalling bloodshed and chaos. How did it all go so dreadfully wrong? Ex-soldier Jason Green was grappling with depression and drowning in alcohol. The endless London winter had been bitterly cold. The freelance insurance fraud work was mundane, but all of this changes on a frigid February morning. The wealthy client was desperate. Just how was his high-flying young son making so much money? It sounded like a dream assignment.

John Rain has disappeared to Brazil to escape the killing business and the enemies encircling him in Japan. But the CIA isn't willing to lose its premier "natural causes" contract killer, and they force Rain to take on a high-risk assignment: eliminate a ruthless arms dealer operating in Southeast Asia. The upside? Financial, of course, along with the ongoing chimera of moral redemption. But first, Rain will have to survive the downside: a second assassin zeroing in on the target; the target's consort, an alluring and dangerous woman with an agenda of her own.

Jungle-skilled, silent, and lethal, he had killed for the Viet Cong and then for the Americans. He had watched helpless as his two eldest daughters were raped and killed by Thai pirates. Now, all that was behind him. Quiet, hard-working, and unassuming, he was building up his South London take-away business - until the day his wife and youngest daughter were murdered by an IRA bomb. That was when the Chinaman, denied justice, decided on revenge...and went back to war.

‘It may take you a while to sleep after you finish it’ Daily Express The most chilling and terrifying serial killer thriller of the year, from international bestseller Lars Kepler. Sweden’s most notorious serial killer. Jurek Walter was shot and killed years ago. The police moved on and...

Here is the precursor to Jurassic Park. Victorian explorers have heard there is a remote plateau where dinosaurs still survive, and a group set outs on a dangerous mission to find out more about it.

Young men who grow without the firm hand of a father can often become wild. James of Ecclestone is one such youth and when he runs away to become a billman fighting the Yorkist pretender, Lambert Simnel, he begins a journey that will shape him from a youth to a man, a wild child to a Tudor...