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The cocaine export business has a new player, Hector de Oliveira—a highborn Brazilian aristocrat with an eye for new markets. When profits fall in Latin America, de Oliveira eyes a new frontier. In Australia, advertising mogul Frank Quinlivan has built a successful business empire, a beautiful life, a young wife, and a yacht. Being a player in the world of high-stakes business is challenging enough—until… A missing shipment sends Oliveira’s flawless drug smuggling operation off Sydney’s coast into chaos. Enter Quinlivan.

Glasgow journalist Danny Delvecchio has spent his life running from the day his twin sister was murdered by serial killer Robert Liddle. Twenty years on, history is repeating itself; bodies begin appearing across the city, each posed like Liddle's victims. Then Danny receives a chilling message: Find her. Danny has twenty-four hours to save a young woman’s life. But the killer knows everything about him. Every move. Every fear. Every mistake that haunts his sleepless nights.

First, she took my husband. Then my daughter moved in. And now my little girl is accused of murder…I can’t wait to see my sixteen-year-old daughter Brie, and get back to sharing secrets over cozy dinners together. But when I arrive at her stepmother’s stunning house to collect her, she stares at me coldly, like I’m a stranger. A silver stud gleams in her nose, and she’s dropped out of college. And she doesn’t want to come home…Brie’s eyes slide away from me, as her stepmother Leanne puts an arm around her shoulder. The message is clear.

Oihane swore she'd never return to Urrun. But when her father is shot in a supposed hunting accident, she has no choice but to go back to the remote rural hamlet she once fled. The place hasn't changed: the people are hostile, violent, and bound by silence. Neither has her father been the only victim. As Oihane digs into what really happened that day in the woods, she's met with a wall of secrets. No one will talk. Everyone has something to hide. And the deeper she probes, the more she realizes the shooting was no accident at all.

It’s the case Detective Alec Farnham can’t forget. He was the one who found his friend and mentor, DI Lou Catterick, collapsed in a deserted alleyway, her shirt drenched in blood. He was too late. With her dying breath, Lou utters a single word. Ghost. A year on, the investigation has stalled. The trail is cold. The killer still walks free. But Alec refuses to let go. He knows one thing for certain: Lou would never have given up on him. If he can only work out what she was trying to tell him, he knows he’d have the key to cracking the case.

The gang are back with a new mystery in the #1 globally bestselling ‘Thursday Murder Club’ series from the nation’s favourite author, Richard Osman. Praise for Richard Osman and the Thursday Murder Club series: ‘So smart and funny. Deplorably good’ IAN RANKIN ‘I smiled a million...

John Moffat stars as the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in seven more BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations. The stories in this volume are: Evil Under the Sun, Sad Cypress, Murder in Mesopotamia, Lord Edgware Dies, Halloween Party, Murder on the Links and Five Little Pigs. Based on the original novels by Agatha Christie, these superb adaptations feature a cast of outstanding actors playing an array of likely suspects.

Daniel De Luca left behind a career in the Marines to become the problem solver at the luxurious Hotel Villa Costiera in Positano. His life revolves around cases to crack and guests to protect, until he meets Denise Miller. She's about to marry a powerful Russian tycoon in what promises to be the wedding of the year. But nothing is as it seems. When Denise is found dead the morning after her bachelorette party, all evidence points to Daniel. But what really happened that night?

Listen to the first nine books in the bestselling and award-wining Dorset Crime series – over a hundred hours of listening. DCI Lesley Clarke has been transferred to a rural team in Dorset for some peace and quiet after suffering trauma in her previous job in Birmingham. But things don't stay quiet for long. Before she's even started the job she's plunged into her first case in the shadow of Corfe Castle. Next, a lawyer is pushed off a cliff near Old Harry Rocks, and then the cases start coming thick and fast, each one becoming more personal for Lesley.

June Whitfield stars as Miss Marple in seven full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisations. The stories included are: 'The Moving Finger', 'They Do It with Mirrors', 'Nemesis', 'Sleeping Murder', 'Tape-Measure Murder', 'The Case of the Perfect Maid' and 'Sanctuary'. 

The helpless hold all the secrets. Two masked assailants burst into a ward in the QE Hospital in Barnstaple. While a nurse is held at gunpoint, a patient is shot three times as he lies helpless after a stroke. The attackers vanish as quickly as they arrived. Witnesses are in deep shock. DI Jan...

WINNER - 2026 ABIA GENERAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER - 2026 ABIA AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER - KERRY GREENWOOD READERS' CHOICE, 2026 DAVITT AWARDS WINNER - 2026 NED KELLY AWARD FOR BEST CRIME FICTION SHORTLISTED - 2026 DANGER AWARD FOR BEST CRIME FICTION From the New York Times...

Master crime writer Chris Hammer returns with his first standalone blockbuster thriller. ‘If there is enough money involved, truth becomes a tradeable commodity. Like gold, it is malleable; it can be melted down and recast without losing its value.’ Travis Somerland is a man accustomed to...

Buckle up for the thrilling new adventure that sees Jack Reacher called in to investigate the brutal murder of a covert operative, uncovering a dangerous conspiracy where no one can be trusted… Jack Reacher is a hard man to track down. And that's just the way he likes it. But General Susan...

The gripping first book in the Mara Ellison Series. A body buried beneath the cliffs. A disappearance no one properly investigated. And a detective about to uncover secrets someone believed were lost to the sea. Six years ago, Laura Whitmore vanished. She had checked into a private rehabilitation facility on the Kent coast. Days later the clinic claimed she walked away. No witnesses. No investigation. No one looking for answers. Until the sea gives her back.

Meet Detective Inspector Amber Kash — she’s sharp, she’s stubborn, and after twelve years of policing she’s running out of reasons to stay on the force. But as Detective Kash is writing her resignation letter, she’s unexpectedly called to Summerfield Police Station’s interview room. Inside is celebrity psychologist Joanna Merrick, infamous for her role in viral true-crime documentary The Portrait Maker. The woman is nothing like she appears on screen. She’s dirty. She’s terrified. And she’s making an impossible claim.

Some secrets belong to the city. This one belongs to Harry Bosch. Growing up in MacLaren's Children's Center - a notorious care facility - Bosch had a friend. Together, they survived the dangers of that awful place. Until one night, when his friend was placed in the illegal confinement space...

Narrated by Nicola Walker. FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB COMES THE THRILLING NEW MYSTERY IN THE 'WE SOLVE MURDERS' SERIES - A GLOBE-TROTTING ADVENTURE. Featuring an exclusive conversation between Richard Osman and narrator Nicola Walker at the end of the audiobook...

A teenage boy's body is found on a lonely country road at dawn. By the time police arrive, it has vanished without trace. The blanket that covered him remains. The witness is adamant the boy was dead. But when Detective Bob Foreman reaches the scene, there is nothing. No body. No blood. No explanation. With no forensic evidence and conflicting accounts, Foreman is running out of leads. He's already looking for a second missing boy. Last spotted on a moonlit towpath, and never seen again. At the same time, two children are displaying abilities that defy explanation.

Book 5 in the Rivers of London series, from Sunday Times Number One bestselling author Ben Aaronovitch. In the fifth of his bestselling series Ben Aaronovitch takes Peter Grant out of whatever comfort zone he might have found and takes him out of London - to a small village in Herefordshire...