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Clipper Thriller
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A brand-new mystery from #1 bestselling author Helen H. Durrant that will have you gripped from start to explosive finish.
Day 1. A young woman's body is found in a shallow grave in the woods, buried in a white shroud. She's been dead for a week. Her teeth are smashed in, her lips stitched together. Her hands are missing.
She's the fourth young woman found like this.
With no witnesses, no clues and no leads to follow, the investigation is going...
2) To the Sea
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Keep a secret. Tell a lie. Protect the family. At all costs.
A compulsively listenable suspense thriller from Ngaio Marsh Award shortlisted author, Nikki Crutchley, which will keep you guessing and listening up until late into the night.
Iluka has been the only home that eighteen-year-old Ana has ever known. The beautiful wild pine plantation overlooking the Pacific Ocean where her grandfather builds furniture, her aunt runs an artists' retreat,...
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From one of our most treasured BBC broadcasters, The Spy Across the Water is the third instalment in James Naughtie's brilliant spy series, about three brothers whose lives are all entwined with the intelligence services.
Will Flemyng, originally trained as a spy, is now British ambassador to Washington. Meanwhile, his older brother Mungo is recuperating from a heart attack in their beloved Scottish highland family home, and Abel, the youngest of...
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Detective Ryan Boone thought the simple jewelry heist was an open-and-shut case. That is until he discovers an unknown drug, and this minor crime he was investigating may be tied to a string of seemingly unconnected murders.
Meanwhile, Mel Parker, unscrupulous leader of a less-than-legal high-end escort service, stumbles across the same pills. On top of protecting her "investment," she has her own reasons for attempting to unravel the mystery behind...
5) Threat Axis
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In the midst of a global manhunt, the leader of the world's largest private army sees his opportunity to upset the international order.
Ian Thomas is supposed to be dead. An international terrorist responsible for the bombing of the US Naval War College, he's been deceased for three years. But Don Riley, head of the CIA's Emerging Threats Group, is staring at a social media post showing him to be very much alive and on the run in South America.
The...
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Amusement parks are supposed to be about fun and entertainment . . .
. . . not death.
A marine biology and science-themed park is scheduled to open later this year. But there seems to be something sinister going on beneath the surface.
OceanTech's Paradisum is a cutting-edge operation, and they are hoping to capitalize on the growing trend of education-based vacation destinations. The park's CEO, Adrian Crawford, has spent his entire professional...
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ATRÉVETE A DESCUBRIR LA DEVASTADORA VERDAD SOBRE LA MUERTE DE KAT GUINEE.
Una tormenta de nieve azota Nueva York.
Kat Guinee se precipita desde la azotea de un edificio del barrio Corona.
Los hechos arrojan dudas desde el principio.
¿Se suicidó o la mataron?
Los detectives Randall Jacobs y Dakota Siegel intentarán disipar la niebla que les impide ver más allá de las
evidencias.
La posición del cuerpo no apunta a un suicidio.
Los inquilinos...
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Liz Bennet is fortunate with love, and she knows it. She's married to a wealthy, handsome, bright, all-around charming man. Arno, a wonderful husband and adoring father to their daughter Emma, is the outward picture of perfection. But, when Liz sees a text on Arno's phone with a couple of kissy-faces attached, she begins to spiral - second guessing her idyllic suburban life and everything she once thought to be true.
As any sensible wife would, as...
9) Five Nights
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A powerful family. A luxury cruise. A dark secret.
The Scarmados are the most famous family in Britain, notorious for throwing lavish parties funded by their media and shipping empire. Now, head of the family Mattia is about to retire, and he's taken his four children and his new young wife Belle on the maiden voyage of one of his luxury cruise ships. The tabloids are buzzing: is he about to announce his successor?
Belle has insisted her best friend...
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TAKEN. The timber wolves of Fallston, South Dakota fall prey to an international ring of fur trappers. Unfortunately, timber wolves are not all they capture. Taken by a savage group of criminals and transported half a world away to Denmark, two young boys must set aside their sibling rivalry to survive the violence that surrounds them. HAUNTED. Julie Walker is haunted by the loss of her sons and haunted by the reappearance of the one man she never...
11) The Dream Home
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IT WAS EVERYTHING THEY WANTED. AND MORE THAN THEY BARGAINED FOR . . .
THE UNMISSABLE NEW THRILLER FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE MOTHER, THE CATCH AND THE HOLIDAY
Adam and Jess move into a new house with their three young children: a rambling Victorian villa in a nice neighbourhood right at the very top of their price range. Before long Adam discovers a door hidden behind a fitted wardrobe, concealing a secret room . . .
Inside...
12) Scar Tissue
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Every battle leaves its mark...
Ex-Special Forces soldier Alex Abbott escaped the Middle East under a cloud and now lives hand-to-mouth in Singapore. Scraping a living as a gun for hire and estranged from his family, Abbott is haunted by ghosts of the past, drinking to dull the pain. Life's tough, but there is one upside - at least he's not in Baghdad.
That's about to change.
When a job goes badly wrong, Abbott's in hot water. Next he learns that...
13) Sawbones
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They call him Sawbones: a serial killer touring America kidnapping young women. The FBI's investigating — but getting nowhere. The latest victim is Laura Jones. Sixteen years old. Pretty. Blonde. And the daughter of one of New York's most notorious gangsters. Laura's Dad doesn't care about the law. What he wants is revenge. And he knows just the guys to get it. This time, Sawbones picked on the wrong family...
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Discovered after more than 40 years, a vintage action-adventure novel set on Domino Island – a Caribbean paradise toppling under murder, corruption and organised crime… 'Like a dream come true – an undiscovered Desmond Bagley novel … and it's a great one!' LEE CHILD Bill Kemp, an ex-serviceman working in London as an insurance investigator, is sent to the Caribbean to verify a life insurance claim that will make property magnate David Salton's...
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An impossible heist. An ancient code. A deadly race against time…
High in the Italian alps, cut off from the outside world, sits a chapel battered by winds and icy blizzards. The priests who guard this sacred place have sworn to protect the dangerous treasure that lies within their walls.
But when Joe Mason and his team are called to the remote church, they find its ancient stones reduced to rubble, the priests murdered in cold blood and their...
16) The Fifth Guest
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The invitation you don't want to receive...
A group of old friends gather in a beautiful house by the river in Barnes, for a dinner party.
They've barely each other since they left Oxford twenty years ago, and they don't like to look back on those days so much. As we find out, their student flatmate, Henry Bellinger, died one night on the eve of the Boat Race.
All five have been invited to attend a memorial for Henry the following day, and they're...
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The New York Times bestselling author of A Simple Favor brings her "sly, satirical, subversive" (L.S. Hilton, author of Ultima) prose to a pitch-perfect psychological suspense novel about a young couple whose disintegrating marriage and remote new home in rural, upstate New York make for a terrifying descent into the darker side of human nature.
When Emma's husband, Ben, falls in love with a large Victorian mansion for sale in upstate New York, he...
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On the death of her aunt, returns once more to Gwyn's home on the remote island of Anglesey, Wales, with young daughter in tow. Lowri hadn't seen her aunt in years, but this beautiful island offers a fresh start. Yet right away, strange things begin to happen. Ruby insists an old woman is visiting her when no one else is watching, and a tattered old doll keeps being left for Ruby to find. Then Ruby goes missing. Desperately seeking answers no one...
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When agrees to transport a priceless gold basin to its new owner, the ex-MI5 operative arrives only to find the recipient dead – brutally murdered in cold blood. To catch the killer, Mason must uncover the relic's secrets. But he's not the only one with an interest. The Guild of Night, a dangerous and vengeful cult, is determined to bring the Church to its knees – and the basin holds the power to do just that. In a frantic cat-and-mouse chase...
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General Garrett Sinclair undertakes a rogue mission in the Sahara Desert to thwart an international nuclear threat in Total Empire, an explosive thriller from A. J. Tata.
When Sergeant Major Sylvester “Sly” Morgan is killed on a mission, his daughter, Zoey, tells General Garrett Sinclair that her father's death wasn't random. Morgan had recorded a high-level meeting between Chinese, American, and French diplomats as they spoke about a plan for...
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