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A brand new story from Number One bestselling author Valerie Keogh. An explosive thriller that will leave you shocked! Meet The Wives... Lies, secrets, deadly decisions… When Natasha meets Daniel, she knows her life is made. Rich, handsome and charming, Daniel will make the perfect husband. Even if she won’t make the perfect wife… She is thrilled when Daniel suggests an all-expenses paid cruise for Natasha, her friends, Barbara, Tracy Ann and Michelle, and their husbands. What better way to show everyone that Natasha has finally made it? But as the ship sets sail, she learns that far from being the perfect husband, Daniel has terrible secrets that are about to be revealed. And each of the wives has their own reasons for wanting him dead. This trip might cost more than any of them ever imagined… A gripping new story from the psych thriller queen that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Perfect for fans of Frieda McFadden, J.A. Baker and Sue Watson. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781805577034 • Author: Valerie Keogh • Publisher: Boldwood Books Limited • Format: Paperback • Pages: 296 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 1.7 cm

Ruby Johnson is a nanny and maid to wealthy families in Manhattan's West 74th Street. She knows their routines. Their secrets. One night, on her way home, Ruby witnesses a neighbour's murder. She knows the victim. She knows the killer. She makes an anonymous call to the police and names the murderer. But Ruby didn't tell the truth... Eddie Flynn, conman turned trial lawyer, must defend an innocent man accused of this terrible crime. As Ruby's deadly game begins, one thing is certain. It won't be the last murder this witness is involved in... Product Information: • ISBN: 9781035408221 • Author: Steve Cavanagh • Publisher: Headline • Format: Paperback • Pages: 416  • Dimensions: 12.9 x 3.3 x 19.7 cm

2014, Dublin: at St Edmunds, an elite college on the outskirts of the city, twenty-year-old medical student Theo gets up one morning, leaving behind his sleeping girlfriend, Dani, and his studies – never to be seen again. With too many unanswered questions, Dani simply can’t accept Theo’s disappearance and reports him missing, even though no one else seems concerned, including Theo’s father. Ten years later, Dani returns to the college as a history professor. With her mother suffering from severe dementia, and her past at St Edmunds still haunting her, she’s trying for a new start. But not all is as it seems behind the cloistered college walls – meanwhile, Dani is hiding secrets of her own. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781529419252 • Author: Jo Spain • Publisher: Quercus Publishing plc • Format: Paperback • Pages: 368 • Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 3.2 cm

HIS MISTRESS IS DEAD. HIS WIFE IS HIS ONLY HOPE. Sarah Morgan is one of the best criminal defense attorneys in Washington, DC. With a perfect case record and having made named partner before the age of thirty-five, her life is going exactly as she planned. However, the same cannot be said for her husband, Adam, a failed author, who’s grown to resent his wife’s meteoric success as he feels it’s come at the expense of their relationship. For almost two years, Adam has kept his affair with Kelly Summers a secret, but everything changes when her body is discovered at the couple’s lake house and Adam is arrested on suspicion of murder. Sarah now finds herself facing her most challenging case yet when she vows to defend her husband–a man accused of murdering his mistress. While Adam is certainly guilty of sleeping with Kelly, the question remains: Is he guilty of killing her too? Product Information: • ISBN: 9781398723603 • Author: Jeneva Rose • Publisher: Orion Publishing • Format: Paperback • Pages: 352 • Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.6 cm

It takes a special family to turn a home into a nightmare. Since her husband’s unsolved murder three years ago, Iris Blodgett’s life has unraveled. Awash in grief and buried in debt, she can’t pay her mortgage—and now that she’s lost her job, she has no idea how she’ll provide for her unruly teenage daughter, Ellory. Facing eviction, Iris turns to her new beau, prominent architect Hugh Smoll, for a shoulder to cry on. But the seemingly perfect Hugh offers her something more: an invitation to move in to his mother’s centuries-old mansion while he renovates the property. It seems like the perfect solution, but when Iris and Ellory arrive at Ravencliff, the family inside isn’t quite what they expected. Iris didn’t even know Hugh had siblings, much less that they’d all be living together. With repairs underway, the house gives up its dark secrets one by one. Before long, Iris unearths a chilling family history—and the terrifying reason she and Ellory were invited in the first place… Product Information: • ISBN: 9780778334460 • Author: Katie Garner • Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers • Format: Paperback • Pages: 384 • Dimensions: 20.32 x 13.39 x 2.41 cm

There's a baby in your house. It isn't yours... The day I was told I'd never be able to have a child, my world came crashing down. My husband says he still loves me, but I lie awake at night, wishing we could have a family. One morning, my husband's side of the bed is cold and empty. I hear a noise and head downstairs. In the middle of the rug in my living room is a wooden drawer. Swaddled inside, with perfect rosy cheeks and beautiful round blue eyes, a baby gazes up at me. I shiver. It's all I've ever wanted, but this baby is not mine... Product Information: • ISBN: 9781836182009 • Author: A J McDine • Publisher: Bookouture • Format: Paperback • Pages: 352  • Dimensions: 13.54 x 1.75 x 19.81 cm

THEY'VE FAKED YOUR CHILD'S DEATH. AND IF YOU DON'T GIVE THEM WHAT THEY WANT, THEY'LL MAKE IT A REALITY. Things have been difficult for Annie since her husband left; her teenage daughter, Isla, has become a ghost of her former self. Annie's terrified that Isla might do something desperate, and she'll lose her, too. So when Annie receives a video of herself crying at Isla's funeral, her blood runs cold. Confused and horrified, Annie races upstairs to check on Isla, who is alive and well. The video has been faked. But who sent it and what do they want? One dark truth soon becomes clear: Annie is the latest in a string of parents being blackmailed, and Isla will be killed if Annie goes to the police or if she fails to give the sender what they want. Annie has a deadly choice: comply with the demands, or try to unmask the dangerous criminal. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781398716636 • Author: M. J. Arlidge and Andy Maslen • Publisher: Orion • Format: Paperback • Pages: 352  • Dimensions: 12.7 x 2.54 x 19.56 cm

IN COLD CASES, IT’S NOT THE HOPE THAT KILLS YOU. IT’S THE WAITING. LAPD Detective Renée Ballard gets a DNA hit in a case that has gone unsolved for twenty years. A recently arrested man is genetically related to a serial rapist who terrorised the city of angels. But when the relative is revealed, it is the last person you want to accuse unless the evidence is watertight… With the help of the newest volunteer to the cold case unit – patrol officer Maddie Bosch, Harry’s daughter – Ballard finally has another badge on the team. But Maddie has an ulterior motive for getting access to the city’s library of souls. Because some crimes have been waiting to be solved longer than others… Product Information: • ISBN: 9781398719033 • Author: Michael Connelly • Publisher: Orion Publishing • Format: Paperback • Pages: 496 • Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 3.4 cm

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When darkness is everywhere, nowhere is safe... A state of emergency has been declared in the UK. From now on, at 8pm every night, all electricity cuts out. The Government promises it's a temporary measure. They promise they are always thinking of your safety. But for Grace, the darkness is anything but safe. Someone is coming into her house under its cover every night while she lies in bed upstairs, too terrified to sleep. Someone who knows her past, who knows why she has more reason to fear the dark than most... And every morning she wakes to a new message from the intruder: I have you in my sights. Love, The Night But how can Grace escape, when there's nowhere safe left to hide? Product Information: • ISBN: 9781529396188 • Author: Louise Swanson • Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks • Format: Paperback • Pages: 416  • Dimensions: 13.2 x 2.9 x 19.7 cm

Alex and Pip are in desperate need of an escape. Their stressful roles as hostage negotiators are eased only by the fact that they get to come home to each other every night. When an old friend invites the couple up to the Scottish Highlands for an extended break, Alex and Pip jump at the chance. It’s the rest they both need. But soon after they arrive at the castle, they hear the sound of gunshots, and their perfect escape turns into a perfect nightmare. The remote mountainous landscape is now the setting for a terrifying kidnap plot targeting one of the other guests. In the desperate hours that follow, Alex and Pip must call on all their years of negotiating experience to keep everyone alive. But with Pip gravely injured and the net closing in, it might be her life that needs saving most of all… Product Information: • ISBN: 9781398716865 • Author: John Sutherland • Publisher: Orion Publishing • Pages: 352 • Format: Paperback • Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 3 cm

Kate and her husband are expecting their first child. Even though it was a surprise, Kate is thrilled and so is her mother, Helen. Kate just needs Helen’s anxieties to ease and for Dan to be on board. Dan is struggling – he loves Kate, but he is not ready to be a father. With relations between them feeling hostile, the attractive lead singer in Dan’s band offers him a tantalizing escape. Two weeks before the due date, Kate heads off for an overnight stay at a guesthouse she is designing. When suddenly neither Helen nor Dan can reach her, Helen discloses a dark secret from their past. One that leaves them wondering, has something terrible happened to Kate and the baby? Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008607593 • Author: Karen Clarke • Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers • Format: Paperback • Pages: 256 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.1 cm

After the sudden death of her sister, devastated detective DS Ronnie Blake relocates to Cambridge to help her brother Alex raise their sister’s young son, Noah. She reports for her first day but instead finds herself being questioned by a special investigations unit, nicknamed the DEAD Team. With a small group of six, led by DI Fenton, the once-successful DEAD team has a single outstanding case, Operation Byron, and the failure to resolve it threatens the unit’s existence. Their most promising lead is an anonymous note linking three seemingly unconnected people: a convicted fraudster, a dead academic… and Ronnie’s sister Jodie. When Ronnie is denied information about Operation Byron, she follows a lead slipped to her by Malachi, the youngest member of the team, and makes a discovery which links Operation Byron to a disturbing unsolved murder. She is rapidly drawn into an intricate web of deceit, buried secrets and tragedy and the discovery that her connection to Cambridge is far darker than she could ever have guessed. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781472123916 • Author: Alison Bruce • Publisher: Little Brown • Format: Paperback • Pages: 288 • Dimensions: 19.69 x 12.7 x 1.91 cm

Pete Riley answers the door one morning to a parent’s worst nightmare. On his doorstep is Miles Lambert, who breaks the devastating news that Pete’s two-year-old, Theo, isn’t Pete’s real son – their babies got mixed up at birth. The two families agree that, rather than swap the boys back, they’ll try to find a more flexible way to share their children’s lives. But a plan to sue the hospital triggers an investigation that unearths disturbing questions about just what happened the day the babies were switched. And when Theo is thrown out of nursery for hitting other children, the Rileys have to ask themselves: how far do they want this arrangement to go? What secrets lie hidden behind the Lamberts’ smart front door? How much can they trust the real parents of their child – or even each other? Product Information: • ISBN: 9781529434774 • Author: JP Delaney • Publisher: Quercus Publishing plc • Format: Paperback • Pages: 432 • Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 3.8 cm

'Sophie Beckett?' I smile sweetly. 'I'm your daughter's new tutor. May I come in?' My heart thunders in my chest. Sophie has no idea who I really am, and I need it to stay that way. Otherwise, I might not leave this house alive... When I first meet Sophie, she seems like any normal loving mother, trying desperately to help her teenage daughter. That's where I come in. The perfect tutor to get Katie's life back on track. I connect instantly with Katie, and Sophie's thoughtful husband Scott. But Sophie's dark eyes are full of jealousy when I talk to Scott or share a smile with Katie. I know I'm helping her daughter, whatever she thinks. But when I find my clothes strewn everywhere, it's clear Sophie has searched my room. Does she know the truth about why I'm here? Then Scott tells me how his ex-wife died. My stomach twists. Whatever Sophie does, I can't leave now. Katie needs me more than ever. And I will do anything to protect her. Because Sophie might be keeping secrets, but so am I. When I'm done in her beautiful home, somebody's life will be over. I know it won't be mine... Product Information: • ISBN: 9781836181484 • Author: J M Dalgliesh • Publisher: Bookouture • Format: Paperback • Pages: 400  • Dimensions: 12.7 x 3.05 x 19.56 cm

It's not all sunshine and blue skies at Sunny View guesthouse, as a suspicious death means Maisie Cooper has her hands full with a new investigation... Amateur sleuth Maisie Cooper had hoped for a peaceful weekend at Sunny View guesthouse, when she finds herself amidst another mystery. She had received a puzzling letter from owners of the guesthouse, Russell and Audrey, asking for her help. A shocking revelation has created tension amongst the residents in the small hamlet of Trout Leap, and Maisie has a reputation of problem solving... When the body of one of the villagers is found lying dead by the river, Maisie is convinced that this is more than just an accident. Maisie can't help but feel that the murder is somehow connected to the ongoing mystery at Trout Leap. Is someone hiding something? Who would commit such a crime? And can Maisie crack the case, before the killer strikes again? Product Information: • ISBN: 9781399740678 • Author: Greg Mosse • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton • Format: Paperback • Pages: 352 • Dimensions: 19.99 x 12.8 x 2.79 cm

Prepare to read the most exhilarating thriller from M.J. Arlidge yet…. When local teenager Naomi goes missing, Detective Inspector Helen Grace is her only hope. But with the police force under fire from all sides as a gang war grips the city, Helen will have to defy direct orders to search for her. Helen’s secret investigation follows a disturbing trail of missing girls disappearing from the streets. She’s the only person looking for them. And with the clock still ticking, she’s about to have more enemies than time working against her… Product Information: • ISBN: 9781398708259 • Author: M. J. Arlidge • Publisher: Orion Publishing • Format: Paperback • Pages: 464 • Dimensions: 19.69 x 13.03 x 2.87 cm

A picturesque village. A quaint highstreet… And a murder to solve. Alice’s new life is off to a deadly start. When Alice Carroll steps into Curiosity Cottage, a picture-perfect former bric-a-brac shop in the Cotswold Village of Little Pride, she thinks she’s found the perfect place to start the new phase of her life. Freshly separated from her collector long-term boyfriend, she’s excited to embrace her new, minimalist existence. All Alice needs to do is sell off the left-behind stock, and settle in. But the villagers of Little Pride have other ideas, and Alice quickly realises they won’t give up their beloved shop without a fight. Then a dead body is found buried in her neighbour’s compost heap, and Alice realises there’s much more to Little Pride, and its residents, than meets the eye. Head for the Cotswolds in this delightful new cozy mystery series, perfect for fans of Fiona Leitch, Faith Martin and Agatha Christie. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781805577157 • Author: Debbie Young • Publisher: Boldwood Books Limited • Format: Paperback • Pages: 232 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 1.35 cm

You’re trained to save the lives of others. But how far would you go to save your own? Olivia, Laura and Anjali couldn’t be more different. Inseparable since the first day of medical school, their bond has remained unbreakable. Years ago, they promised nothing would come between them – including the wild university party that forced them to make a deadly choice. Now working as doctors in high-pressure jobs, with lives and families of their own, their secret binds them tighter still. But when an eerily similar tragedy affects their teenage children, the choice the three women face may not be one their friendship can survive . . . Product Information: • ISBN: 9781399613095 • Author: Christie Watson • Publisher: Orion Publishing • Pages: 320 • Format: Paperback • Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.4 cm

Cora-Jane Winslow’s father walked out on her family 23 years ago; his letters to her over the years the only connection she has had to him. When his body is discovered in an abandoned building, she is shocked to discover he has been dead all this time. What happened to him and who would cover up his murder by writing the letters? After his post-traumatic stress disorder forced him to run away from his life, Phin Bishop returns to the Burke Broussard Private Detective Agency, only to stumble upon an armed break-in. Cora-Jane is seen running from the building and his colleague Joy has been shot. When it appears the shooting is related to Cora-Jane’s father, the Agency step in to offer protection while they hunt for the perpetrator. Someone knows what really happened to Cora Jane’s father and will stop at nothing to prevent their long-buried secrets being discovered . . . Product Information: • ISBN: 9781035403233 • Author: Karen Rose • Publisher: Hodder Headline • Format: Paperback • Pages: 512 • Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 4.2 cm