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An addictive, unpredictable thriller that will keep you asking the question: what is the truth? Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams. They think they've found it when they visit the remote manor that once belonged to Dr. Adrienne Hale, a renowned psychiatrist who vanished without a trace years ago. But when a violent winter storm traps them at the estate, the house begins to lose its appeal. Stuck inside and growing restless, Tricia stumbles on a collection of audio transcripts from Dr. Hale's sessions with patients. As Tricia listens to the cassette tapes, she learns about the terrifying chain of events leading up to the doctor's mysterious disappearance. With each tape, another shocking piece of the puzzle falls into place, and a web of lies slowly unravels. But by the time Tricia reaches the final cassette, the one that reveals the entire horrifying story, it will be too late… Product Information:  • ISBN: 9781464221361 • Author: Frieda McFadden • Publisher: Sourcebooks, Poisoned Pen Press • Format: Paperback  • Pages: 320 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 1.9 cm

He swore he’d never let her go. She should have believed him. Brooke Hastings is ready to end her six-week affair. Gideon Ross is charming and sexy, but he’s not worth throwing away her marriage and family for. So she breaks it off, hoping Gideon will understand.  He doesn’t. Gideon insists that he and Brooke are meant to be together. Finally, he backs off, but not before issuing a promise: he’ll never let her go.  Six years later, Brooke wants to believe it’s all behind her. Her family has survived intact. Gideon has vanished.  But the fear hasn’t disappeared. Brooke can’t tell how much of it is paranoia, and how much is justified, but she’s worried. And maybe she’s right to be.  Because Gideon is a man who keeps his promises . . . A totally addictive psychological thriller with a twist you won’t see coming. Perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell, K.L Slater and The Housemaid. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781399723909 • Author: Lisa Jackson • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton • Pages: 384 • Format: Paperback • Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.8 cm

Despite many years living in South Devon, DI Wesley Peterson has never visited the tiny island of St Rumon’s. That is until erosion from a storm reveals three bodies buried outside the local churchyard. Two are ancient skeletons, but one is far more recent, and Wesley realises he has uncovered a case of murder. But whose remains are they? And who killed them? The island has only a small number of inhabitants. Yet one resident keeps cropping up in Wesley’s investigation: the author and self-styled academic, Quentin Search. Meanwhile Wesley’s friend, archaeologist Neil Watson, becomes fascinated by the remains of the island’s old priory. His discovery of a journal, written by a sixteenth century cleric, reveals an eerie tale of strange rituals and disturbing deaths. As Wesley begins to wonder whether the past might be repeating itself, another murder occurs . . . There is a calculated killer on the island – one whose grip is as deadly as the rising tide. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780349433189 • Author: Kate Ellis • Publisher: Little Brown • Pages: 416 • Format: Paperback • Dimensions: 19.69 x 12.93 x 2.72 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

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

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

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

One murder case. Seven suspects. Three amateur sleuths with the smarts to solve any mystery . . . It’s a baking hot British summer, and the sleepy town of Market Foxleigh is staging a crime writing festival… with the three Dahlias as guests of honour. After all, not only have Rosalind King, Caro Hooper and Posy Starling each played fictional detective Dahlia Lively on screen, but they’re also making a name for themselves solving real-life murders too. The Dahlias are anticipating a weekend of cream teas, awards dinners and warm white wine… but before long they’re sleuthing together once again – this time helping a true crime podcast investigate a local cold case with a personal connection for one of the Dahlias. It’s been five years since Dahlia Lively fan Scott Baker was arrested for a murder that had eerie echoes of one of Dahlia’s fictional cases. It seemed like an open and shut case at the time, but the podcast team are convinced that the police got the wrong man. Can the three Dahlias help prove them right – and find the real killer? Product Information: • ISBN: 9781408716519 • Author: Katy Watson • Publisher: Little Brown • Format: Paperback • Pages: 320 • Dimensions: 19.84 x 13.13 x 1.5 cm

The man who can't feel fear is back, in a race against time to find the woman who knows a secret that could take down the world as we know it. When a shocking murder and abduction on the streets of London leads investigators to him, Ben Koenig has no idea at first why the highest echelons of the CIA would need his help. But then he realises he knows the woman who carried out the killings. Ten years earlier, without being told why, he was tasked with helping her disappear. Far from being a deranged killer, she is the gatekeeper of a secret that could take down the West, so for years she has been in hiding. Until now. And if she has resurfaced, the danger may be closer and more terrifying than anyone can imagine. So Ben Koenig has to find her before it's too late. But Ben suffers from a syndrome which means he can't feel fear. He doesn't always know when he should walk away, or when he's leading others into danger . . . Product Information: • ISBN: 9781408717639 • Author: M. W. Craven • Publisher: Little Brown • Format: Paperback • Pages: 448

The threat has never been so close to home… DI Shona Oliver’s fellow officer PC Hayley Cameron drowns during a triathlon in the Solway Firth. The post-mortem reveals drugs in Hayley's system, perhaps self-administered performance enhancers. But a puncture wound in the back of her wetsuit suggests foul play. Shona and her colleagues investigate, but those closest to Hayley grapple with the truth and risk letting personal feelings cloud their judgement. Could the answers to Hayley’s death lie within Shona’s own ranks? As the case hits the buffers, Shona clashes with her daughter and also faces difficult questions about the murder of her old boss. Will Shona keep her head above the water long enough to see justice done, and what will it cost her if she does? Product Information: • ISBN: 9781835980651 • Author: Lynne McEwan • Publisher: Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd • Format: Paperback • Pages: 320 • Dimensions: 19.84 x 12.85 x 1.78 cm

PREPARE TO BE HOOKED . . . Early morning: on the foreshore of the river Thames, a bag of bones is discovered. Human bones. DCI Samuel Owusu quickly sends the bag for forensic examination. The bones are those of a young woman, killed by a blow to the head many years ago. Also inside the bag is a trail of clues which lead DCI Owusu to a mansion in Chelsea where thirty years previously three people lay dead, while a baby upstairs waited for someone to pick her up. Four deaths. An unsolved mystery. A family whose secrets can't stay buried for ever. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781529158564 • Author: Lisa Jewell • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Format: Paperback • Pages: 464 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 13 x 2.77 cm

Every family’s worst nightmare… Three-year-old Rosie Logan is missing. Her mother, Maria, turned away for just one moment and now her life is changed forever. It falls to PC Lucy Halliday and her police dogs, Moss and Iggy, to find the girl, under the direction of Lucy's boss and friend, DCI Jack Ellis. The case brings up old trauma for Jack. His childhood best friend, Theo, went missing when he was eleven and was never found. This is Jack’s chance to make things right. He won’t fail Rosie like he failed Theo. But the investigation doesn’t go smoothly. The Logan family have been keeping secrets. And every time Lucy and Jack think they’re making progress, they’re hampered by yet another one. Can they find the truth, and Rosie, before it’s too late? The next thrilling instalment in the new British crime fiction series featuring dog handler PC Lucy Halliday. Perfect for fans of Jane Casey, Robert Bryndza and Cara Hunter. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781835980750 • Author: Louisa Scarr • Publisher: Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd • Format: Paperback • Pages: 368 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.2 cm

Life is never dull in Agatha Raisin’s sleepy Cotswolds village! The newest cosy mystery in the million-copy bestselling Agatha Raisin crime series. Agatha Raisin’s private detective agency is working flat out on a series of burglaries which take a violent turn when a friend of Agatha’s is murdered during a raid on his antiques shop. Although determined to nail the villains, Agatha still makes time to help Sir Charles Fraith prepare to stage a massive, hugely glamorous event in the grounds of his ancestral home, Barfield House. When Agatha begins to receive death threats and narrowly avoids being abducted by kidnappers, she takes advantage of a previously arranged trip to Majorca to lie low for a while. There she meets her partner, former police officer John Glass, who is now working as a dance instructor on a cruise liner. Their relationship founders over John’s apparent closeness to his stage dance partner, Louise. Putting her love life on hold, Agatha heads home, having worked out who has been threatening her life. Can Agatha track down the would-be killer, nail her friend’s murderers and rescue her romance with John? Everything comes to a climax at the Barfield Extravaganza when on top of everything else, Agatha also manages to solve a 400-year-old Cotswold murder mystery! Product Information: • ISBN: 9781408718544 • Author: M.C. Beaton • Publisher: Little Brown • Format: Paperback • Pages: 256 • Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.4 x 2.4 cm

A STRING OF MURDERS. AND THE PERSON WHO LINKS THEM ALL IS . . . YOUR DAUGHTER. Alison Lennon receives the worst news a parent can expect - her son, Ben, has been killed, in what looks at first like a random attack on a dark street in the middle of the night. Only, she knows that he isn't the first victim. Mia Johnstone has just turned eighteen. Ready for the next phase of her life, she should be looking forward to university, studying, partying. Instead, she's thinking about how her boyfriend Ben is the third person close to her to have died. Alison believes that Mia killed her son. Mia needs people to stop calling her a killer. And someone is desperate for the truth to never come out . . . Product Information: • ISBN: 9781529357448 • Author: Luca Veste • Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks • Format: Paperback • Pages: 368 • Dimensions: 12.9 x 2.7 x 19.6 cm

The third novel featuring DCI Jack Hawksworth asks the question: is one life worth more than another? Police are baffled by several deaths, each unique and bizarre in their own way – and shockingly brutal. Scotland Yard sends in its crack DCI, the enigmatic Jack Hawksworth, who wastes no time in setting up Operation Mirror. His chief wants him to dismiss any possibility of a serial killer before the media gets on the trail. With his best investigative team around him, Jack resorts to some unconventional methods to disprove or find a link between the gruesome deaths. One involves a notorious serial killer from his past, and the other, a smart and seductive young journalist who’ll do anything to catch her big break. Discovering he’s following the footsteps of a vigilante and in a race against time, Jack will do everything it takes to stop another killing – but at what personal cost for those he holds nearest and dearest? Product Information: • ISBN: 9781835011348 • Author: Fiona McIntosh • Publisher: Bedford Square Publishers Ltd • Format: Paperback • Pages: 416 • Dimensions: 19.7 x 12.9 x 2.3 cm

She runs. He watches. He waits  . . . A woman runs alone in the woods. She convinces herself she’s safe. But a predator is watching from the shadows. Waiting for the perfect moment to attack. They thought they caught him. But another victim has just been found. The hunt has only just begun. And the killer is ready to strike again… Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008303488 • Author: Karin Slaughter  • Publisher: HarperCollins • Format: Paperback • Pages: 512 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 3.2 cm

It’s a deadly race against time… Tech billionaire Miles has more money than he can ever spend, but he can’t buy more time. Diagnosed with a terminal illness, he is forced to take a long, hard look at his past. Somewhere out there, Miles has children who don’t know it, but they might be about to inherit the good and bad from him – possibly his fortune, or possibly something more sinister. So, Miles decides to track them down. But a lethal killer is one step ahead of him. One by one, people are vanishing. Not just disappearing, every trace of them is wiped. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008332082 • Author: Linwood Barclay • Publisher: HQ • Format: Paperback • Pages: 480 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 3 cm

Jack Reacher jumps off a bus and walks fourteen miles down a country road into Margrave, Georgia. An arbitrary decision he's about to regret. Reacher is the only stranger in town on the day they have had their first homicide in thirty years. The cops arrest Reacher and the police chief turns eyewitness to place him at the scene. As nasty secrets leak out, and the body count mounts, one thing is for sure. They picked the wrong guy to take the fall. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780553826166 • Author: Lee Child • Publisher: Bantam • Format: Paperback • Pages: 544 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.7 x 3.2cm

You're back home after four years working abroad, new husband in tow. You're keen to find a place of your own. But for now you're crashing in your big brother's spare room. That's when you meet the man next door. He's the head teacher at the local school. Twice your age. Extraordinarily attractive. You find yourself watching him. All the time. But you never dreamed that your innocent crush might become a deadly obsession. Or that someone is watching you. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781784756277 • Author: Lisa Jewell • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Format: Paperback • Pages: 512 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 3 cm

The gripping standalone thriller from Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author Karin Slaughter, now a major Netflix series. . . Andrea Oliver's life is about to change in a split second when a mass shooting breaks out in her local mall. But this shocking act was only the start and as the bodies fall around them, Andy's mother Laura takes a step forward into the line of fire. Hours later, Laura is in hospital and her face is splashed over the newspaper. Now, Andy must embark on a desperate race against time to uncover the secrets of her mother's past before any more blood is shed. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008150853 • Author: Karin Slaughter • Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers • Format: Paperback • Pages: 495 • Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 3.5cm