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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

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

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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

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

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

Two women. One name. A terrifying, deadly secret. She shares your name. It’s how you meet the other Sally Jones, sparking an unusual friendship that you grow to trust, especially when your dad dies and your dream job is in danger. So when she disappears suddenly, you are worried she may be in danger. As you try to find her, you uncover a shocking truth about your friendship, which turns out not to be the chance encounter you once thought. Was anything the other Sally ever told you real? You thought she was a friend. But she could bring your world crashing down. A twisty, edge-of-your-seat thriller perfect for fans of Shari Lapena and B.A. Paris. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781804366745 • Author: Sophie Flynn • Publisher: Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd • Format: Paperback     • Pages: 352 • Dimensions: 19.84 x 12.85 x 2.01 cm

Set in Southern Spain, A Silent Death is the scorching thriller from worldwide bestselling author of The Lewis Trilogy, Cast Iron and I'll Keep You Safe. A SILENT VOW Spain, 2020. When expat fugitive Jack Cleland watches his girlfriend die, gunned down in a pursuit involving officer Cristina Sanchez Pradell, he promises to exact his revenge by destroying the policewoman. A SILENT LIFE Cristina's aunt Ana has been deaf-blind for the entirety of her adult life: the victim of a rare condition named Usher Syndrome. Ana is the centre of Cristina's world - and of Cleland's cruel plan. A SILENT DEATH John Mackenzie - an ingenious yet irascible Glaswegian investigator - is seconded to aid the Spanish authorities in their manhunt. He alone can silence Cleland before the fugitive has the last, bloody, word. Peter May's bestseller unites a strong, independent Spaniard with a socially inept Scotsman; a senseless vendetta with a sense-deprived victim, and a red-hot Costa Del Sol with an ice-cold killer. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781529443981 • Author: Peter May • Publisher: Quercus Publishing plc • Format: Paperback • Pages: 432 • Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 3.4 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

Harlow Hayes: the pop star. I'm a global sensation adored by millions, and my star only seems to keep rising. The icon. My fans say I speak directly to them through my music, that I know who they are. How else could I write such visceral, personal lyrics? They love me, and I love them right back. The murderer. Then, at the height of my fame, I was arrested on suspicion of murder. The world thinks they know who I am. But they have no idea. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781035910311 • Author: Kelly Mancaruso & Kristina Mancaruso • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc • Format: Paperback • Pages: 448 • Dimensions: 19.79 x 12.9 x 2.54 cm

By the end of that summer, two people would be dead… Fans of In A Dark Dark Wood and The Couple Next Door will love this twisty thriller. I have given up so much and done so many terrible things already for the sake of my family that I can only keep going. I do not know what is going to happen to us. I am frightened, but I feel strong. I have the strength of a woman who has everything to lose. In the sweltering summer of 1997, strait-laced, straight-A student Karen met Biba – a bohemian and impossibly glamorous aspiring actress. She was quickly drawn into Biba’s world, and for a while life was one long summer of love. But every summer must end. By the end of theirs, two people were dead – and now Karen’s past has come back to haunt her . . . Product Information: • ISBN: 9781444701050 • Author: Erin Kelly • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton • Format: Paperback     • Pages: 368 • Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 3 cm

The latest pulse-pounding thriller from master of the moral dilemma and Sunday Times bestseller Jack Jordan. AARON has just been released from jail after causing the death of a boy in a hit-and-run. Now a free man, all he wants to do is leave his troubled past behind him. EVELYN, consumed by grief and rage, has been counting down the days until this moment. After eleven long years, she is finally able to exact the revenge her late son deserves. TOBIAS knows what his wife is planning, and as they embark on a breathless pursuit across the Nevada desert, he is determined to do everything he can to save her from herself. Even if it means protecting the man who killed their son. Locked in a blood-soaked collision course, they’re about to find out what waits for them at the end of the road. RETRIBUTION . . . OR REDEMPTION? Product Information: • ISBN: 9781398531598 • Author: Jack Jordan • Publisher: Simon & Schuster • Format: Paperback • Pages: 384 • Dimensions: 19.7 x 13.1 x 2.7 cm

He was her doctor. She was his downfall… Anna is on the brink of losing it all when she is handed the career opportunity of a lifetime – working as a ghostwriter for charismatic neuroscientist Nate. Nate’s work at the mysterious Pain Laboratory could transform millions of lives, but his research is overshadowed by rumours surrounding the shocking death of his wife Eva. As Anna writes Nate’s story, she finds herself obsessed with Eva, a former patient of Nate’s who was unable to experience pain but found joy in inflicting it. As she strips away the secrets of their toxic marriage, she makes a shocking discovery. But will writing the truth have deadly consequences? Product Information: • ISBN: 9781398717268 • Author: Emma Cook • Publisher: Orion Publishing • Pages: 304 • Format: Paperback • Dimensions: 19.7 x 12.8 x 2.7 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

How far would you go to keep your family safe? Angie Watts used to have everything. A new home. A beloved husband. Three adored children. But Angie’s happy life is shattered when her son Liam falls in with the wrong crowd. And after her son’s bad choices lead to the murder of her husband, it’s up to Angie to hold what’s left of her family together. Her son is missing. Her daughter is looking for help in dangerous places. And Angie is fighting just to keep a roof over their heads. But Angie is a mother. And a mother does anything to protect her children – even when the world is falling apart… If home is where the heart is, what happens when it breaks? Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008286828 • Author: Susan Lewis • Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers • Format: Paperback • Pages: 496 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 3.1 cm

Emilia Ward lives quietly in suburban London with her husband and two children. Just an ordinary wife and mother. But also a bestselling crime writer. When she starts writing her tenth Detective Miranda Moody novel, however, life takes a frightening turn: an incident straight out of one of her novels occurs in real life. Just an unsettling coincidence, she thinks. Until it happens again. Then someone she knows dies exactly like a victim in the book she's still writing... Why is someone doing this? How do they know what she is writing? And how long before Emilia and her family are next? Product Information:  • ISBN:  9780241542361 • Author: Claire Douglas • Publisher:  Michael Joseph • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  432 • Dimensions:  12.7 x 2.4 x 19.8 cm