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When Caroline Alleyn inherits Wickham Grange, all she wants to do is sell up. There are bad memories there, linked to her childhood as the daughter of a single mother and to all the other mothers she knew in that house. But her grandmother Francess will means that it cant be sold without the consent of five elderly women, and they all refuse. None of them will tell her why she has to keep a house she doesnt want. Instead, she is given a stark warning: dont look for Lizzie Sixpence.Though Caroline has other worries. Someone is watching her; the houses elderly tenants are lying to her; and an old man is hoarding mementoes of her past.Then she finds the bones.And Caroline is left with a choice: keep silent, or betray everything her grandmother stood for. Because there is one final secret to be revealed

When State Department interpreter Weaver is summoned to an off-the-books meeting during a G20 summit, he expects routine diplomacy. What he gets is a chilling glimpse into a secret arrangement between the White House and the Kremlinan arrangement that could destroy lives, careers, and nations. With only a red digital pen as evidence and a growing sense that he was never meant to walk away from that room, Weaver flees to the safety of England.But there is no safety.Hunted by invisible forces and unsure whom to trust, he must uncover the truth before the truth consumes him. The Interpreters Secret is a taut, sophisticated literary thriller about power, language, and the dangerous things left unsaid.

When a group of old college friends reunites for a summer vacation at a beach house in coastal Massachusetts, a sudden disappearance and the arrival of a seductive stranger threaten to unearth the darkest secrets of their relationships.A masterful psychological thriller...Its a devilish twist on the traditional locked-room mysteryPublishers Weekly Starred ReviewA delicious, brooding heart-stopper of a book Tea Obreht, author of The Tigers WifeAs they hurtle into midlife, Jim and his closest college friends get together to rekindle the bonds of their friendship in his familys beautiful, generations-old vacation home along Buzzards Bay. But what begins as a restorative seaside escape takes a darker turn when Bruce, an aloof but successful writer, disappears from the house without a trace.Meanwhile, a series of mysterious break-ins besets the town, which is the site of an old Spiritualist campground turned idyllic fishing village. After a series of uncanny disturbances at the house, Jim cant help but feel that someone or something is watching them. And with the arrival of a strange, seductive guest at their home, the group begins to question the very nature of their experiences along with their already precarious ties with one other.In The House on Buzzards Bay, Dwyer Murphy returns with a chilling, atmospheric page-turner that explores the bonds of friendship, the growing accumulation of lifes responsibilities, and whether our youthful dreams can endure the complexities of adulthood.

Wounded, thirsty and stranded in the desert after a job gone bad, Conan is desperate. To make it out alive, he bands together with his fellow surviving mercenaries.Conan trusts none of them, and the feeling is mutual. Fine. Everyone knows where they stand. But when a cursed treasure is discovered, distrust turns to suspicion. Conan knows enough about dark magic to leave well enough alone, but will greed get the better of his new friends?

The unputdownable cosy crime mystery set in Brighton about pro-wrestling, ghosts and much murder______________________________Come for the spooky humour, stay for the satisfying twists Kristen PerrinAlice Bell writes with real verve Janice HallettAgatha Christie meets Ghosts J M Hall______________________________THIS MYSTERY HAS THEM IN A CHOKEHOLD...Medium turned private investigator Claire Hendricks is excited to embark on her first official case.Pro-wrestling manager Ken King is convinced that his late father, Eddie, is haunting the gym and show venue in Brighton. Ken hires Claire to help, unaware that her ghost best friend, Sophie, comes as part of the package.But Eddie is adamant he did not die of natural causes, and tasks Claire and Sophie with bringing his killer to justice.In the world of pro-wrestling, can they work out whats real, whos faking and unmask the killer once and for all? ___________________________Readers love the Grave Expectations series...Brilliantly funny!Witty and smartCosy without being tweeLoved every minuteLoads of clever twists

A zeppelin leaves Nazi Germany bound for Rio de Janeiro. For those on board its a luxury holiday, until one of them is murdered.Police Detective Bruno Bruckner, travelling on the airship, is immediately asked to investigate - and soon discovers that the murdered man was not the proud Nazi he claimed to be. Whats more, he was carrying a stash of banned degenerate material.As Bruckner interviews his fellow passengers - a wealthy baroness, an antisemitic doctor, a debonair Englishman - his inquiries will uncover a startling story of fake identities, queer love and revenge, where nothing is as it appears, until finally the secret of the good Nazi is revealed...

A twisty New York City-set mystery that sees Teddy Roosevelts daughter, Alice Roosevelt, team up with Holmes and Watson to save the president from a kidnapping and attempted assassination on the eve of international peace talks. Holmess British parlour tricks meet hard-boiled American noir in this pastiche for fans of Gareth Rubins Holmes and Moriarty.Celebrity socialite Alice Roosevelt is taking London by storm in 1905 when her letter containing sensitive details of upcoming peace talks between Japan and Russia is stolen. The case pulls Holmes from retirement, and with Alices help the letter is retrieved.After returning to the U.S., Alice goes missing. At Teddy Roosevelts request, Holmes and Watson travel to New York where they discover Alice has turned detective herself, working undercover to thwart a kidnapping plot targeting her father. Her warnings are dismissed, but then the president is kidnapped. Alice and the detective duo join forces to search for her father, only to lose Holmes to the escaping kidnappers.Alice proves herself the equal to the great detective by leading Watson in the rescue of Teddy Roosevelt as well as Holmes, but the stakes are higher than they realise. In a race against time, they must stop a plan to bomb the peace talks or risk an escalation of war on a global scale.

Paul Halter is Frances answer to John Dickson Carr Martin EdwardsThe ultimate locked-room mystery.In Paul Halters The Fourth Door, the impossible becomes reality. A haunted room. An unbroken seal. A murder victim whose very identity is an enigma. And then, a second death in a house surrounded by untrodden snow. Both crimes defy reason but master detective Dr. Alan Twist reveals that even the most baffling mysteries have rational explanations.This international bestseller is a masterpiece of intrigue and misdirection, hailed as the French answer to John Dickson Carr and a modern rival to Anthony Horowitz (The Twist of a Knife). Fans of Sophie Hannahs Poirot mysteries and the layered puzzles of Knives Out will relish this thrilling, twist-laden tale. Winner of the Prix du Roman Policier, Halter cements his place as a titan of the locked-room genre.Discover The Fourth Door, alongside Halters other captivating works like The Lord of Misrule and The Night of the Wolf.

For fans of Anthony Horowitz and Benjamin Stevenson, as well as classic tales by Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie, a charming murder mystery from the internationally bestselling author_______________The perfect murder mystery JANICE HALLETT, author of The AppealA true delight right up to its clever final reveal PETER SWANSON, author of Kill Your DarlingsOne of the best crime novel Ive read in years! KELLY MULLEN, author of This is Not a Game_______________To catch a killer, one must act the part.Arriving on the Greek island of Utakos, ageing actor Ormond Basil hopes only for a holiday and perhaps finally to shed the mantle of his most famous role: world-renowned sleuth, Sherlock Holmes.But when a body turns up in his hotel, the other guests, accustomed to seeing Ormond as the greatest detective of all time on the silver screen, pressure him to solve the mystery.Yet even with Ormonds encyclopaedic knowledge of plots and killers, this case turns out to be anything but elementary... ___________________Praise for Arturo Perez-ReverteGives murder a touch of classObserverSpains most popular, inventive writer of historical fictionThe Sunday TimesA sophisticated and exciting intellectual gameDaily TelegraphTo read him is to rediscover the delights of Dumas and Conan DoyleThe TimesIts rare a novelist who can create a literary page turner. Perez-Reverte is one of those raritiesDenver Post

As Rebecca Tope tells it, every rural idyll is blighted by underlying menace. Such is her writing skill, Im inclined to believe herDaily MailHeavily pregnant yet still running her flower shop in Keswick, Simmy Brown agrees to deliver an unusual bouquet to remote Eskdale. There she encounters three generations of women - and the next day, one of them is brutally murdered. Drawn into the mystery, Simmy and her friends soon find themselves navigating eccentric artists, fractured families, and secrets buried deep in the Lakes. As her new assistant Evie proves unexpectedly determined to sleuth, and tangled motives begin to surface, Simmy realises the truth is darker - and closer - than anyone imagined. And time is running out, in more ways than one.A Rebecca Tope novel, be it one of her Lake District, Cotswold or West Country Mysteries is a guarantee of a complex, page turning plot that will keep the reader guessing until the last page. A thoroughly enjoyable read which I heartily recommend.Mystery People

THE FINAL NOVEL IN THE MERRILY WATKINS SERIES_____________________Brilliantly eerie PETER JAMESA most original sleuthTHE TIMES_____________________ Welcome to the Wye Valley, exactly on the border of England and Wales, home to a dark legacy of murder...Nestled deep in the Black Mountains, the village of Longtown is haunted by killings both ancient and modern.When young farmer and lottery winner Eddy Davies is found dead in suspicious circumstances, Herefordshire Police find themselves handling a complicated investigation.Things arent looking good for Daviess friend, the mysterious Autumn Wise, who is found nearby holding a shotgun.When Merrily Watkins - parish priest, single mum and renowned demon exorcist - comes to Autumns aid, she soon discovers that Eddys death is only the latest in a long string of tragedies to blight Longtown and the surrounding area.But help is at hand from Merrilys spiritual advisor, the Rev. Huw Owen, who has an unorthodox solution in mind to end the areas centuries-long trail of misfortune...____________________________More praise for Phil RickmanCleverly illuminates the darkest corners of our imagination John ConnollyThe layers, the characters, the humour, the spookiness - perfect Elly GriffithsFirst rate crime with demons that go bump in the nightDaily MailNo one writes better of the shadow-frontier between the supernatural and the real world Bernard CornwellEngrossing and beautifully dark . . . a cracking good read JO BRAND

Its almost Christmas, and Gwinny Tuffels thoughts are on what shell buy for DCI Birch (retired) and whether she can adopt another furry friend. But sorting through her late fathers papers leads her into his mysterious past, pointing to an enigmatic liaison now living in a Somerset commune. Gwinny and Birch find themselves unexpectedly snowed in with a group of retired spies, along with an energetic Cocker Spaniel, and embroiled in a murder case. Will they uncover the culprit and escape in time for Christmas?

December, 1922. Ruby Vaughn is looking forward to a quiet, relaxing trip to Oxford in the week before Christmas with her octogenarian housemate and colleague Mr Owen. Far away from the arcane, unusual - and occasionally illegal - books that seem to always get her into trouble. The most she expects to do is attend a handful of his antiquarian society meetings.But when the body of disgraced scholar Julius Harker is amongst his exhibition of Egyptian antiquities looted by Napoleon, panic spreads throughout the cobbled streets of Oxford. The last thing Ruby wants is another investigation, but then an old friend comes begging for her help. If that wasnt enough, her past insists on haunting her when Ruan Kivell, the intriguing folk healer that she met in Cornwall, suddenly reappears. It seems there is much more going on in Oxford that meets the eye.

As bodies continue to fall and the past bleeds into the present, Dr Alan Twist must confront a killer no one can see and a crime that defies logic.Three young ladies are thrown into raging waters, seemingly pushed by an invisible hand. Six years later, when a famous actor is flung from his window, eye witnesses agree: it was as if he was shoved from behind by an unseen murderer, imitating the inexplicable death of a young lady in the same house over fifty years earlier. Renowned sleuth Dr Alan Twist and his partner Inspector Hurst go to the eerie landscape of Dartmoor to investigate. But invisible killers are hard to bring to justice

A diplomatic scandal. An escape over the rooftops. Charges of treason. Just a normal night out for Regency Londons most elegant spies Mélanie and Malcolm Rannoch. For aristocratic former spies Mélanie and Malcolm Rannoch, an attempt to steal incriminating documents is a normal evening out in Mayfair. The Napoleonic Wars taught the Rannochs to be prepared for the unexpected. But it seems theyve acquired a lethal new enemy who not only snagged the papers ahead of them, but has been amassing information to blackmail them and their dearest friends. Suddenly their mission turns far more dangerous. Theyre no longer just working to avert a diplomatic scandal. They are trying to protect those closest to them from arrest and imprisonment. Melanie and Malcolm hatch a dangerous plot to outwit their enemy on a royal night at the opera, with the king in attendance. But in candlelit salons its difficult to tell allies from enemies. And if they fail, it is the Rannochs themselves who could be facing charges of treason...

When reporter Martha Strangeways is called into investigate the discovery of body parts on a remote railway track, shes drawn into a strange case, as her own past comes back to haunt her The atmospheric, critically acclaimed series continuesMartha Strangeways has settled into a quiet life in Strathbran, after the horrific events that traumatised the village a year earlier: her son, Dougie is at university, her friend Orla will give birth at any minute, and shes becoming ever closer to her ex, Jamie.But all this is turned upside down when her friend at Glasgow CID, DI Derek Summers, calls on her to help with a truly disturbing case: a human ear, with an unusual Celtic earring, has been found next to a railway line in the Highlands.An when the body of a young woman wearing matching jewellery turns up at a landmark church shortly after, the mystery only deepens. Why has she been laid out in such a ritualistic fashion? Does her trek along the little-known Cailleach Way have anything to do with her demise? And who is running the Facebook Group where she posted details of her journey to the shrine of the Bone Mother goddess?As Martha tries to unpick the threads, she soon finds herself entwined with a ghost from her own past, and in conflict with the owner of a company committed to a huge hydro-electric scheme that threatens to destroy the goddesss sacred land.With Halloween approaching, and someone determined to protect the goddess at all costs, can Martha and Summers catch the killer before they strike again and this time much closer to home?

Three books in one, Supermax is a pitch-black crime comedy from two of the hottest thriller writers on either side of the Atlantic. These newly collected cult novels are a bloody, bawdy odyssey of drug dealing, adultery, and murder for fans of Elmore Leonard, Carl Hiaasen, and Bret Easton Elliss American Psycho.THE MOST OUTRAGEOUS CRIME STORY EVER TOLD FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ONE VOLUME!When a small-time businessman whos a legend in his own mind (that would be Max) hatches a plan with his sexpot secretary (thats Angela) to murder his wife and live happily ever after, you might think everything would go smoothly but Max and Angela are in for the ride of their lives, as an escalating series of bad decisions and worse luck plunges them into a tsunami of crime and depravity featuring IRA hitmen, an aspiring serial killer, a wheelchair-bound blackmailer, trigger-happy drug dealers, and the warring factions in one of the worlds deadliest prisons.

Eleven strange buildings. One terrible secret.A lonely hut in the woods. A murder house. A hidden chamber. A mysterious shrine. A home in flames. A nightmarish prison...Each of the buildings in this book tells a chilling story. Each one is part of a puzzle.Look closely... and youll see that everything is connected.All leading to a revelation so horrifying you wont want to believe it.Millions of readers have become addicted to solving Uketsus dark mysteries.Strange Buildings is the strangest, and darkest, of them all.

An unputdownable psychological thriller with a killer twist___________________________________The moment I catch eyes with Jack at grief group, I just know.This is my second chance at love. Hes charming, good-looking and newly available. In fact, his wife died the very same day I lost my partner. Coincidence? Maybe. Fate sounds more romantic.Unfortunately, I do possess qualities that arent always desirable. Usually, I can mask them, but sometimes the darkness slips through. And when it does, I wonder if I see that same darkness in Jack. Could he also be hiding parts of himself? Perhaps we really are perfect for each other.Perfect lovers. Perfect enemies. Its all the same in the end, right?

Summer, 1993, and Alex Lane finds himself at the end of the University summer term, broke and without any concrete plans. So, when hes offered the chance to join a group of students tasked clearing out Solace House, a large Victorian residence left to the University by a reclusive hoarder called Flayne, he jumps at it. The other students are a mixed bunch, but Alex quickly falls into a close friendship with the mercurial, red-headed Ella.At first the house seems to be an ordinary, if grandiose, property. But as the team begin sorting through piles of junk, they stumble upon Flaynes journals in which he details his obsession with his missing mother, his discovery of a strange place called Bewise, and - most mysteriously - his belief in another realm lying parallel to ours, along with coded instructions on how it might be reached.As the students continue to sort through the detritus, one of Alexs companions becomes increasingly obsessed with the hidden secrets of Solace House, Flaynes missing mother, and the possibility that, if only they can decipher Flaynes increasingly unintelligible writings, they might gain knowledge beyond their wildest dreams. That is, assuming, they are willing to sacrifice everything.