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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 mystery.Publishers 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.

Alice Bell writes with real verve Janice HallettAgatha Christie meets Ghosts J M HallTHIS 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, convinced that his late father, Eddie, is haunting the gym and show venue in Brighton, hires Claire to help, unaware that her teenage best friend, Sophie, now a ghost, 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?Praise for Alice Bell:Delightful Stuart TurtonWarm, smart and laugh-out-loud funny Andrea MaraA fun and surprising character-driven whodunitHeat

AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW!Two patients are fighting for their lives. Nina, the hospital nurse, reads their notes:Leroy: stab wound, gang member, police escort.Dev: stomach pain, artist, distraught mother.Nina is meant to treat all her patients equally: not to pick favourites, and not to judge. Except tonight, understaffed and overstretched, both patients need her. She makes a split-second choice - and leaves one man to die.And thats when she realises that on this busy hospital ward, no-one is exactly what they seem.PRAISE FOR NILESHA CHAUVETS PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLERSBrilliant! . . . I binged it. reader reviewPowerful . . . a first class thriller. reader reviewI could not put this down. reader reviewIn this deliciously dark thriller, nothing is as it seems.iNewsSuch compulsive reading . . . its ferocious energy takes you on a wild, thought-provoking ride. Jennie GodfreyIts a long time since Ive read a thriller that is quite so well written. Liz NugentI devoured it. Chris Whitaker

A zeppelin leaves Nazi Germany bound for Rio de Janeiro. For those on board its a luxury holiday, until one of them is murdered in the airships bathroom.Police Detective Bruno Bruckner, travelling on board, 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...

Paul Halter is Frances answer to John Dickson Carr, and The Fourth Door is a plott-driven puzzle feast, packed with intriguing locked room mysteries and other apparent miracles.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 reasonbut 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, bestselling author of The Appeal_______________Greece, 1960. Rough weather at sea leaves a group of strangers stranded on the idyllic island of Utakos, all guests of the only local hotel. Nothing could prepare them for what happens next: Edith Mander, a quiet British tourist, is found dead inside the beach cabana. At first it appears to be a clear suicide, but Ormond Basil, an out-of-work actor best-known for playing Sherlock Holmes in his glory days, suspects foul play.Accustomed to seeing Ormond as the greatest detective of all time on the big screen, the other guests enlist him to solve the mystery. But can he find the killer before they strike again? ___________________Praise for Arturo Perez-ReverteGives murder a touch of classObserverSpains most popular, inventive writer of historical fictionThe Sunday TimesJohn Le Carre meets Gabriel Garcia MarquezWall Street JournalIts rare a novelist who can create a literary page turner. Perez-Reverte is one of those raritiesDenver PostHigh-level intrigue and double-dealing in the tradition of Alexandre DumasLos Angeles Times

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

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?

January 1941. When Detective Inspector John Jago is called to a house in Londons Bloomsbury, he finds the body of a woman whos been attacked and left to die, her only crime seemingly being her kindness to strangers. Shes taken victims of the Blitz and the war thats torn Europe apart and given them refuge in her home, but now shes a victim too - of murder.As Jago tries to find out who killed her and why, he uncovers a tangle of damaged hearts and minds. There may have been envy, resentment, even outright hostility. But who would want to strike down an angel of mercy in her own home?

One week to escape High in the mountains, a sudden rockslide traps ten hikers in an abandoned bunker, nicknamed The Ark. Then it starts to flood. One person will be sacrificed There is only one chance of survival - in order for the rest of them to escape, someone must be left behind. But one of them has other plans As they struggle to decide who to abandon, the group is torn apart by a brutal murder. And it wont be the last. Can they unmask the murderer and reach safety before the water rises? Or will The Ark become their tomb?

May 1942. Thousands of American GIs are stationed across eastern England building airfields to bomb Germany. Cambridge is a liberty town - a hot spot for Yanks on leave. DI Eden Brooke is called to the aerodrome five miles east of the city when the remains of an airman, identified by his dog tag, are uncovered as workmen extend the runway. Its clear the victim has been buried for decades. Brooke discovers the base was used to train US pilots in the Great War - a quarter of a century earlier. When another soldiers body turns up just days later, its clear there is a connection . the clues all lead back to a long-lost parish register, and a story of love and revenge which spans two world wars.

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.

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?

Geraldines judgment is sharp. But this case cuts deeper than most.When Peter Selby vanishes after reporting a suspicious encounter, few take notice until a man is found brutally stabbed in a quiet York suburb. Detectives Geraldine Steel and Ariadne Croft begin to investigate, but what looks like a random act of violence soon unravels into a dark and deeply personal mystery. As they dig into the lives of the victims, the emotional landscape grows increasingly fractured.Peters wife is guarded, their daughter erratic and angry. The second victims family are cold, evasive, and seemingly determined to keep the past buried. Then a second disappearance throws everything into chaos. With each revelation, the detectives uncover layers of resentment, betrayal, and psychological trauma lurking behind the neat façades of domestic life.Under mounting pressure, and with Ariadne in growing danger, Geraldine must navigate a maze of fractured relationships and shifting motives before the killer strikes again. Taut, unsettling, and emotionally charged, this psychological crime thriller exposes the darkness beneath the surfaceand the human cost of secrets left to fester.

AMAZON EDITORS MONTHLY PICK FOR THRILLERSBARNES AND NOBLE BEST PAPERBACKS PICKWhen Cyra Griffins younger sister is murdered by a serial killer, Cyra knows better than to expect justice from the hands of the police department. With the investigation already dying its own slow death, Cyra follows the blood trail and finds her own way forward.Using insider information (dont ask), Cyra infiltrates a support group for serial killers by pretending to be one herself in the hopes of finding the person who ended her sisters life. Proving herself to them comes at a cost, but its one Cyra is willing to pay in the name of revenge.But the dangerous men in the group arent the only obstacle in Cyras path for vengeance, and the further Cyra descends into the deadly world of serial killers, the harder it becomes to hold on to her own humanity.

UN ASESINATO BRUTAL, UNA VÍCTIMA INTACHABLE Y UNA VERDAD QUE NADIE QUIERE VER.La policía Sara Vallén se siente vacía y desgarrada tras testificar contra el hombre que la maltrató. Aún lidiando con las secuelas emocionales, es llamada para investigar una muerte sospechosa en un apacible pueblo veraniego a las afueras de la ciudad universitaria de Lund, Suecia.Es otoño. Los manzanos estan cargados de frutos y los parterres florecen con asteres y calendulas, pero la belleza del entorno contrasta con la brutalidad del crimen: un trabajador social ha sido asesinado de manera despiadada. Su circulo lo describe como el hombre perfecto: empatico, leal y generoso. Sin embargo, Sara presiente que nadie es tan intachable. Y si lo era, ¿por que alguien querria matarlo?A medida que la investigacion avanza, las relaciones del fallecido revelan secretos oscuros que podrian cambiarlo todo."Secretos en la cabaña" es el segundo libro de la serie de Cecilia Sahlstrom sobre Sara Vallen, pero puede leerse de forma independiente. Su debut, Lila blanca, fue elogiado por su precision y realismo en el genero policiaco.