| Author: | Lisa Gardner |
This is what happened in the last six hours of the world as I knew it...It was a case guaranteed to spark a media feeding frenzy - a young mother, blonde and pretty, disappears without trace from her South Boston home, leaving behind her four-year-old daughter as the only witness, and her handsome, secretive husband as the pr... read more
| Author: | James Hall |
Action and suspense in the Florida Keys and Bahamas. The Braswells had everything: money, looks and power. When their eldest son, the family’s shining light, was killed in a freak fishing accident, he took with him a secret so dark that it could destroy the family. Ten years later, in the steamy shallows off the Flor... read more
| Author: | Brian Freeman |
A stunning, clever and unputdownable Minnesota-based thriller. Lieutenant Jonathan Stride has never forgotten the case that made him decide to join the police force. Back in the 1970s, Laura -- sister of Stride's girlfriend -- was murdered. The obvious suspect was a vagrant, who slipped through the hands of the police, includ... read more
| Author: | Jeffrey Lee |
On an island off the coast of Mexico, former soldier of fortune Burr Whitman lives alone, studying butterflies. He hopes he has left behind a violent past, but the mysterious disappearance of a friend, and a lucrative new mission combine to lure him back into a world of intrigue and bloodshed. Burr's mercenary company is hire... read more
| Author: | George Pelecanos |
The stunning new novel from one of America's most powerful crime writers... It's the spring of 1968, the sun shines down on an America on the brink of civil war. Martin Luther King preaches in vain for non-violent protest and the ghettos of Washington DC seeth with anger. In the middle of this powder-keg is thrust a young... read more
| Author: | Guy Walters |
It is 1943. British SOE agent Captain John Lockhart is in Crete, fighting with the Resistance. Captured by the Germans, Lockhart faces a stark choice, between death and betrayal of his country. Concealing his true motives, Lockhart makes a bargain: in return for the life of his imprisoned wife, he will work with the Germans. ... read more
| Author: | Richard Laymon |
THE TRAVELLING VAMPIRE SHOW The Travelling Vampire Show is coming to town and Dwight, Rusty and Slim are determined to go. But it's for over 18s only, there's a steep admission fee and the show starts at midnight, way past their curfew. They decide to go and watch the crew set up anyway, hoping to catch a glimpse of Valeria, ... read more
| Author: | James Hall |
A chance encounter with an old flame sets reluctant investigator Thorn on a collision course with some of Florida
| Author: | Stephen King |
Is it possible to fully know anyone? Even those we love the most? What tips someone over the edge to commit a crime?For a Nebraska farmer, the turning point comes when his wife threatens to sell off the family homestead.A cozy mystery writer plots a savage revenge after a brutal encounter with a stranger.Dave Streeter gets th... read more
| Author: | Clive Cussler & Jack Du Brul |
Jungles come in many forms: there are the steamy rainforests of the Burmese highlands; then there are the lies, deceit, and betrayal of the world of covert operations; and there are the dark and twisted thoughts of a man bent on near-global domination. To pull off their latest mission, Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon... read more
| Author: | Tami Hoag |
Thomas Crane is a normal ten-year-old boy, except for one thing - his father may be a serial killer. Peter Crane is a community leader, but his seeming generosity may be a clever cover for cultivating his own victims. Meredith Crane plays the role of the perfect wife, standing by her man, but is she standing in the way of jus... read more
| Author: | Sarah Langan |
Something lurking in the woods threatens to destroy an entire town in Sarah Langan's brilliantly crafted second novel. Lois Larkin should never have taken her class to the woods for the field trip. Preoccupied by the betrayal of her fiance she never even notices when little James Walker doesn't get back on the bus and suddenl... read more
| Author: | Sir Ranulph Fiennes |
As a child, Derek Jacobs was an inmate of a Nazi prison camp and saw his mother horrifically abused. Now forging a career in the environment movement, he is co-opted by the Secret Hunters - a group who track down the perpetrators of genocide to exact their revenge.
| Author: | Stephen King |
Another horror story by Stephen King. Christine, blood-red, fat and finned, was 20. She was Arnie's obsession. There was still a malign power in her that corroded the mind and turned ownership into possession.
| Author: | John J. Nance |
A nail-biting thriller of crisis in the air, as the passengers and crew of an aircraft clash in deadly conflict. From the author appearing in New York Times bestseller lists, another airborne-disaster thriller with wide appeal for international markets, this time dealing with the increasingly alarming phenomenon of passeng... read more
| Author: | Michael Collins |
A searing novel from the author of the Booker-shortlisted The Keepers of Truth. Set in the frozen wastes of North America, Collins brings his serrated-edge prose to a blackly comic story of the unquiet dead. Small town America is Michael Collins's heart of darkness, a territory he maps with infinite precision in this n... read more
| Author: | Karin Alvtegen |
Two women pursued by pasts they can't escape after a tragic car crash that throws them together... Slowly they are forced to confront the shame they have always carried. A gripping psychological thriller.
| Author: | Susan Hill |
Simon Serrailler is on sabbatical on a Scottish island, recovering from an exhausting murder investigation, when he is urgently summoned back to Lafferton. Two local prostitutes have been found strangled. By the time Serrailer has reached the town, another girl has vanished. Is this a vendetta against prostitutes by someone w... read more
| Author: | Tom Rob Smith |
Moscow, 1965. Former Secret Service agent Leo Demidov is forbidden to travel with his wife and daughters to New York as part of a 'Peace Tour', meant to foster better relations between the two Cold War enemies. Leo's natural paranoia reaches its peak: Why have his family been selected? What is being planned? When Leo's worst ... read more
| Author: | Jo Nesbo |
| Series: | Harry Hole |
The thrilling first book in the bestselling Harry Hole series, never before published in English.
Harry is out of his depth. Detective Harry Hole is meant to keep out of trouble. A young Norwegian girl taking a gap year in Sydney has been murdered, and Harry has been sent to Australia to assist in any way he can. He's n... read more
This is the second of Mr Nesbo's books I've read and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It is the first of his Harry Hole books and has Harry in Australia helping the Australian police with the murder of a Norwegian national, a young blonde woman. Nesbo is a great crime writer, and I got to like his protagonist Harry Hole. I will be re... read more