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"Listeners will find it challenging to hit pause on this suspense thriller by Marshall...Perfect for listeners who enjoy intricately-plotted suspense thrillers full of family secrets, deception, and isolated settings."—Booklist (Starred Review) A woman invited to her wealthy fiance’s family...

On the night of June 19,1982 in suburban Houston, respected attorney James Campbell and his wife Virginia were shot to death in their luxurious home. The scene showed no signs of struggle or forced entry. Although the police eventually suspected James and Virginia Campbell’s daughter, Cindy Campbell Ray, was involved, for years there wasn’t enough evidence to make an arrest. When the truth was eventually discovered it was far more horrifying than anyone imagined.

Luke Delaney takes the thriller genre to new heights with his debut crime novel, Cold Killing—an unforgettable and haunting duel between a seasoned detective and a brilliant serial killer. Detective Inspector Sean Corrigan finds the body of a brutally murdered young man in his own South London...

Despite all their wealth and success, the Covington family has been cursed with tragedy. Twenty-five years ago, two horrific accidents threatened to ruin their business and livelihood. This, followed by two deaths in the family, forever change them. Now, the patriarch of the family is dying, and the son everyone thought died so long ago, returns. Dax Covington wants Coop to help him prove his identity and find out who tried to kill him. Then, there is the matter of identifying the remains of the body buried under Dax's headstone.

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When a tired old inmate is found dead in his cell, the prison is obligated to investigate and so DI Barton attends. The men he interviews have been convicted of some of the worst things a human being can do, but it appears that the death was due to natural causes. When the house of the dead man is burgled and that crime is followed by a suspicious fire, Barton desperately needs to speak to his widow, but she’s nowhere to be found. In the space of 24 hours, everyone he wants to talk to has vanished. Then he receives some post, which makes him believe he could be the next to disappear.

Dan 'Spider' Shepherd returns in the third stunning action thriller from bestselling author Stephen Leather. Even deadlier than terrorists . . . are the men trying to stop them. People-smuggling, counterfeit currency and attempted murder. It's all in a day's work for undercover cop Dan 'Spider'...

Actress Adelaide Banks is swapping her native New York for London to spend Christmas with her widowed Aunt Rose. Rose wrote in her note that she was off to Paris for a few days and would be back in time for Addy's arrival. But when Addy reaches Rose's Knightsbridge address, no one's home, and she has two unexpected callers....Where is Rose, and what has she got herself entangled in? Dragged into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse on the snowy streets of London, Addy finds herself navigating a dark underworld of ruthless assassins, rogue agents, and international crime.

Some cases refuse to die. Six of the darkest unsolved murder cases in American history share one thing in common: the highway gave killers everything they needed. Anonymity. Easy victims. An escape route that swallowed them whole. Forensic evidence collected. DNA tested. Leads pursued for decades. Still — nothing. Inside, you'll follow investigators through cases that went cold — and stayed that way: The Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Murders. Seven teenage girls vanished along Highway 101 in the early 1970s. One has never been identified. Nobody was ever charged. The Colonial Parkway Killings.

A brilliant young historian offers a vital, comprehensive international military history of the Cold War in which he views the decade-long superpower struggles as one of the three great conflicts of the twentieth century alongside the two World Wars, and reveals how bloody the "Long Peace"...

For decades, a father in the Bay Area made his living taking people’s portraits, but he harbored a monstrous secret. When one woman vanished in 1976, the only clue police had was that she’d gone to a restaurant to meet a photographer about a modeling job. Other women who’d gone to get their pictures taken were found murdered in the woods in Marin County. This disconnected series of homicides and disappearances remained stubbornly unsolved. But then in 2010, a probation officer caught a lucky break.

Victor ist Profikiller. Sein wahrer Name und seine Herkunft: unbekannt. Sein Perfektionismus und seine Erfolgsquote: unerreicht. Für seine Auftraggeber bei der CIA ist Victor die wichtigste Waffe. Und obwohl sich Victor nicht um Fragen von Recht oder Moral schert, gibt es auch für ihn Aufträge, bei denen es nicht nur um Geld geht. Sondern darum, das Böse zu besiegen. Dazu zählt auch sein neuester Job: Victor soll Milan Rados eliminieren, einen ehemaligen Befehlshaber der serbischen Armee.

Pre-order the eighth DCI James Walker thriller now! Readers can't put down Alex Pine's winter crime: 'You know winter is coming when the latest Alex Pine novel drops' Netgalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'This is my favourite book in the series' Netgalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'What a fantastic...

Best-selling authors Jeffery Deaver and Anne Perry join rising stars like Dana Chamblee Carpenter and Paul Gail Benson in a collection that proves Music City is a deadly place to be when your song gets called. Featuring stories by Donald Bain, Robert Dugoni, Jefferson Bass, Mary Burton, Jonathan Stone, Steven James, Maggie Toussaint, Clay Stafford, Heywood Gould, Jaden Terrell, and more....

It was supposed to be a masterpiece—until it became a murder scene. Lena Larsen just wanted to enjoy the Winter Ice Showcase with her best friend Charlie. Instead, she finds herself at the center of a murder investigation that involves hundreds of pounds of carved ice. Was it a tragic accident? Or something far more sinister? With Sheriff Mark Hanson leading the case, Lena is drawn into a tangle of bitter rivalries, professional grudges, and artistic egos gone deadly. Every contestant had reason to want the victim silenced. Every witness seems to be hiding something. And the clock is ...

‘HELP! I am addicted to this series! Unputdownable’ NetGalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Chilling truths are buried in this snow… When a body dressed in a Santa Claus suit appears in the snow just outside a small village in Cumbria, DCI James Walker is the first to appear on the scene...

From New York Times bestselling author and former top prosecutor Linda Fairstein comes an electrifying thriller rich with the riveting behind-the-scenes authenticity that only she can offer. Manhattan Assistant D.A. Alexandra Cooper is working feverishly on a tough trial, seeking justice for...

When the remains of a young woman are discovered near to Branodunum, a Roman archaeological site on the Norfolk coast, DI Tom Janssen and his team must work to discover who she was and how she came to be buried there. The area is steeped in myth and folklore, a site excavated many times over the years. Just how long has she lain there...and who wishes she'd never been discovered? As the victim’s life comes into sharp focus, it appears there is far more to those who crossed her path than anyone previously realised.

The rain washes away the evidence, but the timber never forgets. In the dark, isolated corners of the upper left coast, the landscape is more than just a backdrop—it is an active accomplice. Murder Land - Pacific Northwest unearths twenty of the most brutal, deeply unsettling, and heavily obscured cases to ever plague the region. From the transient, mud-soaked waterfronts of 1910s Aberdeen where itinerant workers vanished without a trace, to the shocking 2009 ambush of four police officers in a Lakewood coffee shop, this meticulously researched volume strips away the idyllic veneer of the...

‘HELP! I am addicted to this series! Unputdownable’ NetGalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Snow is falling. Murder is calling. Journalist Gordon Carver receives news that sends a chill down his spine. Rushing home from the pub, he frantically calls his police contact, DCI James Walker to share...