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From the bestselling author of My Husband's Wife, one man's disappearance throws four women's lives into chaos--who will survive? Vicki works as an aromatherapist, healing her clients out of her home studio with her special blends of essential oils. She's just finishing a session when the...

When David Zetrakis, the producer of a popular soap opera, is found shot to death, Wollie Shelley finds herself caught up in the murder. Zetrakis was one of the many Mr. Wrongs in Wollie's career as a serial dater, and her friend Joey has emerged as the media's prime suspect. A hot-tempered celebrity who had dated Zetrakis and was fired from his show some years ago, Joey has inherited a million-dollar Klimt painting from him. But Joey is not the only potential suspect.

Officially, Aidan Deveraux is a communications expert for one of the largest financial firms in the world. In his secret life, the former Marine heads the Zermatt Group, a covert team of military and spy agency operatives that searches the data stream for troubling events in an increasingly troubled world. When his artificial intelligence system detects that Lauren Pennington - a college junior studying abroad in Germany - has been kidnapped, Aidan immediately sees the bigger picture.   

In his new life as a bartender at the Little Shamrock, Dismas Hardy is just hoping for a little peace. He's left both the police force and his law career behind. Unfortunately it's not as easy to leave behind the memory of a shattering personal loss - but for the time being, he can always take the edge off with a stiff drink and a round of darts.

When an inheritance includes murder… As a 30-something-year-old living in her mother’s basement after her divorce, Carly Taylor never considered herself particularly lucky… until her ex-husband died and left her his house. She couldn’t wait to move into the Victorian mansion in the picturesque lakeside town of Landover, Wisconsin. But, as soon as she unpacked her stuff and got comfy, she realized why she got the inheritance. Her ex-husband’s ghost is hovering in her living room, haunting the place, and wanting her to solve his murder. Carly can think of a million people who wanted...

A Cole Mercer Thriller Cole Mercer came to Montana for a quiet hunt. Instead, he finds a man in a suit executed in a remote meadow—miles from the nearest road. The victim’s last word is “survey.” By nightfall, the body is gone. The blood has been burned from the grass. And the local sheriff is already calling it an accident. Mercer knows better. As he digs deeper into the backcountry, he uncovers a covert land grab tied to a massive rare earth deposit buried beneath protected wilderness. A powerful development firm has been buying up ranchland through shell companies—and silencing...

He was just passing through. When Cole Mercer’s vintage Indian motorcycle breaks down outside the dying desert town of Red Mesa, Arizona, he expects to lose a few quiet days waiting on parts. Instead, he witnesses something he can’t ignore: a sheriff’s deputy executing a wounded man after a staged crash on a lonely stretch of highway. The deputy sees him. Stranded without transportation and branded a fugitive by the very lawman hunting him, Mercer finds himself trapped in a town ruled by fear. The official story doesn’t match what he saw. A missing bank employee. Large cash deposits...

After the devastating loss of her husband in Iraq, Morgan Dane returns to Scarlet Falls, seeking the comfort of her hometown. Now, surrounded by family, she’s finally found peace and a promising career opportunity - until her babysitter is killed and her neighbor asks her to defend his son, Nick, who stands accused of the murder.

Ivana Trump reflects on her extraordinary life and the raising of her three children—Donald Jr., Eric, and Ivanka—and recounts the lessons she taught her children as they were growing up. As her former husband serves as the 45th President of the United States, his children have also been...

A former soldier turned PI solves crime in a world that's lost its magic in this brilliant sequel to actor Luke Arnold's debut The Last Smile in Sunder City. The name's Fetch Phillips -- what do you need? Cover a Gnome with a crossbow while he does a dodgy deal? Sure. Find out who killed Lance...

Brought to you by Penguin. 'Compulsive, edgy and fabulous twists!' B A Paris 'Few writers can match Jane Corry' Cara Hunter HE CHEATED. HE LIED . . . HE DIED. Vicki's husband David once promised to love her in sickness and in health. But after a brutal attack left her suffering with epilepsy, he...

Dead Signal A Cole Mercer Thriller Cole Mercer planned to spend one quiet night in Washington, D.C. Instead, he walks into a citywide lockdown. What begins as a routine bomb scare inside a federal office building spirals into something far worse—a confirmed nuclear threat buried beneath the capital. Bridges close. Metro shuts down. Armed checkpoints seal the perimeter. And somewhere under the streets, a device is counting down. While federal agencies scramble and panic spreads, Mercer sees what others miss: a subcontractor that doesn’t exist, a service van that leaves too soon, and ...

A mystery thriller novel set in early 20th-century London where an unexpected death on a train sets the stage for a complex investigation. Our protagonist, Langdon, a young barrister specialising in criminal law, boards the last east-bound train out of town. He finds himself in the company of two vastly different men and, after a shocking death, is thrust into the heart of a lethal game of cat and mouse. The Incident on the Train One man, a Weathered military-looking individual, suddenly succumbs to a fatal seizure. The other, a sallow-faced stranger, makes a hasty escape. Our barrister ...

After six exciting thrillers in seven years, bestselling author James Grippando is at last bringing back the main character from his blockbuster debut novel, The Pardon. Criminal lawyer Jack Swyteck doesn't handle many civil cases. But this one is different. His client, Jessie Merrill, is a...

One dead wife is tragic. Two looks like murder… ________ 'Motherland meets Big Little Lies, It's Always the Husband is a totally addictive, up-all-night read. A masterclass in misdirection with clever twists and thrilling reveals right up until the final page. I loved it!' Claire Douglas...

A Death Ordained A Noir Murder Mystery Tim Masterson—ex-priest, ex-litigator, and full-time cynic—is hired by the Church to investigate a murdered cleric. He suspects he’s less investigator than scapegoat. But twenty grand is twenty grand. As Tim unravels the case, he uncovers a conspiracy linking the Church, the Irish Mafia, and a radical convent. What begins as a murder probe becomes a reckoning—with corruption, faith, and his own buried past. Darkly witty and morally complex, A Death Ordained is noir through a sacramental lens—where silence is currency and guilt never dies.

When Jessa Crispin was 30, she burned her settled Chicago life to the ground and took off for Berlin with a pair of suitcases and no plan beyond leaving. Half a decade later, she's still on the road, in search not so much of a home as of understanding, a way of being in the world that demands neither constant struggle nor complete surrender.

After the shock of her controlling ex-husband’s sudden death wore off, Liz Vance realized that she was back in charge of not only her life, but that of her two young sons. Her self-confidence began to grow, especially after she learns that for reasons unknown to her, Carter left everything to her. She soon learned that he had owned a house in Idaho, in the middle of the scenic Rocky Mountains. When problems arise with her son’s friends and their parents in the prestigious private school their father had enrolled them in, Liz takes the boys to Idaho to check out the house on Rocky ...

Rory Quinn is a New York police officer who enjoys chasing women, drinking hard, and beating the crap out of bad guys. He's used to waking up with hangovers that leave most people curled around a toilet. But that all changes after one drunken night of revelry. Instead of a bathroom floor, he wakes up to find he's been dead for 500 years. And if that ain’t enough, the earth he knew is long gone. Zombies, cataclysmically evil robots, and techno-demons seem to be the least of his problems, as they all pale compared to his crazy immortal ex-wife!

A man falsely accused… Can a K-9 unit dig up the truth? While escorting a prison van transporting her ex-boyfriend who was wrongly convicted of murder, Deputy Selena Smith never expected the van to be violently forced off the road. But when she and Finn Donovan are attacked, Selena and her K-9...