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A legend among Vermont cops, Joe Gunther has solved more local whodunits than a whole squad of detectives. But his latest case takes him and his team off their Brattleboro home turf, 42 miles west, to chip-on-its-shoulder, blue-collar Bennington. On the edge of town, Gunther encounters the lifeless body of Michelle Fisher. Her corpse, pale and seemingly at peace, offers him no clues about who she was or how she died. There are no signs of violence, no disorder. Snapshots and postcards show a woman who laughed hard and lived harder.

Spanning a decade, The Second Shot is an alternate-(future) history telling of the 2020 election and the civil war that followed, told from the perspective of half a dozen people from sea to shining sea.

Madeleine Talmage Force is just 17 when she attracts the attention of John Jacob "Jack" Astor. Jack's mother was the Mrs. Astor, American royalty and New York's most formidable socialite. Despite their 29-year age difference and the scandal of Jack's recent divorce, Madeleine falls headlong into love. On their honeymoon in Egypt, the newlyweds finally find a measure of peace away from photographers and journalists. Madeleine feels truly alive for the first time - and is happily pregnant. The couple plans to return home in the spring of 1912, aboard an opulent new ocean liner. 

Nancy Wake, nicknamed 'the white mouse' for her ability to evade capture, tells her own story. As the Gestapo's most wanted person, and one of the most highly decorated servicewomen of the war, it's a story worth telling. After living and working in Paris in the 1930's, Nancy married a wealthy Frenchman and settled in Marseilles. Her idyllic new life was ended by World War II and the invasion of France. Her life shattered, Nancy joined the French Resistance and, later, began work with an escape-route network for Allied soldiers.

A timeless tale of courage, resistance and friendship, The Umbrella Mouse is a heart-stopping adventure drawing on the true stories of animals caught in the conflict of WWII, winner of the 2019 Sainsbury's Book Prize for Fiction and selected for Waterstones Book of the Month. 1944, and London is...

He warned me once. If I ever came back, he’d make sure I never left again. I should’ve listened. Zain Finley was my first love. My biggest mistake. The boy who turned obsession into a religion and made sure I’d never forget the way he broke me. Now I’m back in Magnolia Hills, and he’s waiting—like a shadow that never left. Watching. Hunting. Haunting. He doesn’t ask why I came home. He doesn’t care. He only wants one thing. Me. And this time, he’s not giving me the chance to run. Not without reminding me exactly who I belong to. I tell myself I hate him. That I’m ...

Sixteen year old Shelley and her mother move to Honeysuckle cottage in the middle of the countryside, fleeing their fears and anxieties and hoping to put behind them years of suffering at the hands of others. Shelley has endured terrible bullying from the girls who used to be her best friends...

Previously published as I'll Be Back: Samantha Raven Book #3 by Robins, Bobbie (AUTHOR). A gripping psychological thrillerA psychological thriller She thought she’d outrun her past. She was wrong. Samantha Raven has rebuilt her life into something quiet, controlled… safe. But safety is an illusion. Because someone is watching her. Always just out of sight. Twice, someone has tried to take her again. Each time, she escaped. Barely. Now the feeling won’t leave her—being followed, studied, hunted by a presence she can’t see but can almost sense breathing down her neck. Then two men ...

‘A gripping, flawless novel’ – Sophie Hannah, author of The Opposite of Murder A mother and daughter, pushed too far. Complex and compulsive, Mice is a twisting work of psychological suspense from Gordon Reece. Sixteen year old Shelley and her mother move to Honeysuckle cottage in the...

Cat and his friends are back! The rich, cantankerous, narcissistic, but generous, septuagenarian Cajun, Clarence "Cat" Touchette, helps when his friend, Crosby "Souris" Babineaux finds his son in a coma at the family's marine transportation company. Cat begins probing, discovers unusual business practices by Souris' son, and scrutinizes a sleazy crew aboard a vessel chartered by a mysterious company.

Equipped with a new identity and a new family, Ally shut the door on her past and refused to look back. But when her new life falls apart, she discovers the key to protecting her future lies in the hands of the very man who forced her into hiding. Eddie stayed away for her sake and his own. But when elements beyond his control come into play, he has no choice but to step in before she winds up dead. Eddie and Ally find themselves sucked into an international game of cat and mouse where the line between love and hate becomes blurred.

When Theodoric Voler boards a train he finds he is not alone in the compartment. Not only is there a female companion asleep in one corner, there is a mouse which has hidden itself inside his clothes. Can the sensitive and prudish young man manage to undress and extricate the mouse without his female companion waking up? Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) at his most satirical. A superb and witty observation on the sensibilities and mores of British Edwardian society.

A timeless tale of courage, resistance and friendship, The Umbrella Mouse is a heart-stopping adventure drawing on the true stories of animals caught in the conflict of WWII, winner of the 2019 Sainsbury's Book Prize for Fiction and selected for Waterstones Book of the Month. 1944, and London is...

The devil is back in Hahnville. And this time, he’s not just watching. No one should live here. Not after what happened at the old Gregory Place. So why am I building a house on this cursed land? Everyone thought the fire was the end. That the evil rooted in these swamps had finally burned away. They were wrong. Something ancient has risen again—darker, stronger, and hungry for blood. And now it’s coming for Bailey. She’s the one light I have left in this world. And I’ll walk through hell to protect her. But is it already too late? Desired by the Devil is Book 2 in a dark ...

He crashed my wedding. Then he claimed my heart all over again. I was about to marry a man I didn’t love when a helicopter descended out of nowhere—and out stepped the only man I’ve ever truly wanted. Knox Vance. Billionaire. Obsessive. My greatest temptation… and my biggest mistake. Before I could even say “I do,” Knox threw me over his shoulder and vanished with me. His reason? He just discovered I’m carrying his child. Now he says he’s never letting me go—and this time, I don’t know if I want him to. Perfect for readers who love the possessive alpha intensity of Jodi ...

Brought to you by Penguin. 'Do you know it, do you remember it, the drives, the attitudes, the terrors and, yes, the joys?' Thus Steinbeck introduces his collection of poignant and hard-hitting dispatches for the New York Herald Tribune when the Second World War was at its height. He begins in...

I tried to escape. I failed. I told him I’d never love him again. He laughed. I swore I’d never say “I do.” He’s about to make me. Knox Vance has spent months proving a single, brutal truth—I belong to him. He stole me from my wedding, locked me in his penthouse, and claimed every inch of me until I couldn’t deny it anymore. But I still tried to leave. Big mistake. Because Knox doesn’t just want me in his bed. He wants me in his life. In his name. Wearing his ring. And now, with his baby growing inside me, he’s done playing nice. I can fight him. I can hate him. I can say ...

I fight him. He doesn’t care. I tell him it’s too late. He laughs in my face. I try to run. He catches me every single time. Now, I’m trapped in his penthouse, wrapped in silk and sin, and drowning in a man who refuses to take no for an answer. He says I was always his. That this baby only seals my fate. That no one else will ever touch me again. He’s ruthless. Possessive. Completely unhinged. And the most terrifying part? I don’t want him to stop.

Something smells like death. And this house was never meant to be a home. My husband just built us a beautiful new house. I should be the happiest woman alive. But from the moment I step inside, something feels off. Like someone’s watching me. Like something’s watching me. As the crew drains the swamp and disturbs the old cemetery, the house seems to… shift. Breathe. And my husband? He’s not the man I married. Not anymore. When I start turning to one of the workers—Zeke, the kindest man I’ve ever known—I know I’m crossing a line. But the real danger isn’t love. It’s the ...