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STAND-ALONE MURDER MYSTERY, #6 IN THE SERIES. MEET MAVERICK BRITISH DETECTIVE DI SKELGILL... "MAD, BAD AND JUST A LITTLE BIT COZY." SUMMONED TO AN ISOLATED maximum-security hospital, DI Skelgill inadvertently catches the eye of a notorious female serial killer. Does she read his censorious thoughts? Is this the trigger that turns a routine investigation into a rollercoaster of murder, mayhem, escapes and hostage taking? And what of the establishment? Are these crises purely coincidental, or is some conspiracy afoot? Could it be blackmail, corruption, a power struggle ... or something ...

How far would you go to save your child? This is the impossible question facing Lacey. Would you sacrifice your lover, your mother, your husband? Three families are torn apart, their lives shattered, everything they know turned upside down. when their children are kidnapped, the only communication they receive is a request from the abductor to sacrifice a loved one to be tortured to death. failing to follow the instructions will result in their child suffering that fate instead. Delving into the depths of a damaged mind, this novel contains some graphic scenes of torture and explores some ...

The Silent Daughter: A psychological thriller. She went to prison for a crime she didn’t commit. The people who really ruined her life live behind a set of gates. Robyn loves Manchester—the noise, the nightlife, the feeling that anything might happen. What she doesn’t love is the six-year prison sentence she’s handed after a jewellery store robbery she had nothing to do with. By the time she walks out, she’s lost her twenties, her friends, and the future she thought she was heading for. Fresh out and desperate, Robyn takes the only job she can get: peeling veg and scrubbing ...

One playful night with a stranger should have stayed in the dark. Naomi Holloway has what looks like the perfect life: a devoted husband, a thriving career, and a young son she adores. But when a video arrives from an anonymous number and whispers of infidelity ignite, everything unravels in an instant. Games twist into danger. Rumours harden into evidence. The school gates become a gauntlet. The police come knocking. Naomi thinks she’s controlling the story, but someone else is pulling the strings. Someone who thrives in the shadows. Someone who will destroy her life piece by piece… ...

The Timeless Novel About a Bus Ride from Hell to Heaven In The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis again employs his formidable talent for fable and allegory. The writer finds himself in Hell boarding a bus bound for Heaven. The amazing opportunity is that anyone who wants to stay in Heaven, can. This is...

He’s a Brit. She’s not impressed. And this app’s about to crash. Riley Hayes has one rule—no tech bros. After walking away from her cushy developer job in Seattle, she’s perfectly happy back in her hometown of Willow Cove, writing scathing editorials and avoiding men with VC-backed...

THE INSTANT BESTSELLER 'Vivid, bright and beautiful' – Guardian 'Wonderful. I wish I'd written it – I couldn't put it down' Miriam Margolyes Kathy Burke is one of Britain's most distinctive voices. Even as a fearless kid in Islington, she did things her own way; roaming the estate that...

A distinguished psychiatrist and avid gardener presents “a truly uplifting book on the power of gardening—and how it can change people’s lives” (Stylist, UK). The garden is often seen as a refuge, a place to forget worldly cares, removed from the “real” life that lies outside. When...

Balford-le-Nez is a dying seatown on the coast of Essex. But when a member of the town's small but growing Asian community, is found dead on its beach, his neck broken, sleepy Balford-le-Nez ignites. Working solo, without her long-time partner Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, Sergeant Barbara...

'Whodunnit' doesn't matter so much, not to a forensic psychiatrist. We're more interested in the 'why'. In his 26 years in the field, Richard Taylor has worked on well over a hundred murder cases, with victims and perpetrators from all walks of life. In this fascinating memoir, Taylor draws on...

From Sandie Jones, author of the Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick and USA Today Bestseller, The Other Woman, comes an addictive domestic suspense audiobook about a wife, her husband, and the woman who is supposedly her best friend. THE WIFE: For Alice, life has never been better...

Brought to you by Penguin. From the former director of GCHQ, learn the methodology used by the British intelligence agencies to reach judgements, establish the right level of confidence and act decisively. Intelligence officers discern the truth. They gather information - often contradictory or...

LOUISE PENNY says the Frieda Klein novels are ""fabulous."" JOSEPH FINDER says they're ""in the rich vein of Kate Atkinson."" And TAMI HOAG calls them ""truly unique."" Now the final book in this extraordinary series is here. And it's an ending you'll never forget. A decade ago, psychologist...

In The Vacation, a captivating thriller from T. M. Logan, the bestselling author of Lies and 29 Seconds, four best friends on a dream vacation come face-to-face with an explosive secret. It was supposed to be the perfect getaway: Kate and her three best friends, spending a week with their...

Three missing scientists. A stolen mind-altering weapon. Only one man can stop a devastating global exchange. When German mercenaries execute a daring raid on a remote Scottish military research station, they leave with a terrifying prize: a prototype mind-altering device and its digital blueprints. The government’s priority is immediate recovery before the technology falls into the wrong hands. But when a vital MI6 lead in Berlin goes dark and two agents turn up dead, the director turns to the only man he can trust outside the system—SAS Captain Kirkland Finn. Arriving in Berlin ...

THE REESE WITHERSPOON X HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "One of the most twisted and entertaining plots."—Reese Witherspoon "Narrator Clare Corbett gives each character in this engrossing thriller a genuine personality and unique voice...She expertly delivers this...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A lively and spirited book' DOUGLAS MURRAY 'A paean to the freedom and dignity that many in the West take for granted' PETER BOGHOSSIAN 'A cool, steady but urgent message that we should value and protect what we have' SPIKED 'Kisin's book [has] a powerful moral...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Athelstan: The Making of England by Tom Holland, read by Roy McMillan. The formation of England happened against the odds - the division of the country into rival kingdoms, the assaults of the Vikings, the precarious position of the island on the edge of...

What if a woman who uncovers the truth couldn’t trust her own mind? PI Polly Stevens specialises in finding missing people. She lives alone in her dead parent’s bungalow with her cat, her Chopin Nocturnes, and a house she keeps as precise as her case files. Until one afternoon she comes home with her coat buttoned wrong, eight hours missing, fresh smoke in the garden barrel, and her surveillance clothes gone. The woman who finds other people’s truths is now forced to investigate her own. After a stranger comes knocking and orphanage memories begin to line up, Polly discovers something...

He destroyed her father. She is here to return the favour. Three years ago, her father lost everything. His reputation. His livelihood. Then she lost him too. The man responsible walked away richer, admired and completely untouched. Now a young woman with a new face, a new name and a carefully rehearsed past walks into his London company and asks for a job. She smiles in all the right places. She says all the right things. Nobody around her would ever guess what's going on inside her head... which is lucky, because most of it would get her marched straight out of the building. Her plan is ...