Thriller / suspense fiction
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A haunting in the Arctic
£9.99A haunting in the Arctic
Something has walked the floors of the Ormen for over a century.
Something that craves revenge?
*Longlisted for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize*
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A spring of love
£9.99A spring of love
Esther Williams is thirty and single. She lives with her grandmother in a small house and her life is one of routine and order; she takes a seaside holiday each year and every Thursday she goes to the cinema alone. She does not know if she is happy or unhappy with her life – it merely follows the same pattern that it has always done. Until one day, on a Thursday night, she meets Raymond Banks. Raymond becomes everything to Esther. Suddenly she feels, for the first time ever, truly alive. Raymond alters her awareness of the world around her and she is soon very much in love with him. But when she discovers something about Raymond that threatens to ruin their happiness Esther is horrified.
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An Afterlife for Rosemary Lamb
£8.99An Afterlife for Rosemary Lamb
‘This gripping tale of three women who are suspected in the disappearance of a 9-year-old is a powerful read you won’t want to put down.’ – Pedestrian.tv’An incredible debut full of rich characters and a plot that will keep you guessing. Louise Wolhuter is a writer to watch.’ – J.P. Pomare, author of In The Clearing and The Wrong WomanJessie Else disappeared the summer the Lambs came to Magpie Beach. Not that the two events were connected at all, in reality; only in my own head, in my own world. They marked for me the end of a certain quiet time and the start of a more complicated living.Winifred is a small town full of prejudices and assumptions. Meg and Lily are outsiders who live on its margins at Magpie Beach, where they’ve managed to keep out of each other’s – and everyone else’s – way for years. That is, until Rosemary comes along and draws them into an unlikely friendship. When nine-year-old Jessie Else goes missing, the resident
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Antarctica station
£9.99Antarctica station
Dr. Laura Reynolds had it all. A job she loved. The respect of her peers. Student debt she was slowly chipping away at. And one day, she lost everything. She saw the wrong thing – a colleague’s mistake. And to escape, he framed her. To avoid prison, Laura reluctantly agrees to join a secretive research project in Antarctica, where she hopes to keep practicing medicine and someday get her life back. But soon after arriving, she realizes that things at this advanced facility aren’t what they seem. And perhaps something strange is happening in the world outside.
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Christmas presents
£12.99Christmas presents
When true crime podcaster Harley Granger drifts into Madeline Martin’s bookshop days before Christmas, he seems intent on digging up a past that Madeline would much rather forget. Granger’s work has earned him fame and wealth – and some serious criticism for his various unethical practices. Granger also has a lot of questions about the night Madeline was left for dead, the only surviving victim of killer Evan Handy. Handy, who also murdered Madeline’s best friend and is suspected in the disappearance of two local sisters, has been in jail for a decade. Since then, though, three other young women have gone missing in similar circumstances. Is the true predator still out there somewhere? As Christmas approaches and a blizzard bears down, Madeline must confront the past to answer questions that have haunted her since that day. Is the truth more terrible than she ever imagined?
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Close to Death
£9.99Close to Death
Richmond Upon Thames is one of the most desirable areas to live in London. And Riverview Close – a quiet, gated community – seems to offer its inhabitants the perfect life. At least it does until Giles Kenworthy moves in with his wife and noisy children, his four gas-guzzling cars, his loud parties and his plans for a new swimming pool in his garden. His neighbours all have a reason to hate him and are soon up in arms. When Kenworthy is shot dead with a crossbow bolt through his neck, all of them come under suspicion and his murder opens the door to lies, deception and further death. The police are baffled. Reluctantly, they call in former Detective Daniel Hawthorne. But even he is faced with a seemingly impossible puzzle. How do you solve a murder when everyone has the same motive?
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Dark Mode
£8.99Dark Mode
Once you’re online, there’s nowhere to hide  Is it paranoia – or is someone watching?  For years, Reagan Carsen has kept her life offline. No socials. No internet presence. No photos. Safe.  Until the day she stumbles on a shocking murder in a Sydney laneway. The victim looks just like her.  Coincidence?  As more murders shake the city and she’s increasingly drawn out from hiding, Reagan is forced to confront her greatest fear.  She’s been found.  A riveting psychological thriller drawn from true events, Dark Mode delves into the terrifying reality of the dark web, and the price we pay for surrendering our privacy one click at a time.PRAISE for Dark Mode LoveReading Book of the Month April 2023 ‘A Hitchcockian chiller with a powerful sense of rampant terror’ – Maxim Jakubowski, Crime Time ‘Drawn from real life cases, this brilliantly twisty thriller exposes the grim
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Death on the Lusitania
£9.99Death on the Lusitania
An atmospheric and immersive Agatha Christie-style historical crime novel, retelling the sinking of the RMS Lusitania as it sailed from New York to Liverpool in 1915.
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Holly
£9.99Holly
When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly is reluctant to accept the case. Her partner, Pete, has Covid. Her (very complicated) mother has just died. And Holly is meant to be on leave. But something in Penny Dahl’s desperate voice makes it impossible for Holly to turn her down. Mere blocks from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared live Professors Rodney and Emily Harris. They are the picture of bourgeois respectability: married octogenarians, devoted to each other, and semi-retired lifelong academics. But they are harbouring an unholy secret in the basement of their well-kept, book-lined home, one that may be related to Bonnie’s disappearance. And it will prove nearly impossible to discover what they are up to: they are savvy, they are patient, and they are ruthless.
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Home
£9.99Home
A decade ago, kidnappers grabbed two boys from wealthy families and demanded ransom, then went silent. No trace of the boys ever surfaced. For ten years their families have been left with nothing but painful memories and a quiet desperation for the day that has finally, miraculously arrived: Myron Bolitar and his friend Win believe they have located one of the boys, now a teenager. Where has he been for ten years, and what does he know about the day, more than half a life ago, when he was taken? And most critically: what can he tell Myron and Win about the fate of his missing friend?
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Jaws
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Kill for me kill for you
£9.99Kill for me kill for you
One dark evening in New York City, two strangers meet by chance. Over drinks, Amanda and Wendy realise they have so much in common. They both feel alone. They both drink alone. And they both desperately want revenge against the two men who destroyed their families. Together, they have the perfect plan. If you kill for me, I’ll kill for you.
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Let’s split up
£8.99Let’s split up
When hot “it-couple” Brad and Shelley are brutally murdered in aVictorian mansion, a group of teen friends investigate.
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Murder by candlelight
£9.99Murder by candlelight
One suspicious death. Two amateur sleuths. And an utterly impossible crime?
The NUMBER ONE ebook bestseller!
‘Amuses and intrigues in equal measure? a splendid start to what promises to be a long-running series’ Daily Mail
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Murder on Lake Garda
£9.99Murder on Lake Garda
On the private island of Castle Fiore – surrounded by the glittering waters of Lake Garda – the illustrious Heywood family gathers begrudgingly for their son Laurence’s wedding to Italian influencer Eva Bianchi. But as the ceremony begins, a blood-curdling scream brings the proceedings to a devastating halt. With the wedding guests trapped as they await the police, old secrets come to light and family rivalries threaten to bubble over. Everyone is desperate to know who the killer is? Can they be found before they strike again?
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Notes on an execution
£9.99Notes on an execution
Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours. He knows what he’s done, and now awaits the same chilling fate he forced on those girls, years ago. But Ansel doesn’t want to die; he wants to be celebrated, understood. He hoped it wouldn’t end like this, not for him. Through a kaleidoscope of women, we learn the story of Ansel’s life. As the clock ticks down to Ansel’s execution, these women sift through the choices that culminate in tragedy, exploring the rippling fissures that such destruction inevitably leaves in its wake.
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