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Summit Lake
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Charlie Donlea
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*** PRE-ORDER THE NEW CAUTIONARY TALE OF OBSESSION, LOVE, JEALOUSY
AND DECEPTION FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF OUR HOUSE
AND THE OTHER PASSENGER *** There's the obvious story. And then
there's the truth. Alex lives a comfortable life with his wife Beth
in the leafy suburb of Silver Vale. Fine, so he's not the most
outgoing guy on the street, he prefers to keep himself to himself,
but he's a good husband and an easy-going neighbour. That's until
Beth announces the creation of a nature trail on a local site
that's been disused for decades and suddenly Alex is a changed man.
Now he's always watching. Questioning. Struggling to hide his dread
. . . As the landscapers get to work, a secret threatens to surface
from years ago, back in Alex's twenties when he got entangled with
a seductive young woman called Marina, who threw both their lives
into turmoil. And who sparked a police hunt for a murder suspect
that was never quite what it seemed. And it still isn't. Praise for
Louise Candlish: 'I inhaled it' Lisa Jewell 'I couldn't put it
down' Shari Lapena 'A stunning masterwork of style and suspense'
Jeffery Deaver 'Tense, provocative and devastatingly powerful' T.
M. Logan 'Louise Candlish knows exactly how to deliver the twists
you didn't even know you were expecting. Took me straight back to
the heady days of 1995 - brilliant stuff' Harriet Tyce 'Smart,
addictive, twisting, surprising. Highly recommended' Sarah Vaughan
'Impossible to resist, impossible to predict, impossible to put
down . . . this is an author at the top of her game' Erin Kelly 'A
twisting, seductive, ingenious thriller from the consistently
brilliant Louise Candlish. I'm a huge fan' Chris Whitaker 'The Only
Suspect kept me guessing all the way through. It's the book version
of a Rubik's Cube with so many unexpected twists and turns. An
adrenaline burner for sure!' Liz Nugent 'As good as I hoped it
would be. Messy relationships, deception and some big surprises.
Loved it!' Jane Fallon 'WOW. As always Louise Candlish has written
a taut, unsettling, compulsive and ingenious novel with
gasp-out-loud twists and fatally flawed characters forced into
tragedy by circumstances. I LOVED it!' Isabelle Broom 'I was sucked
in from the beginning, hooked and hoodwinked. A masterclass in
psychological thriller writing' Diane Jeffrey 'I couldn't put it
down! Fantastic characters, a trip down memory lane into '90s
London and I honestly didn't see that ending coming AT ALL.
Deliciously dark and devastating' Nikki Smith 'A compelling,
nerve-tingling treat' Nicci French 'Tense, taut and twisty.
Candlish is a master of her craft' Adele Parks 'Incredibly tense.
Louise Candlish is one of my favourite writers and this is her best
book yet' Clare Mackintosh 'Such a vivid sense of place, a gripping
plot, elegantly told, and a twist that left me reeling -
brilliant!' Sarah Pearse
*** SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE GUARDIAN ***
'Electrifying drama ... the bodies pile up, the intensity and
horror are reminiscent of Thomas Harris at his finest. Gamache is a
fascinatingly complex protagonist' BOOK OF THE MONTH, THE TIMES
It's spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter.
But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything
lying dormant should reemerge. But something has. As the villagers
prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy
Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. A young man and
woman have reappeared in the Surete du Quebec investigators' lives
after many years. The two were young children when their troubled
mother was murdered, leaving them damaged, shattered. Now they've
arrived in the village of Three Pines. But to what end? Gamache and
Beauvoir's memories of that tragic case, the one that first brought
them together, come rushing back. Did their mother's murder hurt
them beyond repair? Have those terrible wounds, buried for decades,
festered and are now about to erupt? As Chief Inspector Gamache
works to uncover answers, his alarm grows when a letter written by
a long dead stone mason is discovered. In it the man describes his
terror when bricking up an attic room somewhere in the village.
Every word of the 160-year-old letter is filled with dread. When
the room is found, the villagers decide to open it up. As the
bricks are removed, Gamache, Beauvoir and the villagers discover a
world of curiosities. But the head of homicide soon realizes
there's more in that room than meets the eye. There are puzzles
within puzzles, and hidden messages warning of mayhem and revenge.
In unsealing that room, an old enemy is released into their world.
Into their lives. And into the very heart of Armand Gamache's home.
'Penny delves into the nature of evil, sensitively exploring the
impact of the dreadful events she describes while bringing a warmth
and humanity to her disparate cast of characters that, unusually
for a crime novel, leaves you feeling better about the world once
you've finished' BOOK OF THE MONTH, OBSERVER 'Bestseller Penny's
virtuoso 18th novel featuring Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the
Quebec Surete ... blends nuanced characterization with nail-biting
suspense ...This tale of forgiveness and redemption will resonate
with many' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 'This is a hugely satisfying mystery
of course, but more than that, it's a chilling morality tale.
Nobody does evil quite as scarily as Louise Penny' ANN CLEEVES
FURTHER PRAISE FOR LOUISE PENNY AND THE INSPECTOR GAMACHE SERIES:
'Enthralling ... With beautifully drawn characters, this is crime
writing of the highest order' DAILY MAIL 'Louise Penny is one of
the greatest crime writers of our times' DENISE MINA 'Louise Penny
twists and turns the plot expertly tripping the reader up just at
the moment you think you might have solved the mystery' DAILY
EXPRESS 'No one does atmospheric quite like Louise Penny' ELLY
GRIFFITHS
Critics are raving about this deliciously chilling new thriller
from Scandanavian crime-writing sensation Camilla Lackberg.
Named by major media outlets, such as "USA TODAY," "The New York
Times," and "The Washington Post," as a main successor to Stieg
Larsson, Swedish author Lackberg is on the rise. Her new novel,
which "The Washington Post" has already named as one of their "Ten
Books We Love This Year" and praised as "richly textured and
downright breathtaking," continues the story of local detective
Patrik Hedstrom and his girlfriend, Erica Falck, the beloved
crime-solving duo whose first child has just been born. But while
they celebrate this new life, a suspicious drowning claims a little
girl they knew well. As the murder's implications widen, Patrik's
investigation threatens to tear apart the rural fishing village of
Fjallbacka, where a secret lurks that spans generations.
A deeply satisfying third installment in her internationally
bestselling series, "The Stonecutter "will establish Lackberg for
the U.S. audience once and for all. As "USA TODAY" says, "If you
haven't yet read the equally entrancing "Ice Princess" and "The
Preacher," what are you waiting for?"
It is summer, 2012. Charlie, a wealthy banker with an uneasy
conscience, invites his troubled cousin Matthew to visit him and
his wife in their idyllic mountaintop house. As the days grow
hotter, the friendship between the three begins to reveal its fault
lines, and with the arrival of a fourth character, the household
finds itself suddenly in the grip of uncontrollable passions. As
readers of James Lasdun's acclaimed fiction can expect, The Fall
Guy is a complex moral tale as well as a gripping suspense story,
probing questions of guilt and betrayal with ruthless incisiveness.
Who is the real victim here? Who is the perpetrator? And who,
ultimately, is the fall guy? Darkly vivid, with an atmosphere of
erotic danger, The Fall Guy is Lasdun's most entertaining novel
yet.
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Stardust
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Neil Gaiman
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From the number one bestselling author, Peter James, comes The
Secret of Cold Hill. The spine-chilling follow-up to The House on
Cold Hill. Now a smash-hit stage play. Cold Hill House has been
razed to the ground by fire, replaced with a development of
ultra-modern homes. Gone with the flames are the violent memories
of the house's history, and a new era has begun. Although much of
Cold Hill Park is still a construction site, the first two families
move into their new houses. For Jason and Emily Danes, this is
their forever home, and for Maurice and Claudette Penze-Weedell,
it's the perfect place to live out retirement. Despite the ever
present rumble of cement mixers and diggers, Cold Hill Park appears
to be the ideal place to live. But looks are deceptive and it's
only a matter of days before both couples start to feel they are
not alone in their new homes. There is one thing that never appears
in the estate agent brochures: nobody has ever survived beyond
forty in Cold Hill House and no one has ever truly left . . .
Investigator Lacy Stoltz follows the trail of a serial killer, and closes in on a shocking suspect—a sitting judge—in “one of the best crime reads of the year.… Bristling with high-tech detail and shivering with suspense…. Worth staying up all night to finish” (Wall Street Journal).
In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. She put the criminals away, but only after being attacked and nearly killed. Three years later, and approaching forty, she is tired of her work for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct and ready for a change.
Then she meets a mysterious woman who is so frightened she uses a number of aliases. Jeri Crosby’s father was murdered twenty years earlier in a case that remains unsolved and that has grown stone cold. But Jeri has a suspect whom she has become obsessed with and has stalked for two decades. Along the way, she has discovered other victims. Suspicions are easy enough, but proof seems impossible. The man is brilliant, patient, and always one step ahead of law enforcement. He is the most cunning of all serial killers. He knows forensics, police procedure, and most important: he knows the law.
He is a judge, in Florida—under Lacy’s jurisdiction. He has a list, with the names of his victims and targets, all unsuspecting people unlucky enough to have crossed his path and wronged him in some way. How can Lacy pursue him, without becoming the next name on his list?
The Judge’s List is by any measure John Grisham’s most surprising, chilling novel yet.
'Funny, violent, real and with characters you love to love - and
hate...' JANICE HALLETT She will leave your surfaces sparkling. But
she may well leave you dead... Maria is a good woman and a good
cleaner. She cleans for Elsie, the funny old bird who's losing her
marbles, with the terrible husband. She cleans for Brian, the sweet
man with the terrible boss. She cleans for the mysterious Mr
Balogan, with the terrible neighbours. If you're thinking of hiring
her, you should probably know that Maria might have killed the
terrible husband, the terrible boss and the terrible neighbours.
She may also have murdered the man she loved. She didn't set out to
kill anyone, of course, but her clients have hired her to clean up
their lives, and she takes her job seriously - not to mention how
much happier they all are now. The trouble is, murder can't be
washed out. You can only sweep it under the carpet, and pray no one
looks too closely... Darkly funny and completely gripping from the
first page to the last, Make Me Clean is one thriller you won't be
able to scrub from your mind. Perfect for fans of Harriet Tyce,
Fiona Cummins and My Sister the Serial Killer.
'Deliciously chilly' - Guardian 'Humming with suppressed hysteria
and madness' - The Times 'Wonderfully evocative' - Heat Hare House
is not its real name, of course. I have, if you will forgive me,
kept names to a minimum here, for reasons that will become
understandable . . . In the first brisk days of autumn, a woman
arrives in Scotland having left her job at an all-girls school in
London in mysterious circumstances. Moving into a cottage on the
remote estate of Hare House, she begins to explore her new home.
But among the tiny roads, wild moorland, and scattered houses,
something more sinister lurks: local tales of witchcraft, clay
figures and young men sent mad. Striking up a friendship with her
landlord and his younger sister, she begins to suspect that all
might not be quite as it seems at Hare House. And as autumn turns
to winter, and a heavy snowfall traps the inhabitants of the estate
within its walls, tensions rise to fever pitch. Sally Hinchcliffe's
Hare House is a modern-day witch story, perfect for fans of Pine
and The Loney. 'A beautiful, slow burn of a novel, eerie and
shimmering in equal measure' - Mary Paulson-Ellis
When the body of a Bushman is discovered near the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, the death is written off as an accident. But all is not as it seems.
An autopsy reveals that, although he’s clearly very old, his internal organs are puzzlingly young. What’s more, an old bullet is lodged in one of his muscles … but where is the entry wound? When the body is stolen from the morgue and a local witch doctor is reported missing, Detective ‘Kubu’ Bengu gets involved. But did the
witch doctor take the body to use as part of a ritual? Or was it the American anthropologist who’d befriended the old Bushman? As Kubu and his brilliant young colleague, Detective Samantha Khama, follow the twisting trail through a confusion of rhino-horn smugglers, foreign gangsters and drugs manufacturers, the wider and more dangerous the case seems to grow.
A fresh, new slice of ‘Sunshine Noir’, Dying to Live is a classic tale of greed, corruption and ruthless thuggery, set in one of the world’s most beautiful landscapes, and featuring one of crime fiction’s most endearing and humane heroes.
At once a vivid, haunting reimagining of 1950s Britain, a gripping,
humane spy thriller and a poignant love story, with Dominion C. J.
Sansom once again asserts himself as the master of the historical
novel. 1952. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the
appeasers and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany after Dunkirk. As
the long German war against Russia rages on in the east, the
British people find themselves under dark authoritarian rule: the
press, radio and television are controlled; the streets patrolled
by violent auxiliary police and British Jews face ever greater
constraints. There are terrible rumours too about what is happening
in the basement of the German Embassy at Senate House. Defiance,
though, is growing. In Britain, Winston Churchill's Resistance
organization is increasingly a thorn in the government's side. And
in a Birmingham mental hospital an incarcerated scientist, Frank
Muncaster, may hold a secret that could change the balance of the
world struggle for ever. Civil Servant David Fitzgerald, secretly
acting as a spy for the Resistance, is given the mission to rescue
his old friend Frank and get him out of the country. Before long
he, together with a disparate group of Resistance activists, will
find themselves fugitives in the midst of London's Great Smog; as
David's wife Sarah finds herself drawn into a world more terrifying
than she ever could have imagined. And hard on their heels is
Gestapo Sturmbannfuhrer Gunther Hoth, brilliant, implacable hunter
of men . . . 'An absorbing, thoughtful, spy-politico thriller set
in the fog-ridden London of 1952 . . . Part adventure, part
espionage, all encompassed by terrific atmosphere and a well-argued
"it might have been". - The Times
**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW AN AMAZON PRIME TV SERIES
STARRING CHRIS PRATT** 'Take my word for it, James Reece is one
rowdy motherf***er. Get ready!' Chris Pratt It has been two decades
since 9/11. The enemy has been patient. The enemy has been
learning. The enemy has been adapting. The enemy is ready to strike
again . . . Former Navy SEAL James Reece must embark on a
top-secret CIA mission of retribution twenty years in the making in
this riveting and timely thriller that will leave you gasping for
breath. If you loved Lee Child's Jack Reacher, Peter James's Roy
Grace or Michael Connelly's Mickey Haller, you will love The
Devil's Hand and the James Reece series! Praise for Jack Carr: 'A
propulsive and compulsive series. Jack Carr's James Reece is the
kind of guy you'd want to have in your corner. A suspenseful and
exhilarating thrill-ride. Jack Carr is the real deal' Andy McNab
'This is seriously good . . . the suspense is unrelenting, and the
tradecraft is so authentic the government will probably ban it - so
read it while you can!' Lee Child 'With a particular line in
authentic tradecraft, this fabulously unrelenting thrill-ride was a
struggle to put down' Mark Dawson 'Gritty, raw and brilliant!' Tom
Marcus 'So powerful, so pulse-pounding, so well-written - rarely do
you read a debut novel this damn good' Brad Thor 'Carr writes both
from the gut and a seemingly infinite reservoir of knowledge in the
methods of human combat. Loved it!' Chris Hauty 'A powerful,
thoughtful, realistic, at times terrifying thriller that I could
not put down. A terrific addition to the genre, Jack Carr and his
alter-ego protagonist, James Reece, continue to blow me away' Mark
Greaney 'Thrilling' Publishers Weekly
"When you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, however
improbable, must be the truth..." Arthur Conan Doyle - On the banks
of the river Thames a massive new building is being completed. A
stunning creation of glass and concrete that will be a new landmark
on London's skyline. And people are dying because of it... Dozens
of mysterious unexplained accidents have claimed the lives of
workmen during the construction and journalist Jessica Anderson is
convinced that the owner of the building, a billionaire Russian
businessman, knows more about the accidents than he is revealing.
Enlisting the help of a former colleague, Jess tries to investigate
the shadowy industrialist but finds that far harder than she
imagined. Protected by a private security force and cocooned by his
entourage, this powerful man proves to be as elusive as anyone she
has ever known. He values his privacy and seems willing to go to
any ends to protect it. But what is he hiding? As she delves into
his background she discovers that one of his ancestors lived in
London during the 1930's on the same site where the Crystal Tower
was constructed and death and destruction surrounded that ancestor
too. Is there a link between these two men? Jess is convinced there
is and when a series of horrific attacks and murders take place,
perpetrated against men who want to stop the Russians next building
project, she finds herself plunged into a maelstrom of fear and
events that threaten not just her life but her very sanity...
Something from the darkest reaches of myth and superstition has
been unleashed upon a modern world and it seems no one can stop
it...
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