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The sharpest new voice in psychological suspense returns with an unputdownable new thriller on the deadliest subject of all: true love. Wes and Ivy are madly in love. It's the kind of romance people write stories about. But what kind of story? Because when it's good, it's very very good. But when it's bad, it's bad. But their breakneck cycle of catastrophic vengeful break-ups and head-over-heels reconnections needs to end fast. Because suddenly, Wes and Ivy have a common enemy - and she's a detective. One wrong move will be fatal - so if Wes and Ivy can't stick together, this break-up might just be their last.
Pakistan, 1974: The secret-wreathed trees of Harikaya have always called to Hassan. He knows if he doesn’t find the last beekeeper and salvage a precious jar of his mythical black honey before the floods come, his mother will lose her sight. But then he wins a scholarship to study with the state governor in Karachi amidst a brewing storm of political turmoil and simmering espionage. His entire world is turned upside down when he meets Maryam, the governor’s niece visiting from London. All the while the fate of his mother and his promise to the bees calls him back to the forest, and so he must decide: Maryam or the beekeeper, England or Pakistan, his head or his heart. One of the most exciting debuts of recent years, this is a lyrical historical novel of family, friendship, and self-discovery exploring the power of choice in a changing world and love in communion with nature. Perfect for fans of Christy Lefteri, Yann Martel, and Monique Roffey.
Chicago. 1992. A hospital patient
wakes to find two strangers by his bed.
In 1959 Tibet, an important Buddhist artefact was seemingly lost in the Communist takeover. But when Dirk Pitt discovers a forgotten crash site, new clues emerge. But Pitt has larger worries: he must recover a failed hypersonic missile before it's found by a Chinese adversary, who has hijacked a ship capable of stirring the ocean into a veritable Devil's Sea. From the depths of the Pacific to the heights of the Himalayas, only Dirk Pitt and his children, Summer and Dirk Jr., can unravel the mysteries that will preserve a religion, save a nation... and save the world from war.
The gruesome murder of a homeless teenage boy suggests a methodical
serial killer is at work in Walvis Bay, a depressed port, isolated in
the vast sweep of the Namib Desert. Corrupt and claustrophobic, the
shifting population of Walvis Bay consists of transients and vagabonds
– people with no future and no past. When it seems that the serial
killer may be working undetected in this pit of darkness and
desperation, investigative journalist and criminal profiler Dr Clare
Hart is brought in to investigate. Tangled up in her own doomed love
affair, Clare is happy for the distraction – until it becomes clear
that it is really her life at stake.
A dog scavenging in an illegal building site digs up a bone. A human
bone. She drags it back to where her mistress lies dead in an abandoned
shed, but there are hundreds more. Skeletons which have lain
undisturbed for centuries beneath Gallows Hill, where Cape Town's
notorious gibbets once stood. In the burial grounds Gallows Hill,
investigative journalist and criminal profiler Dr Clare Hart looks into
a cold case: the skeleton of a young woman murdered twenty years. At
the same time, she is helping a troubled young artist, Sophie Brown,
identify a malicious stalker. The two are linked, and both Clare and
Sophie are in grave danger. Clare discovers that the young woman’s
remains discovered near Gallows Hill are Astrid Brown’s, Sophie’s
mother, who has been missing for two decades. Her murderer is now
stalking Sophie, and if needs be he will kill again. And again. In
fact, he will kill as often as it takes to hide the secret he so neatly
buried with Sophie’s mother these last twenty years.
When a beautiful young woman is found murdered on Cape Town’s Sea Point
promenade, investigative journalist and criminal profiler Dr Clare Hart
is drawn into the web of a brutal serial killer. As more bodies are
discovered, Clare is forced to revisit memories of the horrific rape of
her twin sister and the gang ties that bind Cape Town’s crime rings.
Are her investigations into human trafficking really linked to the
murders or is the killer just playing sick games with her?
She tells herself an hour is not so long to wait, and steps outside.
The street is empty. Then she hears the car. She keeps still. That
saves you if you are in danger. Her daddy says so. Friday evening. A
deserted street below Table Mountain. A six year-old ballerina waits
alone for her mother to fetch her. Then an unmarked car approaches, and
she is gone. Captain Riedwaan Faizal is a member of Cape Town’s elite
Gang Unit. Tough and streetwise, he is used to being a target. But when
the danger of his anti-gang war envelops his only daughter and he
becomes the prime suspect in her abduction, there is little he can do.
He turns to Dr Clare Hart, investigative journalist and criminal
profiler. Their desperate search for the missing child, whose chances
of survival diminish with each hour, unravels a web of deception and
danger that puts all their lives at terrible risk.
GET READY FOR THE MOST EXCITING COUNT-DOWN OF YOUR LIFE HOUR SIXTY-ONE Icy winter in South Dakota. A bus skids and crashes in a gathering storm. On the back seat: Jack Reacher, hitching a ride to nowhere. A life without baggage has many advantages. And disadvantages too, like facing the arctic cold without a coat. HOUR THIRTY-ONE A small town is threatened by sinister forces. One brave woman is standing up for justice.If she's going to live to testify, she'll need help from a man like Reacher.Because there's a killercoming for her. HOUR ZERO Has Reacher finally met his match? He doesn't want to put the world to rights. He just doesn't like people who put it to wrongs. _________ NOW READ THE SEQUEL: Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, the ending of 61 Hours is directly followed by Worth Dying For. And be sure not to miss Reacher's newest adventure, no.26, Better off Dead! ***OUT NOW***
Dit is die vroeë 1990’s. Ben Brandt duik al jare lank ondergronds onder die Poolse naam Jozeph Brzinski. Maar die tyd het aangebreek dat hy sy ou werk hervat: dié van huurmoordenaar. In sy lewe voor hy moes onderduik as mynwerker, het hy moorde gepleeg vir wie ook al hom kon betaal. Hierdie keer het die Beweging hom nodig. Hy moet twee teikens by die Wêrelhandelsentrum in Kemptonpark elimineer. Gerhard Coetzee, topadvokaat met ’n tragiese verlede, is die enigste een wat in sy pad staan.
Marc Schlosser, 'n huisdokter, begaan 'n mediese fout en as gevolg daarvan sterf een van sy pasiente. Schlosser moet voor die Mediese Raad verskyn om verantwoording te doen. Schlosser is nie te bekommerd oor die Mediese Raad nie: Hy sal seker 'n paar maande geskors word, wat nie te erg is nie. Wat die saak egter kompliseer, is dat die pasient 'n baie bekende akteur, Ralph Meier, is, wat miskien net te veel aandag gegee het aan Schlosser se pragtige vrou, Caroline. Of hou die hele gedoente verband met wat by die Meiers se vakansiehuis gebeur het toe die Schlosser-gesin daar op besoek was? Soos in Die aandete is die hoofkarakter van die verhaal ook die verteller wat net vertel wat hy wil he die leser moet weet en so die leser aan die raai hou oor wat werklik gebeur het.
TO STEAL A MAN'S FREEDOM ALL IT TAKES IS . . . CONVICTION
Evil is stalking South Africa’s Sabi Sand Game Reserve. Viewers around the world are shocked when a live lockdown webcast of a safari game drive exposes them to the brutal reality of rhino poaching. A wily poacher then disappears into thin air, confounding logic and baffling ace trackers Mia Greenaway and Bongani Ngobeni. Detective Colonel Sannie van Rensburg, still reeling from a personal tragedy, is dealing with an angry community on the border of the Kruger National Park – two young girls have been abducted and the local people fear the children have been taken for use in umuti, sinister traditional medicine practices. Umuti is also being employed by poachers, who pay healers for potions they believe will make them invisible and bulletproof. When another young girl disappears, this time a tourist, Mia and Sannie must confront their own personal demons and challenge everything they believe, in order to follow a trail that seems to vanish at every turn.
Right. Wrong. Life is lived somewhere in between. Duchess Day Radley is a thirteen-year-old self-proclaimed outlaw. Rules are for other people. She is the fierce protector of her five-year-old brother, Robin, and the parent to her mother, Star, a single mom incapable of taking care of herself, let alone her two kids. Walk has never left the coastal California town where he and Star grew up. He may have become the chief of police, but he’s still trying to heal the old wound of having given the testimony that sent his best friend, Vincent King, to prison decades before. And he's in overdrive protecting Duchess and her brother. Now, thirty years later, Vincent is being released. And Duchess and Walk must face the trouble that comes with his return. We Begin at the End is an extraordinary novel about two kinds of families―the ones we are born into and the ones we create.
Doc Immelman is alombekend vir sy avontuur- en jagverhale. Erns Grundling noem hom “Namibië se eie Hemingway”. Bloed op die duine en ander verhale is ’n keur uit sy kortverhale wat tussen 1955 en 1963 in Die Huisgenoot en Die Brandwag verskyn het. Die bundel sluit verder die novelle “Koms dans, Klaradyn” in, wat oorspronklik in ’n Seisoen vir Romanse (1966) verskyn het.
Sometimes a gift can feel more like a curse
The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake is the runaway TikTok sensation - the must-read fantasy novel of the year. If you loved Ninth House and A Deadly Education, you'll love this. The book includes gorgeous new illustrations. Secrets. Betrayal. Seduction. Welcome to the Alexandrian Society. When the world's best magicians are offered an extraordinary opportunity, saying yes is easy. Each could join the secretive Alexandrian Society, whose custodians guard lost knowledge from ancient civilizations. Their members enjoy a lifetime of power and prestige. Yet each decade, only six practitioners are invited - to fill five places. Contenders Libby Rhodes and Nico de Varona are inseparable enemies, cosmologists who can control matter with their minds. Parisa Kamali is a telepath, who sees the mind's deepest secrets. Reina Mori is a naturalist who can perceive and understand the flow of life itself. And Callum Nova is an empath, who can manipulate the desires of others. Finally there's Tristan Caine, whose powers mystify even himself. Following recruitment by the mysterious Atlas Blakely, they travel to the Society's London headquarters. Here, each must study and innovate within esoteric subject areas. And if they can prove themselves, over the course of a year, they'll survive. Most of them. The story continues in The Atlas Paradox, the heart-stopping sequel. Reader reviews: 'I don't think anything will ever compare with this' 'To say I can't wait for the sequel is an understatement. Do yourself a favour and buy this immediately!' 'I had to convince myself magic isn't real' Originally a self-published sensation, this edition has been fully edited and revised.
From the New York Times number one bestselling author of The
Nightingale and The Great Alone, Kristin Hannah, comes Wild, a
remarkable story about the resilience of the human spirit, the triumph
of hope and the promise of new beginnings.
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