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The Quiet
(Paperback)
Barnaby Martin
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R385
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A mother's love can be deafening . . .
Isaac is Hannah’s entire world. She knows that her son is gifted, and that those gifts make him vulnerable. To keep him safe, she spends every waking moment by his side. If she lets her guard down, lets him out of her sight, lets him show what he’s capable of, he will be taken from her.
When the Soundfield arrived twenty years ago, the world changed with it. Now, people are forced to live at night due to the deadly heat of the day, food and water are scarce, and everyday life is punctuated by the constant and disconcerting hum from the Field. A brilliant scientist, Hannah spent her early career working on the enigma of the Soundfield, looking for answers; now, resigned, she has focussed all her energies on keeping Isaac living, not just alive.
To do so, she will have to lie to the people she knows and hope she can trust the ones she doesn't. Because the only thing more dangerous than her lies, is the truth of what she has done.
Two teenage girls. One murdered classmate.
And a modern-day witch trial that will divide the nation.
When 18-year-old Christian Shaw is found dead in an Edinburgh park, the
city reels - and the shock only deepens when police charge her best
friends, Eliza Lawson and Isobel Smyth, with her murder.
As social media explodes and headlines scream for justice, rumours of
bullying spiral into something darker: whispers of rituals, obsession,
and a teenage pact gone wrong.
Matthew Phillips, a respected heart surgeon, is reluctantly called for
jury duty on the case. But as the trial unfolds - and the girls reveal
a chilling defence no one saw coming - he begins to question
everything: the motives, the evidence, even his own judgement.
Who's telling the truth? Who can be trusted?
And what really happened to Christian Shaw?
Let the Witch Trial begin . . .
Meet DI HILLARY GREENE, a policewoman struggling to save her career
and catch criminals. Mattie Jones is found brutally stabbed to
death in her palatial home. Hillary Greene is called in to
investigate the murder of this wealthy woman. Who wanted her dead
and why? Hillary discovers that Mattie's snobby attitude had made
her many enemies. Mattie was also going through a messy divorce and
had a secret lover. Meanwhile, in a terrifying turn of events,
police officers are being gunned down outside their stations. A
sniper is on the loose. Who will come under attack next? Can
Hillary cope with the enemies within, a complex case, and the whole
force under attack?
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Vengewar
(Paperback)
Kevin J. Anderson
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R538
R507
Discovery Miles 5 070
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Summer 1999. Will joins five other idealistic graduates working for an
eccentric psychology professor. They’re going to launch a website to
change online dating forever.
No-one expects it to end in tragedy.
Twenty-five years later, Will gets an invitation: a dinner party. A
chance to see the old gang again.
But as soon as he arrives, something doesn’t seem right.
There’s an unexpected guest. The hosts are clearly keeping a secret.
And on the way in, Will is sure he heard crying.
Everyone has something to hide about what really happened that summer.
But only one of them is willing to kill to find the truth…
Lora inherits Blackstone Cottage from her Aunt May. With rumours of
ghosts and a mysterious black cat will she be able to settle?
Strange things start to happen. Does somebody not want her there?
SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS' CRIME FICTION BOOK OF THE
YEAR _________________________________ *** A Top Ten Kindle
Bestseller *** 'Pure nerve-shredding suspense from the first page
to the last' Erin Kelly 'Blair Witch meets Fleabag ... pure
mastery' Janice Hallett 'Dazzling' Riley Sager
_________________________________ Movie-making can be murder. The
project Final Draft, a psychological horror, being filmed at a
house deep in a forest, miles from anywhere in the wintry wilds of
West Cork. The lead Former soap-star Adele Rafferty has stepped in
to replace the original actress at the very last minute. She can't
help but hope that this opportunity will be her big break - and she
knows she was lucky to get it, after what happened the last time
she was on a set. The problem Something isn't quite right about
Final Draft. When the strange goings-on in the script start to
happen on set too, Adele begins to fear that the real horror lies
off the page... _________________________________ 'A roller-coaster
ride and fun in every sense, I loved it!' Andrea Mara 'Will have
you glued to your sunbed ... insists on being read in one sitting'
Gloss
Six friends gather at a country house for a birthday weekend. They
decide to play a game.
All six names go in a hat. Choose two, and imagine one murdering the
other.
Write it down. Type it up. Read it out.
Points are given for making the murders sound convincing.
Of course, when given such a task, it’s only natural to use what you
know.
Secrets. Grudges. Affairs.
But once you’ve put it in a story, that secret is out.
So with each fictional murder, someone gets a motive for a real one.
Which leads to the most important question:
When a real murder comes, will you be able to spot it in time?
Six friends gather at a country house for a birthday weekend. They
decide to play a game.
All six names go in a hat. Choose two, and imagine one murdering the
other. Write it down. Type it up. Read it out.
Points are given for making the murders sound convincing.
Of course, when given such a task, it’s only natural to use what you
know. Secrets. Grudges. Affairs.
But once you’ve put it in a story, that secret is out.
So with each fictional murder, someone gets a motive for a real one.
Which leads to the most important question:
When a real murder comes, will you be able to spot it in time?
The assassination of the speaker of the House has rocked the nation.
And the Camel Club has found a chilling connection with another death:
that of the director of the Library of Congress's Rare Books and
Special Collections Division.
The club's unofficial leader, a man who calls himself Oliver Stone,
discovers that someone is selling America to its enemies one secret at
a time. Then Annabelle Conroy, the greatest con artist of her
generation, comes to town and joins forces with the Camel Club for her
own reasons. And Stone will need all the help she can give, because the
two murders are hurtling the Camel Club into a world of espionage that
is bringing America to its knees.
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The Traitor
(Paperback)
Jorn Lier Horst
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R395
R353
Discovery Miles 3 530
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Following weeks of heavy rain, the earth comes sliding down on one of
Larvik’s residential areas, burying a handful of houses.
Detective William Wisting is quick to join the rescue operation.
Luckily, by sunrise the next day, it becomes clear that the landslide
has claimed no victims.
And yet, just twenty-four hours later, a body is found – and the victim
was killed before the landslide.
As Wisting opens an investigation into the mysterious murder, he soon
discovers this death might have dangerous ties to a series of ongoing
cases.
And the clues start leading Wisting not towards an enemy on the outside
– but to a traitor in his own unit…
Equal parts bone-chilling, wryly funny and deeply political, The Midnight Timetable is a masterful work of literary horror from one of our time's greatest imaginations. 'I inhaled Bora Chung's book of ghost stories and then slept with the light on!' Avni Doshi, author of Burnt Sugar A wild midnight tour of a uniquely brilliant and exquisitely demented world - a world I did not want to leave!' Gerardo Sámano Córdova, author of Monstrilio. In a labyrinthine research facility, where those who open the wrong door might find it's disappeared behind them or that the echoing footsteps they're running from are their own, an unnamed protagonist begins their night shift under the watchful eye of the building's enigmatic senior guard. Each evening, as the fluorescent lights flicker and the silence grows heavier, the guard shares another tale of cursed objects and lives unspooled by vengeance, sorrow or revelation. But these are not mere ghost stories. They're warnings. Lessons. Or, perhaps, confessions. As the nights stretch on and reality frays, our protagonist starts to suspect that the building itself is alive with malevolent intent and that the objects they guard aren't just cursed. They're waiting. Watching. 'Electrifying. A feast of a book. Strange, hypnotic and audacious.' Irenosen Okojie, author of Curandera 'A fascinating novel of shifting realities centred by a steady, humane heart. Bora Chung is a master of concocting dreamscapes that linger.' Marie-Helene Bertino, author of Beautyland 'These ghost stories . . . mist off the page and leave the real world hazy and askew.' Pemi Aguda, author of Ghostroots
Natalie’s in tears in her bedroom. She’s had a huge argument with her
husband. Slowly, she realises she’s already holding a knife.
She’s telling herself she doesn’t want to do it. Not again.
Because Natalie has an awful secret. Sometimes, on her worst nights,
she blacks out. She loses control.
What do you do when there’s a killer in your house, and you think it
might be you?
Surrounded by barren trees in a snow-covered wilderness with a dim,
dusky sky forever overhead, Siberia's Kolyma Highway is 1200 miles of
gravel packed permafrost within driving distance of the Arctic Circle.
A narrow path where drivers face such challenging conditions as icy
surfaces, limited visibility, and an average temperature of sixty
degrees below zero, fatal car accidents are common.
But motorists are not the only victims of the highway. Known as the
Road of Bones, it is a massive graveyard for the former Soviet Union's
gulag prisoners. Hundreds of thousands of people worked to death and
were left where their bodies fell, consumed by the frozen elements and
plowed beneath the permafrost road.
Fascinated by the history, documentary producer Felix "Teig" Teigland
is in Russia to drive the highway, envisioning a new series capturing
Life and Death on the Road of Bones with a ride to the town of Akhust,
"the coldest place on Earth", collecting ghost stories and local
legends along the way. Only, when Teig and his team reach their
destination, they find an abandoned town, save one catatonic
nine-year-old girl―and a pack of predatory wolves, faster and smarter
than any wild animals should be.
Pursued by the otherworldly beasts, Teig's companions confront even
more uncanny and inexplicable phenomena along the Road of Bones, as if
the ghosts of Stalin's victims were haunting them. It is a harrowing
journey that will push Teig beyond endurance and force him to confront
the sins of his past.
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