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Lt. Eve Dallas is back with a murder case with its roots in loyalty,
treachery, espionage and the long shadow of war...
His passport reads Giovanni Rossi, retired businessman. But decades
ago, during the Urban Wars, he was part of a small, secret organization
called The Twelve. Responding to an urgent summons from an old
compatriot, he returns to New York. To his death...
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?
Zimbabwe - a country in peril, a family torn apart, a battle to save a species.
In the broken country that is Zimbabwe, only the strongest can survive. Three families - the Bryants, the Quilter-Phipps and the Ngwenyas - share a history as complex and bloody as the country itself. Dedicated conservationists Paul and Philippa Bryant face an enormous struggle: to save their farm and small herd of endangered black rhinos from corrupt government minister Emmerson Ngwenya. Twin brothers, ex-soldier Braedan and environmentalist Tate Quilter-Phipps join the fight. But the brothers' own history is fraught, and when they fall in love with the same woman, Natalie Bryant, their rivalry threatens to not only derail the attempt to save the rhinos but also put the lives of all involved at risk. With blood feuds still to settle, every one of these players will be drawn into the fray, and not one will remain unscathed.
African Dawn is the second instalemt in Tony Park's acclaimed Story of Zimbabwe series.
Serial killer Saffy Huntley-Oliver's life is going great.
She's got a fabulous new boyfriend, Jonathan. She has literally got
away with murder. And now that she's no longer single, she can get back
to her favourite hobby: killing bad men.
Particularly Sir Thomas West, a children's TV star who truly deserves
to die.
But there are a few little snags. For one, her beloved sister Susie is
still dating that insufferable Finlay. For another, Sir Thomas has a
very large bodyguard. And Jonathan himself has given up his job
investigating true crime, despite all the tempting corpses that Saffy
keeps putting in his way.
All of this would be easy to ignore in the flush of new love. Except
Saffy's never been in love before, and it's weird. She's having
difficulty separating romance from homicide. Especially when someone
discovers Saffy's secret hobby and starts sending Jonathan coded
messages about her crimes.
Is someone trying to break them up? Or trying to hunt her down?
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The Edge
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David Baldacci
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A BRUTAL MURDER
Retired from the Army’s most prestigious special ops force, Travis
Devine is now part of an elite undercover team in Homeland Security.
But when he’s brought in by agent Emerson Campbell to investigate the
murder of a young woman, he quickly learns that this case is more
personal than most.
A SMALL TOWN
Four days earlier Jennifer Silkwell was found dead on the rocks of the
Maine coastline. A high ranking analyst for the CIA, she had knowledge
of national security secrets that would be valuable to a number of
enemies. And her senator father once saved Emerson Campbell’s life.
A BIG SECRET
Knowing how much is riding on the case, Devine packs his bags and heads
for the small town of Putnam in Maine. But small towns can harbour big
secrets, and not everyone wants to share them with outsiders. Not when
there’s a killer on the loose . . .
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 instant New York Times bestseller from the author of Sometimes
I Lie 'Not just fiendish but positively Feeneyish - dark, ingenious
and very clever' Cara Hunter, author of Close to Home Ten years of
marriage. Ten years of secrets. An anniversary they'll never
forget. Adam and Amelia are spending the weekend in the Scottish
Highlands. The remote location is perfect for what they have
planned. But when their romantic trip takes a dark turn, they both
start to wonder - can they trust the one they're with? Because
every couple tells little white lies. Only for Adam and Amelia, the
truth is far more dangerous. 'A cleverly crafted novel with a grand
twist' Stella magazine 'I loved it!' Sarah Pinborough, author of
Behind Her Eyes 'Creepy, gripping and oh-so readable, we loved
this! Fabulous magazine 'Chilling and clever, with a twist so sharp
you'll get whiplash' Chris Whitaker, author of We Begin at the End
'A riveting thriller that explodes with a jaw-dropping climax'
Woman's Weekly 'A clever, cunning read and one where you expect a
twist, but when it comes, it's so perfect and wonderful that you
want to tell everyone' Belfast Telegraph 'A staggering novel filled
with tension, suspense, and an ending that will leave you
flabbergasted' Samantha Downing, author of My Lovely Wife 'The
reader never quite know who's telling the truth about who they
really are' Cosmopolitan What readers are saying about ROCK PAPER
SCISSORS 'I was HOOKED! Brilliantly written . . . A gripping twisty
page turner' 'Multi-faceted characters hiding lots of secrets,
brilliant plot and clever twists kept me at the edge of my seat to
the very end!' 'I flew through the pages as it was impossible to
put down! Brilliant!' 'Alice Feeney wins for the greatest plot
twists!' 'This was an addictive read. I. Could. Not. Put. It. Down.
The twist was spectacular'
'Best historical novelist' - Stephen King 'A master storyteller' -
Sunday Times 'Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom
others are compared' - The Times 'No one does adventure quite like
Smith' - Daily Mirror IN THE LAND OF GOLD WHERE THE WEAK PHARAOH
RULES A NEW CIVILISATION WILL BE BORN Taita is a humble slave; an
expert in art, poetry, medicine and engineering, as well as the
keeper of important secrets. He is the most treasured possession of
Lord Intef. Yet when Intef's beautiful daughter Lostris is married
to the Pharaoh, Taita is commanded to follow her, and swiftly finds
himself deeper than he ever could have imagined in a world of
deception and treachery. But outside the palace, the great kingdom
of Egypt is divided, and in even greater danger. Enemies threaten
on all sides, and only Taita holds the power to save them all . . .
BOOK 1 IN THE BESTSELLING ANCIENT EGYPTIAN SERIES, FROM THE MASTER
OF ADVENTURE, WILBUR SMITH
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Last Chance
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Stephen Leather
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A group of professional killers, known as The Office, are carrying out hits for the Iranian government across the European continent, hitting targets amongst the wealthiest and most privileged.
After a slew of murders in London, MI5 decide that enough is enough. The Office must be destroyed, root and stem. Dan 'Spider' Shepherd, the secret service's most dangerous weapon, is tasked with infiltrating the organisation and unmasking its leader.
But just how far is he willing to go in the name of justice . . . ?
A hundred-mile-an-hour whirlwind of a novel from one of the world's most gifted thriller authors.
A dismembered corpse is discovered in the vault of a silver shop. The
police initially believe it to be that of a convicted armed robber -
but not everyone agrees with that theory. One of them is Decima
Mullins, who calls on the help of private detective Cormoran Strike as
she's certain the body in the silver vault was that of her boyfriend -
the father of her newborn baby - who suddenly and mysteriously
disappeared.
The more Strike and his business partner Robin Ellacott delve into the
case, the more labyrinthine it gets. The silver shop is no ordinary
one: it's located beside Freemasons' Hall and specialises in Masonic
silverware. And in addition to the armed robber and Decima's boyfriend,
it becomes clear that there are other missing men who could fit the
profile of the body in the vault.
As the case becomes ever more complicated and dangerous, Strike faces
another quandary. Robin seems increasingly committed to her boyfriend,
policeman Ryan Murphy, but the impulse to declare his own feelings for
her is becoming stronger than ever.
A rare masterpiece by Picasso is about to go to auction, and the whole
world is watching.
But bright art student Halston Graham sees an opportunity. One that
could secure millions for her future – and freedom for her wrongly
imprisoned father…
To pull off the crime of the century, she must assemble an unlikely
crack team: an expert in forgery, a ruthless mob boss, and an eccentric
fashion designer.
In a game where trust is a luxury and failure is not an option, will
Halston’s brilliance be enough to outsmart her enemies?
SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ***The explosive fifth novel in the Red
Rising Series*** The Number One New York Times bestselling author
of Morning Star returns to the Red Rising universe with the
thrilling sequel to Iron Gold. He broke the chains Then broke the
world.... A decade ago Darrow led a revolution, and laid the
foundations for a new world. Now he's an outlaw. Cast out of the
very Republic he founded, with half his fleet destroyed, he wages a
rogue war on Mercury. Outnumbered, outgunned but not out thought.
Is he still the hero who broke the chains? Or will he become the
agent of the world's destruction? Is it time for another legend to
take his place? Lysander au Lune, the displaced heir to the old
empire, has returned to the Core. First he must survive Gold
backstabbing, then Darrow. Will he bring peace to mankind at the
edge of his sword? And on Luna, Mustang, the embattled sovereign of
the Republic, must save both democracy and her exiled husband
millions of kilometres away. The only thing certain in the Solar
System is treachery. And that the Rising is entering a new Dark
Age. PRAISE FOR THE RED RISING SERIES: 'Pierce Brown's
empire-crushing debut is a sprawling vision . . . Ender, Katniss,
and now Darrow' - Scott Sigler, New York Times bestselling author
of Pandemic '[A] top-notch debut novel . . . Red Rising ascends
above a crowded dystopian field' - USA Today '[A] spectacular
adventure . . . one heart-pounding ride . . . Pierce Brown's
dizzyingly good debut novel evokes The Hunger Games, Lord of the
Flies, and Ender's Game. . . . [Red Rising] has everything it needs
to become meteoric' - Entertainment Weekly
The Caribbean island of St James in the 1980s should have been
paradise. Instead the post-independence rulers turned it into a
perverted and corrupt private fiefdom. The US would not act because
its Government is anti-communist and American privateers wanted to
keep it that way. Britain didn't care enough to intervene
officially. The disgusting practices of the Prime Minister and his
family were too much to ignore, though. Philip Goshawk was sent to
try to find a solution. In this atmospheric political thriller
James Eno catches the dark mood just beneath the surface glamour of
islands in the sun.
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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