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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Adventure / thriller
Local pharmacist and pillar of the community, Idris Khan, spends his days doling out methadone to the hundreds of addicts in his care. They trust Idris with their secrets, and so he knows more than his mild manner suggests. So when his childhood sweetheart, Rebecca, doesn't turn up for her daily methadone dose, Idris is worried. Worried enough to go looking for her in the most deprived area of Leeds, alone.
The mess Idris finds catapults him into the middle of a turf war between the two most powerful drug cartels in Yorkshire. Now, he must use every bit of intelligence and cunning he has to keep those he loves safe.
Because a war is on the way. And when Idris goes after his enemies, they won't see him coming.
It is 1793. Europe is ablaze with war. The British prime minister
is under pressure to intimidate the French and dispatches a Navy
squadron to the French coast. To man the ships, ordinary citizens
must be press-ganged; Thomas Paine Kydd, a young wig-maker from
Guildford, is seized and taken across the country to be part of the
crew of the 98-gun line-of-battle ship Duke William. The ship sails
immediately and Kydd has to learn the harsh realities of shipboard
life fast. Despite all he goes through, amid the dangers of tempest
and battle, he comes to admire the skills and courage of his fellow
seamen, taking up the challenge himself to become a true sailor and
defender of Britain at war.
With a full-page illustration and a
never-before-seen bonus chapter only available in this print edition,
this TikTok-viral dark romance features delicious spice and a morally
gray stalker who falls first and brings big 'touch her and die' energy.
Murder brought us together. Only death
can keep us apart.
The Tormentor
Calista belongs to me... she just doesn’t know it.
The first time we met, I wanted her. The next time, I was obsessed.
I watched her. I followed her. It only deepened my need to possess her.
Once she's mine, I'm never letting her go.
The Target
Hayden Bennett is a monster, in and out of the courtroom.
Unfortunately, I need his help.
What was supposed to be a simple transaction turns into something else.
Something intense.
He’s always there when I need him, but I don't know if trusting him is
a good idea...
Once You're Mine contains a morally gray hero who is an over the top
jealous/possessive stalker and is willing to do whatever it takes to
have the heroine. A complete list of trigger warnings can be found on
the author's website.
An old sanatorium. A terrifying murder. Six suspects and a case that
never closed . . .
Akureyri, Northern Iceland, 1983.
High up in the most northern part of Iceland stands The Akureyri
Sanatorium. Once a hospital dedicated to treating tuberculosis, it now
sits haunted by the ghosts of its past.
One wing of the hospital remains open and houses six employees: the
caretaker, two doctors, two nurses and a young research assistant.
Despite the wards closing decades ago they remain at the hospital to
conduct research. But the cold corridors, draughty windows and echoey
halls are constant reminders of the building’s dark history.
When one of the nurses, Yrsa, is found brutally murdered, they discover
that death has never left this place – and neither did its secrets.
None can escape this terrifying legacy.
Despite just five suspects the case is never solved and remains open
for two decades. Until a young criminologist named Helgi Reykdal
attempts to finally lay the ghosts of the hospital's past to rest . . .
‘I need to report a crime. My baby has been stolen.’
All Lauren wants is a new life in Spain. She’s suffered an unimaginable
loss, but at last she has found a home in the pretty seaside town of
Mantilla de Mar. Everyone deserves a new start, and Lauren needs to put
her past firmly behind her.
Hope has everything: an interesting career as a therapist, an
attractive husband, a dream home in the countryside - and, finally, the
baby she always longed for. Sam. Her beautiful boy.
But Sam has gone missing.
So when the police tell her that a woman has been found in Spain with a
child matching Sam’s description, Hope thinks that her nightmare might
be coming to an end.
But Lauren is insisting Sam is her baby. She even has his passport and
birth certificate to prove it.
So what really happened to Baby Sam? And who still has secrets to hide?
One child. Two mothers. And a past that won’t let them go.
Nikki Quintero, an agent from the Colombian National Police Special
Operations Command arrives in London and informs the National
Security Agency that two Colombian assassins are on their way to
London to murder an English police officer in revenge for him
thwarting their attempted importation of a vast quantity of cocaine
into the UK some months earlier. The National Security Agency
quickly identifies John Ridge as being the policeman at risk and
with Ridge's help put in place a sting operation designed to lead
to the arrest of the people involved in the conspiracy to murder
him. Working closely with Nikki Quintero, Ridge soon becomes
distracted from the operation by Nikki, who has other things on her
mind. Once again, Ridge's supervisors seem unwilling to assist him
and spend their time trying to get him suspended from duty. Ridge,
out jogging one evening, is confronted by the giant Colombian
assassin lying in wait for him at the end of the Brighton Pier. A
violent confrontation takes place between the two men on the pier
where there can only be one winner. The situation then gets worse
when Ridge discovers that his family is at risk, when they are held
hostage by Mateo Garcia. Can Ridge beat the odds stacked against
him and rescue his family before Garcia exacts his revenge?
Andy Baker is an advertising executive from Manchester in London on
business and staying in the Four Freedoms Tower. Khalid is an
Islamic extremist and member of Al-Qaeda, who is planning on
conducting a suicide bombing in London. The two men get into the
lift early in the morning and the lift breaks down. The story
follows both men's reaction to their situation and each other.
When a young female jogger goes missing in Pembleton Woods
Torreston Police pull out all the stops to find her. The only clue
they have is the name Gil written in Lucy Hancock's diary, but who
is this mystery male that nobody appears to know and nobody has
seen? Tension rises when a second woman goes missing and like Lucy,
she works at an estate agents. Time is running out for the women
but DCI Love and her team working long and arduous days are not
about to give up the hunt.
NO ONE IS SAFE FROM THE SERIAL KILLER
NOT EVEN SCARPETTA…
During the early hours of Christmas morning, chief medical
examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta receives a chilling call. The Phantom
Slasher has struck again.
The serial killer has terrorized Northern Virginia for months. His
pattern is to stalk with a sophisticated technology that enables him to
invade his victims' homes and watch their every move. They wake up to a
ghost-like hologram before being murdered in their beds.
Scarpetta is summoned to Mercy Island, the site of a
notorious psychiatric hospital where two people have been brutalized,
one of them from Scarpetta’s past. It soon becomes apparent that
she could be next…
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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.
Lucy Masters has just completed her PhD and is heading out to the
Himalayas to climb some of the world's most challenging mountains.
An assassin stalks a man whose company has developed a
revolutionary new social media application. Harry Parker, an
ex-Gurkha Army officer, is on leave between development contracts
in Nepal. One of the City's most successful hedge fund managers is
about to make his biggest ever fortune. Though they don't know it
yet, the lives of these very different people come together in the
most unexpected way. Add in a young and very beautiful emerging
artist, a sociopath ex-special forces 'fixer' and an ambitious
Police commissioner and the stage is set for a dramatic adventure.
From the mountains of Nepal and the Tors of Dartmoor to the streets
of London and Edinburgh, the story that unfolds will grip you from
the first page.
In a dark, dark wood In Summer 1990, Caroline and Joanna are sent
to stay with their great aunt, Dora, to spend their holidays in a
sunlit village near the Forest of Dean. The countryside is a
welcome change from the trauma they know back home in the city; a
chance to make the world a joyful playground again. But in the
shadowy woods at the edge of the forest hide secrets that will
bring their innocence to a distressing end and make this a summer
they will never forget. There was a dark, dark house Years later, a
shocking act of violence sends Joanna back to Witchwood. In her
great aunt's lonely and dilapidating cottage, she will attempt to
unearth the secrets of that terrifying summer and come to terms
with the haunting effects it has left on her life. But in her quest
to find answers, who can she trust? And will she be able to survive
the impending danger from those trying to bury the truth?
From the author of the acclaimed In My Dreams I Hold a Knife comes
a pitch-black thriller about a woman determined to destroy a
powerful cult and avenge the deaths of the women taken in by it, no
matter the cost. While in college in upstate New York, Shay Evans
and her best friends met a captivating man who seduced them with a
web of lies about the way the world works, bringing them under his
thrall. By senior year, Shay and her friend Laurel were the only
ones who managed to escape. Now, eight years later, Shay's built a
new life in a tony Texas suburb. But when she hears the horrifying
news of Laurel's death-delivered, of all ways, by her favorite
true-crime podcast crusader-she begins to suspect that the past she
thought she buried is still very much alive, and the predators more
dangerous than ever. Recruiting the help of the podcast host, Shay
goes back to the place she vowed never to return to in search of
answers. As she follows the threads of her friend's life, she's
pulled into a dark, seductive world, where wealth and privilege
shield brutal philosophies that feel all too familiar. When Shay's
obsession with uncovering the truth becomes so consuming she can no
longer separate her desire for justice from darker desires newly
reawakened, she must confront the depths of her own complicity and
conditioning. But in a world built for men to rule it-both inside
the cult and outside of it-is justice even possible, and if so, how
far will Shay go to get it?
This is the story of a courageous woman who lived at the time when
the industrial revolution was developing in Lancashire. After the
early death of her husband she took on the task of managing his
ironworks in addition to bringing up a large young family. During
this time a charismatic preacher arrived whose influence swept
through Ashton-under-Lyne which he said was to be 'the New
Jeerusalem' the place where the 'Shiloh', a messianic figure, was
to be born. Hannah had to cope with his impact on her family and
this she did with tough Lancashire grit and humour. Her indomitable
character and strong conviction of right and wrong makes this story
a riveting read.
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