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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Crime & mystery
"Juju assassins, alternate history, a gritty New York crime
story...in a word: awesome." -N.K. Jemisin, New York Times
bestselling author of The Fifth Season The dangerous magic of The
Night Circus meets the powerful historical exploration of The
Underground Railroad in Alaya Dawn Johnson's timely and unsettling
novel, set against the darkly glamorous backdrop of New York City,
where an assassin falls in love and tries to change her fate at the
dawn of World War II. Amid the whir of city life, a young woman
from Harlem is drawn into the glittering underworld of Manhattan,
where she's hired to use her knives to strike fear among its most
dangerous denizens. Ten years later, Phyllis LeBlanc has given up
everything-not just her own past, and Dev, the man she loved, but
even her own dreams. Still, the ghosts from her past are always by
her side-and history has appeared on her doorstep to threaten the
people she keeps in her heart. And so Phyllis will have to make a
harrowing choice, before it's too late-is there ever enough blood
in the world to wash clean generations of injustice? Trouble the
Saints is a dazzling, daring novel-a magical love story, a
compelling exposure of racial fault lines-and an altogether
brilliant and deeply American saga.
When the body of a young woman is found by the side of a quiet
country road, police first suspect a hit and run. Then a darker
side to the victim is uncovered - a dangerous addiction that led to
her violent death. With little sympathy from a local population,
Detective Mark Turpin faces a daunting task to track down her
killer. When a second victim dies a violent death, Mark realises
someone is determined to hide the truth. Both victims kept to the
shadows of society -will their secrets die with them? A Silent
Truth is the fourth book in a new murder mystery series from USA
Today bestselling author Rachel Amphlett.
The Innocent is another action-packed thriller from David Baldacci, one of the world's most popular writers.
HE COULD NO LONGER REMEMBER THE NAMES OF ALL THE PEOPLE WHOSE LIVES HE HAD ENDED.
Master assassin Will Robie is the man the US government call to eliminate their most ruthless enemies at home or abroad. He never questions his orders, and he never misses his mark.
He’s just returned from a covert assignment in Edinburgh to neutralize a growing threat, having drawn upon all his expertise to complete his mission and disappear without a trace. The odds were stacked against him, but that’s never made a difference before.
But now he’s facing the most difficult operation of his career. Dispatched to kill a US government employee, he does the unthinkable when things don’t add up – he refuses to pull the trigger. In doing so, Robie finds himself becoming the target. On the run from his own government and with everything on the line, does he need to change sides to save lives – including his own?
The Innocent is the first novel in David Baldacci's blockbuster Will Robie series.
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Broken
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Don Winslow
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'You can't ask for more emotionally moving entertainment' Stephen
King A riveting collection of original fiction from the revered #1
international bestselling author of The Cartel trilogy and The
Force No matter how you come into this world, you come out
broken... In six intense, haunting short novels, Don Winslow
returns to the themes that are the hallmarks of his acclaimed body
of work - crime, corruption, vengeance, justice, loss, betrayal,
guilt, and redemption - to explore the savagery and nobility that
drive and define the human condition. In Broken, Winslow creates a
world of high-level thieves and low-life crooks, obsessed cops and
jaded private detectives, dope dealers and government agents,
bounty hunters and fugitives. Diverse and richly drawn, these
characters - some familiar, others new - are lost souls driving
without headlights on the dark highway of modern America. Set in
New Orleans and Hawaii, Southern California and south Texas, each
story in this collection is distinctively Winslow, shaped by his
trademark blend of insight, humanity, humor, drama, and consummate
literary craftsmanship. A powerful, gripping collection of tales
that will become classics of crime fiction, Broken is Don Winslow
at his nerve-shattering, heartbreaking best. "A master of thrills
shows his range, and his bite . . . [Winslow is] a writer from whom
others can learn the ropes." New York Times Praise for Don Winslow
'A huge, immersive, violent, compassionate read' Ian Rankin 'He's a
master' Michael Connelly 'One of the great literary achievements of
the century so far' Daily Telegraph 'Such crime writing deserves
nothing less than a Pulitzer Prize' Evening Standard 'A new crime
classic ... a stirring, stupendous novel' Sunday Times 'He is a
pleasure to read' The Times 'Brutal and brilliant, this is crime's
Game of Thrones' Sun 'A furious, impassioned novel' Washington Post
'Devastating and timely ... a hybrid The Godfather and War and
Peace' New York Times
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