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A hypersonic missile. A genetically engineered army. A worldwide plot
of destruction . . .
Dis die laat tagtigs in Johannesburg. Adriana van der Hoon is agtien.
Haar aktivis-pa het jare lank oorsee geld vir die Education Trust
ingesamel, en nou staan die veiligheidspolisie op haar drumpel met 'n
ultimatum. In Berlyn leer sy oorleef. Dis waar sy haar talent om messe
te gooi vervolmaak, en waar sy Yasen Todorov ontmoet. Hier, weg van
alles wat bekend is, leer Adriana dat mens oor alles kan onderhandel,
ook jou onskuld.
Now a major ITV series, The Long Call, starring Ben Aldridge, this is the number one Sunday Times bestselling series featuring Detective Matthew Venn, from author and creator of the Vera and Shetland series, Ann Cleeves. North Devon is enjoying a rare hot summer with tourists flocking to its coast-line. Detective Matthew Venn is called out to a rural crime scene at the home of a group of artists. What he finds is an elaborately staged murder – Dr Nigel Yeo has been fatally stabbed. His daughter, Eve, is a glassblower, and the murder weapon is a shard of one of her broken vases. Dr Yeo seems an unlikely murder victim. He’s a good man, a public servant, beloved by his daughter. Matthew is unnerved though to find that Eve is a close friend of Jonathan, his husband. Then another body is found – killed in a similar way. Matthew finds himself treading carefully through the lies that fester at the heart of his community and a case that is dangerously close to home . . .
Riding Shotgun By Barb Han He must protect her The minute Emerson Bennett arrives in Cider Creek, asking about her missing mother, she's in someone's lethal sights. And Rory Hayes isn't about to let her face his suddenly hostile hometown alone. An outsider since childhood, he knows the damage secrets can do-especially his own. But will helping this beautiful stranger uncover the truth be enough to keep them alive? Casing the Copycat By Nicole Helm The perfect team is targeted... Dunne Thompson spent his adult life trying to atone for his serial killer grandfather. When his friend's mysterious twin, Quinn Peterson, offers her help with his latest obsession-tracking down a copycat killer-it's a nonstarter. But Quinn's quick, unorthodox mind catches patterns Dunne hasn't seen. As attraction and danger collide, the clues lead to a suspect more surprising than Quinn herself...
Douglas Hunter works as a police detective till his wife leaves him. Attempting to locate her, he abuses his access to police databases, is forced to resign and sets up as a private detective. Alison Ogilvie believes her husband is cheating. She engages Hunter to check out a meeting in Dublin he is due to attend. There is no meeting. Hunter is visited by his old boss, DS Maureen MacNeil. Hostile as ever, she demands access to his house to keep tabs on the disused church next door. When Ogilvie fails to come home, Hunter traces the car but not Alan himself. They are visited by DS MacNeil. A body thought to be that of Alan Ogilvie has been found in a rented cottage. Ogilvie died of auto-erotic asphyxiation. Questioned on suspicion of withholding information concerning her husband's death, Alison contacts a lawyer, Louise Galbraith. Although the evidence linking both Alison and Hunter to Alan Ogilvie is circumstantial, MacNeil has dreamt up a conspiracy theory linking the disappearance of Hunter's wife and the death of Alison's husband. Alison finds a colleague of her husband dead in her bathroom. Wanted by the Irish police for the murder of a prostitute, he has broken in looking for somewhere to hide and in the process severed an artery in the lower arm. Alison wants to dispose of the body, Hunter insists on contacting the police. MacNeil's suspicions are confirmed. The church is raided by the police, the NCA and the Border Force. Thirteen people are detained, two being people smugglers. A man working on a blocked drain discovers bones in Hunter's garden. That morning a letter arrives from a lawyer acting for his wife demanding half the value of their house. Despite what DS MacNeil may think, his wife is still alive. A pathologist confirms the bones in the garden are those of a dog. MacNeil interviews Hunter on suspicion of murdering his wife. After rehearsing the existing evidence MacNeil goes on to the bones found in his garden. A pathologist has attended, the remains must be Susan's. It becomes clear that MacNeil's judgement is impaired. A test confirms MacNeil is using cocaine. MacNeil's boss, DI Maitland confirms that Alison is no longer suspected of anything, including any involvement in the death of her husband's colleague. The day after Alan Ogilvie's funeral, Alison turns up on Hunter's doorstep. Her sister has decided to stay on to support her over the festive period - the last thing she wants. They quarrel. Alison has left her own house to escape from her sister's children. Hunter and Alison spend the night together. Like Susan before her, Alison is less than impressed by his performance. They will have to work on it.
Wanneer ’n nuuskierige toeris aan Zanzibar se kus vermoor word, peul die vreemdste karakters uit die spesery-eiland se tropiese woud. Die bou van Giorgio Comaneti se blinknuwe Zanzibar Zen Casino gaan die helfte van die Jozani-woud uitwis. Toast le Roux, omgewingsjoernalis, moet die stootskrapers betyds stop. Maar Comaneti se gevaarlike handlangers, Tjokkie en Bozo, is reeds op Toast se spoor. En hulle wil net vriendelik met hom gesels.
A suspenseful and utterly compelling crime novel from the author of the multimillion-selling The Seven Sisters series, Lucinda Riley. The sudden death of a pupil in Fleat House at St Stephen's - a small private boarding school in deepest Norfolk - is a shocking event that the headmaster is very keen to call a tragic accident. But the local police cannot rule out foul play and the case prompts the return of high-flying Detective Inspector Jazmine 'Jazz' Hunter to the force. Jazz has her own private reasons for stepping away from her police career in London, and reluctantly agrees to front the investigation as a favour to her old boss. Reunited with her loyal sergeant Alastair Miles, she enters the closed world of the school, and as Jazz begins to probe the circumstances surrounding Charlie Cavendish's tragic death, events are soon to take another troubling turn. Charlie is exposed as an arrogant bully, and those around him had both motive and opportunity to switch the drugs he took daily to control his epilepsy. As staff at the school close ranks, the disappearance of young pupil Rory Millar and the death of an elderly classics master provide Jazz with important leads, but are destined to complicate the investigation further. As snow covers the landscape and another suspect goes missing, Jazz must also confront her personal demons . . . Then, a particularly grim discovery at the school makes this the most challenging murder investigation of her career. Because Fleat House hides secrets darker than even Jazz could ever have imagined . . .
Donna Nightshade's first rule of composting: shred. Things rot quicker that way - cabbages, flowers, dead bodies... When Donna branches out from floristry to private investigation and opens The End of the World Detective Agency, the last thing she expects is to have a murder fall into her lap almost immediately. Now, normally she wouldn't be one to look a gift horse in the mouth, but there's one significant problem with the case - all the evidence points to Donna as the murderer! Donna may have hated the man, but she's not the only one who had the means and motive, so she dons her deerstalker. Staying two steps ahead of the police - specifically her ex, Detective Sergeant Joe Enys - won't be easy, but with pirate blood in her veins nothing can stop 'deadly' Donna from claiming her bounty and making the real culprit walk the plank!
"A very neat version of the 'sealed room' mystery ... provides [Miss Brand] with excellent opportunities to indulge her sense of character and her pleasantly malicious wit, as well as her gift for posing an ingenious problem." - Times Literary Supplement, 1949 At Elysian Hall, a grand exhibition space in post-War London, a cast has been assembled for a medieval-themed pageant show replete with knights in coloured armour, real horses and a damsel in a rickety tower on high. With death threats discovered by members of the troupe before the show, the worst comes to pass when the leading lady is thrown from the tower before the eyes of the audience by an unknown assailant - with all doors backstage also under observation. Faced with a seemingly impossible case, the wizened Inspector Cockrill and the fresh-faced Inspector Charlesworth begrudgingly join forces to uncover the killer hiding in plain sight. First published in Britain in 1949, Brand's exuberant novel is still regarded as one of the great masterpieces of the classic mystery genre for its fiendishly constructed puzzle, memorable setting, dumbfounding acts of misdirection and thrilling denouement.
This is a story set in America in the late 1960's early 1970's with racial tension still apparent. The story centers around a black male by the name of Anthony Johnson. A normal, hardworking, law-abiding, family man. With a wife, Michelle, and two young kids, a girl and a boy, to support. They are a happy, church-going family. However, one fateful day Anthony makes a decision that will change his life forever. Will anyone ever believe him? And can his son Leon discover the truth and bring their broken family back together again?
A Window Breaks is the nerve-shredding thriller from C. M. Ewan, the author of The Interview and Safe House. 'Fantastic' - Lee Child 'Totally addictive' - Ann Cleeves 'A thrill-a-minute page-turner' - Simon Kernick It's 2 a.m. in a remote Scottish lodge. You are asleep when a noise wakes you. You stir, unsure why, and turn to your partner. Then you hear it. Glass. Crunching underfoot. Your worst fears are about to be realized. Someone is downstairs, intent on causing your family harm. You will do whatever it takes to protect them. But with only each other to rely on, can you escape? What authors are saying . . . 'If you only read one thriller this year read this' - C. L. Taylor 'Smashed my way through this . . . Nerve-shredding' - Tim Weaver 'Brilliantly crafted, excruciatingly tense' - Sharon Bolton 'Starts at full throttle and never lets up' - T. M. Logan 'Heart-stopping . . . a sure-fire bestseller' - Jo Spain 'Breakneck ride of a thriller' - Fiona Cummins 'Almost unbearably tense and exciting' - Mark Edwards 'Fierce read, with heart, muscle and an out-of-sight twist' - Mick Herron 'Tense, fast-paced thriller' - Jenny Quintana 'Brilliant and almost impossible to put down' - Andrew Taylor What readers are saying . . . 'This was so intense as the twists and turns came one after another at breakneck speed.' 'Brilliantly written thriller which keeps you gripped from the first few pages.' 'Full of action and excitement' 'Absolutely amazing; I was totally gripped from start to finish'
Six Students. One Murder. Your Time Starts Now...
When ninety-year-old Irene Valborg is found brutally murdered in an affluent suburb of Copenhagen, her diamond necklace missing, it looks like a burglary gone wrong. When two more victims are attacked, the police lament a rise in violence against the elderly, but who is the young girl in the photo found by DI Henrik Jungersen on the scenes of crime? Impatient to claim her inheritance, Irene's daughter hires former Dagbladet reporter Jensen and her teenage apprentice Gustav to find the necklace. Henrik finds himself once more pitched in a quest for the truth against Jensen, the one woman in Copenhagen he is desperate to avoid.
YOU CAN RUN, BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE... Kate Irving arrives at her grandfather's cottage at Frenchman's Creek in the dead of night with her young son, a small suitcase and little else. Its scattered community of fishermen, farmers, artists and jetsetters barely bat an eyelid, because theirs is a rarefied world, tucked beneath the lush forest that lines the banks of the Helford Estuary, deep in the heart of Cornwall, where life is slow and people generally mind their own business. Unless, of course, your grandfather happens to be a pillar of the local community... Kate's left the past behind and guards her privacy and her son fiercely. She's wary of accepting the friendship her new neighbours offer, but their kindness is too great to refuse and she begins to feel she has found her place in the world. That is, until tragedy strikes, and her new friends look to her for the answers... Kate soon learns that the past always catches up with you, in the end-the question is, will she be able to face it, when it does? Suspense and mystery are peppered with romance and humour in this fast-paced mystery, set amidst the spectacular Cornish landscape.
What would you do if you accidentally encountered the man who once abused you? And how would you get away with it? Bridget's life is small and safe: she loves her husband, her son and works hard to keep her own business afloat. Then one day her world is changed forever. The music teacher who abused her walks into a shop with the teenager he's clearly grooming. Bridget is sent spiralling back into her past. Anthony begins to stalk Bridget, trying to ensure her silence - until suddenly, she snaps. And now Bridget must find away to deal with the aftermath of her actions...
A grieving daughter discovers letters in her late father's desk that make her question everything she thought she knew about him. Did he murder her mother? Is her sister really her sister? A shattering journey into the past follows, as she tries to find out what really happened in a remote Highland village twenty years ago.
One beautiful Californian evening, a wealthy businessman falls to his
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