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In seven days Jet Mason will be dead.
Twenty-seven years old, she’s back living with her parents, waiting for
her life to begin. She’ll do it later, she always says. Her parents
have their doubts.
Until, on the night of Halloween, Jet is violently attacked by an
unseen intruder.
She suffers a catastrophic brain injury. The doctor is certain that
within a week, she’ll suffer a deadly aneurysm.
Jet never thought of herself as having enemies. But now she looks at
everyone in a new light: her family, her ex-best friend turned
sister-in-law, her former boyfriend.
She may only have seven days – if she even makes it that long – but Jet
is absolutely determined to finally prove her doubters wrong.
Jet is going to solve her own murder.
Scotland, 2025. When torrential winter rain causes a landslide on
a motorway, it dislodges more than mud and asphalt – it reveals a
skeleton, concealed when the road was built eleven years prior.
Sam Nimmo, an investigative journalist who’d been poking his nose into
the murky politics of the Scottish independence referendum, had become
the prime suspect in the brutal murder of his girlfriend when he
vanished. Now he’s reappeared, buried under the motorway.
It’s the perfect cold case for DCI Karen Pirie, chief of Police
Scotland’s Historic Cases Unit. What was Nimmo investigating that was
worth killing over? Or was it revenge for murdering his girlfriend?
Meanwhile, an allegation of murder has surfaced over the supposedly
accidental death of a hotel manager. It may have links to another
accident on a remote Highland road. It’s a series of puzzles that tests
Karen and her team to their limits. And possibly beyond . . .
A darkly propulsive thriller of secrets hidden at the core of a
Scottish Highlands town, Silent Bones reaffirms Val McDermid as a crime
writer of inimitable power.
The 6:20 Man is a heart-racing thriller set in the world of high finance in New York, from the number one bestselling author David Baldacci.
Having survived combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq and been decorated with medals, Travis Devine mysteriously leaves the Army under a cloud of suspicion. And at thirty-two years old, he’s swapping fighting the Taliban and Al Qaeda for a different kind of danger in the cut-throat world of high finance.
His daily commute on the 6.20 a.m. train into New York’s financial district, to his new job as an analyst at the minted powerhouse investment bank Cowl and Comely, takes him into a world where greed, power, jealousy and ambition result in the financial abuse of the masses and the enrichment of an elite few. But it is on this daily journey that he passes a house where he sees something that sounds alarm signals he cannot ignore.
A close friend of Devine’s, Sarah Ewes, is the first victim and the mysterious circumstances surrounding her death at Cowl and Comely compel him to investigate further. As he digs deeper, he discovers strange coincidences and unnerving truths. As the deaths pile up, and the major players show their hands, he must question who he can trust and who he must fight.
Hell of a Country is a creative reimagining of a true crime story
from early-1970s South Africa. The novel tells the story of teenager
Lorraine van Niekerk who despises the fact that her boss and lover,
middle-aged André Bekker, won’t leave his wife Sunette and marry her
instead. When Lorraine’s life fatefully intersects that of Alfie
Geemooi, a recent amputee, she comes up with a hell of a plan. Is
murder an adequate price to pay for love?
Op die vooraand van speurder Arrie Dogh se aftrede beland ’n
oënskynlik doodgewone inbraaksaak op sy lessenaar. En wanneer hy begin
ondersoek instel na die inbrekers op Louis Jooste se perdeplaas neffens
Wildernis, besef hy daar skuil ’n slinkse slang in die gras.
Waar begin die storie wat Arrie eindelik oorvertel? By die Turkse
perdekopers? By Jooste se ponzi wat Bertie en vriend Diek se neseiers
ingesluk het? Of begin als by die miljoene wat uit ’n rusbank op Jooste
se stoetplaas verdwyn het?
Who knows what the storm will blow in…
Casey's cabin in the wilderness is not built for a hurricane. Her roof
shakes, the lights flicker, and the tree outside her front door sways
ominously in the wind. But she's a lot more worried about the girl she
discovers lurking outside her kitchen window.
She’s young. She’s alone. And she’s covered in blood.
The girl won't explain where she came from, or loosen her grip on the
knife in her right hand. And when Casey makes a disturbing discovery in
the middle of the night, things take a turn for the worse.
The girl has a dark secret. One she’ll kill to keep. And if Casey gets
too close to the truth, she may not live to see the morning.
In 1998 was hulle onskuldige tieners. In 2025 is hulle verdagtes.
Sersant Sollie Mthembu se nuwe ondersoek lei hom terug na ’n
onopgeloste dossier van die negentigs. Om die moordenaar te stuit, en
tegelyk iemand na aan hom se lewe te red, moet Sollie agter die kap van
die byl kom: Is dit wraak? Of word mense stilgemaak?
Roulette is die bekroonde skrywer Sidney Gilroy se vyfde roman – ’n
onthutsende krimi wat die gevolge van familiegeheime en gevaarlike
speletjies onder die vergrootglas plaas.
A woman who has everything…
People would kill to have Faye Adelheim’s life. She lives in a beautiful apartment, she has a gorgeous husband who gives her everything she’s ever wanted, and she has an adorable daughter who lights up her world.
Or does she?
So how is it, then, that Faye now finds herself in a police station?
The truth is about to come out…
The truth is that Faye’s life is far from what it seems. And now she’s been caught out. There’s no way she’s going down without a fight. The only question is – who will escape with their life?
Nir Tavor is an Israeli secret service operative turned talented Mossad
agent.
Nicole le Roux is a model with a hidden skill.
A terrorist attack brings them together, and then work forces them
apart—until they’re unexpectedly called back into each other’s lives.
But there’s no time for romance. As violent radicals threaten chaos
across the Middle East, the two must work together to stop these
extremists, pooling Nicole’s knack for technology and Nir’s adeptness
with on-the-ground missions. Each heart-racing step of their operation
gets them closer to the truth—and closer to danger.
In this thrilling first book in a new series, authors Amir Tsarfati and
Steve Yohn draw on true events as well as tactical insights Amir
learned from his time in the Israeli Defense Forces. For believers in
God’s life-changing promises, Operation Joktan is a suspense-filled
page-turner that illuminates the blessing Israel is to the world.
When a violent storm descends upon Orkney, the body of Archie Stout is
left in its wake. An unusual murder weapon, a Neolithic stone bearing
ancient inscriptions, is found discarded nearby. Archie was a popular,
larger-than-life character, and his death is a shocking blow to the
community.
Detective Jimmy Perez, no stranger to the complexity of human nature
and the darkness it can harbour, is soon on the scene. He counted
Archie as a childhood friend, so this case is more personal than most.
Now living in Orkney with his partner, Willow, and their son, Perez is
soon drawn into the lives of the islanders, many of whom hold secrets.
Dark secrets, which could have led to the man’s murder.
Here, in these ancient lands where history runs deep, Perez must
discern the truth from legend before a desperate killer strikes again .
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Tyrant
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The boy Nero lives. His mother Agrippina has married her way to power,
tangling the Emperor Claudius in her skirts.
The emperor may have a son and heir of his own, but Agrippina sees no
obstacles to her ambition.
Rome is a path through a marsh, lit by torches. Those who walk it are
always one step from disaster – and the road itself is treacherous,
slippery with blood.
Claudius may have the world at his feet, but he has Agrippina in his
bed.
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Armored
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Mark Greaney
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Gray Man series comes a very different kind of hero.
Joshua Duffy is a Close Protection Agent - a professional bodyguard, and he's one of the world's elite operatives. Well he was... until his last mission in Lebanon. Against all odds, Josh got his primary out alive, but the cost was high. Josh lost his lower left leg. There's not much call for an elite bodyguard with such an injury. So, Josh has to support his family working as a mall cop in Jersey.
For a man like Josh this is purgatory on earth, but even in Paramus miracles occur. A lucky run in with an old comrade promises to get Josh back in the field for one last job.
The UN is sending a peace mission into the Sierra Madre Mountains in Mexico, an area so dangerous it's known as Espinazo del Diablo (The Devil's Spine). Only a fool would think they could broker peace between the homicidal drug cartels in the region and only a madman would sign on to keep those fools alive.
Soon to be a major film by Michael Bay, Armored is a gasp-a-minute rollercoaster of a thriller.
She gave you a life. Now she wants yours.
Abby wants a baby more than anything.
But after years of failed infertility treatments and adoptions that
have fallen through, it seems like motherhood is not in her future.
That is, until her personal assistant Monica makes a generous offer
that will make all of Abby's dreams come true.
But it turns out Monica isn't who she says she is. The woman now
carrying Abby's child has an unspeakable secret.
And she will stop at nothing to get what she wants.
It’s never easy working fire scenes.
Called to Washington, DC to analyse the victims of a mysterious arson
attack, Tempe quickly finds her misgivings justified. The fire site is
in Foggy Bottom, a neighbourhood with a colourful history, and as the
pieces start falling into place, the property’s ownership becomes more
and more suspicious.
Sensing a good story, Tempe teams up with a new ally, telejournalist
Ivy Doyle. Delving into the past, the duo learns that back in the
Thirties and Forties the home was the hangout of a group of bootleggers
and racketeers known as the Foggy Bottom Gang. Though interesting, this
fact seems irrelevant – until the son of one of the gang members is
shot dead at his farm in Virginia.
When another Foggy Bottom Gang-linked property burns to the ground,
claiming one more victim, what might have been coincidence starts to
look more like targeted attacks. As she and Ivy dig deeper, Tempe’s
instincts point towards the obvious: somehow, her every move since
coming to Washington has been anticipated in advance. And every path
forward brings with it a lethal threat.
Maggie McCabe is teetering on the brink. A highly skilled and renowned
Army combat surgeon, she has always lived life at the edge, where she
could make the most impact. And it was all going to plan…until it
wasn’t.
Upside down after a devastating series of tragedies leads to her
medical license being revoked, Maggie has lost her purpose, but not her
nerve or her passion. At her lowest point, she is thrown a lifeline by
a former colleague, an elite plastic surgeon whose anonymous clientele
demand the best care money can buy, as well as absolute discretion.
Halfway across the globe, sequestered in the lap of luxury and
cutting-edge technology, one of the world’s most mysterious men
requires unconventional medical assistance. Desperate, and one of the
few surgeons in the world skilled enough to take this job, Maggie
enters his realm of unspeakable opulence and fulfills her end of the
agreement. But when the patient suddenly disappears while still under
her care, Maggie must become a fugitive herself – or she will be the
next one who is…
Mickey Haller - The Lincoln Lawyer - leaves criminal court behind for
his first civil lawsuit. But to him, this is still a murder trial.
An AI company's chatbot encouraged a sixteen-year-old boy to kill his
ex-girlfriend. Can Haller prove the company knew the dangers of its own
creation?
To do so, he turns to Jack McEvoy - a journalist who knows how powerful
the coming wave will be - and together they soon uncover a
whistleblower in hiding.
As the tech titans try to buy or bully their way out, the scale of
their courtroom battle before them becomes clear. Because billions are
at stake - along with countless lives - in an all or nothing case,
which could change everything...
A thrilling and long-awaited new novel from globally bestselling author
Dan Brown
Accompanying celebrated academic, Katherine Solomon, to a lecture she’s
been invited to give in Prague, Robert Langdon’s world spirals out of
control when she disappears without trace from their hotel room. Far
from home and well out of his comfort zone, Langdon must pit his wits
against forces unknown to recover the woman he loves.
But Prague is an old and dangerous city, steeped in folklore and
mystery. For over two thousand years, the tides of history have washed
back and forth over it, leaving behind echoes of everything that has
gone before. Little can Langdon know that he is being stalked by a
spectre from that dark past. He must use all of his arcane knowledge to
decipher the world around him before he too is consumed by the rings of
treachery and deception that have swallowed Katherine.
Against a backdrop of vast castles, towering churches, graveyards
buried twelve deep and labyrinthine underground passages, Langdon must
navigate a shadow city hiding in plain sight, a city which has
successfully kept its secrets for centuries and will not readily
deliver them. This is a battlefield unlike any he has previously
experienced, one on which he must fight not for his only life, but for
the future of humanity itself.
The Secret Of Secrets is Dan Brown’s first novel for over eight years
and sees the stunning return of Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon,
this time pitting his wits against a conspiracy which will test even
his considerable brainpower and take him to the edge of losing all that
he holds dear…
OF ALL THE CREATURES IN THE WORLD, ONLY HUMANS HAVE THE CAPACITY FOR
EVIL…
Small animals – a rat, a rabbit, a squirrel – have been turning up
throughout Charlotte, North Carolina, mutilated and displayed in the
same bizarre manner. But one day, as Tempe is relaxing at home
alongside her aimless, moody great-niece Ruthie, she’s diverted by a
disturbing call. Now, it seems, the perp is upping the ante. This find
is larger. Could the remains be human?
Tempe visits the scene and discovers that the victim is a dog.
Someone’s pet. As someone who has always found animal cruelty deeply
abhorrent, she vows to help apprehend the person responsible for the
killings. With her layered knowledge of animal behaviour, Ruthie
becomes a valuable ally in the hunt for answers, as does semi-retired
homicide detective Erskine ‘Skinny’ Slidell, who is equally outraged
and committed.
Needing a better understanding of possible motives, Tempe and Skinny
seek input from a forensic psychologist, who has no definitive answer
but offers several possibilities. The escalating pattern of aggression
suggests even more macabre discoveries – and that the perp’s focus may
soon shift to humans.
And then it happens. A woman is found disfigured and posed in a manner
that mimics the earlier killings. As Tempe and Slidell follow the
horrifying clues to a shocking conclusion, they find themselves force
to confront an increasingly terrifying question.
What is pure evil?
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Bullet Train
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Kotaro Isaka; Translated by Sam Malissa
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Five killers find themselves on a bullet train from Tokyo competing for a suitcase full of money. Who will make it to the last station? An original and propulsive thriller from a Japanese bestseller.
Satoshi looks like an innocent schoolboy but he is really a viciously cunning psychopath. Kimura's young son is in a coma thanks to him, and Kimura has tracked him onto the bullet train heading from Tokyo to Morioka to exact his revenge. But Kimura soon discovers that they are not the only dangerous passengers onboard.
Nanao, the self-proclaimed 'unluckiest assassin in the world', and the deadly partnership of Tangerine and Lemon are also travelling to Morioka. A suitcase full of money leads others to show their hands. Why are they all on the same train, and who will get off alive at the last station?
A bestseller in Japan, Bullet Train is an original and propulsive thriller which fizzes with an incredible energy as its complex net of double-crosses and twists unwinds to the last station. Now a major blockbuster movie staring Brad Pitt and Sandra Bullock.
Nicci de Wee is weer op die spoor van ’n nuwe booswig … en hierdie keer
is dit persoonlik. Een van haar eie spanlede, Stella, word vermis. Het
sy bloot op die ingewing van die oomblik weggegaan omdat sy ’n
blaaskans van alles en almal nodig gehad het, of is sy ontvoer? Nicci
kan nie die gevoel afskud dat Stella die nuutste slagoffer van die
diaboliese krimineel is wat talentvolle jong vroue in openbare plekke
teiken en hulle oënskynlik in die niet laat verdwyn nie.
Niemand weet wie hierdie ontvoerder is of wat hy aan die vermiste vroue
doen nie. Hy is ’n spook, ’n onsigbare en ontasbare skim. En hulle kan
nie uitpluis hoekom die klokke so onheilspellend lui, of wat die
betekenis is van die klein silwer klokkies wat die skurk op die
misdaadtonele los nie.
Te midde van die sirkelende ondersoek word Nicci ook oorrompel. Sy
herwin haar bewussyn in ’n afgryslike nagmerrie van haar eie ... Vir
Blackie en Henk word dit ’n verbete wedloop teen tyd. Hulle moet Nicci
vind voor dit te laat is, ás dit nie alreeds is nie ... Is die duiwel
wat hulle jag die een wat haar geneem het, of is daar iemand selfs meer
sinister agter alles?
Iemand wat hulle dalk oorgeslaan het in hulle berekeninge?
Wyngaard het geen probleem daarmee om die karakters in haar boeke af te
maai nie. Wat die bloedstollende vraag na vore bring ... Kan hierdie
dalk Nicci de Wee se finale speursaak wees?
Roy Grace never dreamed a murder investigation would take him deep into
Buckingham Palace . . .
Her Majesty, Queen Camilla, is aboard the Royal Train heading to a
charity event in Sussex when disaster strikes – the train is derailed.
A tragic accident or a planned attack?
When, minutes later, a trusted aide is shot dead by a sniper, the
police have their answer.
Despite all the evidence, Roy Grace is not convinced The Queen was the
intended target. But he finds himself alone in his suspicions.
Fighting against the scepticism of his colleagues and the Palace
itself, Grace pursues his own investigation. But when there is a second
murder, the stakes rise even higher, and Grace is at risk of being
embroiled in a very public catastrophe – and in mortal danger.
Failure at this level is not an option. But time is running out before
a killer in the Palace will strike again . . .
Walter Nash is a mild-mannered, happy and successful businessman with a
loving family. He has never lifted a weight or fired a gun in anger,
and he has no special physical or investigatory skills. The dark world
is not a place he knows – until the FBI comes calling on the very day
of his estranged Vietnam veteran father’s funeral. They tell him that
the company he works for is actually a criminal organization. And they
need his help in a risky endeavour to bring it all down.
In doing so, Nash’s perfect world is destroyed. And in seeking justice
and revenge, Nash must become someone else: a man of violence and
physicality who must find traction and purpose in the same dark world
that invaded and crushed everything near and dear to him. Can Walter
Nash reinvent himself into a weapon of righteousness and justice? The
odds are not with him.
But bet against Walter Nash at your peril . . .
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Marshall is an ex-undercover agent who has just survived the
toughest assignment of his career. He settles into a temporary job
in the Secret Service, guarding the President. Then a routine day
goes wrong, and Marshall flees to Paris. Ariana knows that as the
daughter of an American Ambassador, her safety is always at risk.
When one close call puts her in more danger than ever before,
Ariana relocates to Paris - but trouble is never far behind. Her
safety in Paris will depend on one man: Marshall. Both plagued by
secrets and fear, Marshall and Ariana must trust each other if they
are to ever find freedom from their past . . . Danielle Steel is
famous for her inspirational stories about family, love and life.
Her novels will be enjoyed by readers of Penny Vincenzi, Jodi
Picoult and Diane Chamberlain.
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 . . .
The new novel from the Women’s Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Power, The Future is a white-knuckle tour de force and dazzling exploration of the world we have made and where we are going.
The Future is where the money is. The Future is a few billionaires leading the world to destruction. The Future is a handful of friends hatching a daring plan.
The Future is the greatest heist ever? Or the cataclysmic end of civilisation…
The Future is here.
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