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Agatha Christie's masterpiece, and the best-selling murder mystery
book of all time, celebrates its 80th birthday with this gorgeous
hardback Special Edition. 'We're not going to leave the island.
None of us will ever leave. It's the end, you see - the end of
everything...' 1939. Europe teeters on the brink of war. Ten
strangers are invited to Soldier Island, an isolated rock near the
Devon coast. Cut off from the mainland, with their generous hosts
Mr and Mrs U.N. Owen mysteriously absent, they are each accused of
a terrible crime. When one of the party dies suddenly they realise
they may be harbouring a murderer among their number. The 10
strangers include a reckless playboy, a troubled Harley Street
doctor, a formidable judge, an uncouth detective, an unscrupulous
mercenary, a God-fearing spinster, two restless servants, a highly
decorated general and an anxious secretary. One by one they are
picked off. Who will survive? And who is the killer? Copies of an
ominous nursery rhyme hang in each room, the murders mimicking the
awful fates of its 'Ten Little Soldier Boys'.
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Sweetpea
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C. J. Skuse
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TV series starring Ella Purnell now on Sky Atlantic!
The last person who called me ‘Sweetpea’ ended up dead…
Rhiannon is your average girl next door, settled with her boyfriend and
little dog…but she’s got a killer secret.
By day her job as an editorial assistant is demeaning and unsatisfying.
By evening she dutifully listens to her friend’s plans for marriage and
babies whilst secretly making a list.
A kill list.
From the man on the checkout who always mishandles her apples, to the
driver who cuts her off on her way to work, to the people who have got
it coming, Rhiannon’s ready to get her revenge.
Because the girl everyone overlooks might be able to get away with
murder…
Stunning legal thriller from Edgar-winning U.S. writer. Rough
Justice launches a riveting new series and establishes Lisa
Scottoline as an undisputed master of one of fiction's hottest
genres. Criminal lawyer Marta Richter is about to win an acquital
for her latest client, millionaire businessman Elliot Steere. Then
Steere lets slip that he's sold Marta a false self-defence claim
and that he murdered the homeless man who tried to carjack him. A
furious Marta resolves to discover the evidence that will convict
Steere - before the jury returns with its verdict. In a race
against time and the worst blizzard Philadelphia has seen in years,
Marta drafts help from two able associates, Mary DiNunzio and Judy
Carrier, from a local firm, Rosata & Associates. When Benedetta
'Bennie' Rosato, managing partner of Rosato & Associates,
realizes Marta is determined to convict her own client and ruin the
law firm in the process, Bennie acts to thwart Marta's plans and
bring Steere to justice her own way. But Elliot Steere won't let
anyone stand between him and freedom. Even from his jail cell, he
has the cunning and connections to kill again...
A terrible accident. A secret discovered. An inescapable nightmare.
Who needs enemies with friends like these? The unnerving new novel
from the acclaimed author of LULLABY En route from ending a
destructive love affair, TV producer Maggie Warren is involved in a
freak accident. Lucky to escape with her life, Maggie's further
disturbed to discover she's now front-page news. When invited to
discuss her trauma on a chat-show, Maggie comes face to face with
fellow survivor, the beautiful but damaged Fay Carter -
fame-hungry, needy and now apparently infatuated. One by one the
tentacles of Maggie's past mistakes seem to be reaching inexorably
into her future. Her compromised career is catching up with her,
ex-boyfriend Alex just won't take no for an answer - but worse, the
secret Maggie has tried so hard to bury is coming back to haunt
her. When Maggie's flat is ransacked, she refuses to believe it's a
coincidence. Now Maggie's clutching onto sanity for dear life, but
she's horribly aware that one final push might send her over the
edge...or is that exactly what someone wants?
Whether you run or whether you hide, he'll find you. And then he'll
kill you... The game is simple-he is the Hunter. They are the prey.
And they're both entangled in a terrifying game of hide and seek...
He gives them a chance to escape. To outsmart him. But eventually,
he captures them. And that's when the game gets deadly... Private
investigator Griffin Powell and FBI agent Nicole Baxter know a lot
about serial killers - they took one down together. But this new
killer is as sadistic as they've ever seen. He likes his little
games, and he especially likes forcing Nicole and Griff to play
along. Every unsolvable clue, every posed victim, every taunting
phone call - it's all part of his twisted, elaborate plan. And then
the Hunter seeks out his most precious prey of all and Griff finds
himself playing for the biggest stakes of his life.
Martin Cruz Smith's "masterful" ("USA TODAY") and "irresistible"
("People") "New York Times" bestseller and "Washington Post"
notable book of the year: Arkady Renko must connect the dots among
a Russian journalist's mysterious death, corrupt politicians,
murderous gangsters, and brazen bureaucrats.
Arkady Renko, one of the iconic investigators of contemporary
fiction, has survived the cultural journey from the Soviet Union to
the New Russia, only to find the nation as obsessed with secrecy
and brutality as was the old Communist dictatorship. In "Tatiana,"
the melancholy hero unravels a mystery as complex and dangerous as
modern Russia itself.
The reporter Tatiana Petrovna falls to her death from a sixth-floor
window in Moscow the same week that a mob billionaire is shot and
buried with the trappings due a lord. The trail leads to
Kaliningrad, a Cold War "secret city" that is separated by hundreds
of miles from the rest of Russia. The more Arkady delves into
Tatiana's past, the more she leads him into a surreal world of
wandering sand dunes, abandoned children, and a notebook written in
the personal code of a dead translator. Finally, in a lethal race
to uncover what the translator knew, Renko makes a startling
discovery that draws him still deeper into Tatiana's past--and,
paradoxically, into Russia's future, where bulletproof cars, poets,
corruption of the Baltic Fleet, and a butcher for hire combine to
give Kaliningrad the "distinction" of having the highest crime rate
in Russia.
More than a mystery, "Tatiana" is Martin Cruz Smith's most
ambitious and politically daring novel since "Gorky Park." It is a
story rich in character, black humor, and romance, with an insight
that is the hallmark of a writer "The" "New York Times" has called
"endlessly entertaining and deeply serious... not merely] our best
writer of suspense, but of one of our best writers, period."
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