'A taut, gripping, all-consuming thriller' – Lisa Regan, bestselling author of the Detective Josie Quinn series

ONE HIJACKED BUS.

New driver Jessa is desperate for her shift to run smoothly to avoid exposing her job-application lies. Twelve-year-old passenger Sage just wants to get home, exhausted from watching over her little sister, Bonnie. But disaster strikes when their bus is hijacked in broad daylight. For the innocent souls onboard, the nightmare is only just beginning . . .TEN FRIGHTENED CHILDREN.

Trapped inside a shipping container buried 20 feet underground, the captives are promised they'll be freed once a ransom is paid to the hijackers. But Jessa and Sage aren't sure they'll last that long. It’s dark and cramped – and, as every minute passes, it's becoming harder to breathe.

A DEADLY RACE AGAINST THE CLOCK . . .

With time – and air – running out, can they team up to outsmart their captors? Or are they doomed to an unthinkable fate?

There are no silent nights for Alex Cross, star of the Prime series, this Christmas. Someone is targeting Supreme Court justices, and Cross--and his family--are in the crosshairs too.

It's time to put the guns down, Detective Cross. Even if you knew the way out of this place, we would catch you.

In Washington, DC, the vigilante group Maestro is killing U.S. Supreme Court candidates.

As Alex Cross leads the FBI investigation, his wife, Bree, and his best friend and Metro PD partner, John Sampson, go missing while on a dangerous quest to identify Maestro's mastermind.

Alex has only three chances to save the people he loves most:

Number one: Find Bree and John.
Number two: Escape.
Number three: Survive.

If he fails, there will be no one left in the House of Cross.

White Lotus meets Only Murders in the Building: a wealthy American widow's French cruise turns into a deadly mystery.

Meet Mrs Blossom. . .

A widower who has never left the US
A grandmother with a knack for blending in
A lottery winner with an unexpected fortune

Determined to finally see the world, she’s starting with a cruise along the Seine.

Just twenty-four hours into Mrs Blossom’s trip, however, a man is dead, a precious artefact is missing, and a mysterious stranger is claiming her life is in danger. Surrounded by luxury food, quaint towns and people with staggeringly high net worths, she has no idea who she can trust.

But maybe blending into the background has its perks – whoever is responsible will never see this most unlikely of detectives coming.

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...

In the thirty-second installment of Donna Leon’s bestselling series, a connection to Guido Brunetti’s own youthful past helps solve a mysterious murder

On a cold November evening, Guido Brunetti and Paola are up late when a call from his colleague Ispettore Vianello arrives, alerting the Commissario that a hand has been seen in one of Venice’s canals. The body is soon found, and Brunetti is assigned to investigate the murder of an undocumented Sri Lankan immigrant. Because no official record of the man’s presence in Venice exists, Brunetti is forced to use the city’s far richer sources of information: gossip and the memories of people who knew the victim. Curiously, he had been living in a small house on the grounds of a palazzo owned by a university professor, in which Brunetti discovers books revealing the victim’s interest in Buddhism, the revolutionary Tamil Tigers, and the last crop of Italian political terrorists, active in the 1980s.

As the investigation expands, Brunetti, Vianello, Commissario Griffoni, and Signora Elettra each assemble pieces of a puzzle—random information about real estate and land use, books, university friendships—that appear to have little in common, until Brunetti stumbles over something that transports him back to his own student days, causing him to reflect on lost ideals and the errors of youth, on Italian politics and history, and on the accidents that sometimes lead to revelation.

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.

A twisting, pulse-pounding thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Housemaid and The Coworker!

Sometimes the truth kills…

Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams. They think they've found it when they visit the remote manor that once belonged to Dr. Adrienne Hale, a renowned psychiatrist who vanished without a trace years ago. But when a violent winter storm traps them at the estate, the house begins to lose its appeal.

Stuck inside and growing restless, Tricia stumbles on a collection of audio transcripts from Dr. Hale's sessions with patients. As Tricia listens to the cassette tapes, she learns about the terrifying chain of events leading up to the doctor's mysterious disappearance.

With each tape, another shocking piece of the puzzle falls into place, and a web of lies slowly unravels. But by the time Tricia reaches the final cassette, the one that reveals the entire horrifying story, it will be too late…

From New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden comes an addictive, unpredictable thriller that will keep you asking the question: what is the truth?

Ranna Abramson wants to disappear. But she knows she can’t keep running when a former enemy tracks her down in Mumbai with dire news: her onetime lover, journalist Alex Derksen, has disappeared back home in South Africa.

Torn between her desire for him and fear of a homecoming, Ranna knows she’s the only one who can find him. But only two things in South Africa would welcome her—the inside of a cell or the bottom of a grave. There, to the police she’s the prime suspect in three murders. To the press, she’s the Black Widow serial killer.

Despite her instinct to stay away, Ranna makes the journey. But the key to finding Alex lies in her painful past. And to uncover it, she’ll need to unravel a web of secrets tied to a long-forgotten crime.

Even if she finds Alex before it’s too late, Ranna must answer for past sins…or risk losing him forever.

It's Ab Fab meets Bewitched in this fun cozy mystery from a USA Today Bestselling author.

A volunteer is murdered at the horse rescue, but that's not the only mystery for sixty-year-old Cally Colt. She has just discovered what the overbearing detective has been hiding, and the stray cat is not what he seems. In fact, the cat's secret could be the most surprising of all.

Cally is left to investigate. Will she put the cart before the horse, or will she pony up and solve the murder?

Saddled with Murder is Book 1 in this paranormal cozy mystery series.

’n Reeksmoordenaar jag by stormweer, en Rooi en Kassie moet hom vastrek. Die Hartedief kom met moord weg, en dan is Kassie se volle aandag ook nie eintlik by die saak nie, want hy is smoorverlief op ’n aanvallige mede-seëlversamelaar. Vlerksleep is nie vir sissies nie. Om sake vir hom en Rooi te vererger word hul baas daarvan verdink dat sy hul ondersoek in die wiele ry, en Kassie moet haar onskuld bewys. Intussen word Kaapse vroue vermoor wanneer daar onweer broei.

'A real page-turner' Ian Rankin The Party House by Lin Anderson is a deeply atmospheric psychological thriller set in the Scottish Highlands for fans of Lucy Foley, Ruth Ware and Sarah Pearse's The Sanatorium. Devastated by a recent pandemic brought in by outsiders, the villagers of Blackrig in the Scottish Highlands are outraged when they find that the nearby estate plans to reopen its luxury 'party house' to tourists. As animosity sparks amongst the locals, part of the property is damaged and in the ensuing chaos, the body of a young girl is found in the wreck. Seventeen-year-old Ailsa Cummings went missing five years ago, never to be seen again - until now. The excavation of Ailsa's remains ignites old suspicions cast on the men of this small community, including Greg, the estate's gamekeeper. At the beginning of a burgeoning relationship with a new lover, Joanne, Greg is loath to discuss old wounds. Frightened by Greg's reaction to the missing girl's discovery, Joanne begins to doubt how well she knows this new man in her life. Then again, he's not the only one with secrets in their volatile relationship . . .