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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days Blue Monday is the thrilling first novel in Nicci French's top-ten bestselling killer new series introducing psychotherapist Frieda Klein *** Monday: five-year-old Matthew Faraday is abducted. His face is splashed across newspaper front pages. His parents and the police are desperate. Can anyone help find their little boy before it is too late? Psychotherapist Frieda Klein just might know something. One of her patients describes dreams of seizing a boy who is the spitting image of Matthew. Convinced at first the police will dismiss her fears out of hand, Frieda reluctantly finds herself drawn into the heart of the case. A previous abduction, from twenty years ago, suggests a new lead - one that only Frieda, an expert on the minds of disturbed individuals, can uncover. Struggling to make sense of this terrifying investigation, Frieda will face her darkest fears in the hunt for a clever and brutal killer... Praise for Nicci French: 'Nicci French's sophisticated, compassionate and gripping crime novels stand head and shoulders above the competition. No one understands human psychological frailty better. No one writes better about grief, love, fear or emotional damage. Not many books are as insightful as they are addictive; Nicci French's are,' Sophie Hannah 'A brilliantly crafted new crime series' Daily Mirror 'Terrific. The writing is pacy, the jaw-dropping twists are plentiful' Short List 'One of French's hardest-to-put-down novels' Sunday Express 'French is undeniably at the top of British psychological suspense writing, expert in the unguessable twist, supremely skilled at ratcheting up the tension' Observer 'A nerve-jangling and addictive read' Daily Express Features Summary Blue Monday is the thrilling first novel in Nicci French's top-ten bestselling killer new series introducing psychotherapist Frieda Klein *** Monday: five-year-old Matthew Faraday is abducted... Author Nicci French Publisher Penguin Books Release date 20121206 Pages 432 ISBN 1-4059-1300-2 ISBN 13 978-1-4059-1300-3

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Features Author Amy Gentry Publisher Mariner Books Release date 20170103 Pages 273 ISBN 1-328-74555-4 ISBN 13 978-1-328-74555-2

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 8 - 15 working days 'A comfortable chair and a Mary Stewart: total heaven. I'd rather read her than most other authors.' Harriet EvansLinda Martin understands what is to be lonely: her parents died when she was young, and she was raised in an orphanage. When she is hired as a governess to the orphaned young Philippe, Comte de Valmy, Linda finds a kindred spirit in the lonely little boy. But Philippe is the heir to a vast estate in Savoy, and his dangerously handsome uncle may be willing to kill to ensure that Philippe never inherits it.Mary Stewart's wonderful novel of suspense and intrigue set in the idyllic countryside of Savoy. A classic tale by one of the world's most beloved authors. Features Summary Mary Stewart's wonderful novel of suspense and intrigue set in the idyllic countryside of Savoy. A classic tale by one of the world's most beloved authors. Author Mary Stewart Publisher Hodder Paperback Release date 20110201 Pages 455 ISBN 1-4447-1107-5 ISBN 13 978-1-4447-1107-3

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days From No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Briggs comes the next thrilling Alpha and Omega novel - an extraordinary fantasy adventure set in the world of Mercy Thompson but with rules of its own... Perfect for fans of Ilona Andrews, Nalini Singh, Christine Feehan and J. R. Ward. 'Patricia Briggs is an incredible writer' Nalini Singh, New York Times bestselling author of the Psy-Changeling series 'Patricia Briggs is amazing... Her Alpha and Omega novels are fantastic' Fresh Fiction Mated werewolves Charles Cornick and Anna Latham face a threat like no other - one that lurks too close to home... They are the wild and the broken. The werewolves too damaged to live safely among their own kind. For their own good, they have been exiled to the outskirts of Aspen Creek, Montana. Close enough to the Marrok's pack to have its support; far enough away to not cause any harm. With their Alpha out of the country, Charles and Anna are on call when an SOS comes in from the fae mate of one such wildling. Heading into the mountainous wilderness, they interrupt the abduction of the wolf - but can't stop blood from being shed. Now Charles and Anna must use their skills - his as enforcer, hers as peacemaker - to track down the attackers, reopening a painful chapter in the past that springs from the darkest magic of the witchborn... Discover this page-turning Alpha and Omega novel, from the queen of urban fantasy Patricia Briggs. Praise for Patricia Briggs: 'I love these books!' Charlaine Harris 'The best new fantasy series I've read in years' Kelley Armstrong 'Patricia Briggs never fails to deliver an exciting, magic and fable filled suspense story' Erin Watt, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Royals series 'It is always a joy to pick up a new Briggs novel... Briggs hits another one out of the park!' RT Book Reviews The Alpha and Omega Novels Cry Wolf Hunting Ground Fair Game Dead Heat Burn Bright The Mercy Thompson novels Moon Called Blood Bound Iron Kissed Bone Crossed Silver Marked Frost Burned Night Broken Fire Touched Silence Fallen Storm Cursed Sianim series Aralorn: Masques and Wolfsbane Features Summary A new page-turning adventure in the compelling Alpha and Omega series, from No. 1 New York Times bestselling urban fantasy author Patricia Briggs Author Patricia Briggs Publisher Orbit Release date 20180222 Pages 308 ISBN 0-356-50600-2 ISBN 13 978-0-356-50600-5

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days The extraordinary new thriller from the Queen of Suspense and global bestseller, Mary Higgins Clark. Eighteen-year-old Kerry Dowling is found fully dressed at the bottom of the family pool. She threw a party the night before, while her parents were away; her house was full of people. But no one saw anything. The police immediately suspect her boyfriend, with whom she had a bitter argument at the party. But other people had a grudge against Kerry, too, including her twenty-year-old neighbour. Everyone knows he wanted to come to the party. Everyone knows how angry he was that Kerry didn't invite him. As the police flail about for answers, Kerry's older sister Aline decides to take matters into her own hands. But by trying to solve her sister's murder, Aline may be putting her own life in danger... * * * Praise for Mary Higgins Clark * * * 'I adore Mary Higgins Clark' Karin Slaughter 'Trust Mary Higgins Clark to know what frightens us to death' New York Times 'Clark plays out her story like the pro that she is... flawless' Daily Mirror 'Should come with a warning: start in the evening and you'll be reading late into the night'USA Today Features Summary The all-new novel from the Queen of Suspense. If everyone was there, why did no one see anything? Author Mary Higgins Clark Publisher Simon & Schuster Release date 20190110 Pages 256 ISBN 1-4711-6760-7 ISBN 13 978-1-4711-6760-7

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days 'A brilliant, relentless rollercoaster of suspense that shreds your emotions' PETER JAMES Audra has finally left her abusive husband. She's taken the family car and her young children, Sean and Louise, are buckled up in the back. This is their chance for a fresh start. Audra keeps to the country roads to avoid attention. She's looking for a safe place to stay for the night when she spots something in her rear-view mirror. A police car is following her and the lights are flickering. Blue and red. As Audra pulls over she is intensely aware of how isolated they are. Her perfect escape is about to turn into a nightmare beyond her imagining... Dark secrets and a heart-pounding race to reveal the truth lie at the heart of this page-turning thriller. Full of dark secrets and heart-pounding twists, Here and Gone is the ultimate page-turner. `An almost unbearably tense nail-biter of a novel. Cancel all your plans and settle in for the ride...' RUTH WARE `Packed with smart twists and unforgettable characters, Here and Gone is one of the best debuts of the year. Highly recommended' HARLAN COBEN Features Summary 'A brilliant, relentless rollercoaster of suspense that shreds your emotions' PETER JAMESAudra has finally left her abusive husband. Cancel all your plans and settle in for the ride... Author Haylen Beck Publisher Harvill Secker Release date 20170713 Pages 320 ISBN 1-911215-59-0 ISBN 13 978-1-911215-59-2

In good condition,(2007) Fire Ice is Clive Cussler's third NUMA Files novel, packed with nerve-shredding suspense. In the Black Sea, Kurt Austin and the NUMA team discover an abandoned submarine base commandeered by a mining tycoon who claims Romanov ancestry. Backed by his incredible wealth, the tycoon has proclaimed himself Czar of Russia. He is determined to overthrow the already shaky Russian government - and he has a terrifying surprise in store for the Americans that will ensure they don't interfere. But standing in his way are Kurt Austin and the NUMA team...Packed with the hair-raising action and dazzling imagination that are his hallmarks, Fire Ice is a stunning thriller from a writer at the top of his game. Clive Cussler, author of the best-selling Dirk Pitt novels Arctic Drift and Crescent Dawn, and co-author Paul Kemprecos unravel a tangled web of ambition and conspiracy in Fire Ice, the third novel of the action-packed NUMA Files series.

 The Mission Song by John le Carré (Paperback)   Abandoned by both his Irish father and Congolese mother, Bruno Salvador has long looked for someone to guide his life. He has found it in Mr. Anderson of British Intelligence.Bruno's African upbringing, and fluency in numerous African languages, has made him a top interpreter in London, useful to businesses, hospitals, diplomats-and spies. Working for Anderson in a clandestine facility known as the "Chat Room," Salvo (as he's known) translates intercepted phone calls, bugged recordings, snatched voice mail messages. When Anderson sends him to a mysterious island to interpret during a secret conference between Central African warlords, Bruno thinks he is helping Britain bring peace to a bloody corner of the world. But then he hears something he should not have....Building upon the box office success of le Carre's The Constant Gardener (like THE MISSION SONG, built around turmoil and conspiracy in Africa) and le Carre's laser eye for the complexity of the modern world (seen in Absolute Friends' prediction that the Iraq war would be based on phony and manipulated intelligence), this new novel is a crowning achievement, full of politics, heart, and the sort of suspense that nobody in the world does better.      

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days For her exciting debut in hardcover, New York Times bestselling author Karen Rose delivers a heart-stopping suspense novel that picks up where DIE FOR ME left off, with a detective determined to track down a brutal murderer. Special Agent Daniel Vartanian has sworn to find the perpetrator of multiple killings that mimic a 13-year-old murder linked to a collection of photographs that belonged to his brother, Simon, the ruthless serial killer who met his demise in DIE FOR ME. Daniel is certain that someone even more depraved than his brother committed these crimes, and he's determined to bring the current murderer to justice and solve the mysterious crime from years ago. With only a handful of images as a lead, Daniel's search will lead him back through the dark past of his own family, and into the realm of a mind more sinister than he could ever imagine. But his quest will also draw him to Alex Fallon, a beautiful nurse whose troubled past reflects his own. As Daniel becomes attached to Alex, he discovers that she is also the object of the obsessed murderer. Soon, he will not only be racing to discover the identity of this macabre criminal, but also to save the life of the woman he has begun to love. Features Summary Held captive by a killer, will a young girl escape his clutches? SCREAM FOR ME is a terrifying thriller from bestselling Karen Rose, and part of the Philadelphia/Atlantic series... Author Karen Rose Publisher Headline Book Publishing Release date 20110303 Pages 662 ISBN 0-7553-8523-3 ISBN 13 978-0-7553-8523-2

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days A novel of historical suspense set in Victorian England and featuring stolen antiquities, betrayal and murder. For Emily, accepting the proposal of Philip, Viscount Ashton, was an easy way to escape her stifling home life so when her new husband dies on safari, she feels little grief for she barely knew the man. Now, two years on, when she finds his journals she discovers a very different man to the one she thought she had married - one who was a gentleman scholar who was very much in love with his new wife. Emily becomes fascinated with this new image of her dead husband and immerses herself in his intellectual pursuits, studying Greek and spending time in the quiet corridors of the British Museum. But there, amid priceless ancient statues, she uncovers a dark, dangerous secret involving stolen artifacts from the Greco-Roman galleries. and as she sets out to solve the crime she discovers even more surprises about her dead husband. Features Summary A Lady Emily mystery Author Tasha Alexander Publisher Constable Crime Release date 20140318 Pages 368 ISBN 1-4721-1132-X ISBN 13 978-1-4721-1132-6

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 8 - 15 working days Cambridge is home to 18,000 students, 1,500 academics - and one serial killer. The discovery of the headless, mutilated body of a female undergraduate in her bloodsoaked college room heralds the start of a series of bizarre and extremely violent murders. For the students of Ariel College, a siege mentality has developed following weeks of media interest in the 'Cambridge Butcher'. University life has become not about surviving their exams, but surviving full stop. Forensic psychiatrist Matthew Denison is sure that his traumatised patient, student Olivia Coscadden, has the killer's identity locked up in her memory. That within the little clique she belonged to lurks someone with a grudge. Someone who has yet to finish settling their score. In order to get to the truth, Denison must delve into the secrets hidden within Olivia's subconscious. Secrets that are about to lead him into a nightmare beyond imagining. Features Summary Acompelling novel of psychological suspense set in a Cambridge college Author Ruth Newman Publisher Simon & Schuster Release date 20100101 Pages 384 ISBN 1-84739-248-2 ISBN 13 978-1-84739-248-0

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days She appears, lithe and tanned, by the swimming pool one afternoon. Severine - the girl next door. It was supposed to be a final celebration for six British graduates, the perfect French getaway, until she arrived. Severine's beauty captivates each of them in turn. Under the heat of a summer sky, simmering tensions begin to boil over - years of jealousy and longing rising dangerously to the surface. And then Severine disappears. A decade later, Severine's body is found at the farmhouse. For Kate Channing, the discovery brings up more than just unwelcome memories. As police suspicion mounts against the friends, Kate becomes desperate to resolve her own shifting understanding of that time. But as the layers of deception reveal themselves, Kate must ask herself - does she really want to know what happened to the French girl? Features Summary A dark and exhilarating debut novel of psychological suspense - when the French girl came calling, everything fell apart... Author Lexie Elliott Publisher Corvus Books Release date 20180716 Pages 304 ISBN 1-78649-554-6 ISBN 13 978-1-78649-554-9

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days A collection of chilling tales featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan — including the untold story of her first case. The No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs is renowned for suspense and fascinating forensic detail. Now she brings that same artistry to her first volume of collected short stories. In First Bones, a prequel to Reichs's very first novel, Dj Dead, she at last reveals how Tempe became a forensic anthropologist. In this never-before-published story, Tempe recalls the case that lured her from a promising career in academia into the grim but addictive world of criminal investigation. Three more stories take Tempe from the low country of the Florida Everglades, where she makes a grisly discovery in the stomach of an eighteen-foot Burmese python, to the heights of Mount Everest, where a frozen corpse is unearthed. Features Summary A collection of chilling tales featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan - including the untold story of her first case. It deals with the case that lured her from a promising career in academia into the grim but addictive world of criminal investigation. Author Kathy Reichs Publisher Arrow Books Ltd Release date 20161103 Pages 358 ISBN 1-78475-590-7 ISBN 13 978-1-78475-590-4

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 24 hours THE RUNAWAY SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER AND THRILLER OF THE YEAR, NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING EMILY BLUNT. "Really great suspense novel. Kept me up most of the night. The alcoholic narrator is dead perfect". (Stephen King). Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She's even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. 'Jess and Jason', she calls them. Their life - as she sees it - is perfect. If only Rachel could be that happy. And then she sees something shocking. It's only a minute until the train moves on, but it's enough. Now everything's changed. Now Rachel has a chance to become a part of the lives she's only watched from afar. Now they'll see; she's much more than just the girl on the train... Features Summary Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She's even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses... Author Paula Hawkins Publisher Black Swan Release date 20160503 Pages 408 ISBN 1-78416-110-1 ISBN 13 978-1-78416-110-1

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days Something's happened. A lot of things have happened. If she could turn back time, she wondered how far she would go. Twenty-six-year-old Maggie Barnes is someone you would never look at twice. Living alone in a month-to-month sublet in London, with no family but an estranged sister, no boyfriend or partner, and not much in the way of friends, Maggie is just the kind of person who could vanish from the face of the earth without anyone taking notice. Or just the kind of person MI5 needs to thwart an international plot that puts all of Britain at risk. Now one young woman has the chance to be a hero - if she can think quickly enough to stay alive. Features Summary From CWA Gold and Steel Dagger winner Mick Herron comes a shocking, twisted novel of psychological suspense about one woman's attempt to be better than ordinary Author Mick Herron Publisher John Murray Publishers Ltd Release date 20190130 Pages 256 ISBN 1-4736-5735-0 ISBN 13 978-1-4736-5735-9

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days One of them is dead. One of them is lying. Alex, Karen and Misty were an inseparable trio at university. But when Alex died suddenly, the remaining two friends could no longer look each other in the eye, knowing they both had a part to play in her death. It's now been thirty years since Alex died, and both Misty and Karen have long since moved on with their lives. But when Karen thinks she sees her former friend alive, she soon becomes obsessed with a past she thought she'd left behind. Before long, the perfect life she's built for herself starts to unravel, and it seems as though history might just be repeating itself... Can Karen keep her secrets hidden whilst her guilt threatens to tear her innocent family apart? A twisty and emotionally-charged suspense novel for fans of Lesley Kara's The Rumour, Linda Green's The Last Thing She Told Me and Teresa Driscoll's The Promise. Features Summary One of them is dead. One of them is lying. Author Joanne Sefton Publisher AVON, a division of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Release date 20190905 Pages 400 ISBN 0-00-829447-X ISBN 13 978-0-00-829447-2

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days A contemporary psychological thriller in the style of Ruth Rendell, from one of today's most versatile and compelling storytellers. It was easy for Elizabeth. She married the man she loved, bore him two children and made a home for him which was the envy of their friends. It was harder for Ruth. She married Elizabeth's son and then found that, somehow, she could never quite measure up... Isolation, deceit and betrayal fill the gaps between the two individual women and between their different worlds. In this complex thriller, Philippa Gregory deploys all her insight into what women want and what women fear, as Ruth confronts the shifting borders of her own sanity. Laying bare the comfortable conventions of rural England, this spine-tingling novel pulses with suspense until the whiplash double-twist of the denouement. Features Summary A contemporary psychological thriller in the style of Ruth Rendell, from one of today's most versatile and compelling storytellers. Author Philippa Gregory Publisher HarperCollinsPublishers Release date 20101028 Pages 360 ISBN 0-00-739854-9 ISBN 13 978-0-00-739854-6

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 24 hours In this thrilling standalone from the internationally bestselling author of the Frieda Klein series, a married woman's affair with her boss spirals into a dangerous game of chess with the police when she discovers he's been murdered and she clears the crime scene of all evidence. It should have been just a mid-life fling. A guilty indiscretion that Neve Connolly could have weathered. An escape from twenty years of routine marriage to her overworked husband, and from her increasingly distant children. But when Neve pays a morning-after visit to her lover, Saul, and finds him brutally murdered, their pied--terre still heady with her perfume, all the lies she has so painstakingly stitched together threaten to unravel. After scrubbing clean every trace of her existence from Saul's life-and death-Neve believes she can return to normal, shaken but intact. But she can't get out of her head the one tormenting question: what was she forgetting? An investigation into the slaying could provide the answer. It's brought Detective Chief Inspector Alastair Hitching, and Neve's worst fears, to her door. But with every new lie, every new misdirection to save herself, Neve descends further into the darkness of her betrayal-and into more danger than she ever imagined. Because Hitching isn't the only one watching Neve. So is a determined killer who's about to make the next terrifying move in a deadly affair.... Features Summary The first standalone psychological suspense novel from Nicci French in 10 years - a major publishing event Author Nicci French Publisher Simon & Schuster Release date 20191014 Pages 400 ISBN 1-4711-7924-9 ISBN 13 978-1-4711-7924-2