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After another disastrous relationship, single-mum Samantha just wants a fresh start - for her and her teenage daughter and best friend, Lily.Samantha accepts a post as matron in an exclusive residential home on the outskirts of a quiet village in the Peak District.But nothing is as it seems at the Hallow Croft residential home.Forty years ago, a girl was killed in the grounds.One of the residents is kept locked away from the others - 'for their own safety'.The previous matron disappeared. The only trace of her now is a scuffed diary.People even say a local coven of witches cursed the home and the Shuttleworth family who owns it.And now Samantha's daughter might be the curse's next victim.

A DARK, TWISTY AND UTTERLY COMPELLING PAGE-TURNER FROM A BESTSELLING AUTHOR.Meet pretty Ivy Henthorn. The daughter of a well-respected judge. A popular student at exclusive Wellington-Bell.And now she's dead.Ivy's body is found on a bench in Bingham Park, by a rough sleeper. Her head shows signs of blunt force trauma. Somebody positioned her arms peacefully over her chest.Did she know who her killer was?Detective Claudia Nunn soon discovers that Ivy was the secret force behind a savage revenge blog. She destroyed relationships and reputations without a second thought.Perhaps the real question is: did the killer know who she was?Claudia must break through a wall of secrets to uncover a deadly truth.But Claudia's got her own trauma to bear. And a startling revelation could bring her own house of cards tumbling down . . .Cold Hard Truth is a grippingly dark and utterly compulsive page-turner that will be devoured by fans of Helen H. Durrant, Rachel Abbott, Angela Marsons and L.J. Ross.

Two-year-old Abigail is fast asleep in the back of the car, clutching her little red lion. Tony, her father, steps out onto the pavement. The man he's meeting punches him in the face, knocking him to the ground. Before it all goes black, Tony sees his car speed away - with his little girl inside.When he finally gets home after the worst day of his life, the house is empty. His wife is gone too. The place is ransacked and the kitchen is streaked with blood.Someone out there has Tony's little girl. And his wife may already be dead.Detective April Fisher must race against time to find little Abi alive.This brand-new, electrifying crime thriller is perfect for fans of Charlie Gallagher, Angela Marsons, Rachel Abbott, D.S. Butler or Mark Billingham.

Winner of Best Crime Fiction at the 2024 National Indie Excellence AwardsFinalist for the 2024 Feathered Quill Award for Best Mystery ThrillerDebby Morris, mother of two, goes to a Christmas party at the historic Hollyhock Manor in Marlow, and never comes home.Her phone, handbag and Santa's elf hat are found in a park near the River Thames. The police issue a nationwide search, but Debby is not found.Planned disappearance or something more sinister?Then Debby's body, still in her elf costume, is discovered five miles downstream from where she disappeared.But the circumstances around Debby's death are murkier than the Thames in which she was found.Detective Rob Miller is pulled from compassionate leave and put in charge. He's still reeling from his last botched case, and now all eyes are on him - waiting to see if he'll crack.As if saving his career isn't enough, Rob and his team are now in a race against time to bring an ingenious killer to justice.

A NAIL-BITING PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER WITH ONE OF THE BIGGEST TWISTS YOU'LL READ THIS YEAR.After choir practice for midnight mass, college sophomore Rose Grandon takes a short-cut through Harbor Park. Grabbed from behind, she is violently assaulted, beaten and left for dead.The last thing she hears is a tenor voice singing Silent Night.Several hours later, the police find Rose lying in a ditch. Badly beaten - but alive.As she recovers in hospital, Rose is told she's pregnant. She has a terrible choice to make. She decides to keep the baby.Nine months later, she gives birth to a beautiful baby girl. She names her Mary.Rose lives quietly in her small Connecticut hometown raising her daughter - the one good thing to come out of her horrible ordeal. She begins to get her old self back.But her evil attacker has never been caught. He strikes twice a year. Once on Christmas Eve, once on Christmas Day.And until he's behind bars, Rose and her baby can never be safe.But now he's found out he has a daughter. And that changes everything . . .AN EXHILARATING BLEND OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE, NAIL-BITING TENSION AND A SHATTERING FINAL TWIST.Perfect for fans of Frieda McFadden, Daniel Hurst, T.M. Logan, Patricia MacDonald and Shari Lapena.

MEET DETECTIVE KATE HAMBLIN IN THIS BESTSELLING SERIES FROM A FORMER POLICE OFFICER.Six old friends. A weekend in a country hotel. A ruthless killer among them.Detective Kate and her husband Hayden are on their way home from a romantic mini-break when a ferocious storm blows in and their car breaks down. Stranded on a remote lane in the blizzard, they seek shelter in a nearby country hotel.They aren't the only guests. Six old university friends are meeting up for a reunion weekend.One of them hides a terrible secret.The next morning, a body is found in the hotel lake. A tragic accident it would appear.The following day, a second guest is found drowned in the bathtub.Two drownings in two days is no coincidence.Snowed in, with no signal and the phone lines down, Detective Kate must unmask the killer among them before more guests meet a grisly end.Perfect for fans of Rachel Abbott, Joy Ellis, Mel Sherratt, Angela Marsons and Helen H. Durrant.

If you love Martina Cole and Kimberley Chambers, don't miss Casey King's absolutely gripping and gritty crime thriller about betrayal, revenge and family secrets.It's a story as old as time. Girl meets boy. Their marriage promises peace between their feuding families. Then it all falls apart.TEN YEARS AGO SOMEONE TRIED TO KILL HER.Danielle Lewis's marriage to Jason Flynn brings together two warring Dublin crime families. It should be a joyous union.But someone tries to take her life.Danielle survives the shooting but loses her unborn son. She can't prove it, but she knows her shooting is related to the crime that both families trade in. Then Jason cheats on her, just when she needs him most. And Danielle has had it.She leaves Dublin and her family behind.NOW SHE'S BACK. AND SHE WANTS ANSWERS.After ten long years living in exile in London, Danielle returns.Her homecoming threatens the uneasy truce that has existed between the Lewises and the Flynns ever since she left.Danielle is willing to do what whatever it takes if it means finding out the truth.But what she discovers changes everything.WHO TRIED TO KILL HER, AND WHY?Fans of Kerry Kaya, Kimberley Chambers, Emmy Ellis, Emma Tallon, Caz Finlay and Martina Cole, get ready for the first novel in an explosive new gangland crime series packed with twists, turns and deceit.

A COZY MURDER MYSTERY SET IN A PICTURESQUE CUMBRIAN VILLAGE. Suzy Spencer is branching out - she's working with local retiree gardeners on a podcast about rewilding the graveyard garden in Norbridge. But a body is found in a wheelie bin and chaos begins . . . Queen bee of the gardening gang, Lorna Duxford, discovers the dead woman. She's been stabbed. It turns out the victim wasn't local - nobody knew her. So why did Lorna whisper 'Deirdre' when she saw her? Then the wife of another gardener dies in a car crash. But the police quickly discover that this was no accident. Someone is picking off the gardeners in the graveyard one by one . . . It's up to Suzy Spencer to get to the bottom of these sinister goings-on before anyone else pays the ultimate price. A cozy mystery full of red herrings and twists and turns, set in an idyllic English village. Perfect for fans of Rhys Bowen, Richard Osman, Jeanne M. Dams, Frances Evesham, Simon Brett and Margaret Mayhew.

A remote island. A missing girl. A woman with a troubled past.Becky is back on the tiny island where she was born, the island she swore she'd never return to.Apart from her former best friend Megan, everyone makes it clear she isn't wanted. The islanders have long memories. They haven't forgotten the scandal. What Becky did.Becky decides to leave as soon as she can. But first she must discover what happened to Violet.Violet disappeared exactly a year ago, the day of the summer festival. Everyone assumes she ran off to the mainland with her boyfriend. Only her sister believes something more sinister happened to her.Becky starts to ask questions - and becomes convinced that Violet never left the island. Someone in this remote, suspicious community knows exactly what happened to her. Someone who's determined to keep the truth hidden - whatever it takes.As Becky pieces the clues together, she is forced to confront the dark secrets of her own past. But has she got it tragically wrong . . . yet again?And then another teenage girl goes missing . . .

A pulse-pounding British crime thriller with an astonishing twist.Detective Bill Roach spent his police career hunting a notorious killer known as Jack the Knife. Now he must re-hone his skills to hunt another equally ruthless killer.1975It's the worst thing Detective Bill Roach has ever seen. The young woman's body is found beside a busy road. She's been disembowelled - while she was still alive. Placed on her chest is a cassette player. Inside is a sixty-minute tape, playing just one song over and over again: Mack the Knife.With his copper's instincts, Bill knows this isn't the last they'll hear of the killer they call Jack the Knife. He's right. The hunt for Jack won't end for almost fifty years.Present dayEighty-year-old former police detective Bill Roach sits at the bedside of elderly Gillian Lake, comforting her as she slips away. A popular resident at the Crown Woods Retirement Home, Bill sees it as an act of kindness to ensure his fellow residents don't die alone.But the post-mortem throws up shocking results. Gillian didn't die of old age. She was murdered.Bill never caught Jack the Knife. But now he has a chance to make good the past - and catch Gillian's killer.But Bill's hunt for the truth will expose dangerous secrets. Past secrets that will burst into the present . . . with horrifying results.Perfect for fans of Lynda la Plante, Rachel McLean, Angela Marsons, Patricia Gibney.

AN UTTERLY GRIPPING, ACTION-PACKED THRILLER THAT WILL HAVE YOU HOOKED.No bad deed goes unpunished.As a favour to his old friend Sir Gerald Campion, Nick Shannon is investigating the books at an advertising agency to make sure everything's kosher - his first mistake.His second is attending the company's annual fete for clients, employees and their families. It's a wholesome affair with a selection of rides and stalls selling homemade and artisan products.But the merriment comes to a grinding halt when a gut-wrenching scream escapes from the ghost train. Nick races to the scene to find Bradley, a prominent client, slumped in a train car with a knife sticking out of his chest. His final, cryptic whisper: McLuhan.Now Nick has two jobs: find a fraudster and catch a killer.With his wedding fast approaching, Nick's race against time becomes a high-stakes gamble, where each step could cost him dearly.The key to solving the enigma lies within Bradley's final word: McLuhan. But the closer Nick gets, the more danger he's in. Now Nick is entangled in a deadly dance where every move could be his last.Fans of Frederick Forsyth, David Baldacci, J.B. Turner, Rob Sinclair, Lee Child, Vince Flynn and Robert Ludlum will devour this series of addictive page-turners.

A battered body. A missing handbag. A false confession?The call comes on Monday afternoon. About to demolish a row of derelict cottages, workmen discover a body in the bedroom of Number 9. A young woman, expensively dressed in designer clothes. It's a mystery what she was doing there.She's been badly beaten. But with no handbag or phone to be found, her identity remains unknown.Then an elderly man comes forward claiming to be the killer.Case closed, it would appear. But there are things about the old man's story that don't add up. Detective Norman isn't convinced.Then a second body is discovered in a skip behind the cottages - and the case takes a disturbing new twist.Norman and his team are in a race against time to uncover the truth before more bodies turn up.This absolutely gripping detective mystery full of twists and turns is perfect for fans of Rachel McLean, J.D. Kirk, Pauline Rowson, Elly Griffiths, Matt Brolly and Simon McCleave.

A victim who's made her last mistake.A killer hiding in plain sight.Detective Siv Drummond faces her toughest case yet . . .One Saturday morning, Detective Siv is called to Lansdown Court, a secluded little seaside community of artists, entrepreneurs and drifters. Where someone just committed the ultimate crime.Behind the doors of Jem Calloway's studio, the walls, the canvases, everything is stained red. With blood.Slumped in Jem's chair, there's a dead woman. A knife plunged deep in her neck. She is Luanna Forbes, owner of the bijou gift shop next door.Jem says he has no idea how she got there. He spent the whole night at a party, in a drunken haze. Detective Siv has her doubts. Because her sergeant was at the same party.And something was eating Jem that night. A secret he couldn't tell.What - or who - made him hold his tongue?Siv must break through a wall of silence to uncover the truth. But in a tight-knit community where blood runs thicker than water, she's got her work cut out . . .Discover a stunningly accomplished police procedural with untold emotional depth. Fans of Joy Ellis, P.D. James, Ruth Rendell, Jane Adams, Tana French or Rachel Caine are sure to be enthralled.

First she was married. Then she was widowed. Now she's vanished without a trace.From the bestselling author of The Greenway, nominated for the CWA's John Creasey Award.PRAISE FOR JANE ADAMS:'Takes the psychological suspense novel into new realms of mystery.' Val McDermid'The elaborate duel between hunter and hunted makes absorbing reading.' The TimesThree years ago, Ashley Summers watched the love of her life drop dead in a supermarket car park. Now, her friends all say she needs to move on. Live her life. But she has no idea how . . .Until she meets Tim Bennett. He's kind, caring, like no one she's dated before.Ashley calls her family, eager for them to meet the new man in her life. She makes a date with them - a date she never manages to keep. Just like that, Ashley's gone.Distraught, the family turn to ex-detective Ray Flowers for answers. He doesn't usually take missing persons cases. But this one's personal.Tim Bennett. The name makes Ray's blood run cold. Tim is Ray's friend and a happily married father of three.Ashley's new boyfriend isn't who he says he is - and Ray will stop at nothing to hunt him down. But, little does he know, his adversary has eyes on him.A chilling threat to Ray, and everyone he holds dear, is enough to stop him in his tracks.This imposter's taken Ashley. What on earth does he want with Ray?An utterly addictive mystery thriller for readers who love Ann Cleeves, Joy Ellis, Gretta Mulrooney, Cara Hunter, Tana French, Louise Penny, and Elly Griffiths.

Late one night Danny Walters tucks his young son back into bed. He realizes the carpet is soaking wet just as he sees a man standing at the bottom of the stairs. The man lights a match. The house goes up in flames.The next day, Detectives Tanzy and Byrd witness a horrific video posted online. Someone stood in the back garden filming as Danny and his whole family burned alive.Across town, four women wake up in a dark, cold room. Every time they fall asleep, one of them is taken. People on the internet are paying good money to watch what happens to them.Then Tanzy and Byrd get a sickening call. There's an unconscious woman balanced right on the edge of her fourth-floor balcony. Someone drugged her and put her up there. The detectives race to the scene, just as the woman's phone rings, waking her. She panics . . .Darlington used to be a nice town. A quiet town. Not any more.Detectives Tanzy and Byrd must stop this depraved killer before the body count rises.This propulsive, unputdownable crime thriller is perfect for fans of D.S. Butler, Charlie Gallagher, Rachel McLean, Alex Smith and Joy Ellis.

The book everyone is talking about.My water isn't supposed to break while there's a storm raging, when my husband isn't on the island, and as the power flickers out. Darkness covers the cabin as I cling to my belly. I never imagined it happening like this.Trained as a midwife, I'm confident I can deliver my daughter.* * *I look at her, and I see her, and I know her. I've always known her.She's perfect. Sweat and tears streak as my face I kiss her over and over again. Reaching for my bag of midwifery supplies, I wipe her nose and press her tiny body to my chest.I fall asleep with her in my arms.* * *When I wake, my husband is home, the lights are back on - but the baby he's holding - it's not mine.I'm not crazy.I gave birth to a girl, and that baby in his arms is a boy.He's not my baby.You won't want to put this down until you find the shocking truth about what happened.Perfect for fans of Freida McFadden, Jeneva Rose, Colleen Hoover and Keri Beevis.

France, 1944. Agent Kim Maxwell has a new mission. She's investigating the death of Bernard Leblanc, a local SOE leader. It looks like an accident, but Kim knows better . . . Her HQ is the Bistro Le Renard Rouge. The Red Fox. And the chef is none other than her lover and fellow agent Roland, AKA Foxy. But the Bistro soon attracts the custom of high-ranking German officers. Now Kim and Foxy are surrounded by the enemy, hiding in plain sight. Then Kim hears whispers of a code name: Enthaupten. Beheading. What are the Nazis planning? It's up to her to dig up the truth. But the Nazis' plot goes deeper than she could have ever imagined. They plan to murder the King of England, and they're closing in . . . Surrounded by spies and double agents, Kim doesn't know who to trust. She must use all of her wits to outsmart the plotters. The entire war effort is at stake should she fail . . . This breathtaking and gripping WW2 mystery will hook you from the very first page. Perfect for readers of Rhys Bowen, Jeffrey Archer, Rory Clements, Gretta Mulrooney, Kate Quinn and Lucinda Riley.

DISCOVER YOUR NEW FAVOURITE PRIVATE DETECTIVE AND ASTROLOGER, JO HUGHES.'A born storyteller.' Judith Cutler, bestselling crime author'A gripping yarn. Astrologer Jo Hughes battles to solve her first murder as a private investigator.' Edward Marston, bestselling author______________________________Astrologer and Private Investigator Jo Hughes is at a christening when she receives a call from her oldest friend.She's found a body in the cellar of a local pub. And they've been dead a while.Jo has her first case as a solo PI.The victim is identified as Leah Ellerman, a local landlady who was renovating the canalside cottages opposite the pub. She's been dead for two weeks. So why hasn't anyone reported her missing?Leah was evicting her tenants so she could skyrocket the rent. And this wasn't taken well by the local community . . .So it's not a case of who wanted her dead, but who succeeded.Jo must watch her back. It's clear that the culprit will do anything to keep their secrets buried . . .Perfect for fans of Faith Martin, Hannah Hendy, Ian Moore, Lis Howell, L.J. Ross, Rachel McLean, Cathy Ace or Richard Osman.

A CHILLING NEW PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE FROM A BESTSELLER.Everyone has a friend like Carl.The friend you can't say no to.The friend you have to say no to.I'm finally in a good place. A lovely home. A steady job. And Jason. Reliable, honest, kind Jason - my boyfriend. My best friend. I trust him implicitly.But if anyone can lead Jason astray, it's Carl. His best friend.And now Carl's on our doorstep. Begging for help.I warn Jason not to get involved. But Carl has a hold over my boyfriend that I don't understand. And suddenly everything I hold dear is under threat.My home. My relationship. My life.Because Carl knows Jason owes him. And he won't leave us alone until he has what he wants.I'll do anything to protect Jason - even from his best friend.Fans of Gillian Flynn, T.M. Logan, B.A. Paris, Liane Moriarty, Claire Dyer, Sam Carrington, Celeste Ng will devour this stunning psychological thriller.

AN UNPUTDOWNABLE PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER WITH A BREATHTAKING TWIST.All Tara longs for is her lost child to find her. But she should be careful what she wishes for . . .Tara's life is almost perfect. Her handsome husband Dino adores her. They have two beautiful children. Although money is tight, their marriage is happy.But there's something missing.Tara can never forget the baby she was forced to give up for adoption all those years ago. The boy she called Ryan. She always wonders what happened to him.Finally, a young man comes looking for Tara. He says he's Ryan, her long-lost son.His arrival will destroy everything in Tara's carefully-constructed new life.Because Tara has been keeping secrets from her husband and everyone around her. Secrets that Ryan's appearance will force into the open - with horrifying consequences.AN EXHILARATING BLEND OF DOMESTIC SUSPENSE AND NAIL-BITING TENSION WITH A SHATTERING FINAL TWIST.Perfect for fans of Patricia MacDonald, Lisa Jewell, Shalini Boland, T.M. Logan and Clare Mackintosh.

AN ABSOLUTELY BREATHTAKING PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER WITH A STUNNING FINAL TWIST.Livia moves to a remote village on the rugged Cornish coast. She finds a diary full of dark secrets. The girl who wrote it is dead. Will she be next?This move, this new job at the architect's firm, it's the fresh start Livia desperately needs - if she's ever going to forget what happened three years ago . . .Then one day, crammed into a drawer in her creaking old fisherman's cottage, Livia finds a diary. She's utterly captivated by the unfolding story of infatuation, rejection and guilt, so similar to her own.But, just as the writer is about to confess a chilling secret, the diary stops, the rest of its pages torn out.Desperate to find out what happened, Livia discovers that the author of the diary once lived in the same cottage. And she used to work for the same architect. Then she died. And no one talks about her.Who was she?What happened to her?And what will happen when Livia finds out?This utterly gripping psychological suspense with a twist that will take your breath away is perfect for fans of Freida McFadden, Lisa Jewell, Claire McGowan, K.L. Slater, Valerie Keogh and Liane Moriarty.

AN ADDICTIVE MUST-READ WHODUNNIT FROM THE NEWEST TALENT IN CRIME FICTION.Every family has its secrets. This one's worth killing for . . .It starts with an altercation in the dead of night. Two men rowing outside Coffin Cove Museum.Professor Gerald Weber comes off worst. He's found dead the next morning. Head beaten to a bloody pulp. As for the second man? He fled the scene and can't be found . . .Now the police are hunting him. But town sleuth Andi Silvers knows she needs to find him first. The missing man is no killer. He's Andi's father.But if he's not guilty then why did he run?Andi will stop at nothing to clear her father's name. But then a second body is found on nearby Quadra Island. Professor Gerald's 100-year-old father.He's been bludgeoned too. Left for dead in his cottage across the Vile Narrows, a treacherous stretch of water that separates Quadra Island from the mainland.First the son, then the father.Will Andi's family be next?Discover a tangled web of murder and mystery in this breathlessly twisty whodunnit set on the gorgeous coast of Western Canada.Fans of Louise Penny, Elly Griffiths, L.J. Ross, Ann Cleeves, Jane Adams, Joy Ellis and Lisa Regan will devour this mesmerizing crime thriller.

What secrets hide behind these crumbling walls?Ivy Manor is every realtor's nightmare. A derelict old pile out in rural Tennessee - with a past even darker than the woods that surround it.New owner Cal Nolte gets the shock of his life when he finds a bloody handprint smeared across the doorstep.Detective Chris Bailey arrives to check it out. But his search of the house turns up no body, no weapon - only a terrified young woman and her daughter.They say they've been hiding out in the empty rooms, waiting for the woman's husband to return. But what are they afraid of?To add to his frustration, Bailey finds himself on the receiving end of a string of anonymous calls. 'What if I told you I knew where his body was buried?' taunts the voice at the end of the line.Bailey can't shake the feeling that it's all connected with the goings-on at Ivy Manor.Then Bailey uncovers a body - hidden away in a forgotten corner of the house. But this man's been dead way too long to have left the fresh red handprint.So where's the second victim?The clock is ticking to unravel the secrets of Ivy Manor before the killer strikes again . . .Discover a completely unputdownable crime thriller from an international bestselling author. Filled with enough twists and turns to keep you turning the pages late into the night.Perfect for fans of Melinda Leigh, Rita Herron, Mary Burton, Debra Webb, Biba Pearce, Lisa Regan, Angela Marsons, D.K. Hood and Rachel Caine.

LOVE MISS MARPLE? THEN MEET HONEY DRIVER!Something about this dirty death reeks of foul play.The newspaper headline gives Honey Driver the shock of her life. Her dear friend, Caspar St John Gervais, is dead. In the most mysterious - and mucky - of circumstances.His body's been pulled from the mud, down by the train track that twists through the woods. But Honey knows that can't be right. The Caspar she knew loathed the great outdoors.She races to Caspar's place - only to find him alive but outraged to hear that he's been mistaken for a mud-encrusted corpse.Dirty dealings are afoot. And Honey must dig deep to get to the bottom of what's really going on.Snooping around the tracks, she finds a mysterious bunch of flowers. With a sinister tarot cardtucked inside. Is it a message, a warning - or what?When the dead man's true identity comes out in the wash, Honey realizes she doesn't know Caspar quite as well as she thought.What other skeletons are hiding in the St John Gervais family closet?Fans of Faith Martin, Jane Adams, Frances Evesham, M.C. Beaton, Clare Chase or Jeanne M. Dams will love this addictive cozy mystery!

Is he dead - or out looking for wife number three?The first part went like this: Five years ago I was working a late-night shift at Over Easy when Ledger Stone walked in. He looked straight into my eyes and never looked away.We got married. We were blessed with two beautiful twins. We didn't have a lot of money but life was good.Then the call comes. Ledger's truck went through the guardrail and plummeted down into a ravine. They're saying there's no way he could have survived. But why can't they find his body?And now there's a woman at my door. She says she's Ledger's wife. He was Henry when he was married to her - until he died in a devastating truck accident.My husband is my rock. My whole life. And the kids want their dad back.Perfect for fans of Freida McFadden, Jeneva Rose, Colleen Hoover and Keri Beevis.Please note this is a revised edition of The Wife Lie.

An unputdownable psychological thriller with a breathtaking twist.Verity's widowed mother has a new boyfriend. But is he really all he seems? Verity finds out her mother is secretly dating a man she met online. After five long years of widowhood, Eleanor is finally happy - and back to her old self.But Verity's suspicions are aroused when she meets the charming, seemingly perfect Roger Scott-Jefferies. Something about him doesn't ring true.Verity starts asking questions about her mother's new man. And she doesn't like the answers. At the same time, strange things start happening.A cryptic postcard turns up, which her mother refuses to explain. Then a dead bird is left on the doorstep. Surveillance photos of Eleanor, Verity, and her brother are delivered to the house.As Verity peels back the layers of her mother's past, she realizes that Eleanor has been keeping dangerous secrets.And someone is determined to keep those secrets hidden.Verity is about to find out that some truths are best left buried.AN EXHILARATING BLEND OF DOMESTIC SUSPENSE AND NAIL-BITING TENSION WITH A SHATTERING FINAL TWIST.Perfect for fans of Patricia MacDonald, Lisa Jewell, Shalini Boland, T.M. Logan and Clare Mackintosh.

PUT THE KETTLE ON AND DISCOVER AN UTTERLY CHARMING COZY MURDER MYSTERY SET IN A SLEEPY ENGLISH SEASIDE TOWN.It's almost summer in Southbourne and the ladies of the Charity Shop Detective Agency are ready for another season of sun, sea and . . . murder.Amongst the rows of charming brightly painted cabins, an elderly man's beach hut is set on fire in the middle of the night - while he slept inside.By day, Fiona, Sue and Daisy volunteer at the Dogs Need Nice Homes charity shop. But, by night, they investigate crimes. And they're determined to get to the bottom of this murder.Malcolm Crainey was a bit of an eccentric, but he was harmless really. Who would want to kill him?The ladies soon uncover a long list of possible suspects. Neighbours who hated Malcolm for refusing to swap huts. Members of the snobby beach hut association who took umbrage with Malcom's quirky beachcombed cabin decorations.Then another hut is burned down in the dead of night. Thankfully there was no one asleep inside this time. But the pressure is on - can Fiona, Sue and Daisy find the culprit before the beach hut murderer strikes again?Fans of The Thursday Murder Club, Janice Hallett, Simon Brett, Ian Moore and Sarah Yarwood-Lovett will adore this exciting new talent in cozy crime.

DISCOVER AN ABSOLUTELY GRIPPING MURDER MYSTERY SET IN THE YORKSHIRE DALES.Detective Mike Nash thought that moving back to Yorkshire from London would give him a quieter life. Little did he know . . .Sixteen years ago.Expectant mother Demetra Sinclair goes missing in Layton Woods, high in the Yorkshire Dales.Her body is never found, and the man thought to be her lover is also killed in a brutal attack. Demetra's husband Nick is convicted of both murders, but maintains his innocence.Now.Mike Nash returns from his holiday in the warm Spanish sun only to be called out to the cold, remote Layton Woods. The remains of a woman have been unearthed. Has Demetra finally been found?Then three more skeletons - two women and a man - are discovered nearby.But Demetra was pregnant when she went missing. So where's the baby?As the bodies pile up, Detective Mike Nash and his team are in a race against time - and the elements - to catch a killer from the past.DISCOVER AN ABSOLUTELY ADDICTIVE CRIME THRILLER WITH A STUNNING TWIST.A breathtaking crime thriller perfect for fans of J.R. Ellis, L.J. Ross, Angela Marsons, J.D. Kirk, Helen H. Durrant, Joy Ellis or Peter Robinson.

MEET DETECTIVE MARTHA MUNRO IN ONE OF THE MOST GRIPPING CRIME MYSTERIES YOU'LL READ THIS YEAR. Last year her daughter was kidnapped and her mother was murdered. Martha Munro is getting back on her feet, but old enemies are still out there - and they want revenge. After the worst year of her life, Detective Martha Munro is looking forward to getting back to the job she loves. But her first case is an investigation into a spate of cat abductions in leafy south London. The Brown family's beloved cat mysteriously disappeared one day, but then turned up unharmed. Then they receive a terrifying message: Next time it's the kids. And an ambulance is sent to the children's school. It's a sinister threat by someone playing a deadly game of cat and mouse. Someone is setting a dangerous trap for Detective Martha Munro. Can she catch a rat and keep her family from getting hurt again? Fans of Happy Valley, Helen H. Durrant, Andy Maslen, Rachel McLean, Matt Brolly, Angela Marsons and D.S. Butler will love this gripping crime mystery.

DS Evans is looking forward to moving into her dream home. But the naked body of a young man is found at the river's edge and then another. An archenemy from the past emerges, his sights on Jackman and Evans with a devastating revenge plan.