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Rob has always loved Anna, but she never wanted him. He paints her portrait over and over again. Now one night, she phones him, desperate for help. He rushes to her place, but when he gets there she's dead—sprawled across her living-room floor, a crimson gash in her chest. Now he’s the prime suspect for her murder. Her face on his canvas. Her kiss goodbye on his lips. Her blood on his hands. No one believes him, and does he even trust himself?

The first book in an intense thriller series featuring Inspector Hannah Kaufman. On her way to work one ordinary Wednesday morning, Inspector Hannah Kaufman is unexpectedly called to Stockholm South Hospital, where she’s confronted by a far from ordinary event. Armed men are inside the children’s hospital, threatening to kill one child an hour if their demands aren’t met. Hannah and her colleagues face a dramatic hostage situation with enormous media attention. Meanwhile, inside the hospital walls, the clock is ticking for the innocent children imprisoned with the terrorists.

On a midsummer's night, a stolen car packed with teenagers crashes at high speed on the southern edge of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. DI Jan Talantire arrives at the scene to find the victims of the crash. It appears to be a tragic accident until a worried mother turns up at the scene of the accident. Her daughter, Rhiannon, a friend of the joyriders, hasn't been seen since the previous night. The account dovetails with the statement of the householder who claimed to see a girl running near the crashed vehicle the moment he emerged.

Lisa Airey presents book two in the Juile Hastings series.

Three years after losing her teenage daughter, with her marriage on the brink of unraveling, Barbara needs a break—time away, time alone, time to process. The lake house is perfect. It's quiet, remote, picturesque, and best of all, she has the whole place to herself. Barbara's weekend getaway takes a terrifying detour when a young woman emerges from the woods, screaming for help. She's been abducted. Her deranged captor is in close pursuit. Barbara will need all her courage and cunning if they're both to survive the nightmare headed their way.

Forensic accountant Cynthia Webber is used to finding missing numbers. Now she must find a missing person before it’s too late.... When Cynthia is given a journal containing allegations of financial fraud, she’s horrified to discover the missing woman it belongs to has been harassed and threatened by her employer, Calgary’s local racetrack and casino. An evening out at the casino ends badly for Cynthia’s best friend, investigative reporter Linda Reeves, and Cynthia is forced to ante up her investigation.

Ein Bahnhof in Deutschland, irgendwann in den Siebzigerjahren. Ein Paar wartet auf den Zug. Der Mann, auffallend durch seine pechschwarzen Haare und sein blasses Gesicht, ist nervös. Dann macht einer eine falsche Bewegung. In dem Feuergefecht sterben zwei Menschen, und ein kleiner Junge sieht dabei zu. Hamburg, Gegenwart. In der Stadt geht ein Serienkiller um. Seine Signatur besteht darin, dass er seinen Opfern die Haare rot färbt. Kommissar Jan Fabel wird auf den Fall angesetzt. Bald kommt ihm der Verdacht, dass die Morde etwas mit der RAF-Szene von früher zu tun haben müssen.

In Hamburg versetzt ein Serienmörder die Bewohner der Hansestadt in Angst und Schrecken. Der Täter folgt einem Ritus, der aus der Zeit der Wikinger stammt und unter der Bezeichnung "Blutadler" bekannt ist. Hauptkommissar Jan Fabel wird mit der Aufklärung der brutalen Verbrechen betraut. Bei seinen Recherchen stößt er auf einen geheimnisvollen Kult, dessen Mitglieder vor keinem Opfer zurückschrecken.

In a city as old as London, the discovery is hardly surprising. But when scratch marks are found on the inside of the coffin lid, Detective Jane Tennison believes she has unearthed a mystery far darker than any she's investigated before. However, not everyone agrees. Tennison's superiors dismiss it as a historic cold case and the Church seems desperate to conceal the facts from the investigation. It's clear that someone is hiding the truth and perhaps even the killer. Tennison must pray she can find both - before they are buried forever.

Brought to you by Penguin. He meets women. He gains their trust. He kills them. That's all Maeve Kerrigan knows about the man she is hunting. Three women have been targeted in their homes by the same sadistic killer. With no sign of a break-in, every indication shows that they let him in. But...

When Anna Matheson fails to collect her son from the babysitter after a works party, the police are swiftly called. Anna is a stickler for time and a good mother—she would never abandon her baby. Her disappearance is totally out of character, and DI Isabel Blood and her team soon suspect foul play. CCTV footage shows Anna was last seen at precisely 11.11 p.m., as she collected her coat to leave the party. But the cameras outside the venue have failed to pick up her exit from the car park—how could she have vanished in plain sight?

At first glance, Jellicoe Close seems to be a perfect suburban street – well-kept houses with pristine lawns, neighbours chatting over garden fences, children playing together. But there are dark secrets behind the neat front doors, hidden dangers that include a ruthless criminal who will stop at nothing. It’s up to DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent to uncover the truth. Posing as a couple, they move into the Close, blurring the lines between professional and personal as never before.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of My Husband's Wife by Jane Corry, read by Lily Bevan and Abigail Thaw. FIRST COMES LOVE. THEN COMES MARRIAGE. THEN COMES MURDER. The addictive psychological thriller everyone's talking about! 'My head's still spinning from all...

Catriona needs help. Her 17-year-old daughter, Elena, was found dead at the bottom of a cliff near her boarding school. The death has been ruled a suicide, but Catriona isn’t convinced. When her old friend journalist Alex Devlin arrives in Hallow’s Edge to investigate, she quickly finds that life at private boarding school The Drift isn’t as idyllic as the bucolic setting might suggest. Amidst a culture of drug-taking, bullying and tension between school and village, no one is quite who they seem to be, and there are several people who might have wanted Elena to fall.

Volver a Kiewarra, pequeña comunidad al sureste de Australia, es lo último que el investigador de delitos financieros Aaron Falk desea. Y no sólo por el sol abrasador y la sequía pertinaz que han dejado al ganado famélico, a los granjeros desesperados y a la población desquiciada, sino también por el temor a que su presencia reavive las heridas que su precipitada partida dejó abiertas veinte años atrás. Sin embargo, cuando le comunican que Luke Hadler, su amigo de la infancia, y su familia han muerto de forma violenta.

Brought to you by Penguin. *Narrated by Emilia Fox* IT STARTED WITH A KISS AND ENDED IN MURDER... The darkly addictive new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of I Looked Away, Blood Sisters and My Husband's Wife. In Poppy Page's mind, there are two types of women in this world: those...

New York. Hundreds of commuters just barely escape with their lives when an attack on the George Washington Bridge fails. The attempt falls in line with a chain of acts of sabotage that occurred at famous landmarks in the past few weeks. Obviously, someone is targeting prominent structures in New York. What are the perpetrator's objectives? Agents Jeremiah Cotton and Philippa Decker are facing a mystery. Until there is another attack. Right before their eyes. Nearly 1,000 feet above Manhattan - on the Empire State Building.

Can Jane Tennison uncover a serial killer? The fourth in the Sunday Times best-selling Jane Tennison thrillers, Murder Mile is set in 1979 at the height of the 'Winter of Discontent' when economic chaos has led to widespread strikes across Britain. Jane Tennison, now a Detective Sergeant, has been posted to Peckham CID, one of London's toughest areas. As the rubbish on the streets begins to pile up, so does the murder count: two bodies in as many days. There are no suspects, and the manner of death is different in each case.

In this first book of the Rising Dragon series, “explore a side of Hong Kong tourists rarely experience” (Kirkus Reviews) as an expat journalist tries to crack a murder case in the “darkly beautiful, heart-wrenching” (Booklist, starred review) thriller set in China from the...

In Boston wird die Leiche eines Tierpräparators gefunden - ausgeweidet wie eines seiner Beutetiere. Es scheint eine mysteriöse Verbindung zu einem Jahre zurückliegenden Vorfall in Afrika zu geben, wo die Teilnehmer einer Safari auf ungeklärte Weise verschwanden. Jane Rizzoli reist nach Botswana, um dem heimtückischen Mörder auf die Spur zu kommen