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Organizational psychologist Dr. Waters is a happily solitary guy with a few deep attachments, including to his boss Paresh Rajput, the owner of a thriving hi-tech aerospace company. Until something really bad happens to CEO Rajput, which throws Waters into a lunatic swirl of murderous stalkers, corporate intrigue, amorous female executives, and crafty cops who see the inscrutable psychologist as murder suspect number one.

FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF ALL THE COLOURS OF THE DARK AND WE BEGIN AT THE END. Everyone loves Summer Ryan. A model student and musical prodigy, she's a ray of light in the struggling small town of Grace, Alabama - especially compared to her troubled sister, Raine. Then Summer vanishes...

Bloomsbury presents The Doorman by Chris Pavone, read by Edoardo Ballerini. 'Sensationally good.' LEE CHILD A pulse-pounding novel of class, privilege, sex, and murder, from the New York Times bestselling author of Two Nights in Lisbon and The Expats. Chicky Diaz is everyone’s favourite...

Yeah, yeah, the usual. A crime. A corpse. A killer. Heard it. Except this stiff happens to be a Ponsonby, scion of a venerable Edinburgh medical clan, and the manner of his death speaks of unspeakable things. Why is the body displayed like a slice of beef? How come his hands are digitally challenged? And if it's not the corpse, what is that awful smell?

Brought to you by Penguin. A stunningly original murder mystery set in the glamorous world of 70s Rock and Roll Chelsea, 1977. Rock icon Nereus Forbes is found dead behind a locked door. The verdict: suicide. The whispers: murder. Decades later, Winter Harris is still haunted by rumours that her...

Ein winterlicher Cosy-Krimi mit viel Charme, österreichischem Flair und einer Ermittlerin wider Willen, die nicht nur den Täter, sondern vielleicht auch die große Liebe findet: Inmitten der idyllischen Kulisse des Salzkammerguts führt Romy ein gemütliches Café - nur die große Liebe fehlt ihr noch zum Glück. Auf Drängen ihrer Freundin Susi lässt sie sich zu einer Blind-Date-Veranstaltung überreden, in der Hoffnung, endlich ihrem Traummann zu begegnen. Doch statt Schmetterlingen im Bauch erwartet sie eine weitaus größere Überraschung: ein Mord! Plötzlich zählt Romy selbst zu den Verdächtigen.

At 11 years old, Morgan Sheppard solved the murder of his maths teacher when everyone else believed it to be a suicide. Twenty-five years later... Morgan Sheppard wakes up handcuffed to a bed in an unfamiliar hotel room, with five strangers waking up around him. In the bathroom - a corpse. One of the people in the room is the killer, and Sheppard has three hours to solve the murder. If he doesn't find the killer, they all die.

It's bad enough when someone you know is brutally murdered; it's worse when the guy was a paranoid schizophrenic helplessly bound to a wheelchair. Sam Acquillo and Jackie Swaitkowski tried to look after Alfie Aldergreen, as had others around the Village of Southampton, but now they were forced to wonder what else they could have done.

During a violent snowstorm, the Royal Family gather at Balmoral Castle for a traditional Christmas. As per King Eric's wishes, almost all of the servants have been dismissed. The large castle is inhabited by only eight people—King Eric, his wife Princess Marjorie, his brother Prince David, his two daughters Princesses Emeline and Maud, Maud's husband Thomas Crockley, Maud's sons Princes Matthew and Martin, the royal chef Jonathan Alleyne, and head of security Tony Speck.

‘Beautiful, amazing, mesmerising’ ALAN CUMMING A MISSING PERSON MYSTERY LIKE NO OTHER I am not gone. Mum is not gone. We are here. We are hidden. A father who is trying to rescue his lost wife. Their child, desperately searching the wild forests and dangerous mountains of the Scottish...

After hitting rock bottom mentally via a road sign in Bedford, Danny Murdo bounces back and straight into the Serbian mafia, the Hungarian aristocracy, and an American film producer, amongst others, as he flounders through an Eastern Europe lurching worryingly to its right. He somehow solves crimes, aided by his heroic homosexual brother and hindered by his devoutly pious brother-in-law.

The Stonebridge Regatta is looming. The town's annual face-off against neighbouring Meadowfield is usually a weekend filled with sunshine, laughter and camaraderie. This year is different. A week before the race, the body of Stonebridge team captain Matthew Henderson is found dead in the water. The police file his passing as a tragic accident; however, his grieving widow disagrees and suspects foul play is involved. She enlists the help of Adam and Colin, the town's amateur (self-proclaimed) private detectives, to unearth the truth.

McNulty's Meats, one of Stonebridge's oldest businesses, is about to be taken over in a lucrative deal that would make brothers Ron and Kevin very rich men indeed. Unfortunately for them, local activist Tyler Love has other ideas. Convinced that the deal would be bad for the town, he burns the business to the ground and inadvertently kills himself in the process. As least, that's what the police think.

Brought to you by Penguin. In Jacknife, Louisiana, menace comes not only from the lurking 'gators, but from the secrets harboured by everyone in town... From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes a compelling, utterly immersive thriller The Labasques aren’t like other families. Living in a...

In the bestselling tradition of The Da Vinci Code, this is a breath-taking, all-action adventure from the pen of prizewinning author Tom Harper. This page-turner will take through the myths and legends of lost civilisations and into the heart of an ancient mystery...If you like Dan Brown, Clive...

The Chameleon, an Artificial Intelligence expert, can create a deepfake of almost anyone—living or dead. Even more frightening is the Chameleon’s ability to seek out disturbed souls and laser-focus their rage. A talent she employs to compel her subjects to commit violence on her behalf. Kylee Kane, a security consultant for Welch HOA Management, finds the Chameleon’s first victim, Andy Fyke, crumpled at the bottom of a flight of stairs. Kylee suspects the fall’s no accident and is tied to Andy’s campaign to prohibit rentals in his Hilton Head Island community.

Brad Hanson’s life in his suburban Atlanta subdivision is unremarkable. He investigates insurance fraud, which is as dull as it sounds, though if he’s able to get a good bonus this year, his wife, Rhonda, will finally get to have her new kitchen. His highest achievement in life is being secretary and de facto parliamentarian on the homeowners association board, which is the center of all the neighborhood drama.

Die helfende Hand. Fernsehjournalistin Kajsa Coren dreht einen Dokumentarfilm über ihre Mutter, als ihr Gerüchte über falsch verabreichte Medikamente und verdächtige Todesfälle in dem Pflegeheim, in dem auch Bibbi untergebracht ist, zu Ohren kommen. Als die Krankenschwester Ingrid brutal ermordet wird, richtet Kajsa ihre Kamera nicht mehr allein auf ihre Mutter. Was hat Ingrid über die plötzlichen Todesfälle im Heim gewusst - und war ihr genau dieses Wissen zum Verhängnis geworden? Kajsas Unruhe wächst, als ein zehnjähriger Junge vom Fußballplatz vor dem Pflegeheim spurlos verschwindet.

Das unerwünschte Kind. Als ein älteres Ehepaar auf ihrem Hof in Asker ermordet aufgefunden wird, ist die in der Nachbarschaft wohnende Fernsehjournalistin Kajsa Coren sofort vor Ort. Seitdem ihr Mann als Profiler für die Polizei arbeitet, widmet sich Kajsa eigentlich ausschließlich politischen Reportagen. Dass ihre aktuelle Recherche zu einer Reihe von Missbrauchsfällen in Kinderheimen jedoch im Zusammenhang zu dem Doppelmord stehen könnte, ahnt sie zunächst nicht. Als es Kajsa dann gelingt, immer mehr Puzzleteile zusammenzufügen, kommt sie dem Täter gefährlich nahe.

A haunting debut literary noir about a former pastor’s search to find a missing woman in the toxic, contradictory underbelly of southern California. “He was finished with church, with God, with all of it. But to find the girl, he has to go back.” In Mark Haines’s former life, he was an...