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I thought I was lucky to have a fresh start. Those don’t come around often for a girl from the streets of this city. But a fortunate chain of events has delivered me to the center of wealth and power and into the midst of three very different, very formidable cousins with the world at their feet. Gage, Micah, and Conner were determined to be my enemies. So I braced for a war. But they underestimated me. I earned respect from one of them, friendship from another, and I found love with the third. Or so I thought.

Jane reluctantly agrees to accompany her good friend Cordelia Thorn on a peculiar holiday trip: Cordelia's estranged sister, Broadway star Octavia Thorn, has asked them to attend her wedding. Octavia getting married is no surprise, but her candidate for hubby #4 certainly is. Roland Lester is a reclusive 83-year-old retired Hollywood director. No one can understand how the two met. When the bodies start to drop, Jane realizes it might not be love at all that brought the young diva and the aged director together, but something much deeper, and perhaps more sinister.

Jane, a Minneapolis restaurateur, is invited to spend the week at Fothergill Inn, a Victorian house-turned B&B. Jane's old friend Leigh has spent years renovating the house and reopening it as an inn and restaurant. The inn has become so successful that people drive the 50 miles from Minneapolis just for dinner. But when Jane and her best friend, Cordelia, arrive for a week of relaxation, they find that the weekend's guests are anything but pleased, and that relaxing is the furthest thing from their minds. Broken glass litters the parking lot, dead animals turn up in the bedrooms, a bomb scare threatens the lives of the inn's guests. Then the pranks turn deadly....

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Aging theater actor Torald Werness' last curtain call is as a corpse. Murdered after his last performance in his last theatrical production, Minneapolis restaurateur-sleuth Jane Lawless finds his body onstage, impaled on a part of the set. Before long, a series of coincidences places Jane in the role of prime suspect. Determined to clear her name, Jane turns to her best friend, Cordelia, for help. Together, their intuition leads them to the dead man's family, a glamorous - and appropriately melodramatic - Midwestern theatrical dynasty. Jane and Cordelia must separate the theatrics from reality before Jane takes the blame for someone else's crime.

After 75 years of high-minded respectability, the Amelia Gower Women's Club is in trouble. One distinguished director has been strangled. Another has taken a fatal plunge down the club's elegant staircase.

As soon as restaurateur-sleuth Jane Lawless begins investigating these murders, wheels within wheels start to turn, meshing private lives with the club's inner workings. Even Jane's new lover, Dorrie, is somehow involved in the diabolical proceedings....

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‘Cancel your plans because once you start reading you won't be able to stop’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'The book ends with a final twist that is as shocking as it is dramatic’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ He was ten years old when the world decided he was evil. A child is killed falling from the Humber Bridge...

'The plot twist slapped me across the face so hard I couldn’t control my breathing' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Netgalley reviewer 'If you think you’ve read every possible twist in a psychological thriller… think again' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Netgalley reviewer 'My heart was pounding'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐...

‘Reading this book was like a drug. I could not put it down’⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Chilling, gripping and stomach-lurchingly twisted’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A deadly choice in the name of love. Probation officer Cate Austin faces the highest‑profile case of her career: Alice Mariani, a celebrated...

Rachel Marless is given months to live. After accepting the news, she makes a decision: She will spend her final days imparting wisdom, advice, and confessing a long list of misdeeds to her only niece, Linnea. Linnea is a freshman in college and can’t believe she’s losing her favorite aunt before they’ve had time to travel the world together. From the moment she receives the news of her aunt’s diagnosis, Linnea vows to spend each Tuesday afternoon with Rachel. Every week, she listens to her aunt’s stories and learns devastating secrets about the woman she thought she knew better than anyone.

"An unlikely romance blooms in this captivating tale of chosen family."—People The lives of four sleepless strangers intersect late at night as they attempt to solve not just their own anxieties but also the mysterious disappearance of one of their own, from New York Times bestselling author...

Simone Singh is a feisty IPS officer who would rather spend her days locking up criminals than apologizing for her lack of social skills. Freshly back from an unjust suspension, Simone is forced to team up with DSP Zoya Bharucha, an empathetic officer who's as loved in the police force as Simone...

Soon to be a NETFLIX Original Series. A POWERFUL NEW NOVEL set in a divided Naples by ELENA FERRANTE, the New York Times best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter. “There’s no doubt [the publication of The Lying Life of Adults] will be the literary event of the...

Brought to you by Penguin. From the worldwide Number One bestselling author behind the Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning HBO series Big Little Lies and smash hit bestseller Apples Never Fall. We’re all so busy, caught up in life's moments, big and small . . . The flight attendant working a shift...

Brought to you by Penguin 'I will never forget her eyes in that moment - I couldn't look away from them. But I knew what happened as soon as I heard it. 'I think she pushed him,' I said to you quietly. 'I think she pushed him...' ---- 'I read it in one sitting. Not to be missed' Lisa Jewell...

Brought to you by Penguin. The No.1 Sunday Times bestselling Richard and Judy Book Club psychological thriller. Two children get on the train. Only one gets off... 'Probably the most suspenseful book I will read all year.' Liz Nugent No one saw it happen. Your two little girls jump on the train...

Dopo il Capodanno Taormina si svuota. A scuotere la tranquilla vita della cittadina e la rassicurante routine del giornalista Giacomo Cassisi è la misteriosa morte, all'alba di un freddo giorno di gennaio, di Efre Vazzini, rampolla di una potente famiglia di imprenditori. Cassisi sceglie di indagare affidandosi al proprio intuito, cogliendo tracce che possono essere i versi di una canzone o il particolare di un quadro, il titolo di un romanzo o una ricetta culinaria.

Brought to you by Penguin. A missing child. A house full of secrets. A mystery waiting to be solved. Close your eyes. The game of hide and seek is over, but little Lily Murphy hasn't been found. Her parents try to stay positive, but they know this peaceful Dublin suburb will never be the same...

He wants power, and she wants revenge. The Best Laid Plans is full of manipulators, dirty dealers, and dastardly rascals, all snatching at power—political, financial, and sexual, or all of the above. Against the backdrop of Washington politics and the war in Bosnia, a handsome, charismatic attorney is determined to win the presidency at all costs, while his jilted fiancée is intent on revenge and grows a media empire to destroy him. In a world of beautiful people, money, and deception, two equally determined people are headed on a collision course.