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Brought to you by Penguin. Read by award-winning narrator Jeff Harding. **NOW A MAJOR PRIME TV SERIES STARRING ALAN RITCHSON** Two female army high-flyers. Both acquainted with Jack Reacher. Both forced to resign from the service. Now they're both dead. Found in their own homes, naked, in a bath...

Brought to you by Penguin. Get ready for your new obsession - the unputdownable new thriller from the million-copy bestselling author of ALL HER FAULT, now a break-out TV show starring Sarah Snook. Your neighbours have secrets. How far would they go to keep them? *WINNER Crime Novel of the Year...

Der Fund eines Hundeskeletts setzt eine mysteriöse Mordserie in Gang – ein Mensch nach dem anderen wird vergiftet. Und wieder einmal müssen Berta und Pauline, die beiden Hobbygärtnerinnen mit Miss-Marple-Gen, einem Serienmörder das Handwerk legen. Nur kommen sie ihm dabei gefährlich nahe … Schwarzhumorig, charmant, spannend: eine fesselnde Mischung aus Cosy Crime, Pflanzen-Know-how und Mörderjagd.

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...

**Don't miss WITCH TRIAL, the jaw-dropping new thriller from bestselling author Harriet Tyce** 'Utterly compelling... I couldn't put it down' LISA JEWELL 'A classy thriller with complex and compelling characters' CLARE MACKINTOSH 'Twists that keep you frantically turning the pages' SUNDAY MIRROR...

Lucy has been desperate for a new heart for as long as she can remember. So when the call finally comes that a donor has been found, it should be a moment of joy. But for Lucy to live, someone else must die. Julia, Helen, and Phoebe have been inseparable for years, through Helen's unplanned pregnancy, the sudden death of Phoebe's mother, and Julia's struggle to conceive with her much younger husband. Yet beneath their close friendship lie secrets, resentments, and unspoken truths that threaten to surface at the worst possible moment.

Brought to you by Penguin. In this interactive crime novel, step into the shoes of a detective and investigate the most mysterious crime of your career. There’s been a murder at Elysium, a wellness retreat set in an English country manor. You arrive to find the body of a local businessman on...

No one knows what happened that night. Seven strangers must decide. Earl Thomas, a straight-laced taxman with his fair share of police encounters, is the begrudging foreperson in a high-stakes trial in Miami. Laura Hurtado-Perez is a physician whose unassuming manner conceals a private pain...

'Hypnotically good ' Lee Child 'A stunning debut' Daily Mail 'A life-affirming read' Daily Express 'A gritty debut thriller' Irish Independent 'One of the finest debuts of the year' Donald Ray Pollock 'Rich in atmosphere and relentlessly suspenseful' Michael Koryta...

Brought to you by Penguin. My name is Ernest Cunningham. I’m not a detective. I just happen to have a knack for what makes mysteries – and murderers – tick. I’d hoped, this Christmas, that any killers out there might be willing to take a break for the holidays. I was wrong. So here I am...

Brought to you by Penguin. **THE GRIPPING NOVEL FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE COUPLE AT NO 9** Three girls missing . . . Twenty years ago: One rainy night, Olivia Rutherford is driving three friends home when a figure in the road causes her to swerve and crash. Regaining consciousness, she...

Brought to you by Penguin. YOU SAW IT. YOU WERE TOO SCARED TO ACT. BUT NOW IT’S COMING FOR YOU. From the mind behind the international bestseller The Whisper Man comes a new nightmare… Daniel Garvie was a teenager when he encountered a serial killer: ‘the man made of smoke.’ Unlike the...

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by acclaimed British actor Tim McInnerny, known for his many roles on stage and screen including in Notting Hill and Blackadder. This definitive edition includes an introduction by Matthew Sweet. The Woman in White famously opens with...

From the award-winning, bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility, “a gripping story, full of moral ambiguities, where deception and betrayal become the norm, and where the expression ‘a riddle wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma’ is lifted to new heights” (St. Louis...

When retired FBI Agent Patrick Henderson calls in an 'X-Ray Sierra India' incident, the operator doesn't understand. He tells them to pass it up the chain till someone does. That person is FBI Special Agent Kimberley Reynolds. Leaving Quantico for snowbound Northern Wisconsin, she finds that a tornado has flattened half the town - and there's no sign of Henderson. Things soon go from weird to worse, as neighbours report unsettling sightings, key evidence goes missing, and the snow keeps rising - cutting off the town, with no way in or out...

When the Dawson family is found slaughtered in what appears to be a tragic murder-suicide, it seems like another heartbreaking case of a man pushed to the edge, taking his wife and children with him before ending his own life. But DI Alec McKay has doubts. Why was a mysterious BMW spotted at the Dawsons’ holiday home that day, and why are its owners also now dead? What’s behind the erratic behaviour of the new senior investigating officer? And, most disturbingly, who is sending out packages containing toys taken from the crime scene?

Das Böse in dieser Stadt ist niemals verschwunden... Ein schauderhafter Fund führt Florence Lovelady, die ranghöchste Polizeibeamtin Großbritanniens, zurück in ihre Heimat: In der englischen Kleinstadt Sabden sind in der Nähe des ehemaligen Waisenhauses vier Kinderskelette aufgetaucht. Nach offizieller Verlautbarung sind sie uralt. Doch Larry Glassbrook, verurteilter Mörder und berüchtigtster Sohn der Stadt, vertraut Florence an, dass hier etwas vertuscht wird. Um das Böse endgültig aus Sabden zu vertreiben, muss Florence sich ihrer eigenen Vergangenheit stellen – und sich in tödliche Gefahr begeben.

Penguin presents the audiobook of A Gift for Dying written by M. J. Arlidge, read by Ian Porter. Could you live with knowing how you'll die? Adam Brandt is used to dealing with all kinds of people - as a consulting psychologist with the Chicago Police Department he has faced his share of...

Die Welt in dem beschaulichen Städtchen Bäringen ist aus den Fugen. In der Schule am Ort ist der Teufel los. Gleichzeitig hält die Bäringer ein mysteriöser Erpressungsfall in Atem. Brezelfabrikant Eberle soll 10.000 Euro zahlen, sonst wird sein Brezelteig vergiftet. Zwischen Gewalteskalation, ungebremstem Medienkonsum und geschäftlichen Machenschaften suchen die Journalisten Nils Niklas und Rita Delbosco nach Spuren und stoßen schon bald auf eine Verbindung zwischen den Vorfällen an der Schule und dem Erpresser.

Nachdem es Mary besser geht, begeben sich Holmes und Watson zu Scotland Yard, um der Befragung Sommersets beizuwohnen. Die Vernehmung gestaltet sich zunächst wenig erhellend und endet dann abrupt durch einen überraschenden Zwischenfall.