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Photographer Isla Wilson is thrilled she's landed her dream job, but the clients who hired her are getting stranger by the day. It sounded so perfect—a month's assignment at the lush Scottish Highlands property of architect Alban McGregor, and his wife, Jessica. But in the woods, there's a playhouse with a chilling history. Two years ago, the McGregors' daughter Elodie was abducted and then died in that playhouse. The townspeople insist her abductor had to be a stranger in their town. Alban refuses to knock the playhouse down, even keeping a picture of it on his wall.

After a nationwide manhunt for notorious felon Carl Deere left two women hospitalised in a critical condition, clinical psychiatrist and criminal profiler Doctor Alexander Gregory is left heartbroken. Both are special to him: one is his new friend, Detective Chief Inspector Ava Hope, and the other is the woman he loves, Doctor Naomi Palmer. However, there’s something he doesn’t know…

Eine Maschine der British Airways stürzt unter verdächtigen Umständen in die unerreichbaren Tiefen der Keltischen See und reißt 228 Menschen in den Tod, ein Mädchen sieht jede Nacht zur Stunde des Wolfes seinen verschollenen Vater, eine betrogene Mörderin beweist Haltung, eine Polizistin und ihr Partner haben sowohl einander als auch den üblichen Verdächtigen eine Menge vorzuwerfen, und eine lang verstummte Autorin meldet sich wieder zu Wort.

When the body of a teenage girl is found in a London hotel, DI Patrick Lennon is mystified. Nobody saw her or her killer enter the hotel, and there is no apparent motive - until a second teenager is found and Lennon realises somebody is targeting fans of the world's biggest boy band.

After visiting a remote beauty spot in Thailand, newly married British couple, Vic and Louise Landry, fail to return to their hotel. With no bodies found, however, and after several weeks of intense press coverage, the frenzy of speculation quickly fades: the couple had surely been robbed and left for dead somewhere in the vast steamy, mountainous jungle.

This was meant to be the perfect honeymoon. A five-star beach resort in Vietnam, with white sands, private villas and world-class cuisine. A chance for newlyweds Asha and Ollie Graveney to recover from a tragedy that has left them on the verge of collapse. Except things don't go as planned. When Asha wakes up in hospital after a brutal attack, her husband is nowhere to be found. And paradise has turned into a nightmare....

Vivian is a cosmopolitan Taiwanese-American tourist who often escapes her busy life in London through adventure and travel. Johnny is a 15-year-old Irish teenager living a neglected life on the margins of society. He has grown up in a family where crime is customary, violence is a necessity, and everything - and anyone - can be yours for the taking. As Vivian looks to find her calling professionally, she delights in exploring foreign countries, rolling hillsides, and new cultures. But all of that changes when...Vivian's path collides with Johnny.

Across the globe, five strangers receive a horrifying message from an unknown number. The person you love most is in danger. To save them, each must play The Game—a sinister unknown entity that has a single rule: there can only be one winner. If you lose, your loved one will die. But what is The Game—and why have they been chosen?

How well do you really know your best friend? Kat Grant and Alice Campbell have a friendship forged in shared confidences and long lunches lubricated by expensive wine. Though they’re very different women—the artsy socialite and the struggling suburbanite—they’re each other’s rocks...

Catherine excels at helping desperate people disappear. But now she must use her unique skill set to find a missing woman in this electrifying novel from the author of The Burial Society. Eva Lombard is being followed. Or so she suspects. . . . Eva and her husband, Peter, are in Hong Kong on a...

1979. Leading businesswoman Rebecca is struggling to build healthy relationships. Her on off partner is a philandering police officer, part of the team chasing the Yorkshire Ripper who’s striking terror across the county. Then Rebecca meets Larry, the charming American, with a troubled past. And then of course there’s Mervyn, the creepy journalist who’s desperate for a girlfriend and willing to do anything to keep her in his life. With three very different men craving her attention, and a serial killer on the loose, Rebecca finds herself in a twisted game of cat and mouse.

Detective Winter Labey is called to a historic German bunker abandoned after the occupation of the island of Jersey, where tourists have discovered the concealed body of a prominent local figure. Was the execution-style murder connected to the Nazi graffiti daubed on the walls of his tomb? Winter calls on forensic psychologist Saskia Monet, whose own childhood gives her a unique understanding of the darkest recesses of the human mind. As Saskia and Winter delve into the case, they unravel a web of secrets the victim had desperately tried to keep hidden from his family.

When an armed man massacres several people in central London, Claudine witnesses the whole thing. To her horror, one of the victims is her brother, Jethro. Riven by grief, Claudine retreats to the house in the Fens where she and Jethro grew up. When the police contact her, she is left reeling when they tell her Jethro orchestrated the attack. Why would a gentle, if troubled, middle-aged man cause such bloodshed – and why would he include himself in the list of victims? Claudine finds herself down a rabbit hole of mystery, caught up in Jethro's research on a medieval cult.

Will Edwards, tueur en série de la pire espèce, parvient à s'évader, grâce à un mystérieux complice. RJ Scanlon, profiler et chef d'une équipe d'enquêteurs du FBI qui l'avait lui-même mis sous les verrous, part à nouveau sur les traces de son ennemi le plus intime.

Sukellus sivistysyhteiskunnan kylmäävään kääntöpuoleen. On lämmin kesäpäivä ja rikoskomisario Ewert Truut hälytetään tukholmalaiselle esikaupunkialueelle taltuttamaan aseen kanssa riehuvaa nuorta teinityttöä. Kun tyttö riisutaan aseista ja kuljetetaan sairaalaan, käy ilmi, että hänen kielensä on leikattu irti. Muutamia päiviä myöhemmin Truutin ystävä murhataan raa’asti ja poliisit löytävät yhteyden tämän ja teinitytön väliltä.

Systrarna Heather och Sunny Bethany ska bara göra några ärenden på ett av Baltimores stora köpcentrum, ett ställe de besökt många gånger förr. Men den här dagen blir det annorlunda – de återvänder aldrig därifrån. Dagar blir till veckor som blir till månader och år, utan att minsta spår efter de två systrarna dyker upp. Trettio år senare skadas en kvinna i en smitningsolycka. När hon tas om hand hävdar hon att hennes namn är Heather Bethany, mer än så kan hon inte säga. Polisen står handfallen inför kvinnans påstående.

När journalisten Hanna Axelsdotter flyttar in i ett hyreshus mitt i centrala Stockholm är grannens dörr avspärrad med polistejp. Hanna, som hyser en hemlig fascination för våldsamma brott, börjar genast intressera sig för fallet. Strax visar det sig att grannen, den unga Esther, har anmälts försvunnen av sin pojkvän. Han blir dock snabbt misstänkt för att ha med hennes försvinnande att göra och anhålls. I samma hus bor även Adrian, en ensam ung prepper som ägnar sig åt onlinespel och att förbereda sig på jordens undergång.

En ung man skjuts ihjäl i Gamla stan. De märkliga omständigheterna gäckar polisinspektör Kajsa Nordin. Tillsammans med pensionerade kriminalkommissarie Modig från Örnsköldsvik gräver hon i fallet.Spåren leder till den världskända konstnären Zetas ateljé på Södermalm. En tatuerad cirkel på kvinnans handled gör att Kajsa dras in i en härva av lögner, hemliga sällskap och riskabla äventyr.När den omaka trion landar i Västernorrland får Kajsa svårt att avgöra om Zeta verkligen hjälper dem att lösa mordet eller agerar efter en egen agenda.

För tolv år sedan dömdes den framgångsrika arkitekten Rachel Beckett mot sitt nekande till livstid för mordet på sin man. När hon nu ska bli villkorligt frigiven är det en helt ny tillvaro som väntar. Åren i fängelset har satt sina spår, vännerna har vänt henne ryggen och tonårsdottern Amy, som växt upp hos fosterföräldrar, vägrar att träffa henne. Men Rachel har en väl utarbetad plan: det är dags för henne att skipa rättvisa, kosta vad det kosta vill.

Liv loves her son, Adrian. That's why she keeps a low profile in Sandefjord, Norway: just another tired single mother, trying to make ends meet. She has never told her son about the secrets she carries or the life she lived before he was born. She will do anything to keep him safe. Anastasia's life is transformed when she moves from Russia to Milan and starts modelling. Suddenly, she's rich. She's desired. But then she begins to see the dark side of her new life and she will do anything to escape.