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On the Yorkshire moors, celebrated author Faye Mathis is coming to terms with her early-onset dementia. She has begun writing her memoir, committing her past to paper before her memory betrays her. But her family history is full of gaps, bloodlines cut short, family ties all ending in knots. When a picture of Faye – dirty and dishevelled, stumbling alone on the moors – goes viral, her life is thrown into chaos. Faye is convinced she is not that person in the photograph. But how can she be sure?

Bjorn Thorsson joined the Special Air Service to forget the horrors of his childhood. He killed for Queen and country, and he was good at it. He quits the army and settles down, looking for a quieter life. When his beautiful sister, Gudrun, finds herself in trouble with the owner of a hedge fund, Bjorn promises to get her out of danger. But there’s another factor in play. Group 15, a clandestine government agency, has plans for the financier, and Bjorn is in their way. Bjorn must outwit the Group in the streets of London and in the Highlands of Scotland if he is to protect his sister and survive.

My sister – the glue that held our family together and the gatekeeper to the memories of our shared childhood. The girl I made a pact with – to protect each other for life. The woman who destroyed my family, my future. And the only one who can save my daughter.

Twin sisters Ellie and Tia were torn apart the day their parents died. Ellie was given the picture-perfect life—marriage, a home, security. Tia was cast aside, growing up in the shadows, unwanted, unloved, and never quite belonging. Now, after years apart, fate brings them together again. Ellie is desperate to believe this is a chance to rebuild their bond. To finally have the sister she always longed for. But Tia hasn’t come back to play happy families. She knows the secret Ellie is hiding— a secret that could shatter her perfect marriage and destroy everything she’s built.

** From the bestselling author of Amazon Number One series THE GIRLFRIEND ** Sisters is an unsettling story of sibling rivalry by the number one bestselling author of The Girlfriend, Michelle Frances. 'Terrific . . . Twisted, fraught with suspense' - Jo Spain 'I tore through the pages, desperate...

The six D’Aplièse sisters have each been on their own incredible journey to discover their heritage, but they still have one question left unanswered: who and where is the seventh sister? They only have one clue - an image of a star-shaped emerald ring. The search to find the missing sister will take them across the globe - from New Zealand to Canada, England, France and Ireland - uniting them all in their mission to complete their family at last.

Tracy Crosswhite has spent 20 years questioning the facts surrounding her sister Sarah’s disappearance and the murder trial that followed. She doesn’t believe that Edmund House - a convicted rapist and the man condemned for Sarah’s murder - is the guilty party. Motivated by the opportunity to obtain real justice, Tracy became a homicide detective with the Seattle PD and dedicated her life to tracking down killers.

Snow Delaney was born a generation and a world away from her sister, Agnes. Until recently, neither even knew of the other's existence. They came together only for the reading of their father's will - when Snow discovered, to her horror, that she was not the sole beneficiary of his large estate. Now Snow is in prison and Agnes is missing, disappeared in the eerie red dust that blanketed Sydney from dawn on September 23, 2009.

Rachel thought she could outrun her past. But when her sister Imogen returns home after years abroad, the walls Rachel built around her begin to crumble. Imogen wants what she believes is hers—no matter the cost. Twenty years after the tragic drowning of their baby brother, Rachel has constructed a life that appears perfect on the surface. A successful career, a loving daughter, and a claim on her parents’ beautiful family home, The Old Rectory. But the cracks are starting to show.

Their bond was unbreakable. The truth was unimaginable. When Beatrice receives a call to say that her sister, Tess, is missing, she boards the first flight home. But as she learns about Tess’s disappearance, she is stunned to discover how little she actually knows of her sister's life. Everyone around her accepts they have lost Tess, but Beatrice refuses to give up, embarking on a dangerous journey to discover the shocking truth, whatever the cost...

Un suspense psychologique électrisant pour les fans de Claire Mackintosh ("Te laisser partir", Prix du meilleur roman étranger Festival Polar de Cognac 2016), S.K. Tremayne ("Le Doute"), S.J. Watson ("Avant d'aller dormir") et Paula Hawkins ("La Fille du train"). Je m'appelle Irini. Mes parents m'ont abandonnée. Je m'appelle Eleanor. Quand ma sœur avait trois ans, mes parents l'ont abandonnée. Moi, ils m'ont gardée. Deux sœurs. Deux vies séparées. Une seule et même famille, unie par un atroce secret. Irini n'avait que trois ans lorsqu'elle a été abandonnée par ses parents.

Sydney screenwriter Greta Maitland’s life crashes at the arrival of the postcard from Crete: ‘Sorry to tell you this, but your sister Xanthe has been missing since May. Police have found no trace....’ Greta immediately flies to Crete to continue the stalled investigation, but there, runs into deceit; the Cretan police officer deliberately mistranslates her questions; Xanthe’s lover lies...more and more disturbing facts emerge about her sister, and Greta’s growing suspicions about her husband seem confirmed.

Nineteen-year-old Sally is battered and bruised, and lying in the hospital once again. It’s nothing new, it’s happened before and it’ll happen again. But when DI Laura Kesey introduces Sally to a new social worker, she finds hope at a local women’s domestic violence refuge, where she’s surrounded by women just like her. But then a man is mowed down in a hit and run. Soon a second suspicious death follows. Both deaths link back to the refuge. Has Sally found a safe place or a new danger?

Suspended from duty, Detective Frølich is working as a private investigator when his girlfriend's colleague asks for his help with a female asylum seeker who the authorities are about to deport. She claims to have a sister in Norway and fears that returning to her home country will mean instant death. Frølich quickly discovers the whereabouts of the young woman's sister, but things become increasingly complex when she denies having a sibling, and Frølich is threatened off the case by the police.

The latest novel from New York Times best-selling author Jennifer McMahon is an atmospheric, gripping, and suspenseful tale that probes the bond between sisters and the peril of keeping secrets. Once the thriving attraction of rural Vermont, the Tower Motel now stands in disrepair...

France, 1942. Orphaned sisters Léa and Rose live under the increasingly oppressive German occupation in Orléans. Times have been tough since their mother died - all they have left is each other - but practical Léa does her best to take care of Rose, the daydreamer. Then Léa loses her job, just as Rose has a sudden and heart-stopping encounter with André, a handsome young French fugitive, that changes her life forever.

Madeline and Daphne were once as close as sisters - until a secret tore them apart. Now it might take them to their graves. They knew his name, the man who tried to brutally attack 12-year-old Madeline in her grandmother's hotel. They thought they knew his fate. He wouldn't be bothering them anymore...ever. Still, their lives would never be the same. Madeline has returned to Washington after her grandmother's mysterious death.

Alicia Bjelke has always been the "other sister," the foil to her beautiful sister Stella—people turn their backs when they see Alicia's disfigured face. So she created a life in the background, becoming a coding genius and founding a groundbreaking dating app company. With Stella as the face of the company, Alicia has found success. Until one day, when Stella is found dead and Alicia’s life takes the wrong turn. Soon, she realizes that she is the next target.

FBI Special Agent Patterson Blake has accepted that the disappearance of her sister Julie sixteen years ago will never be solved. Until shocking new evidence comes to light that makes her question everything she thought she knew. When the grisly dumping ground of a twisted serial killer is discovered, it looks like she may have found her sister's final resting spot. This sadistic murderer has been taking girls for decades and leaving them chained up, alone and terrified, to die a slow and gruesome death. Was her sister a victim of this deranged psychopath?

Mara Sitwell was only 11 when she went missing. Nineteen years later, she’s been found wandering through remote woodland, alone and confused. She says she’s been kept in an underground cell for all these years - but refuses to reveal anything about the man who snatched her. What does she have to hide? And who’s she protecting? Her brother-in-law, Damian, certainly doubts she’s telling the whole truth and fears she might even be a danger to his young children, especially when his wife insists on moving Mara into their home.