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Keshav is screwed. He hates his job, and his girlfriend has left him. For four years after their breakup, Keshav was unable to forget the beautiful Zara Lone. Zara moved on in life. Keshav couldn’t. He drank every night to forget her. He called her, messaged her and stalked her on social media. Zara ignored his messages, until after four years, on the eve of her birthday, Zara messaged Keshav, asking him to come to her hostel room 105. Keshav shouldn’t have gone, but he did...and his life changed forever. This is not a love story. It is an unlove story.

In the wake of her husband's inexplicable suicide - and the equally mysterious deaths of scores of other exemplary individuals - Jane picks up the trail of a secret cabal of powerful players who think themselves above the law and beyond punishment. But the people bent on hijacking America's...

In the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die almost a decade after the crime. So when a man succumbs to complications from being shot by a stray bullet nine years earlier, Bosch catches a case in which the body is still fresh, but any other evidence is virtually nonexistent. Now Bosch and his new partner, rookie Detective Lucia Soto, are tasked with solving what turns out to be a highly charged, politically sensitive case.

Gaston Leroux is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera. However, he also wrote some excellent detective stories. In fact,Leroux's contribution to French detective fiction is considered a parallel to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's in the United Kingdom and Edgar Allan Poe's in America. In this, his most popular mystery, rival detectives try to crack a case.

Finalist for the 2023 AUDIE AWARDS for Thriller/Suspense The next astonishing thriller from the master of the legal thriller. Sunday Times No 1 bestseller John Grisham returns to Mississippi in his most gripping thriller yet. For most of the last hundred years, Biloxi was known for its beaches...

"Dicker has the first-rate crime novelist's ability to lead his readers up the garden path" Sunday Express It all starts with an innocuous curiosity: at the Hotel Verbier, a luxury hotel in the Swiss Alps, there is no Room 622. This anomaly piques the interest of the writer Joël Dicker...

The Mystery of the Yellow Room is Gaston Leroux's masterpiece, and it turned out to be his most successful book during his lifetime. It is one of the classics of early twentieth century detective fiction.

‘A tour de force’ – S.A. Cosby ‘An instant classic’ – Alex Michaelides Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a murder case sets a duo of Black and white lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully-accused Black defendants. Jack...

A lavish weekend party, a practical joke that goes murderously wrong, and stolen state secrets all transpire in The Seven Dials Mystery, by Agatha Christie. Full of her usual sly wit this clever murder mystery is a classic detective story featuring some of the characters from an earlier novel, The Secret of Chimneys: Lady Eileen (Bundle) Brent, Lord Caterham, Bill Eversleigh, George Lomax, Tredwell, and Superintendent Battle.

Jake Brigance, the protagonist of John Grisham's classic legal thriller, A Time to Kill, is back. This time he's at the epicenter of a sensational murder trial that bitterly divides the citizens of Clanton, Mississippi. John Grisham's A Time to Kill is one of the most popular novels of our time...

Don’t miss the gripping, twisty final novel in Anita Davison’s Golden Age cozy mystery series! 🕵️‍♀️📚🔎 A must-read for fans of Agatha Christie, Helena Dixon and Verity Bright. Aunt Violet and her niece Hannah have a bookshop to run. But after a customer comes in asking for a...

Private investigator Rae Donovan’s relationship with her father is distant to the point of estrangement. But when she learns he’s dying in hospice, she drops everything to be at his side. By the time she arrives, he’s already too far gone to speak, and a doctor says his death is consistent with poisoning. As she scours his isolated Adirondack home for clues, she discovers a hidden room filled with surveillance equipment, weapons, and a safe full of cash—maybe her father wasn’t the unassuming retiree she’d imagined.

Welcome to The Confession Room: An online forum for anonymous atonement. Some people confess to affairs, others to stealing. Some admit deep, dark wishes. But one day, a confession is posted that nobody expects: murder. And not just one named victim, but two. As more victims are named, and more bodies found, people begin to fear who could be named next. Because it seems that if you have a secret, they'll find you. They know who you are. They know what you've done. Not everyone can survive The Confession Room.

It seemed like a simple case: the murder of Lewis Trenton, a beachcomber who lived alone in a cabin in the Oregon hills. But the newspaper article piques the interest of Vivian Wainwright, owner of the British-style Misty Bay Tearoom. The photo accompanying the article shows Lewis’s cluttered living room and on the shelf is a replica of Big Ben. Vivian is sure she sold the clock a week before in her shop. Who could have given the replica to Lewis? What was the true motive behind Lewis’s murder? And what secrets can the clock tell—before the killer strikes again?

Scones, a tea shop in England, a kitty, and a murder...yes, please! Enjoy the first three books in the Oxford Tearoom Mysteries, in one handy collection! Join tearoom sleuth Gemma Rose, her mischievous feline Muesli, and the nosy Old Biddies as they tackle murder and mystery in the beautiful city of Oxford - not to forget the delights of delicious baking and afternoon tea in a quaint English village!

*The brand new thriller from Lucy Foley – THE MIDNIGHT FEAST – is available to buy now* *The No.1 New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller* Discover the electric murder mystery thriller from the No.1, million-copy bestseller, Lucy Foley ‘Dazzling’ The Times ‘Compelling, up-all-night...

Brought to you by Penguin. The new paranormal romance from the bestselling author of My Roommate is a Vampire! Two souls. One unforgettable journey. A love story that is good to the last drop. Zelda Watson is finally living her best life, far from her magical, chaotic past. But when Peter...

A sinister phone call in the middle of the night throws tearoom sleuth, Gemma Rose, straight into the heart of a new murder - featuring a mysterious killing in the cloisters of an old Oxford college. The investigation points to scandals and feuds within the University, but Gemma finds unexpected clues popping up in her little Cotswolds village as she sets out to solve the mystery with the help of her mischievous tabby cat, Muesli.

Eight BBC Radio crime dramas featuring Golden Age detective Gideon Fell, starring Donald Sinden With his cape, canes and shovel hat, portly amateur sleuth Dr Gideon Fell cuts an eccentric figure - but his odd appearance belies his sharp intellect and astonishing faculty for deduction. Created by...

The longest day. The deadliest sins. *From the bestselling author of Dark Island* All of Daniel Aubrey's books can be read as standalones. The residents of Orkney can’t sleep. Through 18-hour summer days, the islands are drenched in unrelenting sunshine. But a killer with a shadowy past is...