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'Haunting, heartbreaking, quietly terrifying. Unforgettable' CHRIS WHITAKER Three of them adrift on the narrowboat. Mother, son, and wickedness. Peggy Jenkins and her teenage son, Samson, live on a remote stretch of canal in the Midlands. She is a writer and he is a schoolboy. Together, they...

Brought to you by Penguin. From the million-copy #1 New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer After and Meet Me at the Lake, Carley Fortune returns with a glorious and tantalising new escape Every summer forces Felix and Lucy to be together but they shouldn’t be. Can they resist...

Brought to you by Penguin. LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021 Clara's sister is missing. Angry, rebellious Rose, had a row with their mother, stormed out of the house and simply disappeared. Eight-year-old Clara, isolated by her distraught parents' efforts to protect her from the truth, is...

A gripping novel full of shocking reveals, perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty, Amanda Prowse and Kerry Fisher. The small suburb of Pleasant Court lives up to its name. It's the kind of place where everyone knows their neighbours, and children play in the street. Isabelle Heatherington doesn't...

It's hard to truly get lost in 2025, but Arden trusted his GPS in the deep, rural woods of Georgia, where satellite signals don't reach. Now he, his wife Laurie, and their two children, traveling back home after a fun weekend away, have run out of gas next to a house displaying a very unwelcoming sign. The porch light turns on. A large man with a shotgun emerges. As he walks slowly toward their car, the family has no idea how bad their night is about to become…

From the Collins Crime Club archive, the forgotten second novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’ and recognised as one of the ‘big four’ Golden Age crime authors. When the body of Sir William Ponson is found in the Cranshaw River near his home of...

Seit einem traumatischen Unfall kann Willow der freien Natur nicht mehr viel abgewinnen. Aber ausgerechnet sie wird von ihrem Chef für einen Fotoauftrag in die Adirondack Mountains geschickt, genauer gesagt: nach Berryfield. Die Griffin-Brüder erklären sich bereit, ihr die Gegend zu zeigen, aber die Aufgabe bleibt an Samuel hängen. Der findet die quirlige Willow etwas anstrengend und oberflächlich, aber bei jedem gemeinsamen Streifzug durch die Gegend merkt er, dass sein erster Eindruck ihn vollkommen getäuscht hat.

From the USA Today bestselling author of The Story of Us and Fisher's Light comes a new, standalone novel - a heartwrenching story about second chances that will make you fall in love all over again. Five years. I would've stayed away longer if I hadn't received the letter. Not a day has gone by...

Five seconds of honesty: Wells Canyon is the last place Blair Hart wants to be. But her mother's illness leaves her no choice except to return to the hometown-and the traumatic past-she's spent thirteen years hiding from. A run-in with the boy who tore her life to pieces is inevitable in a town like Wells Canyon, but that doesn't mean she's prepared for the way Denver Wells can turn back time with a single smile.

Little Henry Wallace was eight years old and 100 miles from home before anyone talked to him. His mother placed him on a train with a label around his neck, asking for him to be kept safe for a week, kept away from Hinton Hollow. Because something was coming.

Rose Gordon knew the farm would be hers when Charlie died. Strong and sassy, Rose is the sole heir to five generations of cattle country and the magnificent Barrington Homestead. But Charlie’s will is not as she expects, and the appearance of Angus Hamilton on the day of the funeral unsettles her. Handsome and single, she's attracted to him. But can she trust him?

As long as Carmel stays in London, nothing can happen to shatter her perfect life. She has a wonderful marriage, a rewarding career and a great bunch of friends. As far as she's concerned, the sadness of her past can stay back in Ireland, where it belongs. For Carmel, Ireland only means misery, loneliness and fear and she never wants to return. The new, confident and happy Carmel only exists on the cosmopolitan streets of Britain's capital. If she ever was forced to return, she fears she would revert to the mousey downtrodden woman she once was.

Two brothers brave a whirlwind summer in this taut and luminous coming-of-age novel A twelve-year-old boy lives with his family in a small, poverty-stricken town in Vermont. His father works at a manufacturing plant, his mother is a homemaker, and his fifteen-year-old brother is about to enter...

Als Nova beschließt, ihr Studium abzubrechen und Work & Travel in den USA zu machen, freut sie sich auf eine aufregende Zeit – aber als Erstes landet sie ausgerechnet in der Kleinstadt Berryfield. Sie merkt jedoch schnell, dass der Ort mehr zu bieten hat, als sie dachte, was vor allem am charmanten Kletterlehrer Hudson liegt, der ihr die abenteuerliche Seite von Berryfield zeigt. Nova leidet unter Höhenangst, beschließt aber, dass sie die endlich überwinden will.

Die Stylistin Cleo führt ein schillerndes Leben in Berlin. Ihre Kindheit auf dem Land hat sie weit hinter sich gelassen, von Kuhmist und selbstgestrickten Pullis will sie nichts mehr wissen. Doch als sie in die Bretagne reisen muss, um auf dem Biohof des wortkargen Farmers Finn auszuhelfen, holt ihre Vergangenheit sie wieder ein. Erst als sie dem schwächelnden Marktstand der Farm neues Leben einhaucht, bröckelt ihr Widerwille. Cleo verliebt sich in das wilde Meer, die raue Küstenlandschaft und deren eigenwillige Bewohner. Und auch Finn hat durchaus seinen Charme.

1964: Als Helene das Angebot erhält, an die Schule in Kirchdorf zurückzukehren, geht sie nur zögernd darauf ein, denn sie befürchtet, dass ihre Gefühle für den Landarzt Tobias ihr Leben erneut durcheinanderwirbeln könnten. Doch nicht nur diesem Problem muss sie sich stellen. An der Schule warten ungeahnte Herausforderungen auf Helene, die ihren ganzen Einsatz erfordern. Ihre zwölfjährige Tochter Marie zeigt sich zunehmend dickköpfig, und ihre Freundin Isabella hat eine Beziehung zu einem schwarzen GI, den die Dorfbewohner mit Argwohn betrachten.

Cecil Younger never thought it would come to this: providing surveillance for a chicken coop being raided by a fowl thief. But things have not exactly been breaking right lately for the Alaskan P.I. The logical thing to do? Take a vacation, of course. Well, it's not exactly a vacation. Younger has been paid to investigate a doctor aboard a luxurious first-class cruise ship up the Alaskan coast. Except passengers are dying. Now Younger finds himself trapped on a ship of fools with a murderer who is leaving a trail of well-to-do passengers in his wake...and leaving evidence pointing an accusing finger at Cecil!

When a dead man is found locked in the basement of an abandoned house, deep in the woods, there is no evidence of what happened beyond his name - scratched into the wall before he died. The regional police can't find anyone who knew him. But no-one knows the locals like Detective Eira Sjöden. When her expert knowledge of her home town is again called in, she knows one of them must have seen something. Before she can uncover the truth, though, someone shockingly close to her disappears.

‘A tense, gripping domestic noir’ T.M. Logan No matter where you hide… Kaitlyn Best is stuck in a rut. So when she discovers she's pregnant after a one-night-stand with Alex, her school crush, she throws caution to the wind and accepts his offer to make a new life together in the depths of...

1964: Als Helene das Angebot erhält, an die Schule in Kirchdorf zurückzukehren, geht sie nur zögernd darauf ein, denn sie befürchtet, dass ihre Gefühle für den Landarzt Tobias ihr Leben erneut durcheinanderwirbeln könnten. Doch nicht nur diesem Problem muss sie sich stellen. An der Schule warten ungeahnte Herausforderungen auf Helene, die ihren ganzen Einsatz erfordern. Ihre zwölfjährige Tochter Marie zeigt sich zunehmend dickköpfig, und ihre Freundin Isabella hat eine Beziehung zu einem schwarzen GI, den die Dorfbewohner mit Argwohn betrachten.