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Nina can never forgive Maggie for what she did. And she can never let her leave. They say every house has its secrets, and the house that Maggie and Nina have shared for so long is no different. Except that these secrets are not buried in the past. Every other night, Maggie and Nina have dinner together. When they are finished, Nina helps Maggie back to her room in the attic, and into the heavy chain that keeps her there.

A black comedy of resentment and entitlement, Look What You Made Me Do is the story of two very different women from two very different generations, heading toward a battle only one of them can win.

'Chilling and addictive. . . lingers in the memory long after you put it down' The Herald 'An impressive, assured psychological thriller' The Scotsman A stunning debut novel. Beautifully constructed, it thrums with mystery and tension. A magnificent achievement' NICOLA STURGEON 'I absolutely...

Brought to you by Penguin. ** THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ** The unputdownable new thriller from the 'queen of the one-sit read' and No.1 bestselling author of Everyone Here is Lying Nothing ever happens in sleepy little Fairhill. The teenagers get their kicks telling ghost stories in...

‘I always see the twists coming – but not this time’ LEE CHILD Don't miss the jaw-dropping new thriller from Sunday Times bestseller Clare Mackintosh! YOU THINK YOU KNOW THE PEOPLE YOU LOVE Nadeeka is certain Jamie is having an affair. She knows the tell-tale signs. She’s been here...

From international bestselling master of suspense Nicci French comes a hair-raising locked-room thriller about a group of old university friends with a killer in their midst. Old friends, new secrets, one deadly reunion. Tyler Green, convicted of murdering his friend Leo at a student house party...

Eliza Moss's intoxicating debut novel is a dark, intense, and compelling account of what happens when a young woman falls in love with the wrong kind of man. Enola is approaching 30 and everything feels like a lot. The boxes aren’t ticked and she feels adrift in a way she thought she would...

When Rosie inherits No.13 Arundel Crescent from the birth parents she never knew, the large house in London’s upmarket Notting Hill feels like a dream come true, at first... But dreams can become nightmares. The house is crumbling around her and has conditions attached. She can’t sell it on, and before long, she’s forced to take in lodgers, just to pay the bills.

Ich bin auf den Geschmack gekommen. Sie kann sich ruhig wehren. Es bringt ihr ohnehin nichts. Wenn ich etwas will, kenne ich keine Gnade und keine Zurückhaltung. Außerdem muss ich dringend mit ihr über die Sache mit dem Skalpell reden. Das war wirklich nicht nett und hat mir aufs Gemüt geschlagen. Sie weiß, wozu ich fähig bin, wenn ich gute Laune habe – und deswegen hätte sie sich wirklich vorher überlegen sollen, ob es klug ist, mich wütend zu machen…

Es gibt Geschichten, die wir lieben, Geschichten, die uns zerstören. Und dann gibt es jene, die beides tun. Fiktion und Wahrheit vermischen sich. Denn das Schicksal ist erbarmungslos. Und manche Geschichten schreiben sich von selbst. Dieses Buch ist keine Liebesgeschichte. Es ist ein Feuer. Und du wirst brennen.

Mein nutzloser Therapeut meinte, mein größtes Problem sei Impulskontrolle – als wüsste ich das nicht selbst. Eigentlich ist es nur passend, dass ich ihn umgebracht habe. Wenn ich das dringende Verlangen spüre, jemanden zu töten, helfen zehn tiefe Atemzüge und eine nette Kindheitserinnerung eben nicht. Das hat auch er eingesehen, selbst wenn es erst in den letzten Momenten vor seinem Tod war. Ich versuche ja, daran zu arbeiten. Aber es ist … schwierig. So schwierig.

Joe Chayefski has got what he always wanted: a reputation as one of America's top neuroscientists, a beautiful wife and two perfect daughters. But when his lab is attacked by animal rights activists, Joe is forced to face the past and reconnect with the son he abandoned 20 years earlier. As he struggles to deal with the collision of his two lives - and to save his eldest daughter from the clutches of an unscrupulous tech company - Joe has to reconsider his priorities and take drastic action to save those he loves.

Grenadine Scotch Wild has only vague memories of the parents she last saw when she was six years old. But she's never forgotten their final, panicked words to her, urging Grenadine to run. The mystery of their disappearance is just one more frayed strand in a life that has lately begun to unravel completely. One year into her rocky marriage to Covey, a well-known investor, he is arrested for fraud and embezzlement. And Grenadine, now a successful collage artist and painter, is facing jail time despite her innocence.

Sarah has no memories. She just knows she was found, near death, on a beach miles from her London home. Now she is part of a medical experiment to see whether her past can be retrieved. But bad things seemed to have happened before she disappeared. The police are interested in her hidden memories, too. A nice man she meets in the supermarket appears to have her best interests at heart. He seems to understand her - almost as if he knows her.... As she fights to regain her memories and her sense of self, it is clear that people are hiding things from her.

Gaelle has a dream job working for a fashion magazine, and a husband who loves her. Life should be perfect, but life does not always go according to plan. Feeling lost and alone, Gaelle flees to a tiny seaside town on the other side of the country. As she revisits the legacy of a strange, sometimes magical childhood in France, Gaelle finds unexpected help from a thirteen-year-old stranger.

Waking in the hospital with zero memories after a car accident that killed her mysterious passenger and the other driver, Hannah finds herself suddenly thrust into a life she doesn't recognize. Doting husband. Two beautiful daughters. PTA meetings...it all feels foreign, and while her husband and doctors assure her she's recovering well and the memories will return, she's not so sure.

The stunning, classic portrait of a powerful man's downward spiral to moral ruin Jerome ""Corky"" Corcorn. A money-juggling wheeler dealer, rising politico, popular man's man, and successful womanizer. It is a Memorial Day weekend, and we are about to live with him, breathe with him, and sweat...

"In the face of tragedy, Dess’s narrator memorably dramatizes the anxiety-inducing exigencies of the creative arts, and the need of artists to remain focussed on their craft." —The New Yorker “Ms. Dess shrewdly explores the intersections between intimacy and possession.” —The Wall...

Darby Kane, author of the #1 international bestseller Pretty Little Wife, returns with another twisty domestic thriller about a wife wondering who tried to kill her husband twice before finally succeeding… because that was supposed to be her job. Dr. Richmond Dougherty is a renowned pediatric...

Life has been good for Stephanie. Married to college professor, Oliver, with two adorable children, she lives in a lovely house, surrounded by beautiful things. But it hasn’t always been like this. Nine years ago, Stephanie’s flatmate Alison vanished, presumed murdered. It was a horrible time, and Stephanie tries hard not to think about it. But when a TV researcher working on a true-crime series wants to interview her about the case, Stephanie is forced to confront the past and recognize that she has a deep need to answer one burning question—what happened to Alison?