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While running in Central Park, New York Times science writer Damon Ellis crashes—literally—into a story that just might resurrect his career…and change the course of human history. On the face of it, it seems absurd—a small biotech company in Boston called Calypso that claims to have cracked the secret of eternal youth. Surely a hoax. Or is it?

A Richard & Judy Book Club Pick New York Times Bestseller A Goodreads Choice Award Finalist Bright Young Women is an unflinching thriller based on Ted Bundy's heinous crimes, as two women search for justice in the wake of his brutal murders. From Jessica Knoll, author of the New York Times...

After nearly dying in the line of duty, the FBI's top criminal profiler, Genevieve Callow, contemplates a quieter life while struggling with survivor's guilt. She's reminded every day that while she was fighting for her life, another predator was stalking the night in her hometown—the Icebox Killer. She knows now that home isn't safe. But she's haunted, tired, and barely recovered. There are other agents on the killer's tail. They should be able to catch him. Or can it only be her? Now, in one brazen act, the killer has called out to her by name, taunting her―a game of cat and mouse.

East Berlin, 1975: When Oberleutnant Karin Müller is called to investigate a girl's body at the foot of the Wall, she realises this is a death like no other. It seems the girl was trying to escape - but from the West. The Stasi want her to discover the identity of the girl, but assure Müller...

Lyla Moody loves her sleepy little town of Sweet Mountain, Georgia. She likes her job as a receptionist for her uncle's private investigative firm, her fellow true-crime obsessed Jane Doe members are the friends she's always wanted, and her parents just celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. But recently, with her best friend Melanie on vacation and her ex-boyfriend and horrible cousin becoming an item and moving in next door to her, her idyllic life is on the fritz. The cherry on top of it all is finding Carol, a member of the club, dead and shoved into a suitcase.

Veronika Layne is a sassy, tattooed forty-something (okay, forty-nine) newspaper reporter who never saw herself working for a big corporation. When her small town weekly paper is swallowed up by Singh Media Group, that's exactly what happens. Further complicating her job, a sexy new reporter has been hired from the competing paper, and while he's terribly attractive, he remains the competition. But the fantasies won't stop and her best friend and fellow reporter Aiden is even starting to notice.

Finding the battered body of a young boy was not unusual in Bloody Mary’s cruel England. However, the stabbed tongue, a false seal and strange letter implicate Princess Elizabeth, threatening to bring down the Tudor Dynasty. Doctor John Dee and his secret apprentice, Margaretta, using his...

This book was previously published as Blood Runs Cold. The past is reaching out its cold and deadly fingers. On the hottest day of the year, 11-year-old Blair Smeaton vanishes near a riverbank, leaving police baffled and desperate. Detective Anna Gwynne, still haunted by her recent trauma...

As a colleague of deputy coroner Mattie Winston, social worker Clothilde "Hildy" Schneider is no stranger to unsolved murders at Sorenson General Hospital. Except this time, it's up to her to crack the case.... Motivated by her own difficult past, Hildy has an unparalleled commitment to supporting troubled clients through grief and addiction in Sorenson, Wisconsin. But when a distraught group therapy member reveals disturbing details about her late son's potential murder, Hildy goes from dedicated mental health professional to in-over-her-head amateur sleuth.   

After far too many years in the Los Angeles corporate world, Whitney Dagner has come home to Santa Catalina Island off the California coast to help her brother Nick run Nautically Yours, the family tourism business. Between gift shop shifts selling all manner of T-shirts and tchotchkes and keeping her feline Whiskers in fine fettle, she pilots the Sea Bounder, a glass-bottom boat showing tourists the underwater sights of aquatic plants, marine life - and a murder victim?

The Adventures of Ellery Queen is a radio detective program broadcast between June 1939 and May 1948. The program invited a panel of armchair detectives to solve cases during its broadcast. Adapting a technique that had been used earlier in the Author! Author! radio program, when an episode's script reached a point at which all of the clues had been revealed, the scripted portion stopped, and the panel was challenged to identify the culprit.

Brought to you by Penguin. A BEST DEBUT OF 2024 BY BB The instant Sunday Times bestseller Yorkshire, 1979 Maggie Thatcher is prime minister, drainpipe jeans are in, and Miv is convinced that her dad wants to move their family Down South. Because of the murders. Leaving Yorkshire and her best...

'I absolutely devoured One Dark Summer. It had me gripped from the very first page and didn't let me go until the end . . . totally captivating' Angela Marsons, #1 million-copy bestseller 'A deeply absorbing novel with a wonderfully atmospheric setting. Beautifully written and thrillingly...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In the dimly lit streets of Victorian London, where danger lurks beneath the veneer of elegance, Prince Florizel of Bohemia and Colonel Geraldine find themselves entangled in a web of mystery and deceit. Seeking thrills beyond the confines of their...

A page-turning cozy mystery from Debbie Young, perfect for fans of Fiona Leitch, Faith Martin and Agatha Christie 🎭🩸🔍 ONE VILLAGE. TEN SUSPECTS. ONE DEADLY PERFORMANCE. The curtain is about to rise on the Bunbury Players' latest production, Oscar Wilde's classic comedy, The Importance...

This book was previously published as Before She Falls. The Black Squid is back — and it’s learned new tricks. Ryegrove Hospital was meant to keep people safe. Instead, it hid the truth for seventeen years. As Anna Gwynne digs into a pair of suspicious deaths long written off as suicides...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Follow Simon Rolles, a curious assistant preacher, who stumbles upon the fabled Rajah's Diamond hidden within a rose bed. As he embarks on a journey to decipher its secrets, he finds himself caught up in a world of thieves, clergymen, and an...

'If you love Liane Moriarty and Shari Lapena, you'll love this twisty psychological thriller' Pick Me Up An addictive thriller that will keep you guessing until the last page, perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty and Shari Lapena. Meet the young widows: The hot mess Kylie is done with...

This book was previously published as The Silent Girls Truth is often buried where few dare to look. A young girl disappears, echoing an unsolved murder from the past. The police think they’ve found their man, just as they had before. But they've already got it badly wrong once, forcing facts...

Dr. Oscar LeBlanc is close to a medical breakthrough to cure dementia and other degenerative diseases...but in order to succeed, he needs to illegally obtain plasma from prepubescent children. He believes the ends justify the means, so two young girls are abducted. The disappearance of the girls causes a lockdown of the area, and when one of the girl's parents proves uncooperative with the police, former homicide-cop-turned-radio-presenter Maggie Wise offers to help. Maggie quickly forms a connection with the family just as the girls are recovered.