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To distract himself from his fear of flying, Hercule Poirot observes his fellow passengers on the noon flight from Le Bourget to Croydon. On his right sits a pretty young woman, clearly very aware of the handsome man opposite her; ahead of him is a nervous aristocrat and her maid; and across the...

DS Wesley Peterson, newly arrived in the West Country town of Tradmouth, has his hands full when a child goes missing and a young woman is brutally murdered on a lonely cliff path. Then his old friend, archaeologist Neil Watson, unearths the skeletons of a strangled woman and a newborn baby in the cellar of an ancient merchant's house nearby. As the investigation continues, Wesley begins to suspect that these deaths, centuries apart, may be linked by age-old motives of jealousy, a sexual obsession and desperate longing.

When anthropology professor Gideon Oliver is offered a teaching fellowship at US military bases in Germany, Sicily, Spain, and Holland, he wastes no time accepting. On his first night, he is forced to fend off two desperate, black-clad men who have invaded his Heidelberg hotel room with intent to kill. And then there are a few trivial details that the recruiting agency forgot to mention - such as the fact that the two previous holders of the fellowship both met with mysterious ends.

Despite all her years determining the fates of families, judge Hope Willis couldn't save her own. Her daughter taken, she's frantically grasping at any hope for Krissy's return. Desperate, Hope calls upon an unconventional team of experts for help.

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Brought to you by Penguin. A Sunday Times bestseller How do you solve a murder... when everyone has the same motive? From global bestselling Anthony Horowitz, a brilliantly entertaining mystery in the Hawthorne and Horowitz series. Richmond Upon Thames is one of the most desirable areas to live...

Brought to you by Penguin. Umiko Wada never set out to be a private detective, let alone become the one-woman operation behind the Kodaka Detective Agency. But so it has turned out, thanks to the death of her former boss, Kazuto Kodaka, in mysterious circumstances. Keen to avoid a similar fate...

The gruesome death of Mrs McGinty provokes Superintendent Spence to seek the help of his old ally Hercule Poirot. The victim's young lodger has been found guilty and is due to hang. But Spence is not convinced by the circumstantial evidence which influenced the verdict. So, at considerable...

Brought to you by Penguin. Wife. Writer. Murderer? When Denise Morrow is discovered standing over the body of her husband, a bloody knife between them, Detective Declan Shaw thinks it’s an open-and-shut case But Denise is no ordinary murder suspect. She’s a famous true crime author, who...

It's summer in Memphis. The sweat is sticking to Rudy Baylor's shirt and creditors are nipping at his heels. Once he had aspirations of breezing through law school and punching his ticket to the good life. Now he doesn't have a job or a prayer-except for one: an insurance dispute that leaves a...

Brought to you by Penguin. AS FEATURED ON BBC RADIO 2: 'Properly gripping' Romesh Ranganathan THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER from the number one bestselling author of THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR. We can't choose the strangers we meet. As the guests arrive at beautiful, remote Mitchell's Inn, they're all...

Nach ihrem ersten Fall in Husum hofft Kriminalkommissarin Sabine Kühn auf ein paar ruhige Tage in der Schweiz – und auf die Nähe zu dem italienischen Inspektor Daniele Molinari. Zurück in Nordfriesland gerät Sabine in Ermittlungen, die sich schnell als schwierig erweisen. Spuren verlaufen im Nichts, im Revier wird gemauert, Zeugen werden zum Schweigen gebracht – und je näher sie der Wahrheit kommt, desto gefährlicher wird es für sie und alle, die ihr etwas bedeuten.

Ravn raakt opnieuw betrokken bij een verdwijningszaak, maar dit keer leiden de aanwijzingen hem naar Berlijn. Een eenzame man heeft geld verduisterd om naar een geheimzinnige bijeenkomst in Berlijn te kunnen reizen, waarna hij spoorloos verdwijnt. Ravn raakt bij de zoektocht betrokken via de zus van de man, Louise. Verschillende alleenstaande mannen zijn op mysterieuze wijze verdwenen in Berlijn, en de zaak lijkt terug te gaan tot de Stasi-tijd. Ravn brengt zichzelf in groot gevaar als hij het mysterie probeert op te lossen door de gruwelen uit het verleden tot leven te brengen.

Ontspoord is het eerste deel in een suspense-serie over ex-detective Thomas Ravnsholdt, ook wel Ravn genoemd, die als privé-detective wordt ingehuurd om vermiste personen op te sporen. Ravn wordt uit zijn verdriet gerukt wanneer een goede vriend hem om hulp vraagt bij het vinden van een jong meisje dat een paar jaar eerder spoorloos is verdwenen. Het onderzoek dwingt Ravn om terug te gaan naar zijn oude werkplek en dus ook naar de Kopenhaagse onderwereld. Hier wijst alles erop dat het meisje is verkocht aan de grote crimineel Slavros, die een netwerk van bordelen in Europa heeft.

Lily Jones can't forget her incredible time-slip adventure back to the Golden Age of Hollywood and the friends she made there – especially a handsome barman by the name of Louis, with whom she felt such a strong connection. Back in 2020, life isn't going so well, and Lily is idly googling when she is horrified to discover that Evelyn, Louis's ex-girlfriend, was brutally murdered in 1953. Lily is compelled to go back to the 1950s and try to save Evelyn's life, but this time it isn't just the gilded stars of Tinseltown she will have to contend with, but with The Mob.

Hercule Poirot and his good friend Captain Hastings are enjoying a well-deserved break on the Cornish Riviera. Wandering along the terrace of the Hotel Majestic on the first morning of their stay, Poirot literally falls at the feet of a pretty, dark-haired girl and, much to Hastings' delight...

Nanao, nicknamed Ladybug - the self-proclaimed “unluckiest assassin in the world” - boards a bullet train from Tokyo to Morioka with one simple task: Grab a suitcase and get off at the next stop. Unbeknownst to him, the deadly duo Tangerine and Lemon are also after the very same suitcase - and they are not the only dangerous passengers onboard. Satoshi, “the Prince”, with the looks of an innocent schoolboy and the mind of a viciously cunning psychopath, is also in the mix and has history with some of the others.

Brought to you by Penguin. English crime novelist Charles Latimer is travelling in Istanbul when he makes the acquaintance of Turkish police inspector Colonel Haki. It is from him that he first hears of the mysterious Dimitrios - an infamous master criminal, long wanted by the law, whose body...

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...

A beauty traps three young friends. They are unaware of the fact that they are courting the same girl. She proves to be a death for the two of them. But why? What happens to the third friend? A savage man kills people for pleasure. What is Faridi going to do about it?