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'Riveting, twisty, page-turning stuff' Guardian A 'best books of 2020' pick for BBC Radio 4 Open Book, the Guardian, the Telegraph and Good Housekeeping 'The page turner you've been looking for. Sly, witty and gripping . . . I devoured it' Naomi Alderman 'An utter joy . . . wonderfully skilled'...

Alethea Lopez is about to turn 40. Fashionable, feisty and fiercely independent, she manages a boutique in Port of Spain, but behind closed doors she's covering up bruises from her abusive partner and seeking solace in an affair with her boss. When she witnesses a woman murdered by a jealous lover, the reality of her own future comes a little too close to home. Bringing us her truth in an arresting, unsparing Trinidadian voice, Alethea unravels memories repressed since childhood and begins to understand the person she has become. Her next step is to decide the woman she wants to be.

Brought to you by Penguin. The No. 1 Bestseller 'My husband did not mean to kill Annie Doyle, but the lying tramp deserved it.' Lydia Fitzsimons lives in the perfect house with her adoring husband and beloved son. There is just one thing Lydia yearns for to make her perfect life complete, though...

Brought to you by Penguin. WINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2021 When you live on the edge of society, it only takes one step to fall between the cracks Twins Jeanie and Julius have always been different from other people. At 51 years old, they still live...

It's August 1984, and paperboy Christopher Stewart has gone missing. Hours later, 12-year-old Sammy Cox hurries home from his own paper route, red-faced and out of breath, hiding a terrible secret. Crystal, Sammy's 17-year-old sister, is worried by the disappearance but she also sees an opportunity: the Stewart case has echoes of an earlier unsolved disappearance of another boy, one town over. Crystal senses the makings of an award-winning essay, one that could win her a scholarship - and a ticket out of their small Iowa town.

Con el papel pintado desprendiéndose y el jardín sin cuidar, sé que nuestra nueva casa no es perfecta. Pero mi marido, Ben, promete que es el nuevo comienzo que necesitamos. ¿Por qué me miente mi marido? ¿Hasta qué punto conozco al hombre con el que me casé? ¿Y, al mudarnos aquí, he puesto en peligro la vida de mis hijos?

Cuando mi hija trepa y se tambalea, a punto de caer, en lo alto de la estructura, un grito silencioso se me queda atrapado en la garganta. Así que, cuando un desconocido oye su llanto y corre a ayudarla, me invade una sensación de alivio que me deja sin fuerzas. Pronto empezamos a vernos a diario y noto cómo crece la chispa entre nosotros. Hasta que dice algo que hace que el corazón me dé un vuelco. Algo que me hace pensar que conoce mi secreto. Que sabe lo que ocurrió de verdad en aquel parque, hace tantos años.

Als der Verkauf ihrer Wohnung in letzter Sekunde scheitert, ist Naomis Traum vom perfekten Zuhause für ihre Familie zerplatzt. Doch dann erscheint Summer – eine freundliche, alleinerziehende Mutter, die die Wohnung kaufen will und damit alles zu retten scheint. Aber kaum ist der Kaufvertrag unterschrieben, taucht Summer plötzlich überall auf. Sie meldet ihr Kind in derselben Klasse wie Naomis Tochter an. Sie trägt dieselben Kleider. Sie ist plötzlich mit denselben Menschen befreundet. Und dann entdeckt Naomi, dass Summer ein hübsches kleines Puppenhaus besitzt.

La vie de Nina est réglée comme un métronome : le matin, elle va travailler à la bibliothèque et le soir elle retrouve sa mère Maggie, avec laquelle elle vit depuis toujours. Un quotidien banal. Mais un détail jette une ombre au tableau : le pied de Maggie est attaché à une lourde chaîne qui l'empêche d'atteindre la porte de la maison. Et cette chaîne, elle ne la quitte jamais, pas même quand elle dort dans le grenier, parfaitement insonorisé. Docile, Maggie accepte tout : les privations, les punitions et la solitude.

Après quatre années d'exil, Salem revient dans sa ville natale: Beyond The Pines. Elle a fui après une nuit tragique et sanglante dont elle n'a gardé aucun souvenir. La ville, enfouie au cœur des pins et des secrets, semble attendre son retour. Nikolaï. Il l'a désirée, il l'a perdue, il la veut de nouveau. Pas pour l'aimer, mais pour se venger. Entre sa mémoire fuyante, l'ombre de Mikhaïl et le magnétisme inquiétant de Nikolaï, Salem se retrouve prise au piège d'un passé qu'elle ne contrôle plus.

They were best friends forever. Then Kate made one little mistake . . . Kate thought the spreadsheet was harmless—a private ranking of her four best friends detailing their various strengths and weaknesses. But when it leaks online and goes viral, her carefully curated life implodes. Social...

Leah Hunter has spent years mastering calm in the face of chaos. As a 911 dispatcher, she guides strangers through the worst moments of their lives. Then Amber joins the team. She seems friendly, helpful and attentive. But what begins as admiration soon becomes unsettling. A strange gift left on Leah's desk. A message she doesn't remember sending. Items moved around her home. Now Leah is being watched. And the walls are closing in. And when someone close to Leah disappears, the truth becomes impossible to outrun . . .

Tasha und ihre Schwester Alice ähneln sich wie Zwillinge, dabei könnten sie kaum unterschiedlicher sein. Tasha ist verheiratet, hat Kinder und lebt in der Nähe ihrer Heimatstadt Bristol. Alice hingegen führt ein luxuriöses Leben, macht Karriere und reist mit ihrem Mann um die Welt. Als Tasha dringend Urlaub braucht, schlägt Alice ihr einen Haustausch vor. Aber der Wechsel hat fatale Konsequenzen – Alice wird in der Nacht angegriffen und schwebt in größter Lebensgefahr. Und während Tasha um ihre Schwester bangt, fühlt sie sich in ihrem eigenen Haus nicht mehr sicher.

The night that throws a wrecking ball into Abby’s life starts out perfectly at first. There’s still a hint of summer sun in the purple-streaked sky. Abby and her best friend, Sienna, look on fondly as their two husbands laugh under the garden gazebo. None of them know it’s the last time they will be together again. What starts out as just a little fun has devastating consequences for the couples. Alone with Sienna’s husband, Greg, Abby finds him unexpectedly charming. Caught up in the moment, she reveals a secret she swore never to tell.

Merritt Coletto and her husband, Luca, have the life they dreamed of: a coastal home, a promising future, and a growing family. That dream ends with a late-night knock on the door. Weak, broken, and emaciated, it’s Luca’s first wife, Lydia. Missing for ten years, presumed dead, and very much alive, she has quite a story. Racked with guilt over the beautiful life they’ve built, Merritt and Luca agree to help get Lydia back on her feet - it’s the least they can do. But the more enmeshed Lydia becomes in Merritt’s family, the more questions Merritt has.

Ali and Christopher Tolfrey's one-year-old daughter, Eden, is abducted whilst in the care of Ali’s best-friend. Snatched in broad daylight from Bushy Park on a trip to the swings, Eden disappears without a trace. Brooke Simmons regains consciousness, dazed from a blow to the head, to find Eden, her best friend's child, missing. Someone has taken Eden, and Brooke knows who. But it's a secret she can't share with Ali or the police without revealing the web of deceit she's spun.

In this gripping prequel to the blockbuster best seller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick The Last Mrs. Parrish, listeners will discover exactly how Amber Patterson transformed from small-town girl to master manipulator - after all, practice makes perfect.

On the eve of the global lockdown, Don Barlow opens the door of his old beachside cottage to find a pretty girl with pink-tipped hair, claiming to have nowhere to go. He allows her entry, and so begins a mystery set in unprecedented times: with the virus raging outside their home, the girl cannot be asked to leave, but what does he risk by having her stay?

In 1997 teenager Sophie White and her three girlfriends decide they want to lose their virginity before summer is over. Roping in her childhood buddy Gareth and his mates, Sophie holds a party to get the deed over and done with, but the night doesn’t end as planned. Twenty years later, the group are brought back together when Gareth is killed in a car accident and Sophie begins receiving threatening messages. It seems the party wasn’t as innocent as everyone thought, and now someone wants payback.

When Jace Montgomery comes home late from entertaining clients, he discovers that his wife, Tessa, is missing. There’s broken glass at the back door. Clumps of her hair. Blood. The cops in their small New Jersey town have him pegged as a suspect, especially after he explodes at a reporter during a press conference. Jace maintains his innocence despite the mounting evidence against him, but when a coworker he’s accused of having an affair with also disappears and a search warrant turns up an illegal gun in Jace’s home, all signs point to him as the culprit.