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It all started with a simple, yet sneakily difficult challenge from global best-selling author Harlan Coben: Pick a bird of prey, then use it as the inspiration for a brand-new story. The response from some of the best writers on the planet: Game on! The result: Eleven stories that are twisty, scary, surprising and bursting with imagination. An egg worth more than its weight in gold. A mysterious operative known only as Owl. An eagle-watcher who sees more than she should. Even a story that somehow places the Maltese Falcon in a nursing home.

*RIZZOLI & ISLES: NOW STREAMING ON NETFLIX!* Meet them in Tess Gerritsen’s bestselling series. Brought to you by Penguin. HE KNOWS EXACTLY WHERE IT HURTS... ‘This is crime-writing at its nerve-tingling best’ Harlan Coben A killer is targeting lone women, torturing and murdering them. The...

Something terrible has happened in the snowbound village of Kingdom Come, Wyoming, where 12 eerily identical houses stand dark and abandoned. Meals remain untouched on dining room tables, cars are still in garages, and the town's residents have vanished into thin air. This is the disturbing setting where vacationing medical examiner Maura Isles and her traveling companions find themselves trapped during a ferocious snowstorm.

Brought to you by Penguin. *RIZZOLI & ISLES: NOW STREAMING ON NETFLIX!* Meet them in Tess Gerritsen’s bestselling series. HE HIDES, HE KILLS, HE KEEPS . . . Forensic Pathologist Maura Isles is asked to attend an intriguing examination. An ancient mummy has been found in a museum basement...

*RIZZOLI & ISLES: NOW STREAMING ON NETFLIX!* Meet them in Tess Gerritsen’s bestselling series. Brought to you by Penguin. A KILLER WHO KNOWS HIS TRADE 'Gerritsen was a medic before she turned to writing, and her book contains enough grisly details to put you off hospitals for life. But if you...

No one takes readers to the dark side and back with more razor-sharp jolts and sheer suspense than the storytelling master behind Ice Cold and The Keepsake. When New York Times best-selling author Tess Gerritsen has a tale to tell, put yourself in her expert hands and prepare for the shocks and thrills that are certain to follow.

For the second time in his short life, Teddy Clock has survived a massacre. Two years ago, he barely escaped when his entire family was slaughtered. Now, at 14, in a hideous echo of the past, Teddy is the lone survivor of his foster family’s mass murder. Orphaned once more, the traumatized teenager has nowhere to turn - until the Boston PD puts Detective Jane Rizzoli on the case. Determined to protect this young man, Jane discovers that what seemed like a coincidence is one part of a killer’s mission.

Brought to you by Penguin. *RIZZOLI & ISLES: NOW STREAMING ON NETFLIX!* Meet them in Tess Gerritsen’s bestselling series. 'I HAVE SINNED' The words are scrawled in blood at the most shocking murder scene Forensic Pathologist Maura Isles and Detective Jane Rizzoli have ever witnessed. The...

Brought to you by Penguin. Maggie Bird is many things. A chicken farmer. A good neighbour. A seemingly average retiree living in the seaside town of Purity. She's also a darned good rifle shot. And she never talks about her past. But when an unidentified body is left on Maggie's driveway, she...

Brought to you by Penguin. Rizzoli & Isles return, in the nail-biting new thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen. The murder of Sofia Suarez is both gruesome and seemingly senseless. Why would anyone target a respected nurse who was well-liked by her friends and her...

Boston Detective Jane Rizzoli is on the case of a big game hunter found dead in his apartment, alone with the body of a beautiful white snow leopard he had recently been commissioned to procure and stuff for a high-profile museum in the area. Medical examiner Maura Isles connects the case to a number of seemingly unrelated deaths where the victims have all been found hanging upside down, the hallmark of a leopard's kill.

*RIZZOLI & ISLES: NOW STREAMING ON NETFLIX!* Meet them in Tess Gerritsen’s bestselling series. Brought to you by Penguin. JUDGEMENT DAY IS COMING . . . ‘Absolutely riveting - you won’t be able to put this down’ Mo Hayder Two nuns are brutally attacked within the walls of their convent...

Brought to you by Penguin. A gruesome secret is about to be unearthed... When a human skull is dug up in a garden near Boston, Dr Maura Isles is called in to investigate. She quickly discovers that the skeleton - that of a young woman - has been buried for over a hundred years. But who was the...

Boston Detective Jane Rizzoli is on the case of a big game hunter found dead in his apartment, alone with the body of a beautiful white snow leopard he had recently been commissioned to procure and stuff for a high-profile museum in the area. Medical examiner Maura Isles connects the case to a number of seemingly unrelated deaths where the victims have all been found hanging upside down, the hallmark of a leopard's kill.

In the murky shadows of an alley lies a female’s severed hand. On the tenement rooftop above is the corpse belonging to that hand, a red-haired woman dressed all in black, the body nearly decapitated. Two strands of silver hair — not human — cling to her body. They are Rizzoli’s only clues, but they’re enough for her and medical examiner Maura Isles to make a startling discovery: This violent death had a chilling prequel.

Brought to you by Penguin. We’ve all done things we’re ashamed of . . . When Ava arrives at Brodie’s Watch, she thinks she has found the perfect place to hide from her past. Something terrible happened, something she is deeply ashamed of, and all she wants is to forget. But the old house...

Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles - the crime-solving duo who inspired the smash hit TNT series - return to investigate the gruesome staged murder of a horror film producer in this edge-of-your-seat thriller.

The first time violinist Julia Ansdell picked up the "Incendio Waltz" in a darkened antique shop in Rome, she knew it was a strikingly unusual composition. The minor key and complex feverish arpeggios have a life of their own. But when she plays the piece, Julia blacks out and awakens to find her small daughter implicated in acts of surprising violence. When she travels to Venice to find the previous owner of the music, she uncovers a heart-stoppingly dark secret....

Brought to you Penguin. The Summer Guests is the exhilarating and gripping new thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author of The Spy Coast. THE MARTINI CLUB ISN’T OPEN TO EVERYONE . . . Maggie Bird’s ‘book group’ is an unusual one – a group of retired spies living an anonymous life...

Da una regina del thriller un romanzo che mantiene alta la tensione fino all’ultimo, incredibile colpo di scena. Maura Isles, medico legale di Boston, lavora a contatto con la morte e vede cadaveri tutti i giorni, gran parte dei quali vittime di sanguinosi delitti. Mai però prima d’ora aveva sentito il sangue gelarsi nelle vene, mai prima d’ora l’espressione «sosia» le era parsa tanto inquietante e reale, perché mai prima d’ora sul tavolo autoptico aveva visto il suo stesso corpo senza vita...