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  • A Killer in Paradise

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    When five old friends are invited to join Abigail Blythe at the launch of her luxury hotel in the Costa Rican rainforest, they jump at the chance to spend a week in paradise. None of them have heard from Abigail since the summer they went backpacking in Central America as students – a trip that ended in disaster for one member of the group. Ten years may have passed, but old rivalries are never far from the surface. So when a body is discovered during the hotel’s launch event, it soon becomes clear that one among them must be responsible. Someone is desperate to keep an old secret hidden – whatever the cost.

  • The Man With a Thousand Faces

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    Following the death of his twin, Daniel Lechkov returns to his homeland for the first time in 20 years. His pregnant wife and child want to return home to the West right after the funeral, but Daniel faces pressure to succeed his brother as president. The former Soviet state of Kazichia has been ruled by the Lechkov family for three generations, and now that the throne is empty, the country is poised on a knife’s edge. International powers are hungry to profit from the country’s riches and rebel groups are arming at the nation’s borders. As tensions rise, Daniels wife is strengthened in her conviction that they should flee. But then, a digital threat insidiously worms its way into Kazichia’s telecommunications infrastructure. An unknown rebel leader only known as the Man With a Thousand Faces, corners the government and threatens a full blown attack. All that stands between Kazichia and ruin is Daniel.

  • The Hallmarked Man

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    The brand new instalment in the highly acclaimed international bestselling series, featuring Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott, written by Robert Galbraith, a pseudonym of J.K. Rowling

  • The Widow

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    Simon Latch is a small-town lawyer struggling with debt gambling issues and an impending divorce. But when Eleanor Barnett, an 85-year-old widow, visits his office to secure a new will, it seems his luck has finally changed: she claims she’s sitting on a $20 million fortune and no one else knows about it. She could be the ticket to his fortune. Once he’s hooked the richest client of his career, Simon works quietly to keep her wealth under the radar, even from his own assistant. But there are complications: other lawyers are circling his client like vultures. But when she is hospitalised after a car accident, Eleanor’s story begins to crack. Simon realises that nothing is as it seems. And as events spiral out of control, he finds himself on trial for a crime he swears he didn’t commit: murder.

  • Actually, I’m a Corpse

    £22.00

    1973. Hours after a mysterious phone call is made to the police, a train pulls into Sunderland station with a dead body on board. Cause of death: strangulation. Victim: unknown. Witnesses: none. Undeterred by this baffling set of circumstances, newly promoted Police Sergeant Aline James vows to crack the case and prove her critics wrong. But when her famously ruthless investigation tactics yield no results, she is forced to seek help from two unlikely allies: unassuming assassin John Brown and calamitous actor Tony Davies. As bodies pile up, can this unusual trio thwart a devilishly complex plot, before one of them, actually, becomes a corpse?

  • Orange and the Bread Knife

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    Youngah is a warm-hearted schoolteacher – always smiling, always yielding. She bends her life to everyone else’s rules. But deep inside, this endless restraint is killing her. An unending sense of despair festers. Desperate for relief, she turns to a cutting-edge, four-week emotion regulation programme, which promises to sculpt her into a better version of herself. The procedure works a little too well. Unburdened at last, Youngah embraces her raw, unfiltered self, dismantling the weight of the exhausting expectations and ideals imposed upon her.

  • Salty

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    Captain Denise is more comfortable facing down a stingray than a party guest, though she’s punched both in recent memory. After spending half her life at the helm of yachts across the Caribbean, she’s risen through the ranks thanks to one rule: never, ever mix with the owners. Her sister, Helen, is a walking HR violation, one of many reasons the two haven’t seen each other in years. Recently fired after burning all her bridges, Helen returns home to work for Denise. The clashing sisters’ first charter is for the Falcon family, shady real estate developers who mowed down Helen and Denise’s childhood home to build condos. But then the latest Falcon building collapses – and a dead body turns up beside it. Helen and Denise comb through the wreckage to uncover just how low the Falcons will sink in order to stay afloat – before the big storm wipes out the evidence.

  • In Case I Go Missing

    £8.99

    A Good Girl's Guide to Murder meets Fargo In Case I Go Missing is a twisty thriller set in a small town with dark secrets that will keep you guessing until the final page.

  • The Killer Question

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    Mal and Sue Eastwood were once the kindly landlords of a local village pub, The Case is Altered. They ran a weekly pub quiz and were well liked by their customers and colleagues alike, always happy to lend a helping hand. But now The Case stands empty, its windows boarded up. What could have happened to Mal and Sue? Did The Case close because it was failing? Was it because of the body pulled from the nearby river? Or perhaps it had something to do with the quiz? It had always been a quiet affair, five teams of locals battling it out for a small prize pot. Until one day a mysterious new team of outsiders arrived, and started winning every round. Only by sifting through the quiz sheets, the WhatsApps, and Mal and Sue’s hidden past may the truth be revealed. Someone’s not playing fair, so get the drinks in and see if you can get a perfect score.

  • No. 2 Whitehall Court

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    THE STUNNING NEW FIRST WORLD WAR SPY THRILLER FROM THE MASTER OF THE GENRE
     

  • SIGNED COPIES: Last One Out

    £20.00

    International bestseller Jane Harper returns with an immersive and deeply atmospheric standalone crime novel. A mother must uncover the explosive truth about what happened to the son who vanished from a small Australian town on his twenty-first birthday five years ago.

  • The Kindness of Strangers

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    London, 1953. One foggy night, in the dead of February, a diffident young man arrives unannounced at 42 Tregunter Road in Chelsea. Self-styled Bohemian Mrs Honor Wilson, who runs a minor literary journal and lodgings from this timeworn Victorian house, introduces him to her ‘dear house guests’: Robbie, the writer; Mina, the aspiring socialite; George, the debutante; and Saul, the refugee poet. Jimmy Sullivan is a family friend, Honor says – yet clearly, something is very amiss. Despite everyone’s suspicions, she lets the stranger move into the attic. As they each try to disprove Jimmy’s dubious account of himself, secrets, jealousies, and disturbing schemes come to light, fracturing the household’s delicate allegiances and setting in motion, unstoppably, a tale of perilous self-invention, complicated love, and murderous revenge.