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A lonely hut in the woods. A murder house. A hidden chamber. A mysterious shrine. A home in flames. A nightmarish prison. Each of the buildings in this book tells a chilling story. Each one is part of a puzzle. Look closely – and you’ll see that everything is connected. All leading to a revelation so horrifying you won’t want to believe it.
The Head of British Intelligence is having a bad day. Only six months off retirement and Sir William Rentoul is wondering if he’ll make it that far, what with the sudden descent of a brain fog dense enough to turn every day into a series of small humiliations. To make matters worse, Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee – the body that oversees Sir William – has received an anonymous complaint from one of his officers. Sir William dimly recalls accepting that there should be a channel for whistle-blowers, but he never expected that they would pick his most sensitive case, one involving an Iranian assassin and a trail of dead bodies, or that the person who turned up to poke their nose into his files should be a lowly parliamentary researcher named Aphra McQueen, who displays smarts, tenacity and rebelliousness in unsettling measures. Aphra seems to know more about the operation than she is letting on. What will she uncover?
What if the only way you could prevent a murder was by confessing to it? Jemma Stelling has confessed to a murder. She is the police’s lead suspect. She couldn’t have committed the crime. She has an unshakeable alibi: at the time of Marianne Cass’s brutal murder, Jemma was at the police station, confessing to a murderous obsession with Marianne. Is Jemma Stelling innocent? Or is she an ingenious, cold-blooded killer? Can you be guilty of the opposite of murder?
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.
It used to be an annual thing, the raucous New Year’s party. But for Olivia, Bennett and their crowd of couple friends, the chaos of their thirties has totally challenged the definition of annual. It’s been a few years since the close friends were last – close. But this year is going to be different. The burnout, parenting stress, credit card debt, job drama, marriage troubles, addiction – they’re going to set it all aside for the night. No, really. They swear. Oh, except for the secrets. Every last person has one. But secrets are only as good as the people you trust to keep them, and when the wrong one slips out. Well, friends or not, that just might become motive for murder. Everybody thinks they know their closest friends – until somebody winds up dead.
+Guardar silencio y ser cómplice?+O acudir a la justicia y temer la venganza?Despedido del estudio de arquitectura en el que trabaja en Barcelona, Mateo regresa veinte años después a su casa familiar de Madrid. Allí vive su padre, Juan, con el que ya casi no mantiene el contacto. En su afán por acercarse a él, Mateo se irá aproximando a un momento histórico de su barrio: un atentado de ETA ocurrido veinte años atrás. En paralelo, el lector irá conociendo la historia de Malen, que se infiltró en el mismo barrio para colaborar en la planificación del crimen terrorista. La investigación de Mateo por conocer la verdad le llevará a desentrañar secretos ocultos que podrían desmontar sin remedio los pilares de su vida y de las personas que quiere.Basándose en un atentado real de hace veinticinco años que tuvo lugar en Madrid, Antonio Lleras reflexiona en su primera y emocionante novela sobre las segundas oportunidades y sobre cómo, años despué
Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell. Her diary is a record of every birth and death, crime and debacle that unfolds in the community. Months earlier, she documented the details of an alleged rape committed by two of the town’s most respected gentlemen – one of whom has now been found dead in the ice. But when a local physician undermines her conclusion, declaring the death to be an accident, Martha is forced to investigate the murder on her own. Over the course of one winter, as the trial nears, and whispers and prejudices mount, Martha doggedly pursues the truth. Her diary soon lands at the center of the scandal, implicating those she loves, and compelling Martha to decide where her own loyalties lie.
Casey’s cabin in the wilderness is not built for a hurricane. Her roof shakes, the lights flicker, and the tree outside her front door sways ominously in the wind. But she’s a lot more worried about the girl she discovers lurking outside her kitchen window. She’s young. She’s alone. And she’s covered in blood. The girl won’t explain where she came from, or loosen her grip on the knife in her right hand. And when Casey makes a disturbing discovery in the middle of the night, things take a turn for the worse. The girl has a dark secret. One she’ll kill to keep. And if Casey gets too close to the truth, she may not live to see the morning.
Chief of the intelligence service, Diana Taverner, doesn’t appreciate threats. So, when a team involved in a double-agent operation during the height of the Troubles are threatening to expose the truth and lay bare the dark side of state security, Taverner turns this blackmail into an opportunity. Slow horse, River Cartwright, is out in the cold waiting to be passed fit for work. To kill time, and with his grandfather – a former head spy – long dead, River investigates the secrets of his private library where a book has gone missing. Or perhaps it never existed. Back at Slough House, the repository for failed spies, Louisa Guy is pondering her future. Shirley Dander is wondering if the new kid, Ash Khan, is as annoying as she seems. Roddy Ho wants the team to know that his tattoo is a hummingbird, and not, as Lech Wicinski claims, a platypus.
A dismembered corpse is discovered in the vault of a silver shop. The police initially believe it to be that of a convicted armed robber – but not everyone agrees with that theory. One of them is Decima Mullins, who calls on the help of private detective Cormoran Strike as she’s certain the body in the silver vault was that of her boyfriend – the father of her newborn baby – who suddenly and mysteriously disappeared. The more Strike and his business partner Robin Ellacott delve into the case, the more labyrinthine it gets. The silver shop is no ordinary one: it’s located beside Freemasons’ Hall and specialises in Masonic silverware. And in addition to the armed robber and Decima’s boyfriend, it becomes clear that there are other missing men who could fit the profile of the body in the vault. A gripping, wonderfully complex novel which takes Strike and Robin’s story to a new level.
The Scottish island of Eris is largely unreachable from the mainland. Cut off by the tide for twelve hours each day. No way in. No way out. The island’s only house is home to Grace – content in her own isolation, guarding the island’s past. But when a shocking discovery is made in an art gallery in London, Grace receives an unexpected visitor. And the secrets of Eris threaten to emerge. Suddenly, this is a very dangerous time to be alone.
Dark, dry and downright weird but also incredibly funny, ‘A Wild Sheep Chase’ is the story of a man, a girl, her ears and a very special sheep. But this is no lost sheep, the sheep went of its own accord. It may or may not be running the world!
Hunting Party: Get Ready for the Most Gripping New Crime Thriller of 2019
1 × £9.99 The Blue Hour
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