Летом 1999 года Кит и его девушка Лора отправляются на фестиваль, чтобы увидеть редкое событие – полное солнечное затмение. В тот же день Лора оказывается свидетельницей изнасилования и, поверив напуганной жертве по имени Бесс, дает ложные показания в суде. После того как обвиняемого осудили, Бесс связывается с Лорой и предлагает встретиться, с каждым днем становясь все навязчивее… Лора начинает в…
A selection of deliciously spooky short stories from the Japanese master of suspense, the acclaimed author of RING. The film DARK WATER is based on the first story in the collection.Suzuki demonstrates the power of his psychological insight into the mechanics of fear in this highly atmospheric collection of stories unified by the theme of water.Following her divorce, Yoshimi Matsubara lives with h…
A fresh, streetwise, frequently funny, frequently nasty, London-based crime series featuring sexy, no-nonsense female DI Jessie DriverJessie Driver is a fast-track motorbike-riding female cop with a colourful love-life, an attitude and more than a few resentful male colleagues. When one of them sends her to check out a headless skeleton washed up on the banks of the Thames, Jessie is furious. But …
The Reverend Lee Barker went missing nineteen years ago… And the people of Stillwater, Mississippi, believe they know why. They’re convinced he was murdered – by his stepson, Clay Montgomery. But only Clay – and his mother and sisters – can say for sure. They were the only ones there that fateful night, the only ones who know what really happened. And they’re not talking.Allie McCormick is a cold-…
Bolt the doors, turn on the lights and pray for mercy – you'll be up all night with this disturbingly addictive novel – perfect for fans of Karen Rose.It's the ultimate game.To win, you have to kill.To lose, you have to die.If he's chosen you to play, then it's Game Over…A brutal serial killer is on the loose. Each victim is a former beauty queen, a single rose placed next to their mutilated bodie…
‘Utterly compelling.’ – Judy FinniganIn a family built on lies, who can you trust?Audrey Bailey will never forget the moment she met Ralph Templeton in the sweltering heat of a Bombay café. Her lonely life over, she was soon married with two small children. But things in the Templeton household were never quite what they seemed.Now approaching 70, and increasingly a burden on the children she’s ne…
In Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, a terrible secret is about to be uncovered by a woman whose daughter vanished seven years ago without a trace…And now a new clue has surfaced…a doll that is the spitting image of Claire Doucett's missing child, right down to the tiny birthmark on the girl's left arm. A chance sighting of the eerily lifelike doll in a French Quarter collectibles shop leaves Claire s…
When an eminent art historian is found dead in his study, all the evidence points to his estranged son, Stephen. With his fingerprints on the murder weapon, Stephen’s guilt seems undeniable.As the police begin to question five other people who were in the house at the time, it is revealed that Stephen’s father was involved at the end of World War II in a deadly hunt for a priceless relic in northe…
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThis was no accident…Haunting, compelling, this psychological thriller will have you hooked. Perfect for fans of Gone Girl and Daughter.I know your name’s not really Jane Hughes . . .Jane Hughes has a loving partner, a job in an animal sanctuary and a tiny cottage in rural Wales. She’s happier than she’s ever been but her life is a lie. Jane Hughes does not really exist.…
The ultimate moneymaking plan—buy the ancient, run-down Scottish castle and turn it into a tourist destination.Toni Fraser and her friends will put on reenactments combining fact and fiction, local history, murder and an imaginary laird named Bruce MacNiall. Just as someone arrives, claiming to actually be Laird MacNiall—a tall, dark, formidable Scot somehow familiar to Toni—the bodies of young wo…
The chilling, ghostly account of a doctor who is determined to find light in a lifeless body.Patient DL lies motionless in a small room at the end of a hospital corridor. She has suffered massive damage to her brain, and it's not clear whether she can see or hear the world around her.When Sarah Newman, the narrator of this ghostly tale, is charged with finding a spark of light in her lifeless body…
Mark Sanderson does for the 30s what Jake Arnott did for 60s London – vividly revealing its hidden underworld in an unforgettably gripping crime novel."Friday, 18 December, 1936. I went to my funeral this morning…"So begins the diary of John Steadman, an ambitious young journalist in London. When he gets a tip-off about a murdered policeman, he thinks he's found his scoop. Trouble is, no-one else …
THE FIRST TWO MURDERS WENT UNNOTICED. BUT THE NEXT WAS HER SISTER…A terrifying yet unputdownable thriller from No. 1 bestselling author and award-winning journalist Jonathan Freedland.SHE CAN’T SAVE HER SISTERJournalist Madison Webb is obsessed with exposing lies and corruption. But she never thought she would be investigating her own sister’s murder.SHE CAN’T TRUST THE POLICEMadison refuses to ac…
Detective Bobbie Gentry was psyched when she was offered the opportunity to work with the FBI on a special task force in the search for a heinous serial killer known as the Storyteller. What she didn't expect was for the serial killer to follow her home on Christmas Eve…The Storyteller couldn't resist Bobbie no matter the risk. He murdered her husband and would have murdered her child but the litt…
A blockbusting thriller introducing maverick FBI agent Steve Vail.“Move over Jack Reacher, here comes The Bricklayer.” James PattersonSTEVE VAIL IS A MAVERICK.A trained killer and former agent, Vail despises authority and he's never met a rule he didn't break. These days he's working as a bricklayer.Now, Deputy Kate Bannon of the FBI desperately wants his help.Because someone is killing their oper…