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Artist, connoisseur and private detective Philip Trent features in this collection comprising eleven short stories. Including "The Genuine Tabard," in which a clergyman and unique objets d'art are involved in a neat confidence trick; "The Foolproof Lift,in which a blackmailing valet is...Read more
Trespassers Club was just supposed to be a game, but sometimes going places you shouldn’t has consequences …
Laura has always spent her free time playing Trespassers Club with her sister, Katy. But Katy just turned thirteen and isn’t interested in playing games anymore....Read more
Gabriel Tretjak is the "fixer," hired by rich clients to fix their lives, to challenge fate on their behalf. He does so without moral limitations or scruples. His methods draw on the latest research into the human brain and advances in psychology. His prices are high, but his clients are...Read more
The author of A Question of Guilt returns with another heart-rending mystery featuring Crown Prosecutor Helen West and Detective Superintendent Geoffrey Bailey. Thekely place for a crime of passion, but what else could account for the naked body of a woman found in the woods?Read more
Minnie Dean: the first – and only – woman to be hanged in New Zealand. Baby farmer and child murderer, or hardworking wife and mother, supporting her family by caring for unwanted children in a society that shunned her?
Karen Zelas explores the trials of Minnie Dean using a...Read more
On holiday on the island of Rhodes, Poirot is concerned to observe an eternal triangle between Valentine, Tony and Douglas. His concern is justified when Valentine dies after drinking a poisoned cocktail!
Published in 1936 this story has a very similar plot to that of Evil Under...Read more
A serial killer is stalking through Sydney, hell-bent on recreating scenes from the Fabrica, the 16th-century foundation text of modern European anatomy. The spate of cold, methodical attacks has the city on edge, but the serial killer may not even be the darkest player in this story....Read more
A blood-soaked mystery. A town full of suspects. A detective who won't quit until justice is served.
When a high-profile pool hall owner is discovered brutally murdered in his own home, Detective Jack Lisbon and his partner Claudia Taylor are thrust into a high-stakes...Read more
When Charlie Flint is sent a mysterious package of press cuttings about a brutal murder, it instantly grabs her attention. The murder occurred in the grounds of her old Oxford college - a groom battered to death just hours after his wedding. As his bride and wedding guests sipped...Read more
When a cut-price franchise bakery opens its doors just down the street from Earthly Delights and crowds flock to purchase the bread, Corinna Chapman is understandably nervous. Meanwhile, the gorgeous Daniel's old friend Georgiana Hope has temporarily set up residence in his house, and it...Read more
Tabitha Darling has always had a dab hand for pastry and a knack for getting into trouble. Which was fine when she was a tearaway teen, but not so useful now she’s trying to run a hipster urban cafe, invent the perfect trendy dessert, and stop feeding the many (oh so unfashionable)...Read more
Maverick executive Lin Mere takes over as CEO for a new telecommunications company trying to compete with the big boys in Wellington, New Zealand. With the clock ticking, Lin has to give up almost everything to tackle the demands of the job. An Asian-American, Lin has followed her father's...Read more
A brutal murder in a country town uncovers a complex web of love, envy and betrayal.
Jonathan Ryan, renowned opera singer, is a man who has it all – fame, fortune, movie star good looks and voted one of the sexiest men alive. Ryan is invited to perform at a benefit concert in...Read more
A yellow sports car that won’t stop. One hit-and-run on an August road—and Helsinki’s winter is already overshadowed with murder.
At the President’s Independence Day gala, celebrated editor Pekka Wall and his much-younger partner, rising sci-fi star Tuomas...Read more
A specialist in discreet and dangerous missions, Stevie Duveen—striking, brilliant, and fearless—is up against human traffickers, sex slavery, and the Russian mob. Risk is her business, but this time she's in over her head.
Meet Stevie Duveen, strategic analyst...Read more
I should ask your department's accountant whether he's missing nine hundred thousand bucks. This is the anonymous message that will change Sandra Mahoney's life.
When a powerful but unpopular bureaucrat is accused of theft and computer fraud, Sandra is convinced that the charge...Read more
A gripping and explosive psychological thriller about a young woman who disappears in suspicious circumstances, having been hounded by a vicious online troll.
Years ago, Fortune gave up on his daughter, Sophie, after a troubled adolescence. Now she's gone missing, vanished...Read more
Three bodies… three killers? A taxi driver disappears, his burnt-out cab the only evidence of his last stop. In the same desolate area, a body is found in the boot of a stolen car half-submerged in a muddy creek. It’s not the cab driver… Later, another body on the muddy bank of a river,...Read more
This beer festival’s going off with a bang …
A call from an old colleague has DI Adams off her patch and out of her depth, investigating a mysterious new beer with unexpected side effects. Side effects far more dangerous than a simple hangover.
Deadly brewers...Read more
On a winter day in 2008, Håkan von Enke, a retired high-ranking naval officer, vanishes during his daily walk in a forest near Stockholm. The investigation into his disappearance falls under the jurisdiction of the Stockholm police. It has nothing to do with Wallander—officially. But von...Read more
Western Australia, 1988. After betraying the Knights bikie gang, seventeen-year-old Lee Southern flees to the city with nothing left to lose.
Working as a rogue tow truck driver in Perth, he is captured by right-wing extremists whose combination of seduction and blackmail...Read more
Jake Arnott’s brilliant trilogy of criminal life in England forms a kind of Godfather -like history of Britain’s gangland, spanning 40 years. The first, The Long Firm (1999), caught everyone by surprise and was adapted into a TV series broadcast in the United States on BBC America. The New...Read more
A saga of love, litigation and murder in Melbourne at the time of Federation. In Melbourne in 1899, politician John Deveraux falls in love with Susan Fairfax, businesswoman and suffragette. Thwarted when he discovers her secret, he seeks revenge.
Then his own past begins to...Read more
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Following their release from prison, ex-convicts seek to recover their ill-gotten gains from a financier, Peter Lee. Both Alex West and Peter Lee disappear. Richard West does not know if Alex is alive or dead. Richard and business partner Derek Poulton hire Claire Bishop but is Claire...Read more
He violated her past and haunts her present.
Now he's threatening their future.
She breathes deeply, trying to quell the rising sense of panic. A detective came to her home, drugged her and kidnapped her. She tries to make sense of it, to imagine alternatives, but...Read more
She hasn't seen her brother in years. Now, he's dead.
When Judi Westerholme finds out her estranged brother has been murdered, she assumes it's connected to his long term drug addiction. Returning home, she is shocked to discover he had been clean for years,...Read more
In the latest thriller by the Edgar-nominated author of Joe Victim, someone is helping rape victims exact revenge on their attackers, prompting an edge-of-your-seat, cat-and-mouse chase between old friends, detectives Theodore Tate and Carl Schroder.
Carl Schroder and Theodore...Read more
