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Ex-SRR operative Liam Harper only came to Blüdridge for a funeral... but he'll stay to deliver justice. When his former comrade dies in a suspicious "accident" at his auto shop, Harper knows it's murder. The widow wants out, but two ruthless crime families have transformed this small town—in the shadow of Maryland's Civil War battlefields, and known as "Blood" Ridge—into their personal battlefield, with the garage as ground zero.

A dead body can ruin a vacation...It was a suicide, wasn’t it? Maybe the on-board production of Chicago isn’t the only place people are getting murdered! NYPD homicide detective Mike Stoneman and medical examiner Michelle McNeill just want a relaxing cruise. But, Michelle is convinced that there is foul play at work in the death of a Broadway talent agent’s wife. The ship’s head of security wants to keep it quiet. But, how many bodies can he cover up during one sailing?

When Helen moves abroad with her loving husband, Gary, she can’t wait to meet her fellow expat teachers from the local international school. But her new start is about to become her worst nightmare.... As soon as the charming family across the way welcome Helen into their home, she begins to suspect that all is not as it seems. Then Gary starts to behave strangely, and a child goes missing, vanished without a trace. When violence and tragedy strike, cracks appear in the community, and Helen realises her perfect neighbors are capable of almost anything....

The next standalone action thriller in the pulse-pounding series. Enter the world of Silence Jones. Hold on tight....

Sheriff Lance Tallbear’s half-blood Apache heritage leaves him struggling to find his place in a world where neither white nor Indian wants or readily accepts him. He faces the world his shaman father turned away from and acknowledges the one his shaman grandfather prays he’ll return to. Tallbear’s new case uncovers a mysterious plane wreck discovered in the Superstition Mountains that turns out to stir both his life decisions and ultimate direction. Along with his troubled FBI partner, Brad Hanley, they face a myriad of obstacles in their journey to the truth.

If they hadn't come to the cabin, Lomela and her children would be dead by now. Evil men want something from Lomela's father, and they'll hurt his family to get it, so the young mother has taken refuge far from civilization, in a remote patch of the Rocky Mountains. She believes she's safe. She's wrong. The sniper focuses his scope on Lomela. He squeezes the trigger, and his crossbow bolt flies across the mountains, passing Lomela - and striking dead the man who was about to shoot her in the back.

Pax West, a former CIA Ghost with no past and no future, alights an Amtrak train in Portland, Oregon. He wasn’t there long before a detective arrests him for the murder of a local woman. The detective says he has him on CCTV. The woman was his niece, making this personal. The usual judicial rules didn’t apply as far as he was concerned. Pax was thrown into Oregon State Penitentiary. It was a mistake, but it would get cleaned up in the morning. Inside, Pax witnessed another inmate – Elliot Brooks – getting beaten up. It was an uneven fight.

Mike Green built a career writing about dead girls, but nothing could have prepared him for the file he stumbles on at the National Archives: the death of Delilah Grennan, a murdered Soviet dissident with ties to the Russian underworld. What begins as research becomes obsession, until her voice bleeds into his and paranoia pushes him deeper into the shadows.

*The Sunday Times top ten bestseller* *A Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month* Get hooked on this year’s most addictive thriller Is revenge the most lethal dose of all? ‘Without a doubt the best crime thriller I’ve read this year … A story of loyalties and desperation. A brilliant...

Marnie Logan often feels like she's being watched. Nothing she can quite put her finger on - a whisper of breath on the back of her neck, or a shadow in the corner of her eye - and now her life is frozen. Her husband Daniel has been missing for more than a year. Depressed and increasingly desperate, she seeks the help of clinical psychologist Joe O'Loughlin. Joe is concerned by Marnie's reluctance to talk about the past, but then she discovers a book packed with pictures, interviews with friends, former teachers, old flames and workmates Daniel was preparing for her birthday.

When DJ and the team get a mission to a dangerous part of the world, there is suspicion their new employer is not telling them the whole truth. Things become much harder than they were promised. Still, they pull off the job with the skills and cunning we have come to expect from Slaughter and crew.

Another title in the ever popular Agatha Christie series. The suave and debonair Colonel Race must solve a question, not of ‘accidental death or suicide’, but ‘murder or double murder’. Pretty, young Anne came to London looking for adventure. In fact, adventure comes looking for her –...

Black operations agent Connor Reed finds respite from a hellacious schedule to return to his home city. Reed, a leader within his own outlaw family, delights in an opportunity to punish a thug preying on the vulnerable. However, with his target high within a rival criminal organisation, can Reed exact retribution without dragging his relatives into an unnecessary and bloody war.

There’s only one wound I can’t fix – the one in my heart. Only she can do that. Jaded bastard, King Grump, Club Doc, I go by many names in the Twisted Devils MC. This life has taught me to keep a wall around my heart. Until I meet a ray of sunshine with a battering ram. Eden helps troubled kids at the youth center. She’s too good for a killer like me. But when I see her being attacked by a stalker, I’m the monster she needs. But the only way to protect her is to keep her close. And the closer she gets, the more sparks fly between us. Until the only thing left between us are my bed...

Simon Templar never goes anywhere with the intention of getting into trouble, but trouble seems to like following him. In seven adventures 'round Europe, he discovers dead bodies, missing jewels, kidnappers, and swindlers galore. He was meant to be on holiday - but when push comes to shove, he'll make sure that justice is done. Leslie Charteris was born in Singapore and moved to England in 1919. He left Cambridge University early when his first novel was accepted for publication.

Detective John Stone had a marriage made in heaven. His wife was young, beautiful and smart, and she was his partner in the Cold Cases unit at the 43rd. They were tight, close, and practically telepathic. At least, that was what he’d always thought - until she got an interest outside their marriage, and that interest became a passion.

Art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel Allon has slipped quietly into London to attend a reception at the Courtauld Gallery celebrating the return of a stolen self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh. But when an old friend from the Devon and Cornwall Police seeks his help with a baffling murder investigation, he finds himself pursuing a powerful and dangerous new adversary. The victim is Charlotte Blake, a celebrated professor of art history from Oxford who spends her weekends in the same seaside village where Gabriel once lived under an assumed identity.

For Con Ye Cwong, the Vietnam War will never be over. Head of the North Vietnamese secret police during the brutal conflict, he has built himself an empire selling cocaine and heroin to the West. Even after the war, American servicemen remain his favorite targets. He relishes nothing more than getting a soldier hooked, and then upping the price until the junkie has no choice but to reveal military secrets for the next fix. He's one of the most powerful men in the world, and James Hawker is going to take him down.

Out of cell and radio range in the Arizona desert, a Border Patrol agent, Apache elder and a terrified Mexican girl, cut trail on Arab terrorists bent on smuggling a suitcase nuke across the border, and fight them on foot, horseback, HUMV, and even helicopter all the way to their target, Tucson’s Fiesta Bowl where tens of thousands of fans watch the fight to the death on the field -while their lives hang in the balance. DIE HARD meets NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN in this gritty, politically incorrect story that we could read any day now on the front pages. Set in today’s wilder than ever west...

Evelyn: My life fell apart right before my eyes. The fire and losing everything we had was bad enough, but when my boyfriend’s father convinces me to go to the hospital, the one thing me and my kids had left evaporates like a plume of smoke when I see their father with his… pregnant wife. Not only do I feel like a complete fool, I’m left to explain things to my children. Then there’s Knox. He’s my boyfriend Danny’s older brother. The one everyone thought was dead. The one who’s an older, bigger, scarier version of Danny.