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Three missing women. Two impossible cases. One determined detective. When three teachers disappear without a trace, Sergeant Lindsay (read more)

Three missing women. Two impossible cases.

One determined detective. When three teachers disappear without a trace, Sergeant Lindsay Boxer takes the lead in the investigation. But with no clues and no suspects, the odds of finding the women alive are getting slimmer by the second. (hide)

The new thrilling instalment of John Connolly's popular Charlie Parker series. He is our best hope. He is our last hope. On a lonely (read more)

The new thrilling instalment of John Connolly's popular Charlie Parker series. He is our best hope. He is our last hope.

On a lonely moor in the northeast of England, the body of a young woman is discovered near the site of a vanished church. In the south, a girl lies buried beneath a Saxon mound. To the southeast, the ruins of a priory hide a human skull.
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Thursday's child has far to go . . . 1912, London. Eighteen-year-old Flora Butler is going up in the world. She has the prized position (read more)

Thursday's child has far to go . . .

1912, London. Eighteen-year-old Flora Butler is going up in the world. She has the prized position of lady's maid to young Constance Ogilvie, and is able to provide for her beloved parents and four younger siblings. (hide)

The murder of UN scientists while investigating mysterious deaths in El Salvador . . . A deadly collision in the Detroit river . (read more)

The murder of UN scientists while investigating mysterious deaths in El Salvador . . .

A deadly collision in the Detroit river . . .

An attack on an archaeological site along the Nile . . .

While on a routine investigation in South America, NUMA Director Dirk Pitt finds himself caught up in solving the mystery of these cryptic and violent incidents. When a new bioremediation company offers to help NUMA with the clean-up operation of a devastating oil spill it seems like the perfect solution, but he soon begins to suspect they have a much more sinister agenda. Could they be behind these events? And if so, why? In his boldest and most daring adventure yet, follow Dirk around the world from the desert heat of Egypt to the rocky isles of Ireland on his quest to solve the mystery. (hide)

For readers of THE VIRGIN SUICIDES or THE GIRLS, a story of two extraordinary, magnetic women and their disappearances - a hundred (read more)

For readers of THE VIRGIN SUICIDES or THE GIRLS, a story of two extraordinary, magnetic women and their disappearances - a hundred years apart - from the small New England town they call home. Henrietta and Jane are growing up in a farmhouse on the outskirts of town, their mother a remote artist, their father in thrall to the folklore and legend of their corner of New England. When Henrietta falls under the spell of Kaus, an outsider and petty criminal, Jane takes to trailing the couple, spying on their trysts, until one night, Henrietta vanishes into the woods. (hide)

Tiffy and Leon share a flatTiffy and Leon share a bedTiffy and Leon have never met... Tiffy Moore needs a cheap flat, and fast. Leon (read more)

Tiffy and Leon share a flatTiffy and Leon share a bedTiffy and Leon have never met... Tiffy Moore needs a cheap flat, and fast. Leon Twomey works nights and needs cash.

Their friends think they're crazy, but it's the perfect solution: Leon occupies the one-bed flat while Tiffy's at work in the day, and she has the run of the place the rest of the time. But with obsessive ex-boyfriends, demanding clients at work, wrongly imprisoned brothers and, of course, the fact that they still haven't met yet, they're about to discover that if you want the perfect home you need to throw the rulebook out the window.. (hide)

Why are we all so hostile? So quick to take offence? Truly we are living in the age of outrage. A series of apparently random murders (read more)

Why are we all so hostile? So quick to take offence? Truly we are living in the age of outrage. A series of apparently random murders draws amiable, old-school Detective Mick Matlock into a world of sex, politics, reality TV and a bewildering kaleidoscope of opposing identity groups. Lost in a blizzard of hashtags, his already complex investigation is further impeded by the fact that he simply doesn't `get' a single thing about anything anymore.
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An epic story of love, betrayal, courage and war that brings together two of Wilbur Smith's greatest families in this long-awaited (read more)

An epic story of love, betrayal, courage and war that brings together two of Wilbur Smith's greatest families in this long-awaited sequel to his worldwide bestseller, The Triumph of the Sun. Cairo, 1887. A beautiful September day.

Penrod Ballantyne and his fiancee, Amber Benbrook, stroll hand in hand. The future is theirs for the taking. But when Penrod's jealous former lover, Lady Agatha, plants doubt about his character, Amber leaves him and travels to the wilds of Abyssinia with her twin sister, Saffron, and her adventurer husband, Ryder Courtney. (hide)

He had started to remove his clothes as logic had deserted him, and his skin was cracked. Whatever had been going through Cameron's (read more)

He had started to remove his clothes as logic had deserted him, and his skin was cracked. Whatever had been going through Cameron's mind when he was alive, he didn't look peaceful in death.

Two brothers meet at the remote border of their vast cattle properties under the unrelenting sun of the outback. In an isolated part of Australia, they are each other's nearest neighbour, their homes hours apart. They are at the stockman's grave, a landmark so old that no one can remember who is buried there. (hide)

Berlin, 1928, the dying days of the Weimar Republic shortly before Hitler and the Nazis came to power. It was a period of decadence (read more)

Berlin, 1928, the dying days of the Weimar Republic shortly before Hitler and the Nazis came to power.

It was a period of decadence and excess as Berliners - after the terrible slaughter of WWI and the hardships that followed - are enjoying their own version of Babylon. Bernie is a young detective working in Vice when he gets a summons from Bernard Weiss, Chief of Berlin's Criminal Police. He invites Bernie to join KIA - Criminal Inspection A - the supervisory body for all homicide investigation in Kripo.
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