A Stain on the Silence is a gripping thriller from the bestselling author of The Ashes of London You can run from a guilty conscience, but you can't hide . . . James wasn't much more than a child when he had an affair with Lily. And now, twenty-four years later, Lily confesses to James that their affair led to...

Discover the classic mystery from Dick Francis, one of the greatest thriller writers of all time 'A master of suspense' 5***** Reader Review 'Once you start it's impossible to put it down' 5***** Reader Review 'You're always on a winner with Dick Francis' 5***** Reader Review ______ Perry Stuart, TV meteorologist, chiefly predicts periods of English drizzle, with bursts of...

Belle, restless and sleepless, is alone in her vast new house while her husband works abroad. Dangerously idle, she invites the alluring and damaged Tina, a local waitress with a violent boyfriend, to become her lodger – even though she barely knows her. Gradually Belle and Tina grow closer, sharing clothes, secrets, stories of their troubled pasts, and even their...

Sometimes, it seems like you can reach out and touch the past... An old man wearing a brown robe is found wandering disoriented in the Arizona desert. He is miles from any human habitation and has no memory of how he got to be there, or who he is. The only clue to his identity is the plan of a...

Catch Me When I Fall is a chilling novel of murder, madness and a woman on the edge from the Top Ten bestselling author, Nicci French You're a whirlwind. A success. You're living life on the edge. But who'll catch you when you fall? Holly Krauss is a city girl burning the candle at both ends. Despite a comfortable home...

'In The Girl of His Dreams, Donna Leon is writing at her fluent best.' The Independent 2008 Washington Post Book World Best Book of the Year Independent Mystery Booksellers Association Bestseller ____________________________________________ One rainy morning Commissario Brunetti and Ispettore Vianello respond to an emergency call reporting a body floating near some steps on the Grand Canal. Reaching down to...

It’s the day before Mike Frame’s fiftieth birthday and his quiet provincial life is suddenly falling apart. But perhaps it doesn’t matter, because it’s not his life in the first place. He has a past that his partner Miranda and step-daughter Sam know nothing about, lived under another name amidst the turbulence of the revolutionary armed struggle of the 1970s....

***Special anniversary edition, with a new introduction by Sophie Hannah*** You remember an idyllic childhood. But your memory is deceitful. And possibly deadly . . . When a skeleton is unearthed in the Martellos' garden, Jane Martello is shocked to learn it's that of her childhood friend, Natalie, who went missing twenty-five years before. Jane is encouraged by her therapist...

Catch Me When I Fall is a chilling novel of murder, madness and a woman on the edge from the Top Ten bestselling author, Nicci French You're a whirlwind. A success. You're living life on the edge. But who'll catch you when you fall? Holly Krauss is a city girl burning the candle at both ends. Despite a comfortable home...

Fact: Five thousand years ago, the Mayans carved thirteen crystal skulls. Fact: To protect humankind, they sent them to the four corners of the globe. Fact: They gave a precise date for when they thought the world would end: 21 December 2012. Fact: They said that this time the destruction will be of man's making. Fact: Only when all thirteen...

Tenth Man Down is packed with Ryan's trademark gung-ho style, graphic imagery and technical detail that can only come from first-hand experience. Fans of Andy McNab, Lee Child, Clive Cussler and Stephen Leather will not be disappointed. 'Slick, polished and gut-wrenching stuff' -- Irish Times 'Arguably the father of the SAS thriller genre' Good Book Guide 'Real strength in detailing...

Only a killer hears their prayers. The first thriller in Richard Montanari's Sunday Times bestselling Byrne and Balzano series. God Help Them ... In the most brutal killing crusade Philadelphia has seen in years, a series of young Catholic women are found dead, their bodies mutilated and their hands bolted together. Each clutches a rosary in her lifeless grasp. Veteran...

Steve Toltz's A Fraction of the Whole is a riotously funny explosion of a novel SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008 From his prison cell, Jasper Dean tells the unlikely story of his scheming father Martin, his crazy Uncle Terry and how the three of them upset - mostly unintentionally - an entire continent. Incorporating death, parenting (good and...

New York: Late 1958 Walter Withers had given the best years of his life to the CIA, setting honeytraps and reeling in the victims of his plots. But Withers has returned to his hometown for an easier, safer life as a Private Investigator. Manhattan in the late Fifties is alive with new possibilities, new sounds and new faces, including young...

'Fascinating... spectacularly gory... fast-paced.' Mail on Sunday A GRUESOME SECRET UNEARTHED When a human skull is dug up in a garden near Boston, Dr Maura Isles is called in to investigate. She quickly discovers that the skeleton - that of a young woman - has been buried for over a hundred years. But who was the woman? And how did...