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Games of Deceit
Par Pan Pantziarka. 1997
DCI Vallance and Sarah Fairfax team up once again when an old friend of Sarah's claims someone at work is…
trying to kill her. But her squeaky clean colleagues don't tally with the violent attacks. When Vallance becomes sexually involved with Carol he discovers she has not been telling the truth.The Gallows Curse
Par Karen Maitland. 2012
1210 and a black force is sweeping England. For a vengeful King John has seized control of the Church, leaving…
corpses to lie in unconsecrated ground, babies unbaptized in their cradles and the people terrified of dying in sin. And in the village of Gastmere, the consequences grow darker still when Elena, a servant girl, is dragged into a conspiracy to absolve the sins of the lord of the manor. As the terrors that soon begin to plague Elena's sleep grow darker, in desperation she visits the cunning woman, who has been waiting for just such an opportunity to fulfil an ancient curse conjured at the gallows.Elena, haunted by this curse and threatened with death for a crime she didn't commit, flees the village ... only to find her nightmare has barely begun.For treachery lurks in every shadow as King John's brutal reign makes enemies of brothers, murderers of virgins and sinners of us all.A Good Father
Par Catherine Talbot. 2020
'Brilliant . . . I couldn't stop reading' Jo Spain 'Exceptional . . . Deeply chilling' Jane Casey______________Des is a…
good husband, a good father - a good man.He encourages his wife's artistic endeavours, reads bedtime stories to his children every night, and holds down a well-paid job.But appearances can be deceptive. His wife seems to be forgetting that her art is for his eyes only. Rumours at work are threatening his reputation as a devoted family man. And his kids don't seem to need him as much as they once did. Des is afraid.Afraid of the world encroaching on his home.Afraid of past mistakes catching up with him.So afraid of losing control over his family that he is contemplating the unthinkable.A Good Father is a dark and gripping novel that takes you into the mind of a man on the edge.__________________'This intricately made novel marks the debut of a writer from whom, and of whom, we shall be hearing much in coming times' John Banville'Captivating . . . Readers will come for the premise and stay for its clever unpacking' Irish Times'A devastating new voice in Irish fiction . . . Magnificent' Joe Duffy'A great read, it's gripping, at times disturbing' Miriam O'Callaghan, RTÉ Radio 1WOMAN & HOME'S BEST THRILLER OF 2019'If you like a proper, twisty nerve-wracking thriller, here's one for you!'Emma Curtis, author…
of One Little MistakeFour strangers are missing. Left at their last-known locations are birthday cards that read:YOUR GIFT IS THE GAME. DARE TO PLAY? The police aren't worried - it's just a game. But the families are frantic. As psychologist and private detective Dr Augusta Bloom delves into the lives of the missing people, she finds something that binds them all.And that something makes them very dangerous indeed.As more disappearances are reported and new birthday cards uncovered, Dr Bloom races to unravel the mystery and find the missing people.But what if, this time, they are the ones she should fear?WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ABOUT GONE: 'Sensational' *****'I will say phenomenal. Although that doesn't cover how good this book is' *****'Complete mind-twisting and gripping suspense' *****'I raced through it desperate to get to the end while not wanting it to end' *****'What a riveting psychological thriller' *****'It is dark, riveting, twisty and cruel' *****'Wow . . . this book was fabulous' *****'Belter of a psychological thriller' *****'Please write another novel soon, I need the adrenaline rush' *****DR BLOOM IS BACK IN LOST, THE SENSATIONAL FOLLOW UP TO GONE - AVAILABLE NOWFatal Sunset
Par Jason Webster. 2017
In the hills above Valencia is a notorious nightclub called Sunset. When its larger-than-life owner, Jose Luis, dies suddenly, everyone…
assumes it was a heart attack. Meanwhile, all is not well for Max Cámara at HQ. His new boss, Rita Hernández, has it in for him and his idiosyncratic methods. He must abandon a complex investigation to check out what looks like a routine death at Sunset. But an anonymous phone call suggests otherwise, leading him to an unholy network of drug dealers, priests and shady officials protecting a dark government secret.A Fatal Crossing: Unputdownable cosy crime from The Sunday Times bestselling author
Par Tom Hindle. 2022
'Dazzling' Crime Monthly'My kind of book!' Belfast Telegraph'Captivating' My Weekly Magazine'Ingenious' Crime Time'Suspenseful' Country Life Magazine_____________________________________November 1924. The Endeavour sets…
sail to New York with 2,000 passengers - and a killer - on board .When an elderly gentleman is found dead at the foot of a staircase, ship's officer Timothy Birch is ready to declare it a tragic accident. But James Temple, a strong-minded Scotland Yard inspector, is certain there is more to this misfortune than meets the eye.Birch agrees to investigate, and the trail quickly leads to the theft of a priceless painting. Its very existence is known only to its owner . . . and the now dead man.With just days remaining until they reach New York, and even Temple's purpose on board the Endeavour proving increasingly suspicious, Birch's search for the culprit is fraught with danger.And all the while, the passengers continue to roam the ship with a killer in their midst. ________________________________________________________'A very clever plot and a final twist which will delight Agatha Christie fans. You will love it!!!' Ragnar Jónasson'With twist after gut-punching twist, A Fatal Crossing really is an ingenious thriller. Highly recommend' M. W. Craven'It twists and turns like the best of Christie' - Peterborough Telegraph'A tantalizing and captivating plot, filled with detail and texture to enhance the feeling of the halcyon days of the liners and their times' Shots Magazine'The action unfolds at a rip-roaring pace in this perfectly executed homage to the Golden Age of crime, which features a deviously devised plot boasting a final twist worthy of Christie herself. I absolutely loved it' Anita Frank'Twists and turns cartwheel to a blindsiding finish' Woman's Weekly'My favourite westward Atlantic crossing detective novel is Peter Lovesey's The Fake Inspector Dew (1981), but A Fatal Crossing by Tom Hindle is a first-rate addition to the corpus [...] A very good debut novel' The CriticMurder on Lake Garda by Tom Hindle was a no.8 Sunday Times bestseller 04/02/24Zero: The Unputdownable International Bestselling Thriller
Par Marc Elsberg. 2018
A GUARDIAN THRILLER OF THE MONTH'[Exposes] the dark underbelly of social media giants' societal control via the manipulation of data.…
Elsberg is nothing if not prescient; this is all pre-Cambridge Analytica.' Barry Forshaw, Guardian************************The gripping bestselling global thriller for fans of Dave Eggers' THE CIRCLE and Channel Four's BLACK MIRROR.************************Welcome to the Freemee lifestyle app:They can give you confidence, power, fame and all the friends in the world. But what will they take in return? When a teenager is shot dead after chasing a criminal in the street, investigating journalist Cynthia Bonsant is led to the popular social media platform Freemee, a competitor to Facebook whose lifestyle app claims to give you everything you need to succeed in life.But there is someone who warns against its evils: Zero, the world’s most-wanted activist, known for exposing the toxic truths behind social media giants and their pursuit of total control. As Cynthia gets closer to unravelling the evil mastermind behind the Freemee site, she herself becomes a target. But in this world of hidden cameras, data glasses and hyper-smart phones there is nowhere to hide . . .The Young Magicians and The Thieves' Almanac
Par Nick Mohammed. 2017
Meet four unlikely friends, desperate to become real-life magicians . . . Alex is amazing with a deck of cards;…
Zack's a pickpocketer like no other; Sophie convinced her Brown Owl that all the other Brownies were jelly fish thanks to her hypnosis skills; and Jonny mixes science and magic with spectacular consequences.They are thrown together for their induction week at the mysterious, secretive Magic Circle. But behind its doors, things are not quite what they expect.Then the Bank of England is broken into and its gold stolen. Or is it? Could this actually be the greatest magic trick the world has seen? And can the four Young Magicians figure out how it was done?#Youdunnit: Three Short Stories
Par Nicci French, Alastair Gunn, Tim Weaver. 2013
One crowdsourced storyline, three finely crafted stories by Penguin authors Nicci French, Tim Weaver and Alastair Gunn.What crime has been…
committed?Who is the victim?And who will solve the case?Write a short crime story, using plot details crowdsourced on Twitter. This was the challenge we put to three Penguin authors - Nicci French, Time Weaver and Alastair Gunn. How different would the stories be? And how would the authors cope, with so much of the detail out of their hands?#YoudunnitThree very different murders and three unique takes on your travel photographer turned reluctant sleuth, Lucinda Berrington. Deep in the suffocating British countryside, the gangland streets of Cape Town or the glossy world of professional cycling, Twitter followers are meeting an unsavoury demise.Maybe next time you log in you'll wonder...Are you following them, or are they following you?This ebook is brought to you free of charge by Penguin, in association with Specsavers. Look out for other titles by all three authors: Thursday's Children by Nicci French, follows Blue Monday, Tuesday's Gone and Waiting for Wednesday as the fourth in the Frieda Klein series.Richard & Judy book club pick Never Coming Back is the fourth David Raker thriller by Tim Weaver, author of Vanished,Chasing the Dead and The Dead Tracks. Alastair Gunn's debut crime novel, The Advent Killer, is available from Penguin from November 2013, and introduces DCI Antonia Hawkins.The Franchise Affair (Penguin Modern Classics – Crime & Espionage)
Par Josephine Tey. 2023
'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily TelegraphAbducted, beaten, hidden in an…
attic, a young woman stages an audacious escape. But is her story everything she claims it to be?Fifteen-year-old Betty Kane can recall every detail of the room where she says she was held at the country house known as The Franchise - even the crack in its round window. But her alleged kidnappers, a quiet-living mother and daughter, claim they have never seen her before. Somebody has to be lying. But who? As the case sparks a media frenzy, it is up to unassuming village solicitor Robert Blair to find out.The Face Of Trespass
Par Ruth Rendell. 1974
Two years ago he had been a promising young novelist. Now he survived - you could hardly call it living…
- in a near derelict cottage with only an unhooked telephone and his own obsessive thoughts for company. Two years of loving Drusilla - the bored, rich, unstable girl with everything she needed, and a husband she wanted dead. The affair was over. But the long slide into deception and violence had just begun. . .Flight Of The Storks
Par Jean-Christophe Grange. 1994
A journey to the green inferno of the African jungle brings one man face to face with his macabre past.…
Every year the storks would set off on their astounding 12,000-mile migration from Northern Europe to the remote Central African Republic. One year, inexplicably, puzzling numbers of them fail to return. At the invitation of a Swiss ornithologist, Louis Antioch agrees to investigate the mystery of the birds' disappearance. Before he can set off on his quest, however, his patron is found dead in bizarre circumstances. Jean-Christophe Grang-'s uncompromising narrative develops at a nightmare pace from a Bulgarian gypsy encampment to a kibbutz in the Occupied Territories, to the African jungle, to Calcutta, where an appalling and gruesome truth emerges: the end of a mission that began with the Flight of the Storks-The Extraordinary Cases of Sherlock Holmes (Puffin Classics)
Par Arthur Conan Doyle. 2010
Through the foggy streets of Victorian London to the deepest countryside, Sherlock Holmes uses his unique powers of deduction in…
eight thrilling investigations, including the mysteries of 'The Speckled Band' and 'The Reigate Puzzle'. With a captivating introduction by award-winning Jonathan Stroud.The Extraordinary Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Par Arthur Conan Doyle. 2013
‘On the contrary, my dear Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see’Herein lie…
the problems: a stolen jewel, the inexplicable death of a young woman, the disappearance of one of the most remarkable racehorses in England, a missing butler, the curious symbols of dancing men, a broken bust of Napoleon, a possible kidnapping and the bad business of a coachman shot through the heart.The solution? Elementary my dear friend. Call the super sleuth famed for his rapid deductions, his swift intuitions and ingenious solutions - Sherlock Holmes of 221b Baker Street. Includes exclusive material: In the Backstory you can test your powers of observation and deduction, learn about the author and brush up on your detective skills! Vintage Children’s Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds and the adults in their lives. Discover timeless favourites from The Jungle Book and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to modern classics such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.The Fine Art of Uncanny Prediction: The #1 Bestseller
Par Robert Goddard. 2023
From the author of the BBC 2 Between the Covers hit, The Fine Art of Invisible Detection'The world's greatest storyteller'…
Guardian'One of the finest crime writers of any generation' Daily Mail'Our finest practitioner of the double-cross plotting' Mick Herron______________________________________Umiko Wada never set out to be a private detective, let alone become the one-woman operation behind the Kodaka Detective Agency. But so it has turned out, thanks to the death of her former boss, Kazuto Kodaka, in mysterious circumstances.Keen to avoid a similar fate, Wada chooses the cases she takes very carefully. A businessman who wants her to track down his estranged son offers what appears to be a straightforward assignment. Soon she finds herself pulled into a labyrinthine conspiracy with links to a twenty-seven-year-old investigation by her late employer and to the chaos and trauma of the dying days of the Second World War.As Wada uncovers a dizzying web of connections between then and now, it becomes clear that someone has gone to extraordinary lengths to keep the past buried. Soon those she loves most will be sucked into the orbit of one of the most powerful men in Tokyo. And he will do whatever it takes to hold on to his power...The Fine Art of Uncanny Prediction is another tour de force from the cunning mind of master storyteller Robert Goddard. Spanning seventy years, it takes the reader on a head-spinning journey of twist and counter-twist which keep you guessing until the final pages.__________________________________Readers love the Umiko Wada series:***** 'Guaranteed and satisfying escapism'***** 'Twists and turns right up to the last page'***** 'Edge-of-the-seat stuff'***** 'Fresh and inventive'***** 'The master of twists and suspense ... sublime'***** 'Scintillating and wickedly twisty'The Fine Art of Invisible Detection: The thrilling BBC Between the Covers Book Club pick
Par Robert Goddard. 2020
'One of the finest crime writers of any generation' Daily Mail'He's the high priest of plot ... deftly woven, but…
also beautifully written ... I loved it' Mel Giedroyc_______________________________Umiko Wada has recently had quite enough excitement in her life. With her husband recently murdered and a mother who seems to want her married again before his body is cold, she just wants to keep her head down.As a secretary to a private detective, her life is pleasingly uncomplicated, filled with coffee runs, diary management and paperwork.That is, until her boss takes on a new case. A case which turns out to be dangerous enough to get him killed. A case which means Wada will have to leave Japan for the first time and travel to London.Following the only lead she has, Wada quickly realises that being a detective isn't as easy as the television makes out. And that there's a reason why secrets stay buried for a long time. Because people want them to stay secret. And they're prepared to do very bad things to keep them that way...A pulse-pounding, breathless crime thriller, perfect for fans of Anthony Horowitz's Hawthorne series, Robert Galbraith's Cormoran Strike series and LJ Ross's Alexander Gregory thrillers.The new Umiko Wada novel from Robert Goddard, THE FINE ART OF UNCANNY PREDICTION, is available now._______________________________What readers are saying:'5 stars''Guaranteed and satisfying escapism''Edge-of-the-seat stuff''The master of twists and suspense... sublime'Simon Kernick, the UK's answer to Harlan Coben, has written a thriller jam-packed withaction, tension and twists and turns. A…
heart-stopping read from page one, this is perfect for fans of David Baldacci, Stuart MacBride and Peter James.'Another accomplished race against time with a delightfully morally ambiguous hero.' -- Sunday Mirror'Simon Kernick writes with his foot pressed hard on the pedal. Hang on tight!' -- Harlan Coben'Great plots. Great characters. Great action.' -- Lee Child'If you're looking for a fast-paced, believable book that you can't put down, then this is the one' -- ***** Reader review'A fast-paced page-turner' -- ***** Reader review'A cracking good read' -- ***** Reader review'This book has me hooked from the moment I picked it up' -- ***** Reader review'An original, fast paced, compelling read' -- ***** Reader review***********************************************************************************TIME IS RUNNING OUT.'It's night, and I'm in a strange house.The lights are on, and I'm standing outside a half-open door.Feeling a terrible sense of foreboding, I walk slowly inside.And then I see her.A woman lying sprawled across a huge double bed.She's dead. There's blood everywhere.And the most terrifying thing of all is that I think her killer might be me ...'A traumatic car-crash. A man with no memory, haunted by nightmares.When the past comes calling in the most terrifying way imaginable, Matt Barron is forced to turn to the one person who can help.Ex Met cop, turned private detective, Tina Boyd.Soon they are both on the run...Escape from Shadow Island - Max Cassidy 1 (Max Cassidy #1)
Par Paul Adam. 2012
'My mum killed my dad, then dragged his body all the way along the beach . . . I don't…
believe a word of it'Max Cassidy is a teenage escapologist, so good he's nicknamed the Half-pint Houdini. His father disappeared two years ago and his body has never been found. His mother is now serving a life sentence for her husband's murder.Max's mission to learn the truth about his family takes him on an thrilling journey, from London to the horrors of the terrifying Shadow Island in central America.Escapology is dangerous but not nearly as dangerous as real life . . .The first book in Paul Adam's fast and furious Max Cassidy thriller series.The Fixer
Par Steve Bunce. 2010
Ray Lester is a fixer in the boxing business. He makes fights happen. He builds a bridge and guides boxers…
across to the negotiating table. Ray Lester is good at his job.One morning, a girl arrives at Ray's door and asks him for help finding her father, an old-school Vegas crooner called Eddie Lights. Ray travels with his questions to Sin City, along with 30,000 other Brits with their Union Jacks on the way to watch Hatton take on Mayweather. But the boys in leather jackets from back east are on his tail and Ray finds himself embroiled in a murderous plot.So begins a journey into the murky world of deals, fights and fighters. A world beyond the glitz, glamour and glory. A world where the fixer is king.The Five Orange Pips and Other Cases (The Penguin English Library)
Par Arthur Conan Doyle. 2012
'He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson ... He sits motionless, like a spider in the centre of its web,…
but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them'Sherlock Holmes, scourge of criminals everywhere, whether they be lurking in London's foggy backstreets or plotting behind the walls of an idyllic country mansion, and his faithful colleague Dr Watson, solve these breathtaking and perplexing mysteries. In Arthur Conan Doyle's The Five Orange Pips and Other Cases we encounter some of his most famous and devilishly difficult problems.The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.