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1) Dark corners
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English
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When Carl sells a box of slimming pills to his close friend Stacey, inadvertently causing her death, he sets in train a sequence of catastrophic events which begin with subterfuge, extend to lies and culminate in murder. In Rendell's dark and atmospheric tale of psychological suspense, we encounter mistaken identity, kidnap, blackmail and a cast of characters who are so real that we come to know them better than we know ourselves.
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Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
You've just read the opening pages of The Nothing Man, the true crime memoir Eve Black has written about her obsessive search for the man who killed her family nearly two decades ago. Supermarket security guard Jim Doyle is reading it too, and with each turn of the page his rage grows. Because Jim was - is - the Nothing Man. The more Jim reads, the more he realises how dangerously close Eve is getting to the truth. He knows she won't give up until...
3) Memory man
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An Amos Decker thriller volume 1
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
When ex-detective Amos Decker returned home 18 months ago to find the bodies of his wife and only daughter, he didn't think he could carry on living. Overwhelmed with grief, he saw his life spiral out of control, losing his job, his house and his self-respect. But when his former partner in the police visits to tell him that someone has confessed to the murders, he knows he owes it to his wife and child to seek justice for them. As he comes to terms...
4) 1st case
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Pub. Date
2020
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English
Description
A young tech genius is offered the opportunity of a lifetime ? One that could end hers. When Angela Hoot is kicked off her graduate programme at MIT for hacking into the computer of a fellow student, she fears she?s blown her chances of a glittering career. Angela is wrong: instead, she?s offered a dream internship with the FBI. She jumps at the chance and is thrown straight into her first case at a house in the Boston suburbs where a family of five...
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English
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A shocking discovery. An island wrapped in secrets. A tiny island community is stunned by the discovery of a long-buried body. For Stella Harvey the news is doubly shocking. The body has been found in the garden of her childhood home - the home her family fled without explanation 25 years ago. Now, questioning her past and desperate to unearth the truth, Stella returns to the isolated island. But she quickly finds that the community she left isn?t...
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Series
Inspector Iwata volume 1
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Newly reinstated to the Homicide Division and transferred to a precinct in Tokyo, Inspector Iwata is facing superiors who don't want him there and is assigned a recalcitrant partner, Noriko Sakai, who'd rather work with anyone else. After the previous detective working the case killed himself, Iwata and Sakai are assigned to investigate the slaughter of an entire family, a brutal murder with no clear motive or suspect. At the crime scene, they find...
7) Win
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Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Over 20 years ago, heiress Patricia Lockwood was abducted during a robbery at her family?s estate. Patricia escaped, but so did her captors, and the stolen items were never recovered. Until now. On New York?s Upper West Side, a recluse is found murdered in his apartment alongside two objects of note: a Vermeer painting and a leather suitcase bearing the initials WHL3. Windsor Horne Lockwood III - or Win as his friends call him - doesn?t know how his...
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Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
It?s the swinging 60s, Sydney. Post-war Australia is booming and the excitement of the city lures two young women, Rose and Margot, eager for adventure in these rapidly changing times. At a coffee bar in cosmopolitan Kings Cross, they encounter two debonair Europeans, Stefan and Josef, former Polish army officers seeking to rebuild their lives. Yet romance between Rose and Stefan is thwarted by lingering wartime trauma. And Margot, well, she has no...
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Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Mary Shields is a moody, acerbic probation officer, dealing with some of Glasgow?s worst cases and her job is on the line. Liam Macdowall was imprisoned for murdering his wife, and he?s published a series of letters to the dead woman, in a book that makes him an unlikely hero - and a poster boy for men?s rights activists. Liam is released on licence into Mary?s care, but things are far from simple. Mary develops a poisonous obsession with Liam and...
10) The pact
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Publisher
Bolinda/Bonnier audio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
It was supposed to be a new start. A dream job. It wasn't supposed to end in murder ... After accepting a job with San Francisco's hottest start-up, Freya can't wait to begin her new life. And when her colleague Jay takes an interest in her, life at the office might just become more exciting. But not everything is that simple. Fellow employee (and Jay's ex) Nicole seems intent on making her life a misery. When she goes one step too far, Freya snaps...
11) One shot
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Series
Jack Reacher volume 9
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Six shots. Five dead. A heartland city thrown into terror. But within hours the cops have it solved. A slam-dunk case. Apart from one thing. The accused gunman refuses to talk except for a single phrase: Get Jack Reacher for me. Reacher lives off the grid. He?s not looking for trouble. But sometimes trouble looks for him. What could connect the ex-military cop to this psychopathic killer?.
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Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2017
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English
Description
Jason Bourne is on the run. His old friend, General Boris Karpov, is dead. But Karpov, once head of the feared FSB, lives on in the cyber weapon he devised before his death, capable of penetrating the heart of America's final defense: nuclear launch codes. Both the NSA and Meme LLC, a black off-site cyber opertion, believe Bourne has taken over the enterprise, and a kill team is sent to terminate him for committing treason against the US. Flushed...
13) The Flower Girls
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Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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The Flower Girls. Laurel and Primrose. One convicted of murder, the other given a new identity. Now, nineteen years later, another child has gone missing. And the Flower Girls are about to hit the headlines all over again...?.
14) Those people
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Prepare to be gripped; Those People is nail-bitingly tense from the first page to the last. Louise Candlish shows us the dark side of suburbia - and of ourselves' Erin Kelly ?Sharp satire and a plot that builds to a roiling boil with a couple of oh-so-clever final twists in close succession: Louise Candlish is one very clever writer? Sarah Vaughan? You don't like them. They're not like you. Are you one of Those People? Until Darren and Jodie move...
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Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
It's easy to judge between right and wrong - isn't it? Not until you hear a convincing truth. Now it's up to you to decide... An unnamed defendant stands accused of murder. Just before the Closing Speeches, the young man sacks his lawyer, and decides to give his own defence speech.He tells us that his barrister told him to leave some things out. Sometimes, the truth can be too difficult to explain, or believe. But he thinks that if he's going to go...
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Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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'My sister was abducted from here nearly 30 years ago. The person who took her was never found. And neither was she. Her abductor nearly killed me. So I'm back here now trying to find the truth.' Atlee Pine has spent most of her life trying to find out what happened that fateful night in Andersonville, Georgia. Her six-year-old twin sister, Mercy, was taken and Atlee was left for dead while their parents were apparently partying downstairs. One person...
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
Description
A businessman boasts about cheating on his wife, only to find his own back to the wall. A beautiful country rectory reverberates to the echo of a historical murder. A compulsive liar finds herself caught out by an act of impulsive revenge. Atmospheric, mysterious and never predictable, these are among the nine short stories of dark deeds and heart-stopping suspense collected here for the first time.
18) I will find you
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English
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David and Cheryl Burroughs are living the dream - married, a beautiful house in the suburbs, a three-year-old son named Matthew - when tragedy strikes in the worst possible way. David awakes one night to find himself covered in blood, but not his own - his son?s. And while he knows he did not murder Matthew, the overwhelming evidence against him puts him behind bars indefinitely. Five years into his imprisonment, Cheryl's sister arrives and drops...
19) To fight for
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Series
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Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
To Joe, injured and broken, it seems as if the whole of east London is at war. But until he recovers from the knife wound that nearly killed him, he can't join the fight. He is running out of time to track down the men who killed the only woman he ever loved. But revenge is what drives him. Either they die, or he does. There's only one way to find out?.
20) The shadow
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Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Norah has just moved from Berlin to Vienna in order to leave her old life behind her for good when a homeless woman spits these words at her. Norah is unnerved: many years earlier, something terrible happened to her on February 11. She shrugs this off as a mere coincidence, however, until shortly afterwards she meets a man called Arthur Grimm. Soon Norah begins to have a dreadful suspicion: does she have a good reason to take revenge on Grimm? What...
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