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21) Perfect match
Author
Publisher
Corvus
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
When Solomon's sister is found drugged and in a coma after an online date, Solomon can't believe this was just a terrible accident. Determined to find out what happened to his sister, and with the police unwilling to help, Solomon begins to investigate on his own. He soon uncovers a rash of similar cases of women who have been found brutally murdered or assaulted after an online date. There is a predator out there working the streets of London, preying...
22) Closing in
Author
Publisher
HarperImpulse
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Helen has had to leave everything she?s ever known behind; her home, her family, even her own name. Now, returning to the UK as Ellen Newman, she moves to a small coastal village, working as a nanny for Donovan, a criminal psychologist. Attractive, caring and protective, this single father and his sweet daughter are a world away from Ellen?s brutal past. She thinks she?s escaped. She thinks she?s safe. But Ellen can?t shake the feeling that something?s...
Author
Series
Publisher
Text Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
? The ninth installment in this popular crime series kicks off in Sydney and then takes cool, enigmatic anti-hero, professional thief Wyatt, to the beaches of Newcastle ? Perfect Christmas gift and summer read for fans of crime books ? Garry Disher is one of Australia?s most prolific and highly acclaimed crime writers ? Australian calls Garry Disher 'one of the best writers in the country' ? Garry Disher lives on Victoria?s Mornington Peninsula....
24) Small wars
Author
Series
Jack Reacher volume 20
Publisher
Transworld Digital
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
A young lieutenant colonel, in a stylish handmade uniform, roars through the damp woods of Georgia in her new silver Porsche - until she meets a very tall soldier with a broken-down car. What could connect a cold-blooded off-post shooting with Reacher, his elder brother Joe, and a secretive unit of pointy-heads from the Pentagon?.
Author
Series
Publisher
BookShots Digital
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
James Patterson?s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. PART ONE OF A THRILLER IN FOUR PARTS It?s the day of the opening ceremony of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio and excitement is at fever pitch. But a key athlete has gone missing and Detective Rafael Carvalho, on the brink of retirement, is assigned the case. When the athlete suddenly appears at the ceremony, it seems the case is solved. But Carvalho soon discovers that he has...
26) Triple homicide
Author
Publisher
Cornerstone Digital
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
DETECTIVE CROSS: An Alex Cross Thriller An anonymous caller has promised to set off deadly bombs in Washington, DC. A cruel hoax or the real deal? By the time Alex Cross and his wife, Bree Stone, uncover the chilling truth, it may already be too late?. THE MEDICAL EXAMINER: A Women?s Murder Club Thriller (with Maxine Paetro) A woman checks into a hotel room and entertains a man who is not her husband. A shooter blows away the lover and wounds the...
27) The undoing
Author
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Get ready for The Undoing, soon to be the most talked about TV of 2020. From the creators of Big Little Lies, The Undoing premieres this autumn starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant and Donald Sutherland. Grace Sachs, a happily married therapist with a young son, thinks she knows everything about women, men and marriage. She is about to publish a book called You Should Have Known, based on her pet theory: women don't value their intuition about men,...
Author
Publisher
Canongate Books
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Luis Machi has had enemies for a long time: after all, he's built his success on dirty deals - not to mention his cooperation with the military junta's coup years ago, or his love life, a web of infidelities. What's new is the corpse in the boot of his car. A body with its face blown off, detained by a pair of furry pink handcuffs that Machi knows well . . . Someone is trying to set him up, but the number of suspects is incalculable. Machi is stuck...
29) Whirligig
Author
Publisher
Fledgling Press
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Just outside a sleepy Highland town, a gamekeeper is found hanging lifeless from a tree. The local police investigate an apparent suicide, only to find he?s been snared as efficiently as the rabbit suspended beside him. As the body count rises, the desperate hunt is on to find the murderer before any more people die. But the town doesn?t give up its secrets easily, and who makes the intricate clockwork mechanisms carved from bone and wood found at...
30) Undertow
Author
Series
Publisher
Dundurn
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
RCMP detective Leith fears he?s made a mistake bringing his family to North Vancouver. His first Serious Crimes Unit case has rocked his senses: who would brutally murder a mother, father, and baby? Detective Dion, also regretting the move, has returned to the city where he no longer fits in - but is he back in the swim, or destined to drown?.
Author
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Louise would give anything - anything - for a good night's sleep. Forget the girls running errant in the garden and bothering the neighbours. Forget her husband who seems oblivious to it all. If the baby would just stop crying, everything would be fine. Or would it? What if Louise's growing fears about the family's new lodger, who seems to share all of her husband's interests, are real? What could she do, and would anyone even believe her? Maybe,...
32) Gallows Court
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Language
English
Description
LONDON, 1930. Sooty, sulphurous, and malign: no woman should be out on a night like this. A spate of violent deaths - the details too foul to print - has horrified the capital and the smog-bound streets are deserted. But Rachel Savernake - the enigmatic daughter of a notorious hanging judge - is no ordinary woman. To Scotland Yard's embarrassment, she solved the Chorus Girl Murder, and now she's on the trail of another killer. Jacob Flint, a young...
33) Lying in wait
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Description
The last people who expect to be meeting with a drug-addicted prostitute are a respected judge and his reclusive wife. And they certainly don't plan to kill her and bury her in their exquisite suburban garden. Yet Andrew and Lydia Fitzsimons find themselves in this unfortunate situation. While Lydia does all she can to protect their innocent son Laurence and their social standing, her husband begins to fall apart. But Laurence is not as naive as Lydia...
34) Now we are dead
Author
Language
English
Description
Roberta Steel has recently been demoted after being caught fitting up a suspect. The trouble is, the man she got sent down has had his sentence quashed - now he's back on the streets. And women are being attacked again. But if DS Steel goes anywhere near him his lawyers will get her thrown off the force for good. The Powers That Be won't listen to her - not after what happened last time. Besides, she's got more than enough ongoing cases to keep her...
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Language
English
Formats
Description
Stephanie Patrick?s world was destroyed by the Atlantic aircrash. Falling into a downward spiral of prostitution, drugs and drink, she is picked up by a journalist who has discovered that it was a bomb that caused the crash. And it is his murder that pulls her out of herself. The Rhythm Section is not a thriller about the hunt for a terrorist, although that is the path Stephanie takes, and it?s not a story about revenge, although justice for her family...
36) The whisper man
Author
Language
English
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Description
If you leave a door half-open, soon you'll hear the whispers spoken. Still devastated after the loss of his wife, Tom Kennedy and his young son Jake move to the sleepy village of Featherbank, looking for a fresh start. But Featherbank has a dark past. 15 years ago a twisted serial killer abducted and murdered five young boys. Until he was finally caught, the killer was known as 'The Whisper Man'. Of course, an old crime need not trouble Tom and Jake...
Author
Series
Nina Borg volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nina Borg is trying to live a quiet life. But when Nina's estranged friend Karin leaves Nina a key to a public locker in a Copenhagen train station and begs her to take care of its contents, Nina gets drawn into a brutally violent underworld. Inside the suitcase is a 3-year-old boy: naked, drugged, but alive.
Author
Publisher
Corvus
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Con men and killers, aliens and zombies, priests and soldiers, just some of the characters that thrill and kill in this compelling collection of gun-toting, double-crossing, back-stabbing, pulse-pounding stories. Jeffery Deaver investigates the suspicious death of a crime-writer in "The Plot"; Karin Slaughter's grieving widow takes revenge on her dying ex-husband in "Cold Heart", Stephen Coonts discovers a flying saucer in the depths of the ocean...
Author
Publisher
Cornerstone Digital
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
The Silence of the Lambs - FBI trainee Clarice Starling has an elusive serial killer to hunt. Only one man can help. Hannibal - It has been seven years since Dr Hannibal Lecter has been on the run. Seven years since his last meeting with Clarice Starling. Seven years to lay plans for the next one. Hannibal Rising - Hannibal Lecter wasn't born a monster. He was made one.
40) Our house
Author
Language
English
Description
When Fi Lawson arrives home to find strangers moving into her house, she is plunged into terror and confusion. She and her husband Bram have owned their home on Trinity Avenue for years and have no intention of selling. How can this other family possibly think the house is theirs? And why has Bram disappeared when she needs him most? Bram has made a catastrophic mistake and now he is paying. Unable to see his wife, his children or his home, he has...
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