Tag: thriller
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Ballistic
by Frank Gardner MI6 operative Luke Carlton returns in his most exciting and unnervingly up-to-the-minute mission yet . . . this is the new edge-of-your-seat spy thriller from the bestselling author. In the dying light of an Arctic afternoon a monstrous black shape slips beneath the waters of Murmansk bay. Murmansk in the Arctic Circle…
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Invitation From A Dictator
by Rory Clements ON THE EVE OF WAR, A ROYAL GUEST IS LURED INTO HITLER’S DEADLY WEB . . . Munich, 1937. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor have arrived in Germany for a historic meeting at Hitler’s mountain retreat. But recent attacks by ruthless Communist band, Red Freedom, has brought fear and bloodshed to…
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The Country Road Murders
by James Patterson & Mike Lupica Cross Rivers is the kind of small town where everyone knows your name – and your secrets. Silas Tucker was destined for glory until a devastating accident brought him back to the place where his life fell apart. His father was gunned down on a deserted country road when…
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Mad Mabel
by Sally Hepworth YOU CAN CHANGEYOUR NAME.BUT YOU CAN’TCHANGE YOUR PAST . . . Eighty-one-year-old Elsie Fitzpatrick lives a quiet life in the suburbs. Few would guess that Elsie, aside from being a curmudgeon who minds everyone else’s business, harbours a secret she’s worked hard to bury. Because when it comes to murder, no one…
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Icarus 17
by Charles Cumming Lachlan Kite should have left fieldwork behind by now. As director of covert intelligence agency Box 88, he’s at the apex of his espionage career. But when Martha Raine – a woman he hasn’t seen in twenty years – begs for his help, Kite finds himself back in the game, racing to…
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Everything She Didn’t Say
by Jane Casey Someone is dead. Someone is a killer. Someone is lying. A woman is found in bloodstained clothes on the lonely coast of County Mayo. At first, she won’t speak. Then a name comes: Ruth. And a story about her missing friend: Maura. Ruth says she and Maura were staying in a clifftop…
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Smoke and Whispers
by Mick Herron When a body is hauled from the River Tyne, Sarah Tucker heads to Newcastle for a closer look. She identifies the dead woman as private detective Zoë Boehm, but putting a name to the corpse only raises further questions. Did Zoë kill herself, or did one of her old cases come back…
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The Last Place You Look
by Nikki Smith LEO THOUGHT HE KNEW HIS WIFE. UNTIL SHE DISAPPEARED.Leo Kennedy has it all: money, looks, the perfect marriage and luxury homes in the UK and South Africa. But when his wife Addison goes missing, his immaculate life detonates. 48 hours later, Leo arrives at their safari lodge to retrace her steps. Only…
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The Lizard
by L.J.Ross Bryher Enys is the proud owner of Cornwall’s newest restaurant, Panorama. When she isn’t whipping up culinary feasts, she volunteers with the local lifeboat crew – a tight-knit team who regularly risk their lives to save others. With no immediate plans to settle down, life is pretty much perfect. Until one stormy night, when…
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Nine Lives
by Catherine Steadman These are your neighbours. One is a killer. Reeling from a very recent divorce, Frankie has moved into a glamorous London neighbourhood. This is a new chapter in her life. She’s decided to put down roots with the beautiful Persian cat she left her marriage with named Blue. But little niggles with…