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Geoffrey Household

An Englishman plans to assassinate the dictator of a European country. But he is foiled at the last moment and falls into the hands of ruthless and inventive torturers. They devise for him an ingenious and diplomatic death but, for once, they bungle the job and he escapes. But England provides no safety from his pursuers - and the Rogue Male must strip away all the trappings of...

Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie's most exotic murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful, a girl who had everything - until she lost her li...

Agatha Christie

CRIME & MYSTERY. It is Christmas Eve. The Lee family reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture, followed by a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed. But when Hercule Poirot, who is staying in the village with a friend for Christmas, offers to assist, he finds an atmosphere not of mourning b...

Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie's world-famous serial killer mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. There's a serial killer on the loose, bent on working his way through the alphabet. And as a macabre calling card he leaves beside each victim's corpe the ABC Railway Guide open at the name of the town wh...

Jason Goodwin

When a string of murders disturbs the tenuous tranquility of the sultan's royal court, savvy eunuch Yashim Togalu is called upon to investigate. As Yashim wends his way in and out of the opulent palace and through the sordid back alleys of nineteenth-century Istanbul, the reader is treated to an appropriately exotic tour of a time and a place where intrigue, deceit, and corrupt...

Jeff Lindsay

Dexter Morgan isn't exactly the kind of man you'd bring home to your mum. At heart, he's the perfect gentleman: he has a shy girlfriend, and seems to lead a quiet, normal life bordering on the mundane. Despite the fact that he can't stand the sight of blood, he works as a blood-spatter analyst for the Miami police. far, he's killed 36 people and has never been caught because he...

Lee Child

Jack Reacher, the vagabond freelance lawman who never hesitates to stick his nose into private business, takes his lively act to Texas, embroiling himself in what starts as a messy domestic dispute before turning far more ominous. The rugged former army cop comes to the aid of Carmen Greer, who picks him up on the side of the road one morning outside Lubbock, then asks him to k...

Alex Michaelides

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE MULTIMILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SILENT PATIENT 'Infinitely thrilling and delicately crafted, the plot keeps everyone guessing until the very end, with an unscrupulous villain to underline just how good it is. DO NOT MISS IT' Daily Mail ----- It begins with a phone call. And it ends with a murder . . ...

B. P. Walter

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Immensely gripping...Stayed up till past 2am to finish this' Sophie HannahFour people walked into the dining room that night. One would never leave. Matthew: the perfect husband. Titus: the perfect son. Charlie: the perfect illusion. Rachel: the perfect stranger. Charlie didn't want her at the book club. Matthew wouldn't listen. And that's how Charl...

Lee Child / Andrew Child

Reacher had no idea where he was. No idea how he had got there. But someone must have brought him. And shackled him. And whoever had done those things was going to rue the day. That was for damn sure. Jack Reacher wakes up, alone, in the dark, handcuffed to a makeshift bed. His right arm has suffered some major damage. His few possessions are gone. He has no memory of getting ...

Stephen King

Jeneva Rose

From the multi-million-copy bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage comes a chilling family thriller about the (sometimes literal) skeletons in the closet. Beth's life hasn't worked out the way she planned. After her father walked out on their family with a note simply saying 'I'm sorry', she became obsessed with finding him. An obsession that destroyed her relationship wit...

Lisa Jewell

PREPARE TO BE HOOKED BY THE GRIPPING NEW THRILLER FROM LISA JEWELL. 'Gripping. Shocking. Masterful.' FREIDA McFADDEN 'Lisa Jewell is a stone-cold genius and Don't Let Him In deserves to win mainstream literary prizes. Her best book yet. A PHENOMENAL achievement!' MARIAN KEYES 'A twisty mosaic of a thriller' GILLIAN McALLISTER 'Utterly absorbing, fiendishly clever and all-con...

Dan Brown

The world's most celebrated thriller writer and author of The Da Vinci Code returns with his most stunning novel yet--a propulsive, twisty, thought-provoking masterpiece that will entertain readers as only Dan Brown can do. Robert Langdon, esteemed professor of symbology, travels to Prague to attend a groundbreaking lecture by Katherine Solomon--a prominent noetic scientist wi...

Jeneva Rose

'Well hot dang!!!!... Absolutely Exquisite. Just gripping!!!... I seriously could not put it down... GET THIS ON YOUR LIST, YESTERDAY.' Reader Review, ?????????? From the multi-million-copy bestselling author and global sensation, Jeneva Rose. Till death do us part. Yours. Not Mine. It's been eleven years since high-powered attorney Sarah Morgan defended her husband, Adam, a...

Agatha Christie

Hercule Poirot has beaten thieves and murderers. But has he finally met his match with Bob the dog? This brand new Special Edition hardback celebrates Poirot's famous canine mystery, perfect for dog-loving Agatha Christie fans. A simple accident? Or attempted murder? Everyone blamed the dog. When a wealthy spinster trips on the stairs, it seems only natural to assume it was a...

Gillian Flynn

Riley Sager

Elle Cosimano

Adrian Mckinty

Stuart Neville

Jo Piazza

Stacy Willingham

She thought the murders had stopped. She was wrong. 'A smart, edge-of-your-seat story with plot twists you'll never see coming' Karin Slaughter 'Spectacular' Daily Mail 'Tense, twisty and threatening, A Flicker in the Dark will make you abandon your box sets' Val McDermid The instant New York Times bestseller, soon to be a major TV series, developed by Emma Stone Chloe Davis' f...

Harlan Coben