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Lena Adams has spent her life struggling to escape her past. She has only unhappy memories of Reece, the small town which nearly destroyed her. She's made a new life for herself as a police detective in Heartsdale, a hundred miles away - but nothing could prepare her for the violence which explodes when she is forced to return.

The controversial, heartbreaking new novel from international phenomenon Jodi Picoult

Karen Drew is found sitting in her wheelchair with her throat cut and DI Annie Cabbot gets lumbered with the case. In Eastvale Hayley Daniels is found strangled and DCI Alan Banks is called in. Banks finds suspects galore, while Annie seems to hit a brick wall - until she reaches a breakthrough that spins her case in a shocking direction.

Egypt is struck by a series of terrible plagues that cripple the Kingdom, and then the ultimate disaster follows. The Nile fails. The waters that nourish and sustain the land dry up. Something catastrophic is taking place in the distant and totally unexplored depths of Africa from where the mighty river springs.

Dark family secrets and a passionate love affair, full of his trademark warmth, humanity and ingenuity, this is Iain Banks' best novel since THE CROW ROAD

The events of 9/11 changed Jack Reacher's drifter life in a practical way. So when a member of his old Army unit manages to get a message to him, he knows it has to be deadly serious. The Special Investigators always watched each other's backs. Now he must put the old unit back together. Someone has killed one of them, and he can't let that go.

An explosive new thriller from the bestselling Faye Kellerman featuring LA detective Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus.

In a rambling house, failed poet Toby Dobbs has created a refuge for people who need one. But when a quiet tragedy and an unwelcome letter interrupt Toby's sedate existence, he needs his housemates to find some direction in their lives.

Sacked from his high-profile job as a national newspaper editor, Piers Morgan dived helplessly into the world of celebrity. But even twenty years of commenting on the lives of the rich and famous couldn't prepare him for the extraordinary world he uncovered. This book gives an account of one man's quest for celebrity.

Candy is a supermodel and her sister, Tammy produces a show on TV. The oldest sister Sabrina is a lawyer, while Annie is an American artist. On one Fourth of July weekend, as they do every year, the four sisters come home to Connecticut for their family's annual gathering. But before the holiday is over, tragedy strikes and their world is changed.

The No. 1 bestseller is back with her greatest blockbuster yet.What do you do when you lose everything? It was one of the big...

Set in New York, this title presents the story of a man who goes on a quest to discover the secrets behind a box that responds to psychic energy and is linked to the North American blackout of August 2003.

Nina Landry has given up city life for the isolated community of Sandling Island. For Nina it is home. But when her teenage daughter fails to return from a sleepover, the island becomes a different place altogether - a place of secrets and suspicions where no one believes Nina's instinctive fear that her daughter is in terrible danger.

The terrifying new psychological thriller featuring Tony Hill, criminal profiler and hero of TV's Wire in the Blood.

After a shoot out at a ferry dock, Detective Lindsay Boxer is called to the scene to find that three people have been killed, and one of her closest friends, Claire, has been shot and lies bleeding, whilst the murderer is on the run. Lindsay promises Claire that she'll hunt down this killer, but sadly, it doesn't prove to be so straightforward.

A scrumptiously funny and moving tale of love, lust and confectionery. Who needs love when you've got chocolate?

Taut, menacing, sinister, gripping, intelligent, action-packed -- everything you could want from a thriller.

Jo Edwards never planned to live on a barge. But when her husband trades her in for a younger model, she finds her options alarmingly limited. Dora Hamilton never planned to run out on her own wedding. As Jo and Dora embark on reorganising their muddled lives, they realise they both need a practical way to keep themselves afloat.

Twenty years ago, four teenagers disappeared in the woods at a summer camp. Now, two decades later, everything is changing...

Motherhood, it seems, has more pitfalls than Lucy might have expected. Caught between perfectionist Yummy Mummy No 1 and hypercompetitive Alpha Mum, Lucy is in danger of losing the parenting plot. And worst of all, she's alarmingly distracted by Sexy Domesticated Dad. It's only a matter of time before the dirty laundry blows up in her face.

Lucy steals her friend Rose's husband, Peter. Rose was the ideal wife and is the ideal mother; Lucy was the perfect mistress. Connie - best friend to both Lucy and Rose - is stuck in the middle. But Connie has her own troubles: she's just got the hang of family life when an old flame pops up to rekindle a bit of passion - on the side.

As you wake up in a room on a bed covered in blood of your girlfriend, the phone rings and a voice tells you to press play on the room's DVD machine. The film shows you killing your girlfriend. Then you're told to go to an address in East London where you're to deliver a briefcase and await further instructions. There's no way out.

When a multimedia games designer decides to take his research to the next level for his new game, The Inquisitor, fantasy ends and murder begins. Called to a remote murder site Vito Ciccotelli, homicide detective is confronted with numerous bodies, all with horrific injuries, and it seems the victim of the same killer.

When serial killer Gretchen Lowell captured her last victim - the man in charge of hunting her down - she quickly established who was really in control of the investigation. So why, after ten days of horrifying physical and mental torture, did she release Detective Archie Sheridan from the brink of death and hand herself in?

The dramatic new Ravenscar novel from the international bestselling author of Woman of Substance.

An action-packed adventure that hurtles from modern-day London, Boston and Arizona to the dark secrets of Shakespeare's past.

Laura Brannigan is in jail for murder. For two years she's been battling for justic - insisting that she didn't kill her best friend, Jackie. Yet with her spirits at their lowest ebb, she receives a letter that takes her back to a different time and memory of an old love.

* The third novel in Alexander McCall Smith's irresistibly charming series about the residents of 44 Scotland Street

Tragedy threatens the Devonshire village of Burracombe...

The warm and sexy new novel from the bestselling author of Love Rules and Home Truths.

Presents the story about a man's passion for a woman, and how loss, longing and love can shape a man's destiny over the many moons of a life.

Becky's life is blooming! She's working at London's newest fashion store The Look, and she's pregnant! She couldn't be more overjoyed - especially since discovering that shopping cures morning sickness. But when the celebrity obstetrician turns out to be her husband Luke's glamorous, intellectual ex-girlfriend, Becky's world starts to crumble.

When the first body is found, mutilated and strangled on the riverbanks, Philadelphia homicide detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano suspect yet another case of random urban violence. Then it happens again. And again.

When Eloise Cribb receives the news that her husband's ship has been lost at sea she wonders how she is ever going to manage. With 2 children and almost nothing to live on, she turns to his estranged family for help. But she is met with hostility and faces her worst nightmare.

Leo Deakin wakes up in a hospital somewhere in South America, his girlfriend Eleni is dead and Leo doesn't know where he is or how Eleni died. Moritz Daniecki is a fugitive from a Siberian POW camp separated him from his village and his sweetheart. The author paints a dramatic portrait of two men sustaining their lives through the memory of love.

They spend their days - and too many of their nights - at work. There's Chris Yop, clinging to his ergonomic chair; Lynn Mason, the boss, whose breast cancer everyone pretends not to talk about; Carl Garbedian, secretly taking someone else's medication; Marcia Dwyer, whose hair is stuck in the eighties; and Benny, who's just - well, just Benny.

Charlie Parker returns in the chilling new thriller from the Sunday Times" bestselling author of THE BLACK ANGEL

Julia Valenciano is facing a case that could launch her career. The defendant David Marquette is a Miami surgeon. The victims are Marquette's own wife and three children. The plea is not Guilty by Reason of Insanity. David Marquette experienced defence team claims paranoid delusions caused by schizophrenia drove him to slaughter his entire family.

A stunning new thriller in the vein of Velocity and The Husband from one of the world's bestselling authors.

Nell and Patrick were inseparable, and Nell thought he was 'The One' until she met Alex. Now nothing is going right. Alex has left her to live in New York with a younger, blonder woman. Escaping to the Caribbean for a recuperative holiday, she is mugged at Gatwick and her bag is stolen. It's crisis time - and she makes two decisions.

Five people are linked by infidelity. What happens when one of the links breaks? This work presents a tale of immorality and lust.

In a hotel overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, who got married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to suppress their anxieties about the wedding night to come. This book presents the story that tells how the course of life can be changed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken.

When Susie's maiden aunt gives her a housekeeping journal, she expects Susie to use it for jotting down nutritious recipes and planning household budgets. But Susie has more important things on her mind. This work chronicles a hectic year in the life of a stay at home mother, whose one ambition is to possess an outfit that is free of snot stains.

*A delicious comedy about love, life and following your heart ...

Samuel Carver is a good guy who makes bad things happen to bad people. He is called to do a hit at very short notice. When he discovers the identity of his target, and the identity of the target's companion, he knows that his life is over. This is a secret too big to let him live, unless he can track down the real villains before they get to him.

On the night Brian Bishop murdered his wife, he was sixty miles away, asleep in bed at the time. At least, that's the way it looks to Detective Superintendent Roy Grace who concludes that Bishop has performed the apparently impossible feat of being in two places at once. Has someone stolen his identity, or is he simply a very clever liar?

Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are both haunted by their last case. Realizing that Michelle is teetering on the brink of self-destruction from long-buried demons, Sean arranges therapy for his reluctant partner. But instead of focusing on her recovery, Michelle unearths disturbing secrets in the hospital.

Welcome to St Benedict's Country Club and Spa. As a home away from home for the A-list, naturally membership comes at a premium - only the over-sexed, the over-rich and the over-beautiful need apply. But the St Benedict's experience involves more sex, bad behaviour, blackmail and deviance than most women can handle. Are you ready to join the Club?

Sarah Roberts used to be good. Then she did something bad. Very bad. Now, years later, she's living a good life. She works as a local newspaper reporter and lives with her saintly boyfriend Jonathan. She has no reason to think her guilty past will ever catch up with her. Until Nick walks back into her life.

The sinking of a cargo ship and the slaughter of its crew seemed a senseless act of violence. But Clea Rice knows the truth and is determined to expose the culprits. When Jordan Tavistock is asked to steal the indiscreet letters of a friend, he gets caught red-handed - by Clea, who is looking for something else entirely.