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Expertly weaving the past and present with precision and delicious tension, The Dinner Party is a thoughtful and thought-provoking look at female rage, body autonomy, and all the concessions women make throughout their lives—big and small—until the surprising moment when they decide they can make them no longer.

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Enjoying a rare day off, DS Jazzy Solanki’s peaceful spring walk is interrupted when a body is discovered along her path. Instinct tells her it’s not a coincidence. Could Jazzy’s estranged, vengeful stepsister – consumed by grief over their brother’s death – be sending her a deadly message? Then a child goes missing. The crimes appear unrelated, but Jazzy’s gut insists there’s a sinister connection, one that points straight at her. With time running out, Jazzy and her team must uncover the truth before the killer finds them.

Laelia is ready for the journey of a lifetime: a trip to faraway Belize with her two young children and her new partner, Aidrian, to celebrate her father's birthday. But something feels off from the first footprint on the beach. The heat is sticky and close. The family party crackles with unspoken tension. Aid is acting distant and edgy. Things escalate when Laelia’s father falls dangerously ill, and she’s forced to decamp to the remote jungle lodge that he calls home.

Twelve years ago, school friends Sofia, Ellie and Rose made a vow. They promised never to talk about that fateful night. Never to tell anyone what they did. Since then, they’ve all followed very different paths but as they come together to celebrate Ellie’s destination wedding it promises to be a weekend to remember. It is meant to be the event of the season, but as things start to go wrong, they suspect someone is trying to punish them.

In 1939, just as the clouds of war are gathering, Richard Halifax—boys' adventure writer of manly bravado and the breeziest of prose styles—vanishes in the Pacific. Halifax was attempting to sail a Chinese junk from Hong Kong to San Francisco as part of the World’s Fair festivities on Treasure Island. But while his disappearance upends the lives of those left in his wake back home, both his machinations and his letters to his young readers live on.

At a crossroads in their lives, a couple arrives in Greece to house-sit for a friend. Emma is searching for a meaningful next step beyond work or starting a family, and Julian is struggling to come to terms with the failure of his academic career. Their visions for the future seem to be pulling them in different directions, and they hope that this summer away will help them mend their frayed connection.

An Israeli woman relocates to America on assignment from her tech company. In an attempt to leave her past behind and adapt entirely to the new culture in which she finds herself, she joins her colleagues on a deer hunt, discovering a surprising acumen for the sport. She fires again and again, refining her skills with every shot. As she embarks on an affair with her hunting guide and colleague, David, she sinks deeper into hunting season, vacillating between predator and prey as the boundaries between man, woman, work, and nature begin to collapse.

Die bewegende Geschichte einer Kinderfreundschaft – gefühlvoll erzählt von Bestsellerautorin Barbara Leciejewski Frau Petri zerriss Susis Brief, einmal, zweimal, dreimal, viermal. Kleine Fetzen flogen in den Mülleimer. "Nimm diese hübsche Ansichtskarte, schreib etwas Schönes. Darüber freuen sich deine Eltern ganz sicher, und das möchtest du doch, oder nicht?" Sechs Wochen Kuraufenthalt an der Nordsee – ein toller Urlaub, versprechen ihr die Eltern. Doch die achtjährige Susanne und die übrigen Kinder verbringen im "Haus Morgentau" die schlimmste Zeit ihres Lebens.

Von Verlust, Trauer und vom Weitermachen: drei Frauen in einem Fischerdorf in Maine. Ferien an der Küste von Maine zählen zu Minas schönsten Kindheitserinnerungen. Bis zu jenem schicksalhaften Sommer, nach dem sie und ihre Eltern nie mehr dorthin fuhren. Viele Jahre später zieht es Mina nach einem schweren Verlust wieder zurück. Sie landet in einem Hummerfischerdorf bei der 72-jährigen Ann, die in einem gelben Haus am Wasser lebt und allem und jedem mit Härte begegnet – außer ihrem blauen Hummer Mr. Darcy, den sie in einem Aquarium im Wohnzimmer hält.

Konkurrentin und Vorbild – der Roman eines lebenslangen Konflikts. Seit Jahren lebt Emilie im Altersheim. Längst hat sie zu sprechen aufgehört – und kommuniziert nur noch mit ihrer Freundin Marianne, ebenfalls Bewohnerin des Heims. Ihre Tochter Hanna scheint Emilie kaum wahrzunehmen, vielleicht lehnt sie sie sogar ab, das ist nicht so genau zu sagen. Liegt es an mangelnder Zuwendung der Tochter, sind es die Verletzungen, die sie über die Jahrzehnte einander zugefügt haben? In einem Akt der Erlösung entführt die Tochter ihre Mutter und deren Freundin, um mit ihnen einen Ausflug zu machen.

Ten-year-old Margaret hides beneath a blackberry bush in her family’s lush backyard while her brother hunts for her in a game of flashlight tag. Hers is a childhood of sunlit swimming pools, Saturday morning pancakes and a devoted best friend, but her family life requires careful prudence. Her mother can be as brittle as she can be loving, and her father and brother assume familiar, if uncomfortable, models of masculinity. Then late one fateful summer, everything changes. A line is crossed and in the wake of that betrayal the simple pleasures of girlhood slip away.

A small town in Northern California is at risk of being destroyed by a failing levee, and Colter Shaw has been hired to locate a family swept away by the raging water, with just mere hours to survive. But is the levee at risk of failing from natural causes or is someone sabotaging it? With the help of his sister, Dorion, the duo must save the citizens before the old town washes out at the hands of a secret conspirer.

The central character is Victor Kelly, an Irish Protestant with a Catholic last name, a man with an artistic sense of violence and a fondness for John Dillinger movies. He is a killer in Belfast, a city of shadowed streets, abandoned alleyways, and dark, deserted spaces, a city that is as familiar and strange as any other - Los Angeles, Sarajevo, Paris, or Berlin. A city threatened and defined by invisible boundaries, where geography is the key to survival, and every sensory detail assumes the utmost importance.

John and Laura have come to Venice to try and escape the pain of their young daughter's death. But when they encounter two old women who claim to have second sight, they find that instead of laying their ghosts to rest they become caught up in a train of increasingly strange and violent events. The four other haunting, evocative stories in this volume also explore deep fears and longings, secrets and desires.

In August, eight friends gather at a house in the Cambridgeshire countryside for a week-long artists retreat. There is painting by the pool or writing in the shady corners of the garden and inside the spectacular 18th-century home. In the evenings, there are communal drinks, dinner outdoors, midnight swimming, games. But someone is playing a game the others don't understand, meddling with their work and appearing to lurk on the edges of the retreat. As tensions rise over the seven days, desire and deceit rise to the surface and all their lives will change forever.

1997. It’s Red Nose Day and Tess, Candace, Dana and Arianna rock up to school dressed as the same Spice Girl. Embarrassing. But it’s the start of a friendship that will see them through the challenges of school, family life, dreaming up their future and first relationships – good, bad and unspeakable. 2019. The girls haven’t been in touch for years – since devastating secrets and the trials of adult life tore them apart. Until, one day, Candace contacts Tess and Arianna to say Dana has gone missing.

Jae-Young has just left everything she’s ever known, not that it was much: her thankless job, her infested apartment, and her abusive boyfriend—who happens to be dead on the kitchen floor. Murder was never the way she envisioned leaving, but times were desperate. Now on a train to the bustling city of Seoul, Jae-Young is hoping to escape her transgressions and just become invisible—safe. On the train, she meets a chatty mother fleeing with her infant son from an unfaithful husband and hoping to find refuge with the in-laws she’s never met.