Beautiful Thriller

In a small rural community north-west of Sydney, park ranger Cal Nyx finds a badly decomposed body in the bush. The remains are identified as someone she once knew, and the police are now treating her as a suspect. Determined to prove her innocence, Cal embarks upon a hunt for the real killer - but when it turns out the victim was wanted in relation to a previous murder, the case takes a complicated turn.

(Trigger Warning: Includes Graphic Content.) “It was raw and edgy and dirty and it was perfect!” Juliette Townsend, Book Blogger "...an insider's lens on the grislier truths behind beauty and privilege." The Miami Herald “Sometimes disturbing, sometimes surreal, oftentimes beautiful, but always excellent!” Andrew Rivas, author of Eat the Rich The Darker Side of Paradise Step into the glamorous world of Miami Beach, where beauty conceals a chilling secret in The Most Beautiful Insanity, the electrifying start of the South Beach Crime Thriller Series. When a fashion model's life ends ...

When green-eyed charmer John Beller breaks through the chaos of her life, offering all the fruits of lust and love, 32-year-old Mary Williams desperately wants to partake. On the verge of a mental break where footsteps echo from empty rooms and constant phone calls have no one on the other end, she craves the peaceful embrace of John’s arms. His confident sphere is the one place she can forget about her weakening grasp of reality.

The first in her Detective Emmanuel Cooper series, A Beautiful Place to like a brilliant combination of Raymond Chandler and Die marks the debut of a talented writer who reads Graham Greene. It is a tale of murder, passion, corruption, and the corrosive double standard that defined an apartheid nation.

Realtor Nikki Harper is often privy to the kind of celebrity secrets the tabloids would kill to hear - but the latest murder case to rock Tinsel Town is truly shocking. Ryan Melton is well known as the arm-candy husband of former child star Diara Elliott. Beautiful and ambitious, Diara appears on the television series Casa Capri, which stars none other than Nikki’s mother, Victoria Bordeaux. In fact, Nikki recently met Ryan and Diara at one of her mother’s parties. Now Ryan’s lifeless body has been found by his swimming pool, and the security tapes have mysteriously been erased....

If Ridley Jones had slept 10 minutes later or had taken the subway instead of waiting for a cab, she would still be living the lie she used to call her perfect life. Instead, she's in the wrong place at the right time to unleash a chain of events that begins with a mysterious package on her doorstep. A package that informs her that her entire world is just an illusion. Forced to question everything she knows about herself, Ridley wanders into dark territory, where everyone is hiding something.

Club promoters Layla, Aster, and Tommy never imagined that entering the Unrivaled competition would land them in the middle of a celebrity murder investigation, but sometimes fate can be as nasty as the anonymous comments on a Hollywood gossip blog. But Madison Brooks isn’t dead. Layla, Aster, and Tommy have been set up, and as Madison’s dirty little secrets creep closer to the light, they discover Madison will do anything to keep her past hidden - no matter who gets caught in the crossfire.

Rick McCoy of the Major Crime Squad is trying to repair his marriage when he is sent to the South of Western Australia. A young girl's body has been found in a cave, with flowers on her chest. A search finds five more bodies. Beautiful criminal psychologist, Patricia Holmes, has recovered from her stab wounds inflicted by the serial killer PPP. As their desire for each other grows and the pressure on their marriages increase, they close in on the man responsible for the beautiful deaths.

Internationally best-selling author Alyson Noel is back with Blacklist, the second book in her Beautiful Idols series, where celebrity worship becomes a dark and dangerous game. A glitzy, guilty pleasure for mystery novel addicts and fans of the Pretty Little Liars books and TV show.

Cosette Hugo thought she had fulfilled her wish for a beautiful suicide, but she survived. As she begins the slow road to recovery, the guilt of what she has done has become overwhelming. She vows to put her murderous alter ego, Bonnie, behind her forever. In order to do this, Cosette must rescue Hilda and keep the truth about Hilda's kidnapping a secret. During the rescue things go wrong, and Cosette is forced to kill again.

1963. When Eleanor meets famous young poet Lyndon Chance, he offers a way to flee her abusive father. In return, she must pretend to be Lyndon's wife. He takes her home to a Tudor manor on the Camel Estuary in Cornwall, where she finds herself in the middle of a feud between Lyndon and his twin brother, Oliver. It's soon clear that the old house hides many dark secrets. But could they be a threat to Eleanor?

In this sexy, mysterious and romantic follow up to Beautiful Americans, snow falls over the French countryside as Alex, Olivia, and Zack search for their missing classmate, PJ. But while they have been looking for their beautiful troubled friend, they've been losing themselves along the way.

In England's shadowy corners, from misty woods to ancient university halls, criminal psychologist and head of the Ritualistic Behavioural Crime unit Dr Harrison Lane, confronts the country’s most challenging crimes. A boy's body with cryptic messages. A man pinned down by horseshoes. A student etched with strange symbols. Each scene is a piece of a terrifying puzzle only Harrison can solve. As he unravels these ritualistic killings, Harrison digs up long-buried secrets that shake quiet towns to their core. But the deeper he delves, the more his own past threatens to engulf him.

High-tech mercenaries find themselves pitted against free-running revolutionaries as global corporate warfare becomes centered around a struggling island nation and the freedom fighters defending their home. The streets of the city are full of gun smoke, and the wires of cyberspace hum with digital violence as opposing forces struggle over wealth, freedom, and the very soul of the islands in this grim futuristic thriller.

Everyone wants to be someone. Layla Harrison wants to leave her beach-bum days for digs behind a reporter's desk. Aster Amirpour wants to scream at the next casting director who tells her "we need ethnic but not your kind of ethnic." Tommy Phillips dreams of buying a 12-string guitar and using it to shred his way back into his famous absentee dad's life. But Madison Brooks took destiny and made it her bitch a long time ago. She's Hollywood's hottest starlet, and the things she did to become the name on everyone's lips are merely a stain on the pavement.

It was meant to be a quiet assignment - how did it go so wrong? Jake Travis is ordered to smuggle ashore an accountant who can help place a notorious drug lord behind bars. Stash him in a cottage. Arouse no suspicion. But the man unexpectedly arrives with his wife and three young children. Within days, the children are missing. Jake suspects what he had been told about his passengers was not entirely true. He is labeled a failure and is dismissed from the case...a pause resisting mystery that showcases Lane's singular style of humor, suspense and unforgettable characters.

CAN ANYONE STOP THE BEAUTIFUL VILLAIN?Readers of J.T. Kelly’s International Thriller series recall a megalomaniac named Adamis Baum. He and his minions believed the earth couldn’t sustain the world’s population because of dwindling natural resources. In a secret mystery plot, the terrorists planned to annihilate billions of people by dispersing an Ebola Zaire virus into the world’s water systems. To protect his faithful from the deadly virus, Baum forced a hostile takeover of a Boston pharmaceutical company. Its drug offered phenomenal healing powers – even as a cure for the Ebola...

There’s nothing like a witch storm to unearth a century of dark secrets...and there’s nothing like a best friend with a flaming sword at your back to end them once and for all. The curse which infected those I love is over...and the woman in black is now gone. But Bestias Academy has changed since the witch storm. Secrets have resurfaced and shadows consume the dorms. An old principal haunts the hallways, leaving grave dirt in her wake. But that’s not all that’s surfaced. The fish in the pond are savaged and eaten...and one is mysteriously gone.

A pollute-addicted therapist named Meme battles his way through his mind and LA at the seat of his pants alongside a beautiful android escort with a surprising secret. With the Federal Corporate Government hunting him, will he make it to safety in time? The hunt is on. Harmon Cooper, author of The Feedback Loop, Fantasy Online, and The Last Warrior of Unigaea, turns it up a notch with this futuristic, psychological thriller steeped in cyberpunk and designer intoxicants.

As the long summer holiday stretches ahead, ten-year-old Alix wants to spend every second on the beach and in the water. But with her parents unusually distracted and her older sister now more interested in boys, she finds herself alone. Then Alix meets Kahu. He’s on holiday too, and he lets her in on a secret: a few years ago, a little girl went missing and was presumed drowned. But no one ever found her body.