Domestic Noir

Waves of crime were washing the shores of Kenosha by Lake Michigan. Could the police solve the crimes before the next person got hurt? Teressa LeRoy, a young worker at Kenosha Public Library used to rescue street children on her own time. She went missing on the gala night from her workplace and Detective Nathan Adams was assigned the case to find her. One afternoon the gown that Teressa wore on the gala night was found hung on a bookshelf of the library. On another evening, some of the children saw a ghost in the library. One morning, a mangled body appeared in the Library Park and ...

Book One Ray Spalding's had enough of his wife, Paula. He's left his home in Edinburgh's Southside and headed for Belfast. It's safer there. Unknown to Ray, Paula's also had enough of him. She's not going back home. Not now, not ever. Jesse Spalding wakes up one morning to find both his parents gone. And he can't tell anyone or he'll be taken into care. As time passes and bills need paying, all Jesse can rely on are his wits, his friend Archie and his dad's 1950s record collection. Southsiders is a powerful short novel that follows the spiralling fortunes of Ray and Jesse, pushing father ...

Sadie loves her daughter and will do anything to keep her safe. She can't tell her why they had to leave home so quickly - or why Robin's father won't be coming with them to London. She can't tell her why she hates being back in her dead mother's house, with its ivy-covered walls and its poisonous memories. And she can't tell her the truth about the school Robin's set to start at - a school that doesn't welcome newcomers. Sadie just wants to get their lives back on track.

Casey's very first interaction with a male was a brutal one, and it was when she was the age of eleven. Now that she's a young adult, she's never given herself the chance to trust and love anyone, must less a man, due to the scars left open from her past...until Tony. The only problem is, what she thought was trustworthy, loyal and lovable about Tony was actually an obsession that he had for her, and she'd missed all the signs until it was too late.

Vince Taylor has everything he could dream of. He’s the CEO of a tech firm in New York City, owns a beautiful home and, most importantly, he is married to Nicole - the woman who stole his heart the first moment he set eyes on her. Together they have built the perfect life. But when Layla, a stunning young intern at Vince’s company, is found dead, all eyes are suddenly on him. Vince has a secret that threatens to tear their perfect world apart.... He was having an affair with Layla. And he’ll do anything to cover his tracks.

Aurora vit en Angleterre et sa sœur Isafold en Islande, elles sont très différentes et ont des relations compliquées. Isafold disparaît et leur mère, ne faisant pas la différence entre enquêtrice financière et enquêtrice policière, supplie Aurora d'aller chercher sa sœur. Aurora ne peut pas s'empêcher de pratiquer ce qu'elle fait de mieux, démasquer les fraudeurs et les faire payer. Elle va donc profiter de ce voyage pour examiner de près certains investissements financiers douteux, et analyser la corruption islandaise tout en testant ses capacités de séduction sur deux hommes.

Have you ever wanted to steal someone else's life? The Professor lives in Brooklyn; her partner Nathan has left her; she can't have a baby. All she's left with is Nathan's old moggy, Cat. Who she doesn't even like. Then a celebrity actress moves into the area. She's beautiful, with long auburn hair, perfect skin, a lovely smile. She's got children - a baby, even. And a husband who seems to adore her. She leaves discarded household items and toys outside for thrift collection. She leaves her windows open, even at night.

Chloe lives a quiet life. Working as a newspaper archivist in the day and taking care of her Nan in the evening, she's happy simply to read about the lives of others as she files away the news clippings from the safety of her desk. But there's one story that she can't stop thinking about. The case of Angie Kyle - a girl, Chloe's age, who went missing as a child. A girl whose parents never gave up hope. When Chloe's Nan gets moved into a nursing home, leaving Chloe on the brink of homelessness, she takes a desperate step: answering an ad to be a lodger in the missing girl's family home.

Another blockbuster thriller hot on the heels of Atima Srivastava’s other bestsellers; It Takes a Girl, and Dark Waters. Part of The Killer Women Series. Shivani Srivastava has designs on the eminent Dr Shree. She doesn’t realise that, though separated from his wife, he is still married. So, when the glamorous Mala Sinha returns and starts getting in the way of her plans, Shivani accidentally runs her over in a pique of jealous rage. At first panicked, Shivani's horror soon turns to high spirits as she realises it’s easy to get away with it. All she has to do is control the narrative....

Da Alice og Leo flytter ind i et nyistandsat hus i The Circle, et indhegnet kvarter med eksklusive huse, er det svaret på alle deres drømme. Men alting er ikke, som det ser ud... Efterhånden som Alice lærer sine naboer at kende, opdager hun en frygtelig og uhyggelig hemmelighed om sit nye hjem og begynder at føle en stærk forbindelse med Nina, den terapeut, der tidligere boede der. Alice bliver besat af at prøve at afdække, hvad der skete to år tidligere. Men ingen har lyst til at tale om det. Hendes naboer har hemmeligheder, og det hele er ikke så perfekt, som det ser ud...

Born Bad meets Ash Park in an electrifying and darkly hilarious crime thriller that will keep you glued to the pages. A brilliant psychopath with a singular goal. A detective desperate to do the right thing—for once. What happens when their worlds collide? Poppy Pratt has spent years running from what she is. Pretending that her father wasn’t a prolific serial killer. Pretending that she doesn’t crave the stickiness of blood beneath her fingernails. Pretending to be normal. Now she’s finally free—if you don’t count the cheating husband she’s currently saddled with and the baby...

Drei Freundinnen, drei Trennungen - ein Wochenendtrip, der tödlich endet. Gib mir deine Angst ist ein raffinierter psychologischer Thriller aus den USA mit unvorhersehbaren Twists. Sam ist heilfroh, als ihre Freundinnen Margaret und Diana, die ebenfalls unschöne Trennungen hinter sich haben, einen Wochenendtrip vorschlagen: einfach mal raus aus New York und die düsteren Gedanken für eine Weile beiseiteschieben! Doch dann haben die drei ausgerechnet in der Kleinstadt Catskill eine Autopanne, in der Sams Ex mit seiner neuen Freundin lebt.

Du er ikke den, du udgiver dig for at være. Men det er hun heller ikke. Olive Anderson spiser for sig selv i hotellets restaurant, da en glamourøs fremmed kommer hen til hendes bord og præsenterer sig som Olives hustru. Det begynder som en spændende leg, men udvikler sig hurtigt i en farlig retning. Men uanset hvor mange hemmeligheder den falske hustru måtte have, så har Olive formentlig flere... Falsk forførelse er en spændingsroman, man bare ikke kan lægge fra sig, og som vil chokere og overraske læseren.

Shreeja stumbled on a child at a busy Kolkata street that made her rush to Shiuli so that crimes against children could be stopped. Will they succeed? Shreeja is a crime beat reporter of a leading newspaper in Kolkata. But crime ridden streets of the city could not made her sensitivity blunt enough that she could ignore severe crimes against children on the streets. She brought those crimes to the notice of the police and met detective Shiuli. Shiuli appreciated Shreeja's endeavor and opened a bunch of cold cases against children of the city. Irritated by the slow progress of the police ...

She’s not fragile like a poppy. She’s fragile like a bomb. Poppy Pratt isn’t sure whether it’s normal for a recently widowed psychopath to feel this level of rage, but she does know two things: Her husband is dead because of what she is. And she’s more dangerous than your average psychopath. She was eighteen when her father brutally murdered her boyfriend in their Alabama shed, but she was seven when the training started. Seven when she watched her serial-killer father hang a victim from a set of metal hooks. Seven when he first handed her the blade. Not that it bothered her; ...

The Liar's Chair is Rebecca Whitney's stunning psychological thriller debut set in Brighton. Rachel Teller and her husband, David, appear happy, prosperous and fulfilled. The big house, the successful business... They have everything. However, control, not love, fuels their relationship, and David has no idea his wife indulges in drunken indiscretions. When Rachel kills a man in a hit-and-run, the meticulously maintained veneer over their life begins to crack.

In the lucrative world of Wall Street finance, Vincent, Jules, Sylvie and Sam are the ultimate high-flyers. Ruthlessly ambitious, they make billion-dollar deals and live lives of outrageous luxury. Getting rich is all that matters, and they'll do anything to get ahead.When the four of them become trapped in an elevator escape room, things start to go horribly wrong. They have to put aside their fierce office rivalries and work together to solve the clues that will release them. But in the confines of the elevator the dark secrets of their team are laid bare.

Det er mørkt. Du ved ikke, hvor du er... Og du kan høre fodtrin, der nærmer sig. Amelie har altid været en overlever. Da hun som barn boede i Paris, mistede hun sin mor, og nu hvor hun er voksen og også har mistet sin far, skal hun klare sig alene i London. Mens hun er i gang med at bygge sit liv op, kommer hun ind i en kreds, der fører en glamourøs livsstil. Bekendtskaber, der fører til, at hun gifter sig med den flotte milliardær Ned Hawthorpe.

For to år siden forsvandt Frans søster, Jenna, på den maltesiske ø Gozo. Hun var med på et wellness-retreat, som gik frygteligt galt. Tom Wade, nu berygtet som manden bag Soul­Shrinks retreats, er lige blevet løsladt fra fængslet efter at have afsonet sin dom for to menneskers død. Men han har aldrig røbet, hvad der skete med det tredje offer: Jenna. Fran er fast besluttet på at finde ud af, hvad der skete, og melder sig til hans næste retreat, som er det første siden løsladelsen. Her står hun ansigt til ansigt med den mand, som måske har nøglen til hendes søsters forsvinden.

1936: At 19, Kitty was ready to leave behind the stifling control of her parents and all those constantly telling her how to live her life. Work at the Wintonvale Repatriation Hospital was her escape and a chance to be someone else. Then she met soldier George Turner—and she heard her mother's voice in her ear, warning of danger, of being that girl. Kitty told herself if she ever had her own daughter she'd never control her. She'd make sure her voice never left a mark behind.