Gripping Thriller

Summer, 1921. Lady Eleanor Swift, the best amateur sleuth in the country, is delighted to be in charge of the prize-giving at her village summer fair. But the traditional homemade raft race takes a tragic turn when the local undertaker, Solemn Jon, turns up dead amongst the ducks. Jon was the life of any party and loved by the entire village. Surely this was simply an awful accident? But when a spiteful obituary is printed in the local paper, Eleanor realizes there may be more to Jon’s death than first thought.

Zaara thought she had the perfect marriage—until she discovered her husband’s darkest secrets. What began as a series of late nights and unanswered calls spirals into a web of deception and betrayal when Zaara receives a set of chilling photos: her husband, Nathan, entwined with a striking young woman in a quiet hotel lobby. Her mind races, but nothing prepares her for what lies ahead. Determined to uncover the truth, Zaara steps into a world of manipulation, lies, and shadows that she never knew existed. But when she meets Alivia, the so-called “other woman,” everything changes. ...

A young woman is brutally attacked on her way home. It looks like she was the victim of a jilted—and twisted—ex-lover. But then two more women, also engaged to be married, are found dead. The press call the killer the "Surrey Stalker". And there’s a stack of similar cold case files. The pressure is on for young, ambitious DI Rob Miller. But with all the time he’s spending at the office, Rob’s also running a fine line trying to keep his fiancée, Yvette, onside as they try to plan their wedding.

Ever wondered what it would be like to wake up - and find you are someone else? Grant Finnegan's latest page-turner puts you right into the middle of this confronting possibility. It's an edge-of-your-seat thriller you won't be able to put down. Enter the world of the elusive and mysterious Samsarana Retreat, nestled in the foothills of Ubud, Bali. You enter the meditation class, and suddenly you open your eyes and are thousands of miles away - trapped in someone else's body. Follow the trials of the people who go through this incredible transformation that will have you wondering- do you ...

The pretty market town of Sterndale is a close-knit community where everyone thinks they know everyone else. But at a lavish summer wedding, a local celebrity is discovered slumped in the gardens, the victim of a violent assault that leads to a murder investigation. As the police search for answers, suspicion and paranoia build and the lives of the locals are turned upside down. Secrets that lurk beneath the pristine façade of Sterndale come to light as detectives close in on the truth.

Praise for L G Wilder's writing: "Strikingly original" - says award-winning author Jake Needham (Inspector Tay series) "A great read" - says best-selling author Oliver Harris (Detective Belsey series) ________________________________________________________________ Five Star Reader Reviews: "Fast paced, great characters, very well written story weaving into modern Russia and its complex politics" "Packed with twists, turns, and intense fight scenes." "It moves along at a cracking pace to a climatic conclusion." "A great read, well paced, plenty of action and intrigue and lots of jeopardy!" ...

A desperate plea. A tangled web. Lead investigators O'Shea and Maguire face their most challenging case yet—the mysterious death of Maria Hyka. As Maguire and her team dig deeper, they uncover connections to a shadowy underworld. Their journey leads them to Hanna Babinec, whose testimony could turn the case on its head. With each step, O'Shea and Maguire unravel a layer of the mystery, exposing a network of lies and corruption. The revelation of Maria’s troubled past with her brother Marek opens new paths of inquiry. If they can navigate this labyrinth of deceit, they might just find ...

Fact: During the night of February 1, 1959, in the remote reaches of Siberia, nine Russian hikers slash open their tent from the inside and flee into a blizzard in subpolar temperatures. Fact: By morning all are dead, several having suffered gruesome, violent deaths. What happened to them has baffled investigators and researchers to this day.

Not a day has gone by that Michael Whitman hasn’t thought about his ten-year-old daughter, Katie, disappearing from an amusement park in their small Midwest city. One moment she was there, waiting on a bench, and then she was gone, shattering Michael’s life. Now it is seven years later and it seems as if everyone has moved past Katie’s disappearance...except for Michael. Estranged from the rest of his family, he still holds onto the guilt of losing Katie and the hope that she might still be alive. And so when Michael receives an impossible text message involving his missing daughter, ...

In a town full of liars, who can you trust? When Detective Finnegan Beck is demoted from his high-powered job in Dublin and relocated in disgrace to the small Irish town of Cross Beg, he predicts boredom will be his biggest threat. But then a beautiful local teenage girl is found strangled in the cold, dark woods a mile from town. The prime suspect is the seemingly gentle drifter who found Tanya’s body. Beck seems to be the only person who can’t escape the feeling that Tanya wasn’t killed at random.

November 1933. Amateur sleuth-cum-dutiful granddaughter Kitty Underhay stifles a sigh of boredom as she attends the annual Hoteliers' Association Dinner and Dance on behalf of her grandmother, the proprietress of the Dolphin Hotel. She hopes the company of ex-army captain Matthew Bryant will enliven the otherwise dull evening. That is, until bullish and overbearing local councilor Harold Everton drops dead into his bowl of consommé.

Paranormal investigator Wyatt Thomas treks into the dangerous Honey Island Swamp in search of a forbidden convent where all the sisters are vampires When French Quarter detective Wyatt Thomas is awakened from a dark dream by his cat Kisses, he witnesses an eerie funeral procession from the balcony of his Chartres Street apartment. Riding in the limousine ahead of a hearse is his former lover, Desire Vallee - the first time he’s seen her since she became a nun and entered a convent. Desire’s skin is ashen, her once dark hair now ghostly white. He's left with a single clue. Is Desire in ...

When Ella Tate stumbles into Black Rock Falls, her exhausted and bloodied body is a terrifying sight, but not as frightening as the story she has to tell. Ambushed on their way into town when they stopped to help a man by the side of the road, Ella and her friend Sky ran when he pulled a knife on them. But only one of them got away.

When a woman disappears from Forest Pines campsite, Detective Morgan Brookes scrambles a search party. Sara Fletcher has never missed a lunch date with her best friend, and when Morgan finds a large rip in Sara’s tent, she knows that something terrible must have happened. About to lose hope after hours combing through the acres of dense forest, the excited bark of a tracker dog leads Morgan to female remains, partially covered by leaves and dirt - but the bones don’t belong to Sara.

When I wake up with the sun in my eyes the morning after my daughter’s birthday party, I know something is very wrong. I go straight to her room but feel a surge of panic when I see an empty bed. Downstairs everything is totally quiet, and the front door is locked. Why didn’t I hear her scream? Who took our little girl?

Black-ops specialist Jon Reznick is hoping for some well-earned down time under the Florida sun when he gets a surprise call from the CIA. An embittered US counterintelligence expert is about to sell a career’s worth of state secrets to the Russians, and the Agency wants Reznick to track him down. With the spook holed up somewhere in the diplomatic cauldron of the Middle East, protected by highly trained Russian mercenaries, Reznick knows it’s almost certainly a suicide mission.

In the concrete kingdom of Hard Max Penitentiary, fear is currency and respect is power. And for years, Reggie has been the king. From his throne of concrete and steel, Reggie rules the yard with an iron fist, a grip earned through blood and the ghost of the tyrant he himself deposed. His empire is built on established rules and brutal order. The gangs are in line, the guards are managed, and the contraband flows. But the foundations of his kingdom are beginning to crack. A new inmate, Dre, is the tremor. He’s not a mountain of muscle or a vicious killer. He’s quiet, observant, and ...

DC Scott Cullen of Lothian and Borders CID has only been in the job three months. Young, eager to please and desperate to do good. So a missing persons should be an easy case to solve. Right? Fresh from a messy divorce, Caroline Adamson’s future is finally looking up. Her son seems happy and she’s dating again. Trouble is, Cullen can’t find Caroline or the man she met on Schoolbook, the latest social network taking Edinburgh by storm.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "The twists come at you at breakneck pace. Very suspenseful." (Goodreads) When two young boys disappear while riding their bikes, Detective Charlotte Pierce must follow the clues to find their killer before he strikes again. In the dusty outskirts of Mesquite County, California, two kids go missing, taken from outside their homes. The quiet desert community is devastated and it’s up to Charlotte to find out what happened. The FBI is called in and a man who stalked and terrorized Charlotte comes back into her life. She kept his secret to protect her career, but is now being...

Fatal accidents do happen. Or was there a plan? A six-year-old dies in a car driven by her father. He barely survives. A simple hit and run? Yet the police think its murder. And who might be next? The mother is out of her mind. If losing her daughter is not enough, why is she being stalked?