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Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Lyla has spent months working on a research project that could be the key to getting a permanent job in her field. She can't really drop everything to go to a desert island with her actor boyfriend Nico to film ONE PERFECT COUPLE, a reality TV show which could lead to his big break - can she? Two weeks later, Lyla finds herself boarding a boat to an isolated luxury resort in the Indian Ocean. The rules of the game are simple. Ten strangers have to...
2) The pact
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
A gripping, twisty and clever thriller from Richard & Judy bestseller Sharon Bolton about class, obsession, betrayal, and revenge. A golden summer, and six talented friends are looking forward to the brightest of futures - until a daredevil game goes horribly wrong, and a woman and two children are killed. 18-year-old Megan takes the blame, leaving the others free to get on with their lives. In return, they each agree to a 'favour', payable on her...
3) The prisoner
Author
Language
English
Description
THEN. Amelie has always been a survivor, from losing her parents as a child in Paris to making it on her own in London. As she builds a career for herself in the magazine industry, she meets, and agrees to marry, Ned Hawthorne. NOW. Amelie wakes up in a pitch-black room, not knowing where she is. Why has she been taken? Who are her mysterious captors? And why does she soon feel safer here, imprisoned, than she had begun to feel with her husband Ned?...
Author
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Billy Summers is a man in a room with a gun. He's a killer for hire and the best in the business. But he'll do the job only if the target is a truly bad guy. And now Billy wants out. But first there is one last hit. Billy is among the best snipers in the world, a decorated Iraq war vet, a Houdini when it comes to vanishing after the job is done. So what could possibly go wrong? How about everything.
5) The guest
Author
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Iris and Gabriel have just got home from a make-or-break holiday. But a shock awaits them. One of their dearest friends, Laure, is in their house - sleeping in their bed, wearing Iris' clothes, even rearranging the furniture. She has walked out on her husband - and their good friend - Pierre over his confession of an affair. Iris and Gabriel want to be supportive. But as Laure's mood becomes more unpredictable, her presence begins to unravel secrets...
6) Geneva
Author
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
How far would you go for someone you love? Nobel Prize-winning scientist Sarah Collier has taken a step back from work to spend more time with her family. Her father's suffering from Alzheimer's and needs special care. Sarah has started to show tell-tale signs of the disease too. She's been experiencing blackouts and memory loss. It's early days but she must face the possibility that she won't be there to see her daughter grow up. Daniel, her husband,...
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Marlow has always lived in unusual places. But when she accepts a position as a live-in property guardian, she finds herself moving somewhere she swore she'd never return to. Right from the start, she knows it's a terrible mistake. The elegant Victorian school is due to be turned into luxury apartments, but its eerie, empty corridors are full of Marlow's worst memories. And now something sinister is happening on the site. One of the other tenants...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Cole is the perfect husband; a romantic, supportive of his wife, Mel's career, keen to be a hands-on dad, not a big drinker. A good guy. So when Mel leaves him, he's floored. She was lucky to be with a man like him. Craving solitude, he accepts a job on the coast and quickly settles into his new life where he meets reclusive artist Lennie. Lennie has made the same move for similar reasons. She is living in a crumbling cottage on the edge of a nearby...
9) Extinction
Author
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Erebus Resort, occupying a magnificent hundred-thousand acre valley deep in the Colorado Rockies, offers guests the experience of viewing woolly mammoths, Irish Elk, and giant ground sloths in their native habitat, brought back from extinction through the magic of genetic manipulation. When a billionaire's son and his new wife are kidnapped and murdered in the Erebus back country by what is assumed to be a gang of eco-terrorists, Colorado Bureau of...
Author
Series
The doctor's wife volume 3
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
I was the other woman. The mistress. Everyone blamed Doctor Drew Devlin's death on me. And I've paid the price for loving the wrong man. Now, I have dark circles under my eyes because I can't sleep at night. I lost everything - friends, family, my home and even my freedom. Drew's devious wife Fern tore my whole world apart. And she thinks she's got away with murder. But she's wrong. And now it's time for revenge.
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In retreat from a devastating loss and crushing injustice, Katie lives alone in a fortresslike stone house on Jacob's Ladder island. Once a rising star in the art world, she finds refuge in her painting. The neighboring island of Ringrock houses a secret: a government research facility. And now two agents have arrived on Jacob's Ladder in search of someone - or something - they refuse to identify. Although an air of menace hangs over these men, an...
12) After death
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Michael Mace, head of security at a top-secret research facility, opens his eyes in a makeshift morgue twenty-four hours following an event in which everyone perished - including him and his best friend, Shelby Shrewsberry. Having awakened with an extraordinary ability unlike anything he - or anyone else - has ever imagined, Michael is capable of being as elusive as a ghost. He sets out to honour his late friend by helping Nina Dozier and her son,...
13) Are you awake?
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
They both think they saw her. But can they trust their own eyes? With two young children, Mary hasn't slept in what feels like years. For his part, Tim never feels safe enough to sleep. And so one hot, exhausting night, the two strangers meet while seeking solace in a nearby park. There, they witness something horrific - a violent attack in the window of a neighbouring house. Bonded by what they've seen, Tim and Mary are desperate to find answers....
14) The marriage
Author
Publisher
Sphere
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Ten years ago my darling son Jesse was murdered and our perfect family was destroyed. My strong, handsome boy, so full of life, became a memory, a photo I carried with me everywhere. But today I'm finally close to finding happiness again. My ash-blonde hair has been curled into ringlets. Carefully placed white flowers frame my delicate features. The small, drab chapel has been prettied up with white satin, and there are tiny red hearts scattered on...
15) The cliff house
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Jen's hen party is going to be out of control. She's rented a luxury getaway on its own private island. The helicopter won't be back for 72 hours. They are alone - or so they think. As well as Jen, there's the pop diva and the estranged ex-bandmate, the tennis pro and the fashion guru, the embittered ex-sister-in-law and the mouthy future sister-in-law. It's a combustible cocktail, one that takes little time to ignite, and in the midst of the drunken...
Author
Publisher
Michael Joseph
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Six people land on a desert island ready to make their reality show debut. The contestants are hungry to prove themselves. The stakes are high and losing is not an option. But three weeks and eighteen episodes later, five of the six contestants sit in a Portuguese police station, and none of them are winners. Because twelve million people were watching when Rhys Sutton died on camera, and someone must pay for the crime. The best friend, the rival,...
17) The nurse's lie
Author
Series
Perfect nurse volume 2
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Only a few months ago, my life was simple. I spent most of my time caring for patients in brightly lit hospital wards. Then I'd pick up my son from kindergarten before cooking a meal for my husband. I'd drink in every precious moment with them. Now everything has changed. I don't recognise the woman I've become. I'm a liar. Nurses are supposed to save lives. Instead, I helped to take one. I did it to protect my family. No-one can find out what I've...
18) The Last Witness
Author
Series
Badge Of Honor volume 11
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The last person Philadelphia homicide detective Matt Payne expected to hear from again was Texas Ranger Jim Byrth, with whom he'd broken a Mexican human trafficking ring. But Byrth isn't making a social call. He's found a connection between the Mexican drug cartels and the Russian mob.Russian girls are being smuggled through the Caribbean to work in the U.S. as prostitutes, and some of them are dying or just disappearing. The trail leads right to...
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt Adventures volume 6
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
In the midst of an international crisis, Heidi Milligan, a beautiful, brilliant American naval commander, accidentally discovers an obscure reference to the long-buried North American Treaty, a precedent-shattering secret pact between the United States and Great Britain. The President believes that the treaty offers the single shot at salvation for an energy-starved, economically devastated nation, but the only two copies plummeted into the watery...
20) The wolf tree
Author
Publisher
Hemlock Press
Pub. Date
2025
Language
English
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On a small island off the coast of Scotland, an isolated community is grieving. Eighteen-year-old Alan Ferguson was found at the foot of the lighthouse - an apparent suicide. DIs Georgina Lennox and Richard Stewart are sent to investigate. But a raging storm keeps them trapped on the island for four days. And the locals don't take kindly to mainlanders. As George and Ritchie question the island's inhabitants, they discover a village filled with superstition...
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