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Reap the Whirlwind
March 31, 1985. Two white patrol officers in search of a gang member followed a pickup truck carrying seven young Black men up a dirt driveway in the Encanto neighbourhood of Southeastern San Diego. Minutes later, gunshots rang out, and the truck''s driver, Sagon Penn, fled the scene in an officer''s patrol car. The incident stunned the city. What followed would change it forever. Penn was an idealist who believed in the power of Buddhist chants to bring about the oneness of humanity. The two police officers were rising stars in one of the most progressive police departments in the country, yet one that had suffered more officers killed in the line of duty than any other. While the facts of the case were never in dispute, what remained unresolved was what, if anything, could justify such a violent confrontation? For over two years, a determined prosecutor and a charismatic defence attorney engaged in a sensational courtroom drama that revolved around matters of mental health, racial biases, and the self-image of a once-sleepy beach town grappling with its transformation into a major metropolitan area. The Sagon Penn incident forever altered how San Diego would respond to incidents involving police and communities of colour. Based on court transcripts, personal interviews, and archival police reports, Reap the Whirlwind is a gripping true-crime narrative set against the evocative backdrop of Southern California.
Death and the Librarian
Library director Amy Muir has always been suspicious of wealthy art dealer Kurt Kendrick. As a close family friend, the ties that bind them are strong, but his murky past is concerning, especially since he is the godfather to Amy and her husband Richard''s six-year-old twins. When a visitor to their small, historic Virginia town is found dead after publicly accusing Kurt of committing a decades-old murder, Amy is determined to prove that Kurt didn''t kill anyone, in the past or the present. But the evidence Kurt''s accuser sent to Sheriff Brad Tucker before her untimely demise indicates otherwise. With Amy''s own aunt and other older town residents corroborating some of the details related to the first murder, and a witness placing Kurt near the scene of the second crime, it seems Kurt is doomed to swift, and severe, justice. Amidst the fun and excitement of an arts festival that features the premiere of Richard''s new dance company, Amy faces her own challenging performance-balancing her work and family life while dancing on the edge of danger. With family and friends harbouring suspicions about Kurt, and Amy bedeviled by her own wavering trust in his innocence, she must fight to uncover the truth before a hidden killer strikes again.
You Must Be New Here
A friendship is put to the test when a young woman disappears from a quiet community in a dark and twisty novel of suspense by the bestselling author of Open House and The Vacation Rental.Sloane Thompson has a daughter named Daisy, attends school activities with other parents, and even has an amicable relationship with her ex-husband. But after ten years in bucolic Sycamore Glen, Sloane has yet to find someone to call a true friend. Until Harper and Ben Wilson move in next door.Harper is open, charismatic, and restless. She and Sloane quickly become confidantes and fall into a deep and intoxicating friendship. Then one afternoon, Daisy’s dependable babysitter, Margaret, fails to show. When texts from Margaret’s mother and boyfriend go unanswered, the inexplicable disappearance becomes a cause for alarm.As anxious hours turn into days, suspicion grows. And tension tightens. As if something is about to snap. When it does, long-held secrets are revealed, and not everyone in Sycamore Glen is who they seem to be.
A Poisonous Palate
When food critic Hayley Snow receives an intriguing email about a mysterious, decades-old disappearance, her curiosity is piqued. Writer Catherine Davitt has returned to the Keys to research a book about Hemingway''s wives, but she''s also on the hunt for the truth about her missing friend. Hayley quickly agrees to help investigate and they hit the road to see what clues they might find. Back in the late 1970s, Catherine and her friend Veronica were part of a group of lost souls camping in the mangroves of Big Pine Key, until Veronica vanished, and the sheriff''s office cleared out the camp. Catherine and Hayley begin interviewing Big Pine Key residents who were around at the time of Veronica''s disappearance, but uncover more questions than answers. Catherine and Hayley stop to speak with a motel owner who frequented the fringes of the commune, but they find him stabbed to death. Then Catherine also goes missing, and signs point to a connection between the old case and the new murder. It''s up to Hayley to unravel the knot of secrets and lies before time runs out.
The Paperback Sleuth - Like a Bullet
Humorous cosy-crime caper from the author of the beloved, bestselling Vinyl Detective series in which a feisty, amoral book dealer uses her unique skills to solve fiendish crimes, A love letter to Agatha Christie murder mysteries and classic whodunnits.When rock musician and World War Two nut Erik Make Loud hires Cordelia, the Paperback Sleuth, to track down a series of rare and highly sought-after Commando novels by the blatantly pseudonymous Butch Raider, it seems like a routine job. But Cordelia soon discovers that the series ? and in particular the incredibly rare Commando Gold paperback ? are all but impossible to track down.The books? creator ? real name Monty Hanington, once a promising young poet and now an embittered drunk ? proves easier to find. And when he reveals to Cordelia that all his stories came from a real ex-commando he?d met on a pub crawl, a man who was only too happy to provide authentic colour to Monty?s stories for a pint or two, she realises the tales might just be a little too authentic. For Commando Gold details a 1944 operation in Greece, in which commandos stumbled on a cache of Nazi gold and decided to bring it home with them. The operation was real, the gold is definitely real and the horde still exists ? hidden away in England.And some people are willing to kill to get it.
The World's Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant
Olivia Blunt doesn''t want to be an assistant detective for the rest of her life. She''s determined to learn everything she can from her mentor, renowned investigator Aubrey Merritt - but the latter is no easy grader. After weeks of fielding phone calls from parties pining for the celebrated detective''s help, a case comes across Olivia''s desk that just might be worthy of Merritt''s skills. On the evening of her sixty-fifth birthday party, Victoria Summersworth somehow fell to her death over her balcony railing on the rocky shore of Lake Champlain. She was a happy woman - rich, beloved, in love, and matriarch of the preeminent Summersworth family. The police have ruled it a suicide, but her daughter, Haley, thinks it was murder. Merritt is ever the skeptic, but Olivia believes Haley. Plus, she''s resolved to prove her investigative skills to her aloof boss. But the Summersworth family drama is complicated. Olivia realizes she might be in over her head with this whole detective thing... or she might be unravelling a mystery even bigger than the one she started with.
Gyilkosság a Garda-tavon
Laurence Heywood és Eva Bianchi esküvőjére összesereglik a jegyespár illusztris családja és baráti köre a Garda-tó azúrkék vizével körülvett Fiore kastély kis szigetén. Robyn, a vőlegény öccsének barátnője izgatottan készül a hétvégére, ugyanis még sosem találkozott párja családjával és régi iskolatársaival. Mindenki gondtalan és szórakoztató napokra készül elegáns jachtokkal, hűsítő koktélokkal és a tóra nyíló páratlan kilátással.
De a szertartás még el sem kezdődik, amikor a násznép dermesztő sikolyt hall a sziget túloldaláról. A megrémült vendégek a hang irányába sereglenek, és döbbenten fedezik fel, hogy az áldozat nem más, mint maga a menyasszony. A sziget, amely szépségével korábban elkápráztatta a jelenlévőket, egyszeriben fojtogató csapdává válik, ahonnan senki sem szabadulhat, miközben teljesen nyilvánvaló, hogy gyilkos van a násznép soraiban.
A nemrég még fesztelen társaság tagjai árgus szemekkel méregetik egymást. Vajon az előkelő Heywood család múltja mégsem olyan makulátlan, mint amilyennek látszik? Talán régi üzleti tanácsadójuk sántikál valami rosszban? Vagy a Bianchi családnak lehet valami köze a maffiához? Ki rejtett fenyegető üzenetet Eva táskájába a halála előtt? És egyáltalán, a rendőrség miért nem ért ki azonnal a gyilkosság helyszínére?
Robyn kétségbeesetten kutat a válaszok után, mielőtt a gyilkos újra lecsapna...
Barley Sugar
Widow Deborah Coles is suffering a crisis of conscience about moving on with her life. When her 15 year old son, Lewis, finds himself in trouble with the police, she has little choice but to turn to her father in law for support. Over the course of a weekend, career criminal, Francis Coles, proves an unorthodox educator, as he reveals the heartbreaking love story which has allowed their family to endure. Reminiscing on his youth in 1950's London, Francis's tale is one of Teddy Boy gang fights, rock n roll romance in the dancehalls and daring heists, as he and his two best friends descend into a vicious world of vendetta, revenge and murder. Lewis listens and learns about the high price of survival, about how the trio - whilst maturing towards the prospect of fatherhood - would have their morality tested, and be forced to meet ever increasing stakes in order to protect not only their endeavours but also their relationships. Deborah and Lewis will each inherit the family secrets, revelations which could reshape the way they look at love, loss and life.
The Black Loch
THE RETURN OF FIN MACLEOD, PETER MAY'S MUCH-LOVED HERO OF THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING LEWIS TRILOGY.
A MURDER
The body of eighteen-year-old TV personality Caitlin is found abandoned on a remote beach at the head of An Loch Dubh - the Black Loch - on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis. A swimmer and canoeist, it is inconceivable that she could have drowned.
A SECRET
Fin Macleod left the island ten years earlier to escape its memories. When he learns that his married son Fionnlagh had been having a clandestine affair with the dead girl and is suspected of her murder, he and Marsaili return to try and clear his name.
A RECKONING
But nothing is as it seems, and the truth of the murder lies in a past that Fin would rather forget, and a tragedy at the cages of a salmon farm on East Loch Roag, where the tense climax of the story finds its resolution.
The Black Loch takes us on a journey through family ties, hidden relationships and unforgiving landscapes, where suspense, violent revenge and revelation converge in the shadow of the Black Loch.
Making a Killing
You thought she was dead.
She fooled you once.
Will she fool you again?
In 2016, eight-year-old Daisy Mason vanished.
Her mother was convicted of her murder. But her body was never found.
Now, evidence at a current murder scene calls the whole case into question. DCI Adam Fawley and the team are brought back to investigate. And they all have one question on their minds.
What really happened to Daisy Mason?
Ale ona si začala
Annabel, Esther, Tanya a Chloe jsou nejlepší kamarádky – nebo byly na střední škole. Přestože se o deset let později částečně odcizily, společná tajemství je v dobrém i zlém spojují. Jednoho dne se jim nečekaně ozve další spolužačka, Poppy Greerová, která je všechny pozve na extravagantní rozlučku se svobodou. Posílá jim letenky do první třídy s příslibem několika báječných dní na soukromém ostrově na Bahamách.
Žádná z nich Poppy celé roky neviděla, ale přemůže je zvědavost i představa luxusní dovolené, a proto nakonec všechny pozvání přijímají. Sice si velmi dobře pamatují, že Poppy nikdy nepatřila do jejich party, byla terčem jejich posměchu a škodolibých hrátek, ale to je přeci dávno zapomenuto!
Pětice žen je na ostrově izolovaná od okolního světa a čtyři kamarádky záhy zjišťují, že podcenily Poppy, ale i sebe navzájem. Na povrch totiž vyplouvají staré křivdy, ale i nová tajemství, a tropické dobrodružství se mění v noční můru…
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Identity Unknown
Summoned to an unnerving, abandoned theme park to retrieve a body, Dr Kay Scarpetta is devastated to learn that the victim is Sal Giordano, an acclaimed astrophysicist - and a man Scarpetta once loved.
The murder scene is bizarre, with a crop circle of petals around the body. Scarpetta's niece Lucy believes Giordano was dropped from an unidentified flying craft. Scarpetta knows autopsies can reveal the dead's secrets, but she is shocked to find her friend seems to have deliberately left her a clue.
As the investigators are torn between suspicions of otherworldly forces, and of Giordano himself, Scarpetta detects an explanation closer to home that, in her mind, is far more evil . . .
Dr. Halifaxová 1: Prohřešek
Zkušenou a talentovanou soudní psychiatričku Jane Halifaxovou požádá bývalý kolega – a bývalý milenec – inspektor Eric Ringer o pomoc při řešení brutální vraždy. Oběť byla nalezena podivně naaranžovaná a nabodnutá na neocenitelnou sochu ve vstupní hale rozsáhlého sídla. Pachatel po sobě nic nezanechal a místo činu neposkytuje žádná vodítka, která by napovídala, kdo mohl tak krutý a podivně rituální čin spáchat. Jane se zdráhá do případu zapojit, ale něco zlověstného ji k němu stále táhne. A když se začnou hromadit mrtvoly, přičemž každá vražda je brutálnější než ta předchozí, jsou její schopnosti vystaveny zkoušce. Dokáže odhalit vrahův další krok dřív, než znovu udeří?
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The Daughter
You'll do anything to get your daughter back . . .
Lauren can't wait to see her daughter again, to pick her up from university at the end of her first term. But when she arrives at her hall and knocks on the door to her room, a stranger opens it.
At first, Lauren thinks she must have the wrong room, or the wrong floor. Maybe even the wrong building.
But she soon realises the truth: Evie's not there. She hasn't been there for weeks. So where is she?
Following one family's desperate race against time as one terrifying moment unravels into a living nightmare, The Daughter is the unmissable new heart-in-mouth thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Holiday, The Mother and The Dream Home.
The Eyes Are the Best Part
This feminist howl-of-a-debut is going to crawl right under your skin
Ji-won's life is in disarray. Her father's affair has ripped the family to shreds, leaving her to piece their crappy lives back together.
Then her mother's new white boyfriend enters the scene, bragging about his knowledge of Korean culture. As he swaggers around their claustrophobic apartment ogling her teenage sister, Ji-won's grip on reality begins to slip.
She finds herself growing obsessed with his brilliant blue eyeballs, resolving to do the one thing that will save her family - and curb her cravings...
White City
THE BEST CRIME NOVEL OF 2024 - THE TIMES BEST CRIME BOOKS OF 2024 - SUNDAY TIMES BOOKS OF THE MONTH - THE GUARDIAN ''I very much doubt I''ll read a better crime novel this year'' IAN RANKIN''The best crime novel I''ve read this year'' THE TIMES''Quite breathtaking'' DAILY MAIL''Superb'' THE GUARDIAN''Dominic Nolan is a wonderful writer'' CHRIS WHITAKER''A truly excellent crime novel'' MAIL ON SUNDAYIt''s 1952, and London is victorious but broken, a city of war ruins and rationing, run by gangsters and black-market spivs.An elaborate midnight heist, the biggest robbery in British history, sends newspapers into a frenzy. Politicians are furious, the police red-faced. They have suspicions but no leads. Hunches but no proof.For two families, it is more than just a sensational headline, as their fathers fail to return home on the day of the robbery.Young Addie Rowe, daughter of a missing Jamaican postman and drunk ex-club hostess mother, struggles to care for her little sister in a dilapidated Brixton rooming house.Claire Martin, increasingly resentful of roads not taken, strives to make the rent and keep her teenage son Ray from falling under unsavoury influences in Notting Dale.She finds herself caught between the interests of dangerous men who may know the truth behind her husband''s disappearance: Dave Lander, whose reserved nature she finds difficult to reconcile with his reputation as a violent gang enforcer, and Teddy ''Mother'' Nunn, a sociopathic, evangelising outlaw and top lieutenant in Billy Hill''s underworld.Drawn together through the years in the city''s invisible web of crime and poverty, the fates of the broken families and violent men collide in 1958, as the West Indian community of Notting Hill''s slums come under attack from thugs and Teddy Boys. For Addie, Claire, Dave and Mother, old scores will be settled and new dreams chased in the crucible of London''s violent summer.''Dominic Nolan is one hell of a writer'' MARK BILLINGHAM''Dominic Nolan is a brilliant and immersive writer, and this marvellous novel will play havoc with your emotions'' LAURA SHEPHERD-ROBINSON''Incredibly good... one of the most interesting, brilliant crime writers around'' JANE CASEY''What a triumph. What an absolutely magnificent achievement'' A.J. FINN''Mind-blowing...so much more than a crime novel. An amazing piece of work'' SARAH PINBOROUGH''An extraordinary piece of work'' HARRIET TYCE''This is one of the richest, most absorbing novels I''ve read all year'' TOM BENN
Donna Teresa
The ninth book in the electrifying Rex Dalton series. Rex Dalton and his best friend Digger, the former military dog, are back in Rome. They are at the famous Piazza del Popolo. Seven weeks ago, Rex had to abandon his plans to contact Catia Romano, the woman he’s in love with, to help rescue his former CEO, John Brandt. Now he was back. Catia’s apartment was less than a mile away. But Rex’s reverie is interrupted when he notices two women coming through the Porta del Popolo in a hurry. One of them looks familiar. As he keeps watching them, he realizes they are fleeing. Then Rex sees the men — three of them. One behind the women, the other two trying to outflank them, probably to head them off and prevent them from reaching the other side of the piazza. Instinctively, Rex puts his hand out to Digger and pulls him close. “Listen buddy, we’ve got a situation here. Pay attention.” Thus, a chain of events is triggered that take Rex and Digger on a harrowing journey to the brink of World War III. DONNA TERESA is a full-length novel, a nail-biting thriller by best-selling author JC Ryan.
The Island Escape
Forty years ago, the island was paradise. Now, it’s haunted by shadows of the past.When Juno arrives at the breathtaking Greek island of Inios, she has one purpose: to find the father she’s never met.But he isn’t there, and nothing is as she expected. As whispers follow her every step, Juno is convinced something terrible happened all those years ago when her parents fell in love.Desperate for answers, Juno knows she can’t leave the island until her family secret that has been hidden for decades is finally uncovered.Little does she know how far someone will go to keep it buried…___________________________________Praise for Jess Ryder:''Gripping'' Sunday Times Style''Full of surprises'' Sun''A great read'' Catherine Cooper, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Island''Kept me up late into the early hours'' Ali Lowe, bestselling author of The Running Club''‘You’ll love the way the chapters switch from the weekend of the murder to the return visit, as the hunt for the killer takes some unexpected, and violent, turns'' Daily Express__________________Reader Reviews:''An excellent, fast-paced psychological thriller'' 5* Reader Review''A fantastic and original read'' 5* Reader Review''Amazing writing'' 5* Reader Review''Not the ending I was expecting, but it was the ending I didn''t know I wanted'' 5* Reader Review''The characters were great, the story itself was very enjoyable and suspenseful, the setting was fantastic'' 5* Reader Review
I Did Warn Her
The escapist crime thriller for fans of Below Deck, Lucy Clarke and T.M. LoganWHEN THERE''S BLOOD IN THE WATER, A FEEDING FRENZY IS SURE TO FOLLOW . . .The Ophelia is your typical superyacht: luxurious, owned by a ruthless billionaire and staffed by crew who have just one job: keep the guests happy, whatever it takes. Sasha is the latest hire on a week-long Atlantic crossing, and she fits right in. In fact, she could be mistaken for any of the stewardesses: tall, blonde and model gorgeous.But despite its sleek opulence, the Ophelia isn’t as heavenly as it seems. And when one of the stewardesses is found dead after a night of partying, all eyes turn to Sasha. But she’s not the only one with something to hide and below deck, nothing stays hidden for long.Endlessly twisty and delightfully voyeuristic, I Did Warn Her is a whodunnit on the high seas, where the dark secrets of the ultra-wealthy have nowhere to hide.
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