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Thaddeus Murfee faces the shocking realities of La Jolla LawAttorney Thaddeus Murfee is thrust into a high-profile murder case after a presidential event turns deadly. Amidst a boy-band tour and a tech billionaire's collapse, he must navigate wealth and deception to defend a murder suspect.

Defender. Father. Target. FBI Agent Donnie Francisco faces the Vittini mob after a shooting in Phoenix. Teaming up with attorney Thaddeus Murfee, they unravel a dangerous conspiracy stretching from Arizona to Indian reservation lands. With the body count rising, Thaddeus must stop his daughter from causing a catastrophe that could kill hundreds.

Thaddeus Murfee's life is about to change foreverAfter a brutal attack, Thaddeus Murfee is pulled into a web of betrayal when a long-time friend seeks his help. Facing a ruthless prosecutor and personal turmoil, Thaddeus must defend his friend while confronting his own doubts and vulnerabilities, testing the limits of his legal prowess.

When you need to prove life after death to win a court case, you better hope for a miracleDr Emerick Sewell's bestselling book about his near-death experience leads to a lawsuit after a reader's overdose. Thaddeus Murfee, despite his doubts, takes the case and uncovers evidence that challenges his understanding of life and death.

Looking for justice in a lawless landSan Diego attorney Thaddeus Murfee's world turns treacherous when his nephew is kidnapped and taken to South America. Using his unique skills and unwavering determination, Thaddeus must confront cartel corruption and his own past to rescue his sister's son.

Step back into the 1990s and uncover the dark secrets lurking behind the cobbles of Weatherfield in this thrilling interactive novel, the second in our Coronation Street series following Street of Lies.You are an ambitious undercover reporter, determined to make your mark. What starts as a simple neighbourly dispute quickly spirals into a dangerous investigation. A killer is on the loose, and it's up to you to uncover the truth while navigating perilous twists and turns. Can you solve the mystery, outsmart a rival journalist, and escape unscathed? Or will you become the next victim of Weatherfield's darkest secrets?With multiple outcomes and the chance to relive your story, your choices shape your fate. But beware - this is no easy task, and everyone bends the rules in the pursuit of the perfect ending.Interact with some of Coronation Street's most iconic characters of the era, including Des Barnes, Steve McDonald, Fred Elliott, Curly Watts, Reg Holdsworth, Mavis Wilton, and Les Battersby.Secrets on the Street is a gripping journey through the golden days of Corrie, where danger and drama are always just around the corner.

INTO THE HEART OF DARKNESS The whole universe is out to kill Zaha Sanko and take his bones, thanks to a pesky rumor that whoever takes them will receive their heart's desire. Sanko himself doesn't have a clue what's going on with all that, but the answers maybe have something to do with a mysterious thing called "Zolar," which appears when "certain conditions are fulfilled." Pretty cryptic, but Sanko's buddy Damemaru thinks he can solve the mystery with the tools in his lab. So they head for the planet where Damemaru parked his ship--only to find that everything and everyone there has vanished, except for an ominous castle...

In this critically acclaimed romantic crime drama, a yakuza granddaughter is sent from Osaka to marry the grandson of a rival family in Tokyo—inspired the anime!Yoshino grew up the sheltered yakuza princess of the largest crime family in Osaka, the Somei. Due to her resting bitch face and dangerous family, no man has ever approached her. When her grandfather signs a truce with the Tokyo-based Miyama crime family, he offers her up as a truce bride to the Miyama leader’s grandson! Kirishima Miyama is popular, charming, and seems totally normal.But behind his smile is a violent sadomasochist who thirsts for her dominance even more when she impresses him with her moxie! Even though she knows how bad yakuza can be, she’s stunned by Miyama’s viciousness. She can’t turn him down with the East-West peace treaty on the line…so instead she steels herself to play ball!

BY THE AUTHOR OF MULTI-AWARDWINNING #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: THE FIVE, THE WOMEN KILLED BY JACK THE RIPPERA fascinating feminist retelling of the historical true-crime story of infamous wife-murderer Dr Crippen in Edwardian England, brought to justice by an extraordinary group of musichall women'Unbelievably addictive. Written with a unique combination of sleuthing, storytelling and compassion' LUCY WORSLEY___________No murderer should ever be the keeper of their victim's story ...On 1 February, 1910, vivacious musichall performer, Belle Elmore, suddenly vanished from her north London home, causing alarm among her circle of female friends, the entertainers of the Music Hall Ladies' Guild who demanded an immediate investigation.They could not have known what they would provoke: the unearthing of a gruesome secret, followed by a fevered manhunt for the prime suspect: Belle's husband, medical fraudster, Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen.Hiding in the shadows of this evergreen tale is Crippen's typist and lover, Ethel Le Neve - was she really just 'an innocent young girl' in thrall to a powerful older man as so many people have since reported?And what is the story behind the death of Crippen's first wife, Charlotte, who died so quietly, never to be heard of again?In this epic examination of one of the most infamous murders of the twentieth century, prizewinning social historian Hallie Rubenhold gives voice to those who have never properly been heard - the women.Featuring a carnival cast of eccentric entertainers, glamorous lawyers, zealous detectives, medics and liars, STORY OF A MURDER is forensically researched and multi-layered, offering the contemporary reader an electrifying snapshot of Britain and America at the dawn of the modern era.

Introducing Rose Burnham: designer, dressmaker . . . detective?Rose had the sense of a thread being pulled. One tug and everything could unravel.South-east London, 1925.Talented, ambitious designer-dressmaker Rose Burnham knows well both the strains of her profession and the secrets it can yield. Newly established in her own business, she and her sisters are privy to the hushed conversations that unspool behind the fitting room's closed doors.So when a major client finds herself the victim of a deception, it is Rose she tells. Driven by the shortage of men following the Great War, Miss Holmes had engaged the services of a matrimonial agency, only to be cheated out of her inheritance by a fake suitor.Rose is determined to bring the swindler to justice. To begin with, playing the detective is a grand adventure, but as pressures mount and an old friend receives a troubling string of poison-pen letters, Rose discovers there is more to investigating - and these investigations - than she'd bargained for.

On glittering Capri, anything can be a mirage. And one thing is true: no one holds a grudge like family.The world was shocked by playwright Sarah Lingate's death thirty years ago at an opulent,white-washed villa on the island of Capri. Absolved of the crime, the Lingate family maintains that what happened that night was a tragic accident. And every July they return to Capri to prove it's true.This time, Helen Lingate - sole heir to the family fortune - has a plan. Tightly controlled by her father, she enlists the help of the family assistant, Lorna Silva, to free herself from her family's stranglehold on her life. And yet, behind closed doors, the legendary Lingate family unity is at breaking point. Upon arrival at the villa in Capri, a anonymous gift awaits them: the necklace Sarah was wearing the night she died.In the aftermath, the paranoid, insular Lingates begin to unravel. As the investigation into her mother's death is reopened, Helen begins to lose trust in everyone around her: her controlling father Richard, drug-addled aunt Naomi, aloof uncle Marcus, and even Lorna, whose past she realizes is frustratingly opaque. And as the family fractures, the long-hidden truth about that night and the secrets they've kept from one another boil to the surface - and they might not leave the island alive.

INCLUDES A BONUS SHORT STORY BY LEE CHILD AND TESS GERRITSEN, STARRING JACK REACHER AND THE ENIGMATIC MAGGIE BIRD. . .The Summer Guests is the exhilarating and gripping new thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author of The Spy Coast.'I love this new series . . . The Summer Guests is a cracker of a mystery! I couldn't put it down.'SHARI LAPENATHE MARTINI CLUB ISN'T OPEN TO EVERYONE . . .Maggie Bird's 'book group' is an unusual one - a group of retired spies living an anonymous life in the seaside town of Purity. And this summer they plan little more than 'reading' (whilst sipping martinis), and some gentle birdwatching.But trouble is just around the corner as the summer guests arrive.For acting Police Chief Jo Thibodeau, summer brings its own problems - packed streets, bar brawls, petty theft. And now, a missing teenager down by the lake.When their good friend becomes a prime suspect in the girl's disappearance, Maggie and her Martini Club must put down their binoculars and roll up their sleeves. Leaving Jo to deal with not only a powerful family desperate for answers, but a meddlesome group of retirees.Can Jo and the Martini Club find a way to work together, as they uncover one of the deadliest scandals their small town has ever seen?'The Thursday Murder Club on steroids' SAGA Magazine

Hawaii just after the war is an unspoiled paradise. Any mystery fan can tell you that won't last. Aloha! It's 1950, and the SS Lurline is steaming into Honolulu harbor. On board are Janice Cameron, coming to celebrate the novel she's written about Hawaii; a boatload of tourists eager to get their leis on; and a few people who are not what they seem. Watching them all-and missing nothing-is the beautiful and enigmatic Lily Wu. Like Janice, she's coming home: While they may have met in New York, they're both Hawaii girls of long standing. But while Janice may be surprised by the changes that the tourists (and their money) have brought to her beloved islands, very little surprises Lily. Which is lucky for Janice, as those surprises get ugly very fast.

Sarah Deane may be a newly minted college professor, but whether she's on the rocky coast of Maine or an elegant English estate, her real calling is as "the Nancy Drew of the 1980s" (Publishers Weekly). Everybody loves Dolly! At least, that's what Sarah Deane's sister says. But Sarah's siblings aren't so sure, and when Dolly turns up drowned, they ask Sarah to start asking questions. After all, in the finest cozy-mystery tradition, the police may not be up to the task. And while Sarah may be more PhD than PD, she has a well-known knack for nosing around and uncovering secrets like the ones that may have killed Dolly. Not long thereafter, Sarah is bamboozled into shepherding tiresome Aunt Julia around the great gardens of Europe. It helps that her old friend Ellen Trevino is the expert leading the tour, but when Ellen misses the plane, Sarah's oh-so-sensitive nose starts twitching. When you've solved as many murders as she has, you get a sense about these things, and before the group sits down to its first cream tea, Sarah's nose is jumping like it has springs attached.

Robert Forsythe, London's favorite gentleman sleuth, is called to determine which of 87 suspects is taking potshots at a rich old coot, and Fosythe's intrepid assistant finds herself in the middle of a locked-room murder mystery. You thought the quest for eternal life was a new preoccupation, the preserve of tech bros with too much money? Not so. It's the 1980s, and rich old dilettante Winslow Maxwell Penndragon is shooting for a century or more...but somebody else is shooting, and they're aiming at Maxwell. With heirs a-plenty, Winslow P. calls in Robert Forsythe, a London barrister with a nose for trouble and a reputation for discretion, to figure out who's got murder on the mind. Forsythe loves a good puzzle, but he does not love Winslow P.-and it would appear he's got company. As assistant to Forsythe and witness to his exploits, "Sandy" Sanderson surely knows that when you bring a group of celebrity strangers to a snowbound, isolated hotel, it rarely ends well. But Christmas in the countryside-it sounded so appealing! So when one of the guests fails to turn up for breakfast, it's terrible, of course, but for Sandy it's also ever-so-slightly familiar. She knows her Agatha Christie. And this is not her first rodeo.

Manhattan's art scene in the 1980s is full of backstabbers, but Miss Melville regards this as needlessly messy. She prefers to use a gun-and she uses it well, in this darkly funny series perfect for fans of Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club. Life is full of surprises. Susan Melville, for example, was raised to marry well, but when the Melville millions went South, she turned to...let's call it freelance problem-solving in order to pay the rent. Bluntly? She became a hired killer. Surprise! And now, surprisingly, her little watercolors have found an audience. Miss Melville can join the world of museums and artistes, and bid adieu to the grubby realm of hitmen and...hitwomen. Hitpeople? A shining, law-abiding life will be hers, she is certain-until another artist drops dead, the police get the story wrong, and Miss Melville is forced, yet again, to step in and tidy things up.

Winter, 1901. The Inner Temple is even quieter than usual under a blanket of snow and Gabriel Ward KC is hard at work on a thorny libel case. All is calm, all is bright - until the mummified hand arrives in the post... While the hand's recipient, Temple Treasurer Sir William Waring, is rightfully shaken, Gabriel is filled with curiosity. Who would want to send such a thing? And why? But as more parcels arrive - one with fatal consequences - Gabriel realises that it is not Sir William who is the target, but the Temple itself. Someone is holding a grudge that has already led to at least one death. Now it's up to Gabriel, and Constable Wright of the City of London Police, to find out who, before an old death leads to a new murder.

Winter, 1901. The Inner Temple is even quieter than usual under a blanket of snow and Gabriel Ward KC is hard at work on a thorny libel case. All is calm, all is bright - until the mummified hand arrives in the post...While the hand's recipient, Temple Treasurer Sir William Waring, is rightfully shaken, Gabriel is filled with curiosity. Who would want to send such a thing? And why? But as more parcels arrive - one with fatal consequences - Gabriel realises that it is not Sir William who is the target, but the Temple itself.Someone is holding a grudge that has already led to at least one death. Now it's up to Gabriel, and Constable Wright of the City of London Police, to find out who, before an old death leads to a new murder.

NOT-SO-SKINNY DIPPING Massage therapist Naoe Tomoatsu's list of otherworldly clientele seems to be growing larger by the day--in more ways than one! Yet as space at home dwindles, he decides it's time to upgrade to a bigger apartment. After his new friends make quick work of the move, Naoe thanks them by inviting everyone on a hot springs trip! Surely everyone will be too busy relaxing to cause any trouble...right?

A speed-of-light journey pursuing rightful revenge. Two strangers, thrown together by murderous circumstance, fighting for their lives against time, and a global crime group. A lifetime compressed into two weeks.

The Fog is a powerful, classic horror novel from James Herbert, author of The Rats.It begins with a crack that rips the earth apart. Peaceful village life shattered. But the disaster is just the beginning. Out of the bottomless pit creeps a malevolent fog. Spreading through the air it leaves a deadly, horrifying trail, destined to devastate the lives of all those it encounters . . .

In his quest for truth and answers concerning the suspicious death of his son and his family, retired career soldier, Jesse Hunter, finds himself in a sedate retirement village in New Zealand's South Island where he reunites with a former Special Air Services buddy.After making friends with some of the village's retirees, who themselves have past military backgrounds, they find out that a young man who visits them regularly has a mysterious and out-of-character disappearance.Are Jesse's son and the young man's demise somehow connected?As suspicions are also raised about the integrity of the local police, the 'boys' decided to take matters into their own hands with a little bit of homegrown detective work. Their investigations take them from a peaceful retirement and a life of fun and humour into a world of intrigue, danger, kidnappings, Russian mobsters, murder, a biker gang and a terrorist cell group.Who can they trust?As they all draw on their past wartime experiences, they realise they can only trust each other and embark on rescue missions using their old age smarts and unconventional weapons to take on the bad guys.There is humour, action and drama as The Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Squad have one last battle to fight.