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One of the best-known works of English literature, Frankenstein gave rise to the science-fiction and horror genres and has enthralled generations of readers since its publication in 1818. A tragedy and a cautionary tale about the pitfalls of ambition and creation, Mary Shelley's masterpiece is more relevant now than ever.

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014'A magnificent and moving novel' LOS ANGELES TIMESSeventy-year-old avant-garde composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police on his doorstep. His home microbiology lab - where he is conducting the latest experiment in his lifelong attempt to find musical patterns in surprising places - has aroused the suspicions of Homeland Security.Panicked by the raid, Els turns fugitive, earning him the moniker 'Bioterrorist Bach'. He hatches a daring plan to transform this disastrous collision with the security state into an unforgettable work of art that will reawaken its audience to the sounds all around it.A gripping escape narrative filled with lyrical wonder, Orfeo is both a portrait of a creative, obsessive man, and a reflection on finding melodies in everyday life.

When a hit on R.I. Penny's house is foiled by the arrival of Dove and Periwinkle, Penny finds himself at the centre of an assassination attempt. The question is, why?

Eager to escape the horrors of their everyday lives, a trio of young adults face more than they bargained for when they enter the terrifying rural village of Killimercy.

Following the best-selling Could You Survive Midsomer? and the sequel A Winter's Murder! this is the third official interactive Midsomer Murders novel, with a summery twist.

Time is ticking ... Can a lonely sixteen-year-old girl escape the clutches of human traffickers before she’s sold off to the highest bidder?When Lindy Montgomery’s mother dies, she’s left without friends or companionship until she meets a mysterious young woman in a sandwich shop who teaches her how to make herself more alluring to the opposite sex.Lindy’s so-called boyfriend takes her on a weekend trip under the guise of celebrating his birthday. The real reason for the trip turns out to be much more sinister. He drops her off at a hunting preserve, where she and other young girls are to be sold into sex slavery.Nearby, the citizens of a small Mississippi town are oblivious to the evil in their midst. A favorite son has returned to town after becoming wealthy as a tech owner and investor. Concerned about the property on which the hunting preserve sits, and full of questions about the suspicious deaths of his wife and child in a car crash and his mother in a house fire on the same day, he employs a local lawyer to help him figure out what’s going on.Can they solve the mystery before Lindy is lost forever?

2023 Edgar Award Nominee, Lilian Jackson Braun Prize for Buried in a Good BookAuthor Tess Harrow is looking to get back in the town of Winthrop's good graces after she uncovered not one, but two long-forgotten murders. With the perfect plan of combining her new book release with her bookstore's grand opening she'll have the chance to wine and dine the locals and some big press contacts. But the night before the party, Tess is greeted by a surprise: her mother has come for a visit, with her much-younger new boyfriend in tow...a boyfriend her daughter Gertrude recognizes as the notorious Levi Parker, a man recently connected to the deaths of three elderly widows. Tess immediately alerts Sheriff Boyd about Levi and his suspicious past, but it's already too late-Levi Parker is found dead and Tess's mother is starting to look like the prime suspect. Bernadette swears she didn't murder Levi, and Tess is doing her best to maintain her mother's innocence, but too many coincidences keep stacking up. With the whole town seemingly against her family, it's up to Tess to get to the bottom of the story before it's too late.

BAT EATER follows a biracial woman haunted by both her own inner trauma and hungry ghosts as she's entangled in a series of murders in NYC's Chinatown.

The gripping true story of murderer Danilo Cavalcante's daring prison escape and intense manhunt in Chester County, PA in summer 2023.

***Pre-order now!*** The perfect college sports romance for fans of Bal Khabra and Hannah Grace

Immerse yourself in a world of horror as you colour your way through the darkest designs from the depths of illustrator François Gautier's imagination.

Most detective stories are located in one city, the Maigret ¿series in Paris, Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlow in Los ¿Angeles. These stories, like the television series based ¿on Colin Dexter's Morse novels, are set in Oxford. Unlike ¿Raymond Chandler's and Colin Dexter's novels these are ¿suspense stories of the Hitchcock variety. The ¿fundamental difference is that a thriller is seen from the ¿point of view of the police, or in Chandler's case the ¿private dick. A suspense story is seen from the point of ¿view of the suspect. The whole perspective alters. In a ¿suspense story there is no temptation for the reader to ¿skip to the last page to find out who did it.¿

Jason Colt wakes to find his partner unconscious, a twisted bloody corpse nearby, and his ¿weapon still warm in his hand. With no memory of what happened after entering a dark ¿alcove, he soon becomes the prime suspect.¿¿ ¿In order to save his partner's life and avoid prison, Jason must remember what happened ¿and find the evidence that will clear his name.¿¿ ¿Becca Kennedy is determined to find her sister's killer after the detective assigned to the ¿case refuses to look into the strange circumstances surrounding her death. But just as Becca ¿gets close enough to expose the truth, she becomes the next target.¿¿ ¿Will Jason and Becca be able to unravel what happened and find the answers they're ¿looking for? And if they do, will they be able to survive the consequences of uncovering the ¿truth?¿