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A missing woman.A jilted lover.A baffling murder. Beatrice Pennington lives a seemingly quiet life. Married and middle-aged, she's a part-time librarian and an enthusiastic member of Leek's cycling club.So when her husband Arthur turns up at the police station, frantically claiming Beatrice is missing, Detective Joanna Piercy can't help but think the woman probably just got bored with her own life.Maybe she ran off with another man? Certainly nothing serious could have happened to her.But as the days pass there is still no trace of Beatrice. DI Piercy begins to worry - could there have been foul play after all . . . ?Then a body is found. Strangled and dumped under a hedge on a moorland road.As DI Piercy investigates she unearths a dangerous web of lies. When does unrequited love become stalking? And when does stalking end in murder?

Some families have more skeletons in the closet than others . . .A dead woman tied to a chair is found in a crumbling old cottage in the Yorkshire moors. She's been there a long time.Detective Mike Nash investigates. He soon uncovers a second body, down a well in the garden.Then Nash's team makes an even more grisly discovery. How many more skeletons are hidden in this tumbledown old cottage?The suspicious death of the solicitor dealing with the property turns this cold-case investigation into an active hunt for a murderer.Someone is killing to keep their secrets from coming to light. Detective Mike Nash must track them down before they strike again.

Grace has the perfect life. Then her husband replaces her with a younger, blonder version. Three years later, Grace's sixteen-year-old daughter Tara is stabbed to death in a seedy hotel. Grace's life stops. After a harrowing trial, Tara's boyfriend is convicted of her murder. At least now it's over. Until someone breaks into Grace's house and ransacks Tara's belongings. And now the questions have only just begun. Grace thought she knew her daughter. But Tara had been keeping secrets from her. Very dark secrets.

On a wild and stormy night on England's south coast, ambitious young police constables Rutherford Barnes and Harriet Holden are doing the rounds when they see a burglar fleeing the scene of the crime.And the location is Harriet's house. The ground floor is ransacked. Scrawled in red across one wall are the words: DEAD COPS SLEEP LONG.Then a few days later, Harriet's battered body is discovered in a shabby seafront hotel.Newly promoted to detective, Barnes vows to discover who killed his partner, and why.

Detective Mary Hume is on the trail of a vicious serial killer. A killer who leaves a baffling code carved into the skin of his victims. Can you crack the code?

A faded country house in the middle of nowhere.The guests are snowed in.The murders begin.Withering and waspish, Ursula Smart (not her real name) gate-crashes her mother's book club at an isolated country house for a long weekend retreat. Much to Mother's chagrin.Joining them are Mother's best friend, Mirabelle, Aunts Charlotte and Less, and Bridget with her dog Mr Bojangles. It doesn't matter that they've read Gone Girl three times this year already, this retreat is their chance to escape bustling suburbia. But someone has other ideas.A body is found in the grounds.Is a lone killer hunting them? Or has one of their own group embarked on a killing spree?What they need is to stop sniping at each other long enough to solve the mystery before the killer strikes again.What they need is a guide to survive.

A man is found dead in his bed, suffocated, covered in confetti and with his ring finger missing. Detective Rachel King informs his daughter and takes her to identify the body. But she's never seen the man before in her life.Then a second murder. This time a woman, Alison, also suffocated and with her finger severed and confetti strewn over her body.The team desperately search for a link before anyone else dies.Meanwhile, someone has been running a property scam, selling dream houses that will never be built.And the love of Rachel's life has disappeared. Is he really the mastermind of a people-trafficking gang? Or does Rachel have enemies on her own team?

Secrets, lies, bodies. Nothing stays buried forever . . .It starts on an abandoned campsite in Norfolk.Developers unearth a human skeleton. The remains of an eighteen-year-old girl.Robina Scanlon - a blast from the past that shocks Detective Tom Mariner to his core.First love. Last breath.In the sweltering summer of 1976, the teenage Mariner fell for Robina instantly.He thought she was the one who got away. Now he realizes she never even left.She was murdered back at the campsite where they met, all those years ago.Mariner drives to Norfolk, his head so full of ghosts he can barely think straight.What happened to his holiday romance?The mystery of her death becomes a dangerous obsession. Distracting him from a perplexing murder case on his home turf of Birmingham.As midnight approaches, someone out there will do anything to keep the past buried . . .A nail-bitingly tense crime mystery with a stunning climax that will keep you turning the pages into the midnight hour. Perfect for fans of Peter James, Angela Marsons, Rachel McLean, Caro Ramsay, Helen H. Durrant, Ian Rankin and Peter Robinson.

Three friends with secrets.One luxurious lake house vacation.A killer on the loose.Lauren, Drew and Rob go on a relaxing vacation that turns into a nightmare.As Lauren sunbathes by the lake, she sees the man from next door lugging something heavy into a boat. The night before, Lauren thought she heard a woman screaming. What is their rich and famous neighbor hiding?Women are vanishing in this beautiful corner of Tennessee, full of woods and water.Detective Chris Bailey has his hands full. He's investigating a drowning from last summer. The woman was never identified. But a pattern is emerging. Another body surfaces.The killer will stop at nothing to stay hidden.Will Lauren be the next victim? And can she handle the fact both her friends are in love with her?An absolutely gripping crime mystery full of twists and turns perfect for fans of Melinda Leigh, Helen H. Durrant, Mary Burton, Robert Dugoni, Biba Pearce, Lisa Regan, D.K. Hood and Rachel Caine.

A victim who thought he could outrun his past. A killer who'll never forget. Two detectives determined to find the truth.

Detective Dove Milson is called out to a chilling murder scene by the coast. A teenage girl is found murdered, encased in glass.The murder is a replica of the work of a serial killer known as the Glass Doll murderer, who entombed his victims in glass to watch them die. He would be the prime suspect but . . .HE'S ALREADY DEAD.The kicker?Dove's own niece was one of the original Glass Doll victims.When her other niece goes missing, it looks like the copycat killer plans to repeat history in more ways than one.WILL SHE BE THE NEXT GLASS DOLL?Time is running out. Dove must race to catch a killer before it's too late. Then a new lead tears a hole in the case.