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Crime scene investigation-or CSI-has captured the modern imagination. On television screens and in newspapers, we follow the exploits of forensic officers wearing protective suits and working behind police tape to...

There is nothing as powerful as a mother's love. But will Ellen's put her whole family in danger?'I didn't read The Heights, I inhaled it' LISA JEWELL Ellen Saint is...

In the compelling sequel to Blackbird, Anna Carey delivers a gritty and adrenaline-filled story of a girl desperate to escape her mysterious and terrifying assailants. Told in second person, this...

It took one moment to change his life: It begins with a call in the middle of the night from a woman at the mercy of her abusive husband. It...

ONE OF THE EVENING STANDARD'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015Barney Campbell's Rain is a searingly powerful debut that reads like a British Matterhorn********'A wonderfully achieved, enthralling and moving novel of...

Sultan Gadaffi has escaped from Libya with a fistful of dangerous secrets. The British Government want ex-Special Forces operative Steve Range, the go-to man for any Black-Ops missions, to lead...

She wants to learn everything - about you.Mel has practised law for twenty years. She is well-regarded by her peers. Her clients are happy. But behind the scenes her life...

When The Emperor of Ocean Park was published, the Observer declared- The book is superb, both as a thriller and as a novel of social observation. Now, with that same...

An American love story cast in deepest noir. It?s the story of a black woman named Nettie who comes to New York to be a model but grows too big...

From her patrician childhood on New York?s Upper East Side, to her chemical addictions downtown, and her unlikely, tenuous yet rewarding alliances on 12-step rehab programs in the Midwest, Glory...

Sam Coyle's father lived in the shadows - an undercover agent among the spies and radicals of Cold War London. That world claimed his life, and Sam is haunted by...

Shaun McCreadie was a young detective with a bright future until he crossed the line and suddenly found himself behind prison bars for his role in a brutal home invasion...

When a mint copy of the final album by Valerian England's great lost rock band of the 1960s surfaces in a charity shop, all hell breaks loose. Finding this record...

Nicole has experienced enough danger and excitement to last her several lifetimes. But a six-year spell in Marseilles' toughest prison has cured her adrenaline habit. Now peace and quiet are...

For years, Jack Ryan, Jr. and his colleagues at the Campus have waged an unofficial and highly effective campaign against the terrorists who threaten western civilization. The most dangerous of...

President Jack Ryan faces a world crisis unlike any he has ever known, in Tom Clancy's extraordinary new novel. Being President has gotten no easier. Domestic pitfalls await him at...

By 2011 the Internet has become the world's central nervous system. If terrorists are going to subvert the new world order, this is where they will strike. Net Force is...

President Jack Ryan faces a world crisis unlike any he has ever known, in Tom Clancy's extraordinary new novel. Being President has gotten no easier. Domestic pitfalls await him at...

Jack Ryan Jr. returns in Locked On, the gripping new thriller from Tom Clancy. The Ryans - father and son - are fighting on two fronts . . . When...

**'We've been waiting for a novel that shows just how creepy and scary social media actually is and this is it. Angela Clarke knows exactly which buttons to press. #creepedmeout'...

A tense and powerful police procedural set in the city of Durham where a murdered preacher may be more monstrous than his own killer.There's the lost.There's the missing.And there's the...

The year is 2006 and Argentina has launched a military takeover of the Antarctic peninsula, seeking to dominate the last untapped resource pool on the planet. While the nations of...

Investigator and sports agent Myron Bolitar is poised on the edge of the big-time. So is Christian Steele, a rookie quarterback and Myron's prized client. But when Christian gets a...

November, 1382. The month of the dead. At the Feast of St. Martin in the fifth year of King Richard's reign, a nun rides out for York and the Abbey...

From the international bestselling author comes yet another gripping novel that paints a brutally vivid picture of a killer's mind. An edge-of-your-seat thriller, for fans of Lee Child and Peter...

BRUTAL. INTENSE. PASSIONATE. THE WORLD OF THE SCARRED SOULS. They call me 901. I am a monster, a killer, a champion. In the blood pit I am a god. I...

From sports to innovation, art to politics - meet the incredible women who got there first, in the incredible girl-o-pedia of astounding achievements! Ever heard the saying "It's a man's...

A year ago, Eva Wylie was the biggest, meanest, ugliest female wrestler to disgrace the ring. Her name was on posters. People recognized her on the street. But having been...