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The first book in the number 1 bestselling Thursday Murder Club series by TV presenter Richard Osman. In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders. But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves. Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer before it's too late? 'Thrilling, moving, laugh-out-loud funny' – Mark Billingham 'Mystery fans are going to be enthralled' – Harlan Coben Product Information: • ISBN: 9780241988268 • Author: Richard Osman • Publisher: Penguin • Format: Paperback • Pages: 400 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.4 cm

A new mystery is afoot in the third book in the Thursday Murder Club series from million-copy bestselling author Richard Osman. It is an ordinary Thursday and things should finally be returning to normal. Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club are concerned. A decade-old cold case leads them to a local news legend and a murder with no body and no answers. Then a new foe pays Elizabeth a visit. Her mission? Kill... or be killed. As the cold case turns white hot, Elizabeth wrestles with her conscience (and a gun), while Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim chase down clues with help from old friends and new. But can the gang solve the mystery and save Elizabeth before the murderer strikes again? Product Information: • ISBN: 9780241512425 • Author: Richard Osman • Publisher: Viking • Format: Hardback • Pages: 432 • Dimensions: 24 x 16.2 x 3.8 cm

Alicia Berenson lived a seemingly perfect life until one day, six years ago. When she shot her husband in the head, five times. Since then, she hasn't spoken a single word. And it is time to find out why... Product Information:• ISBN: 9781409181637• Author: Alex Michaelides• Publisher: Orion Books• Format: Paperback• Pages: 342• Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 2.5cm

Is murder in the blood? In a sleepy Devon village, a woman is taken from the streets. Local vet Jenny is horrified. This kind of thing doesn’t happen here. But it’s not the first time she’s been so close to a crime scene. The daughter of a prolific serial killer, she’s spent her whole life running from who she really is. And the crime is harrowingly similar to those her father committed all those years ago… But she’s not her father’s daughter. Is she?  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9780008524180 • Author: Alice Hunter • Publisher:  Avon • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  400 • Dimensions:  12.9 x 2.6 x 19.8 cm

Our favourite octogenarian's are back to solve yet another mystery with The Thursday Murder Club and this time they're set to face their most deadly opponents yet! It's Christmas in Coopers Chase and it should be a relaxing time for our murder club gang but a dangerous package that was smuggled across the English coast on Boxing Day has gone missing and chaos has been unleashed! With a rising body count, including someone close to The Thursday Murder Club, the gang face an impossible task. The clock is ticking but will time run out for Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron? Check out the fourth novel in the record-breaking, million-copy bestselling Thursday Murder Club series by Richard Osman!  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9780241512449 • Author: Richard Osman • Publisher:  Viking • Format:  Hardback • Pages:  448 • Dimensions:  16.2 x 3.8 x 24 cm

As he continues showing me their incredible penthouse apartment, I have a terrible feeling about the woman behind closed doors. But I can't risk losing this job - not if I want to keep my darkest secret safe... It's hard to find an employer who doesn't ask too many questions about my past. So I thank my lucky stars that the Garricks miraculously gave me a job, cleaning their stunning penthouse with views across the city and preparing fancy meals in their shiny kitchen. I can work here for a while, and stay quiet until I get what I want. It's almost perfect. But I still haven't met Mrs Garrick, or seen her inside the guest bedroom. I'm sure I hear her crying. I notice spots of blood around the neck of her white nightgowns when I'm doing laundry. And one day I can't help but knock on the door. When it gently swings open, what I see inside changes everything.... That's when I make a promise. After all, I've done this before. I can protect Mrs. Garrick while keeping my own secrets locked up safe. Douglas Garrick has done wrong. He is going to pay. It's simply a question of how far I'm willing to go...  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9780349132600 • Author:  Freida McFadden  • Publisher:  Orion Publishing • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  352 • Dimensions: 12.6 x 2.8 x 19.6 cm

I don't know what happened to my daughter. Only that she's missing – and I was the last person to see her... My name is Nora Logue. You’ve probably heard of me – most people have. I am the mother of Daisy Logue. Seven years ago, I took her for a walk in the woods. Only I came out. I have no memory of what happened that day. I have tried to rebuild my life. Met a man, had another child – Luca. But I can’t let go of Daisy, or give up hope of seeing her again. And now, I have the chance to find out what happened to her. But what if pursuing the truth about my daughter risks my son’s life? Product Information:  • ISBN:  9780008524586 • Author:  Claire Allan • Publisher:  Avon • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  320 • Dimensions: 12.9 x 2.2 x 19.8 cm

Christmas is coming, but crime never stops for the Women's Murder Club. Sergeant Lindsay Boxer is looking forward to spending time with her family over the holidays. But when she receives a tip-off that the biggest heist ever to hit San Francisco is being planned for Christmas Day, everything changes. The architect of the ambitious attack unleashes chaos across the city, laying traps and false alarms to distract Lindsay and the SFPD from his ultimate goal. As time runs out, will Lindsay be able to save the people of San Francisco from a Christmas they'd never forget? Product Information: • ISBN: 9781787469129 • Author: James Patterson • Publisher: Arrow • Format: Paperback • Pages: 384 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.7 x 2.5 cm

An old enemy is laid to rest... and a new crime is discovered. Florence Lovelady, the most senior serving policewoman in Britain, visits convicted serial killer Larry Glassbrook in prison. Larry is coming to the end of his life but has one last task for Florence: to learn the identity of the remains discovered at the children's home Black Moss Manor.  The town Florence escaped narrowly with her life still holds many secrets. Will she finally learn the truth? Or will time run out for her first? Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781409174172 • Author: Sharon Bolton  • Publisher:  Orion • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  440 • Dimensions: 12.8 x 3 x 19.6 cm

Retired schoolteachers and amateur sleuths Liz, Pat and Thelma have a brand-new mystery to solve in this witty tale... Curious white envelopes have been delivered to friends and neighbours. Inside are letters revealing the deepest secrets they have tried to hide. As one by one, careers are ended, marriages destroyed and no one is beyond suspicion, the three friends decide enough is enough. They must take matters into their own hands before more damage is done. But as they work to uncover the truth, they begin to wonder just how far someone will go to silence this poison pen… Could a murderer be in their midst once again? Product Information:  • ISBN:  9780008509644 • Author: J.M. Hall  • Publisher:  Avon • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  384 • Dimensions:  12.9 x 2.4 x 19.8 cm

Private Detective Cormoran Strike is contacted by a worried father whose son, Will, has gone to join a religious cult in the depths of the Norfolk countryside. The Universal Humanitarian Church is, on the surface, a peaceable organisation that campaigns for a better world. Yet Strike discovers that beneath the surface there are deeply sinister undertones, and unexplained deaths. In order to try to rescue Will, Strike's business partner Robin Ellacott decides to infiltrate the cult and she travels to Norfolk to live incognito amongst them. But in doing so, she is unprepared for the dangers that await her there or for the toll it will take on her... Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781408730942 • Author: Robert Galbraith • Publisher:  Sphere • Format:  Hardback • Pages:  960 • Dimensions: 15.6 x 2.2 x 24 cm

Alex Cross is going home. But what will he find when he gets there?  When his cousin is accused of an unthinkable crime, Detective Alex Cross returns to his North Carolina hometown for the first time in over three decades. As he tries to prove his cousin's innocence in a town where justice is hard to find, Cross unearths a family secret that forces him to question everything he's ever known. Chasing the ghosts of his past, Cross gets pulled into a case involving a string of murders. Now he's hot on the trail of a cold-hearted killer - and the answers he finds could be fatal.  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9780099594321 • Author: James Patterson • Publisher:  Arrow • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  448 • Dimensions:  13 x 2.8 x 19.7 cm

Perfect families, perfect houses, perfect lives. Three mothers, Jane, Madeline and Celeste appear to have it all, until they find out just how easy it is for one little lie to spiral out of control... Single mum Jane has just moved to town. She's got her little boy in tow - plus a secret she's been carrying for five years. On the first day of the school run she meets Madeline - a force to be reckoned with, who remembers everything and forgives no one - and Celeste, the kind of beautiful woman who makes the world stop and stare, but is inexplicably ill at ease. They both take Jane under their wing - while careful to keep their own secrets under wraps. But a minor incident involving the children of all three women rapidly escalates: playground whispers become spiteful rumours until no one can tell the truth from the lies... It was always going to end in tears, but how did it end in murder?  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781405959438 • Author:  Liane Moriarty • Publisher:  Penguin Books • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  496 • Dimensions:  12.9 x 3 x 19.8 cm

Chicago. 1992. A hospital patient wakes to find two strangers by his bed. They show him a list of names and ask a simple but impossible question. Minutes later he falls to his death from his twelfth-floor window - a fall which generates some unexpected attention. That attention comes from the Secretary of Defense, who calls for an inter-agency task force to investigate. Jack Reacher, recently demoted from Major, is assigned as the Army's representative. If he gets a result, great. If not, he's a convenient fall guy. Reacher may be an exceptional military investigator, but office politics aren't what gets him up in the morning. As he races to identify a cold-blooded killer and uncover a secret that stretches back 23 years, he must navigate around his new partners. Will Reacher bring the bad guys to justice the official way... or his way?  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781787633773 • Author:  Lee & Andrew Child  • Publisher:  Bantam • Format:  Hardback • Pages:  336 • Dimensions: 16 x 2.9 x 24 cm

In a world where appearances are everything … you can’t trust anything In a pristine suburb outside of London everything and everyone is perfect … on the surface. But then one of their own – an innocent teenage girl – goes missing, and DCI Sue Fisher and her team start to investigate the secrets and lies of an interconnected web of bored housewives, cheating husbands, and disaffected teens. Now, as the veneer of perfection starts to chip away, dark secrets rise to fell the mighty and a community is brought to its knees… Product Information:  • ISBN:  9780008588557 • Author:  Natalie Tambini • Publisher:  One More Chapter • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  336 • Dimensions: 12.9 x 2.1 x 19.8 cm

Page-turning and heart-warming, The Poppy Mystery Tales is the perfect cosy crime! Emily has settled in the picturesque village of Ashton Mead, where she lives with her puppy, Poppy. Life is finally going well for Emily. She has a cottage of her own, a job she likes and friends. Then she stumbles on the body of a woman who apparently drowned in the river. The other villagers suspect foul play and are quick to blame Richard, Emily's next-door neighbour and a newcomer to the village. Emily finds it hard to believe her friendly neighbour could be a cold-hearted murderer. When she meets his attractive son, Adam, her feelings become more complicated. Determined to find out the truth behind the death in the village, Emily travels to London to track down the man with whom Richard's wife was having an affair. Unfortunately for Emily, her visit does not go as planned. Instead of helping clear Richard's name, she finds her own life is in danger... Product Information:  • ISBN:  9780857305688 • Author: Leigh Russell • Publisher:  Crime & Mystery Club • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  256 • Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.6 cm

Nine perfect strangers, each hiding an imperfect life. A luxury retreat cut off from the outside world. Ten days that promise to change your life. But some promises - like some lives - are perfect lies... Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781405959407 • Author:  Liane Moriarty  • Publisher:  Penguin Books • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  464 • Dimensions: 1.4 x 0.3 x 2 cm

The first novel in the sensational The Sequin Mysteries series, from world-renowned dancer and Strictly head judge Shirley Ballas.  Behind the sequins and the sparkles, the competition is about to turn deadly... When a promising young dancer collapses during the opening tango of a major competition, Lily Richmond, dance legend, teacher and one-time world champion, is convinced that murder is afoot. There’s only one person who can help Lily solve the mystery: her former student, now turned private detective, Susie Cooper. But Susie vowed she’d never return to the ballroom . . . As the competition gets fiercer and the bodies pile up, Susie will be forced to go undercover in Blackpool and come face to face with a man she thought she’d left behind. Can Lily and Susie unravel the rumours from the rumbas and expose the murderer’s identity before they strike again? Sex, lies and ballroom dancing. Murder on the Dance Floor is a backstage pass to a world where the most ambitious will stop at nothing to win.  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9780008558000 • Author: Shirley Ballas & Sheila McClure  • Publisher:  HQ • Format:  Hardback • Pages:  432 • Dimensions:  15.9 x 3.7 x 24 cm

We will take on any case, solve any crime, uncover any secret. We are Private. And we're the best. In Afghanistan, a US Special Forces pilot is shot down during a covert mission. In New York, a mother is forced to flee with her two young children. A wealthy businessman approaches Jack Morgan, head of Private - the world's largest investigation agency - with a desperate plea to track down his daughter and grandchildren, who have disappeared without a trace. What at first seems to be a simple missing persons case soon escalates into something much more deadly, when Jack discovers the daughter is being pursued by highly trained operatives. As Jack uncovers more of the woman's backstory, the trail leads towards Afghanistan - where Jack's career as a US Marine ended in catastrophe . . . Jack will need to face the trauma of his past to save a family's future. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781529156850 • Author: James Patterson  • Publisher: Penguin  • Format: Paperback • Pages: 384 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.3cm