Mystery Books

Jack Reacher jumps off a bus and walks fourteen miles down a country road into Margrave, Georgia. An arbitrary decision he's about to regret. Reacher is the only stranger in town on the day they have had their first homicide in thirty years. The cops arrest Reacher and the police chief turns eyewitness to place him at the scene. As nasty secrets leak out, and the body count mounts, one thing is for sure. They picked the wrong guy to take the fall. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780553826166 • Author: Lee Child • Publisher: Bantam • Format: Paperback • Pages: 544 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.7 x 3.2cm

The second novel in the record-breaking, million-copy bestselling Thursday Murder Club series by Richard Osman. It's the following Thursday. Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man with whom she has a long history. He's made a big mistake, and he needs her help. His story involves stolen diamonds, a violent mobster, and a very real threat to his life. As bodies start piling up, Elizabeth enlists Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron in the hunt for a ruthless murderer. And if they find the diamonds too? Well, wouldn't that be a bonus? But this time they are up against an enemy who wouldn't bat an eyelid at knocking off four septuagenarians. Can the Thursday Murder Club find the killer (and the diamonds) before the killer finds them? Product Information: • ISBN: 9780241988244 • Author: Richard Osman • Publisher: Penguin • Format: Paperback • Pages: 336 • Dimensions: 19.7 x 12.8 x 3 cm

It was the house of their dreams. Now it's their worst nightmare . . . When Saffron Cutler and boyfriend Tom move into 9 Skelton Place, they didn't expect to find this. Two bodies, buried under the patio over thirty years ago. When the police launch a murder investigation, they ask to speak to the cottage's former owner - Saffy's grandmother, Rose, whose Alzheimer's clouds her memory. But it is clear she remembers something . . . What happened thirty years ago? What part did her grandmother play? And is Saffy now in danger? . . . Product Information: • ISBN: 9781405943406 • Author: Claire Douglas • Publisher: Penguin • Format: Paperback • Pages: 432 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.6cm

An addictive, unpredictable thriller that will keep you asking the question: what is the truth? Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams. They think they've found it when they visit the remote manor that once belonged to Dr. Adrienne Hale, a renowned psychiatrist who vanished without a trace years ago. But when a violent winter storm traps them at the estate, the house begins to lose its appeal. Stuck inside and growing restless, Tricia stumbles on a collection of audio transcripts from Dr. Hale's sessions with patients. As Tricia listens to the cassette tapes, she learns about the terrifying chain of events leading up to the doctor's mysterious disappearance. With each tape, another shocking piece of the puzzle falls into place, and a web of lies slowly unravels. But by the time Tricia reaches the final cassette, the one that reveals the entire horrifying story, it will be too late… Product Information:  • ISBN: 9781464221361 • Author: Frieda McFadden • Publisher: Sourcebooks, Poisoned Pen Press • Format: Paperback  • Pages: 320 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 1.9 cm

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

‘Ask him to return the kiss when I draw my dying breath’ St. Joseph, patron of departing souls – pray for me.’ Liverpool, 1979: new CID recruit Leigh Borrowdale is seconded to a disturbing murder inquiry: a mysterious death in a decaying building, where the remains of a young man have been found. Tasked with looking into missing persons’ cases to track down the identity of the victim, Leigh comes into contact with the disappeared of a city living through its darkest days of the winter of discontent. As she faces her own family demons and battles the male-dominated world at work, Leigh discovers a connection to two boys feared drowned in the Mersey and links to the murky Liverpool underworld. Through it all her only ally is her colleague, DS Des Chung, who knows what it means to be an outsider in the police force, albeit one who takes a very different approach. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008716240 • Author: Sarah Mellor • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers • Format: Paperback • Pages: 352 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.6 cm

Welcome to The Surf House A beautiful guesthouse on the wave-pounded shores of Morocco. Sparkling seas, bright blue skies, nothing and no-one for miles. ​​​​​​​But then you hear the first whisper… The woman who stayed here before you – who walked the same beaches, met the same guests – disappeared one year earlier, vanishing without a trace. Every room tells a story. Every guest hides a secret. Every holiday has an end. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008791155 • Author: Lucy Clarke • Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers • Format: Paperback

Welcome to North Falls. A small town where everyone knows everyone. But nobody knows the truth. Emmy Clifton thinks she knows her neighbours. She's wrong. She thinks it’s just another hot summer night like any other. She's wrong. When her best friend's daughter asks for help, she thinks it’s just some teenage drama. She’s never been more wrong in her life. As the town ignites in the wake of the girl's disappearance, Emmy throws herself into the search. But then she realises: You never really know a town until you know its secrets. ​​​​​​​Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008625917 • Author: Karin Slaughter • Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers • Format: Paperback

Maggie Bird is many things. A chicken farmer. A good neighbour. A seemingly average retiree living in the seaside town of Purity. She's also a darned good rifle shot. And she never talks about her past. But when an unidentified body is left on Maggie's driveway, she knows it's a calling card from old times. It's been fifteen years since the failed mission that ended her career as a spy, and cost her far more than her job. Step forward the 'Martini Club' - Maggie's silver-haired book group (to anyone who asks), and a cohort of former spies behind closed doors. With the help of her old friends - and always one step ahead of the persistent local cop - Maggie might still be able to save the life she's built. ​​​​​​​Product Information: • ISBN: 9781804992890 • Author: Tess Gerritsen • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Format: Paperback • Pages: 464 • Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.7 x 3.1 cm

DO YOU DARE STEP OUT ALONE? SCREAM meets SCOOBY DOO – Join Buffy, Jonesy, Amber and Cam as they investigate a chilling string of murders in their local town. From the bestselling author of Let’s Split Up. A year has passed since the events in Sanera left the town reeling. Buffy, Jonesy, Amber and Cam unmasked the killer of 2001, but now, a new horror stirs. Back for the inaugural Hallowed Fall Fest where tourists wander the streets in masks and costumes, the bodies start piling up. With each new death, the gang is left a cryptic clue, leading them deeper into a horrifying mystery. An online forum is filled with speculation about local legends, and there is a clue buried within it ... if the gang can work it out, they will be able to stop the killer in their tracks... but it's possible the killer is one step ahead. It all leads to a grand finale, back where it all began...if they can make it there...alive. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780702338533 • Author: Bill Wood • Publisher: Scholastic Limited • Format: Paperback • Pages: 352

In the latest installment of this prize-winning crime mystery series, our trio of redoubtable detectives are faced with the arrival in town of an escaped convict... It's September in Brighton and the town is playing host to weeks of endless rain and lashings of villainy. A trusted member of a local gang has disappeared part way through planning a huge heist; a violent criminal obsessed with hunting policemen has escaped Broadmoor and is rumoured to be headed towards the town, while at Gosling's department store an American researcher has been found dead in the music section. Inspector Steine has other things on his mind as he typically bathes in unearned glory, but Sergeant Brunswick and Constable 'Clever Clogs' Twitten are both on the case. If only they could work out just who is behind these dastardly acts. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781526609861 • Author: Lynne Truss • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc • Format: Paperback • Pages: 320 • Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2 cm

Opulence. Sex. Betrayal … Sometimes friendship can be deadly. Meet the women of Buckhead–a place of expensive cars, huge houses, and competitive friendships. Shannon was once the queen bee of Buckhead. But she’s been unceremoniously dumped by Bryce, her politician husband. When Bryce replaces her with a much younger woman, Shannon sets out to take revenge … Crystal has stepped into Shannon’s old shoes. A young, innocent Texan girl, she simply has no idea what she’s up against … Olivia has waited years to take Shannon’s crown as the unofficial queen of Buckhead. Finally, her moment has come. But to take her rightful place, she will need to use every backstabbing, manipulative, underhand trick in the book … Jenny owns Glow, the most exclusive salon in town. Jenny knows all her clients’ secrets and darkest desires. But will she ever tell? Who amongst these women will be clever enough to survive Buckhead–and who will wind up dead? They say that friendships can be complex, but no one said it could ever be this deadly. ​​​​​​​Product Information: • ISBN: 9781398723689 • Author: Jeneva Rose • Publisher: Hachette UK • Format: Paperback • Pages: 320 • Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.6 cm

The highly anticipated hard-boiled, slow-burn young adult mystery thriller about one girl's race to solve the crimes of her family’s twisted past before it’s too late — from E. Kennedy, aka New York Times bestselling romance author, Elle Kennedy!  The world is hunting for answers. But what if the truth leads straight to you? Ryan Shipley is back in Starling, Tennessee. It’s been ten years since her father, the infamous serial killer Gabriel Thorn, was caught. No one can know who Ryan really is. No one can know the truth about her past. But as fresh eyes dig deeper into the case, old secrets refuse to stay buried. Cryptic texts, eerie coincidences, and a chilling note leave everyone wondering – does Ryan know more than she’s letting on? As the truth unravels, one thing becomes clear: in a town full of secrets, Ryan might be the biggest mystery of them all. ​​​​​​​Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008813420 • Author: E. Kennedy • Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers • Format: Paperback

A cold case from the past leads the gang to a local news legend and a murder with no body and no answers. As the cold case turns red hot, Elizabeth wrestles with her conscience, while Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim chase down clues with help from old friends and new. But will they solve the mystery and save Elizabeth before the murderer strikes again? It is an ordinary Thursday and things should finally be returning to normal. Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club is 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:  9780241992388 • Author: Richard Osman  • Publisher:  Penguin • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  432 • Dimensions:  12.9 x 2.6 x 19.8 cm

Can a broken town survive a second tragedy? The follow-up to the international bestseller Beartown. Beartown is dying . . . Tucked in a forest in the frozen north, Beartown's residents are tough and hardworking. They don't expect life to be easy, but they do expect it to be fair. Which is why the sudden loss of their hockey players to the rival town of Hed hurts. Everyone needs something to cheer for in the long winter nights. Now they have nothing. So when a new star player arrives, Coach Peter sees an opportunity to rebuild the team - to take on Hed and restore Beartown's fortunes. But not everyone in town sees it his way. As the big game between both towns approaches, the rivalry turns bitter and all too real. Once the stands rumbled with threats to 'kill' and 'ruin' each other, but the residents didn't mean it. Now they do. By the time the last goal is scored, someone in Beartown will be dead . . . ​​​​​​​Product Information: • ISBN: 9781405998130 • Author: Fredrik Backman • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Format: Paperback

You'll do anything to get your daughter back . . . Lauren can't wait to see her daughter again, to pick her up from university at the end of her first term. But when she arrives at her hall and knocks on the door to her room, a stranger opens it. At first, Lauren thinks she must have the wrong room, or the wrong floor. Maybe even the wrong building. But she soon realises the truth: Evie's not there. She hasn't been there for weeks. So where is she? Product Information: • ISBN: 9781804185186 • Author: TM Logan • Publisher: Zaffre • Format: Paperback • Pages: 432 • Dimensions: 12.9 x 2.8 x 19.8 cm

In the second instalment of Lynne Truss's joyfully quirky crime series, our trio of detectives must investigate the murder of a hapless romantic; an aristocratic con man on the prowl; and a dodgy Brighton nightspot... It is summer in Brighton and the Brighton Belles are on hand to answer any holidaymaker's queries, no matter how big or small. The quickest way to the station, how many pebbles are on the beach and what exactly has happened to that young man lying in the deckchair with blood dripping from him? Constable Twitten has a hunch that the fiendish murder may be connected to a notorious Brighton nightspot and the family that run it, but Inspector Steine is - as ever - distracted by other issues, not least having his own waxwork model made, while Sergeant Brunswick is just delighted to have spied an opportunity to finally be allowed to go undercover. Our incomparable team of detectives are back for another outing in the second instalment of Lynne Truss's joyfully quirky crime series. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781526666970 • Author: Lynne Truss • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc • Format: Paperback • Pages: 336 • Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.2 cm

When a night of babysitting turns fatal, a girl burdened with survivor's guilt becomes increasingly convinced that someone is responsible for the gas leak that killed her family member – and that she was the intended target all along. Ella wishes that she could do something more fun on New Year’s Eve than babysit, but lately her life has taken a scary turn with a diagnosis that she is trying her best to ignore. So after she barely recovers from another paralyzing migraine, Ella arrives late to her aunt’s house for babysitting. But when nobody answers the door, she knows something isn’t right. Breaking in, she finds her cousins unconscious on the floor. And Aunt Julie is dead. Ella is barely able to rescue them from the house before she collapses into the snow. When investigators discover that the cause of death was from a gas leak, a small voice in the back of her head keeps reminding Ella that it could have been her – not Aunt Julie – inside that house. Ella is determined to find out what really happened to her aunt, but her family is so sure it was an accident. After all, Ella’s paranoia must just be a side effect of her diagnosis – a diagnosis that makes everyone tiptoe around her. As deadly lies begin to seep through the cracks of the investigation, Ella gets the feeling that the gas leak might not have been an accident – and that someone might be out to kill her next. ​​​​​​​Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008617035 • Author: Megan Davidhizar • Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers • Format: Paperback • Pages: 352 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 3 cm

Two women. An office filled with secrets. One terrible crime that can't be taken back. Dawn Schiff is strange. At least, everyone thinks so at Vixed, the nutritional supplement company where Dawn works as an accountant. She never says the right thing. She has no friends. And she is always at her desk at precisely 8:45 a.m. So when Dawn doesn't show up to the office one morning, her coworker Natalie Farrell-beautiful, popular, top sales rep five years running-is surprised. Then she receives an unsettling, anonymous phone call that changes everything… It turns out Dawn wasn't just an awkward outsider-she was being targeted by someone close. And now Natalie is irrevocably tied to Dawn as she finds herself caught in a twisted game of cat and mouse that leaves her wondering: who's the real victim? But one thing is incredibly clear: somebody hated Dawn Schiff. Enough to kill.  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781464221347 • Author:  Freida McFadden • Publisher:  Sourcebooks, Poisoned Pen Press • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  368 • Dimensions:  12.8 x 19.7 x 2.7 cm

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden. All families have secrets. But some secrets are deadly. Erika Cass has a perfect family and a perfect life. Until, one quiet evening, two detectives show up at her front door. "Mrs. Cass, we were hoping your son could answer a few questions about the girl who disappeared last night..." A high school girl has vanished from their quiet neighbourhood, and the police suspect the worst. Erika's teenage son, Liam, was the last person to see the girl alive. Erika has always sensed something… different in her seemingly perfect oldest child. He’s charming, smart and popular, but mothers have the best instincts. Erika knows there’s more to her son than meets the eye. She wants to believe he's innocent, but as the evidence mounts, she can't deny the truth? Liam may have done the unthinkable. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781464228599 • Author: Freida McFadden  • Publisher: Sourcebooks, Poisoned Pen Press • Format: Paperback • Pages: 320 • Dimensions: 19.9 x 12.9 x 2cm