A lost child. A shattered past. A life going under... Vincent Ruiz is lucky to be alive. A bullet in the leg, another through the h&, he is discovered clinging to a buoy in the River Thames, losing blood & consciousness fast. It takes six days for him to come out of his coma, & when he does, his nightmare is only just beginning. Because Vincent has no recollection of what happened, & nobody believes him. A mile away from his body, a boat was found covered in blood -- Vincent's & that of three others. Forensics say at least one of them must be dead. Vincent, a police detective, had signed his service pistol out of the station armoury, despite being on leave. Many murder suspects fake amnesia, & the investigating team are not sure this case is any different... The only clue is a picture in his pocket, a photograph of a young girl, Mickey Carlyle, who disappeared three years ago. & though Mickey is presumed dead, Vincent has the nagging doubt that she is alive & in terrible danger... ...

THE DROWNING MAN: Vincent Ruiz is lucky to be alive. A bullet in the leg, another through the h&, he is discovered clinging to a buoy in the River Thames, losing blood & consciousness fast. Vincent has no recollection of what happened, & nobody believes him. The only clue is a picture in his pocket, a photograph of a young girl, Mickey Carlyle, who disappeared three years ago. & though Mickey is presumed dead, Vincent has the nagging doubt that she is alive & in terrible danger...BOMBPROOF: Fifty-four hours ago Sami Macbeth was released from prison. Thirty-six hours ago he slept with the woman of his dreams at the Savoy. An hour ago his train blew up. Now hes carrying a rucksack through Londons West End & has turned himself into the most wanted terrorist in the country... ...

The bestselling modern fairytale, with a new introduction from Luke Cutforth `I loved it.. . so good!' CARRIE HOPE FLETCHER Arthur Braxton has had enough. His mum has left, his dad is broken & he's the laughing stock of his high school. But things are about to change. When Arthur runs away & shelters in an old abandoned bathhouse, he sees a naked woman swimming in the pool. From this point on, his sad little life will never be the same. ...

An urban fairy tale from the acclaimed author of 99 Reasons Why. Arthur Braxton runs away from school. He hides out in an abandoned building, an old Edwardian bathhouse. He discovers a naked woman swimming in the pool. From this point on, nothing will ever be the same. The Drowning of Arthur Braxton is an unflinching account of the pain & trauma of adolescence & of how first love can transform the most unhappy of lives into something miraculous. It is a dark & brooding modern fairy tale from one of our most gifted writers. ...

At 21, James Farrell has the world at his feet. A gifted violinist, his successful career seems assured. Until a chance encounter with Ella changes everything. Ella, bewitching, irresistible, haunted by the ghosts of her family's past
- James cannot help falling in love with her, & she with him. But as the power & dangerous fragility of their relationship overwhelm them, James can only watch helplessly as the most beautiful thing in his life is strangled by deception, betrayal & ultimately murder.. .
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After her world is shaken by a series of unexplained events, young widow Sarah Grey soon comes to realise that she is the victim of a terrifying haunting by her 19th century namesake...A classic ghost story with a modern twist by a talented new writer in the genre. Relocated to a coastal town, widowed teacher Sarah Grey is slowly rebuilding her life, along with her young son Alfie. But after an inadvertent seance one drunken night, her world is shaken when she starts to experience frightening visions. She tries to explain them as But Alfie sees them too & Sarah believes that they have become the targets of a terrifying haunting. Convinced that the ghost is that of a 19th Century local witch & namesake, Sarah delves into local folklore & learns that the witch was thought to have been evil incarnate. When a series of old letters surface, Sarah discovers that nothing & no-one is as it seems, maybe not even the ghost of Sarah Grey... ...

When Maude Slocum
- beautiful, frightened & angry
- comes to Lew Archer's office with a poison pen letter intended for her

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After her world is shaken by a series of unexplained events, young widow Sarah Grey soon comes to realise that she is the victim of a terrifying haunting by her 19th century namesake.. . A classic ghost story with a modern twist by a talented new writer in the genre. Relocated to a coastal town, widowed teacher Sarah Grey is slowly rebuilding her life, along with her young son Alfie. But after an inadvertent seance one drunken night, her world is shaken when she starts to experience frightening visions. She tries to explain them as But Alfie sees them too & Sarah believes that they have become the targets of a terrifying haunting. Convinced that the ghost is that of a 19th Century local witch & namesake, Sarah delves into local folklore & learns that the witch was thought to have been evil incarnate. When a series of old letters surface, Sarah discovers that nothing & no-one is as it seems, maybe not even the ghost of Sarah Grey... ...

When Maude Slocum
- beautiful, frightened & angry
- comes to Lew Archer's office with a poison pen letter intended for her

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A gorgeously atmospheric contemporary fantasy of two Long Island teens & fledgling mediums investigating a murder in their small town by the New York Times bestselling author of The Devouring Gray. Mina Zanetti is a fledgling medium, desperate to share in her mother's world & speak with the dead. But Sand Dollar Cove is a grieving town, still recovering from the unsolved murders of three teenagers six years ago, found with sand dollars on their eyes. & Evelyn Mackenzie has felt every day of it, as the town blames her father for the deaths. When Mina & Evelyn conduct a ritual to speak to the dead they unwittingly become the centre of a deadly triangle
- who murdered those teenagers, Mina's family & their hidden past, & the furies of the spirit realm. Mina & Evelyn must learn to rebuild their trust, & unearth all the buried mysteries of Sand Dollar Cove to lay the ghosts of The Drowning Summer to rest.
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