The sixth Anya Crichton thriller in a series to rival Patricia Cornwells Kay Scarpetta books. It feels like the safest place on earth. A family-friendly floating palace. But as Anya Crichton soon discovers cruise ships arent all that they seem... Statistics tell us that a woman is twice as likely to be sexually assaulted on a cruise ship than on dry l&. Customers arent screened so the ships are a haven for sex offenders & paedophiles. With no policing & floating in international waters sexual assaults & passengers disappearing are uncommonly frequent... So when a teenage girl is discovered dead on the deck of the ship that she is holidaying on Anya feels compelled to get involved. Theres no apparent cause of death but Anyas forensics expertise uncovers more than the ships doctors can...or want to. With the killer still on board & subsequently a crew-member found shot it becomes clear that the safe haven of the cruise-ship is actually anything but. & as Anya comes under increasing pressure to abandon her investigations will she continue? Or do whatever it takes to keep her own family safe? The sixth book to feature forensic pathologist Anya Crichton is perfect for fans of Patricia Cornwell & Kathy Reichs. ...

Even the coldest case will eventually crack. November 1993. Scotland is in the grip of the coldest winter in living memory & the Lake of Menteith is frozen over. A young man & woman walk across the ice to the historic island of Inchmahome which lies in the middle of the lake. Only the man comes back. In the spring as staff prepare the abbey ruins for summer visitors they discover the unidentifiable remains of the body of a girl her skull violently crushed. Twenty years later present day. Retired detective Alan Narey is still haunted by the unsolved crime. Desperate to relieve her fathers conscience DS Rachel Narey returns to the Lake of Menteith & unofficially reopens the cold case. With the help of police photographer Tony Winter Rachel discovers that the one man her father had always suspected was the killer has recently died. Risking her job & reputation Narey prepares a dangerous gambit to uncover the killers identity
- little knowing who that truly is. Despite the freezing temperatures the ice cold case begins to thaw & with it a tide of secrets long frozen in time are suddenly & shockingly unleashed.
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You thought you could leave the past behind. Think again. Donnie Miller counts himself lucky. Living in a beautiful spacious house in the wild & remote landscape of central Canada he spends his days writing for the local newspaper working on a film script & acting as house-husb&. After a troubled & impoverished upbringing in Scotland he now has all he wants: a caring wife a bright & happy son a generous father-in-law. As the brutal northern winter begins to bite he can sit back & enjoy life. But his peace is soon broken. There are noises in the nearby woods signs of some mysterious watcher. When the family dog disappears Donnie makes a horrifying discovery. Is it wolves as the police suspect or something far more dangerous far darker? What secrets has Donnie been keeping? & why does he have the terrible sense that his dream was never going to last? A taut shocking & visceral thriller that will leave you gasping for breath Cold Hands is the first in an exciting new series by the remarkable John J. Niven. ...

Movie mogul Harry Nathans lonely death in a Beverley Hills swimming pool is the beginning of a trail of lust & conspiracy leading to the darkest corners of the international art world. Private investigator Lorraine Page faces her toughest fight ever as she takes on the case for fading starlet Cindy Nathan Harrys third wife. Lorraine believes the grieving widows story. Unlike her ex-colleagues in the police department who have already charged Cindy with murder... ...

Juliet Kipper a gifted painter is strangled in the LA gallery where her first solo show has opened to critical acclaim & Milo Sturgis takes on the murder investigation as a favour to an old friend. He consults Alex Delaware who researching parallels with other deaths looks for artists killed when on the verge of a breakthrough or comeback. & he finds two others. The investigation points to a gruesome sadistic pattern of death taking Milo & Alex into the dark side of the art world & Alexs ex-lover Robin into terrible danger. ...

Marjory Fleming is Scottish a sheepfarmers wife a mother of two & a police detective inspector in Galloway whose home & family are her refuge from the violence of her job. Laura is a psychologist wracked with guilt after the death of her marriage & her mother who determines to find out what happened to her older half-sister who left home 15 years ago. Lauras search takes her to rural Galloway where her sister stayed with an extraordinary family who are top bull breeders. It is 2001 & with foot & mouth having just broken out Dumfries & Galloway is one of the first places hit. The bulls are killed & a body discovered when their field is ploughed up for burial of the carcasses. & DI Fleming
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- cant go home where her husband is having to destroy his own animals because of the murder investigation.. .

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Every breath you take hell be watching you... When Jane Roberts is found dead in a woodland area Detective Sergeant Laura Mc Ganity is first on the scene. The body bears a chilling similarity to a woman
- Deborah Corley -murdered three weeks earlier. Both have been stripped strangled & defiled. When reporter Jack Garrett starts digging for dirt on the notorious Whitcroft estate he finds himself face-to-face with Janes father & gangland boss Don who will stop at nothing until justice is done. It seems that the two murdered women were linked in more ways than one & a dirty secret is about to surface that some would prefer stay buried. As the killer circles once more Jack & Laura must get to him before he strikes again. But his sights are set on his next victim & hes watching Lauras every move...
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The third book in the bestselling Dan Spider Shepherd series. Even deadlier than terrorists.. .are the men trying to stop them. People-smuggling counterfeit currency & attempted murder. Its all in a days work for undercover cop Dan Spider Shepherd. But what starts as a run-of-the mill investigation quickly turns into a matter of life & death when he uncovers a terrorist cell on a mission of death & destruction. The target: hundreds of passengers on a cross-channel train deep below the English Channel. With the clock ticking & the explosives primed Shepherd & his colleagues have to decide just how far they are prepared to go to save innocent lives. & they realise that to avoid catastrophe they have to be even more merciless than the terrorists. ...

Terrifyingly authentic London-set debut crime novel with a psychological edge by an ex-Met detective. Perfect for fans of Mark ...

Im sitting on my couch watching the local news. Theres Chloes parents the mayor the hangers on all grouped round the pond for the ceremony. Its ten years since Chloe & Carl drowned & theyve finally chosen a memorial
- a stupid summerhouse. The mayor has a spade decked out in pink & white ribbon & hes started to dig. You can tell from their faces that something has gone wrong. But Im the one who knows straightaway that the mayor has found a body. & I know who it is. This is the tale of three fourteen-year-old girls & a volatile combination of lies jealousy & perversion that ends in tragedy. Except the tragedy is even darker & more tangled than their tight-knit community has been persuaded to believe. Blackly funny & with a surreal edge to its portrait of a northern English town Jenn Ashworths gripping novel captures the intensity of girls friendships & the dangers they face in a predatory adult world they think they can handle. & it shows just how far that world is willing to let sentiment get in the way of the truth.
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