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. ...

On a steamy August evening after an exhausting day in court Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper is called to a crime scene. Alongside her colleagues NYPD detectives Mike Chapman & Mercer Wallace she views the body of a young woman pulled from the water with her hands & feet obscenely tied to a ladder. But who is she? Her elegant clothes & manicured nails suggest affluent connections but just how well-connected she is surprises even Alex. From luxurious Fifth Avenue apartments to the avant garde galleries of Chelsea Alex Mike & Mercer hunt for a killer in a world where priceless art meets big money in a lethal mix. ...

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
- Big Marge to her men
- cant go home where her husband is having to destroy his own animals because of the murder investigation.. .

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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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Its the night of the full Cold Moon
- the month of December according to the lunar calendar. A young man is found dead in lower
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A soldier wounded in the Civil War Inman turns his back on the carnage of the battlefield & begins the treacherous journey home to Cold Mountain & to Ada the woman he loved before the war began. As Inman attempts to make his way across the mountains through the devastated landscape of a soon-to-be-defeated South Ada struggles to make a living from the land her once-wealthy father left when he died. Neither knows if the other is still alive. ...