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Between the Lines: A gripping and twisting psychological thriller
By S. J. Butler. 2020
'An excellent debut novel, I couldn't put this down! A definite must read' 5* reader reviewThe closer you are, the…
less you see . . .When Kev's girlfriend is killed in a hit-and-run, he thinks he's suffered the worst.Haunted by his past, Kev attempts to put his life back together, throwing himself into his new relationship with Stella and his job as a literary agent.Then a book lands on his desk that changes everything. And he quickly realises his nightmare has only just begun.Between the Lines is a darkly gripping psychological thriller, perfect for fans of Teresa Driscoll, K.L Slater and Shalini Bolland.Readers LOVE S. J. Butler's BETWEEN THE LINES:'This story gets hold of you and makes you shudder. Five stars' 5* reader review'An extraordinarily fantastic literary thriller. A huge five star read for me' 5* reader review'Plenty of twists to keep you guessing! Just brilliant' 5* reader review'Gritty, well written, a real page turner' 5* reader review'Makes the reader think more deeply about the themes of identity, loss, perception and self-perception. Highly recommended' 5* reader review'Gem of a debut' 5* reader review'Great twists and turns . . . Can't wait to read more of S. J Butlers books!!' 5* reader reviewPainted in Blood
By Ilaria Tuti. 2020
'The Sleeping Nymph': a work of art of magnetic beauty, painted by a young partisan fighter during the last days…
of the Second World War. A painting carrying a shocking secret hidden in the red pigment on the canvas, made with the blood of a human heart. But whose heart? There is no body, no confession. Only that faint trace of blood. And that's what leads commissioner Teresa Battaglia - herself hiding an unspeakable truth - to the Resia Valley, in the north eastern part of Italy: a perfect genetic enclave protected for centuries from the outside world. The valley and the portrait are the only clues for a murder that occurred more than 70 years before. A red thread leading to the shadow of someone hell-bent on protecting a sacred secret.Paper Dolls: A gripping new psychological thriller with killer twists (Planet Omar Ser.)
By Lisa Bradley. 2020
'Prepare for your heart rate to rise reading this edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller!' The Sun'If you're looking for a page-turner, this…
is it!' Hello!'The perfect choice for fans of C.L. Taylor and Louise Candlish' Woman's Weekly'A superbly pacy thriller that will keep you looking over your shoulder' Sunday MirrorYOU HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN.THEY HAVEN'T FORGIVEN. Leah Wallace has just achieved her dream of becoming editor at a regional paper. On her first day a 15-year-old girl, Hope Hooper-Smith, is reported missing. The police fear that she has been abducted. Hours later, another teenage girl goes missing. But this girl, Tilly Bowers, is from a troubled background and is a habitual runaway. Leah decides to run the Hope's abduction on the front page, while Tilly only gets a small mention on page eighteen. The next day, Hope is found unharmed at a train station. But Tilly is never seen or heard from again.Sixteen years later, a TV documentary questions Leah's decision not to give Tilly's case immediate coverage, implying that she could have cost Tilly her life, and Leah starts receiving death threats online. Then mysterious paper dolls begin appearing, cut from the newspapers Leah used to edit, and she suspects that an intruder has been in the house. Leah becomes convinced that someone wants to punish her for the part she played in Tilly's disappearance. But just how far will they go to make her pay? A gripping and chilling psychological thriller, perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell and C.L. Taylor.Now That She's Gone (A waterman And Stark Thriller Ser. #4)
By Gregg Olsen. 2015
'Olsen will have you on the edge of your seat' Lee ChildNotorious serial killer Brenda Nevins has cajoled, seduced, blackmailed,…
and left a trail of bodies all across Washington State. Now, after a daring prison escape, she is free to carry out her ultimate act of revenge. The targets: forensic pathologist Birdy Waterman and sheriff's detective Kendall Stark. The pawn: a television psychic hungry for fame, ratings, and blood. There's only one way to stop a killer as brutal, brilliant, and twisted as this: beat her at her own game . . . Praise for Gregg Olsen'Wickedly clever... twisted' Lisa Gardner'Dark and addictive' Jordan Dane'Searing and brilliant' Ann Rule 'Olsen is a top notch writer' Michael Connelly 'Olsen brings complex mystery and crackling authenticity to bear on a cold case police procedural . . . his bizarre, many-layered mystery will keep fans of crime fiction hooked' Publishers WeeklyThe Girl Who...
By Andreina Cordani. 2021
The girl who... survivedThe girl who... inspiresThe girl who... has something to hidePeople can't bring themselves to say what happened…
to her. They just describe her as 'the girl who... you know...'. But nobody really knows, no one sees the real Leah.Leah is the perfect survivor. She was seven years old when she saw her mother and sister killed by a troubled gang member. Her case hit the headlines and her bravery made her a national sweetheart: strong, courageous and forgiving.But Leah is hiding a secret about their deaths. And now, ten years later, all she can think of is revenge. When Leah's dad meets a new partner, stepsister Ellie moves in. Sensing Leah isn't quite the sweet girl she pretends to be, Ellie discovers that Leah has a plan, one she has been putting together ever since that fateful day. Now that the killer - and the only one who knows the truth - is being released from prison, time is running out for Ellie to discover how far Leah will go to silence her anger . . .Powder Smoke (Jim Stringer #10)
By Andrew Martin. 2021
York railway station, December, 1925. Detective Inspector Jim Stringer is enjoying a pint in the Parlour Bar before accompanying his…
wife, Lydia, to a charitable function. But when the couple meet at their regular spot near the footbridge, Jim is alarmed to see a man pointing a revolver in his direction.His thoughts go spinning back to a hot day at the end of August, when he attended the York Summer Gala in company with his boss, Superintendent Saul Weatherill, aka 'the Chief'. The Chief, a lover of guns, had insisted on taking Jim into a Wild West sideshow. The star of the show was a moody young sharpshooter called Kid Durrant, who spoke like someone who'd come from Arizona via Sheffield (or vice versa).As Jim watched Durrant displaying his deadeye skills, he little realised how this would be the start of his most dangerous investigation yet.POWDER SMOKE heralds the return of Andrew Martin's much-loved railway policeman, Jim Stringer.Murder in the Supreme Court (Capital Crimes #3)
By Margaret Truman. 1982
The clerk to the chief justice of the supreme court is discovered, shot in the head in the courtroom. The…
FBI, The Washington police and the Justice Department investigate. For two of the three, finding the murderer is not their top priority leaving more work for Lieutenant Martin Teller and Susanna Pinscher. The victim, young, handsome, and ambitious, the son of a prominent Washington D. C. psychiatrist, had many enemies including the nine justices, and the women he seduced and discarded and the men who loved them. Heroes, the military, even the President of the United states come under suspicion. Susan and Martin are asking questions from coast to coast about what goes on in bedrooms, offices, the White House and the Supreme Court. The outcome could affect the laws and leadership of the land. Look for other mysteries by Margaret Truman in the Bookshare collection.Doll Painted in Black: Broken Woman Saved by True Love.
By Laura Lago. 2021
Ada is the antithesis of a happy woman. At 27, she is a misanthropic martyr who hates everything around her.…
She hates her job, she hates her boss, she hates her neighbors, her town, and everyone. Her friends consider her a chain smoker, a night drinker, and an aggressive-depressive public danger. However, Iris carries a burden that no one should have to bear. Her mother died of cancer. Her father, a gambling addict, was murdered by the Russian mafia. Her fiancé, a police inspector, killed by the same bastards. Upon learning of the loss of her future husband, she went into premature labor and lost her daughter. Now all she has left are black tattoos, remembering all those she has lost. That, and her new dojo, where she teaches martial arts, Aikido and Kung-Fu. A dojo that, early in the morning, is infested by Russian mafia thugs, claiming that the neighborhood is theirs and requires... taxes for protection. Protection that, of course, Gaia rejects with blows. In pain, very angry, and drunk, the last thing she expects in the wee hours of the morning at the door of her dojo, besides the chirping of crickets, is Kyle Nakamura, her teacher's son, present in town at the recent murder of his father. The last thing Ada expected is that Kyle, that stranger at her door, would become her main reason to breathe. Warning: A crime novel with explicit erotica, romance, passion and action, loaded with drama, adult language, explicit violence and a love so deep it can heal any wound.The quest for K (Mike Yeadings #4)
By Clare Curzon. 1986
Paula Musto had long promised herself a special holiday on Crete. Sharing her dead father's fascination with the Minoan past,…
she was forced back into the present by her package holiday companions, some of whom proved to be more than they at first seemed. And one at least was deadly. Unaware of their designs, she became dangerously enmeshed, and when their party returned to Heathrow Paula was not in it.The Oxford book of English detective stories
By Patricia Craig. 1992
The Oxford Book of English Detective Stories gathers thirty-three engrossing tales of crime, ranging from the birth of the genre…
to the present day. All the giants of English mystery are here - Sherlock Holmes, indefatigably tracking the details of the theft of Colonel Ross's prize horse, Silver Blaze, and the murder of its trainer. In "The Oracle of the Dog," G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown sits calmly in his study, solving at a distance the perplexing murder of Colonel Druce: was it the foreign Dr. Valentine, the foppish lawyer Traill, or Floyd, the exuberant American secretary? P.D. James sends Chief Superintendent Dalgliesh on the trail of a mysterious death from some seventy years before--a case with a final, darkly ironic twist. And Robert Barnard grimly lampoons English academe in "The Oxford Way of Death."A World of Deceit (The Joe Burgess Mystery Series #7)
By Kate Flora. 2021
A Geologist Lies Comatose in a Portland, Maine Hospital in A World of Deceit, a Detective Joe Burgess Thriller by…
Kate Flora--Portland, Maine--Unable to awaken her father--eminent geologist, Ted Gabbro--nine-year-old Arielle approaches the vacationing Joe Burgess, desperate for his help.Loathe to let anything interfere with his much needed rest on the mountains of western Maine, Joe can't ignore the girl's plea for help and can't deny that something is very wrong.As the frightened girl's father languishes in a coma and her mother can’t be found, Burgess finds himself in a tangle of land disputes, family politics, the child’s parents’ nasty divorce, and the powerful greed that accompanies "gold fever".Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Crime Fiction"Flora pours on the intensity in this criminal, legal and moral maze." ~Kirkus Reviews"Flora writes cops so convincingly it's hard to imagine she's never worn the badge herself." ~Bruce Robert Coffin, author of Among the ShadowsTHE JOE BURGESS MYSTERIESPlaying GodThe Angel of Knowlton ParkRedemptionAnd Grant You PeaceLed AstrayA Child Shall Lead ThemA World of DeceitSix Feet Below Zero
By Ena Jones. 2021
A dead body. A missing will. An evil relative. The good news is, Great Grammy has a plan. The bad…
news is, she's the dead body.Rosie and Baker are hiding something. Something big. Their great grandmother made them promise to pretend she's alive until they find her missing will and get it in the right hands. The will protects the family house from their grandmother, Grim Hesper, who would sell it and ship Rosie and Baker off to separate boarding schools. They've already lost their parents and Great Grammy--they can't lose each other, too. The siblings kick it into high gear to locate the will, keep their neighbors from prying, and safeguard the house. Rosie has no time to cope with her grief as disasters pop up around every carefully planned corner. She can't even bring herself to read her last-ever letter from Great Grammy. But the lies get bigger and bigger as Rosie and Baker try to convince everyone that their great grandmother is still around, and they'll need more than a six-month supply of frozen noodle casserole and mountains of toilet paper once their wicked grandmother shows up! This unexpectedly touching read reminds us that families are weird and wonderful, even when they're missing their best parts. With humor, suspense, and a testament to loyalty, Ena Jones takes two brave kids on an unforgettable journey. Includes four recipes for Great Grammy's survival treats.Cat in the Limelight (The 9 Lives Cozy Mystery Series #6)
By Louise Clark. 2021
Former Movie Producer Murdered at Charity Gala in Cat in the Limelight, a 9 Lives Cozy Mystery from Louise Clark--Vancouver,…
British Colombia, Canada—Christy Jameison's reputation is at stake when the Dean of a local college is murdered at a fundraising gala she is attending, along with the wealthiest and most influential people from the community.The press has a field day when it's discovered the Dean was formerly a renowend television and movie producer. As reporters speculate over who and why the Dean was killed, they delve into past histories—including Christy's.With her reputation on the line, the investigation becomes personal as Christy investigates the Dean's past and discovers more questions and an even longer list of suspects. While Christy is willing to do whatever it takes to solve the crime, it's the cat in the limelight who possesses the clue.Publisher Note: The 9 Lives Cozy Mysteries, while containing some very mild profanity, will be enjoyed by readers of clean and wholesome cozy mysteries. Cat lovers and those fond of all things feline, as well as readers of Amanda Lee, Denise Grover Swank, Rita Mae Brown's Sneaky Pie Brown Mysteries, and Shirley Rousseau Murphy's Joe Grey Mysteries will not want to miss this series.The 9 Lives Cozy MysteriesThe Cat Came BackThe Cat's PawCat Got Your TongueLet Sleeping Cats LieCat Among the FishesCat in the LimelightFleece the CatAbout The Author: Louise Clark has been the adopted mom of several cats with big personalities. The feline who inspired Stormy, the cat in the 9 Lives books, dominated her household for twenty loving years. During that time, he created a family pecking order that left Louise on top and her youngest child on the bottom (just below the guinea pig), regularly tried to eat all his sister’s food (he was a very large cat), and learned the joys of travel through a cross-continent road trip.The 9 Lives Cozy Mystery Series—as well as the single title mystery, A Recipe For Trouble, are all set in her hometown of Vancouver, British Columbia.No Sleep Till Wonderland: A Novel (Mark Genevich series #2)
By Paul Tremblay. 2010
Narcoleptic Southie PI Mark Genevich returns in this sequel to The Little Sleep from the Bram Stoker Award–winning author of…
Survivor Song and The Cabin at the End of the World.Like most private eyes, Mark Genevich is something of a lone wolf. So group therapy isn’t a great fit. But his landlord/mother is convinced it will help his narcolepsy—ignoring the fact that his disorder is a physical condition. Truth is, he has the time. It’s been a year and a half since his last big case, or any case.It’s never a wise choice to go on a two-day bender with someone you meet in group therapy, but there’s something about Gus that intrigues Genevich. And when his new drinking buddy asks him to protect a female friend who’s being stalked, the PI finally has a case. Unfortunately, he’s about to sleepwalk right into a very real nightmare. Before long he’s a suspect in an arson investigation and running afoul of everyone from the cops to a litigious lawyer and a bouncer with anger management issues. Genevich must keep his wits about him—always a challenge for a detective prone to unexpected blackouts and hallucinations—to solve the crime and live to show up at his next therapy session.In Paul Tremblay’s follow-up to The Little Sleep, unreliable narrator Mark Genevich once again leads readers on a surreal and suspenseful wild ride through the mean streets of South Boston and his own dreamlike reality.Death Washes Ashore (A Dave Cubiak Door County Mystery)
By Patricia Skalka. 2021
In the wake of a brutal storm that lashed the Door County peninsula, Sheriff Dave Cubiak assesses the damage: broken…
windows, downed trees, and piles of mysterious debris along the shoreline. He leaves the comfort of his home and heads out into the aftermath, checking in with folks along the way to offer help. His assistant, marooned at the justice center overnight, calls with an ominous message about a body discovered on the beach. When the medical examiner discovers the man didn’t simply drown during the storm, Cubiak searches for answers. Chasing leads, the sheriff learns the victim directed a troupe of live-action role players living in an ersatz Camelot. In a setting where pretense in the norm, Cubiak must determine if suspects are who they say they are or if their made-up identities conceal a ruthless killer. As tensions escalate among neighbors unhappy about the noise and commotion, the sheriff discovers that more than one person on the peninsula has a motive for murder.When a Stranger Comes to Town
By Michael Koryta. 2021
&“Exceptional… This is the best kind of anthology, consistently excellent and inventive.&” -Publishers Weekly, starred reviewThe latest Mystery Writers of…
America story collection, featuring surprising, page-turning twists on the genre from some of the top bestsellers and award winners in crime fictionIt&’s been said that all great literature boils down to one of two stories—a man takes a journey, or a stranger comes to town. While mystery writers have been successfully using both approaches for generations, there&’s something undeniably alluring in the nature of a stranger: the uninvited guest, the unacquainted neighbor, the fish out of water.No matter how or where they appear, strangers are walking mysteries, complete unknowns in once-familiar territories who disrupt our lives with unease and wonder. In the newest collection of stories by the Mystery Writers of America, each author weaves a fresh tale surrounding the eerie feeling that comes when a stranger enters our midst, featuring stories by prolific mystery writers such as Michael Connelly, Dean Koontz and Joe Hill.A Gambling Man (An Archer Novel)
By David Baldacci. 2021
Aloysius Archer, the straight-talking World War II veteran fresh out of prison, returns in this riveting new thriller from #1…
New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci. The 1950s are on the horizon, and Archer is in dire need of a fresh start after a nearly fatal detour in Poca City. So Archer hops on a bus and begins the long journey out west to California, where rumor has it there is money to be made if you’re hard-working, lucky, criminal—or all three. Along the way, Archer stops in Reno, where a stroke of fortune delivers him a wad of cash and an eye-popping blood-red 1939 Delahaye convertible—plus a companion for the final leg of the journey, an aspiring actress named Liberty Callahan who is planning to try her luck in Hollywood. But when the two arrive in Bay Town, California, Archer quickly discovers that the hordes of people who flocked there seeking fame and fortune landed in a false paradise that instead caters to their worst addictions and fears. Archer’s first stop is a P.I. office where he is hoping to apprentice with a legendary private eye and former FBI agent named Willie Dash. He lands the job, and immediately finds himself in the thick of a potential scandal: a blackmail case involving a wealthy well-connected politician running for mayor that soon spins into something even more sinister. As bodies begin falling, Archer and Dash must infiltrate the world of brothels, gambling dens, drug operations, and long-hidden secrets, descending into the rotten bones of a corrupt town that is selling itself as the promised land—but might actually be the road to perdition, and Archer’s final resting place. A New York Times Best SellerThe Cutie-Pie Murders (BJ Vinson Mysteries #7)
By Don Travis. 2021
A BJ Vinson MysteryWhen BJ Vinson agrees to investigate the murder of young Mateo Zapata, he knows it will be…
a tough case. Not only is the victim’s uncle Zancon the mob underboss BJ took down six years earlier, but Matt seems to be the third victim of a depraved serial killer who debauches his victims before strangling them. BJ and his team—including his lover, journalist Paul Barton—start down a long and tangled road while the killer strikes again and again with seeming impunity. His sterile semen offers no DNA for identification, nor is it clear how he finds his victims. Park House, a new near-downtown apartment high-rise, could be the key to the mystery, but BJ can’t find the lock it fits. However, his search stirs up old resentments and new dangers. At any moment Zancon, impatiently waiting in the New Mexico State Penitentiary to exact his revenge, could decide to take matters into his own hands. And poking around in the case has excited the killer’s lust for Paul, whose eagerness to help stop the killings puts him in the path of certain death—unless BJ can reach him in time….A Man Named Doll (The Doll Series #1)
By Jonathan Ames. 2021
From the creator of HBO's Bored to Death, a deliciously noir novel about idiosyncratic private detective Happy Doll and his quest…
to help a dying friend in a sun-blinded Los Angeles as "quirky, edgy, charming, funny and serious" as its protagonist (Lee Child)Happy Doll is a charming, if occasionally inexpert, private detective living just one sheer cliff drop beneath the Hollywood sign with his beloved half-Chihuahua half-Terrier, George. A veteran of both the Navy and LAPD, Doll supplements his meager income as a P.I. by working through the night at a local Thai spa that offers its clients a number of special services. Armed with his sixteen-inch steel telescopic baton, biting dry humor, and just a bit of a hero complex, the ex-cop sets out to protect the women who work there from clients who have trouble understanding the word "no." Doll gets by just fine following his two basic rules: bark loudly and act first. But when things get out-of-hand with one particularly violent patron, even he finds himself wildly out of his depth, and then things take an even more dangerous twist when an old friend from his days as a cop shows up at his door with a bullet in his gut. A Man Named Doll is more than just a fascinating introduction to one truly singular character, it is a highly addictive and completely unpredictable joyride through the sensuous and violent streets of LA.The Secret Lives of Dentists
By W. A. Winter. 2021
In 1955, small-town girls flock to Minneapolis for work, love, and adventure. But Teresa Hickman, from Dollar, North Dakota, is…
a special case. Beguiling. Promiscuous. And, on a chilly April morning, dead along an abandoned trolley track in a Southside neighborhood. Teresa Hickman was three months pregnant when she was strangled. Was the unborn child&’s father also her killer? Could the killer have been––among the many men drawn to her like flies to honey––Dr. H. David Rose, a middle-aged dentist who admits he was with her the night she died? There&’s no forensic evidence or credible witnesses tying him to the murder. Yet the police, including a pair of obsessive investigators with lethal secrets of their own, agree that a Jewish dentist will get them a conviction. Dr. Rose&’s spectacular trial and its shocking aftermath will mesmerize the Upper Midwest like few crime sagas before or since.