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It started the night journalist Briar Thorne’s mother died in their rambling old mansion on Chicago’s South Side. The nightmares of a woman in white pleading to come home, music switched on in locked rooms, and the panicked fear of being swallowed by the dark…Bri has almost convinced herself that these stirrings of dread are simply manifestations of grief and not the beyond-world of ghostly impossibilities her mother believed in. And more tangible terrors still lurk outside the decaying Victorian greystone.

Margot and Myron Spielman move to a new town, looking for an escape from the long shadow of their past. But soon after they buy Rawlingswood, a foreclosed mansion rumored to be haunted, they realize they’re in for more of the same…or worse. After a renovation fraught with injuries and setbacks, the Spielmans move in to the century-old house, and their problems quickly escalate. The home’s beautiful facade begins to crumble around them when their teenage son uncovers disturbing details of Rawlingswood’s history - a history of murder, betrayal, and financial ruin.

DS Caitlin Fitzgerald has a secret—but it's one she's deleted from her memory. In the 1990s when she was at school, she and her friends killed a fellow pupil. Thirty years later, Caitlin is happily married and loves her job as a police officer. One day, her husband persuades her to go to a school reunion and another ex-pupil, Garfield Rice, is found dead, supposedly from a drug overdose. As Garfield was an eminent Labour MP and the investigation is high profile, it's headed by Caitlin's new boss, DI Harbinder Kaur.

When British twenty-somethings Ruth and Adam are offered the chance to spend the summer housesitting in New York, they can’t say no. Young, in love and on the cusp of professional success, they feel as if luck is finally on their side. So the moment that Eden turns up on the doorstep, drenched from a summer storm, it seems only right to share a bit of that good fortune. Beautiful and charismatic, Eden claims to be a friend of the homeowners, who told her she could stay whenever she was in New York. They know you’re not supposed to talk to strangers....

When she was 16 years old, Angela Wong, one of the most popular girls in school, disappeared without a trace. Nobody ever suspected that her best friend, Georgina Shaw, now an executive and rising star at her Seattle pharmaceutical company, was involved in any way. Certainly not Kaiser Brody, who was close with both girls back in high school.

A classic of alienation and horror, The Birds was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. The five other chilling stories in this collection echo a sense of dislocation and mock man's sense of dominance over the natural world.

When an 11-year-old boy is found murdered, forensic evidence and reliable eyewitnesses undeniably point to the town's popular Little League coach. But the jailed suspect, arrested in a public spectacle, has an alibi, and further research convinces Detective Ralph Anderson that the coach was indeed out of town. So how can he have been in two places at the same time?

When Claire surprises her fiancé, Noah, at work for their anniversary, she’s the one who ends up being shocked to her core … Because Noah left the company nine months ago, and she had no idea. How can she not have known? Now he isn’t answering her calls. He won’t respond to her messages. He’s disappeared. As Claire desperately tries to find her fiancé, her world begins to shatter as the truth about who Noah really is starts to emerge.

When Isla reluctantly accepts her estranged sister Clara's invitation to spend Christmas at a luxury mountain retreat, she expects awkward family tension – not a fight for survival. After years of silence following their mother's death, this holiday reunion seems too good to be true. And it is.

After her husband Nick’s tragic death, Ally is barely keeping it together. The once-glamorous architect drowned just steps from their quiet riverfront home and now Ally spends her sleepless nights haunted by grief, guilt, and questions she can’t answer. Her teenage daughter Paige is slipping away, and the house that once held their happy family now feels like a tomb—until Marcy shows up.

In the shadow of FrostBite Foods, flavor is power — and submission is only a bite away. Dr. Alessia Lombardi, a disgraced food chemist, uncovers the ultimate betrayal: Giovanni Vitale’s frozen pizza empire is built on human-derived umami and addictive compounds. Her father’s death. Her destroyed reputation. All roads lead back to Giovanni — the Ice King who worships flavor like a dark god. Obsessed, Alessia infiltrates his empire to destroy it from within. But seduction seeps deeper than any sauce.

Detective Riley Quinn has spent much of her life ridding the world of evil. After being found unconscious by firefighters, she finds herself in a new battle—her home set ablaze. Soon, flashes of her memory return, placing a shadowy figure at the center of that tragic night, revealing a truth more sinister than anyone could imagine.

Mary Liddell, Tochter der Oppositionsführerin, wird entführt. Keine Spur, keine Forderung – die Polizei steht vor einem Rätsel. In ihrer Verzweiflung greift die Regierung zu fragwürdigen Mitteln: Ein Medium soll helfen. Währenddessen stößt Kommissarin Olivia Jenner auf eine bewusstlose Frau mit Amnesie – und Neuropsychologin Susanna Madueke erkennt schnell: Diese Unbekannte ist der Schlüssel zum Fall. Doch je näher die beiden Frauen der Wahrheit kommen, desto tiefer geraten sie in ein Netz aus Intrigen, Geheimdiensten und politischem Verrat. Wem kann man noch trauen, wenn es um alles geht?

Gerade als der Polizist Ben Funke sein Leben wieder in den Griff bekommt, geschieht die Katastrophe: Als er am Morgen neben seiner Freundin aufwacht, ist diese tot – erschossen mit seiner eigenen Dienstwaffe. Noch dazu kann sich Funke an die letzten Stunden nicht mehr erinnern, doch eines weiß er sicher: Er hat sie nicht getötet! Entschlossen den Mörder zu finden, begibt er sich auf die Suche, muss dabei allerdings auf seine Partnerin Helen Stein verzichten, die mit der Jagd eines Serientäters beschäftigt ist, auf dessen Konto sechs im Westerwald spurlos verschwundene junge Frauen gehen.

When 23-year-old Hope Jenkins applied for an apprenticeship with the award-winning and influential writer Mr. Rosie Glencourt, she never thought she’d actually get it. Eager and bright-eyed, Hope arrives at Shadowlands, Rosie’s eerie, otherworldly mansion, ready for the summer that will change her life. And it does—just not in the way she wanted.

Emily is unmoored as a new mother in Manhattan—exhausted, broke, and slipping away from her well-meaning husband. She becomes fixated on finding the one person who ever truly understood her: her college roommate Daisy who vanished years ago after dancing at a seedy strip club off campus. In her desperate search for Daisy, Emily tumbles from new-mom message boards into a world of porn, secrets, and a high-end escort service for global billionaires, hitting one dead end after another—until the unthinkable happens: Daisy suddenly reappears.

Tippi is ready for a fresh start. After breaking off her engagement to an increasingly demanding, controlling, and emotionally unstable man, she is newly inspired to do whatever it takes to put herself first. Plus, her thirty-fifth birthday is coming up: a perfect occasion to ring in this new era. Tippi’s friends see the opportunity, too, and lean into her love of horror films by throwing her a lavish theme party at a secluded mansion, where everyone dresses as characters from iconic scary movies.

The stakes are higher than ever in this three-book psychological thriller collection, including The Winter Storm, The Cold Night and Avalanche. Those new to Jacklyn’s story can pick up this collection and feel the thrill of her courageous journey without missing a beat.

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The Musician They were the perfect couple—or so she thought. Harper had it all: a husband who adored her, a beautiful daughter named Peyton, and a life filled with Sunday mornings at church and cozy family dinners. Dorian, her high school sweetheart, had turned his musical dreams into a thriving recording studio. Harper gave up her nursing career to raise their child and support him. Love was supposed to be enough. But love turned into something unrecognizable. Dorian changed—first slowly, then violently. The late nights, the distant eyes, the explosive temper.