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When Frankie’s mother dies, he tells his teacher. But he can't seem to get anyone at his school in southern England to listen to him. So the six-year-old comes up with a plan: go to France, find a police station and ask the officers to ring his father. Thus a stowaway’s view of the sea opens Pauline Holdstock’s eighth novel, narrated in turns by Frankie - who likes cheese, numbers, the sea when it’s pink, and being alone when he feels bad - and a cast of characters that includes his worried Gran, his callous teacher and his not-so-reliable father.

Every year on the same day, on the anniversary, I receive a single black rose. Thirteen years of dark petals, jagged thorns, dredging up memories I’ve tried to forget. I’ve packed up my life. All my belongings are carefully sealed, my suitcases ready for my big move. I’m just days away from a new life abroad with my boyfriend, Ben. No one knows the real reason I’m desperate to leave. My best friend, Lena, is throwing me a leaving party. A celebration, to say goodbye. Champagne to toast my farewell. Speeches, full of fond memories. No one knows what I’m running from.

Some doors should not be opened. Some can never be closed. Jo Palmer’s peaceful and happy life is about to end. Ash - the man she loves - will be arrested by the police. Millie - her precious daughter - will be taken from her. She will lose her friends. She will doubt her sanity. Someone is stealing everything Jo loves, and will stop at nothing. But right now, Jo is laughing in her kitchen, eating dinner with her family, suspecting nothing. It’s raining outside. There’s a knock at the door. They are here.

Ein Ort, der nicht gefunden werden will. Eine österreichische Gräfin, die über die Erinnerungen einer ganzen Gemeinde regiert. Ein Loch im Erdreich, das die Bewohner in die Tiefe zu reißen droht. In ihrem schwindelerregenden Debütroman geht Raphaela Edelbauer der verdrängten Geschichte auf den Grund. Der Unfalltod ihrer Eltern stellt die Wiener Physikerin Ruth vor ein nahezu unlösbares Paradox. Ihre Eltern haben verfügt, im Ort ihrer Kindheit begraben zu werden, doch Groß-Einland verbirgt sich beharrlich vor den Blicken Fremder.

A medieval swindler gets caught with his proverbial pants down; a foolproof plan is put into place to pick up some cash via AI, until things take an unexpected and deadly turn; a legendary bodyguard is hired to protect precious cargo, but who will protect the cargo from him? The 14 brand-new stories deal with the complex idea of morality and will make listeners wonder what side is the right side.

Le couloir de la mort. Quand la létale devient un meurtre légal. C'est le torse gonflé à bloc et les épaules redressées par la fierté que j'y suis allé de mon plein gré. Un. Deux. Trois. Il fait noir, ça pue, ça gueule, le vacarme dans ma tête en est assourdissant. Quatre. Cinq. Six.

Jessica Westhead's Worry, pitched as a novel for listeners of Little Fires Everywhere and Truly Madly Guilty, is about an anxious, overprotective mother who brings her four-year-old daughter to the remote family cottage of the woman who has been her best friend - and her husband's best friend - for years, and where over 48 tension-filled hours, old and new resentments surface alongside a mother's constant worry for her child and the appearance of a mysterious neighbor.

When Father Henry McGrath hears a confession that sends a cold chill throughout his body, he’s unsure what to do. To divulge the private confession would violate holy canon law. When he refuses to go to the police, people begin to die, and the priest becomes the prime suspect. Elizabeth Monroe, a college professor who teaches forensic psychology, doesn’t believe the elder priest fits the killer’s profile. Elizabeth discovers a frightening thread woven within each killing - a thread that began 30 years ago.

On a stormy, windswept night, Guy Jerald tried to kill himself. But he did not die. Now, the 55-year-old Pennsylvania power broker and business titan - a living example of the American Dream - lies in a bed in a psychiatric hospital. He is on suicide watch, barely able to recognize his wife and two adult children. But a visitor from his distant past will open the floodgates. During one of the most harrowing battles of World War II, Guy saved the life of fellow soldier James Meyer. Now, James is a celebrated British psychiatrist determined to repay the favor.

A infelicidade é um destino ao qual se chega por inúmeros caminhos. O que leva uma mulher a colocar um detetive atrás do marido que sempre lhe foi fiel? Do que é capaz o ser humano ao ver sua grande paixão ir embora? Que tipo de laços afetivos une um tio bilionário a suas queridas sobrinhas? Que violência nós, brasileiros, aprendemos a tolerar?

John Docherty’s mother has just been taken into a nursing home following a massive stroke and she’s unlikely to be able to live independently again. With no other option than to sell the family home, John sets about packing up everything in the house. In sifting through the detritus of his family’s past he’s forced to revisit, and revise his childhood. For in a box, in the attic, he finds undeniable truth that he had a brother who disappeared when he himself was only a toddler.

Timely and suspenseful, Sealed is a gripping modern fable on motherhood. A terrifying portrait of ordinary people under threat from their own bodies and from the world around them. With elements of speculative fiction and the macabre, this is also an unforgettable story about a mother's fight to survive. Heavily pregnant Alice and her partner Pete are done with the city. Above all, Alice is haunted by the rumours of the skin sealing epidemic starting to infect the urban population.

The third gripping instalment in the DI Paolo Sterling crime series. Detective Inspector Paolo Sterling has just six weeks to solve a series of murders by insulin injection, with nothing to connect the victims except the manner of death and a note left at each crime scene. The murderer, determined to avenge a wrong from many years earlier, gets close to his prey by assuming various identities. Can Paolo win in his race against the pretender?

Detective Inspector Paolo Sterling has more headaches than usual. Someone is abducting men and subjecting them to horrific acts of rape and torture, but who? More to the point - why? After three days of cruelty and starvation, they are released. Why will none of them give any information which would help the police to find the perpetrator? The victims refuse even to admit they were held captive.

Merricat lebt am Rande eines Dorfes im Schloss der Familie Blackwood, nur in Gesellschaft ihrer Schwester Constance und dem wunderlichen Onkel Julian, der an den Rollstuhl gefesselt ist. Alle anderen Familienmitglieder wurden vergiftet. Merricat liebt die Ruhe im Schloss. Aber seit Constance vor Gericht freigesprochen wurde, den Rest der Familie ermordet zu haben, lässt die Welt den Blackwoods keinen Frieden mehr. Und als Cousin Charles auftaucht, voller falschem Getue und dem verzweifelten Bedürfnis, an den Inhalt des Familiensafes zu kommen, muss Merricat alles in ihrer Macht Stehende tun, um das Schloss und seine Bewohner vor Schaden zu schützen.

Petit, je n'avais qu'une seule ambition : intégrer le gang des Cobra. Leur sens de la loyauté me faisait rêver, leur sang-froid faisait palpiter mon cœur de gamin écorché... Puis, le fantasme d'ado rebel est devenu ma réalité. De petit merdeux des rues à guetteur insignifiant, je suis devenu le bras droit, l'homme de confiance, mais pas que... Je suis l'ami, le frère de cœur, le frère de gun, je suis celui qui tempère les autres malgré son impulsivité. Une peine bien trop lourde remettra tout en cause. De suiveur avéré, je deviendrai un meneur sans pitié.

A single phone call from halfway across the world is all it takes to bring her home. "Ellie, something bad has happened." Desperate to escape her 'kid from the scrapyard' reputation, Ellie Rook has forged a new life for herself abroad, but tragedy strikes when her mother, Imelda, falls from a notorious waterfall. Here, according to local legend, the warrior queen Finella jumped to her death after killing a king.

The first novel from the brilliant, protean Gary Indiana, Horse Crazy tells the story of a 35-year-old writer for a New York arts and culture magazine whose life melts into a fever dream when he falls in love with the handsome, charming, possibly heroin-addicted, and almost certainly insane Gregory Burgess. In the derelict brownstones of the Lower East Side in the late 80s, among the coked-out restauranteurs and art world impresarios of the supposed "downtown scene", the narrator wanders through the fog of passion. Meanwhile, the AIDS epidemic is spreading through the city....

The second gripping instalment in the DI Paolo Sterling crime series. Detective Inspector Paolo Sterling is determined to shut down the syndicate flooding Bradchester’s streets with young prostitutes. When a child is murdered, Paolo becomes aware of a sinister network of abusers spread across Europe and spanning all levels of society. But Joey, the shadowy leader of the gang, always seems to be one step ahead in the chase. Has Paolo come up against a criminal he cannot defeat?

A woman on the edge of the sea finds a girl on the edge of life. Brittle but not yet broken, Ia Pendilly ekes out a fierce life in a caravan on the coast of Cornwall. In years of living with Bran - her embattled, battering cousin and common law husband - she's never yet had her own baby. So when she discovers the waif washed up on the shore, Ia takes the risk and rescues her.