"Cold-blooded killer" takes on new meaning when a small Southern community is rocked by a series of murders with deadly snakes as lethal weapons.Wilson Barnes is retreating from the mean streets of Miami to his rural hometown on the North Carolina coast, reporting to work as a detective for a former friend, now the local sheriff, and seeking a simpler existence. Turns out things aren't small-town quiet as Barnes and a reluctant partner find themselves immersed in a series of grisly...

A pledge made in college between two friends becomes a harsh reality three decades later when Henry calls unexpectedly upon Charlie to honor their pact to exit the planet on acceptable terms. The feisty Henry is determined to control his final days in order to maintain his dignity and minimize the impact on his wife, teenage son, ailing mother and friends. A veiled ulterior motive is to force Charlie to accept his own unavoidable fate and fully embrace the time he has left.When Hen...

** The #1 eBook bestseller! **‘Utterly compelling!’ Lisa Hall, bestselling author of Between You and Me‘A good, old-fashioned page-turner, with a poisonous sting in the tail.’ Daily MailShe thought they had a perfect marriage….When a plane crashes, Iris Griffiths watches the news unfold with horror…and then relief. Her beloved husband Will had just flown out from the same airport, but he was on a d...

The steamy conclusion to the New York Times bestselling New Adult novel DAMAGED by H.M. Ward.Home isn't supposed to be dangerous, but for Sidney it is. Returning home means that she has to face her past. It's not just the man who hurt Sidney that makes it horrible, but the family that didn't believe her. They were dead to her, but now that her mom is really dying things seem different. It's a chance to set things right.What Sidney doesn't realize i...

In New York Times bestselling author Linda Castillo’s new thriller Fallen, a rebellious Amish woman leaves the Plain life, but the secrets she takes with her will lead Chief of Police Kate Burkholder down a dark path to danger and death.When a young woman is found murdered in a Painters Mill motel, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is shocked to discover she once knew the victim. Rachael Schwartz was a charming but troubled Amish girl who left the f...

*****2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER******THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER***Winner of the 2021 Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction, Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize Finalist, 2022 Chautauqua Prize Finalist, Willie Morris Award for Southern Writing Shortlist, 2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize Shortlist, 2022 Maya Angelou Book Award Shortlist, 2022 Carnegie Medal Longlist**A Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!**An Ebony Magazine Publish...

It’s a hot, hot summer, and in the depths of the Toronto Transit Authority’s Lost and Found, 17-year-old Duncan is cataloging lost things and sifting through accumulated junk. And between Jacob, the cranky old man who runs the place, and the endless dusty boxes overflowing with stuff no one will ever claim, Duncan’s just about had enough. Then he finds a little leather book. It’s a diary filled with the dark and dirty secrets of a twisted mind, a serial killer stalking his prey in the subw...

The Psychological Thriller that everyone is going to be talking about – once you’ve read it, it will haunt you for weeks!Dylan goes to the same park every day. He starts to notice a young boy who comes down to the small boating lake and soon realises that all is not right with the child; he seems troubled and unhappy and when bruises start to appear on the boy’s arms, Dylan realises that he has to take action. As Dylan’s obsession with the boy takes hold, he embarks on dark, intens...

Meet the Curse Workers - the fan favourite urban fantasy trilogy by global phenomenon Holly Black - now reborn in these unmissable new editions with stunning reimagined covers and updated texts never before published in the UK!Cassel always thought he was an ordinary guy, until he realised his memories were being manipulated by his brothers. Now he knows the truth - he's the most powerful curse worker around. A touch of his hand can transform anything - or anyone -...

Now a major motion picture, directed by Lucky McKee and written by Jack Ketchum and Lucky McKee. A selection of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.The Woman is the powerful story of the last survivor of a feral tribe of cannibals who have terrorized the east coast from Maine into Canada for years now. Badly wounded in a battle with police, she takes refuge in a cave overlooking the sea. Christopher Cleek is a slick, amoral -- and unstable -- country lawyer who, out hunting one day, se...

Her gifts will be her salvation… or her downfall.No one gave Aviva a choice about becoming a monster. Since the night of her murder she's been forced to accept a new reality—burned by sunlight, dependent on the blood of the living, searching for her place in a dark world she didn't believe existed until she awoke as a vampire.She's still struggling to accept her fate and master her dark powers when the news arrives: rogue vampires are torturing and killing human re...

The unputdownable thriller from the bestselling author of Black-Eyed Susans.'Gripping' The Times____________Long ago, Carl Feldman was acquitted of murder.Now he's an old man, living alone with his fading memories.His daughter has come to see him, to take him on a trip.Only she's not his daughter, and if she has her way, he's not coming back . . .This woman is sure Carl's a murderer, ...