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The first in a BRAND NEW action thriller series from the Wilbur Smith Prize-Shortlisted author Alex Shaw.Perfect for fans of Tom Wood, Vince Flynn and Mark Greaney, this is an explosive action thriller you won’t be able to put down ‘Another excellent stripped-back, razor-edge thriller from Alex Shaw’ - New York Times bestselling author James SwallowKilling for a living is easy, living for a reason is much harder...

A sacred journey. A twisted killer. A bounty hunter caught in the crosshairs of faith.Nick Hunter’s latest mission in Spain takes a sinister turn when he discovers his target is a deranged serial killer stalking the sacred Camino pilgrimage route. The murderer, driven by a warped religious fervor, brutally slaughters “sinners” in a ritualistic fashion.Joining forces with an unlikely alliance of the police and the Church, Nick must navigate a labyrinth of clues and his own c...

A new emperor. A treacherous plot. A team of outcasts with nothing to lose.AD 117. Emperor Trajan is dead. Hadrian is his heir. But his plans to abandon Trajan’s territory gains is resented by the Senate. A deadly conspiracy of senators is formed to prevent him becoming emperor.The official bodyguards cannot be trusted and enemies are hidden in plain sight. Enter Hadrian’s Jackals - expendable, deniable spies secretly assembled by Empress P...

A witness on the run. A killer untouchable by law. A hitman with nothing to lose.Nick Hunter’s best friend is in trouble. His partner has vanished after witnessing the savage murder of a pregnant sex worker by a U.S. serviceman cloaked in diplomatic immunity.But Nick doesn’t care about immunity. His investigation unearths a transatlantic human trafficking ring, enforced by ruthless violence—and protected by powerful players.When allies turn against him and the woman...

Before Shetland and Vera, Ann Cleeves wrote the Inspector Ramsay series featuring a talented, brilliant detective—now available for the first time in the US."Narrator Simon Mattacks is terrific at setting the local Northumberland scene. He's also adept with subtle voice adjustments as the perspective changes between characters." — KirkusWho hung the headmaster in the playground on the night of the school Halloween Party?Alm...

Discover the next instalment in the unputdownable series from bestselling author Tom Bale'Very clever and very nasty. Tom Bale is back. With a vengeance.' Bestselling author Luke JenningsWe all bear the wounds of our past…Joe Clayton, now Cooper, lives a quiet, solitary life as a groundsman on a grand Sussex estate. Still hiding his secret former life as an undercover cop; still hunted by a ruthless crime family who have put a price on his head....

Discover the first in this breathtaking, unputdownable series from bestselling author Tom Bale. If you're a fan of Reacher - you will LOVE Clayton! ‘A gripping, expertly crafted page-turner’ - Bestselling author Rob SinclairSuddenly Joe was back in the job and doing what he did best… becoming someone else. Mixing with the bad guys in order to bring them down.Three years ago, after an undercover police operation went disastrously wrong, CID officer Joe...

On the eve of Elaine Southey's 21st birthday, Ivan Sweet has been found dead in his flat in the basement of the Southeys' historic north London home. A slick charmer to some of the tenants and a loathsome young scoundrel to others, his death doesn't draw out many tears among the house's residents and neighbours. And yet the sordid truth starts to seep into the heart of their small community. A murderer is living among them, and who's to say when they might strike again? The shrewd Oxford m...

To destroy monsters, he must walk among them – and survive.Nick Hunter, a hitman with a conscience, finds himself entangled in a web of gang violence and undercover danger when he takes on a woman’s plea for help. To save her from her abusive husband, a ruthless drug gang enforcer, Nick must infiltrate the criminal underworld.Caught in a vicious turf war and with the law closing in, Nick has to risk everything to survive and protect the innocent.A Dance with Death, ...

Rachel Somers, running... Something appalling happened in the wood. When Gabriel Ash and his dog come to her aid, she thinks she's safe. But this is Norbold, where things aren't always as they seem. Detective Chief Inspector Gorman thinks this is his worst nightmare: a predatory paedophile who's prepared to kill rather than be taken. Constable Hazel Best thinks she's helping both the Somers family and her friend Ash, but her tendency to follow her heart rather than her orders is about to g...

Before Shetland and Vera, Ann Cleeves wrote the Inspector Ramsay series featuring a talented, brilliant detective—now available for the first time in the US.No one in Heppleburn has a bad word to say about Alice Parry . . . but here she is, murdered in her own backyard on a bitter St. David’s Eve.When detective Stephen Ramsay starts asking questions in the village, a more ambiguous picture begins to emerge. Yes, old Mrs. Parry was loved by everyone, but som...

Before Shetland and Vera, Ann Cleeves wrote the Inspector Ramsay series featuring a talented, brilliant detective—now available for the first time in the US.Marilyn Howe and her mother Kathleen are an inseparable duo, until one night Kathleen doesn’t come home . . .Fifteen-year-old Marilyn turns up alone and frightened on Inspector Ramsay’s doorstep so he takes the young girl home to the isolated coastal community known as the Headland. And in the Howes’ da...