**THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER“Brilliant!” —Jeffery Deaver,** New York Times **bestselling author“Two well-chewed thumbs up.” —Gregg Hurwitz,** New York Times **bestselling authorAn addictive debut thriller starring an FBI consultant with a peculiar taste for crime and punishment…**A boy vanishes on his way home from school. His frantic mother receives a ransom call: pay or else. It’s only hours before the ...

“Heath’s boundless imagination and singular voice have produced a truly unique thriller.” —Jeffery Deaver, New York Times bestselling author, on HangmanThe shocking, fast-paced and queasily funny follow-up to Jack Heath’s international bestselling thriller, HangmanTimothy Blake, ex-consultant for the FBI, now works in body disposal for a local cri...

'Dark, twisty and brilliant! So fast paced and tense that I was barely able to take a breath!' Reader review, 5 starsOne tiny mistake can change everything.Elise knows better than anyone how quickly things can change. She used to be the great hope of her hometown. A promising young runner who'd make everyone proud at the national championships. But that was before she ruined everything . . .After what happe...

He tidied his hair, smoothed down his vest, and extended a hand. ‘Perhaps we can begin anew,’ he said. ‘Dr V. Frankenstein, at your service.’When an unsettling folk tale leads the Ninth Doctor and Rose to a remote village in Wales, they get more than they bargained for.A scientist has taken it upon himself to create new life – imitating Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, a book that has sent shock waves around the country.But, much like his fictional coun...

The murky shadows shifted again. Before Josh’s eyes, they solidified into something with arms and legs and a huge bulbous head ... Josh lives in Axe Falls—a town of mysterious disappearances, terrifying visions, and unusual events. When his family moves to a spooky, run-down old ruin, and he meets a strange neighbour telling him to GET OUT, Josh thinks his life is weird enough. But when his best friend’s science experiment goes horribly wrong, and he finds himself running for his life, Jos...

Salem News Editor, John Andrews is looking for a simpler way of life, leaving his television network career behind him. His work comes to a standstill when his wife is killed in their small New England town. He lives each day from one bottle to the next and his world is spinning out of control. His reality is questioned when he is visited by an apparition, an ancestor that leads him down a path that questions his life as he knows it. Is he losing his mind? Was his wife’s death an ...

Salem newspaper editor John Andrews thought his nightmares were behind him. After four long years, his wife’s murder is solved and put to rest. He is ready to move on with his life when his daughter is kidnapped by the Coven. They will stop at nothing to keep their secrets from being exposed. Andrews must continue his quest for the truth and expose the Coven’s centuries of evil practices. The bodies continue to pile up as good versus evil in Salem and throughout the international organizat...

He's not a double agent.Everyone just thinks he is.Agent Six of Hearts, a sixteen-year-old superhuman, is in serious trouble. The Deck -- the team of special agents who employ him -- thinks he's gone rogue. Kyntak, his twin brother, has been captured by an unknown enemy. And a very strange and lethal girl is shadowing Six's every move.Who can Six trust? The Queen of Spades is after him. The King of Hearts seems unable to help. And the rest of the Deck is being turned against him.There's on...

The beginning of a fantastic new action / adventure series from a twenty-year-old author who knows how to thrill - now in paperback! Meet a 16-year-old superhuman: Agent Six of Hearts. He's the strongest, most effective agent in the Deck, a team of special agents fighting to uphold justice in a completely corrupt world. Six would be invincible if not for a deadly secret. He is the product of an illegal experiment by the Lab - a ruthless division of the corporation that controls his world. ...

Timothy Blake returns in a tense, unputdownable thriller from the author of Hangman.A Chinese astronaut is found dead in a NASA training environment in Houston, Texas. No one can explain how he got there. Amid fears of a diplomatic catastrophe, the CIA dispatches Timothy 'Hangman' Blake to investigate a convicted kidnapper who works in the facility someone Blake put away seven years ago.Blake is deeply insane, afflicted by terrible urges he can bar...

From the beginnings of man, to the end of life, the Small Dragon has been a phenomenon that Blink’s into existence from time to time. Dare to Blink as the seemingly insignificant phrase, “Small Dragon” ties these series of short stories together, following the thoughts of a multitude of authors from different genres and two travelers in time and space. From the cold night and innocent thoughts of a young girl, to the debts owed of a King and what he would sacrifice to protect his kingdom. ...

Imagine an organization as a house, with its people flowing like water through a network of pipes and drains—the workflows and processes guiding this flow. Now, picture the chaos if all that water—representing all the work—were forced through a single, narrow pipe. Faucets run dry, sewage backs up, and clean and dirty water mix, contaminating the entire system. Agile transformations often stumble because they treat people like obstacles to be moved by force, rather than understanding that,...