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  • What the Shadows Hide

    by M J Lee ...
    Book 9 - DI Ridpath Crime Thriller
    To love and to cherish, till death did them part...'A brilliant thriller' The SunTwo desiccated bodies are found in each other's arms in the bricked up room of a derelict Victorian warehouse. After six months of work, the police have nothing and Ridpath is finally called in to investigate. Dubbed the Romeo and Juliet murders by the press, so many questions remain unanswered.Who are they? Why were ... Read more

    $2.62 USD

  • Agent in the Shadows

    by Alex Gerlis ...
    Book 3 - The Wolf Pack Spies
    There’s a traitor in the pack… Who can you trust? The extraordinary final instalment of the Wolf Pack series.June, 1943. In Lyon, the capital of the French resistance, a secret meeting is held under orders from General de Gaulle. The objective is to unite all resistance factions. The future of France is on the line.But when the meeting is raided by the Gestapo under Klaus Barbie, the 'Butcher of ... Read more

    $4.79 USD

  • Agent in Berlin

    'A master of spy fiction to rival le Carré' David Young

    by Alex Gerlis ...
    Book 1 - The Wolf Pack Spies
    To live among wolves, first you must become one… An unmissable new spy thriller from best-selling master of the genre, Alex Gerlis.War is coming to Europe.British spymaster Barnaby Allen begins recruiting a network of agents in Germany. With diplomatic relations quickly unravelling, this pack of spies soon comes into their own: the horse-loving German at home in Berlin’s underground; the young ... Read more

    $4.79 USD

  • The Irish Assassins

    Conspiracy, Revenge, and the Phoenix Park Murders That Stunned Victorian England

    by Julie Kavanagh ...
    A brilliant true crime account of the assassinations that altered the course of Irish history from the “compulsively readable” writer (The Guardian).One sunlit evening, May 6, 1882, Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Burke, Chief Secretary and Undersecretary for Ireland, were ambushed and stabbed to death while strolling through Phoenix Park in Dublin. The murders were funded by American ... Read more

    $20.19 USD $1.99 USD

  • Silent Bones

    An addictive and gripping crime thriller

    by Rachel Lynch ...
    Book 11 - Detective Kelly Porter
    The discovery of a skeleton in Thirlmere Reservoir has shaken the tight-knit community of Pooley Bridge.For DI Kelly Porter, the case quickly becomes personal when the bones are revealed to be the remains of an old classmate. Brian Miller was just seventeen when he went missing over twenty years ago.A day later, another body is found in a caravan park, its head broken and bloody. Jason Cooper had ... Read more

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  • Agent in Peril

    by Alex Gerlis ...
    Book 2 - The Wolf Pack Spies
    To what lengths will the British go to smuggle a secret weapon into Nazi Germany? An unmissable Second World War thriller from bestseller Alex Gerlis.'Absorbing ... Gerlis directs his cast with verve' Financial TimesHiding in the horror of Warsaw’s Jewish Ghetto with his family, scientist Roman Loszynski has a secret: a means of making aerial bombing raids frighteningly accurate. Codenamed Tatra, ... Read more

    $4.79 USD

  • The Big Heist

    The Real Story of the Lufthansa Heist, the Mafia, and Murder

    by Anthony M. DeStefano ...
    This Pulitzer Prize-winner’s account of the heist that inspired *Goodfellas*reveals the rest of the story that couldn’t be told—until now (Publisher Weekly).One of the biggest scores in Mafia history, the Lufthansa Airlines heist of 1978 has become the stuff of mafia legend—and a decades-long federal investigation. Now Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Anthony DeStefano sheds new light on this ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • A Blind Eye

    A twisty and gripping detective thriller

    by Marion Todd ...
    Book 7 - Detective Clare Mackay
    Can DI Clare Mackay unravel a dead man’s secrets?Harry Richards, a local solicitor, is found in his car, throat slit.DI Clare Mackay is on the case. She soon learns that Harry was not the upstanding man he seemed to be. Finding the killer should be easy.Then the wife of one of Harry’s colleagues is discovered dead in her car, and Clare realises there is something more sinister at play…Can she find ... Read more

    $2.62 USD

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  • Prince of Spies

    by Alex Gerlis ...
    Book 1 - The Richard Prince Thrillers
    Find the truth; risk everything. A gripping WWII spy novel full of intrigue and peril from a modern master.1942: A German spy comes ashore on a desolate stretch of Lincolnshire beach. But he is hunted down by a young detective, Richard Prince. The secret services have need of a man like him...In occupied Europe, Denmark is a hotbed of problems for British intelligence. Rumours of a war-ending ... Read more

    $2.62 USD

  • When the Night Ends

    by M J Lee ...
    Book 8 - DI Ridpath Crime Thriller
    A death in custody. A life in jeopardy.When Ben Holdsworth dies alone in a police cell, riots erupt in Manchester. But after a post mortem, the authorities have decided nobody was to blame.DI Ridpath is asked to investigate by the coroner before an inquest, and immediately uncovers some discrepancies in the witness statements.Why was the CCTV not working that night? Where was the custody sergeant, ... Read more

    $2.62 USD

  • Where The Truth Lies

    A completely gripping crime thriller

    by M J Lee ...
    Book 1 - DI Ridpath Crime Thriller
    The case was closed. Until people started dying…DI Thomas Ridpath was on the up in the Manchester CID: a promising detective who captured a notorious serial killer. But ten years later he’s recovering from a serious illness and on the brink of being forced out of the police. Then the murders began, in an uncanny echo of his first case.As the death count grows, old records, and bodies, go missing. ... Read more

    $2.62 USD

  • Where the Innocent Die

    by M J Lee ...
    Book 4 - DI Ridpath Crime Thriller
    Nowhere is safe. No one can be trusted.A bloodied body is found in a Manchester Immigrant Removal Centre. The investigating officer and the pathologist seem certain: a suicide. But for DI Ridpath something doesn’t add up.As the evidence starts to unravel, and with few leads, the pressure is on to find answers before the Inquest is closed. Caught between the police, the coroner and a system that ... Read more

    $2.62 USD

  • When the Guilty Cry

    by M J Lee ...
    Book 7 - DI Ridpath Crime Thriller
    Three severed hands. No clues. A race against time.Three embalmed hands are discovered in a disused Victorian house. Is it a gangland ritual? The work of a cult? Or just a prank played by Medical Students? And what happened to the bodies?Meanwhile the Coroner needs to issue a Presumption of Death certificate on a teenage girl who vanished eleven years ago in mysterious circumstances.As hints ... Read more

    $1.96 USD

  • The Girls in the Glen

    An unputdownable Scottish mystery

    by Lynne McEwan ...
    Book 3 - Detective Shona Oliver
    ‘A thrilling new voice in Scottish fiction’ Marion ToddIf the dead could speak, what secrets would they tell?With her daughter on an archaeological dig, the only bodies DI Shona Oliver expects to find are long-dead. But when a corpse from the 1980s is unearthed, Shona quickly realises that it may be one of the missing “Girls in the Glen”, victim of a notorious serial killer.Shona’s superiors want ... Read more

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  • Where The Dead Fall

    A completely gripping crime thriller

    by M J Lee ...
    Book 2 - DI Ridpath Crime Thriller
    One chance encounter, one murder, will change everything.DI Thomas Ridpath is in the process of getting his life back together when everything goes wrong. Caught in a gruesome motorway incident, one question remains: why did nobody else see what happened?Ridpath’s investigations soon pulls the police force itself into question, and hints at something even more sinister.With Manchester on the brink ... Read more

    $1.96 USD

  • Sea of Spies

    by Alex Gerlis ...
    Book 2 - The Richard Prince Thrillers
    A nest of espionage. A break for the border. A race to survive.The Allies are desperate to stop neutral Turkey supplying vital materials to the Nazis – materials which could help them win the war. But then a British agent makes a fatal mistake, and disappears in Istanbul.In England, detective turned spy Richard Prince – back from a clandestine mission in Nazi-occupied Europe – is hunting for his ... Read more

    $1.96 USD

  • What's Our Problem?

    A Self-Help Book for Societies

    by Tim Urban ...
    From the creator of the wildly popular blog Wait But Why, a fun and fascinating deep dive into what the hell is going on in our strange, unprecedented modern times.Between 2013 and 2016, Tim Urban became one of the world’s most popular bloggers, writing dozens of viral, long-form articles about everything from AI to colonizing Mars to procrastination. Then, he turned his attention to a new topic: ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Where the Silence Calls

    by M J Lee ...
    Book 3 - DI Ridpath Crime Thriller
    Play with fire, and you’re going to get burned. The unputdownable new Ridpath crime thrillerIn Manchester, a block of flats is burning. The only victim is a middle-aged man, sat watching TV. Are the fire and the man's death an accident or is something more frightening at work?Meanwhile, DI Ridpath is back with his wife and enjoying work at the Coroner's Office, his myeloma still in remission. But ... Read more

    $2.62 USD

  • An Honourable Thief

    A must-read historical crime thriller

    by Douglas Skelton ...
    Book 1 - A Company of Rogues
    Introducing Jonas Flynt. Gambler. Thief. Killer. Man of honour.'Fast, furious and with a glint of gallows humour, this is high-octane historical fiction' Daily Mail'Swashbuckling action against a vivid historical backdrop. I loved this book' Ian Rankin‘High adventure meets espionage thriller as Jonas Flynt battles the tide of history and the deadly secrets of his own past…’ D. V. Bishop, author of ... Read more

    $4.79 USD $1.96 USD

  • Local Girl Missing

    The BRAND NEW addictive, twisty psychological thriller from J.A. Baker for 2023

    by J A Baker ...
    Missing without trace...When local woman Deborah goes missing, her colleagues Adrian, Yvonne and Merriel are all left in shock. Gossip around the office begins to swirl – what could have happened to Deborah? Is she dead or alive? And who could be responsible for her disappearance?Everyone is terrified that they could be next…except the one person who has all the answers. The last person people ... Read more

    $2.99 USD $0.99 USD

  • The Golden Oldies' Book Club

    The BRAND NEW feel-good novel from USA Today Bestseller Judy Leigh for 2023

    by Judy Leigh ...
    Deep in the Somerset countryside, the Combe Pomeroy village library hosts a monthly book club.Ruth the librarian fears she’s too old to find love, but a discussion about Lady Chatterley’s Lover makes her think again.Aurora doesn’t feel seventy-two and longs to relive the excitement of her youth, while Verity is getting increasingly tired of her husband Mark’s grumpiness and wonders if their son’s ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Domina

    The Women Who Made Imperial Rome

    by Guy de la Bédoyère ...
    “An illuminating and highly readable narrative about the role of women at the center of imperial Rome—fascinating and important.” —Lesley Adkins, author of Handbook to Life *in Ancient Rome***Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero—these are the names history associates with the early Roman Empire. Yet, not a single one of these emperors was the blood son of his predecessor. In this ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Dying Place

    An utterly unputdownable, heart-racing crime thriller

    by Charly Cox ...
    Book 5 - Detective Alyssa Wyatt
    When the trunk slammed closed, sealing her fate, a deep cold slithered into the center of Kennedy’s bones. All she could do was pray that her attacker would leave enough of her for her family to identify…Kennedy Farmer, an experienced athlete, never returns after leaving for her usual running route through the dusty mountain trails of New Mexico.While the search for Kennedy begins, Detective ... Read more

    $2.62 USD

  • Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War

    by Howard W. French ...
    Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understanding of world history.Traditional accounts of the making of the modern world afford a place of primacy to European history. Some credit the fifteenth-century Age of Discovery and the maritime connection it established between West and East; others the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD