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Unlucky 13: by James Patterson.

 

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When two dead bodies are found inside a wrecked car on the Golden Gate Bridge, Detective Lindsay Boxer doubts that it will be anything as simple as a traffic accident.

 

The scene is more gruesome than anything she has seen before.

It definitely wasn’t the crash that killed these people.

While Lindsay starts to piece this case together, she gets a call she wasn’t expecting.

Sightings of her ex colleague turned ruthless killer Mackie Morales have been reported.

 

Wanted for three murders, Mackie has been in hiding since she escaped from custody.

But now she’s ready to return to San Francisco and pay a visit to some old friends…

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The Maharajah's General by Paul Fraser Collard.

 

In The Maharajah's General by Paul Fraser Collard Jack Lark returns to the battlefield under a new name to face greater adventures in a brutal land.

A must read for fans of Bernard Cornwell and Simon Scarrow. 'Collard ... evokes the horror of that era with great brio. Enthralling'.

Jack Lark barely survived the Battle of the Alma.

As the brutal fight raged, he discovered the true duty that came with the officer's commission he'd taken.

In hospital, wounded, and with his stolen life left lying on the battlefield, he grasps a chance to prove himself a leader once more.

Poor Captain Danbury is dead, but Jack will travel to his new regiment in India, under his name.

 

Jack soon finds more enemies, but this time they're on his own side.

Exposed as a fraud, he's rescued by the chaplain's beautiful daughter, who has her own reasons to escape.

They seek desperate refuge with the Maharajah of Sawadh, the charismatic leader whom the British Army must subdue. He sees Jack as a curiosity, but recognises a fellow military mind.

In return for his safety, Jack must train the very army the British may soon have to fight...

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Red Hill (Red Hill #1) by Jamie McGuire.

 

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When the world ends, can love survive?

 

For Scarlet, raising her two daughters alone makes fighting for tomorrow an everyday battle.

Nathan has a wife, but can’t remember what it’s like to be in love; only his young daughter Zoe makes coming home worthwhile.

Miranda’s biggest concern is whether her new VW Bug is big enough to carry her sister and their boyfriends on a weekend escape from college finals.

 

When reports of a widespread, deadly “outbreak” begin to surface, these ordinary people face extraordinary circumstances and suddenly their fates are intertwined. Recognizing they can’t outrun the danger, Scarlet, Nathan, and Miranda desperately seek shelter at the same secluded ranch, Red Hill. Emotions run high while old and new relationships are tested in the face of a terrifying enemy an enemy who no longer remembers what it’s like to be human.

 

Set against the backdrop of a brilliantly realized apocalyptic world, love somehow finds a way to survive.

But what happens when the one you’d die for becomes the one who could destroy you?

 

Red Hill grabs you from page one and doesn’t let go until its stunning conclusion. This bestselling author Jamie McGuire at her unforgettable best.

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Inferno: by Dan Brown.

 

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Florence.

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon awakes in a hospital bed with no recollection of where he is or how he got there. Nor can he explain the origin of the macabre object that is found hidden in his belongings.

 

A threat to his life will propel him and a young doctor, Sienna Brooks, into a breakneck chase across the city.

Only Langdon’s knowledge of the hidden passageways and ancient Secrets that lie behind its historic facade can save them from the clutches of their unknown pursuers.

 

With only a few lines from Dante’s Inferno to guide them, they must decipher a sequence of codes buried deep within some of the Renaissance’s most celebrated artworks to find the answers to a puzzle which may, or may not, help them save the world from a terrifying threat.

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Down River by John Hart.

 

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Going back is never easy.

Adam Chase has spent the last five years in New York trying to forget.

When he left North Carolina, Adam left for good, now he has no choice but to return and being remembered as a murderer doesn't help.

 

Within hours of arriving, Adam is beaten up, accosted and has to face the hostility of those closest to him, including Grace, the young woman he cannot forget.

Nothing has changed and then people start turning up dead. For a man only just acquitted of murder, Adam's homecoming does not go well.

And he has a dark streak, a history of violence.

 

Everyone doubts, no one trusts him and as the past threatens to overshadow the present, Adam becomes the prime suspect for the new murders.

He alone can clear his name.

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Some Can Whistle; by Larry McMurtry.

 

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Not since Terms of Endearment has the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove and Anything for Billy touched the heart so deeply as he does in this story of a father learning to love a daughter he's never met.

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The Case Against William by Mark Gimenez.

 

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Criminal defence lawyers must make their peace with one harsh fact of life: most of their clients are guilty.

 

Yet when William Tucker, a celebrated and self centered star college football player, is suddenly arrested and charged with the brutal rape and murder of a college coed two years before, his broken-down, drunken estranged father Frank can't believe he's guilty.

What father could?

 

But Frank is also an ex-criminal defence lawyer.

 

Now Frank must find a way to sober up and save his son from the death penalty sought by an ambitious district attorney.

 

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Extreme Prey by John Sandford.

 

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After the events in Gathering Prey, Lucas Davenport finds himself in a very unusual situation, no longer employed by the Minnesota BCA.

His friend the governor is just cranking up a presidential campaign, though and he invites Lucas to come along as part of his campaign staff.

“Should be fun!” he says, and it kind of is, until they find they have a shadow: an armed man intent on killing the governor . . . and anyone who gets in the way.

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The Survivor by Gregg Hurwitz.

 

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A pulse-pounding thriller from the bestselling author of Richard & Judy Book Club selections, ORPHAN X and YOU'RE NEXT.

From the eleventh storey of a Los Angeles high-rise, Nate looks out on the city, the traffic, the trees, the beach beyond. He breathes deeply.

And then he moves one foot off the ledge and into thin air.

 

But before he can jump, gunshots ring out from within the building.

A robbery is in progress and Nate, with nothing to lose but the life he was about to give up, decides to intervene.

 

What happens next plunges Nate into mortal danger and reunites him with the family he hasn't known for years, a family he will do anything to protect.

 

Packed with twists and suspense, hurtling forward at relentless speed,

The Survivor is a gripping, unforgettable story of sacrifice, redemption and heroism, a thriller to rival the very best of Linwood Barclay and Harlan Coben.

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The Wrong Side of Goodbye by Michael Connelly.

 

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Only Harry Bosch can uncover LA's darkest Secrets in this gripping thriller from global bestseller Michael Connelly.

 

'What do you want me to do?' Bosch asked again.

 

'I want you to find someone for me,' Vance said. 'Someone who might not have ever existed.'

 

Harry Bosch is working as a part-time detective in the town of San Fernando outside of Los Angeles, when he gets the invitation to meet with the ageing aviation billionaire Whitney Vance.

When he was eighteen Vance had a relationship with a Mexican girl called Vibiana Duarte, but soon after becoming pregnant she disappeared.

 

Now, as he reaches the end of his life, Vance wants to know what happened to Vibiana and whether there is an heir to his vast fortune.

And Bosch is the only person he trusts to undertake the assignment.

 

Harry's aware that with such sums of money involved, this could be a dangerous undertaking, not just for himself, but for the person he's looking for, but as he begins to uncover Vibiana's tragic story, and finds uncanny links to his own past, he knows he cannot rest until he finds the truth.

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The Neon Rain (Dave Robicheaux Book 1)

by James Lee Burke.

 

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The outstanding first book in the ever-popular Dave Robicheaux series.

 

Introducing the New Orleans detective Dave Robicheaux.

 

Johnny Massina, a convicted murderer bound for the electric chair, has warned Dave Robicheaux that he's on somebody's hit list, and now the homicide detective is trying to discover just who that is before he ends up dead.

 

Meanwhile he has taken on the murder investigation of a young black girl found dead in the Bayou Swamp, a case no one seems keen for him to investigate.

But Robicheaux persists and uncovers a web of corruption that some would kill to protect, leading him to a terrifying confrontation with the one horror he fears most of all.

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No Safe House by Linwood Barclay.

 

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What would you do to protect your daughter . . .?

 

From the million-copy bestselling author of NO TIME FOR GOODBYE

 

Seven years ago, Terry Archer and his family experienced a horrific ordeal which nearly cost them their lives.

Today, the echoes of that fateful night are still audible.

Terry's wife, Cynthia, is living separate from her husband and daughter after her own personal demons threatened to ruin her relationship with them permanently.

Their daughter, Grace, is rebelling against her parents' seemingly needless overprotection.

Terry is just trying to keep his family together and the entire town is reeling from the senseless murder of two elderly locals.

 

But when Grace foolishly follows her delinquent boyfriend into a strange house, the Archers must do more than stay together.

They must stay alive, because now they have all been unwillingly drawn into the shadowy depths of their seemingly idyllic hometown.

 

For there, they will be reconnected with the man who saved their lives seven years ago, but who still remains a ruthless, unrepentant criminal.

They will encounter killers for hire working all sides and they will learn that there are some things people value much more than money and will do anything to get it.

 

Caught in a labyrinth between family loyalty and ultimate betrayal, Terry must find a way to extricate his family from a lethal situation he still doesn't fully comprehend.

All he knows is that to live, he may have to do the unthinkable.

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The Quiet Game (Penn Cage Novels Book 1) by Greg Iles.

 

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The first thriller in the bestselling series featuring Penn Cage: a prosecutor in a corrupt system, a husband whose wife has died, and a father who must protect his daughter.

 

Don’t say a word…

 

Natchez, Mississippi.

A city of old money and older sins.

A place where a thirty year old crime lies buried, and everyone plays the quiet game.

But on man cannot stay silent.

 

Returning to his home town, former prosecuting attorney Penn Cage is stunned to discover that his father is being blackmailed over a decades old murder.

 

Negotiating the town’s undercurrents of greed, corruption, and racial tension, Penn uncovers a powerful secret that reaches to the highest levels of government.

 

And as the town closes ranks, Penn realises that his crusade for justice has taken a dangerous turn- one which could cost him his life…

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Die of Shame by Mark Billingham.

 

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Full of betrayal, deceit and suspense, Die of Shame is the spectacular new book from number one bestseller Mark Billingham, author of Time of Death and In the Dark,

 

Every Monday evening, six people gather in a smart North London house to talk about addiction.

There they share their deepest secrets: stories of lies, regret, and above all, shame.

 

Then one of them is killed and it's clear one of the circle was responsible.

 

Detective Inspector Nicola Tanner quickly finds her investigation hampered by the strict confidentiality that binds these people and their therapist together.

So what could be shameful enough to cost someone their life?

 

And how do you find the truth when denial and deception are second nature to all of your suspects.

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Picture This by Joseph Heller.

 

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"Mr. Heller treats the whole panorama of history past and present with the bravado of Mark Twain in one of his sassier moods.

A keenly satirical look at the world of art and museums by the author of the modern classic, Catch-22.

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The Trespasser: Dublin Murder Squad: 6. by Tana French.

 

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There's the murder squad you set your sights on at the beginning: the one where you're playing knife edge mind games with psychopathic geniuses.

And there's the one you actually work on, the night shifts, the vicious pranks that go too far.

Sifting the dregs for the case that might just be special.

 

Tonight's case isn't it.

Uniforms call it in as a slam-dunk domestic.

Except when Conway takes a good look at the victim's face, she realises she's seen her somewhere before.

And she knows there's a different answer.

And it takes her breath away.

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The Kept Woman: by Karin Slaughter.

 

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A body is discovered in an empty Atlanta warehouse.

It's the body of an ex-cop, and from the moment Special Agent Will Trent walks in he knows this could be the most devastating case of his career.

Bloody footprints leading away from the scene reveal that another victim, a woman, has left the scene and vanished into thin air.

And, worst of all, the warehouse belongs to the city's biggest, most politically-connected, most high-profile athlete, a local hero protected by the world's most expensive lawyers.

A local hero Will has spent the last six months investigating on a brutal rape charge.

 

But for Will and also for Dr Sara Linton, the GBI's newest medical examiner, the case is about to get even worse. Because an unexpected discovery at the scene reveals a personal link to Will's troubled past.

The consequences will wreak havoc on his life and the lives of those he loves, those he works with, and those he pursues.

 

But Sara's scene of the crime diagnosis is that they only have a few hours to find the missing woman before she bleeds out .

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The Thirst: Harry Hole 11 by Jo Nesbo.

 

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THERE’S A NEW KILLER ON THE STREETS...

A woman is found murdered after an internet date.

The marks left on her body show the police that they are dealing with a particularly vicious killer.

 

HE’S IN YOUR HOUSE… HE’S IN YOUR ROOM

Under pressure from the media to find the murderer, the force know there’s only one man for the job.

But Harry Hole is reluctant to return to the place that almost took everything from him.

Until he starts to suspect a connection between this killing and his one failed case.

 

HE’S OUT FOR BLOOD

When another victim is found, Harry realises he will need to put everything on the line if he’s to finally catch the one who got away.

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Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow .

 

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The ultimate thriller - with a killer twist

 

Prosecutor Rusty Sabich enters a nightmare world when Carolyn, a beautiful attorney with whom he has been having an affair, is found raped and strangled.

He stands accused.

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Stolen Souls by Stuart Neville.

 

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Gayla's only hope is about to turn into her worst nightmare

 

Tricked into coming to Ireland with the offer of a good job, all Gayla wants to do now is run.

As far and as fast as she can.

Because her captors are close behind her, and they want her dead, no matter what.

 

Two people are hunting her...

 

Crime lord Arturus Strazdas has never had a woman he hasn't paid for and never had a friend who wasn't afraid of him.

Now his brother is dead, and he's determined to find and destroy the woman responsible.

 

And neither one will rest till she is dead

 

On the other side of the city, Detective Inspector Lennon wants a quiet Christmas with his six year old daughter.

But as the bodies start to mount up, he finds himself in a desperate race to save a woman's life, and track down two very dangerous killers.

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A Drink Before The War by Dennis Lehane.

 

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Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are tough private investigators who know the blue collar neighbourhoods and ghettos of Boston's Dorchester section as only natives can. Working out of an old church belfry, Kenzie and Gennaro take on a seemingly simple assignment for a prominent politician: to uncover the whereabouts of Jenna Angeline, a black cleaning woman who has allegedly stolen confidential Statehouse documents.

But finding Jenna proves easy compared to staying alive. The investigation escalates, uncovering a web of corruption extending from bombed-out ghetto streets to the highest levels of state government.

 

With slick, hip dialogue and a lyrical narrative pocked by explosions of violence, A Drink Before the War confronts a city in which institutionalized bigotry and corruption are often the norm, and the true nature of 'racial incidents' is rarely clear. Dennis Lehane's remarkable debut is at once a pulsating crime thriller and a mirror of our world, one in which the worst human horrors are found closest to home, and the most vicious obscenities are committed in the name of love

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Xin Loi, Viet Nam: Thirty one Months of War: A Soldier's Memoir by Al Sever.

 

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Al Sever served as a helicopter crew member in Vietnam from 1968 - a year of heavy and desperate combat - to 1972, when the US troops suffered both moral and physical disintegration. From the Delta to the DMZ, he participated in eleven of the sixteen campaigns of this most terrible war.

 

In Xin Loi, Viet Nam Sever recounts his experiences with stark and unflinching honesty, describing fully the awfulness of this war of warrior-boys. The book reveals the shocking reality of what young US soldiers faced, and details the horror of a young man's coming of age in desperate circumstances.

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Evil Women: Deadly Women Whose Crimes Knew No Limits

by John Marlowe.

 

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Part of a best selling format series on true crime from Arcturus publishing, Evil Women focuses on crimes committed by women.

Among the 34 cases covered are: Pamela Smart, a volunteer at a high school drug awareness program, who urged her 15 year old lover and his friends to kill her husband; Nancy Kissel, an expat American in Hong Kong, who served her investment banker husband a strawberry milkshake laced with drugs, then clubbed him to death with a statue; Celeste Beard whose husband was disemboweled by her lesbian lover.

An indispensable introduction to the darker side of life, including an eight page plate section of photographs?

John Marlowe is a crime writer who lives in Ontario.

The author of The World's Most Evil Psychopaths, he is currently working on an annotated edition of the 1950 pulp exposé Montreal Confidential.

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A Wild Justice by Craig Thomas.

 

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The international bestselling thriller from the master of the genre explores the threat of organised crime in Russia.

Craig Thomas is the author of the huge bestsellers Firefox, Firefox Down, and Winter Hawk.