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What's the worst thing your best friend could do to you? • Admittedly, it wasn't murder. A moment's carelessness, a tragic accident - and two children are dead. Yours • Living in a small island community, you can't escape the woman who destroyed your life. Each chance encounter is an agonizing reminder of what you've lost - your family, your future, your sanity • How long before revenge becomes irresistible? • With no reason to go on living, why shouldn't you turn your darkest thoughts into deeds? • So now, what's the worst thing you can do to your best friend? • 'A dark and haunting thriller. It creeps under your skin and doesn't let you go' Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train

Just what is it that attracts some women to the most evil of men? • Daisy in Chains is the seductive, twisty, exhilarating new thriller from bestselling author Sharon Bolton • Famous killers have fan clubs • Hamish Wolfe is charming, magnetic and very persuasive. Famed for his good looks, he receives adoring letters every day from his countless admirers. He's also a convicted murderer, facing life in prison • Who would join such a club? • Maggie Rosie is a successful lawyer and true-crime author. Reclusive and enigmatic, she only takes on cases she can win • Hamish is convinced that Maggie can change his fate. Maggie is determined not to get involved. She thinks she's immune to the charms of such a man. But maybe not this time • Would you?

Bolton, Lancashire: 1940 • A family torn apart by war, held together by a secret • Janie and her husband James have a strong, loving marriage. A move from an inner-city slum to a peaceful new estate outside of Bolton should have been a fresh start for them and their three children. But when war is declared and James announces he has signed up, Janie fears it's the beginning of the end • Waving goodbye to their menfolk is a sacrifice that families are making all over the country and Janie does her best to make do, forging friendships in her new community • But when James comes home on leave a traumatised and desperate man, then goes AWOL, Janie's heart goes out to him. Determined to keep him safe, she plans to hide him in their new house. But how long can they keep the secret, and what threats lie ahead if they're found out? • A page-turning new wartime saga about love, friendship and secrets, for fans of Katie Flynn and Rosie Goodwin

There is a secret hidden within a body, burning within the flames, that will change history forever • 2014: In the French city of Orleans, a man’s charred corpse is found in a burned-out hotel, stripped of all ID. Police captain Ines Picaut must hunt down his killer before others fall prey to the fire. She has only one clue: the name of a woman who has been dead for over five hundred years • 1429: Joan of Arc is taking the war to the English. They want her dead but the only way to reach her is through a fiercely loyal inner circle - until undercover spy Tomas Rustbeard finally earns her trust… • The myths of the past hold the key to the mystery of the present, but how many must die before the truth is laid bare?

Gritty and page-turning historical saga set in Northern England in the late 1800s, for fans of Dilly Court and Rosie Goodwin • Minnie Maddox cares deeply for mothers and their babies - she makes a living by taking in unwanted children and finding them good adoptive homes - and is delighted for her neighbour when she finally becomes a mother after decades of trying. But when the baby dies of natural causes while under her roof, and knowing her neighbour will be devastated, Minnie swaps it with one of the infants in her care • Now seventeen, Jewel Nightingale knows nothing of her true origins. But assaulted by her hateful cousin and making the dreadful discovery that she is pregnant, she faces a desperate dilemma. Fleeing her job as a domestic maid, she follows an advertisement to a house in Bolton's dark slums, where a woman promises to help her when the child is born

From the author of the bestselling Richard and Judy bookclub pick I'm Travelling Alone • No one is safe in the dark • When a young woman is found dead, the police are quick to respond. But what they find at the murder site is unexpected. The body is posed, the scene meticulously set. And there is almost no forensic evidence to be found • Detective Mia Kruger is a woman on the edge - she has been signed off work pending psychological assessment. But her boss has less regard for the rules than he should. Desperate to get Mia back in the office, Holger Munch offers her an unofficial deal • But the usually brilliant Mia is struggling and the team are unable to close the case. Until a young hacker uncovers something that forces the team to confront the scope of the murderer’s plans and face the possibility that he may already be on the hunt for a second victim

The last thing Jack Baxi expected when a detective rang his doorbell in the middle of the night was that he'd be tortured and left for dead, with a young woman he's never met before • Now, running for their lives, Jack and Aisha frantically try to discover why the detective was so convinced they both have information on a missing person. Jack is a Sikh corner shopkeeper with a criminal record. Aisha is a Muslim medical student from a wealthy family. What could possibly connect them? • Their desperate hunt for answers will take them on a perilous journey, from the sprawling underground markets and dangerous red-light district of Delhi all the way to the most militarized zone in India • But little do they know, a dangerous organisation is watching their every move - and they'll do whatever it takes to stop Jack and Aisha learning the truth

We've all seen him: the man - the monster - staring from the front page of every newspaper, accused of a terrible crime • But what about her: the woman who grips his arm on the courtroom stairs - the wife who stands by him? • Jean Taylor's life was blissfully ordinary. Nice house, nice husband. Glen was all she'd ever wanted: her Prince Charming • Until he became that man accused, that monster on the front page. Jean was married to a man everyone thought capable of unimaginable evil • But now Glen is dead and she's alone for the first time, free to tell her story on her own terms • Jean Taylor is going to tell us what she knows

Bill is a dedicated young lawyer working in New York. He leaves everything he trained for to follow his dream to become a minister in rural Wyoming. Jenny, his fashion stylist wife, leaves the milieu and life she loves to join him. The certainty they share is that their destinies are linked forever • Fast forward thirty-eight years. Robert is a hard-working independent book publisher in Manhattan, looking for one big hit novel to publish. Lillibet is a young Amish woman, living as though in the seventeenth century, caring for her widowed father and three young brothers on their family farm. In secret at night, by candlelight, she has written the novel that burns within her. When it falls into Robert’s hands, he falls in love first with the book, and then with the woman he has never met

«Присматривайте за мёртвыми, – сказали послушники, – и мёртвые будут присматривать за вами» • Казалось бы, мудрый завет, но трудно соблюдать его, если вы, подобно Теппику, преждевременно стали фараоном маленький и нищей страны, а ваша сокровищница никак не сможет покрыть строительство огромной пирамиды в память о вашем почившем отце • Конечно, у него было лучшее образование, какое можно купить за деньги, но в учебной программе Гильдии Убийц Анк-Морпорка не было курса о том, как управлять цартством, не говоря уже об основах финансовой грамотности • «Пирамиды», роман одного из самых ярких писателей жанра фэнтези, Терри Пратчетта, станет великолепным подарком для поклонников творчества автора • Книга на английском языке • 'Look after the dead', said the priests, 'and the dead will look after you

Почему именно Джонни стал видеть мёртвых? Ответа на этот вопрос никто не знает. Но как-то раз, проходя через кладбище, он постучал в дверь одного склепа – и дверь открылась. Так Джонни познакомился с Олдерменом (1822-1906). И этот призрак, то есть, простите, гражданин, перешедший в новое качественное состояние, оказался далеко не единственным! Жаль только, большинству живущих нет дела до старого кладбища и тех, кто на нем похоронен, – городские власти уже решили судьбу этого места, продав землю под застройку. Что тут может сделать двенадцатилетней мальчишка? • «Джонни и бомба», роман одного из самых ярких писателей жанра фэнтези, Терри Пратчетта, станет великолепным подарком для поклонников творчества автора • Книга на английском языке • Sell the cemetery? • Over their dead bodies

She thought she was finally safe. But a roof over her head comes with a price to pay • Laura Cannock is on the run. Suspected of killing her bullying husband, his family are on a merciless prowl for revenge. Fleeing from her beloved home of Bolton to Manchester, Laura seeks refuge with her coal merchant uncle. But it soon becomes clear that a roof over her head comes with a price - of the type so unbearable she must escape once more • Destitute and penniless, a stench-ridden housing court in the back streets of the factories is Laura's only hope of a dwelling - a place where both the filth and the kindness of neighbours overwhelm. Here people stick together through the odds, leading Laura to true friendship, and possibly love. But with the threat of her past still hanging over her, there's still one battle she must fight - and win - alone