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Nine neighbours gather for a dinner party • But by the next morning, they had disappeared without a trace • No bodies. No evidence. No clues • Two and a half years later, it remains a mystery. Desperate for answers, the families of the missing turn to investigator David Raker • How did an entire village vanish overnight? • And is he looking for nine missing people, or nine dead bodies?

No goodbye • When Leonard Franks and his wife Ellie left London for their dream retirement in the seclusion of Dartmoor, everything seemed perfect. But then Leonard heads outside to fetch firewood from the back of the house - and never returns • No trace • Nine months later, Leonard's family turn to David Raker - a missing persons investigator with a gift for finding the lost. But nothing can prepare Raker for what he's about to uncover • Nowhere to hide • Because, at the heart of this disappearance lies a devastating secret. And by the time Raker realises what it is, and how deep the lies go, it's not just him in danger - it's everyone he cares about

A young man wakes up bruised and beaten, with no memory of who he is or where he came from • The press immediately dub him 'The Lost Man' • Naming himself Richard Kite, he spends the next ten months desperately trying to find out who he is. But despite media appeals and the efforts of the police, no one knows him • Richard's last hope may be private investigator David Raker - a seasoned locator of missing people. But Raker has more questions than answers • Who is Richard Kite? • Why does no one know him? • And what links him to the body of a woman found beside a London railway line two years ago? • Could Richard be responsible for her death - or is he next?

A secret that will change lives forever • When Emily Kane arrives at her sister Carrie's house, she finds the front door unlocked and no one inside • Dinner's cooking, the TV's on. Carrie, her husband and their two daughters are gone • When the police draw a blank, Emily asks missing persons investigator David Raker to find them. It's clear someone doesn't want the family found • But as he gets closer to the truth, Raker begins to uncover evidence of a sinister cover-up, spanning decades and costing countless lives • And worse, in trying to find Emily's missing family, he might just have made himself the next target

I buried you • I mourned you • But now you're back • A woman walks into a police station • She has no phone and no ID, just a piece of paper that reads 'David Raker' • She says she's his wife • She looks just like her • She knows everything about him • But David buried his wife eight years ago • Is this really the woman he loved? Did he really say goodbye? • Or is he losing his mind? • Raker needs to find out the truth before it's too late, because he is now the prime suspect in her disappearance

CCTV footage captures Cate and Aiden Gascoigne driving home seconds before their car plunges into a ravine and explodes • When fire crews arrive, the vehicle is empty • Cate and Aiden have vanished • Missing persons investigator David Raker has solved too many impossible cases. He knows that behind every disappearance lies a dark tale waiting to be uncovered • What he doesn't know is how dark this one is - or how close it will get to him

'I walked over to him and took his hand . . . We were at the heart of our very own universe' • Olivia and her twin brother, Aidan, are heading alone on their ship back to Earth following the virus that completely wiped out their crew, and their family in its entirety • Nathan's ship is heading in the opposite direction, but on the journey it is attacked. Only a few survive • When their lives suddenly collide, Nathan and Olivia are instantly attracted to each other, deeply, completely head over heels • But not everyone is pleased. Surrounded by rumours, deception, even murder, is it possible to live out a happy-ever-after...?

Летний побег, который она никогда не забудет • Лючия усердно работала юристом в Уэльсе, стремясь к большому продвижению по службе, которое, как она надеется, вскоре придет к ней. Наконец-то она получила заслуженный отдых в доме своих бабушки и дедушки на юге Италии, где солнце, лимонные деревья и аппетитная стряпня ее Нонны мгновенно заставляют ее почувствовать себя как дома • Но она потрясена, узнав, что ее дедушка уходит на пенсию из любимой семейной пиццерии и ему придется ее продать. Лючии невыносима мысль о том, что это место перейдет из рук в руки - особенно когда она обнаруживает, что ее не совсем бывший муж Джакомо хочет завладеть им! • Книга "В погоне за итальянской мечтой" - идеальный эскапизм от Джо Томас, автора книг "Побег во французский фермерский дом" и "Медовая ферма на холме"

Four Mysteries • It's a night just like any other in the Conister home - but then Paul heads upstairs and never comes back • When his wife Maggie goes to see where he is, she can't find him. His phone and wallet are by the bed. The windows are locked from the inside • Paul has vanished • Four Stories • Missing persons investigator David Raker is an expert in locating the lost. So when he's hired by Maggie, he knows that in every disappearance - however impossible it seems - there's an answer • What he doesn't know yet is that his search for Paul Conister will become linked to three other mysteries • One Connection • A night patrolman on the London Underground makes a deadly discovery • A cold case is reopened - but the key witness appears to no longer exist

Straight-A student Megan Carver was an unlikely runaway. But six months on, she's never been found • Missing persons investigator David Raker knows what it's like to grieve. He knows the shadowy world of the lost, too. So when he's hired by Megan's parents to find out what happened to her, he recognises their pain - but knows that the darkest secrets can be buried deep • The more Raker digs, the more he realises everything is a lie. People close to Megan are dead. Others are too terrified to talk. And at the centre of it all is a place like no other • They call it The Dead Tracks • And there, Megan's secrets could cost Raker his life

The first of his peerless novels of Cold War espionage and international intrigue, Call for the Dead is also the debut of John le Carre's masterful creation George Smiley • After a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds Circus head Maston is trying to blame him for the man's death, he begins his own investigation, meeting with Fennan's widow to find out what could have led him to such desperation. But on the very day that Smiley is ordered off the enquiry he receives an urgent letter from the dead man. Do the East Germans - and their agents - know more about this man's death than the Circus previously imagined? Le Carre's first book, Call for the Dead, introduced the tenacious and retiring George Smiley in a gripping tale of espionage and deceit

An entrancing, otherworldly collection of short stories from one of Europe's most accomplished 20th century writers, new to Penguin Modern Classics • A counter-prophet attempts the impossible to prove his power; a girl sees the hideous fate of her sisters and father in a mirror bought from a gypsy; the death of a prostitute causes an unanticipated uprising; and the lives of every ordinary person since 1789 are recreated in the almighty Encyclopedia of the Dead. These stories about love and death, truth and lies, myth and reality range across many epochs and settings. Brilliantly combining fact and fiction, epic and miniature, horror and comedy, this was Danilo Kis final work, published in Serbo-Croatian in 1983