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<p>In the summer of 1974 a heatwave blankets Boston and Mary Pat Fennessey is trying to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors. Mary Pat has lived her entire life in the housing projects of &apos;Southie&apos;, the Irish American enclave that stubbornly adheres to old tradition and stands proudly apart. One night Mary Pat&apos;s teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn&apos;t come home. That same evening, a young Black man is found dead, struck by a subway train under mysterious circumstances. The two events seem unconnected. But Mary Pat, propelled by a desperate search for her missing daughter, begins turning over stones best left untouched - asking questions that bother Marty Butler, chieftain of the Irish mob, and the men who work for him, men who don&apos;t take kindly to any threat to their business. Set against the hot, tumultuous months when the city&apos;s desegregation of its public schools exploded in violence, Small Mercies is a superb thriller, a brutal depiction of criminality and power, and an unflinching portrait of the dark heart of American racism.</p>

<p> <strong>For the first time, Hercule Poirot - 'probably the greatest detective in the world' - is celebrated in the official Agatha Christie Calendar, comprising 14 brand new cover designs from the best-selling books and (as it's a leap year) 366 little grey cells in which to write your daily appointments!</strong> </p> <p>Hercule Poirot made his debut in Agatha Christie's very first novel, <em>The Mysterious Affair at Styles</em>, serialised in <em>The Times</em> in 1920. With appearances in 33 novels and more than 50 short stories, plus stage plays, comic strips, interactive games and multiple TV and film adaptations stretching back neatly a century, the little Belgian detective with the egg-shaped head finally makes his wall calendar debut in the official 2024 Agatha Christie Calendar from HarperCollins Publishers.</p> <p>To coincide with brand new cover designs for all 39 Hercule Poirot paperbacks, the new calendar is a showcase for some of the most attractive new artworks, featuring some of Agatha Christie's most evocative titles: <em>The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The ABC Murders, Death in the Clouds, Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, Evil Under the Sun, Hallowe'en Party, Hercule Poirot's Christmas</em>... Glorious renditions of these stories and more can adorn your favourite wall and help to celebrate the never-ending charm of 'the greatest detective in the world'.</p>

<p><b><i>The Secret History</i> meets <i>Ninth House </i>in this sinister, atmospheric novel . . . the discovery of a mysterious deck of tarot cards lays bare shocking secrets within </b><b>a close-knit circle of researchers at</b><b> New York's famed Met Cloisters museum.</b><br/><br/><b>'Dark and enigmatic . . . <i>The Cloisters</i> captured me from the off</b><b>. . . a story of academic obsession, Renaissance magic and the ruthless pursuit of power. Captivating in every sense.</b><b>' </b>SARAH PEARSE, author of <i>The Sanatorium</i><br/><br/><b>'Glamour, power, seduction, ambition - <i>The Cloisters</i> has it all. I adored this deliciously gothic, beautifully written novel.' </b>LOUISE O'NEILL, author of <i>Idol</i><br/><br/><b>'Elegant and atmospheric and suffused with brooding menace.' </b> LUCY CLARKE, author of <i>The Castaways</i><br/><br/><b>'Sultry and sinister . . . teems with sexual tension, the secrets of divination, and scholarly obsessiveness . . . jaw-dropping.' </b>SARAH PENNER, author of <i>The Lost Apothecary</i><br/><br/>Ann Stilwell arrives in New York City, hoping to spend her summer working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Instead, she is assigned to The Cloisters, a gothic museum and garden renowned for its collection of medieval and Renaissance art.<br/><br/>There she is drawn into a small circle of charismatic but enigmatic researchers, each with their own secrets and desires, including the museum's curator, Patrick Roland, who is convinced that the history of Tarot holds the key to unlocking contemporary fortune telling.<br/><br/>Relieved to have left her troubled past behind and eager for the approval of her new colleagues, Ann is only too happy to indulge some of Patrick's more outlandish theories. But when Ann discovers a mysterious, once-thought lost deck of 15th-century Italian tarot cards she suddenly finds herself at the centre of a dangerous game of power, toxic friendship and ambition.<br/><br/>And as the game being played within the Cloisters spirals out of control, Ann must decide whether she is truly able to defy the cards and shape her own future . . .<br/><br/><b>Bringing together the modern and the arcane, <i>The Cloisters</i> is a rich, thrillingly-told tale of obsession and the ruthless pursuit of power. </b></p>

<p><b>From the <i>New York Times</i>-bestselling author of <i>The Daughter of Doctor Moreau</i> and <i>Mexican Gothic</i> comes a fabulous meld of Mexican horror movies and Nazi occultism: a dark thriller about a curse that haunts a legendary lost film - and awakens one woman's hidden powers. </b><br/><br/>Montserrat has always been overlooked. She's a talented sound editor, but she's left out of the boys' club running the film industry in '90s Mexico City. And she's all-but-invisible to her best friend Tristan, a charming if faded soap opera star, even though she's been in love with him since childhood.<br/><br/>Then Tristan discovers his new neighbour is the cult horror director Abel Urueta, and the legendary <i>auteur </i>claims he has a way to change their lives - even if his tales of a Nazi occultist imbuing magic into highly volatile silver nitrate stock sounds like sheer fantasy. The magic film was never finished, which is why, Urueta swears, his career vanished overnight. He is cursed.<br/>Now the director wants Montserrat and Tristan to help him shoot the missing scene and lift the curse . . . but Montserrat soon notices a dark presence following her, and Tristan begins seeing the ghost of his ex-girlfriend . . .<br/>As they work together to unravel the mystery of the film and the obscure occultist who once roamed their city, Montserrat and Tristan might find out that sorcerers and magic are not only the stuff of movies . . .</p>

<p><b>Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King's most compelling and ingeniously resourceful characters, returns in this thrilling novel to solve the gruesome truth behind multiple disappearances in a Midwestern town.</b><br/><br/>Stephen King's HOLLY marks the triumphant return of beloved King character Holly Gibney. Readers have witnessed Holly's gradual transformation from a shy (but also brave and ethical) recluse in <i>Mr Mercedes</i> to Bill Hodges's partner in <i>Finders Keepers</i> to a full-fledged, smart, and occasionally tough private detective in <i>The Outsider</i>. In King's new novel, Holly is on her own, and up against a pair of unimaginably depraved and brilliantly disguised adversaries.<br/><br/>When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly is reluctant to accept the case. Her partner, Pete, has Covid. Her (very complicated) mother has just died. And Holly is meant to be on leave. But something in Penny Dahl's desperate voice makes it impossible for Holly to turn her down.<br/><br/>Mere blocks from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared live Professors Rodney and Emily Harris. They are the picture of bourgeois respectability: married octogenarians, devoted to each other, and semi-retired lifelong academics. But they are harbouring an unholy secret in the basement of their well-kept, book-lined home, one that may be related to Bonnie's disappearance. And it will prove nearly impossible to discover what they are up to: they are savvy, they are patient, and they are ruthless.<br/><br/>Holly must summon all her formidable talents to outthink and outmanoeuvre the shockingly twisted professors in this chilling new masterwork from Stephen King.<br/><br/><b>'I could never let Holly Gibney go. She was supposed to be a walk-on character in <i>Mr Mercedes </i>and she just kind of stole the book and stole my heart. <i>Holly </i>is all her.' STEPHEN KING </b></p>

<p><b>Praise for the Strike series:</b><br/><br/>'The work of a <b>master storyteller</b>'<br/><i>Daily Telegraph</i><br/><br/>'A <b>blistering</b> piece of crime writing'<br/><i>Sunday Times</i><br/><br/>'<b>Unputdownable</b>'<br/><i>Daily Express</i><br/><br/>'One of crime's <b>most engaging</b> duos'<br/><i>Guardian</i><br/><br/>'A page-turner that will <b>keep you up all night</b>'<br/><i>Observer</i><br/><br/>'Superb . . . an<b> ingenious </b>whodunnit'<br/><i>Sunday Mirror</i><br/><br/>'Strike and Robin are just as <b>magnetic</b> as ever'<br/><i>New York Times</i><br/><br/>'<b>Outrageously entertaining</b>'<br/><i>Financial Times</i></p>

<p><b>Chicago. 1992. A hospital patient wakes to find two strangers by his bed. </b><br/><br/>They show him a list of names and ask a simple but impossible question. Minutes later he falls to his death from his twelfth-floor window - a fall which generates some unexpected attention.<br/><br/>That attention comes from the Secretary of Defense, who calls for an inter-agency task force to investigate. Jack Reacher, recently demoted from Major, is assigned as the Army's representative. If he gets a result, great. If not, he's a convenient fall guy.<br/><br/>Reacher may be an exceptional military investigator, but office politics aren't what gets him up in the morning. As he races to identify a cold-blooded killer and uncover a secret that stretches back 23 years, he must navigate around his new partners.<br/><br/><b>Will Reacher bring the bad guys to justice the official way . . . </b><b>or his way?</b><br/><br/><b>PRAISE FOR THE JACK REACHER SERIES<br/><br/>'</b>There's only one Jack Reacher. Accept no substitutes.' <b>MICK HERRON<br/>'</b>Jack Reacher is today's James Bond, a thriller hero we can't get enough of.' <b>KEN FOLLETT<br/>'</b>Everyone needs to kick some butt sometimes, even if it's just imaginary.' <b>JOJO MOYES</b><br/><br/><i>Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, The Secret is the 28th book in the internationally bestselling series.</i><br/><br/><b>PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY NOW</b><br/><br/>And be sure not to miss Reacher's newest adventure, no.27, <i>No Plan B</i>! <b>***OUT NOW***</b></p>