Engelska

<b>This novel blindsided me with twists and surprises that had me gaspingand with a poignancy about relationships and love that one rarely finds in the genre. A brilliant, brilliant book.Jodi Picoult, #1New York Timesbestselling author </b><br/><br/><b>From the author of Reeses Book Club Pick andNew York TimesbestsellerWrong Place Wrong Time comes an addictive thriller about a new mothers world upended when her husband commits a terrifying crime. How well does she truly know the man she loves? And what danger does she face if her entire life has been built on a lie?</b> <br/><br/>It is June 21st, the longest day of the year, and new mother Camillas life is about to change forever. <br/><br/>After months of maternity leave, she will drop her infant daughter off at daycare for the first time and return to her job as a literary agent. Finally. But, when she wakes, her husband Luke isnt there, and in his place is a cryptic note. <br/><br/>Then it starts. <br/><br/>Breaking news: there's a hostage situation developing in London.The police arrive, and tell her Luke is involved. But he isn't a hostage. Her husband - doting father, eternal optimist - is the gunman. <br/><br/>What she does next is crucial. <br/><br/>Because only she knows what the note he left behind that morning says... <br/><br/>Famous Last Words is the story of a crime, a marriage, and more secrets than Camilla ever could have imagined. This novel cements Gillian McAllisters reputation asthe best at putting her characters in impossible situations and making her readers not only contemplate but feel what it would be like to find themselves in those situations. (Emily Henry)

<b>Book 18 in the acclaimed and number one-bestselling Three Pines series featuring the beloved Chief Inspector Armand Gamache.</b><br/><br/>It's spring and Three Pines is re-emerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying dormant should return.<br/><br/> But something has.<br/><br/> As the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. A young man and woman have reappeared in the Surete du Quebec investigators' lives after many years. The two were young children when their troubled mother was murdered, leaving them damaged, shattered. Now they've arrived in the village of Three Pines.<br/><br/> But to what end?<br/><br/> Gamache and Beauvoir's memories of that tragic case, the one that first brought them together, come rushing back. Did their mother's murder hurt them beyond repair? Have those terrible wounds, buried for decades, festered and are now about to erupt?<br/><br/> As Chief Inspector Gamache works to uncover answers, his alarm grows when a letter written by a long dead stone mason is discovered. In it the man describes his terror when bricking up an attic room somewhere in the village. Every word of the 150-year-old letter is filled with dread. When the room is found, the villagers decide to open it up.<br/><br/> As the bricks are removed, Gamache, Beauvoir and the villagers discover a world of curiosities. But the head of homicide soon realizes there's more in that room than meets the eye. There are puzzles within puzzles, and hidden messages warning of mayhem and revenge.<br/><br/> In unsealing that room, an old enemy is released into their world. Into their lives. And into the very heart of Armand Gamache's home.<br/><br/><b>PRAISE FOR LOUISE PENNY AND THE INSPECTOR GAMACHE SERIES:</b><br/><b><br/>'Enthralling ... </b>With beautifully drawn characters, this is <b>crime writing of the highest order</b>'<i> <b>DAILY MAIL</b></i><br/><br/>'A <b>satisfying and multi-layered mystery</b>, in Penny's excellent series' <i><b>IRISH INDEPENDENT</b></i><br/><br/>'Louise Penny is on peak form ... <b>a grown-up, timely thriller</b> that considers the nature of cowardice ... merges the personal and professional life of her detective with equal skill and wit' <i><b>THE TIMES</b></i><br/><br/>'A <b>great sense of place and characterisation</b> ... very much a book that will make you think' <i><b>SHOTS</b></i><br/><br/> 'Louise Penny is one of the greatest crime writers of our times' <b>DENISE MINA</b><br/><br/> 'Gamache has become to Canada what Hercule Poirot is to Belgium' <b><i>THE NEW YORK TIMES</i></b><br/><br/> 'Louise Penny twists and turns the plot expertly tripping the reader up just at the moment you think you might have solved the mystery' <b><i>DAILY EXPRESS</i></b><br/><br/> 'The series is deep and grand and altogether extraordinary . . . Miraculous' <b><i>WASHINGTON POST</i></b><br/><br/> 'No one does atmospheric quite like Louise Penny' <b>ELLY GRIFFITHS</b>

<b>'Perhaps the greatest living American crime writer' Stephen King</b><br/><br/>After the Carusos family home is destroyed by police with a no-knock warrant, the family struggle to return to normal.<br/><br/>Two former inmates reunite on a TV set. They're both back on the straight and narrow ... until one sees the potential for an easy grift.<br/><br/>A teenage boy must step into the man he'd like to be as a hostage crisis grips his hometown.<br/><br/>A woman adrift meets a man tied to her grandmother's past, and awakens to the bloody history of the place she grew up.<br/><br/>Pelecanos' portraits are characterized by shades of grey, resisting the mold of heroes and villains, victims and perpetrators, good and evil. At once streetwise and full of heart, <i>Owning Up</i> grapples with random chance, the bind of consequence, and the forked paths a life can take.

<b>**THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**</b><br/><br/>'<i>The Thursday Murder Club</i> on <b>steroids</b>' <i><b>SAGA Magazine</b></i><br/><br/>'Irresistible and <b>highly recommended</b>!' <b>LEE CHILD</b><br/><br/>'I loved it. A <b>hugely entertaining</b> read!' <b>ANN CLEEVES</b><br/><br/>'A nice take on retirement-five old spooks whose bones may ache but whose minds remain sharp. You can <b>expect mystery, action, and bloodshed in this exciting thriller</b>' - <i>Kirkus </i><br/><br/><b>***<br/><br/>INTRODUCING MAGGIE BIRD<br/><br/>IN A RIVETING NEW SERIES FROM THE <i>SUNDAY TIMES </i>BESTSELLING AUTHOR </b><br/><br/>Maggie Bird is many things. A chicken farmer. A good neighbour. A seemingly average retiree living in the seaside town of Purity. She's also a darned good rifle shot. And she never talks about her past.<br/><br/>But when an unidentified body is left on Maggie's driveway, she knows it's a calling card from old times. It's been fifteen years since the failed mission that ended her career as a spy, and cost her far more than her job.<br/><br/>Step forward the 'Martini Club' - Maggie's silver-haired book group (to anyone who asks), and a cohort of former spies behind closed doors. With the help of her old friends - and always one step ahead of the persistent local cop - Maggie might still be able to save the life she's built.<br/><br/><b>IT'S THE PERFECT PLACE TO RETIRE . . . UNTIL THEY FIND YOU.</b><br/><br/>***<br/><br/>Praise for <i>The Spy Coast</i>:<br/><br/>'Gerritsen is a <b>born storyteller</b>, and this new series showcases her talents more than ever' <b>LEE CHILD</b><br/><br/>'Echoes of Richard Osman but Gerritsen offers us a <b>darker and consistently exciting thriller</b>' <i><b>THE MAIL ON SUNDAY</b></i><br/><br/><b>'</b>Action-packed pages, G-force twists and turns, and a platoon of fascinating characters' <b>DAVID BALDACCI</b><br/><br/>'A <b>riveting tale</b> filled with engaging characters' <b>KATHY REICHS</b><br/>.<br/><br/><i>The Summer Guests, </i>the second book in the Martini Club series is <b>AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER</b>.

<b>The Killing Stones by Ann Cleeves sees the return of Detective Jimmy Perez</b><br/><br/>When a violent storm descends upon Orkney, the body of Archie Stout is left in its wake. An unusual murder weapon, a Neolithic stone bearing ancient inscriptions, is found discarded nearby. Archie was a popular, larger-than-life character, and his death is a shocking blow to the community.<br/><br/>Detective Jimmy Perez, no stranger to the complexity of human nature and the darkness it can harbour, is soon on the scene. He counted Archie as a childhood friend, so this case is more personal than most. Now living in Orkney with his partner, Willow, and their son, Perez is soon drawn into the lives of the islanders, many of whom hold secrets. Dark secrets, which could have led to the man's murder.<br/><br/>Here, in these ancient lands where history runs deep, Perez must discern the truth from legend before a desperate killer strikes again . . .

'Unquestionably the supremo of South African crime-writing fiction' - Peter James<br/><br/>Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido are languishing in Stellenbosch. Run-of-the-mill police work in the leafy university town is a far cry from their previous life in the elite HAWKS. But when a student is found dead on a mountain trail, the two detectives find themselves trying to unpick a stubbornly difficult mystery.<br/>In the north of the country, meanwhile, a beautiful wildlife guide is recruited by a group of special forces soldiers to act as a honeytrap, part a dangerous multi-million-dollar heist that goes tragically wrong. Then back in Stellenbosch, a local businessman is found murdered in what looks like a professional hit - suffocated by fast-action filler foam sprayed down his throat. A message to keep silent - but about what?<br/>You need a cool head to unravel it all, because sadly, the thieves and criminals are as likely to be in government - or even the police - as on the streets. You need to stay calm, focused - and sober. Benny may be sober these days, but he's not feeling calm. Solving this puzzle is turning into a deadly race against time and there's another date that's coming towards him like an express train. Alexa has fixed the date for their wedding. Big trouble, on every front.

<b>PRE-ORDER THE NEW THRILLER FROM MILLION COPY <i>SUNDAY TIMES</i> BESTSELLER MICHAEL CONNELLY</b><br/><br/>Los Angeles County Sheriff's Detective Stilwell has been "exiled" to a low-key post policing rustic Catalina Island, after department politics drove him off a homicide desk on the mainland.<br/><br/>But while following up the usual drunk-and-disorderlies and petty thefts that come with his new territory, Detective Stilwell gets a report of a body found wrapped in plastic and weighed down at the bottom of the harbor. Crossing all lines of protocol and jurisdiction, he starts doggedly working the case.<br/><br/>Soon, his investigation uncovers closely guarded secrets and a dark heart to the serene island that was meant to be his escape from the evils of the big city.<br/><br/>****<br/><br/><b>CRIME DOESN'T COME BETTER THAN CONNELLY:</b><br/><br/>'The pre-eminent detective novelist of his generation'<br/><b>IAN RANKIN</b><br/><br/>'The best mystery writer in the world'<br/><b><i>GQ</i></b><br/><br/>'A superb natural storyteller'<br/><b>LEE CHILD</b><br/><br/>'A master'<br/><b>STEPHEN KING</b><br/><br/>'America's greatest living crime writer'<br/><b><i>DAILY EXPRESS</i></b><br/><br/>'One of the great storytellers of crime fiction'<br/><b><i>SUNDAY TELEGRAPH</i></b>