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A tale of love, hate, and murder, set in 1979 in England when kids sang about bricks in walls and hated Mondays. For 14 year old Tricia Blake, a dream-come-true horse for a year offers a fragile escape from the gritty reality of a shattered life. But in Tricia's world, dreams don't come true. The bad guy always wins. Until, one day, the bad guy goes way too far... ‘Pony club teen scene meets hardcore urban novel. Tricia Blake does a wicked thing. But who can blame her? A compelling story of revenge - Tricia Blake deserves to be read and forgiven.’ Carrie Worrall

Robert H Page is a master of crafting fast-paced, action-packed, twisting and turning stories that you simply can’t put down. If you like Simon Kernick, James Patterson or Harlan Coban then this is for you. A gritty crime trilogy told from the perspective of the bad guys and the victims not the police; similar to a Guy Ritchie movie. Book 1 starts as Dominic Devizes has just escaped from prison and is on his way back to the UK to exact his revenge on the man, a British diplomat, who left him to rot. His plan is to kidnap the diplomat’s daughter, Annie, for ransom.

The underbelly of one of Australia's most sedate and conservativce cities is uncovered to reveal dark secrets and gruesome revelations.

There's an international conspiracy in play but the secret can't get out; or can it? The aviation industry is in turmoil and the U.S. president is off his game. He just shanked his drive into a water hazard on the fourth hole.

Bree Ingall solves cases for a living. She excels at her job, and together with her team, is one of the best detectives that Iris Cove Police Department has to offer. That is, until she wakes up one morning with no recollection of her own life.

He’s affable. Rather shy, quite a gentleman, and he loves his mother. But don’t smile. Don’t attract his attention. For Christ’s sake don’t agree to meet. He’s hunting. It will be a date with death. He’s a stalker, an obsessive, and depraved. Worse, he doesn’t know it. You see it’s all your fault. You made him do this. You turned him into The Creep Outside. Another suspense-filled case for Detective Inspector David Stark that will reveal murder and end with a tragedy shocking Stark and Nottingham CID to its core.

Christina’s idyllic existence with her husband Patrik comes to an abrupt end when Patrik suddenly vanishes from their suburban home in Stockholm. Christina is precipitated into a hellishly desperate and anguished search for Patrik – which after six weeks turns up nary a trace of him. At her wits end, she contacts local sleuths Lars and Elin, who, after a brief investigation, reach the conclusion that Patrik simply decided to abandon his cushy existence to embark on a new life –without Christina.

An ordinary workday at the western Massachusetts Sugarloaf Inn turns more chilling than the winter weather when staff member Candy Wadsen makes a gruesome discovery. Her day goes from bad to worse when Candy finds her boss dead and realizes that Detective Sergeant Dan Petrowski suspects her of committing the crime.

When a bust goes terribly wrong, Paradise City detective Will Mansion nearly dies while saving his partner. On leave, Will seeks relief from post-traumatic stress disorder through Zen meditation and abstinence. He responds to the plea of the cryptic Sister Clyde to find a man missing from her soup kitchen, a man who may provide a lead to the vicious drug dealer who nearly killed Will.

September 1987. The internet is yet to be born, and the iPhone is over twenty years from its inception. A packet of cigarettes costs £1.60 and Rick Astley is number one in the charts with 'Never Gonna Give You Up.' Some things don't change, however; greed, love, jealousy, and a knife sliding through a carotid artery tend to have the same impact on people's lives as they ever did.

It is the summer of 1987.

The man was 100 yards from his moment of destiny. He was oblivious to it, of course. Murderers don't necessarily realise they are killers until a few seconds before it happens. Murderers are sometimes just like you and me. He would never have dreamed that such a thing might happen. Ridiculous. If anyone had told him that today was the day he would turn into a killer, he would have looked at them quizzically; questioning their sanity, instead of his own.

It is Christmas 1987. A perverted criminal sociopath is on the loose. An innocent young woman is murdered in horrific circumstances. DI Stark announces 'Christmas is cancelled,' and his team investigates; aware that every second the maniac is at large moves him closer to his next victim. A second woman is raped and brutalised. How is the killer discovering intimate secrets about his victims? Why does he insist on terrifying them in the lead up to the attacks? What is driving this depravity? Who will the next victim be?

SECRETS IN THE FOG Cape of Secrets - Marika Host lands a great job helping renowned archeologist Sir William write his memoirs, exposing years of secrets. His son Derrick adds romance to her summer. But when Sir William is murdered, Marika realizes some secrets are best kept buried.

When the body of a well known film star is murdered during the Málaga Film Festival, the Guardia Civil once more turn to JD and her team for help. The crime is far from straightforward. The killer has left a trail of clues for the police to follow, but the question is why? And what is he trying to tell them? They can find no obvious motive for the murder of this popular actor, whose naked body was found in the locked basement of the Picasso Museum.

At the age of fifteen, Katherine Widcombe, the niece of a baronet, is found missing from her bed whilst visiting her maternal aunt in Bristol. She is returned to her aunt and uncle’s home, Widcombe Hall, blindfolded and with the weight of a terrible secret on her young shoulders. Six years later, she is invited to spend Christmas with her cousin, Philippa and her new husband Conrad, Earl of Croston. She is horrified when Conrad confesses his love for her.

With determination, courage, and some suffering along the way; Brenda Sayers makes the decision for a career move that would drastically change the rest of her life. She's going to be surprised by what she finds to be true because only TRUTH will set you free. Sayers, a woman just divorced needs to find a career to fulfill her life. Her life, her job and all that she has worked for could be lost, as the ethical boundaries of her police work is questioned.

Pregnant. Divorced. Alone. Lily witnesses an argument turned to murder. Linked to the crime scene in the eyes of both the police and the killer, Lily’s life is now at risk. As the attempts on her life escalate, Lily seeks companionship in a newly formed Bible study. Through these friendships and a new man in her life she learns she is worthy of love. Will these relationships keep her safe? Or will they provide opportunities for the killer? Lily, Return to Happiness, is the first novella in a new Christian Suspense series by Anna K. Payne.

“When Erica realizes there’s been the constant turmoil within her marriage, and her relationship with God was in the most trouble, getting back into a right relationship with Him is her aim. Amid all, she identifies something has to give. Erica sees her life and the lives around her shift forever. As she contends with lust and emotions, an old boyfriend shows up at an espresso shop she frequents, and he’s what she’s yearned for in a believing spouse. The battle is on when her husband divorces her after winning the lotto.

A novel in 7 parts, serialised as e-books and paperbacks, "A Life Singular" tells the story of a successful celebrity writing his autobiography. In essence a love story, "A Life Singular" is about dealing with mental illness, the choices we make between right and wrong, and how the one affects the other. Some of life's lessons are harder to learn, and some amazing opportunities easier to take. The trick is always to understand the consequences of our choices, before it's too late...

Content Advisory: This book is intended for mature audiences and contains disturbing scenes Five young children ventured deep into the forest as their leader had accepted a dare. It all seemed innocent, just to spend the day in Dalton Forest but laughs and adventure they certainly wouldn’t be experiencing. Sheltering from the heavy rain in a cave, they make a morbid discovery, and someone who doesn’t want anyone to know who he is, or why he is there. In an attempt to escape from this wild forest dweller, they inadvertently kill him.

Chasing her dream of becoming an investigative reporter in San Francisco, Holly Rivera Berry has to return to her hometown of Bonafides on the Texas Coastal Bend to settle her recently deceased father’s estate. She discovers that just before he died her father researched the possibility that via an old Mexican land grant the Rivera family owns The Gap, a natural channel to the Gulf of Mexico. Land speculators plan to erect luxury homes, resorts, hotels, and a casino along The Gap and Holly comes to doubt that her father died of natural causes.