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Can you be free if you can't go outside? The year is 2024, and the residents of the Tower, a virus-proof apartment building, live in a state of permanent lockdown. The building is controlled by James, who keeps the residents safe but incarcerated. Behind bricked-up front doors, their every need is serviced; they are pampered but remain prisoners. This suits Eugene just fine. Ravaged by the traumas of his past, the agoraphobic ex-detective has no intention...
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One million pounds. Five contestants. A killer among them. Five strangers are brought together on a reality TV show, The Entrepreneur, to win a cash prize that could change their lives forever. When the five contestants move into a remote house and filming begins, their business plans are unveiled. But when one contestant wins a task by selling murderabilia, it sets in motion a chain of events that will test the sanity of each contender and put them...
3) Only You
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Nothing is really, forgotten... Nothing is ever, forgiven... When Athene walks into Mary's cafe and asks for directions to a holiday cottage she has rented, Mary tells her it burned down twenty years earlier. Since Athene has nowhere to stay, Mary suggests that she checks in to a local pub for the night. What Athene doesn't, know is that the burnt-out house was, where Mary's friend, Bella, lived. The only person she ever loved, who died in terrible...
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The unearthing of a long-hidden body stirs up a woman's memories of a troubled relationship-and teenage trauma-in this suspenseful, emotional novel.
When she was just fourteen, Jill's family moved to Walney Island. Initially intoxicated by the freedom of the seaside setting-and fifteen-year-old Andrew Brownstone-she came to learn that her first impressions were very wrong. After making a shocking discovery in Seaview House, Jill fled the scene-a...
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When a woman learns her abusive husband is dead, it's only the beginning of her nightmare, in this twisting psychological thriller by the author of Her Final Victim.
Ellie managed to escape from husband Kayden's vicious abuse-and since learning from her mother-in-law that he's taken his own life, she'll never have to worry about him again.
But instead of relief, Ellie is now experiencing terror in the form of frightening phone calls, hostile strangers...
6) Hide
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Would you face danger or run away? When armed men infiltrate the tiny Peak District hamlet of Barkelow, Emil Torrance thinks they're here to kill him because of his past. After killing one of the gunmen he flees, but when he learns that the men have taken control of the entire hamlet, he realises his son is in grave danger. Believing that calling the police will cost lives, he decides to deal with the problem alone. But when he learns that he's not...
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This psychological thriller takes you inside the mind of a fascinating character who lives a quiet life-with disturbing secrets hidden in memory lapses.
M works in publishing and enjoys watching people. M also suffers from panic attacks and odd memory lapses. Lately, M has developed an intense relationship with Caleb, who lives across the street. The only trouble is Caleb doesn't know M exists...
When M starts to practice memory recall exercises,...
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A family moves into a farmhouse in a quiet English village-but mysterious events a century earlier haunt their new home . . .
In 1916, the Great War is underway and Henry has been called up, leaving his wife and three children in their North Yorkshire farmhouse. They keep in touch via letters-but when he returns to Abberton House, his whole family has disappeared. There are whispers of an affair, but Henry refuses to believe it-and spends the...
9) Betrayed
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How far would you go to get revenge? When Nate wakes up in the woods, he has no idea how he got there. The last thing he remembers is being at home. And when, he spots two people digging a grave his problems multiply. After escaping from the woods, he goes home to find his house burning and his brother, Peter, dead inside. Now the police are after him for the murder. Determined to find out who set him up and why Nate goes on a dangerous journey to...
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A reunion of friends in remote Scotland turns into a terrifying ordeal in this twisting crime thriller by the author of Trust No One.
Billy Maguire, on his way to Scotland for a reunion with his university friends, stops for a few drinks en route. Then, on the deserted roads leading to the isolated location, he runs over a pedestrian.
The man is alive, and Billy puts him in the back seat of his car, planning to leave him outside the nearest...
11) Minotaur
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"A gripping read, I read it in a day! . . . Brilliant, fast-paced . . . keeps you gripped from the first page." -Amazon reviewer, five stars
After twelve brutal murders, a vicious killer continues to elude the police-but one desperate father may prove to be his downfall . . .
A cunning and sadistic serial killer known as Minotaur has already murdered and mutilated twelve women. When novelist David Knight comes home, he is shattered to find...
12) Her Last Lie
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A twisting tale of guilt, motherhood, and murder by the bestselling author of The Secret Couple . . .
When the body of Jen's teenage son, Eli, is found at the edge of a lake, her shock and grief are overwhelming-and so is the activity swirling around her as the police investigate.
The guilt she feels because she was not at home the night her child was killed weighs heavy on Jen's heart. But while she hides a secret, Jen yearns to know what...
13) A Perfect Family
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A young woman starts having doubts about her dream man in this unsettling thriller from the bestselling author of Girl in Bed Three.
Nineteen-year-old Ellen is thrilled to have Jack Bryant as a best friend and roommate. She would be even happier to have him as a boyfriend. Ellen doesn't just love Jack, she loves his entire family-so perfect, so wealthy, so envied by the neighbours.
Then, one terrible Saturday morning, Ellen and Jack visit his family...
14) The Little Lies
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A young woman's idyllic life comes apart when her past comes back to haunt her in this psychological thriller by the author of the Dublin Murder Mysteries.
After working as a hospital nurse in Dubai and London, Jodie settles down in Kent. With her job at a quiet nursing home and her loving new relationship, it seems that she's finally put her troubled past behind her. But someone from her childhood has been following her for years. And he's decided...
15) Ripple Effect
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A long-ago illicit relationship continues to upend lives in this taut psychological suspense novel...
Fifteen years ago, teenage Erin had an affair with her teacher that led to tragedy and changed Erin's life. Today, she's a married woman who keeps to herself and stays close to home, still scarred by the experience.
When she's attacked while running in the park, Erin doesn't tell her husband-but she does confide in Nick, the man who came to her...
16) The Disciple
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Would you follow him into darkness? Sister Veronica is back at the Convent; a changed woman as a result of her experiences with the corrupt clergy and the murder she lived through. Now — more than ever — she has a thirst for righting wrongs, even if it means getting herself into danger. So, when a two-month-old baby girl is left on the Convent doorstep one night, wrapped up in dirty blankets and placed in an open cardboard box, Sister Veronica...
17) Exile
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On a remote Shetland island, a mother and daughter's strained relationship is tested as dark and long-hidden secrets are revealed . . .
Kirstie exiles herself to the small Shetland island of Yell after yet another torrid affair. She knows she went too far this time-her desperate behaviour caused the breakdown of her lover's marriage. Taking up residence in her grandparents' croft, which has lain empty since their deaths, and wanting time to reflect...
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Optioned by Picture Perfect Federation for development as a film or TV series
Sarah Morgan is a successful and powerful defense attorney in Washington D.C. As a named partner at her firm, life is going exactly how she planned. The same cannot be said for her husband, Adam. He's a struggling writer who has had little success in his career and he tires of his and Sarah's relationship as she is constantly working.
Out in the secluded woods, at the...
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A serial killer emerges from the past to stalk a witness in a harrowing novel of missteps and madness from the author of Intention and All I See Is You.
When Sarah was seventeen years old, she hid in a wardrobe while her mother was murdered in the bedroom.
As the weeks and months passed, Sarah gradually moved on from the horror of that night and managed to settle into her changed family life.
After the police confirm that her mother...
20) Scars
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The wounds you can't see take the longest to heal in this modern gothic thriller from the bestselling author of Girl A and Damaged.
In an isolated cottage on the banks of a Scottish loch, a reclusive couple take on a new live-in carer. As Lucy gets to know her employers, she realizes the house and the people in it aren't what they seem. Is the house haunted or is something far more sinister living within the walls?
As secrets and lies begin to unravel,...
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