Thrillers

Her name is Jane Smith. But to friends and foes, she's Jane Effing Smith. Why? Because she's the best criminal defense attorney in the Hamptons - the elite world of New York's rich and infamous. Because she's as good an investigator as she is a lawyer. Because she's tough. She's strong. As Jane is preparing to defend a high-profile client accused of a triple homicide, she's also hired to revive a cold case - a cluster of unsolved murders. Then another bombshell lands: a devastating medical diagnosis. Terminal. She's got a year to live. But first, she has a trial to win. Unless one of her many enemies kills her first.

1979. It is the winter of discontent, and reporter Allie Burns is chasing her first big scoop. There are few women in the newsroom, and she needs something explosive for the boys' club to take her seriously. Soon Allie and fellow journalist Danny Sullivan are exposing the criminal underbelly of respectable Scotland. They risk making powerful enemies - and Allie won't stop there. When she discovers a home-grown terrorist threat, Allie comes up with a plan to infiltrate the group and make her name. But she's a woman in a man's world...and putting a foot wrong could be fatal.

The second thrilling novel in Val McDermid's new Sunday Times best-selling series.

It's 1989, and Allie Burns is back. Older and maybe wiser, she's running the northern news operation of the Sunday Globe, chafing at losing her role in investigative journalism and at the descent into the gutter of the UK tabloid media. But there's plenty to keep her occupied. The year begins with the memorial service to the victims of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, but Allie has barely filed her copy when she stumbles over a story about HIV/AIDS that will shock her into a major change of direction.

The world of newspapers is undergoing a revolution, there's skulduggery in the medical research labs and there are seismic rumblings behind the Iron Curtain. When kidnap and murder are added to this potent mix, Allie is forced to question all her old certainties.

A collection of three gripping new stories from the world's bestselling thriller writer.

3 DAYS TO LIVE: A CIA-agent bride is on her European honeymoon when she and her husband are poisoned - leaving her seventy-two hours to take revenge.

WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST: When a deal goes bad on a tech executive in Washington, DC, he turns an order to kill his family into a chance to relive his military glory days.

THE HOUSEKEEPERS: A Los Angeles doctor trusts her two housekeepers, but when she's murdered in a botched attempt to steal drugs, the pair of grifters vie to control their former employer's estate - facing off against the Russian mob.

GET READY FOR THE MOST EXCITING COUNT-DOWN OF YOUR LIFE

HOUR SIXTY-ONE
Icy winter in South Dakota. A bus skids and crashes in a gathering storm. On the back seat: Jack Reacher, hitching a ride to nowhere. A life without baggage has many advantages. And disadvantages too, like facing the arctic cold without a coat.

HOUR THIRTY-ONE
A small town is threatened by sinister forces. One brave woman is standing up for justice.If she's going to live to testify, she'll need help from a man like Reacher.Because there's a killercoming for her.

HOUR ZERO
Has Reacher finally met his match? He doesn't want to put the world to rights. He just doesn't like people who put it to wrongs.

Book 14 of series.

A chance encounter with an old university friend leads newly qualified priest, James Brittain, to accept an invitation to participate in the CND Aldermaston march in April 1963, where he unwittingly learns of a plot to assassinate President Kennedy during his forthcoming visit to the UK.

An ISIS attack on America is narrowly averted when the FBI uncovers a plot to detonate a weapon of mass destruction during the Super Bowl. Omar al Mustafa, a notorious Muslim cleric known for his anti-American diatribes is arrested, but there is only one problem: there is no evidence against him. If Mustafa is innocent, newly appointed District Judge A Scott Fenney, must set the most dangerous man in Dallas free, with no idea who is really guilty...

Ted Mundy, the son of a British soldier, first met Sasha, the refugee son of an East German pastor, when they were students in Berlin. Their paths crossed as espionage operatives in the Cold War era, and they finally meet again in today's world of terrorism. X rated, contains offensive language and graphic violence.

When the US President is involved in a vicious murder, his loyal Chief of Staff along with the Secret Service orchestrate a cover-up. Unknown to them a professional burglar, Luther Whitney, has witnessed the whole affair and is now on the run for his life. X rated, contains offensive language and explicit sex.

At JFK Airport, a routine plane departs for San Francisco. Security agent Bernice Adams finds a postcard of the Golden Gate Bridge bearing an ambiguous message. Which flight is that person on, and what exactly does the message mean? Her supervisor dismisses her concerns but she is compelled to contact Homeland Security. Someone's planning something terrible and these passengers' lives entwine as they come together to help to avert a tragedy at the eleventh hour.

Daniel Miller murdered fourteen people before he vanished. His wife, Carrie, now faces trial as his accomplice. The FBI, the District Attorney, the media and everyone in America believe she knew and helped cover up her husband's crimes.

Eddie Flynn won't take a case unless his client is innocent. Now, he has to prove to a jury, and the entire world, that Carrie Miller didn't know her husband's dark side. But so far, Eddie and his team are the only ones who believe that she had no part in the murders.

With his wife on trial, Daniel Miller is forced to come out of hiding to save her from a life sentence. He will kill to protect her and everyone involved in the case is a target.

Even Eddie Flynn...

After years of silence, Texan lawyer Scott Fenney receives a devastating phone call from his ex-wife. She has been accused of murdering her boyfriend,Trey, and is being held in a police cell. Now she is begging Scott to defend her. If Rebecca is found guilty, she will be sentenced to life imprisonment. As he prepares to take the stand in the most dramatic courtroom appearance of his life, Scott is forced to question everything he believes to get to the truth - to save the life of the ex-wife he still loves...

Rosslyn has a mission to destroy a syndicate engaged in crimes against children, including pornography. X rated, explicit sexual content.

The market town of Mickleburgh has successfully hidden the secrets of its inhabitants for generations, but the casual murder of a man trying to prevent vandalism shatters the perfect veneer. The aftermath of the violent death produces unexpected reactions between partners and friends.

1660, General Edward Whalley and Colonel William Goffe, father- and son-in-law, cross the Atlantic. They are on the run and wanted for the murder of Charles I. Under the provisions of the Act of Oblivion, they have been found guilty in absentia of high treason.

In London, Richard Nayler, secretary of the regicide committee of the Privy Council, is tasked with tracking down the fugitives. He'll stop at nothing until the two men are brought to justice. A reward of GBP100 hangs over their heads - for their capture, dead or alive.

The ambushing of presidential candidate Josh Alexander's motorcade throws the US nation into turmoil. Two weeks later he is victorious due to a vote of sympathy. Do al-Qaeda have any part to play in this?

March 1997. A woman has her throat cut behind a bar in Carter Crossing, Mississippi. Just down the road is a big army base. Is the murderer a local guy - or is he a soldier? Jack Reacher, still a major in the military police, is sent in undercover. Book 16 of series

The US and UK intelligence services suspect a major Al Qaeda operation is being planned, but how can they get more information? Would it be possible to infiltrate Al Qaeda? Could a westerner pass as an Arab? This is what Iraqi born Mike martin attempts to do!

In 1980 an airliner crashes in the French Alps, the only survivor is a small baby girl but there were two baby girls on the plane. Both families claim the child as theirs and the courts award custody to one set of grandparents. On her 18th birthday, the private investigator hired by one family gives her his case notes and as she sets out to find the truth, she uncovers eighteen years of lies and deceptions.

A school is on fire. Grace knows her teenage daughter Jenny is inside. She runs into the burning building to rescue her. Afterwards, Grace must find the identity of the arsonist and protect her family from the person who's still intent on destroying them.

When Ex-Navy SEAL and CIA operative Maxwell Moore barely survives a prisoner exchange that goes explosively wrong off the coast of Pakistan, he realises that powerful, cunning forces have been marshalled against him. Determined to dig out the truth, he uncovers a shocking conspiracy.

As a raging blizzard wreaks havoc at Lincoln International Airport outside Chicago, airline personnel try to cope with this unstoppable force of nature that is endangering thousands of lives. And in the air, a lone plane struggles to reach its destination. Over the course of seven hours, a tense human drama plays out as a brilliant airport manager, an arrogant pilot, a tough maintenance man, and a beautiful stewardess strive to avert disaster.

Former elite member of the SAS, Ben Hope is tortured by a tragedy from his past and now devotes his life to finding kidnapped children. But when Ben is recruited to locate an ancient manuscript which could save a dying child, he embarks on the deadliest quest of his life...

New York has seen more than its fair share of horrific attacks, but after two devastating catastrophes in quick succession, everyone is on edge. Detective Michael Bennett is given the task of hunting down the shadowy terror group responsible. Fighting the chaos all around him, Bennett is racing against the clock to save his beloved city - before the most destructive force he has ever faced tears it apart.  Book 8 of series.

Alex Cross passes the family tale of his great-uncle Abraham along to his children in a novel he's written, called 'Trial'. When President Theodore Roosevelt asks young lawyer Ben Corbett to investigate rumours of the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, he cannot refuse. Arriving in Eudora, Mississippi, Ben meets Abraham Cross. Residents of the town's black quarter are living in constant fear. Ben aims to break the reign of terror - but the truth of who is really behind it could break his heart.  Book 15 of series.

Three killers are on the rampage in the capital and dead bodies are piling up. Alex Cross is in charge of all three investigations, but with a crisis at home that threatens to tear his family apart, his attention is divided. While Cross tracks the killers, he doesn’t notice that someone is tracking him.  Book 20 of series.

The tomb of Alexander the Great – history’s most enigmatic warrior king – is seemingly lost forever. Then a construction crew unknowingly rip open the mouth of an Alexandrian catacomb and trigger a deadly race for the greatest treasure of all time. X rated, contains graphic violence and explicit sex.

After a long war American Adam Miller made his way to Venice where his mother is trying to re-create her pre-war life. There he meets Claudia, a Jewess whose father died in a concentration camp. When they discover the man responsible for this there is a confrontation, after which Adam and Claudia need to construct an unbreakable alibi.

Undercover cop Elena Estes, finds a woman's body - a friend murdered and dumped in a canal. Finding her friend's killer will put Elena at odds with her old life, her new lover, and herself. But she is determined to reveal the truth - one that will shock Palm Beach society to its core, and could easily get her killed. X rated, contains graphic violence.

ONE MISSING BOY.Marissa Irvine arrives at 14 Tudor Grove, expecting to pick up her young son Milo from his first playdate with a boy at his new school. But the woman who answers the door isn't a mother she recognises. She isn't the nanny. She doesn't have Milo. And so begins every parent's worst nightmare.

FOUR GUILTY WOMEN.As news of the disappearance filters through the quiet Dublin suburb and an unexpected suspect is named, whispers start to spread about the women most closely connected to the shocking event. Because only one of them may have taken Milo - but they could all be blamed . . .IN A COMMUNITY FULL OF SECRETS, WHO IS REALLY AT FAULT?

Verity is telling lies...
And that's why she's about to be arrested for attempted murder.

Serena has been lying for years...
And that may have driven her daughter, Verity, to do something unthinkable...

Poppy's lies have come back to haunt her...
So will her quest for the truth hurt everyone she loves?

Everyone lies. But whose lies are going to end in tragedy?

On the eve of his college graduation, Harry is called home by his step-mother Alice, to their house on the Maine coast, following the unexpected death of his father. But who really is Alice, his father's much younger second wife? As her past entwines with Harry's in the present, things grow increasingly dark and threatening - will Harry be able to see any of it clearly through his own confused feelings?

A teenage girl is found wandering the outskirts of Oxford, dazed and distressed. The story she tells is terrifying. Grabbed off the street, then driven to an isolated location where she was subjected to what sounds like an assault. Yet she refuses to press charges. DI Fawley investigates, but there's little he can do without the girl's co-operation. Is she hiding something, and if so, what?

Orla McCabe has found a case of money. She knows that someone dangerous will be after this stash, so she flees her home with her husband and newborn daughter--and the money. Meanwhile, Detectives Lynch and Weston are investigating the carnage of a botched human-trafficking deal at an isolated shooting lodge on the moors. They find two piles of bullet-riddled bodies--the traffickers and the 'product'--but no money. Soon the owners of the money start to hunt, dragging the McCabes and the detectives into a macabre game of cat-and-mouse. For a better life for her family, Orla will never stop running, even if it means sprinting headlong into the void itself. Now it's a matter of who she drags into the dark with her.

A student is accused of murdering her Professor, a crime of which she has no memory, but perhaps she possesses multiple personalities? Contains references of child abuse.

The winds shift nervously on the Kansas plain whispering of travelers lost and buried whispering of witches. Something dark and twisted has taken root at the Bender Inn . . .

At first the townspeople of Cherryvale welcome the rising medium Kate Bender and her family. Kate's messages from the Beyond give their tedious dreams hope and her mother's potions cure their little ills-for a price. No one knows about their other business the shortcut to a better life. And why shouldn't their family prosper? They're careful.

It's only from those who are marked those who travel alone and can easily disappear that the Benders demand their pound of flesh. But even a gifted seer like Kate can make a misstep. Now as the secrets festering beneath the soil of the family orchard threaten to bring them all to ruin the Benders must sharpen their craft-or vanish themselves.