THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!'Bristling with suspense and crammed with false clues, it would make a fine Hitchcock film' Daily Mail'I couldn't put it down' has never been more true! Crying out to be turned into a Netflix series' Prima 'I read it in one sitting ... The story really drew me in and I was really rooting for both women to escape. A great beach read. 5 stars' Netgalley reviewClaire and Eva lead very different lives, but they have one thing in common - they are both in huge danger an...
Jason Davey ran away to sea after the death of his wife, finding work as a contract entertainer aboard a cruise ship, the Star Sapphire. But when faces from his past come aboard as passengers, Jason's routine week-long trip to Alaska becomes anything but relaxing. Jason's wife once worked for Diana Wyndham, a beautiful and eccentric actress. And hard-drinking ex-rocker, Rick Redding, once toured with a band Jason has strong ties to. Now Diana occupies one of the ship's luxury suites, and Rick...
"Sexy, tough, and deftly sprinkled with dark humor.”—New York Times bestselling author Larissa Ione Before the Scorpius Syndrome tore through North America and nearly wiped out the population, Vivienne Wellington was the FBI’s best profiler. The bacteria got her anyway. But she survived. She recovered. And when she woke up from a drug-nightmare of captivity, her trust in her fellow man had gone from shaky at best to nonexistent. Her mysterious rescuer wants to convince her he’s the ex...
Close your eyes…and count to ten. ‘I was gripped by this taut and emotional thriller.’ Louise Jensen, author of The Sister. ‘A well crafted, nail biting thriller crammed with unpredictable twists. It wrong foots you with a killer twist that will have you re-reading because you can’t believe you didn’t see it coming.’ John Marrs, author of The One ‘I thought it was absolutely brilliant – really fast-paced, and packed full of action.’ Lisa Hall, author of Between You...
"The limitless possibilities of fiction are brilliantly utilised . . . Ingenious" Irish Times"Agualusa's funny and lively tale turns increasingly ominous ahead of an explosive conclusion" Guardian***A Financial Times Fiction in Translation Book of the Year 2023***Daniel lives with artist Moira on her native Island of Mozambique. They are awaiting the birth of their child, while also organising the island's first literary festival. But as soon as the first festival guests arrive, the coast is hit...
**Previously published as Cold Kiss**The most gripping thriller you'll read this year, perfect for fans of The Hunting Party and An Unwanted GuestSeven strangers. One body. A decision that will change everything. Nate and Sara are broke – and on the run from the past. When a shady hitchhiker offers them cold hard cash for a lift, they can't afford to say no. But when the man dies in the back seat, with more than two million dollars in his possession, Nate and Sara are forced to make a difficul...
In 2011, Mr. Watanabe, a Japanese electronics executive, is in Tokyo when the earthquake that precedes the Fukushima nuclear disaster strikes. In the aftermath, he fins himself on a journey to Fukushima, a tourist of the current day tragedy that mimics his own experiences of World War II. For Mr Watanabe is one of the few double hibakusha, a survivor of the atomic bombs dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. The earthquake shifts his and others memories of those events. Meanwhile, four wo...
UN RASCACIELOS ÚNICO EN EL MUNDO. UN TERRIBLE ERROR DE CÁLCULO. UNA AMENAZA INMINENTE. Un thriller vertiginoso de la mano de Pedro Torrijos, el autor con millones de lectores en las redes sociales. #LaBrasaTorrijos Nueva York, 1977. En el centro de la ciudad acaba de inaugurarse el flamante edificio de Citicorp. Su peculiar estructura ha roto las reglas de la arquitectura moderna y lo ha convertido en uno de los rascacielos más reconocibles del skyline de Manhattan, pero pocos saben e...
This work is set in July 16, 1945. The world's first atomic mushroom cloud rises above the New Mexico desert. Physicists Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi are there to watch the detonation of their brainchild. The bomb's third 'godfather', Leo Szilard, is in Chicago. As the bomb detonates, all three suddenly find themselves in unfamiliar surroundings having, somehow, arrived in the year 2003. When the three scientists appear in Santa Fe, Ann, a librarian, and her doting gardener husband, Ben,...
From the bestselling, Booker-shortlisted writer of Italian Ways and Europa, a classic novel about a man's emotional reckoning in a changed world far from homeFrank's reclusive existence in a leafy part of London is shattered when he is summoned to Milan for the funeral of an old friend. Preoccupied by this sudden intrusion of his past, he flies, oblivious, into the epicentre of a crisis he has barely registered on the news.It is spring, his luxury hotel offers every imaginable comfort; perhaps h...
You will talk about 2016. You will talk about The Lighted City. You will be brave and truthful. You will get to the bottom of what happened.Paul (Paulina) Hayes loves her cousin Adrian. Inseparable from a young age, they play The Lighted City, an imaginary world where they pretend to live together and can escape a childhood that seems both too sad and too grown-up. But The Lighted City isn't without danger. Years later, Paul is struggling with PTSD after a season of turmoil— one in...
When the weather revolts, certainties dissolve and binaries blur as members of two reading groups converge at the intersection of theory and practice to reshape their lives, relationships, and reality itself. In the latest novel from Anna Moschovakis, two reading groups, unofficially called Love and Anti-Love, falter amidst political friction and signs of environmental collapse. Participation offers a prescient look at communication in a time of rupture: anonymous participants exchange fantasi...