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New York Times Bestseller
Ridley Jones has been living a lie. A mysterious package showed up on her doorstep one morning and the beautiful lie she used to call her life was over. Suddenly, everyone she knows feels like a stranger. And her determination to uncover the truth will put her life at risk.
When it appears a "secret asset"--a sleeper spy--has infiltrated British Intelligence, the Director of Counter-Terrorism assigns Liz Carlyle to dig up the mole. With a major attack looming, Liz must trust her instincts and move fast. But this assignment is deadly, and the stakes are high.
Finding a purloined portrait of a leggy blonde was supposed to be an easy paycheck for Detective Lew Archer, but that was before the bodies began piling up. Suddenly, Archer find himself smack in the middle of a decades-long mystery of a brilliant artist who walked into the desert and simply disappeared.
At first glance, it's an open-and-shut missing persons case: a headstrong daughter has run off to be with her hothead juvenile delinquent boyfriend. But when the two kidnap a local millionaire industrialist, Archer discovers that what at first seemed obvious can't be trusted and that the motives are more complicated than he ever could have imagined.
On a rainy April day, the body of former track star and convicted killer Leopold Verhaven is found wrapped in a blanket with no hands, feet, or head. Verhaven consistently proclaimed his innocence, however, and notably he was killed on the day of his return to society. Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is determined to discover the truth, even if it means taking the law into his own hands.
David March, John's brother, has been having affairs with anonymous women he meets on the internet. Now one of these women is stalking him. She knows everything about David--and she's threatening to tell his wife and colleagues. With his marriage, career, and reputation at stake, David asks John to find her, but the situation gets even more complicated when she turns up dead.
Three women's struggles within the conventions and restrictions of Japanese society are vividly brought to life in this brilliantly twisted novel of ambition, desire, beauty, cruelty, and identity. Life at the prestigious Q High School for Girls in Tokyo exists on a precise social axis--a world of insiders and outsiders. But the veil is lifted on that secretive world when two of the girls die under shocking circumstances--both have become prostitutes and both have been brutally murdered.
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On an oil platform in the middle of the North Atlantic, a terrifying series of illnesses is spreading through the crew. When expert naval doctor Peter Crane is flown in, he finds his real destination is not the platform itself but Deep Storm: a top secret aquatic science facility. And as Crane soon learns, the covert operation he finds there is concealing something far more sinister than a medical mystery.
Mrs. Ranelagh has never stopped thinking about the dead body she found in the gutter twenty years ago, during Britain's Winter of Discontent. The police called the death an accident, but Mrs. Ranelagh has always suspected it was murder. A vicious hate campaign forced her to abandon her suspicions and flee the country, but now she's back and determined to uncover the truth.
Lucas comes home one day to find a cryptic postcard on his doorstep. This postcard sets in motion a series of bizarre, seemingly interconnected events, leading Lucas and his girlfriend, Nuria, to be kidnapped by a religious cult with roots stretching back to the thirteenth century. Lucas must figure out who to believe--or who can believe him--before it's too late.
Beautiful Lies
A Novel
by Lisa Unger
Secret Asset
A Liz Carlyle Novel
by Stella Rimington
ROSS MACDONALD
The
Blue Hammer
A Lew Archer Novel 
The
Instant Enemy
A Lew Archer Novel
The Return
An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery
by Håkan Nesser
Red Cat
A John March Novel
by Peter Spiegelman
author of Death's Little Helpers
Grotesque
A Novel
by Natsuo Kirino
author of Out
Deep Storm
A Novel
by Lincoln Child
author of Death Match
The Shape of Snakes
A Novel
by Minette Walters
Edgar Award-winning bestselling author of The Devil's Feather
The Color of a Dog Running Away
A Novel
by Richard Gwyn
