Two little boys go missing out at sea - and only one is brought to shore.For the boys? mothers, best friends Sarah and Isla, the tragedy splinters a friendship. And The Sandbank - once an idyllic seaside haven - becomes a place of ghosts.On the anniversary of the drowning, the other boy is missing. Parents Nick and Sarah try to quell their panic, but the Sandbank hums with tension as decade-old memories rise to the surface. The truth lies in the past,...

'A beautifully written thriller with well-drawn characters and a twisting, gripping plot that will keep you guessing until the very last page' J.P. Delaney. 'The most ingenious thriller you will read this year. I couldn't put it down' M.J. Arlidge. 'Intricately woven and heart-stoppingly believable, this has bestseller written all over it' Clare Mackintosh. Five years ago, Rosa walked to the pier in the dead of night, looked into the swirling water,...

Helen Cooper has a charmed life. She's beautiful, accomplished, organised - the star parent at the school. Until she disappears. But Helen wasn't abducted or murdered. She's chosen to walk away, abandoning her family, husband Sam, and her home. Where has Helen gone, and why? What has driven her from her seemingly perfect life? What is she looking for? Sam is tormented by these questions, and gradually begins to lose his grip on work and his family...

?Fast-paced and full of excitement?It kept me gripped.? KATERINA DIAMOND, AUTHOR OF THE TEACHER YOU HAVE SIX SECONDS TO READ THIS MESSAGE?The body of a 15-year-old is found hours after she sends a desperate message to her friends. It looks like suicide, until a second girl disappears.This time, the message is sent directly to the Metropolitan Police - and an officer?s younger sister is missing.DS Nasreen Cudmore and journalist Freddie Venton will...

No sooner have Toots Loudenberry and her three best friends, Sophie, Ida and Mavis, returned from providing much-needed psychic advice to the first lady of California, when another situation demands their attention.

It is summer, it is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - a near-homicidal attack which changes the lives of everyone involved. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent bystander - until he becomes a murder suspect. As the body count mounts, each member of the teeming Dickensian cast's story contains a kernel of the next, like a set of nesting Russian dolls....

The much anticipated final instalment in the bestselling conspiracy thriller trilogy by Simon Toyne, author of SANCTUS: ?Plenty of action, plenty of intrigue and wonderfully imaginative. The sort of novel to devour in one sitting' Kate Mosse. For all fans of Dan Brown.AFTER THE RISE, COMES THE FALL.The forbidden Citadel at the heart of the ancient Turkish city of Ruin opens its gates for the first time in history. Why now, after centuries of secrecy?A...

Reprinted Edition "Gilstrap Is A Master Of Action And Drama." -Gayle Lynds Hostage rescue expert Jonathan Grave goes where the government can't. An innocent man has been shot and two young people are missing. But tracking them down is just the beginning. To keep them and his covert team alive, Jonathan plunges into the heart of an ugly secret whose insidious path reaches from one of the world's most remote places into the highest corridors of power-and...

'1st November 2003 started so unremarkably that I wish I had appreciated the normality of it. Because I would never, ever know peace again.' Charlene Downes was 14 when she went missing in Blackpool's seedy underbelly. Once a happy-go-lucky schoolgirl, she had become a truant - hanging out with the wrong crowd by the takeaway shops and pier. But Charlene's mum, Karen, always knew her typical teenage daughter would come home. Until one day she didn't....

Kieran Elliott's life changed forever on a single day when a reckless mistake led to devastating consequences. The guilt that haunts him still resurfaces during a visit with his young family to the small coastal town he once called home. Kieran's parents are struggling in a community which is bound, for better or worse, to the sea that is both a lifeline and a threat. Between them all is his absent brother Finn. When a body is discovered on the beach,...