The Elisenda Domenech Investigation Series
Chris Lloyd An intense and brilliantly realised crime thriller set in the myth-soaked streets of Girona A killer is targeting hate figures in the Catalan city of Girona – a loan shark, a corrupt priest, four thugs who have blighted…
Sneak Peak: Playlist for a Paper Angel
Jacqueline Ward One child found, one child missing – what’s the connection? DS Jan Pearce is still searching for her missing son. When she finds a little girl, Elise, alone in a pram in a busy town centre, she must…
13 Minutes
Sarah Pinborough I was dead for 13 minutes. I don’t remember how I ended up in the icy water but I do know this – it wasn’t an accident and I wasn’t suicidal. They say you should keep your friends…
Cinderella: The Real story
Jan Butchett, Sara Volger and Omar Aranda (illustrator) This title is part of Bug Club, the first whole-school reading programme to combine books with an online reading world to teach today’s children to read. In this Year 6 Red A…
The Detectives Daughter
Lesley Thomson Kate Rokesmith’s decision to go to the river changed the lives of many. Her murder shocked the nation. Her husband never pressed charges and moved abroad under a cloud of suspicion. Her son, just four years old, grew…
Whispers Underground
Ben Aaronovitch It begins with a dead body at the far end of Baker Street tube station, all that remains of American exchange student James Gallagher—and the victim’s wealthy, politically powerful family is understandably eager to get to the bottom…
Hanging Hill
Mo Hayder One morning in picture-perfect Bath, England, a teenage girl’s body is found on the towpath of a canal: Lorne Woods – beautiful, popular, and apparently the victim of a disturbingly brutal murder. Zoe Benedict – Harley-riding police detective,…
The Silent Girl
Tess Gerritsen When a hand is found in a Chinatown alley in downtown Boston, detective Jane Rizzoli climbs to a nearby rooftop and finds the hand’s owner – a woman whose throat has been slashed so deeply that her head…
Fallen
Karin Slaughter On an ordinary spring day, Special Agent Faith Mitchell of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation returns home to a nightmare. Expecting to find her mother minding Faith’s new baby daughter Emma, she is horrified to discover Emma locked…
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