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<p> <strong>You thought you were alone. Think again.</strong> </p> <p>The groundbreaking fifth thriller in Lars Kepler's bestselling series featuring Joona Linna. Perfect for fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo.</p> <p><strong>CLOSE THE CURTAINS</strong><br/>A film arrives at Stockholm's National Crime Investigation Department showing a woman in her own home, plainly unaware she is being watched. The police don't take it seriously ... until she is found murdered.</p> <p><strong>LOCK THE DOOR</strong><br/>When the next video arrives, Detective Margot Silverman frantically attempts to identify the victim. But it's already too late. Because at the time the video was sent, the killer was already inside their house...</p> <p><strong>BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE</strong><br/>Soon Stockholm is in the grip of terror. Who will the Stalker target next?</p>

<p><b>Book 18 in the acclaimed and number one-bestselling Three Pines series featuring the beloved Chief Inspector Armand Gamache.</b><br/><br/>It's spring and Three Pines is re-emerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying dormant should return.<br/><br/>But something has.<br/><br/>As the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. A young man and woman have reappeared in the Surete du Quebec investigators' lives after many years. The two were young children when their troubled mother was murdered, leaving them damaged, shattered. Now they've arrived in the village of Three Pines.<br/><br/>But to what end?<br/><br/>Gamache and Beauvoir's memories of that tragic case, the one that first brought them together, come rushing back. Did their mother's murder hurt them beyond repair? Have those terrible wounds, buried for decades, festered and are now about to erupt?<br/><br/>As Chief Inspector Gamache works to uncover answers, his alarm grows when a letter written by a long dead stone mason is discovered. In it the man describes his terror when bricking up an attic room somewhere in the village. Every word of the 150-year-old letter is filled with dread. When the room is found, the villagers decide to open it up.<br/><br/>As the bricks are removed, Gamache, Beauvoir and the villagers discover a world of curiosities. But the head of homicide soon realizes there's more in that room than meets the eye. There are puzzles within puzzles, and hidden messages warning of mayhem and revenge.<br/><br/>In unsealing that room, an old enemy is released into their world. Into their lives. And into the very heart of Armand Gamache's home.<br/><br/><b>PRAISE FOR LOUISE PENNY AND THE INSPECTOR GAMACHE SERIES:</b><br/><b><br/>'Enthralling ... </b>With beautifully drawn characters, this is <b>crime writing of the highest order</b>'<i> <b>DAILY MAIL</b></i><br/><br/>'A <b>satisfying and multi-layered mystery</b>, in Penny's excellent series' <i><b>IRISH INDEPENDENT</b></i><br/><br/>'Louise Penny is on peak form ... <b>a grown-up, timely thriller</b> that considers the nature of cowardice ... merges the personal and professional life of her detective with equal skill and wit' <i><b>THE TIMES</b></i><br/><br/>'A <b>great sense of place and characterisation</b> ... very much a book that will make you think' <i><b>SHOTS</b></i><br/><br/>'Louise Penny is one of the greatest crime writers of our times' <b>DENISE MINA</b><br/><br/>'Gamache has become to Canada what Hercule Poirot is to Belgium' <b><i>THE NEW YORK TIMES</i></b><br/><br/>'Louise Penny twists and turns the plot expertly tripping the reader up just at the moment you think you might have solved the mystery' <b><i>DAILY EXPRESS</i></b><br/><br/>'The series is deep and grand and altogether extraordinary . . . Miraculous' <b><i>WASHINGTON POST</i></b><br/><br/>'No one does atmospheric quite like Louise Penny' <b>ELLY GRIFFITHS</b></p>

<p><b>Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King's most compelling and ingeniously resourceful characters, returns in this thrilling novel to solve the gruesome truth behind multiple disappearances in a Midwestern town.</b><br/><br/>Stephen King's HOLLY marks the triumphant return of beloved King character Holly Gibney. Readers have witnessed Holly's gradual transformation from a shy (but also brave and ethical) recluse in <i>Mr Mercedes</i> to Bill Hodges's partner in <i>Finders Keepers</i> to a full-fledged, smart, and occasionally tough private detective in <i>The Outsider</i>. In King's new novel, Holly is on her own, and up against a pair of unimaginably depraved and brilliantly disguised adversaries.<br/><br/>When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly is reluctant to accept the case. Her partner, Pete, has Covid. Her (very complicated) mother has just died. And Holly is meant to be on leave. But something in Penny Dahl's desperate voice makes it impossible for Holly to turn her down.<br/><br/>Mere blocks from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared live Professors Rodney and Emily Harris. They are the picture of bourgeois respectability: married octogenarians, devoted to each other, and semi-retired lifelong academics. But they are harbouring an unholy secret in the basement of their well-kept, book-lined home, one that may be related to Bonnie's disappearance. And it will prove nearly impossible to discover what they are up to: they are savvy, they are patient, and they are ruthless.<br/><br/>Holly must summon all her formidable talents to outthink and outmanoeuvre the shockingly twisted professors in this chilling new masterwork from Stephen King.<br/><br/><b>'I could never let Holly Gibney go. She was supposed to be a walk-on character in <i>Mr Mercedes </i>and she just kind of stole the book and stole my heart. <i>Holly </i>is all her.' STEPHEN KING </b></p>

<p><b>"Welcome to the family," Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh. I can pretend to be whoever I like. But I'll soon learn that the Winchesters' secrets are far more dangerous than my own . . .<br/></b><br/>Every day I clean the Winchesters' beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor.<br/><br/>I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day. But as I look into Andrew's handsome brown eyes, so full of pain, it's hard not to imagine what it would be like to live Nina's life. The walk-in closet, the fancy car, the perfect husband.<br/><br/>I only try on one of Nina's pristine white dresses once. Just to see what it's like. But she soon finds out... and by the time I realize my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside, it's far too late.<br/><br/>But I reassure myself: the Winchesters don't know who I really am.<br/><br/>They don't know what I'm capable of . . .<br/><br/><b>An unbelievably twisty read that will have you glued to the pages late into the night. Anyone who loves <i>The Woman in the Window</i>, <i>The Wife Between Us</i> and <i>The Girl on the Train</i> won't be able to put this down!<br/></b><br/>Read what everyone's saying about <i>The Housemaid</i>:<br/><br/>"I got severe whiplash from the twistiest turns... Every time I thought I had it figured out... WRONG!!!... I am still reeling... outstanding... If you love a top notch psychological thriller that will have you questioning your own sanity, then this 5-star read is for you" NetGalley reviewer, FIVE STARS<br/><br/>"What a wild ride!!! Freida definitely delivered the best twisty ending... Gripping from start to finish... honestly, I just could not put it down... An absolutely mind-blowing shocker that kept me guessing and on the edge of my seat literally until the very end" Goodreads reviewer, FIVE STARS<br/><br/>"So many twists and turns... I was hooked right away - I even read my Kindle while waiting in my kid's school pick-up line so I wouldn't have to put this book down!... addictive... pure perfection!" Goodreads reviewer, FIVE STARS</p>

<p><b>Praise for the Strike series:</b><br/><br/>'The work of a <b>master storyteller</b>'<br/><i>Daily Telegraph</i><br/><br/>'A <b>blistering</b> piece of crime writing'<br/><i>Sunday Times</i><br/><br/>'<b>Unputdownable</b>'<br/><i>Daily Express</i><br/><br/>'One of crime's <b>most engaging</b> duos'<br/><i>Guardian</i><br/><br/>'A page-turner that will <b>keep you up all night</b>'<br/><i>Observer</i><br/><br/>'Superb . . . an<b> ingenious </b>whodunnit'<br/><i>Sunday Mirror</i><br/><br/>'Strike and Robin are just as <b>magnetic</b> as ever'<br/><i>New York Times</i><br/><br/>'<b>Outrageously entertaining</b>'<br/><i>Financial Times</i></p>

<p> <strong>For the first time, Hercule Poirot - 'probably the greatest detective in the world' - is celebrated in the official Agatha Christie Calendar, comprising 14 brand new cover designs from the best-selling books and (as it's a leap year) 366 little grey cells in which to write your daily appointments!</strong> </p> <p>Hercule Poirot made his debut in Agatha Christie's very first novel, <em>The Mysterious Affair at Styles</em>, serialised in <em>The Times</em> in 1920. With appearances in 33 novels and more than 50 short stories, plus stage plays, comic strips, interactive games and multiple TV and film adaptations stretching back neatly a century, the little Belgian detective with the egg-shaped head finally makes his wall calendar debut in the official 2024 Agatha Christie Calendar from HarperCollins Publishers.</p> <p>To coincide with brand new cover designs for all 39 Hercule Poirot paperbacks, the new calendar is a showcase for some of the most attractive new artworks, featuring some of Agatha Christie's most evocative titles: <em>The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The ABC Murders, Death in the Clouds, Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, Evil Under the Sun, Hallowe'en Party, Hercule Poirot's Christmas</em>... Glorious renditions of these stories and more can adorn your favourite wall and help to celebrate the never-ending charm of 'the greatest detective in the world'.</p>

<p>In the summer of 1974 a heatwave blankets Boston and Mary Pat Fennessey is trying to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors. Mary Pat has lived her entire life in the housing projects of &apos;Southie&apos;, the Irish American enclave that stubbornly adheres to old tradition and stands proudly apart. One night Mary Pat&apos;s teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn&apos;t come home. That same evening, a young Black man is found dead, struck by a subway train under mysterious circumstances. The two events seem unconnected. But Mary Pat, propelled by a desperate search for her missing daughter, begins turning over stones best left untouched - asking questions that bother Marty Butler, chieftain of the Irish mob, and the men who work for him, men who don&apos;t take kindly to any threat to their business. Set against the hot, tumultuous months when the city&apos;s desegregation of its public schools exploded in violence, Small Mercies is a superb thriller, a brutal depiction of criminality and power, and an unflinching portrait of the dark heart of American racism.</p>