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The Complete Gervase Fen Volume 1 [Bok / Inbunden]

The Secret Of Secrets [Bok / Inbunden]

<p><b>Susan Ryeland has had enough of murder.</b><br/><br/>She's edited two novels about the famous detective, Atticus Pund, and both times she's come close to being killed. Now she's back in England and she's been persuaded to work on a third.<br/><br/>The new 'continuation' novel is by Eliot Crace, grandson of Miriam Crace who was the biggest selling children's author in the world until her death exactly twenty years ago.<br/><br/>Eliot believes that Miriam was deliberately poisoned. And when he tells Susan that he has hidden the identity of Miriam's killer inside his book, Susan knows she's in trouble once again.<br/><br/>As Susan works on Pund's Last Case, a story set in an exotic villa in the South of France, she uncovers more and more parallels between the past and the present, the fictional and the real world - until suddenly she finds that she has become a target herself.<br/><br/><b>It seems that someone in Eliot's family doesn't want the book to be written. And they will do anything to prevent it</b>.<br/>______________</p><p><br/><i><b>Praise for the Magpie Murders series . . .</b></i><br/><br/>'A beautiful puzzle: fiendishly clever and hugely entertaining. A masterpiece.' Lucy Foley<br/>'Ingenious' <i>Sunday Times</i><br/>'Thrilling and compelling with a stunning twist' <i>Daily Mail</i><br/>'Anthony Horowitz is an absolutely exceptional writer' Daniel Mays</p>

A thrilling and long-awaited new novel from a globally bestselling author coming in 2025

<p><b>New York lawyer Nora Carleton faces her biggest case yet in this gripping legal thriller from the critically acclaimed author of <i>Central Park West</i> and former director of the FBI, James Comey.</b><br/><br/>Free of the threats hanging over her from her time in Connecticut, Nora Carleton is back doing what she does best: prosecuting criminals for the federal government in the Southern District of New York. But her latest case will take her down roads she never expected.<br/><br/>Domestic right-wing extremists, powered by internet demagogues and funded from the shadows, have become a major threat in the United States. Free speech is protected by the US Constitution... but to some people, deadly actions speak louder than words.<br/><br/>When an explosion devastates a rally at the United Nations building in New York City, Nora, together with legendary investigator Benny Dugan and the FBI, must confront the extremists head on. To save innocent lives, Nora will need to convince a jury that some speech is actually a deadly crime. But even that may not be enough, as the team races to disrupt a threat bigger than any courtroom battle.<br/><br/><b>A powerful novel about the realities facing modern America, perfect for fans of Grisham, Connelly and Coben.</b><br/><br/><b>Reviews for James Comey's thrillers</b><br/><br/>'Truly outstanding' <b>Harlan Coben</b><br/>'Vivid and compelling' <b>Ian Rankin</b><br/>'Riveting and authentic... reads like Grisham' <b><i>Daily Mail</i></b><br/>'Vivid characters and dialogue' <b><i>The Times</i></b><br/>'A really good mystery, expertly told' <b>Joseph Finder</b></p>

<p><b>They're not looking for what you think they are...</b><br/><br/>The play date started well. The children happy in one room while their mothers relaxed and drank wine in another.<br/><br/>But then the stranger appeared at the window. And then he was inside the house. And then he grabbed the knife...<br/><br/>Alice only means to stop him. She doesn't mean to hit him so hard. She didn't mean to kill him.<br/><br/>The police conclude that she acted in self-defence, but wracked with guilt, Alice sets out to apologise to Linda, the mother of the young man she killed - only to find she is unable to come clean about who she really is. But as Alice learns more about Ezra and why he was at her house, she starts to wonder whether she really has the full picture about what happened that day...<br/><br/><b>This latest simmering suspense novel from the internationally bestselling Katherine Faulkner is a unputdownable must-read that will have you hooked from the first twist to the last. </b></p>

<p><b>An eerie and evocative Victorian-set horror thriller about how a well-meaning butcher's daughter from London's Whitechapel grew up to become the baker who stuffed her pies with the flesh of Sweeney Todd's victims. Perfect for fans of Clare Whitfield, Jess Kidd and Ambrose Parry.</b></p><p>"You want to know the true tale of the wicked woman, the murdering monster, what baked the pies that she filled with the bits of her victims? The talk of London Town. I will tell you what you want to know, if it be the last that I do tell. And it may well be."</p><p>Enclosed herewith: the hitherto untold story of Mrs. Lovett, Sweeney Todd's infamous partner in crime-a bloodcurdling correspondence of profound horror and intrigue.</p><p>London, England, 1887: At the abandoned apartment of a missing young woman, a dossier of evidence is collected and sent to the Chief Inspector of the London Police for review. It contains a curious correspondence between an inquisitive journalist, Miss Emily Gibson, and the woman Gibson thinks may be the infamous Mrs. Lovett-Sweeney Todd's accomplice, who baked men into pies and sold them in her pie shop on Fleet Street.</p><p>Rumours have swirled about Mrs. Lovett since the disappearance of hundreds of unwitting men decades ago-but is it actually Lovett, even if the suspected woman swears against it? As the woman relays the harrowing account of her life-from her upbringing on Butcher's Row in the unruly and perilous streets of Victorian London to her daring escape from a mad doctor-the correspondence unlocks an intricate mystery that brings Miss Gibson closer to the truth, even as that truth may cost her dearly.</p>