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Condition. When Jane's husband dies unexpectedly, she is left to pick up the pieces of her shattered life. As she struggles to cope with her grief, she discovers a cookbook filled with his favorite recipes. But as she begins to cook her way through the book, she soon realizes that each recipe holds a dark secret. And as the secrets unravel, Jane must confront the horrifying truth about her dead husband - and herself. With twists and turns that will keep you guessing until the very end, The Dead Husband Cookbook is a must-read for fans of psychological thrillers.

I Know Where You Buried Your HusbandFive best friends must work together to cover up the murder of one of their husbands in this painfully relatable, darkly witty examination of twenty-first century womanhood. If Celeste Ng wrote 'Bad Sisters' (Apple TV).Sophia, Safa, Ella, Ajola and Caoimhe have been friends since school. They are difficult, unlikeable women; funny, sharp and clever ones - the sort that would have probably ended up burned at the stake a few hundred years ago.When one of them is about to be framed for murder, they inextricably bind their fates together via some bin bags, a spade and a promise never to tell. Afterwards, they decide to separate to ensure the safety of their secret, leaving each of them to navigate the daily challenges of womanhood alone.But when an anonymous blackmailer threatens to expose them years later, the group must come back together to get their stories straight - and find out who is behind their torment. But is it already too late?

Softly Calls The DevilFrom NZ cop-turned-novelist Chris Blake comes a dark, gripping, intricate crime thriller set on the South Island's wild and remote west coast.

A witty, page-turning, twisty whodunit from the bestselling author of Kill Your Husbands, perfect for fans of Benjamin Stevenson.

The HiddenBryan Brown's distinctive storytelling voice returns in this unflinching, gripping novel from the bestselling author of The Drowning.

The Hawk Is DeadPETER JAMES is a New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author best known for his crime thrillers featuring Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, who Queen Camilla recently named as her favourite fictional detective. Praised by critics and much loved by crime and thriller fans for his fast-paced page-turners full of unexpected plot twists, sinister characters, and accurate portrayal of modern-day policing, he has won more than 40 awards for his work, including the WHSmith Best Crime Author of All Time Award and the Crime Writers’ Association Diamond Dagger. His books have sold over 23 million copies worldwide, achieved 21 Sunday Times No 1s, and have been translated into 38 languages. His Roy Grace novels are currently filming their 6th season for the hit ITV drama, Grace, starring John Simm as the troubled Brighton copper and available to view on ITVX and on Britbox. Seven of his novels have been adapted into hit stage plays, with his most recent, Picture You Dead, now on national tour in the UK. His plays have been named as "The most successful stage franchise since Agatha Christie."

The Hiding PlaceThey’re good people. Why shouldn’t they get what they deserve?When Lou sees an ad for a long-abandoned mining town up for sale, it doesn’t take her long to convince her sister and their oldest friends to go in on the idyllic property buried in the bush – a place where the four families can hide away on weekends, get back to nature and unstick the kids from their screens.But things start to go wrong before they even arrive for their first camping trip – a rogue deer sends a trailer off the road, a neighbour complains about the fence line and squatters have set up camp down by the river. Soon none of that will matter, though, because by the end of the first night someone will be dead.At first it seems that hiding a body is easier than keeping other sorts of secrets: a lost job, an illegal crop, an outrageous affair, a little embezzlement. But what’s buried has a way of coming to the surface, and even in the bush, it’s hard to remain unseen.White Lotus meets The Slap in a razor-sharp literary thriller about deception and self-deception, and how far people will go to protect what they feel they ought to have.‘Absolutely brilliant. I wish I had written this book.’ Hayley Scrivenor, author of Dirt Town

The Tangled Web The sudden death of a beloved brother leads a young woman on a quest to find a missing boy and into a tangled web of mystery, blood and fear.Maitland 1892: When Viola Oswald's beloved brother Sebastian dies of a hereditary blood disease, Viola suspects her stepfather, prestigious surgeon Elias Sinclair, has used Sebastian's illness to enhance his reputation. But Viola has no proof until she discovers a letter within the pages of Sebastian's favourite book - Lambs' Tales of Shakespeare. A letter that sends a determined Viola on a journey to the country town of Maitland to find a homeless boy who suffered at her stepfather's hands and can provide the proof she needs.Once there, Viola finds help from an independent local seamstress and a clever lawyers' clerk, as well as a ragtag bunch of urchins. As the dark story unfolds it becomes clear that the missing boy's fate is intertwined with her own and that terrible cruelties are being committed by her stepfather in the name of medical advancement.Viola fears for her pregnant mother, the child she is about to birth and all the homeless boys caught up in a terrifying web of deceit and death. Will she find the evidence to bring her stepfather to justice in time to save them?

A Disappearing Act From the bestselling author of The House of Now and Then comes a taut and twisty psychological mystery perfect for readers of Sally Hepworth and Nicola Moriarty.Bestselling author Marnie Elliott has invited her three oldest friends to a secluded holiday house in Tasmania. On the surface it’s an excuse to catch up and drink champagne — but really, Marnie’s there to escape the fallout from an upcoming exposé. Sure, she’s told some lies over the course of her career... but this time the allegations go further... Did Marnie even write the books that made her millions?As the days unfold, it becomes clear that time has pulled the women apart, and that perhaps they don’t know each other as well as they thought they did. And when long-buried secrets and resentments rise to the surface, tensions spiral out of control.And then one of them disappears.No one can survive the harsh elements of a Tasmanian winter for long, and soon panic sets in. Did she get lost? Run away? Or is something far more sinister at play?And does it have anything to do with what happened twenty-five years ago, when the four of them lived together in a rambling warehouse, fuelled by ambition, and where nothing — absolutely nothing — mattered more than being part of the group?From the bestselling author of The House of Now and Then comes a taut and twisty psychological mystery that asks: How well do we really know our closest friends?PRAISE FOR A DISAPPEARING ACT:'Jo Dixon brings some of my favourite plot elements together in one place in this novel - new friends that make you long to fit in, a writer with a secret, old friends that bring their own baggage, and a bit of rugged, wild Tasmania thrown in for good measure. I guarantee that A Disappearing Act is a book you will absolutely tear through.' - Hayley Scrivenor, internationally bestselling author of Dirt Town and Girl FallingPRAISE FOR JO DIXON:‘A flawless slow-burn thriller about female friendship ... unputdownable.’ - The Australian‘Jo Dixon delivers on every front with this impossible to second-guess thriller...’ - Australian Women’s Weekly

The DetectiveFor 150 years, women have been going missing. And all of the investigators who went in search of them - from 1877 to the present day - have disappeared, too. Now Sam Speedman, a most unique private detective, is on the case.Brilliant, direct and disarming, Sam is ... different. He's not your average private detective. But then again, this isn't your average case. For not even he will be prepared for what he will find.Set in the darkest corners of the American South, tapping into hot-button issues that simmer beneath the surface of the modern United States, this is Matthew Reilly writing faster and bolder than ever before, bringing you a detective thriller like no other.Matthew Reilly is the internationally bestselling author of the Scarecrow series, the Jack West series and numerous standalone novels. His books are published in over 20 languages with worldwide sales of over 8 million copies. He directed the no.1 Netflix film Interceptor, which he co-wrote with Stuart Beattie.

Return Of The SpiderAlex Cross is back in the next instalment of James Patterson's globally bestselling series... but so is an old enemy he thought he'd laid to rest...'Alex Cross is a legend' HARLAN COBENDiscover the next book in the globally bestselling Alex Cross series... now the inspiration for the original series CROSS on Prime Video starring Aldis Hodge as Alex Cross.Alex Cross thought serial killer Gary Soneji was dead and buried.But when a hidden cabin reveals a stash of gruesome trophies and diaries, Cross realises the Spider's evil influence has spread wider than he ever thought possible.The chilling truth soon becomes clear- Cross imprisoned the wrong man.As he studies the clues, Cross becomes enmeshed in a web of evil designed to ensnare him all along.Now he must retrace the steps of a long-ago investigation and face...the Return of the Spider.PRAISE FOR THE ALEX CROSS SERIES'Patterson never, and I mean never, disappoints' USA TODAY'Behind all the noise and the numbers, we shouldn't forget that no one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades. The Alex Cross series proves it' LEE CHILD'Alex Cross ... only gets better and better' LISA SCOTTOLINE'I wrote, "Along Came a Spider is the best thriller I've come across in many a year. It deserves to be this season's no. 1 bestseller and should instantly make James Patterson a household name." A household name, indeed' NELSON DEMILLE' Alex Cross has become one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time, a character for the ages' DOUGLAS PRESTON AND LINCOLN CHILD

Cry HavocForged in blood, this is how legends begin. . .From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Jack Carr comes a thrilling new novel that brings the worlds of special operations and CIA paramilitary units into direct collision in the jungles of Vietnam. Introducing young Navy SEAL Tom Reece.'Jack Carr is the real deal' - Andy McNab‘Seriously good. I mean – seriously’ - Lee Child'With authentic tradecraft and non-stop action, this thrilling ride was impossible to put down' - Mark Dawson1968. A time of division. A time of civil unrest. A time of war.Tom Reece, a SEAL operator attached to the highly classified MACV-SOG, is thrust into a bloody battle. When a spy ship, the USS Pueblo, is captured by communist forces off the coast of North Korea, the crew realizes they failed to destroy all intelligence. Special operators infiltrating Laos, Cambodia, and North Vietnam vanish, leading to a plan by a Soviet advisor that will change the world balance of power.From the Kremlin to the White House, from the streets of Saigon to the A Shau Valley, Tom Reece navigates a dangerous mission assigned by Military Assistance Command, Vietnam-Studies and Observations Group. But it’s his unofficial mission that could cost him his life.

The fabulous Phryne - the 1920s most elegant and irrepressible sleuth - returns for her seventeenth adventure investigating the death of a man at St Kilda while at the same time trying to find a lost child who could inherit an old woman's fortune.

The Impossible FortuneThe unmissable new mystery in the bestselling, record-breaking Thursday Murder Club series by Richard OsmanWho's got time to think about murder when there's a wedding to plan?It's been a quiet year for the Thursday Murder Club. Joyce is busy with table plans and first dances. Elizabeth is grieving. Ron is dealing with family troubles, and Ibrahim is still providing therapy to his favourite criminal.But when Elizabeth meets a wedding guest who fears for their life, the thrill of the chase is ignited once again. A villain wants access to an uncrackable code and will stop at nothing to get it. Plunged back into their most explosive investigation yet, can the gang solve the puzzle and a murder in time?

The Missing A landscape to die for ... The next compelling mystery set in the wild outback town of Kalgoorlie, from the bestselling author of The Prospect 'This land is millions of years old and has held secrets that we are able to uncover to this very day, yet the same land seems to have swallowed Max without a trace.'In the middle of Missing Persons Week, teenager Max Galbraith disappears after a party at the two-up ring on the outskirts of Kalgoorlie. With hundred-year-old mine shafts hidden in the area, no one can sure whether he become lost while he was under the influence of drugs or if something more sinister has happened.Lily Carter, a talkshow radio host, receives information about Brendan Cook, another Kalgoorlie teenager who disappeared in similar circumstances the year before. But the police didn't launch a full-scale search for Brendan. Why not?Enter Detective Angie Sullivan, new to Kalgoorlie and yet to understand how the town works. With no clear links between the two cases, and Lily accusing the police of incompetence, the town is tipped into uproar. What secrets are hiding out there in the bush? And can Angie discover them before any more kids go missing?Praise for The Prospect:'Superb writing and storytelling' The AustralianPraise for Fleur McDonald:'McDonald brings all her passion for the land to her rural suspense' Australian Women's Weekly'Fleur McDonald is a master of the rural suspense novel, her characters and storyline crackle with authenticity' Family Circle