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* FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GIRL IN TRANSLATION *'Kwok is an impressive talent' - KARIN SLAUGHTER'A hugely atmospheric and suspenseful mystery' - LUCY FOLEY'I will find my daughter. No matter the cost...'Jasmine Yang thought her daughter was dead at birth. But five years after she was taken from her arms, she learns that her controlling husband sent the baby to America to be adopted, a casualty of China's one-child-policy. Fleeing her rural Chinese village, Jasmine arrives in New York City with nothing except a desperate need to find her daughter. But with her husband on her trail, the clock is ticking, and she's forced to make increasingly risky decisions if she ever hopes to be reunited with her child.Meanwhile, Rebecca Whitney seems to have it all: a high-powered career, a beautiful home, a handsome husband, and an adopted Chinese daughter she adores. But when an industry scandal threatens to jeopardise not only Rebecca's job but her marriage, this perfect world begins to crumble.Two women in a divided city, separated by wealth and culture, yet bound together by their love for the same child. And when they finally meet, their lives will never be the same again...

When handsome lawyer, William, is arrested for a series of murders, recently ghosted thirty-something Hannah begins writing him letters as an outlet for both her frustration at her failure to launch, and her feminist rage. The exercise empowers her, and even feels healthy at first - until William writes back. Their correspondence tips Hannah's interest in the case from curiosity to obsession, leaving space for nothing else as her life implodes around her. Hannah is the first person William calls upon his release, and they quickly fall into a routine of domestic bliss. Well, as blissful as one can feel while secretly investigating their partner for serial murder...

How can you live with yourself when you find out the man you love is rotten to the core?Prepare to be hooked by Alice Hunter¿s addictive new novel ¿ so shocking it should come with a warning! Available to pre-order now.

CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF HARD CASE CRIME - 20UNFORGETTABLE STORIES BY HARD CASE CRIME FOUNDERCHARLES ARDAISince debuting 20 years ago, Hard Case Crime has won acclaim forpublishing the best in hardboiled crime fiction - not least of all thework of founding editor Charles Ardai, which has won the Edgar,Shamus and Ellery Queen Awards, been selected for ?Best of theYear' anthologies, and earned praise from publications likethe Washington Post and Chicago Tribune and authors rangingfrom James Crumley and George Pelecanos to Megan Abbott andStephen King.Collected here for the first time anywhere are the author's 20 fineststories, including his Edgar-winning "The Home Front,? about deathand repentance during World War II; the Shamus Award finalist"Nobody Wins,? about a brutal gangland enforcer searching for thewoman he loves; and year's-best selections such as "A Bar CalledCharley's,? about a traveling salesman's most grueling night on theroad.

Relocating to Wuhan, China, for his job as an architect, Daniel Verhagen and his family are sought by the Chinese police due to events they don't understand. Helped by new friends but unsure who to trust, they go from prison to the home of a refined Chinese official. Why can't they just go to their embassy and sort this whole mess out? Behind the scenes, there are conspiracies at play which could have far-reaching consequences.

In a New York hospice, Jon is slowly wasting away. But it is not a peaceful passing - haunted by frequent and vivid nightmares of an unspeakable crime, Jon summons his lawyers to change his will. He instructs them to leave his entire fortune to the clan of the San Bushmen he hunted in 1955. This leaves his legal team, and his two living sons, stunned and perplexed. An investigation into Jon's past reveals the chilling truths about ethnic persecution and the legal hunting of humans that occurred in the isolated sands of the Kalahari. Some secrets should be taken to the grave... or should they?

Two dead bodies, one man and one woman, were found buried in a peat bog in a rural part of southern Sweden. They had been brutally murdered during the latter part of the 1930`s, i.e. about 80 years before the discovery.Chief Inspector Anders Andersson was assigned to the case. Andersson, born 1950 near the burial site, knew the area, its history, and its people, better than anyone. Andersson¿s mother, now 93, had lived in the immediate proximity to the peat bog at the time of the murders.Andersson manages to identify the victims, and he finds strong circumstantial evidence for who had been the leading perpetrator. The investigation takes him to an extreme religious sect in northern Minnesota, USA, and back to Sweden. Tragic life stories are revealed.In a parallel story, the reader gets to know Andersson and his Sri Lankan partner Saku, and their passionate relationship.

When a young Englishman on work experience in Australia is found dead at the lovely Pool of Siloam in the Blue Mountains during a school tour, there are too many suspects to count. Detective Sergeant Provis calls in her old colleague, Inspector Esson, and he takes the lead on the investigation. The deceased, Roger Xanthius, was viewed as great fun by some of the students, but no one quite trusted him, particularly one of his own former teachers, on exchange at the Australian school for the year. As Esson and Provis dig deeper, Roger's own dark tendencies come to light.Was the young man's death an accident? Or was it the result of malice? No one is certain, but it becomes clear that altogether too many people wanted Roger out of the way.

**PRE-ORDER THE ATMOSPHERIC NEW THRILLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF BLACK-EYED SUSANS**Being developed as a TV series by FOX Network'Haunting, heartfelt, chilling and beautifully told, Night Will Find You walks that rare line between mystery, thriller and truly original character study. I adored it'CHRIS WHITAKER, bestselling author of WE BEGIN AT THE END 'An irresistible mystery with addictive prose, Night Will Find You is a thriller like no other'ANNA BAILEY, bestselling author of TALL BONES'A mesmerizing, unputdownable love letter to the mysteries of science and the human mind. With an unforgettable cast of characters, Julia Heaberlin pays homage to everything we don't know about the universe and ourselves. I am already missing my time inside this world.'KATIE GUTIERREZ, author of MORE THAN YOU'LL EVER KNOWVivvy Bouchet, respected scientist and reluctant psychic, saved a boy's life after a premonition when she was a child.That boy is now a Texas police officer.He convinces Vivvy to help him solve a high-profile cold case, working alongside detective Jesse Sharp, a sceptic of anything but fact.Three-year-old Lizzie Solomon disappeared in broad daylight from her home.A body was never found, but the child's mother, Nicolette,is in prison for the disappearance, loudly proclaiming her innocence.When a popular podcaster hears of Vivvy's involvement in the case,his conspiracy theories about the missing child, and Vivvy's background,have an army of fans hanging on every dangerous word.But when it becomes clear there may be a kidnapper- or killer - still on the loose,Vivvy knows there's more to lose than her reputation.Because the difference between the truth and a lie can mean life or death . . .A sharply observed psychological thriller, Night Will Find You explores the dangerous meeting of conspiracy theories and our need to believe - and the line between fact and what we can't explain.PRAISE FOR JULIA HEABERLIN'Tense, darkly atmospheric...takes your breath away' DAILY MAIL'Terrific, superbly paced' THE TIMES'Breathtakingly, heart-stoppingly brilliant' SOPHIE HANNAH'A thriller to make you remember why you love thrillers' OBSERVER