Thriller

Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, saveupon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated atthe breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick whichour visitor had left behind him the night before. It was a fine, thick piece ofwood, bulbous-headed, of the sort which is known as a "Penang lawyer." Justunder the head was a broad silver band nearly an inch across. "To JamesMortimer, M.R.C.S., from his friends of the C.C.H.," was engraved upon it, with the date "1884." It was just such a stick as the old-fashioned familypractitioner used to carry-dignified, solid, and reassuring.

France, 1954: JJ boards the ocean liner Cambodge towards Hong Kong and Shanghai, bound to a light-hearted promise he made his dying calligraphy teacher. On board he meets Fred, who adds lightness to the voyage. JJ longs for connection and yields to Fred's pleas to explore Hong Kong together. But when JJ and Fred miss their ship to Shanghai, JJ's fear of repeating the past spurs him to agree to a shady art deal to keep his promise and his new friend. The journey turns into a law-breaking odyssey, which will cast a new and unexpected light on JJ's past and shape his future.If you love Asian settings and fast-paced stories with unexpected twists, you're going to love Returning East!

A week in a seedy caravan at 'The Good Times Holiday Park' is not exactly the holiday sixteen-year-old Sam has been dreaming of, but he knows his mum is struggling and doing the best she can. At least he meets someone his own age to hang out with - Polly - but neither of them is prepared for the strangeness that ensues. Beautifully paced and full of deft touches that bring the 1980s setting to life, Visions of Ruin is set during a rainy weekend at a caravan park on the edge of rundown seaside town. The author conjures a tale of subtle horror, of quiet horror. There is no gore or melodrama here, though plenty of tension. This isn't a story that seeks to shock at every turn, but one that steadily unsettles, with a sense of mounting foreboding, as we witness the effects of unexpected events and disquieting phenomena on a cast of fully believable characters fumbling their way through life. The climatic denouement is skillfully handled, with an outcome that might just surprise you."A taut ghost story that transported me back to the 80s, with plenty to intrigue and unsettle along the way. A pleasure to read, with a terrifically neat ending." - Alison Littlewood

24-year-old Bukar Salisu, a Nigerian-Liberian, is caught between two young damsels: Safiya, the crafty daughter of a 'repentant' Boko Haram leader and the curly haired Liberian Nurse-in-Training, Jewel, whom Bukar meets in Monrovia while there to spend his sick leave with his maternal family.Both will come to find out that Bukar is a rafto - an impotent man, due to an injury he sustained from a .45 Caliber bullet at the war front.Set in the North East of contemporary Nigeria, Madagali pays a fundamental attention to the pathetic nature of Nigeria's prolonged fight against the dreaded Boko Haram insurgents, and it follows a complex dilemma of love.

Big Bro, an OG from the Mad Stone Gangsta Bloods, strives to make enough money to get out of the drug game and pull his car stealing little brother Drama out of the streets.Not affiliated with a gang, Drama has a crew of his own. But when a few of his friends are killed behind a stolen car, they must retaliate back or they will never make it on the streets. Now, sidetracked by Drama's beef and the Feds constantly trying to shut him down, Big Bro doesn't see what's going on around him until it's too late. Devastated by the death of his big brother and his homies, Drama goes into a deep depression. But when he finally emerges, life has no meaning and he snaps while going on a killing spree against his enemies, which causes a split within his own crew.So now, with loyalties tested as his crew divides, Drama continues doing what he feels is right in his heart for the love of his homies, showing you the true meaning of what being a Ridah is all about.

A thriller that explores the truth or lies behind a teenage girl's multiple personality disorder, from D.J. Palmer, the author of The New Husband.Meet Ruby, who speaks with a British accent.Then there's Chloe, a perfectionist who strives for straight A's in school.And along comes Eve, who is spiteful and vicious. All of them live inside Penny...Or do they? Penny Francone, age sixteen, is a murderer. Her guilt is beyond doubt: she was found alone in the victim's apartment, covered in blood, holding the murder weapon. The victim's identity and her secret relationship to Penny give Penny the perfect motive, sealing the deal. All the jury needs to decide now is where Penny will serve out her sentence. Will she be found not guilty by reason of insanity, as her lawyer intends to argue? Or will she get a life sentence in a maximum-security prison?Already reeling from tragedy after the sudden passing of her beloved husband a few years before, now Grace is on her knees, grateful that Massachusetts doesn't allow the death penalty. As Penny awaits trial in a state mental hospital, she is treated by Dr. Mitchell McHugh, a psychiatrist battling demons of his own. Grace's determination to understand the why behind her daughter's terrible crime fuels Mitch's resolve to help the Francone family. Together, they set out in search of the truth about Penny, but discover instead a shocking hidden history of secrets, lies, and betrayals that threatens to consume them all.The perfect daughter. Is she fooling them all?

The Science of Deduction Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel-piece and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt-cuff. For some little time his eyes rested thoughtfully upon the sinewy forearm and wrist all dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture-marks. Finally he thrust the sharp point home, pressed down

For the first time in history, the USA and Russia have perceived a threat from Indian military technology. They must put it down. Satyan Sharma, a young entrepreneur, dreams of building a world-class software powerhouse. His big chance comes when his company is selected to design the 'brains' of high-tech artillery to be produced through collaboration between India and Uzbekistan. Neither USA nor Russia wants third-world upstarts in the global arms industry. They deploy their secret services to manipulate corrupt Indian politicians at the highest level and sabotage the project. Satyan and his fiance Rubita, a feisty TV presenter, find themselves in a dangerous hunt-or-be-hunted game. They use wits and guile to shift the battle to the ground they are familiar with - the media and India's corporate circles.

What would happen if one of the world's most powerful private security firms went rogue?The world of private security is lucrative, a collection of corporate armies built to compete in what has become a thirty billion-dollar-a-year industry. Staffed largely by regular military and special forces veterans, these companies provide services to governments and the corporate world. And one of them is about to turn on the United States.Daniel Evans has just been sworn in as the 46th President of the United States and his first major initiative is to fulfill his biggest campaign promise: the complete withdrawal of all American military personnel from the Middle East.Nicholas DeGuerra is the CEO of TitanX Security, the world's largest private security company. He's a self-made man, a former Delta operator turned businessman who knows that the new president's policy is a threat to his financial security. He's just launched a desperate operation to save his company and his fortune.Brian Thompson is a United States Navy Chief nearing retirement and looking forward to life after the military. A staffing shortage puts him onboard USS James E. Williams, an aging destroyer deployed to the Horn of Africa.When a Pakistani nuke is stolen, the President of the United States sends Thompson and the USS Williams on a last-ditch interdiction mission to intercept the weapon and derail DeGuerra's plan.