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WHEN THEY WAKE UP, THEIR NIGHTMARE BEGINS . . .Daisy-Mae is now sure she's awake. It's not the cutting breeze or the musty smell that has her convinced, it's the pain. You can't dream pain. She is being held down, something tight over her arms, her chest too.She turns her head for a different view: a whitewashed wall, faded by time, scuffed to add to the impression of a building deserted in a hurry. But there is something in the room that looks fresh: graffiti.The letters spell out three words that are enough to have her retching again: DON'T WAKE UP.A killer who gets his kicks from keeping his victims alive and giving them a glimmer of hope.The next day Daisy-Mae's friend also disappears. Twenty-two years ago, New Year's Eve. Two young women set off home from the nightclub where they worked. Their battered bodies were found five days later. The killer was never caught.Is history repeating itself?Time is running out. Detective Maddie Ives is their only chance to get out alive.

Detective Lola Harris returns from a miserable solo holiday - an effort to get over her useless ex - only to find herself in charge of a high-stakes investigation. She rushes to a crime scene in the historic Gallowgate neighbourhood. The smell in the basement is thick and sweet, even through Lola's forensic mask. The old wooden chair and the rope hanging from its arms are stained red. The earth below is saturated with blood. Six candleholders, their lights burned out, lend the scene an air of a completed ritual. And yet there is no sign of a body. A smashed-up phone in the corner puts the investigators on the trail of a local politician who has vanished without trace and a controversial artist who died thirty years ago on a remote Hebridean island. Lola will have to work with the most obnoxious detective in Glasgow if she's going to stop the killer from striking again.

A serial killer who dumps the victims' bodies in Soho Square. A sleepless detective thwarted by his box-ticking boss.Detective Rob Miller thinks he's seen it all, but this murder scene takes his breath away.The victim is bound and gagged, with whip marks on his back. The location is one of the busiest squares in London. The cause of death appears to be strangulation.Murder or a game gone wrong?The prime suspect is the victim's partner. Under pressure from his superiors, Rob makes an arrest despite his doubts.But another body is found: bound, gagged and dumped in the middle of central London. Again, there are no witnesses.Now Rob's on the hunt for a serial killer with a fetish - and a talent for staying invisible.Then the killer makes it personal . . .

Is the man she married the man who wants her dead?Twenty-six-year-old Emma Hollis is about to marry David, the hot guy who swept her off her feet in just four months.She feels like life couldn't be more perfect, with a job she loves as a teen counselor, a man who's crazy about her, and a baby on the way.Emma and David promise to love and cherish each other for the rest of their lives in a beautiful ceremony at a quaint country inn.The newlyweds honeymoon in an idyllic cabin in the woods. It's the perfect escape.But Emma has no idea that her dream is about to turn into her worst nightmare.Soon she'll be fighting for her life.

The people you trust are the people who hurt you the most. Nell Cosgrove is the new wife who got it all. She married her handsome, wealthy boss within six months of meeting him. They live in a beautiful riverside home. She has a flourishing career. She knew Oliver was married before. But he was already separated when they met. Nell's not a marriage-wrecker. She's not responsible for his fragile ex-wife Fiona. Nell's two stepdaughters, Ruby and Poppy, don't see it that way. They remain fiercely loyal to their mother, and reject all Nell's overtures. Against all the odds, Poppy believes her parents can get back together. And now everything is falling apart. Nell's marriage is starting to crack. Her husband spends more and more time away on business. She gets creepy text messages from an unknown admirer. He sends mysterious bouquets of flowers to her office. She starts making mistakes at work. Everything Nell thought she knew about her marriage and her new life is about to be turned upside down.

The baby is in the middle of the road. Cocooned in a car seat, tiny face suddenly, violently, illuminated by the headlights.Detective Dove Milson swerves to avoid the car seat. Ten metres up the road, a car is crashed in a ditch.Detective Steve Parker rushes to the car, while Dove attends to the baby.But it's just a doll, and the driver is missing. There is a trail of blood leading into the woods.As the detectives search the scene, someone shoots at them. Dove sees a shadowy figure crashing off into the woods. Then she realizes that Steve has been hit.When backup arrives, the driver of the abandoned car is found dead nearby. A carved stone heart placed in her mouth.She's not the murderer's first victim. And she won't be the last.A stone cold killer is on the loose. And Detective Dove Milson is in a race against time to stop them.

Romance writer Bronte Huntington lives in the beautiful village of Nettle Wood. She spends her days crafting perfect happy endings for the heroines in her books. But really, she's waiting for her own Prince Charming to sweep her off her feet.Her new neighbour, Ryan, seems lovely. He's down to earth, he makes her laugh and he has a gorgeous Irish accent . . . But it seems they're fated to just be friends.Then Bronte meets aristocratic Sebastian Fairfax. As charming and handsome as the heroes in her novels, he's everything she's ever dreamed of. But if he's the one, why is he so hard to talk to? And could she ever get along with his rude, posh parents? Bronte must choose her own destiny to find her perfect hero. But as she's about to find out, the path to true love is never simple.

Quarry Lake. Twelve years ago.Three young women are attacked, all with long, dark hair. The attacker wears a yellow hi-vis jacket. One is murdered.One is left in a coma.One escapes. A small town lives in fear. It's Riona's last summer before heading to university. One reckless night, she lets her two friends persuade her to spend the evening at Quarry Lake, drinking cider, sharing secrets, planning their futures. They hear a scream and a splash. They're scared but they feel they have to go and see what it is. But a sudden noise frightens them, and they run off. Now, Riona is back in her hometown, facing thirty with some of her dreams still intact. They never did catch the Quarry Lake killer. But one day Riona glimpses a mysterious figure in a hi-vis jacket. Staring intensely at her. A note is shoved through her letterbox: I'm watching you. Is the past coming back to threaten her? Is the killer back?

Tanned and relaxed after a holiday in Spain, Detective Joanna Piercy is brought back to reality with a bump thanks to Staffordshire's appalling weather - and another dead body.It's local Leek resident Kathleen Weston who makes the gruesome discovery. The smell is so bad she can't hang her washing out.Propped up against the boundary at the bottom of her garden sits Jakob Grimshaw. His head has been crushed with one of the loose stones from the wall.It's obvious this was no accident. Landowner Jakob Grimshaw made enemies of everyone around him.But someone really wanted revenge to kill Grimshaw like this.Detective Joanna Piercy must delve into a dark web of vicious family feuds and warring neighbours to uncover a brutal murderer before they strike again.

A missing woman.A jilted lover.A baffling murder. Beatrice Pennington lives a seemingly quiet life. Married and middle-aged, she's a part-time librarian and an enthusiastic member of Leek's cycling club.So when her husband Arthur turns up at the police station, frantically claiming Beatrice is missing, Detective Joanna Piercy can't help but think the woman probably just got bored with her own life.Maybe she ran off with another man? Certainly nothing serious could have happened to her.But as the days pass there is still no trace of Beatrice. DI Piercy begins to worry - could there have been foul play after all . . . ?Then a body is found. Strangled and dumped under a hedge on a moorland road.As DI Piercy investigates she unearths a dangerous web of lies. When does unrequited love become stalking? And when does stalking end in murder?

Some families have more skeletons in the closet than others . . .A dead woman tied to a chair is found in a crumbling old cottage in the Yorkshire moors. She's been there a long time.Detective Mike Nash investigates. He soon uncovers a second body, down a well in the garden.Then Nash's team makes an even more grisly discovery. How many more skeletons are hidden in this tumbledown old cottage?The suspicious death of the solicitor dealing with the property turns this cold-case investigation into an active hunt for a murderer.Someone is killing to keep their secrets from coming to light. Detective Mike Nash must track them down before they strike again.

Grace has the perfect life. Then her husband replaces her with a younger, blonder version. Three years later, Grace's sixteen-year-old daughter Tara is stabbed to death in a seedy hotel. Grace's life stops. After a harrowing trial, Tara's boyfriend is convicted of her murder. At least now it's over. Until someone breaks into Grace's house and ransacks Tara's belongings. And now the questions have only just begun. Grace thought she knew her daughter. But Tara had been keeping secrets from her. Very dark secrets.

On a wild and stormy night on England's south coast, ambitious young police constables Rutherford Barnes and Harriet Holden are doing the rounds when they see a burglar fleeing the scene of the crime.And the location is Harriet's house. The ground floor is ransacked. Scrawled in red across one wall are the words: DEAD COPS SLEEP LONG.Then a few days later, Harriet's battered body is discovered in a shabby seafront hotel.Newly promoted to detective, Barnes vows to discover who killed his partner, and why.