Extracts
Extract: Suspects by Lesley Pearse
24 June 2021
When Nina and Conrad move into their new home in Willow Close a body is discovered. They had thought they'd found their dream neighbourhood. But have they moved into a nightmare?
“‘WHAT ON EARTH HAS HARRY GOT NOW?’ Maureen Willis asked her husband, Rob, pointing to their Border terrier who appeared to have found...
Extract: Scorpion by Christian Cantrell
24 June 2021
A gripping cat-and-mouse thriller perfect for anyone who loved I Am Pilgrim, with a near-future twist that fans of Blake Crouch will adore.
“THE FIRST THING KIRA DOES BEFORE SHE GETS UP IS PUT ON HER LEGS. They balance on an inductive charging mat beside her bed between a set of steel rails, and the muscles in the young woman’...
Extract: President’s Daughter by Bill Clinton and James Patterson
24 June 2021
The new standalone political thriller from former US president, Bill Clinton and James Patterson will have you on the edge of your seat. The following extract taken from the book is the tense lead-up to the kidnapping of Melanie, the daughter of Matthew Keating, a one-time Navy SEAL – and a past president.
LAKE MARIE
New Hampshire...
Extract: Mad Women’s Ball by Victoria Mas
24 June 2021
A gemlike novel set in a Parisian asylum in 1885 about two women – one deemed mad, the other sane – who find their salvation at The Mad Women's Ball.
3 March 1885
‘LOUISE. IT IS TIME.’
With one hand, Geneviève pulls back the blanket that hides the sleeping figure of the girl. Curled up in a foetal...
Extract: Afraid of the Light by Douglas Kennedy
24 June 2021
A gripping new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Pursuit of Happiness and The Moment.
A novel of high suspense and considerable moral complexity, Afraid of the Light is a tough, affecting social thriller that speaks volumes about the corrosive divisions of our troubled times. A timely novel to...
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