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John Meron, a happily married father of two who's never been in trouble, receives a phone call that will change his life forever: his friend Jack Galley, a high-flying City lawyer, is screaming down the phone for help. As Meron listens, Galley is murdered.

'It's night, and I'm in a strange house. The lights are on and I'm standing outside a half-open door. Feeling a terrible sense of foreboding, I walk slowly inside. And then I see her. A woman lying sprawled across a huge double bed. She's dead. There's blood everywhere. And the most terrifying thing of all is that I think her killer might be me ...'

Dennis Milne is a man with a past, and a past that involves murder. A former cop, he’s earned his living killing the bad guys – drug-dealers, corrupt business men - people who, in his opinion, deserve to die. For the past two days, he’s been in Manila, waiting for his next target: a young woman who’s made herself some poor life-choices, and some even worse enemies. DI Tina Boyd is a woman on a mission. Tough, spiky and determined, she’s looking for the man she holds responsible for the death of her lover.

A gripping narrative from the master of the race against time thriller. Have you ever been in the wrong place at the wrong time? You are hiking in the Scottish highlands with three friends when you come across a girl. She is half-naked, has been badly beaten, and she can’t speak English. She is clearly running away from someone. Do you stop to help her? Even if it means putting your friends’ lives - and your own - in terrible danger?

A race-against-time short story from the best-selling author of Relentless, Siege, and Ultimatum, Simon Kernick. MP Tim Horton arrives home to find his seven year old son has been abducted by a ruthless gang of kidnappers. All they have left behind is the brutally murdered body of the Horton’s nanny. The gang’s demands are simple: Tim must sacrifice his own life in order to save his son’s. It’s the ultimate dead man's gift....

Dennis Milne is a man with a past, and a past that involves murder. A former cop, he’s earned his living killing the bad guys – drug-dealers, corrupt business men - people who, in his opinion, deserve to die. For the past two days, he’s been in Manila, waiting for his next target: a young woman who’s made herself some poor life-choices, and some even worse enemies.DI Tina Boyd is a woman on a mission. Tough, spiky and determined, she’s looking for the man she holds responsible for the death of her lover.

When writer Rob Fallon gets drunk one night and ends up joining his friend's girlfriend, Jenny, back at her apartment in London's West End, he's feeling guilty before anything's even happened. But guilt quickly turns to shock when a sequence of events put him in the centre of a mystery and a deadly race against time.

When ex-cop Dennis Milne, now living under an assumed identity in the Philippines, hears that his old friend Asif Malik has been gunned down in a restaurant, he decides to go back to the violent city he once called home and hunt down the murderer.

It's evening, you're back late from work - and the house is in darkness. You step inside, and the phone rings. You answer it - and your world turns upside down. Your 14-year-old daughter's been taken, and her kidnappers demand half a million pounds in cash. They give you 48 hours to raise the money, and warn you that if you call the police, she'll die. Trying desperately to remain calm, you realise that your husband - the man you married only two years previously - is also missing.

The gripping new race-against-time thriller by the best-selling author of Relentless, The Last 10 Seconds and The Final Minute. When Jane Kinnear sees her lover being murdered, she suddenly finds herself in danger. Taken to an anonymous police safe house, it soon becomes clear that her lover was an MI5 informant with important information about an imminent terrorist attack.

Operation kirurgsnitt är avsedd att lura colombianska narkotikahandlare att sälja en stor mängd kokain till två polisinfiltratörer på ett hotell vid Heathrow, men den slutar i katastrof och misstankarna faller snart på en av de inblandade poliserna, Stegs Jenner. Men Stegs är inte som andra poliser. Han är något av en enstöring med flera disciplinära prickar i registret och har alltid levt på gränsen. När hans kollega och nära vän dör i skottdramat på flygplatsen bestämmer han sig för att köra sitt eget race.

En helt vanlig kväll i november väntar kriminalinspektör Dennis Milne på att tre män ska anlända till parkeringen utanför ett hotell i London. Han är dock inte där i egenskap av polis. Dennis Milne extraknäcker som yrkesmördare för en av Londons farligaste gangstrar, Raymond Keen. Extraknäcket är Milnes sätt att ta lagen i egna händer och skipa den rättvisa han inte kan som polis.

You have it all. Success, a beautiful home, a happy family. Until, in a heartbeat, it's gone. We've kidnapped your daughter, and we know everything about you. Including the dark secrets from your past you thought were forgotten. We tell you not to contact the police - and that we’ll know if you do. Because we can see you.... And now you know this is no ordinary abduction. It’s worse. Within hours you’re on the run, with only one thought in your head: That you will stop at nothing to get your daughter back. Even murder....

Político carismático. Marido leal. Asesino en serie. Alastair Sheridan lo tiene todo. Es joven, atractivo y un millonario hecho a sí mismo, con una hermosa mujer y un hijo. En el caótico mundo de la política británica, donde los héroes escasean, tiene una oportunidad real de convertirse en primer ministro. Pero Alastair guarda un oscuro secreto: es un asesino en serie al que le gustan las mujeres jóvenes. Protegido y ayudado por personas muy influyentes, ha matado durante años sin que lo atrapen. Solo unas pocas personas saben qué tipo de monstruo es en realidad.

Siete víctimas, tres asesinos y el secreto que los une. Tres meses después de encontrar los restos de sietes mujeres en una granja remota en lo que los medios han bautizado como el Campo de Huesos, las víctimas siguen sin ser identificadas. Un testigo que puede ser clave ha desaparecido. El agente Ray Mason y la detective privada Tina Boyd deben encontrarlo antes de que lo hagan los asesinos. En una carrera a contrarreloj repleta de cadáveres y traiciones a cada paso, Ray está dispuesto a arriesgarlo todo para dar caza a los culpables. Pero a veces el precio a pagar es demasiado alto…

Algunos crímenes pueden tardar años en clamar venganza... En 1990, una joven desaparece sin dejar rastro mientras viaja de mochilera por Tailandia. Veintiséis años después sus huesos son encontrados en un campo en Inglaterra, a diez mil kilómetros de donde desapareció. A las pocas horas, el novio que denunció su desaparición hace décadas es asesinado cuando estaba a punto de revelar algo crucial para el caso.

Has visto demasiado. Ahora, ningún lugar es seguro. Cuando Jane Kinnear presencia el asesinato de su amante, su vida da un giro de ciento ochenta grados y se convierte en el próximo objetivo. La policía la traslada a una casa segura, donde no tarda en descubrir que su amante era un informante de los servicios secretos con datos cruciales sobre un inminente ataque terrorista. El inspector Ray Mason, del Comando Antiterrorismo, es un hombre con un pasado polémico, pero su eficacia en obtener resultados ha hecho que le asignen la responsabilidad de prevenir el ataque.

Sju offer. Tre mördare. En dödlig hemlighet. På en gård långt ute på landsbygden har kvarlevorna av sju oidentifierade kvinnor just hittats. En polis är beredd att riskera allt i jakten på deras mördare. En man som har sett morden är nu på flykt i fruktan för sitt liv. Så börjar kapplöpningen för att hitta vittnet innan mördarna gör det.

Hvor langt ville du gå for at redde en, du elsker? De har kidnappet din forlovede. De har fået det til at se ud, som om du har begået et mord. Du får én chance for at redde hende. For at rense dit navn. Du skal dræbe nogen for dem. De giver dig tid og sted. Våbnet. Offeret. Du har mindre end 24 timer. Det eneste, du ved, er, at du ikke kan stole på nogen ... og at intet er, hvad det ser ud til at være.

Det er aften, du kommer sent hjem fra arbejde – og huset ligger i mørke. Du går indenfor, og telefonen ringer. Du tager den – og din verden bliver vendt på hovedet. Din fjortenårige datter er blevet bortført, og hendes kidnappere forlanger en halv million pund i kontanter. De giver dig 48 timer til at skaffe pengene. Hvis du ringer til politiet, dør hun. Mens mareridtet udspiller sig, kan du være sikker på to ting: at du vil gøre hvad som helst for at få din datter levende hjem – og at tiden rinder ud...