Family Life Thriller

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE With the emotional complexity of Everything I Never Told You and the psychological suspense of The Girl on the Train, O. Henry Prize winner Jan Ellison delivers a brilliantly paced, beautifully written debut novel about one...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sleepers and The Wolf, hailed as “simply the best” (Steve Berry) and “one of the most intriguing writers around” (Newsweek). . . . A top NYPD detective is pulled out of retirement to take down a notorious drug dealer. But will he...

A girl emerges from the woods, starved, ill, and alone...and collapses. Suzanne Blakemore hurtles along the Blue Ridge Parkway, away from her overscheduled and completely normal life, and encounters the girl. As Suzanne rushes her to the hospital, she never imagines how the encounter will change her - a change she both fears and desperately needs. Suzanne has the perfect house, a successful husband, and a thriving family.

For Debbie, the resort has been her home for the past 30 years. Her two sisters had moved back home five years ago, to protect their inheritance. Her partners, Janice and Susan are not as dedicated as Debbie and they want to sell the resort. Debbie does not. The sisters are at an impasse. The stakes are high, the sisters are determined and Debbie is afraid she may not be able to stop them. Not only could she lose her resort, she could also lose her sisters. But, the time has come and decisions need to be made.

Charlie is the host of a successful late-night radio call-in show. In their minds, he is perfect: one of life's winners. But he feels he's something of a fake. His easy confidence on-air belies the reality for a man born with a wine-colored birthmark that covers half his face. Love You to Death covers one hour on "The World According to Charlie D." - an hour during which he must both discover the long-time listener who is killing the people who trust him and attempt to come to terms with the man behind the birthmark.

Eine alte Villa im Tessin birgt so manch düsteres Geheimnis. Als Anna nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter erfährt, dass sie ein altes Haus in einem Schweizer Bergdorf von ihr geerbt hat, reist sie dorthin, um es zu verkaufen. Doch sie muss feststellen, dass das Haus eine Bewohnerin hat: Eine alte Dame lebt unter dem Dach aber verlässt nie ihr Zimmer. Erst nach und nach wird Anna klar, dass ihre Mutter ihr etwas verschwiegen hat.

On his drive home from work, Mark hears a familiar voice on the Doctor Lisa radio show—a popular therapist hotline. It’s not just a familiar voice; it’s her voice. His wife Rachel’s voice. The caller, who goes by Mindy from Indy, has a secret. A secret so explosive it’ll destroy her life if it comes out—but she hangs up before revealing it. Later, Rachel denies ever having heard of the Doctor Lisa Show, or Mindy from Indy. But Mark knows his wife, and he knows her voice. And he doesn’t understand why she’s lying to him, or what about.

Ameerah Vincent rose from the unforgiving streets of Brooklyn’s projects to become one of the most powerful real estate moguls in the world. With an empire that caters to the ultra-wealthy, a luxury lifestyle that includes her own private island, and a passionate love affair with the dashing Xavier Coleman, Ameerah has it all.

Alice’s marriage to a wealthy, controlling businessman, Carl, has been troubled for years, and her adult daughters keep their distance. But now, with Carl’s long-term drug addiction spiraling into a crisis, her teenage son is falling in with a bad crowd. And Carl’s business partner is making threats as their company descends into financial disarray.

OPOWIEŚĆ O SILE RODZINNYCH WIĘZÓW, ROZLICZANIU SIĘ Z PRZESZŁOŚCIĄ I ODNAJDYWANIU WŁASNEJ DROGI. Mathilde Cormier po śmierci ojca opuszcza wraz z matką oraz młodszym rodzeństwem Francję i próbuje odnaleźć się w obcej, angielskiej rzeczywistości. Kiedy już jej się zdaje, że najgorsze za nią, dramatyczny obrót spraw zmusza lady Cormier do powrotu do Francji, a sama Mathilde rusza w ślad za matką, by pomóc jej w wyplątaniu się z największego skandalu, o jakim paryska socjeta słyszała od kilku lat.

Aspiring designer Taurus Maxwell learns that her fiancé has been having an affair with her mother on the day of her engagement party. She wonders if she can ever be able to give her heart to someone and have them love her in return. After her home burns down and her dreams of being a designer are crushed by another bad interview, her ex-fiancé's father, Ru Wén, gives her an offer she cannot refuse. With her mother and ex-fiancé trying to fight back into her life will she ever be able to escape them? Is it okay to find love with a man who happens to be your ex-fiance's father?

In British Columbia, in the early months of 1980, a young woman is brutally murdered and buried in a shallow grave. Decades later, two hikers discover her remains on the shore of Cold Lake. In an attempt to identify the girl, authorities recreate her physical appearance in a series of sketches released to the public. Four hundred kilometers away, in the city of Vancouver, one of university professor Nora Devrey’s students hands her a newspaper article that features the Jane Doe police sketch; and the picture appears to be a pencil drawing of Nora.

Six months on from the murders of Kenny Hughes and Harry Whittle, their families are still waiting to hear when the killers will be brought to trial. The end of the COVID-19 lockdown and the re-opening of Crown Courts offers hope, but summer turns to Autumn and Christmas approaches with no end to their ordeal in sight.

Karen has packed up her life and is making the Move. She’s on her way to the idyllic country cottage which her husband has painstakingly renovated for her. But something is awry. The landscape, breathtaking by day, is eerie by night. The longed-for peace and solitude is stifling. And the house, so artfully put together by her husband, has a strange vibe. Now that Karen is cut off from her old friends and family, she can’t help wondering if her husband has plans of his own, and that history might be repeating itself.

When Natalie Shelton thinks back to how things were before the car accident, she remembers a great marriage. She and her husband, Zack, seem as strong and dependable together as the houses he builds. They live in Portland, Oregon, and Natalie is co-owner of a successful accounting firm. They're happy, she's almost sure of it. Yet as Natalie lies trapped in a coma, unable to communicate though aware of everything around her, she realizes that her husband is hiding something.

When her teenage granddaughter comes to her with a troubling question, Camilla Dickinson must confront the painful history she’s long kept hidden. Forced to relive her past, she relates a complex saga involving her beautiful, adulterous mother, her troubled son, and the difficult choices that have affected three generations of her family. As she goes through the difficult process of revealing her secrets, Camilla also lets go of the burden of lies she’s told. A testament to the power of acceptance and forgiveness, A Live Coal in the Sea is ultimately an exploration of the lengths to which people will go for love—and the things they’ll do to protect family.

Five years ago Susannah Harper's son, Joel, went missing without trace. Bereft of her son and then of her husband, Susannah has rebuilt her life around helping others. But then, on the last night of Hull Fair, a fortune-teller makes an eerie prediction. She tells her that this Christmas Eve, Joel will finally come back to her. As her carefully constructed life begins to unravel, Susannah is forced to confront the buried truths of her family's past.

Lisa and Matt can't believe their luck. They have a dream house and a dream marriage, and very soon they'll have a dream family too. But life is rarely that simple. When their beautiful life is rocked by tragedy, they are forced to make an unbearable choice. Suddenly the future they've built together looks fragile and exposed. With aching hearts and their love on the line, they set off on a road trip through the stunning Californian landscape hoping that time and distance will help them start again.

Natalie and Rose are transported in their imaginations to the Atlantic Ocean in 1943, where one of their ancestors survived in a lifeboat for 50 days. Natalie struggles when her daughter, Rose, is diagnosed with type-1 diabetes, but the researching and retelling of Grandad Colin's story provides them both with a way to fight through. Louise Beech has always been haunted by the sea, and regularly writes travel pieces for the Hull Daily Mail, where she was a columnist for ten years.

Absenting himself for a brief intimacy with a former girlfriend, Hugh Mcpherson leaves his surfing-obsessed sons on an isolated California beach. When he returns, the 11-year-old twins have vanished. A ferocious riptide has swept Takumi and Hitoshi out to sea, their bodies unrecovered. Devastated by the loss, Hugh and his Japanese wife, Setsuko, divorce. Severing all ties to America, Setsuko returns to Japan to live with her father, Kazuki Ono, a prominent author of mind-bending novels.