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Brought to you by Penguin. For fans of THE TRAVELLING CAT CHRONICLES and translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori, translator of CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN, a tender and mesmerizing story about kindness, community and the wonder of life On the outskirts of Tokyo, in a neighbourhood crossed by a commuter...

Brought to you by Penguin. She could be anyone. She could be you. Nobody ever found out what happened to Laika Martenwood, the girl who vanished without a trace on her way to school one morning. But for her sister Willa, life shattered into tiny pieces that day, and she has never been able to...

For three years, Detective Jude Fontaine was kept from the outside world. Held in an underground cell, her only contact was with her sadistic captor, and reading his face was her entire existence. Learning his every line, every movement, and every flicker of thought is what kept her alive. After her experience with isolation and torture, she is left with a fierce desire for justice - and a heightened ability to interpret the body language of both the living and the dead.

Pre-teen girls are being abducted and their families murdered. When Frank Rogers, ex-DI with the Metropolitan Police, is told that his own daughter is missing, his son a victim, he sets aside his grief to help old colleagues investigate the case. In an unexpected turn of events, the killer contacts the police to say he is willing to talk. But only to Frank. When the body of the first abducted girl is discovered, Frank realises the investigation has become a race against time to save his daughter’s life. Frank must work out how the killer is choosing his victims.

Claudia's life imploded ten years ago when she was convicted of the murder of her child. Now she has done the unthinkable and confessed to manslaughter in order to be granted parole - her only hope of finding out what really happened to Tilly. Sara is married to Joe, Claudia's ex-husband, and they have a young child together. She finally has everything she ever wanted, but Claudia's release threatens the perfect life she has created.

Nobody knows she's checked into Room 706. Caught in the wrong place at precisely the worst time, Kate must face the most confronting situation of her life - and discover what matters most - in this deeply suspenseful and thought-provoking novel. If she knew it would end this way, would it ever...

Once you find our perfect little town nestled between the gorgeous hills, you never want to leave. My husband and I both grew up here, and we knew there was nowhere better to raise our two sweet girls…. But when the moving van pulls up, and a mother and daughter jump out, my blood runs cold. I met the mother once on our summer holiday, and I let slip a terrible secret--something no one here must ever know.

A stunning collection including the story "Sea Oak," from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction. Hailed by Thomas Pynchon as "graceful, dark...

In 19th-century China, when wives and daughters were foot-bound and lived in almost total seclusion, the women in one remote Hunan county developed their own secret code for communication: nu shu (“women’s writing”). With the arrival of a silk fan on which Snow Flower has composed for Lily a poem of introduction in nu shu, their friendship is sealed. As the years pass, through famine and rebellion, they reflect upon their arranged marriages, loneliness, and the joys and tragedies of motherhood.

Seven years ago, Terry Archer and his family experienced a horrific ordeal that nearly cost them their lives. Today, the echoes of that fateful night are still audible. Terry's wife, Cynthia, is living separate from her husband and daughter after her own personal demons threatened to ruin her...

Don't go into the dark woods - where the trees grow dense and the sunlight struggles to reach the underbrush . . . Mare of Easttown meets The Outsider in this spine-tingling and twisty debut set in a small town deep in the Virginian woods. Rachel Kennan knows the townspeople of Dahlmouth will...

Carolina thought her past was buried until someone dug it up. Just when her life seems to be on the verge of normalcy, Private Investigator Carolina McKay receives a mysterious envelope in the mail. Inside is a photograph of a field with GPS coordinates. And one very cryptic message: “Wish you...

Dans "Liaisons secrètes" d'Isabelle Bond, une fortune colossale change de mains de manière inattendue. Juste avant sa mort, un riche Américain modifie son testament, léguant sa fortune aux descendants d'un cousin éloigné. Ce bouleversement financier déclenche une série de révélations et de tensions au sein de la famille, où secrets et ambitions se heurtent.

Maksim Max Orlov is not living, he is staying eligible to be billed again. He wakes up with a mouth tasting of metal and a phone bleeding failed payment notifications. Somewhere between towering ambition and crippling laziness, Max has mastered a new survival skill, he can turn his own collapse into a joke before anyone else can name it. A chaos man with a talent for punchlines, and a hollow hunger for validation.

She thought her past was buried. But some nightmares don’t stay dead. After weeks of torture, private investigator Carolina McKay claws her way out of captivity, only to discover the nightmare isn’t over. It’s just begun. The man responsible, charismatic cult leader Josiah Zarchi, is alive...

T’étais une distraction, puis t’es devenue une frustration… 2007. Si Pearl s’efforce de vivre sa vie sans faire de vagues, en réalité, son adolescence est un véritable enfer. Un père en prison, une relation conflictuelle avec sa mère, un...

A man disappears in plain sight. Simon Mercer once wore a uniform. Once belonged to something larger than himself. Once believed that survival meant strength. But after returning home from Kandahar, the quiet war inside him proves more relentless than the one he left behind. Haunted by guilt and undone by loss, he drifts from family, from work, from himself, until he becomes just another unseen figure on a Toronto sidewalk. Invisible. Unnoticed. Almost gone. Until one person stops.

Audiolibro narrado en castellano. En el silencio opresivo de una tienda de antigüedades, durante el crepúsculo de un día de Navidad, un hombre cruza el punto de no retorno. Markheim acude al establecimiento con la frialdad del asesino, pero lo que comienza como un crimen impulsado por la...

She survived history. Now she’s making it. Mayyada al-Rahbani was seven when she sprinted through the date orchards of Dujail while Saddam Hussein executed her family. Her escape made international headlines as she navigated a war zone and found refuge in Kuwait City. Renamed Maya and raised by adoptive North American parents, she spent the next four decades running—from journalists, intimacy, her marriage, and into the anonymity of strangers’ beds. But everything changes when Maya performs a life-saving abortion on a thirteen-year-old girl.

Succession meets The Guest List in Darby Kane’s newest novel where rich people are doing terrible things, including murder. There’s no telling how far these weekend guests will go to be the next heir of the Benedict estate… For the second time in ten years a body drifted in the water at...