In rural Devon, six-year-old Joanna Mason witnesses an appalling crime. Thirty years later the man convicted of the crime is released from prison. In Edinburgh, sixteen-year-old Reggie works as a nanny for a G.P. But Dr Hunter has gone missing and Reggie seems to be the only person who is worried. Across town, Detective Chief Inspector Louise Monroe is also looking for a missing person, unaware that hurtling towards her is an old friend - Jackson Brodie - himself on a journey that becomes fatally interrupted.

Roald Dahl's ten early stories arise from his experiences as a wartime fighter pilot. They probe the minds of men living nightmares behind the nervy bonhomie of Ops room and Mess; men sent on one mission too many into chilling countries of the mind. 

Featuring the biggest names in fiction, Thriller is the first collection of pure thriller stories ever published. Offering heart-pumping tales of suspense in all its guises are over thirty of the most critically acclaimed and award-winning names in the business. 

In the city of Atlanta, women are dying at the hands of a cunning killer who signs his work with a single, chilling act of mutilation. Leaving behind enough evidence to fuel a frenzied police hunt, this madman brings together investigators, bystanders, and one very guilty man in a harrowing drama.

Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh had been looking forward to a quiet holiday at his aunt's cottage on Monksmere Head. But Dalgliesh had reckoned without the macabre discovery of the handless corpse of crime-writer Maurice Seton.

Twee schoten van dichtbij, kort na elkaar, zoals in een Amerikaanse film. Zij lag onder een straatlamp en bloed spoot als een muzikale fontein uit haar lichaam. Hij bleef maar schieten, drie kogels per seconde, een ballet van kogels, tot de lader leeg was en zijn pistool klikte. De nacht was zo warm dat de lucht ervan trilde. Aan de andere kant van de stad schoot een steekvlam omhoog tussen geparkeerde auto's en met een geweldige knal spatte het Fiatje van Miss België uiteen in duizend brandende stukken. In het lokaal van de gerechtelijke politie trokken de speurders een kogelvrij vest aan. De tafel lag vol revolvers en pistolen. 'Ik voel mij naakt zonder mijn blaffer,' zei Sofie Simoens. De nieuwe speurder droeg strakke jeans en cowboylaarsjes van slangenleer.

Yago De Moor is twaalf wanneer zijn vader vermoord wordt door inbrekers. Hij wordt bij een pleeggezin geplaatst, waar hij doodongelukkig is. Jaren later ontdekt hij dat zijn vader een boodschap voor hem heeft achtergelaten in een oud stuk speelgoed. Hij gaat op zoek en doet een gruwelijke ontdekking: zijn vader is niet zomaar vermoord, hij was zelf een huurmoordenaar. Yago wil alleen nog maar wraak.

Dimitri Verhulst presenteert u de geschiedenis van de mensheid in minder dan tweehonderd pagina's, in een oerknal van taal. Vanaf het moment dat we uit het water kwamen gekropen en op twee benen gingen lopen tot en met de jaren dat we elkaar naar de andere wereld zijn gaan bombarderen. Een verhaal met een hoofdpersonage waarin u zich ongetwijfeld zo nu en dan herkennen zal, herkennen moet.

Dimitri Verhulst presenteert u de geschiedenis van de mensheid in minder dan tweehonderd pagina's, in een oerknal van taal. Vanaf het moment dat we uit het water kwamen gekropen en op twee benen gingen lopen tot en met de jaren dat we elkaar naar de andere wereld zijn gaan bombarderen. Een verhaal met een hoofdpersonage waarin u zich ongetwijfeld zo nu en dan herkennen zal, herkennen moet.

Een kort verhaal over een man die door zijn werk getraind is in het doorhebben van mensen die tegen hem liegen, die daardoor bij een misdaadverhaal al van het begin weet wie de moord heeft gepleegd en als ultiem bewijs daarvan zelf een moord wil plegen. Zomaar, om te bewijzen dat hij dat kan.

A 28-year-old man seems the picture of health, until he fractures his leg while skating in New York's Central Park. Within twenty-four hours of his surgical treatment he is dead. Next, a 36-year-old mother has knee surgery to repair a torn ligament in her knee - and within twenty-four hours she too has died.

Confronted with a series of puzzling deaths of young, healthy patients after routine treatment, medical examiners Dr. Laurie Montgomery and Dr. Jack Stapleton begin to investigate. Up against resistance from her superiors, and also coping with a personal life that continues to fragment, precipitated by Jack's inability to commit to their relationship, Laurie's need for answers becomes even more urgent. Could all these deaths be intentional? With time winding down, she and Jack embark on a race to connect the dots.

Chromosome 6 is a prophetic thriller that challenges the medical ethics of genetic manipulation and cloning in the jungles of equatorial Africa, where one mistake could bridge the gap between man and ape and forever change the genetic map of our existence...

Greg thinks there is something wrong with the old camera he and his friend found. The photographs keep turning out wrong. Very wrong. Like the snapshot Greg took of his father's new car that shows it totalled. And then Greg's father is in a nasty wreck. But Greg's friends don't believe him. Shari even makes Greg bring the camera to her birthday party and take her picture. Only Shari's not in the photograph when it develops. Is Shari about to be taken out of the picture permanently? Who is going to take the next fall for... the evil camera? 

Too bad about Dex. He was in love with Joanna. She broke up with him. And then he died.

Joanna's sorry, of course. But it's not her fault he's dead, is it? Besides, she never loved him. Boys are just toys, to be used and thrown away.

But this time, Joanna's gone too far. Because Dex is back. From the dead. For one last date with her. 

Dr. Kay Scarpetta travels to North Carolina to investigate the murder of an eleven-year-old girl, but the evidence does not add up, and she must conduct a gruesome experiment at a remote research facility to find the answers, in a a new edition of the classic thriller, complete with a new introduction by the author. 

Under cover of night in Richmond, Virginia, a human monster strikes, leaving a gruesome trail of stranglings that has paralyzed the city. Medical examiner Kay Scarpetta suspects the worst: a deliberate campaign by a brilliant serial killer whose signature offers precious few clues. With an unerring eye, she calls on the latest advances in forensic research to unmask the madman. But this investigation will test Kay like no other, because it?s being sabotaged from within - and someone wants her dead.

Patricia Cornwell turns from forensics to police procedures in her latest novel, Hornet's Nest. This book is less a thriller than a character study of the main characters: Judy Hammer, chief of police in Charlotte, North Carolina; Hammer's deputy, Virginia West; and Andy Brazil, a young reporter assigned to ride with the police as they go about their jobs.

Under cover of night in Richmond, Virginia, a human monster strikes, leaving a gruesome trail of stranglings that has paralyzed the city. Medical examiner Kay Scarpetta suspects the worst: a deliberate campaign by a brilliant serial killer whose signature offers precious few clues. With an unerring eye, she calls on the latest advances in forensic research to unmask the madman. But this investigation will test Kay like no other, because it?s being sabotaged from within - and someone wants her dead.

In Richmond, Virginia, young lovers are dying. So far, four couples in the area have disappeared, only to be found months later as mutilated corpses. When the daughter of the president's newest drug czar vanishes along with her boyfriend, Dr. Kay Scarpetta knows time is short. Following a macabre trail of evidence that ties the present homicides to a grisly crime in the past, Kay must draw upon her own personal resources to track down a murderer who is as skilled at eliminating clues as Kay is at finding them...

At 11.05 one December evening in Richmond, Virginia, convicted murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell is pronounced dead in the electric chair. At the morgue Dr Kay Scarpetta waits for Waddell's body. Preparing to perform a post-mortem before the subject is dead is a strange feeling, but Scarpetta has been here before. And Waddell's death is not the only newsworthy event on this freezing night: the grotesquely wounded body of a young boy is found propped against a rubbish skip. To Scarpetta the two cases seem unrelated, until she recalls that the body of Waddell's victim had been arranged in a strikingly similar position...

Dr. Kay Scarpetta travels to North Carolina to investigate the murder of an eleven-year-old girl, but the evidence does not add up, and she must conduct a gruesome experiment at a remote research facility to find the answers, in a a new edition of the classic thriller, complete with a new introduction by the author. 

Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta investigates the murder of a reclusive author and discovers that forensic pathology has become much more than laboratory work when she becomes involved in a dangerous criminal investigation.

Dr. Kay Scarpetta plunges into the murky depths of a ship graveyard to recover the very human remains of Ted Eddings, an investigative reporter. Together with her niece Lucy and police captain Pete Marino, Scarpetta will follow the scents of death and violence to the heart of sinister darkness.

In From Potter's Field, #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell enters the chilling world of Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta and a bold, brilliant killer from her past. Upon examining a dead woman found in snowbound Central Park, Scarpetta immediately recognizes the grisly work of Temple Brooks Gault. She soon realizes that Gault's murders are but a violent chain leading up to one ultimate kill - Scarpetta herself.

Things have turned black at the House of Night. Zoey Redbird's soul has shattered. With everything she's ever stood for falling apart, it's seeming more and more doubtful that she'll be able pull herself back together in time to rejoin her friends and set the world to rights. As the only living person who can reach her, Stark must find a way to get to her. But how? 

Enter BFF Stevie Rae. She wants to help Z but she has massive problems of her own. The rogue Red Fledglings are acting up, and her kinda boyfriend, Dallas, is sweet but too nosy for his own good. The truth is, Stevie Rae's hiding a secret that might be the key to getting Zoey home but also threatens to explode her whole world.

And in the middle of the whole mess is Aphrodite: ex-Fledgling, trust-fund baby, total hag from Hell (and proud of it). She's always had visions that reveal the future, but now it seems Nyx has decided to speak through her with the goddess's own voice, whether she wants it or not. Aphrodite's loyalty can swing a lot of different ways, but right now Zoey's fate hangs in the balance.

Three girls? playing with fire? if they don't watch out, everyone will get Burned.