Don't Believe Her

Don't Believe Her

Jane Heafield

Jane Heafield

A weekend getaway leads to a deadly game of deceit between two cunning sisters-in-law in this British psychological thriller. Though Lucy and Tim have been married for years, she has never gotten along with his sister. So when they plan a weekend in the country, they certainly don't expect Mary to show up. But it's Mary who's shocked when she arrives to find Tim missing. His belongings are gone, there's a bloodstain on the floor, and Lucy's story doesn't add up. Lucy insists that he left her, but Mary suspects foul play. When the police are called, each woman tells her own story—but Detective Reavley doesn't trust either of them. Accusations of affairs and violence only add to the tension, but soon explosive secrets come to light that no one could have expected.
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Captives

Captives

Jane Heafield

Jane Heafield

From the author of Obsessed: Six women fight to survive a kidnapper's lethal game as a seventh is about to be drawn into his lair . . . Noa Vickerman, host of a late-night confession show, gets a call from a man claiming he has six young women imprisoned. At first, it's dismissed as a prank—but that changes when the first body shows up. As the captives huddle in fear, he puts them through challenges, intent on finding a single special woman that suits his ultimate purpose. Meanwhile, with police watching her every move and the public following the story breathlessly, Noa is determined to save the women—but will she have to put herself within the monster's reach to do so?
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Her Dark Past

Her Dark Past

Jane Heafield

Jane Heafield

In this gripping novel by the author of Don't Believe Her, one phone call brings a buried horror back to the surface—and upends a family's life . . .When Sara answers the phone and hears the name Drake Mills, it makes her blood run cold. It is a name from her past. A name she would rather forget.Keeping the call a secret from her husband and her daughter, Marcie, Sara instead decides to confide in someone else from her past, a woman who knows all about Drake Mills.Eventually, Sara is forced to disclose the truth to her husband. What she doesn't realize is that Marcie senses something is going on with her parents, and when she discovers a book in the attic written by her mother, an account of how she survived a serial killer, it opens a door that Sara preferred to keep firmly locked . . .
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Cold Heart

Cold Heart

Jane Heafield

Jane Heafield

A series of bizarre crimes across the English city of Sheffield brings a police detective and a PI together in an increasingly dangerous game . . . Liam Bennet has just quit the force to become a private detective—and to his frustration, his first case is a weird petty crime while his good friend acting DCI Liz Miller is assigned a murder. Two murders, in fact—one recent, the other involving a skeletonized body, but both linked by pictures of dice at the scenes. After Liz is attacked on the job, Liam visits her in hospital and they discover another odd connection: both Liam and the police are looking into teachers who've been victimised. Meanwhile, more dice keep turning up—though the crimes connected to them seem utterly random, ranging from the serious to the bizarre. As the two close in on the mystery, will they be able to identify a pattern—or is their luck about to run out?
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Dead Cold

Dead Cold

Jane Heafield

Jane Heafield

A Sheffield police detective risks her career to investigate a brutal double murder in this gripping crime thriller.The truth lies in the darkest places . . . When an anonymous call sends police to a house in Sheffield, a dead couple are discovered in the kitchen. Their skulls have been caved in, their hands mutilated, and their eyes damaged beyond recognition. When Detective Inspector Liz Miller is handed the investigation, she is thrilled. She loves high-profile cases. But when her boss is involved in a traffic collision the investigation is stripped from her and given to DCI Bennet. But Miller refuses to quit. Soon Bennet realises that Miller is interfering with his investigation and warns her off the case. However, when a link is made to a cold case, she is drawn in deeper. Then, when the police discover the victims aren't who they think they are, the mystery is blown wide open . . . Will Miller be able to solve the case and keep her career...
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No Trace

No Trace

Jane Heafield

Jane Heafield

When Detective Inspector Liz Miller visits a bingo club to arrest a murder suspect, the manager mistakenly thinks she's there to enquire about a young female employee called Shauna. Intrigued, Miller learns that Shauna hasn't been at work for 9 days and no one has heard from her. She seems to have vanished and left no trace.More worrying, Shauna hasn't been reported missing. Most murdered women are victims of current or previous partners. If Shauna is dead, the most likely culprit is her live-in boyfriend. Slam dunk. Case closed, right?But Miller's been around too long to assume anything. She's seen the obvious take the wildest twist, and the mundane become the bizarre. She thinks nothing can surprise her anymore.She's wrong.
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Mrs Hopkins

Mrs Hopkins

Shirley Barrett

Shirley Barrett

A witty and poignant final novel from acclaimed author and filmmaker Shirley Barrett about what destroys us, what sustains us, and what we carry from one world into the next.On a rainy night in 1871, an idealistic schoolmistress arrives on Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour. Mrs Hopkins doesn't know what to expect from the notorious Biloela Industrial School for Girls, but nothing could prepare her for what she encounters inside the high sandstone walls: the conditions are dismal, the rules are largely conceptual, and the girls spend most of their time finding creative ways to outsmart the adults.Very quickly, Mrs Hopkins realises that noble intentions won't be enough to plough through the chaos around her. An unconventional school requires unconventional methods, and Mrs Hopkins is going to have to find her own ways to reach her lively, lost charges. But her own ghosts have followed her to Cockatoo Island, and refuse to stay hidden for much longer.This witty,...
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Tell Me I'm an Artist

Tell Me I'm an Artist

Chelsea Martin

Chelsea Martin

"Portrait of the artist as a broke and brilliant, hungry and funny young woman" (Lynn Steger Strong, author of Want), this hilarious and incisive coming-of-age novel about an art student from a poor family struggling to find her place in a new social class of rich, well-connected peers is perfect for fans of Elif Batuman’s The Idiot and Weike Wang’s ChemistryAt her San Francisco art school, Joey enrolls in a film elective that requires her to complete what seems like a straightforward assignment: create a self-portrait. Joey inexplicably decides to remake Wes Anderson’s Rushmore despite having never seen the movie. As Tell Me I’m An Artist unfolds over the course of the semester, the assignment hangs over her as she struggles to exist in a well-heeled world that is hugely different from any she has known.Miles away, Joey’s sister goes missing, leaving her toddler with their mother, who in turn...
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Mickey

Mickey

Chelsea Martin

Chelsea Martin

"[Chelsea Martin's] deceptively relaxed prose perfectly captures the Facebook-guzzling void that constitutes modern heartbreak. Fav."—Lena Dunham After breaking up with her boyfriend Mickey, a young woman struggles to situate her life and her art, and reach her estranged mother. Told in a series of vignettes, Mickey is one young woman's journey to figuring out life (or not) amidst drunken mistakes, Ina Garten fan art, reality TV marathons, bathroom sex, and the daydreamed titles of imaginary art installations. Chelsea Martin is the author of four books, including her small press bestseller, Even Though I Don't Miss You.
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The Mistletoe Connection

The Mistletoe Connection

On Christmas Eve, ten strangers at the Denver airport are trying to make it home in time for Christmas when a snowstorm sweeps through, grounding all flights. Stuck in the airport together, they help each other discover the magic of in-between places. Six intertwined stories unfold in the airport as the clock ticks closer to midnight: Landry runs into her ex-girlfriend Resa, and the two women hit it off like nothing ever happened—until things start to get serious. Unaccompanied minor June convinces Adrian to pose as her boyfriend for social media that evening, but what happens when she wants to stop pretending? Charles is struggling during the first holiday season since his wife's death, and the resulting tension with his daughter only makes the night more difficult. Wes and Keely had hoped to forget about their fight during the holidays, but being stranded at the airport brings emotions to a boiling point. Airport employees Trevor and Kat...
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