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Three years ago, something terrible happened to Naomi Jenkins - so terrible that she never told anybody. Now Naomi has another secret - the man she has fallen passionately in love with, unhappily married Robert Haworth. When Robert vanishes without trace, Naomi knows he must have come to harm. But the police are less convinced, particularly when Robert's wife insists he is not missing. In desperation, Naomi has a crazy idea.

When her plane is delayed overnight, Gaby Struthers finds herself forced to share a hotel room with a stranger: a terrified young woman named Lauren Cookson - but why is she scared of Gaby in particular? Lauren won't explain. Instead, she blurts out something about an innocent man going to prison for a murder he didn't commit, and Gaby soon suspects that Lauren's presence on her flight can't be a coincidence. Because the murder victim is Francine Breary, the wife of the only man Gaby has ever truly loved.

Justine thought she knew who she was, until an anonymous caller seemed to know better...After escaping London and a career that nearly destroyed her, Justine plans to spend her days doing as little as possible in her beautiful home in Devon.But soon after the move, her daughter Ellen starts to withdraw when her new best friend, George, is unfairly expelled from school.

Hercule Poirot kann's nicht lassen. Die berühmte Autorin Lady Athelinda hat eine Schar von Gästen auf ihr Landgut eingeladen. Da verkündet die Lady, dass sie ihre Familie enterben und alles ihrem Sekretär Joseph vermachen wird. Dieser ist genauso schockiert wie die Verwandten, doch kurz darauf wird Joseph tot aufgefunden. Zufällig ist auch Hercule Poirot unter den Gästen und zusammen mit dem jungen Polizisten Edward Catchpool versucht er, den Mörder zu entlarven.

Lodnýn 1930. Hercule Poirot se spokojeně vrací z oběda, když ho před domovními dvěřmi překvapí rozzlobená žena a domáhá se vysvětlení, proč jí detektiv poslal dopis, v němž ji obviňuje z vraždy Barnabase Pandyho, když nikoho toho jména ani nezná. Hercule Poirot netuší, o čem je řeč. Jde snad o nějaký omyl či nejapný vtip? Kolik stejných dopisů, odeslaných jeho jménem, ještě koluje po Londýně? A kdo je Barnabas Pandy? Žije, nebo byl skutečně zavražděn?

Queen of psychological crime Sophie Hannah returns with a chilling new Culver Valley crime novel. A killer that the police are calling "Billy Dead Mates" is murdering pairs of best friends one by one. Before they die, each victim is given a small white book.... For months detectives have failed to catch Billy or work out what the white books mean. And then a woman, scared by what she's seen on the news, comes forward. Stand-up comedian Kim Tribbeck has one of Billy's peculiar little books.

When Amber Hewerdine consults a hypnotherapist as a desperate last resort, she doesn't expect that anything much will change. She doesn't expect it to help with her chronic insomnia. And she doesn't expect to hear herself, under hypnosis, saying words that mean nothing to her: 'Kind, cruel, kind of cruel'. These are words she has seen somewhere before, if only she could remember where….

She's only been gone two hours. Her husband, David, was meant to be looking after their two-week-old daughter. But when Alice Fancourt walks into the nursery, her terrifying ordeal begins, for Alice insists the baby in the cot is a stranger she's never seen before. With an increasingly hostile and menacing David swearing she must either be mad or lying, how can Alice make the police believe her before it's too late?

Fliss Benson is a TV producer struggling to deal with a personal tragedy in her own life. She receives at work an anonymous card which consists of 16 numbers arranged in four rows of four. These numbers mean absolutely nothing to her. At the same time, she is handed a particularly unwelcome assignment: she has to work on a documentary about cot death and three mothers accused (wrongly, it seems) of murder: Helen Yardley, Sarah Jaggard and Rachel Hines.

Pushed to breaking point, Cara Burrows flees her home and family and heads for a five-star spa resort. All she wants is space and time to think, far from everyone she knows. Instead she gets a shock in the middle of the night when she is given the key to a room that's already occupied - apparently by a father and daughter, who are equally shocked to be woken by a stranger. Back at reception, Cara gets an apology and the key to a new room, and she imagines the drama is over....

Jemma Stelling has confessed to a murder. Jemma Stelling is the police's lead suspect. Jemma Stelling couldn't have committed the crime. Jemma had an alibi. At the time of Marianne Cass's brutal murder, she was in the police station, confessing to a murderous obsession with Marianne. Is Jemma Stelling innocent? Or is she an ingenious, cold-blooded killer?

Happiness is one of life’s greatest mysteries. But what even is happiness? Why does it mean so many different things to different people? And how can we actually be happier? Drawing on decades of experience in crime writing, self-help and intensely curious observation of other people, Sophie Hannah sets out to solve the mystery. She lines up her cast of suspects and expert witnesses from ancient philosophers to modern self-help gurus, scientists to ordinary people from all walks of life.

The chilling story of a woman haunted by music that only she can hear, sung by a choir of children that only she can see....

Potomci Agathy Christie svolili k návratu Hercula Poirota na stránky nových napínavých příběhů - nesnadného úkolu důstojně navázat na tradici poirotovských detektivek se ujala bestsellerová autorka Sophie Hannah. Výsledkem jsou Vraždy s monogramem, spletitý případ zasazený do Londýna 20. let minulého století. Ďábelsky chytrý hlavolam plný falešných stop a snadno přehlédnutelných, o to však důležitějších detailů může rozřešit jen legendární belgický puntičkář a jeho brilantní "malé šedé buňky".

Ruth Bussey knows what it means to be in the wrong and to be wronged. She once did something she regrets, and her punishment nearly destroyed her. Now Ruth is rebuilding her life, and has found a love she doesn't believe she deserves: Aidan Seed. Aidan is also troubled by a past he hates to talk about, until one day he decides he must confide in Ruth. He tells her that years ago he killed someone: a woman called Mary Trelease. Ruth is confused. She's certain she's heard the name before, and when she realises why it sounds familiar, her fear and confusion deepen....

Three grown up biologists rereading books from our teens (while desperately trying to make biological sense of glittery vampires, and dragons, and bird kids). And it’s totally cool.

Hercule Poirot è in viaggio da Londra su un lussuoso pullman diretto verso l'esclusiva tenuta di Kingfisher Hill, dove Richard Devonport lo ha convocato per dimostrare che la sua fidanzata, Helen, è innocente dell'omicidio di suo fratello Frank, avvenuto in quel complesso residenziale. Ma c'è una strana condizione legata a questa richiesta: Poirot deve nascondere il vero motivo per cui si trova lì.

Det er efteråret 1929, da den verdensberømte børnebogsforfatter Lady Athelinda Playford inviterer sin familie, to betroede advokater, Edward Catchpool fra Scotland Yard og ikke mindst den karismatiske mesterdetektiv Hercule Poirot til en sammenkomst på sit landsted i Clonakilty, Irland. Her ryster hun hele forsamlingen, da hun annoncerer, at begge hendes børn er gjort arveløse, og at hun i stedet har testamenteret hele sin formue til sin sekretær, den dødssyge Joseph Scotcher.

In this small but perfectly formed collection of supernatural short stories, Sophie Hannah takes the comforting scenes of everyday life and imbues them with a frisson of fear, then a gust of terror. Why is a young woman so unnerved by the presence of a visitors book in her boyfriend's inner-city home? And whose spidery handwriting is it that fills the pages?

After Chloe and her daughter, Freya, are rescued from disaster by a man, Chloe decides she must find him again to thank him. But instead of meeting her knight in shining armour, she comes across Nadine Caspian, who warns her to stay away from him. The man is dangerous, Nadine claims, and a compulsive liar. Alarmed, Chloe knows that the sensible choice would be to walk away. But she is too curious. What could Nadine have meant?