You've lost your job as a department store lingerie buyer, your car's been repossessed, and most of your furniture and small appliances have been sold off to pay last month's rent. Now the rent is due again. And you live in New Jersey. What do you do? If you're Stephanie Plum, you become a bounty hunter. But not just a nickel-and-dime bounty hunter...

Revenge can take a lifetime...When Detective Garda Sergeant Mike West and his partner, Garda Andrews, are called to a suspicious death they are shocked to find the small body of a child abandoned in a suitcase.Who is she? No child has been reported missing.Their search reaches outside Ireland but without success and soon another dead body takes the...

These cases might prove to be West's toughest yet...Detective Garda Sergeant Mike West could do with a break. He's had his fill of complicated cases and wants nothing more than to settle down with his fiancée. But life has a habit of getting in the way...Two new cases come in: A hit and run where the family of the victim act suspiciously and...

Forgiveness isn't an option...Detective Garda Sergeant Mike West and his partner answer an emergency call from St Monica's church and discover a dead body suspended from the beams in front of the altar.The victim's fingerprints show that the man is Ian Moore, recently released from prison after serving time for rape. Revenge seems like the obvious...

A mysterious woman's murder leads Sebastian and Gemma to risk everything to find a remorseless killer. Inspector Sebastian Bell arrives at Paddington station through thick Victorian mist, hoping to reconcile with his estranged brother. Instead, he discovers a young woman's body in an abandoned trunk, stabbed with a peculiar bone-handled knife. But...

Rupert is consumed by one obsession: that his horse is proclaimed champion. To defeat his rival he must abandon his empire at Penscombe, his wife Taggie, and chase winners worldwide. When Gala moves to Penscombe as carer for Rupert's father, Rupert himself is attracted to her. When Gala begins working in the yard, her carer's job is taken by a deva...

Portals and danger, and a girl who can find both in the next book in the Hugo and Nebula Award-Winning Wayward Children series from Seanan McGuire.Antsy is the latest student to pass through the doors at Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children.When the school's (literally irresistible) mean girl realizes that Antsy's talent for finding absolutel...

Brought to you by Penguin.Dying isn't any fun...but at least it's a living.Mickey7 is an Expendable: a disposable employee on a humanexpedition sent to colonize the ice world Niflheim. Whenever there's a missionthat's too dangerous-even suicidal- the crew turns to Mickey. After oneiteration dies, a new body is regenerated with most of his memories...

Here in his first non-Shannara novel, Terry Brooks has written a gripping story of mystery, magic, and adventure—sure to delight fantasy readers everywhere.Landover was a genuine magic kingdom, with fairy folk and wizardry, just as the advertisement has promised. But after he purchased it, Ben Holiday learned that there were a few details the...

Cabot Cove's resident novelist and crime solver Jessica Fletcher travels to the Big Apple where she finds herself helping to track down a murderer, in this installment of the USA Today bestselling series. Jessica is back in New York City, although as a visitor this time. Jessica's favorite nephew, Grady, asks her to visit him in New York City to s...

Compiled in Middle Welsh during the 12th and 13th centuries, the Mabinogion is a mesmerising panorama of fantasy, romance, tragedy and humour. Blending Arthurian romance, Welsh legend and mythology, it tells tales of heroic knights, fair maidens, dramatic battles and magical beasts across 12 fantastical stories. These comprise the 'Three Welsh Roma...

Winner: 2022 Hugo Award for Best SeriesA young girl discovers an infinite variety of worlds in this standalone tale in the Hugo and Nebula Award-wining Wayward Children series from Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found.Welcome to the Shop Where the Lost Things Go.If you ever lost a sock, you'll find it here.If you ever wondered about favorit...

THE BRAND-NEW BOOK FOR 2025 BY 2 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR BOB MORTIMER.Bathroom salesman Matt is at a crossroads. He has lost his job, he is about to be made homeless and his girlfriend has left him. He wants his luck to change and he wants things to go back to how they were. Out of the blue he is offered a job that comes with a free luxury...

Return to a darker Oz with Gregory Maguire. In A Lion Among Men, the third volume in Maguire's acclaimed, New York Times bestselling series The Wicked Years, a fuller, more complex Cowardly Lion is brought to life and gets to tell his remarkable tale. It is a story of oppression and fear in a world gone mad with war fever—of Munchkins, Wizard...

A unique and brilliant fusion of social novel and vampire legend, and a deeply moving fable about rejection, friendship and loyalty.Oskar is a 12 year old boy who gets bullied at school, longs for his absentee father and wets himself when he's frightened. Eli is the young girl who moves in next door. She's also a 200 year old vampire, forever froze...

Following the death of her bullying husband, Etta Bancroft's selfish children move her to a village in the Cotswolds. One night she discovers a filly, left to die in the snow. With the help of friends they rescue the horse and form a syndicate to pay for her upkeep. As the horse recovers she begins to show racing pedigree, so the syndicate enter he...

This fourth entry and prequel tells the story of Lundy, a very serious young girl who would rather study and dream than become a respectable housewife and live up to the expectations of the world around her. As well she should.When she finds a doorway to a world founded on logic and reason, riddles and lies, she thinks she's found her paradise. Ala...

Brought to you by Penguin.From the exceptionally original mind of CWA Gold Dagger Award winner and Booker-longlisted author Belinda Bauer, a sweeping tale of obsession, greed, ambition, and a crime that has remained unsolved for a hundred years.It was the greatest mystery never told . . .1926. On the towering cliffs of Yorkshire, men are lowered on...

Bang, bang, she's back! Stephanie Plum, the tough-talking, mace-packing female bounty hunter from New Jersey, has returned to thrill and amuse listeners in the third book of this acclaimed series. Best-selling author Janet Evanovich creates an outrageously high-spirited romp through the gritty Trenton landscape. Cursed with a disastrous new hair co...

From the vivid opening vista, high in craggy mountains, to the final haunting glimpse of a moonlit canyon, Nevada Barr's first mystery, Track of the Cat, instantly caught the attention of readers and reviewers. Its popularity gained it both an Agatha and an Anthony Award. The young naturalist, Anna Pigeon, has moved to the Southwest wilderness to b...

An uncanny literary thriller addressing the painful legacy of lynching in the US, by the author of TelephonePercival Everett's The Trees is a must-listen that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi. When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive, they meet expected resistance fro...