One Wrong Turn is a heart-pounding thriller from C. M. Ewan, acclaimed author of The House Hunt, The Interview, A Window Breaks and the half-a-million-copy bestseller Safe House.Late at night . . .Abi and Ben are driving home down foggy country roads, arguing about having had to cut short their weekend away when they take a wrong turn. Abi's driving, but her eyes leave the road for a moment as she says something to Ben – just as he gasps. A man is in front of the car, waving a torch. Abi swerves to avoid him.You see a family stranded . . .Ben tells her they should stop and go back, but Abi refuses. It's dark, the roads are isolated and they don't know this stranger. But, as Abi continues on, they see a broken-down car. Every instinct is still telling Abi to drive by, but then she notices the woman holding a car seat with a baby in it.Would you stop?For a moment, Abi hesitates,...

'Gripping and endlessly fascinating, VENOM IN THE BLOOD introduces a sleuth whose unique specialty will make you shiver. A chilling start to what promises to be a terrific new series' Tess GerritsenForensic entomologist Dr Vanessa Marwood has built her career on her love of insects and the vital evidence they provide at the scene of a crime. This doesn't mean she's ready for a killer who has woven spider silk into their victims' wounds.But that's exactly what's in store for Vanessa when she receives a call from an old friend to come back to her childhood home of Greensands and help solve a chilling set of murders. Now she must put her move to New York on hold and return to a place she swore she would not.It's not long before Vanessa realises, she's been lured into a dangerous trap by an insect obsessed killer.The case and dark secrets from her childhood are drawing her deeper and deeper into an entangled web of secrets and...

In a vicious, delicious contemporary novel inspired by Shakespeare's Richard III, the lauded author of The Family Fortuna lifts the curtain on a high school thespian who'll stop at nothing to land the lead.Rory is an antihero for the ages. Like Shakespeare's Richard III, she confides in her audience, telling us exactly the lengths she'll go to to secure the leading role in Bosworth Academy's senior musical, confessing without shame that she is charming and conniving and brutally ambitious, that we will watch and root for her even as she manipulates and endangers those around her. And we do. Perhaps it's because we don't want to believe that she's as relentless as she claims. Rory is an underdog, after all, a scholarship kid teased for her weight. Surely there will be redemption? Surely our dread and patience will be rewarded? Intricately plotted with an ingenious narrative that blends multiple viewpoints with script excerpts and an original...

Thanks to a spell gone wrong when she was a teen, witch Sirona Goode needs to convince her family she's fallen in love. A fake boyfriend for the Summer Solstice celebration would be perfect. Enter high school crush, Dr. Grant Humphries, who would love to look a little less down on his luck for his high school reunion. It's a perfect arrangement. Until feelings get involved.

Embezzlement, murder, and beautiful women . . . Andy Roark, Vietnam veteran turned private investigator is on the case in this thrilling hardboiled mystery that's perfect for fans of Robert B. Parker and Jeremiah Healy."Fans of Robert B. Parker's Spenser novels . . . will be eager to see more of Roark" Publishers Weekly "Roark is genuinely likeable (not too tough, but not a patsy)" The New York TimesBoston, 1986. Spring in Boston is always a miserable affair, and Andy Roark's latest case offers nothing to raise his spirits. The ex-military operative turned private investigator has been hired by a bank president to investigate three of his staff. One of them has embezzled over two million dollars – and Brock wants Roark to find out who's living above their means. Sounds exciting enough, but after two weeks' tedious surveillance uncovers a grand total of nothing, Roark gives it up as a bad job. Brock needs...