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Karen Rose

Karen Rose was introduced to suspense and horror at the tender age of eight when she accidentally read Poe's The Pit and The Pendulum and was afraid to go to sleep for years. She now enjoys writing books that make other people afraid to go to sleep. Karen lives in Florida with her husband of twenty years and their children. When she's not writing, she enjoys traveling, karate and, though not a popular Florida pastime, skiing.

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Watch Your Back

Karen Rose

Bestselling author Karen Rose is back with her fifteenth pulse-pounding thriller. When Stevie Mazzetti was six months pregnant, her husband and five-year-old son were shot dead in a store robbery. A killer was found and imprisoned and Stevie returned to work as a homicide cop, but things could never the same again... Years later, she receives a letter bearing the name of the man imprisoned for the crime, and her world is turned upside-down once again. Who has the letter come from? And could it be that the real killer is still at large? Her hunt for the answers will force her to confront her past once again, and send her straight into the arms of Clay Maynard - the brooding ex-cop she'd sworn to leave behind.

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No One Left To Tell

Karen Rose

The thirteenth fantastic thriller from Sunday Times bestseller Karen Rose. It may be unlucky for some...Will anyone live to tell the tale?If one more woman should accidentally fall, there'll be no more women and...Ramon Mu?oz has spent five years in prison, convicted of a murder his family is convinced he did not commit. Unable to get the courts to take them seriously, they turn to private investigator Paige Holden for help.Paige cannot resist the family's pleas. But when Ramon's wife, having just handed her the evidence that will help prove his innocence, is brutally executed in front of her eyes, Paige is thrown headlong into a case which will place her life into jeopardy.As Paige risks everything to prove Ramon was set up, she comes to realise that there is more at stake if Ramon is freed than she could have ever guessed. Can Paige stay alive long enough to unmask an unstoppable killer who will not rest until there's no one left to tell?

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Silent Scream

Karen Rose

The brilliant thriller from the incomparable Karen Rose, in which an arson leads to murder and blackmail, and David Hunter, who first appeared in DON'T TELL, leads a desperate search for those responsible. Firelight, fire bright...Four kids set fire to a supposedly empty condominium block. But when they see the girl at an upper-floor window desperately banging on the glass, they realise their mistake. Although they don't all agree, the group leave the girl to her certain death, little realising that someone watching their every move. Someone who has a nasty habit of blackmail...For local fire fighter David Hunter, getting the blaze under control is hard enough, but when he finds the girl's body he realises that this arson attack has become a murder case and the homicide cops are immediately called in. Now, as David works with the cops, it's a race to find the arsonists, and the blackmailer, before events escalate out of all control.

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You Belong To Me

Karen Rose

The chilling thriller from Sunday Times bestseller Karen Rose. Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Who'll be next? No one knows...When forensic pathologist Lucy Trask stumbles across a mutilated body by the chess tables in her local Baltimore park, its face so badly damaged it is unrecognisable, her sole concern is that it might be her old school teacher Mr Pugh.When the corpse is identified, Lucy is shocked to discover that the victim is actually another man from her past. Who killed him and why his skin is burnt with the number '1' is unclear but it's evident that someone is demanding Lucy's attention.The discovery of a second branded body raises worrying questions: how many more lives may be at risk before the killer's final message is revealed? And can Lucy solve the killer's gruesome puzzle before their thirst for revenge is complete?

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Kill For Me

Karen Rose

In Karen Rose's brilliant finale to the trilogy she began with DIE FOR ME and SCREAM FOR ME, a paedophile ring is kidnapping young girls. Will one of its victims be able to break the ring before it's too late?Kiss the girls and make them die...For years District Attorney Susannah Vartanian has refused to allow anyone close to her. Her life changed overnight when as a teenager she was brutally raped by a vicious gang of youths.Detective Luke Papadopoulus is fast approaching burn-out. As a detective working on sex-crimes against children, he will do anything to find those responsible for such atrocities. Monica Cassidy is terrified. Kidnapped and held in a bunker with eleven other girls, she barely escaped with her life when her kidnappers panicked and fled, killing five of the girls as they left. Now Monica is the only one who can identify the ring's members. Will Luke and Susannah be able to keep her safe and crack the ring before the remaining girls disappear forever?

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Don't Tell

Karen Rose

Disturbing and scary, Karen Rose's brilliant thriller proves that you never know what goes on behind closed doors. As a woman fakes her own death in order to escape her abusive husband, what happens when he finds out what she did? Shhh...He's coming for you.Desperate Mary Grace Winters knew the only way to save herself and her child from her abusive husband was to stage their deaths. Now all that remains of her former life is at the bottom of a lake. As Caroline Stewart, Mary Grace has almost forgotten the nightmare she left behind nine years ago. Slowly she has learned to believe that her new life, and new identity, is here to stay. Then her husband uncovers her hidden trail. Step by step he's closing in on her and everyone she loves. Now Caroline must decide whether to flee again or whether the time has come to stay and fight...

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Have You Seen Her?

Karen Rose

Karen Rose's thrillers chill you to the bone. In HAVE YOU SEEN HER, a serial killer is targeting cheerleaders in a small North Carolina town. Can he be stopped before the killings escalate out of all control?Good night. Sleep tight.One by one, the girls disappear from their beds at night. Each one is pretty, with long dark hair. And each one is found brutally murdered. Special Agent Steven Thatcher has sworn to find the killer. As the investigation pulls him one way, his family pulls him in another. A widower haunted by loss, he now worries about his son Brad slipping away. But there's a bright light in his life: his son's teacher, Jenna Marshall, has reached out to help, and slowly she and Steven are falling in love. But both have been hurt before. And as the two try to find the courage to bare their souls, a murderer looks for the real treasure he craves. He sets his traps. And waits.

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I Can See You

Karen Rose
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You Can't Hide

Karen Rose

The fantastic Karen Rose twists the knife as a psychiatrist tries to escape the serial killer desperate to make her his final victim. Come out, come out, wherever you are...You don't know who I am. Someone is tormenting psychiatrist Tess Ciccotelli's patients, pushing them to commit suicide, and setting her up to take the blame. But even police pressure won't make her break her oath to protect their secrets. You can't stop what I am doing. Detective Aidan Reagan understands Tess's need to safeguard her clients but all the clues suggest that a nameless, faceless enemy is set on destroying her career, her family and, finally, Tess herself. You can't hide. As Reagan and Tess race to stop the killer, one thing becomes clear - the noose is tightening around Tess's neck and there is nowhere for her to go...

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Count to Ten

Karen Rose
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I'm Watching You

Karen Rose

A prosecutor has a secret admirer who will stop at nothing, not even murder, to impress her. Karen Rose's brilliant thriller I'M WATCHING YOU will send shivers down your spine.I spy with my little eye, something ending in...death.Star prosecutor Kristen Mayhew has an admirer. He seems to knows her every thought, her every move. He sends her letters. And he kills the criminals she herself is powerless to stop. This avenger even knows Kristen's deepest secret - the one that has made her keep her distance from Abe Reagan, the police detective sent to protect her. In the shadow of a calculating serial killer, the two have no alternative but to work together if they are to stop the messages and halt the vicious murders. Because sooner or later, the killer's obsessive need for retribution will make Kristen a target and then their real problems will begin...

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Nothing to Fear

Karen Rose

Packed with nail-baiting thrills, NOTHING TO FEAR introduces Karen Rose's most dangerous killer. Ready or not, here Sue comes...Sue Conway is out of control. Recently released from prison she is determined to find the people responsible for putting her there and to give them a taste of what she has had to endure. When Sue kidnaps an eleven-year-old deaf boy it's only the first stage in an elaborate plan. Running to Chicago, Sue poses as a battered woman and it leads her to Hanover House, an inner-city women's shelter, run by Dana Dupinsky. Dana safeguards many secrets in her own life and in the lives of those around her but she would never harbour a murderer, that is if she knew that one was living at the shelter. Distracted by the presence of a new man in her life, Dana only realises the danger when those around suddenly start dying and she is thrust into the middle of Sue's dangerous and evil game...

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Die For Me

Karen Rose

A killer with a passion for the past, his victims tortured beyond endurance, all done in the name of a game...DIE FOR ME is Karen Rose at her most chilling best. If you love this be sure to check out the sequels to Karen's mini-trilogy, SCREAM FOR ME and KILL FOR ME.But playing games will kill you...When a multimedia games designer decides to take his research to the next level for his new game, fantasy ends and murder begins. Homicide detective Vito Ciccotelli is expecting the worst. Called to a remote murder site, he is confronted with numerous bodies, all with horrific injuries, all it seems the victim of the same killer. When the medical examiner reveals that the wounds are consistent with instruments of medieval torture, Ciccotelli turns to Sophie Johannsen, museum curator and specialist in medieval warfare, to learn more about the killer's methods and to try and find the killer before he spirals out of control...

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Scream For Me

Karen Rose

In Karen Rose's terrifying sequel to DIE FOR ME, Daniel Vartanian must search deep into his past if he is to find a ruthless killer bent on revenge. Hush little baby, don't say a word, just...SCREAM FOR ME.Daniel is trying to come to terms with a chilling discovery. Photographs taken by his brother years ago show a group of unidentifiable teenage boys raping young girls for fun. With his brother now dead, Vartanian is determined to find the girls and bring the rapists to justice.Alex Fallon is unable to forget her past. Her family fell apart when her sister was murdered and now with her step-sister Bailey's disappearance, history seems to be repeating itself.When Vartanian meets Alex, it's as if a ghost has walked into the room. The double of one of the girls in the photographs, it is only when he learns that she had a twin sister that it begins to make horrifying sense. With Bailey's events escalating out of all control, Daniel and Alex will have to confront their pasts head-on if they are to find the missing woman before it's too late.

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The Survivors Club

Lisa Gardner

The brilliant standalone thriller from The Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller Lisa Gardner.REVENGE IS SWEET...Jillian Hayes, Carol Rosen and Meg Pesaturo's lives changed forever in an instant, when Eddie Como - the College Hill Rapist - came into their lives. But they refused to be victims; instead, they chose to be survivors. Helping to put him away was one form of justice but they couldn't deny that secretly they wanted his life destroyed, as he destroyed theirs. So when Eddie is shot down outside the courtroom on the eve of the trial, they are both relieved and revenged. But now they're also prime suspects and surviving is about to get tougher still.Detective Roan Griffin thinks this was a professional hit and all that remains is to work out who ordered it. He knows that the women are key but when another woman is savagely attacked, the situation gets a lot more complicated. For Griffin, the hunt is on to find the person responsible, before membership of the exclusive club grows...BUT IS IT WORTH THE PRICE YOU PAY?

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The Vig

John Lescroart

Payback is murder. A beautiful woman paid it with her body. A seedy lawyer used somebody else's money. It's the vig--the exorbitant interest mob loan sharks take on their money. Now everyone has to pay...Down-and-out lawyer Rusty Ingraham left behind a murdered woman and a houseboat splattered with blood. All the evidence said Ingraham was in San Francisco Bay. Dead. But a friend of Ingraham's, former cop and prosecutor Dismas Hardy, isn't so sure. And Hardy has to find out, because a stone-cold killer, now paroled, once threatened to kill Ingraham and Dismas Hardy both.To save his own skin, Hardy must face down liars and killers on both sides of the law. From mob foot soldiers to brokenhearted lovers to renegade cops, a dozen lives are tied to the fate of Rusty Ingraham--and the payback has only just begun.

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Buried Secrets

Joseph Finder

Finder's first Nick Heller novel, VANISHED, was published to widespread acclaim. Now Nick Heller returns in an explosive new thriller.When private investigator Nick Heller returns home to Boston to set up his own agency, he soon gets an urgent case closer to home than expected. Alexandra Marcus - teenage daughter of hedge fund titan and Heller family friend Marshall Marcus - has been kidnapped. But it's no ordinary kidnapping - she has been abducted by professionals, buried alive in an underground casket, a video camera streaming her desperate pleas live over the internet. With a limited supply of food and water, time is quickly running out.Nick is determined to catch the perpetrators but when Marcus is arrested by the FBI for fraud, accused of operating a Ponzi scheme, Nick realises that he has some powerful enemies who may have the motivation to go after his daughter and a conspiracy that reaches up to the very highest levels of government. Nick must play a dangerous game if he hopes to flush out those responsible before Alexa is buried for good...

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Dark of Night

Suzanne Brockmann

The first Suzanne Brockmann book to be published by Headline. Troubleshooters: Danger can be addictive.Badly shaken after the loss of one of their own, the men and women of Troubleshooters Inc. go up against their most deadly opponents yet  - the clandestine organisation, The Agency. Blackmail, extortion, murder: The Agency's black-ops sector will stop at nothing to achieve their objective. But this time they've gone too far and hit too close to home and the Troubleshooters are out for revenge.Led by former Navy SEAL Lawrence Decker, a team of investigators - from FBI agent Jules Cassidy and former CIA operative Dave Malkoff, to Troubleshooters Sophia Ghaffari, Tess Bailey and receptionist Tracy Shapiro - band together to uncover the truth, and bring the killers to justice.But the stakes are raised even higher when Decker barely escapes an attempt on his life. It soon becomes clear that the hunters have become the hunted - and the Troubleshooters are no longer just solving a crime - they're fighting for survival.

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The Perfect Husband

Lisa Gardner
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Touch & Go

Lisa Gardner

Justin and Libby Denbe have it all: a beautiful daughter; a gorgeous house; a great marriage, admired by all. Arriving at the crime scene of their home, investigator Tessa Leoni finds no witnesses, no ransom demands or motive - just a perfect little family, gone. But Tessa knows that flawless fronts can hide the darkest secrets. Now, she must race against the clock to uncover the truth. Who would want to kidnap such a family? And how far would they be willing to go?