'Moving, hilarious, brilliantly suspenseful' Jeffery Deaver 'A thing of joy' Kate Atkinson 'The tonic we all need' Shari Lapena 'This slick sequel will leave you buzzing' The Times THE SECOND NOVEL IN THE RECORD-BREAKING, MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING THURSDAY MURDER CLUB SERIES BY RICHARD OSMAN ---------------------------------------------- It's the following Thursday. Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man with whom she has a long history. He's made a big mistake, and he needs her help. His story involves stolen diamonds, a violent mobster, and a very real threat to his life. As bodies start piling up, Elizabeth enlists Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron in the hunt for a ruthless murderer. And if they find the diamonds too? Well, wouldn't that be a bonus? But this time they are up against an enemy who wouldn't bat an eyelid at knocking off four septuagenarians. Can the Thursday Murder Club find the killer (and the diamonds) before the killer finds them? ---------------------------------------------- 'I absolutely loved it. He's not only done it again, but he's done it even better' Philippa Perry, The Book you Wish Your Parents Had Read 'Twisty, witty fun' Sunday Express 'Superbly entertaining' Guardian 'I laughed my arse off' Belinda Bauer, Exit 'Funny, clever and achingly British' Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt 'Full of humour and heart. I loved it' Harlan Coben, Win 'Darkly funny, offbeat and deftly written' Irish Independent 'As gripping as it is funny' Evening Standard 'If you liked The Thursday Murder Club, you're in for a treat, as this sequel is even better' Good Housekeeping 'Warm, funny and oh-so British' i 'A properly funny mystery steeped in Agatha Christie' Araminta Hall, Hidden Depths 'It's like reading ice cream... a pure pleasure' Linwood Barclay 'Osman's world is a soothing place to be' Sunday Telegraph 'Pure pleasure to read'

Fire personer går inn i en heis i et kontorbygg på Manhattan. Alle trykker på knappen for sin etasje, og heisen settes i bevegelse. Men i stedet for å stanse i de ulike etasjene fortsetter heisen helt til topps. Der stanser den et par sekunder - og styrter til bunnen av heissjakten. Man regner med at det var en tilfeldig, grufull ulykke. Men så skjer det samme dagen etter, i en annen av Manhattans skyskrapere. Og dagen etter det i en tredje. Og alt bryter ut i kaos. For dette er åpenbart ingen tilfeldige enkelttilfeller, men et kalkulert angrep på byen, som blir lammet av frykt. Ingen tør å ta heisen, i en by der de aller fleste er avhengig av den for å komme seg ut og inn av hjem og jobb. Hvem kan stå bak dette?

On a rainy night, a man gives a teenage girl a lift home, but the girl he picks up isn't the same one he drops off . . . Bestseller Linwood Barclay hooks the reader from page one with this suspense masterpiece

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Da Tim Blakes 17-år gamle datter ikke kommer hjem fra jobben sin, drar han for å leite etter henne. Det viser seg at ingen på motellet hvor hun har sagt hun har sommerjobb kjenner henne. Han blir dratt inn i en verden av korrupsjon, drap og hensynsløs utnytting av mennesker, og oppdager snart at det er mange som bærer på store hemmeligheter.

A superb, lightning-paced thriller from the No. 1 bestselling author of NO TIME FOR GOODBYEWhen the Cutter family's next-door neighbours, the Langleys, are gunned down in their house one hot August night, the Cutters' world is turned upside down. That violent death should have come so close to them is shocking enough in suburban Promise Falls, but at least the Cutters can console themselves with the thought that lightning is unlikely to strike twice in the same place. Unless, of course, the killers went to the wrong house . . . At first the idea seems crazy - but each of the Cutter family has a secret they'd rather keep buried. What was on that old computer teenage Derek and his friend Adam Langley had salvaged? And where is it now? What hold does a local professor and bestselling author have on Ellen Cutter? And what does Jim Cutter know about Mrs Langley that even her husband didn't?To find out who killed the Langleys and why, everybody's secrets are going to have to come out. But the final secret - the secret that could save them or destroy them - is in the one place nobody would ever think of looking . . .

Don't stop running . . . the second edge-of-your-seat thriller with bite from international bestselling author Linwood Barclay for ages 9+

The explosive and hilarious final book in the Zack Walker series from bestselling author and master of the thriller Linwood Barclay.

Locals say the mutilated corpse must have been the victim of a random bear attack. But Zack Walker, as always, fears the worst. When another body is discovered, it seems there is a more deadly predator on the prowl. A Lone Wolf killer who is hell-bent on laying siege to the idyllic town. The fuse is lit and time is running out. Zack must face down a madman - or find out first-hand what the grand finale is . . .

A keep-you-guessing thriller about a family with a dark secret hiding in a town with no patience for lies.

Now in full-time employment, Zack's protective instincts must work over-time to keep his kids safe from dangers real and imagined. But while writing his feature article, Zack stumbles into the centre of a web of murder and deceit.

Get ready to run . . . an edge-of-your-seat thriller with bite from international bestselling author Linwood Barclay, in his first novel for 9-12 year olds.Chipper is a very special dog. As part of a top-secret, multi-million dollar experiment to create the ultimate canine spy technology, Chipper's whole life has been spent within the walls of a secret organization known only as The Institute. Chipper is supposed to be more machine than mutt, but something's wrong and The Institute knows it. He's about to be terminated.Across the state, twelve-year-old orphan Jeff Conway is working all hours at his aunt Flo's lakeside cabin business. He misses his parents, his old life, and the dog he had to leave behind.When Chipper escapes and his and Jeff's paths collide, dog and boy find themselves tangled up in the most dangerous game of chase imaginable...Winner of the Arthur Ellis award for Best Kid's Crime NovelDanger, secrets and thrilling suspense in Linwood Barclay's action-packed first novel for children.

Milford i Connecticut er et rolig og fredelig sted å bo og et fint sted for unger å vokse opp. Men innbyggerne føler den økonomiske krisen på kroppen, og selv vanlige, lovlydige mennesker begynner å bli en smule kreative for å få endene til å møtes. Glen Garber og entreprenørfirmaet hans er blitt ekstra hardt rammet av nedgangstidene, særlig etter at en mystisk brann ødela et hus under oppføring. Men Glens problemer skal snart nå nye høyder. Kona Sheila har nemlig lagt egne planer for å få dem ut av det økonomiske uføret, planer som ser ut til å omfatte et hemmelig nettverk av Milfords husmødre, og som snart skal gi enorm avkastning. Det er da ulykken skjer ... Brått virker det som om naboenes forsøk på å skaffe seg rikdom i en fei fører til en sikker død, og Glen - som ikke lenger kan stole på dem han er glad i engang - må sette alt på spill for å avdekke hva som skjuler seg bak den lille byens idylliske fasade, før det er for sent. For noen ulykker er slett ikke ulykker.

En kveld kommer ikke Tim Blakes datter hjem fra jobb. Han drar til arbeidsplassen hennes for å finne henne, men der er det ingen som vet hvem hun er. Tim Blake er en helt vanlig mann som i jakten på datteren sin blir dratt inn i en dyster verden av korrupsjon, drap og hensynsløs utnytting av mennesker. Han oppdager snart at det er de man trodde man kjente best, som bærer på de største hemmelighetene.

Familien til Cynthia forsvinner sporløst. Tjuefem år senere er mysteriet ennå ikke løst, og Cynthia hjemsøkes fremdeles av de ubesvarte spørsmålene. Hun deltar i et TV-program om uløste kriminalsaker, men hun skjønner etter hvert at det å grave i fortiden kan ha vært det dummeste hun noensinne har gjort.

What would you do to protect your daughter ...? From the million-copy bestselling author of NO TIME FOR GOODBYE Seven years ago, Terry Archer and his family experienced a horrific ordeal which nearly cost them their lives. Today, the echoes of that fateful night are still audible. Terry's wife, Cynthia, is living separate from her husband and daughter after her own personal demons threatened to ruin her relationship with them permanently. Their daughter, Grace, is rebelling against her parents' seemingly needless overprotection. Terry is just trying to keep his family together. And the entire town is reeling from the senseless murder of two elderly locals. But when Grace foolishly follows her delinquent boyfriend into a strange house, the Archers must do more than stay together. They must stay alive. Because now they have all been unwillingly drawn into the shadowy depths of their seemingly idyllic hometown. For there, they will be reconnected with the man who saved their lives seven years ago, but who still remains a ruthless, unrepentant criminal. They will encounter killers for hire working all sides. And they will learn that there are some things people value much more than money, and will do anything to get it. Caught in a labyrinth between family loyalty and ultimate betrayal, Terry must find a way to extricate his family from a lethal situation he still doesn't fully comprehend. All he knows is that to live, he may have to do the unthinkable

On the morning she will never forget, suburban teenager Cynthia Archer awakes with a nasty hangover and a feeling she is going to have an even nastier confrontation with her mom and dad. But when she leaves her bedroom, she discovers the house is empty, with no sign of her parents or younger brother Todd. In the blink of an eye, without any explanation, her family has simply disappeared. Twenty-five years later Cynthia is still haunted by unanswered questions. Were her family murdered? If so, why was she spared? And if they're alive, why did they abandon her in such a cruel way? Now married with a daughter of her own, Cynthia fears that her new family will be taken from her just as her first one was. And so she agrees to take part in a TV documentary revisiting the case, in the hope that somebody somewhere will remember something - or even that her father, mother or brother might finally reach out to her...Then a letter arrives which makes no sense and yet chills Cynthia to the core. And soon she begins to realise that stirring up the past could be the worst mistake she has ever made...

Map-obsessed Thomas spends his days and nights on a virtual tour of the world, believing he must store the details of every town and city in his head. Then one day, he sees something that shouldn't be there: a woman being murdered behind a window on a New York street. When Thomas tells his brother Ray what he has witnessed, Ray humours him with a half-hearted investigation - until he realises Thomas may have stumbled onto a deadly conspiracy, which puts them both in danger ...

David Harwood is asked to look in on his cousin Marla, still traumatised after losing her baby, and he considers it a temporary relief from his dead-end life. But when he arrives, he's disturbed to find blood on Marla's front door. He's even more disturbed to find Marla nursing a baby, that she claims was delivered to her 'by an angel'. Soon afterwards, a woman's body is discovered, stabbed to death, her own baby missing. It looks as if Marla has done something truly terrible. The evidence seems overwhelming, but David just can't believe that his cousin is a murderer. Then who did kill Rosemary Gaynor? Why did they then take her baby and give it to Marla? It's up to David to find out what really happened, but he soon discovers that the truth could be worse than he ever imagined ...