MEET OFFICER DEAN MATHESON IN THIS NAIL-BITING, SMALL-TOWN CRIME THRILLER THAT WILL KEEP YOU GUESSING LONG INTO THE NIGHT.????? ‘This fast-paced, intensely suspenseful thriller kept me on my toes and turning pages, long after I should have turned off the lights and gone to sleep.’ N. Mahoney????? ‘Refreshingly unpredictable and I was gripped from start to finish.’ HannahA________________________________________________A Jane Doe hanging in Maple Valley’s woods.Officer Dean Matheson stands shivering against the cold night, trying not to look too closely at the gruesome scene before him.The medical examiner says it’s a case of suicide. But the fact that the victim isn't wearing any shoes and there’s a stepladder placed beneath her makes Dean suspicious.Then another body turns up.Women are dying. Outcasts that no one would miss.Dean believes a twisted serial killer is roaming the streets of Maple Valley, hiding in plain sight.But he’s in over his head, and now he’s put a target on his own back. Trapped in a vicious game of cat-and-mouse with a killer who seems to know his every flaw.Dean must face his own demons if he has any chance of unearthing the disturbing truth. Before more women pay the price . . .This pulse-pounding and unputdownable read is perfect for fans of Melinda Leigh, D.S. Butler, Charlie Donlea, Lisa Regan, Helen Phifer or Matt Brolly.EVERYONE IS HOOKED BY WENDY DRANFIELD’S PAGE-TURNING CRIME THRILLER:????? ‘How does she do it . . . The storyline is brilliant and keeps you on the edge of your seat and turning pages.’ Mrs J Watson????? ‘A gripping story from start to finish.’ Nathan????? ‘Excellent with a clever twist.’ Lesley T.????? ‘Full of tension and intrigue which kept the pages turning well into the night.’ Tim Davis????? ‘A cracking thriller with so many twists!’ Emily????? ‘An outstanding nail-biting thriller!’ Julie????? ‘A deadly game of cat and mouse that will keep you turning the pages.’ Julie Ryan????? ‘Full of thrilling plots, lots of twists and turns.’ katiematieMEET THE DETECTIVEA lifelong resident of the small town of Maple Valley, Dean Matheson is full of charisma and charm. He’s easy on the eyes, too, but not without his flaws. His marriage is on the rocks after an ill-advised affair, and he’s grieving his brother’s death by suicide. Now desperate for a promotion, his ambition threatens to cloud his judgement and blur the boundary between right and wrong . . .THE SETTINGMaple Valley, New Hampshire, is a small town with a close-knit community where everyone knows each other. Dean Matheson has never left his hometown and thinks he knows the cliquish community better than anyone. But he couldn’t be more wrong.ALSO BY WENDY DRANFIELDDEAN MATHESONBook 1: WHO CARES IF THEY DIEBook 2: WHERE THE SNOW BLEEDSBook 3: WON’T YOU SAVE ME

This award-winning debut mystery introduces a Boston PI who’s “one of the most sparkling, most irresistible heroines ever to grace the pages of a whodunit” (Chicago Sun-Times).   Six-foot-tall, redheaded ex-cop and Boston-based private eye Carlotta Carlyle is “the genuine article: a straightforward, funny, thoroughly American mystery heroine” (New York Post). Let go from the Beantown police force for insubordination, Carlotta Carlyle is ready for business. Her first client is the genteel and elderly Margaret Devens, whose brother, Eugene, one of the last in a handful of Boston’s aging Irish cabbies, has suddenly vanished.   The case should be a cinch. Carlotta knows the territory. She even knew Eugene. But when Margaret is attacked, Carlotta fears the disappearance is just one hitch in a bigger scheme. Trolling the local pubs for clues isn’t going to hack it. Especially when she finds herself at odds with the FBI and a Mafia-connected former lover. As a moonlighting cabbie, Carlotta knows the streets well. But even she has no idea just how dangerous a route she’s taken . . .   Winner of the American Mystery Award and nominated for both the Edgar and Shamus Awards, this first book in the series is “beautifully plotted, exciting, moving, and leavened with wit” (Robert B. Parker).

Fifteen years ago I watched my father’s murder.Now, having never truly recovered from losing her father all those years ago, Detective Delaney Pace is devastated when her brother and sister-in-law are killed in a car crash. Packing up her life she heads back to the rugged cowboy town of Kearney, Wyoming. Her niece Kateena is just eleven years old and Delaney will do anything to keep her safe…Now there’s another killer on the loose, and he’s already taken his first victim.New to the local police force, when a body is found on a secluded mountain trail Delaney is called to the scene. Surrounded by imposing pine trees, a young woman lies still in the moonlight. Gazing into her dark, unblinking eyes Delaney’s heart pounds wildly in her chest as she recognises the victim. It’s her beloved sister-in-law: Kateena’s mother, Lila. But she died weeks before. Didn’t she?There’s evil lurking in this town and I’ll stop at nothing to hunt down the truth and deliver justice. With Kateena traumatised all over again, when Delaney links Lila’s murder back to the place where her own father was killed she realizes she must face her own dark past to catch the man responsible. But little does she know that the killer has already made their next deadly move. Back at home, Kateena should be in bed sleeping soundly, but her room is empty. Kateena is missing…Can Delaney uncover the truth behind the killings and save Kateena before it’s too late?Fans of Mary Stone, Kendra Elliot, Robert Dugoni and C.J. Box will love this heart-racing and totally gripping thriller from USA Today bestselling author Pamela Fagan Hutchins. What readers are saying about Her Silent Bones:“Wow! Great book!! I’m so excited! I have the next two books to read also! I can’t wait! This book was awesome… Had me glued to my Kindle!” NetGalley reviewer, 5 stars“Can’t turn the pages fast enough in this new chilling series.” Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars“Had me gasping more than once… It would be a crime to rate this less than 5 stars.” B for Bookreview, 5 stars“Wow! What a fabulous audiobook!… It had me hook, line and sinker… I absolutely raced through the second half… That twist!!” @piccolos_teacups_and_books, 5 stars“You will love this book!!!… It was so thrilling!” Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars“Jaw-dropping revelations and twists.” Goodreads reviewer“Fast-paced, filled with action and suspense… I was on the edge of my seat, waiting to see what was going to happen.” @netgalleyreviewsbykate“Wow!! I loved this!… Will keep you on the edge of your seat.” @BibliophileAmber, 5 stars“A five-star read.” NetGalley reviewer, 5 stars“This one’s a must-read.” Goodreads reviewer“A fast-paced, action-packed book from beginning to end!… Surprises were huge and I didn’t see them coming.” Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars“I couldn’t put this one down!” Goodreads reviewer“Non-stop twists and turns. I love the end, what a twist. I can’t wait to read more.” @bitchcanwriteabook“Gripped and intrigued be right from the first chapter… The ending is not one you see coming.” NetGalley reviewer

A KILLER UNLEASHED. A DETECTIVE TRAPPED. A MANSION OF DEATHLY SECRETS. *A twisty mystery by award-winning Canadian author, Tikiri Herath.*A secluded old-money manor in the heart of the White Mountains conceals a chilling secret.The family matriarch calls for private detective Asha Kade and shares a cryptic deathbed wish. “Find my children and tell them I did it for love.”The mystery draws Asha in, but she doesn’t know she’s being lured into a web of dark deceptions and disturbing pasts. As a merciless storm isolates the mansion from the world outside, a brutal murder shatters the midnight silence. A killer is lurking within the family, picking off members one by one. With every tick of the clock, the killer draws closer. And Asha is next on the twisted list. She must unravel the family’s poisonous past to expose the truth, but in this house everyone is a suspect. And everybody is lying… Or are they?Trust no one. Fear everything. No one is safe. ______________*This book is the first in this series.*There is no graphic violence, heavy cursing, or explicit sex in this book. No dog is ever harmed but the villains always are.______________What readers are saying about this book:????? "My goodness, this is stunning. I hated to put it down!" ~USA Reader????? "A twisted whodunnit! Edge of your seat thriller that kept me up late, to finish it, unputdownable!! More, please!" ~UK Reader????? "The level of suspense was intense. The place in New Hampshire where it takes us to is the place of nightmares..." ~Canada Reader????? "I liked the non-stop action chapter after chapter and how it made me oblivious of everything else around me. That's how engrossing it was." ~Zimbabwe Reader????? ”I loved the characters. The pacing was fast and kept me engaged throughout the entire book!” ~South Africa Reader????? ”I liked the fast pace. I liked the intrigue. I couldn’t always guess what was going to happen next!” ~USA Reader------------------------------The Merciless Murder Mystery ThrillersGames of Life and Death: Private detective Asha Kade is ensnared in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse. The stakes are her very life. The rewards are justice for the victims and solace for her haunted past.This series is now complete. Merciless LegacyMerciless GamesMerciless CrimesMerciless LiesMerciless PastMerciless DeathsHow far would you go for a million dollars?

FRAUD LEADS TO MURDER… AND THIS TIME, IT’S PERSONAL.Celebrated criminal lawyer Marc Kadella knows the importance of personal connections in his line of work. In Dennis Carstens’ sixth Marc Kadella legal thriller, his old buddy Tony Carvelli, a private investigator, asks him to take on a drug case for his well-off friend’s delinquent kid and he agrees—even though he’s had it with drug cases. Marc enlists the help of PI Maddy Rivers, his longtime best friend and confidante, to dig up dirt on two cops suspected of planting evidence on the bust. With Carvelli’s connections (the guy knows everybody), Marc is able to infiltrate the St. Paul police force and expose gross incompetence. But when it comes to prodding Maddy about her new beau, Marc’s got bupkis.Maddy has her reservations about her new relationship with Rob Judd. Sure, he’s a handsome and brilliant investment analyst in a wildly successful securities management firm. But he’s constantly distracted. It seems something about the firm’s not quite right—or so he finally lets on to Maddy. Its returns are consistently solid, maybe a little too solid—or so suspects Patrick McGarry, one of Rob’s co-workers. After voicing his suspicions to Rob, Patrick heads up north for a weekend hiking trip—and winds up dead. It’s only a matter of days before Rob is next. And Maddy’s found unconscious at the gruesome scene of the crime, clutching the murder weapon.Convinced Maddy was framed, Marc decides to take on the case in spite of his close connections to the client. He finds he must delve deep into the complex money laundering schemes of Rob Judd’s employer—and its connections to a ruthless Mexican drug cartel and an expert hitman who’s fallen off the radar—to save Maddy from false imprisonment. Or worse.WHO WILL LIKE IT: Fans of private investigator mysteries, lawyer thrillers, or, really any kind of action-packed crime novel. But who’ll especially like it: readers who enjoy the extra little legal touches you find in John Grisham and Richard North Patterson books.

“A gripping mystery starring a fascinating female detective . . . an exciting debut procedural that will leave readers wanting more from Caz Frear.” —BustleTwenty-six-year-old Cat Kinsella overcame a troubled childhood to become a Detective Constable with the Metropolitan Police Force, but she’s never been able to banish these ghosts. When she’s called to the scene of a murder in Islington, not far from the pub her estranged father still runs, she discovers that Alice Lapaine, a young housewife who didn’t get out much, has been found strangled.Cat and her team immediately suspect Alice’s husband, until she receives a mysterious phone call that links the victim to Maryanne Doyle, a teenage girl who went missing in Ireland eighteen years earlier. The call raises uneasy memories for Cat—her family met Maryanne while on holiday, right before she vanished. Though she was only a child, Cat knew that her charming but dissolute father wasn’t telling the truth when he denied knowing anything about Maryanne or her disappearance. Did her father do something to the teenage girl all those years ago? Could he have harmed Alice now? And how can you trust a liar even if he might be telling the truth?Determined to close the two cases, Cat rushes headlong into the investigation, crossing ethical lines and trampling professional codes. But in looking into the past, she might not like what she finds . . .“A gripping mystery.” —People“A dark and smart page-turner.” —The New York Times“Outstanding . . . a confident first novel that successfully melds the police procedural with the psychological thriller.” —South Florida Sun Sentinel