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Over three years ago, Amara Singh made the decision to step away from her life as a detective and join Directive One, a covert government team that worked off the grid for the good of the nation. As her career is blossoming, she soon stumbles across the name Vladimir Balikov and his links to a potential nuclear attack. Balikov is a ghost. A man of unspeakable wealth but no digital footprint. All they have is an annual visit to Budapest, where he hosts an underground fighting tournament, where his wealthy supporters pit desperate criminals against each other in a fight to the death.

Scott Miller vanishes from his hotel in Brazil. No ransom demand. No witnesses. Just gone. While everyone else sees a cold trail, Danny sees what they missed. He's tracked terrorists across war zones, hunted killers through cities, survived impossible odds—and now he's bringing every brutal skill he has into the jungles of Colombia.

When a desperate government agency faces budget cuts and extinction, they make Danny the fall guy. His cover's blown. His handlers have vanished. And now he's got ex-special forces soldiers—men as lethal as he is—hunting him through the streets of London.

For Trent Rivera, being off grid is a way of life. Recently arrived in Spain, the ex-soldier passes his days digging swimming pools and pouring concrete on Costa del Sol construction sites. His evenings are spent keeping himself to himself; it’s an existence that suits him perfectly. But Trent Rivera doesn’t go looking for trouble. It finds him....

When Liz arrives home to be confronted by a burglar, life begins to get complicated. There seems to be a crime wave in Little Compton, and as always, Liz and Tom are dragged right into the middle of things. When things take a fatal turn, everyone in the village is looking over their shoulder. Will Liz and Tom find out the identity of the dead burglar and therefore solve the case before anyone else gets hurt? The villagers certainly hope so.

After gaining The Odin Horn, Becky, Joe, and Uncle Percy embark on a quest to find The Pool of Life, an enchanted body of water also known as The Fountain of Youth. In what promises to be their greatest adventure yet, The Time Hunters travel to Medieval Yorkshire, the minotaur town of Caradan, the eighteenth-century Caribbean, and the Swiss Alps where they meet a man who claims to be over two thousand years old.

Tom Large is an accountant with issues, issues which are not helped when he stumbles across the body of Denise Knight. The police are treating Denise’s death as misadventure, but Tom’s cleaner, Liz Thorne, won’t accept that. She declares it to be murder, and little by little, she drags Tom out of his comfort zone as they try to establish the truth of what really happened to Denise. The unconventional pair of sleuths are doing well until Tom’s daughter reveals an earth-shattering secret.

Trixie was within yards of her mother and other shoppers in a busy supermarket, yet no one witnessed her disappearance. Trixie had died within hours of being taken, her body discovered two days later.

When an SAS brother goes missing, Danny Pearson and his team are coming for answers. And God help anyone standing in their way. The call comes from the Norfolk coast: Smudge is in trouble. By the time Danny and Fergus arrive, their teammate has vanished—leaving only his diving gear and a brick of cocaine behind. One missing soldier. One deadly trail. One very bad decision by the people who took him.

His dying mother, Sandra, is desperate to know what happened to her son. Believing the police have let her down, Sandra hires Patsy Hodge and the Bearing Witness team to find out the truth behind Jason’s disappearance, however devastating. When Meredith meets the Bearing women at a Christmas do, he introduces them to Patsy. The women begin working together to solve the mystery. But as they dig deeper into Jason’s last days, they put other lives in jeopardy. Can Meredith help them solve the mystery of what happened to Jason before the murderer strikes again?

If you’re a fan of Vince Flynn’s Mitch Rapp, Lee Child’s Jack Reacher, and Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, you won’t be able to pause the compulsively addictive Danny Pearson thriller series.

Meredith's team are horrified when the daughter of one of their own is taken from the park by a stranger. Her disappearance is only the beginning of a series of abductions of young girls in the area. To catch the abductor, the team must first work out what motivates him, but time is running out, and he might just slip their net. Hodge begins to question her new career as a private investigator. But a seemingly mundane case soon finds Patsy, herself, being interrogated and hand-picked for a very different assignment.

Ian Buruma explores the life and death of Baruch Spinoza, the Enlightenment thinker whose belief in freedom of thought and speech resonates in our own time

Detective Patsy Hodge has left her old life behind to start a new job with Bristol CID. She attends a suspicious death with her new boss: straight-talking, no nonsense Detective Inspector John Meredith. Within days the body count begins to rise, as victims, old and new, are discovered to have died by lethal injection. Assisted suicide or euthanasia? Meredith calls it murder.

Danny's past is catching up with him. And she wants him to suffer forever. Five years ago, Danny Pearson destroyed the Volkov empire. Now the heir wants payback—and death would be mercy. Annika Volkov spent five years rebuilding her father's Russian Mafia dynasty. Five years hunting the man who killed him. Five years planning the perfect revenge.

His girlfriend has walked out and taken an original copy of Ziggy Stardust, the charger for his electric toothbrush, and his best mate/business partner. Jolted from his rut by a challenge to respond to one of the first five tweets he sees, Frankie falls in love and creates a publishing phenomenon. He even buys a new toothbrush with plaque removing action. Life is good.

An Australian billionaire has turned ordinary people into sleeper assassins. Nikki just discovered his secret. Now she's the target—and so is anyone trying to protect her. Sydney was supposed to be a break. Visit Scott's sister. Relax. Forget the blood and bullets for once. Then Nikki stumbles onto her boss's operation: Theodore Blazer has weaponized thousands of unwitting killers across the globe. One command, and a barista becomes a murderer. A taxi driver becomes an executioner. Anyone. Anywhere. Anytime.

After a terrifying encounter with Emerson Drake, Becky, and Joe Mellor return to Bowen Hall for the Easter Holidays. All seems quite normal until they meet Shamus Cusack, a young Irishman with a shocking story to tell, and are pitched into a quest for the fourth Eden Relic, the Sword of Ages. So begins the most powerful Time Hunters adventure yet...a thrilling story that leads Becky, Joe, Uncle Percy and Will to 1950s Italy, Medieval England, and the subterranean caves of Loch Ness.

A stroke of luck, most often reserved for other people, offers a lifeline. Writing a TV script based on a true story could be his way out. Trouble is, he only knows half the facts behind a series of daring robberies that ended in murder. Turning detective, he teams up with a lapsed arsonist and sets out to reveal the truth. With his search threatening to put his loved ones in danger, he must uncover the mysterious Fifth Man.

After the shocking conclusion of The Time Hunters and the Wraith’s Revenge, Becky, Joe, and Uncle Percy embark on a time hunt for the Odin Horn, a legendary artifact believed to be the drinking vessel used by Odin in Valhalla.