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Taking the Titanic: BookShots (Bookshots Ser.)
by James PattersonJames Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment.The greatest story in modern history has a new chapter...Posing as newlyweds, two ruthless thieves board the Titanic to rob its well-heeled passengers. But an even more shocking plan is afoot – a sensational scheme that could alter the fate of the world's most famous ship.
Stealing Gulfstreams: BookShots (Bookshots Ser.)
by James PattersonJames Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment.The perfect crime at 500 miles an hour.All his life, pilot Jack Flynn dreamed of winning the same air show where his father was killed. To bankroll that dream he just has to steal a $24 million jet and deliver it to shadowy criminals. What could possibly go wrong?
Hidden: A Mitchum Story (A Mitchum Thriller #1)
by James PattersonJames Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment.Rejected by the Navy SEALs, Mitchum is content to be his small town's unofficial private eye, until his beloved 14-year-old cousin is abducted. Now he'll call on every lethal skill to track her down-but nothing is what it seems...
The End: BookShots (Bookshots Ser.)
by James PattersonJames Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment.If the mission fails, it's World War III. Any questions? Owen Taylor is about to be betrayed on his final covert mission. It will take everything he has to make it home alive, and to save the woman he loves.
Malicious (A Mitchum Thriller #2)
by James PattersonJames Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment.Did my brother kill your husband?Mitchum is back. His brother's been charged with murder. Nathaniel swears he didn't kill anyone, but word on the street is that he was involved with the victim's wife. Now, Navy SEAL dropout Mitchum will break every rule to expose the truth – even if it destroys the people he loves.
The Dolls: BookShots (Bookshots Ser.)
by James PattersonJames Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment.The dolls are perfect lovers, perfect companions, perfect killers.Investigative reporter Lana Wallace has covered many crimes of passion in ten years. But nothing will prepare her for the dark secrets of...the dolls.
Dead Man Running: BookShots (Bookshots Ser.)
by James PattersonJames Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment.The doctor is in... deadly danger.Dr Randall Beck is an eccentric psychiatrist with a terminal disease. This makes him fearless, which comes in handy when a patient is murdered before his eyes – a patient with an unspeakable secret.
Private Gold: BookShots (A Private Thriller #2)
by James PattersonJames Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment.Private Johannesburg is closing down…After the tragic suicide of his partner, Khosi, Joey Montague is packing up the branch of Private they'd set up in Johannesburg with US owner Jack Morgan. The investigation agency will be scaled down until Joey can recover from this devastating loss.As he’s loading the removal van, Joey receives a call from an American woman who has just landed in the city and needs his help. But what at first seems to be a simple protection job soon becomes a matter of life and death – not just for his client, but for Joey himself.
French Twist: BookShots (Detective Luc Moncrief Series)
by James PattersonJames Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment.Who is killing New York's most beautiful women?Gorgeous women are dropping dead at upscale department stores in New York City. Detective Luc Moncrief and Detective Katherine Burke are close to solving the mystery, but looks can be deceiving...
Steeplechase: BookShots (Bookshots Ser.)
by James PattersonJames Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment.Somewhere in time... a killer waits.Malfunctioning rides caused multiple deaths at Steeplechase Park in 1907... and in 2017. Katie Silver is sure she was working there – in both centuries. Could she hold the key to the darkest of secrets? Two worlds collide to reveal the astonishing truth.
Scott Free: BookShots (Bookshots Ser.)
by James PattersonJames Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment.We know you did it – and you won't get away with it.Accused of murdering five small children, Thomas Scott is released on bail. He faces devastated parents plotting revenge and a fiery detective taking the law into his own hands. But did he do it? The truth will blow you away.
Kill and Tell: BookShots (Bookshots Ser.)
by James PattersonJames Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment.This Hollywood director committed an unspeakable crime... or did he?Famous film director Wayne Tennet stands accused by his stepdaughter of crossing the line. Falsely, he swears. Now his life and career hang in the balance. But why would she lie?The darkest thriller of the year has an only-in-Hollywood twist you'll never see coming.
Avalanche: BookShots (Bookshots Ser.)
by James PattersonJames Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment.Professor Monroe, did you kill your wife?Professor Robert Monroe's wife has vanished from their 5-star hotel in Gstaad, and no one saw a thing. Was she kidnapped? Or did she run off with the handsome Italian she and Robert partied with the night before?
Stingrays: BookShots (Bookshots Ser.)
by James PattersonJames Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment.Stingrays – they solve unsolvable crimes. When a teenager goes missing on a Caribbean beach, the local police are baffled. It's up to the Stingrays, a world class team that solves the unsolvable, to unearth the truth – a truth that no one will believe.
You've Been Warned - Again: BookShots (Bookshots Ser.)
by James PattersonJames Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment.Going home for the holidays can be murder. Joanie was dreading Thanksgiving with her family at their strange new house. And that was before she saw her brother Alan standing in the kitchen. It was hard to know what to say to him, seeing as he'd died five years ago...
Deadly Cargo: BookShots
by James PattersonJames Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment.We have to go out, but we don’t have to come back. When a distress call is received at the Casco Cove Coast Guard Station in Alaska, Rick O’Neill readies his team for a rescue mission. In the storm-tossed freezing waters they find the foundering Russian cargo ship, but when they try to make contact they receive no response. Boarding what appears to be a deserted vessel, O’Neill begins to realise that nothing on this ship is as it seems, and he may have just led his team into a trap.
Absolute Zero: BookShots
by James PattersonJames Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment.Fear the man who has nothing left to lose…Cody Thurston is working his usual shift at the rough East London pub he calls home. When a group of out-of-towners walk in looking for trouble, Thurston sends them on their way using some not-so-gentle persuasion.As a former special forces operative in the Australian military, Thurston can handle trouble. But these men are more dangerous than he realises, and the actions they take will leave Thurston homeless, alone and seeking revenge.
Manhunt: BookShots (A Michael Bennett Thriller)
by James PattersonJames Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment.Michael Bennett, be grateful you're alive.Someone attacked the Thanksgiving Day Parade directly in front of Michael Bennett and his family. The television news called it 'holiday terror' – Michael Bennett calls it personal. The hunt is on...
The Impossible: Book 1 (The Impossible)
by Mark IllisWhen Hector Coleman and his mates genetically mutate overnight, their lives change in impossible ways ... A comic-book inspired adventure for fans of Stephen King and Charlie Higson.Hector Coleman. Just your average angst-ridden teenager, living a normal rubbish life in a normal rubbish town with, let's face it, a rubbish name. But then all the teens in Hector's small town develop weird mutations, and not in a superhero-type way. Someone gets transparent skin, someone else starts breathing fire ... and that doesn't end well. What the hell is going on? Hector and his friends need to find out, before it's too late.It's a bit like Stranger Things, only stranger. Everything has changed. Apart from Hector's name. And his girl trouble. And his embarrassingly low number of Twitter followers. All those things, unfortunately, stay the same. For now ...A warm, funny novel about friendship, family, and being different - oh, plus aliens, mutants and some serious scares ... 'This is one of the weirdest books I have read - I loved it! If you ever imagined that people who get special gifts always turn out to be super-heroes, think again ... a sort of cross between super-hero story, sci-fi, detective story, love story ... More like this, please.' Melvin Burgess
The Impossible: Book 2 (The Impossible)
by Mark IllisNothing is impossible in Hector Coleman's world ... A comic-book inspired adventure with a graphic novel twist, for fans of Stephen King, Charlie Higson and Suzanne Collins.Ever done anything you regret? Embarrassing, isn't it? Awkward, sometimes. Still, at least your life isn't like Hector Coleman's.Hector said Yes when he really should have said No, and now it's too late for regret because he's on the run with his friends, and everyone's getting super-powers (but really rubbish and in fact potentially lethal ones). Also, there are zombies, yes zombies, and an almost magic campervan, and a horse. It's all impossible (except the horse), but the impossible ... JUST GOT REAL (again).A breathtaking road-trip adventure with a graphic-novel twist, this is the breathtaking sequel to THE IMPOSSIBLE.
A Girl Called Justice: The Smugglers' Secret (A\girl Called Justice Ser.)
by Elly GriffithsJustice Jones, super-smart super-sleuth, is back for her second spine-tingling adventure! For fans of Robin Stevens, Katherine Woodfine and Enid Blyton.When Justice returns for spring term at Highbury House, it's not long before murder is back on her mind. Assigned to look after the elderly Mr Arthur in Smugglers' Lodge on the other side of the marshes from school, Justice is initially dismayed. But dismay quickly gives way to intrigue as she finds herself drawn to Mr Arthur and his stories of piloting in the First World War - and especially when Dorothy, who lives nearby, tells her that the lodge is haunted.But when Mr Arthur dies in mysterious circumstances, Justice soon has a list of questions in her journal: why hasn't he been given a proper military funeral? Why does the new Matron not seem to know much about First Aid? And what secrets does Smugglers' Lodge really hold?Justice sets out to uncover the deadly truth in this brilliant follow-up to A Girl Called Justice.
A Girl Called Justice
by Elly GriffithsMissing maids, suspicious teachers and a snow storm to die for... For a fearless girl called Justice Jones, super-smart super-sleuth, it's just the start of a spine-tingling first term at Highbury House Boarding School for the Daughters of Gentlefolk. For fans of Robin Stevens, Katherine Woodfine and Enid Blyton.When Justice's mother dies, her father packs her off to Highbury House Boarding School for the Daughters of Gentlefolk. He's a barrister - specialising in murder trials - and he's just too busy to look after her alone. Having previously been home-schooled, the transition is a shock. Can it really be the case that blondes rule the corridors? Are all uniforms such a charming shade of brown? And do schools normally hide dangerous secrets about the murder of a chamber maid? Justice takes it upon herself to uncover the truth. (Mainly about the murder, but perhaps she can figure out her new nemesis - the angelic Rose - at the same time.) But when a storm cuts the school off from the real world, the body count starts to rise and Justice realises she'll need help from her new friends if she's going to find the killer before it's too late ...
The Last Life of Prince Alastor: Book 2 (Prosper Redding #2)
by Alexandra BrackenEvery family has secrets - but not every family has a secret pact with a demon.The thrilling second book in the darkly comic PROSPER REDDING series - with enough twists and turns to make every reader dizzy. Perfect for fans of Lemony Snicket, Jonathan Stroud and Skulduggery Pleasant.Prosper is the only unexceptional Redding in his remarkable family. So, when he discovers that an 800-year-old demon called Prince Alastor is responsible for their luck - and that this demon is currently living inside him - he's more than a little surprised.Worse luck, now Prosper needs a favour from him.Prosper's sister Prue has fallen into the clutches of evil queen Pyra, and only Alastor can help get her back. The fiendish prince agrees to be Prosper's guide through the demon realm under one condition - Prosper must enter into a contract of eternal servitude to him in the afterlife. With Prue in mortal danger, Prosper has no choice but to agree. Can Prosper rescue his sister and ever make it out alive, and if he does, will his afterlife be damned for all eternity?
A Girl Called Justice: Book 3 (A Girl Called Justice)
by Elly GriffithsJustice Jones, super-smart super-sleuth, is back for her third spine-tingling adventure! For fans of Robin Stevens, Katherine Woodfine and Enid Blyton.Justice and her friends are third years now and there's an intriguing new girl in Barnowls. Letitia has never been to school before and doesn't care for the rules - and the teachers don't seem to mind! She decides that Justice is her particular friend, much to Stella and Dorothy's distress. But Letitia just isn't the kind of girl you say no to.Then, after a midnight feast in the barn, and a terrifying ghost-sighting in the garden, a girl disappears. Soon ransom notes appear, and they're torn from the pages of a crime novel.Where is the schoolgirl and who has taken her? It will take all of Justice's sleuthing to unravel this mystery!
A Girl Called Justice: Book 4 (A Girl Called Justice)
by Elly GriffithsJustice Jones, super-smart super-sleuth, is back for her fourth spine-tingling adventure! For fans of Robin Stevens, Katherine Woodfine and Enid Blyton.It's 1939 and war has broken out. Everything has changed at Highbury House school. The pupils have to help cook, clean and wash up, for a start! Then a boys' school is evacuated to Highbury House, and the girls have to share the building. Justice and her friends are delighted that there are still mysteries to solve, however. Like: why can they hear voices coming from an empty room? And how can there be a face at the window two storeys up?Then Justice faces her biggest challenge yet. Could there be a spy in their midst?Elly Griffiths is a bestselling, prize-winning adult crime writer best known for the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries.