Sherlock Holmes's Greatest Cases is just that: the twelve short stories that made up The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, including 'A Scandal in Bohemia', 'The Red-Headed League', 'The Man with the Twisted Lip' and 'The Specked Band', and the most popular novel, The Hound of the Baservilles, complete and unabridged
It is the prefect introduction to the world's best loved detective,

Joel's making a run for it, over the sea and far away from Dublin. Anything to get away from the responsibility his wife's just confronted him with. Ellen has rung to tell him she's pregnant. Which is a shock, considering Joel's so anti-parenthood, he always wears two condoms to be on the safe side. While Joel's flitting to Holyhead, Ellen is nursing a little secret. She lied. And it isn't long before Joel is forced to return while Ellen is forced to get pregnant and fast, no matter what it takes.

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Jim Beckett was everything Tess had ever dreamed of...
But two years after Tess married Jim and bore his child, she helped put him behind bars for savagely murdering ten women. Even locked up in a maximum security prison, he vowed he would come after her and make her pay. Now the killer has escaped, and Tess has got to learn to fight back.
With the help of a burned out ex-marine, Tess learns how to protect herself and her daughter as a gigantic manhunt, crossing four states, counts down to this terrifying reunion between husband and wife. A real page-turner, centering on the nightmare of discovering that the person you love and trust more than anyone else in the world is out to hunt you down.

'A nail-biting chase novel packed with tension and fiery sex, building up a terrifying denouement' Good Housekeeping
'A pacy and gripping read' Essentials
'A chilling story of revenge and survival with one of the creepiest villains I've ever read' Iris Johansen

Lisa Gardner has written several romance novels for Bantam. This is her first suspense novel. Her recent success in the New York Times Bestseller list has suggested that she may well be a writer, who following in Tami Hoag's footsteps, is destined to reach international success.

The frightening new novel from the author of The Perfect Husband.

In Texas, a serial killer is executed, taking with him the identity of his only child. In Boston, an unconscious nine-year-old girl is found, full of morphine and unable to remember anything about her past. Twenty years later she is about to discover who she really is.

An unspeakable act has ripped apart the peaceful town of Bakersville, Oregon and the usually friendly, calm residents are in uproar, demanding that justice be done. But although a boy has confessed to the horrific crime, evidence shows he may not be guilty. Officer Rainie Conner, leading her first homicide investigations, is caught up in the controversy. It's hitting too close to home, bringing back memories of her own as and her worst nightmares. But she has to find the real killer...
With the help of FBI profiler Pierce Quincy, Rainie comes closer to a deadly truth that she can imagine. Because out there in the shadows a man watches her and plots his next move. He knows her secrets. He kills for sport. He's already brought death to Bakersville and forever shattered the community. But what he has really come for is Rainie - and he won't leave until he has destroyed her.

Another fantastic, gripping thriller from the New York Times bestselling mistress of the genre.

The latest Thelma and Louise-style adventure from the author of The Flight of Lucy Spoon.

A dark, powerful novel set in the Louisiana bayous, from the author of The Covenant.

Maxwell Carter - a fingerprint analyst at the criminal justice facility in Clarksburg, West Virginia - was supplementing his income by running a very simple scam whereby positive fingerprint matches in old crimes could be conveniently 'ignored' in return for a small retainer. But then he caught a shark in his net - one that did not take too kindly to blackmail. Maxwell's illicit career - and his life - were swiftly and brutally ended... When Johnny Harrison is called in to investigate Maxwell's grisly murder he quickly unearths a connection to an old child-murder in the bayous of Louisiana and the close-knit fishing community that work the Mississippi. Deciding to go undercover on one of the old trawlers, he digs into this alien world and starts to realise that he has stumbled on to something both sordid and enormously powerful, something that dates ba

`Ingenious... Hamilton unreels the mystery with a mounting tension that many an old pro might envy.' Kirkus Reviews
`Hamilton combines crisp, clear writing, wily, colourful characters and offbeat locale in an impressive debut.' Publishers Weekly
`He has the attitude and the moves. ' New York Daily News
`Splendidly evocative... the deep layer of details that Hamilton provides about life in this bleak part of the world add to the book's many pleasures. ' Dick Adler, Amazon. com

Other than the bullet lodged less than a centimeter from his heart, former Detroit police officer Alex McKnight thought he had put the nightmare of his partner's death and his own near-fatal injury behind him. After all, Maximillian Rose, convicted of the crimes, has been locked in the state pen for years. But in the small town of Paradise, Michigan, where McKnight has traded his badge for a cosy cabin in the woods, a murderer with Rose's unmistakable trademarks appears to be back to his killing ways. With Rose locked away, McKnight can't understand who else would know all the intimate details of the old murders - not to mention the signature blood-red rose left on his doorstep. It seems as though Hell will freeze over before McKnight can unravel the cold truth in this town that's anything but Paradise.

Steve Hamilton's award-winning debut is sharp and stylish, combining wry humour with terrifying violence in a brilliantly evoked setting.

It's winter in Paradise, a small town in Michigan's Upper Peninsula on the frozen borders of Canada. After plowing the new snow from his drive every morning, Alex McNight is content to stay warm in front of the fireplace at the Glasgow Inn with a bottle of his favourite Canadian beer. Once a catcher in the minor leagues, later a Detroit police officer, Alex gave the private eye business a try and it ended up being the 'second worst' mistake of his life. So when a young native American woman of the Ojibwa tribe comes to him for help, Alex is reluctant to become involved. Nor does he want anything to do with goofy Leon Prudell who wants to get back in the PI business and has fixed on Alex as his partner. But before you can say 'storm warning' events have spun out of Alex's control. Soon he'll have to deal with an entire team of drug-crazed hockey goons, two mysterious men wearing guns and hunting caps, and a cold-blooded killer from the other side of the world. Perhaps Alex needs that new partner after all... Hamilton's writing is spare and stylish. He combines wry understated humour with terrifying violence in a brilliantly evoked setting. He will go far.

Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a louse called Floyd Thursby. But Miss Wonderley is in fact the beautiful and treacherous Brigid O'Shaughnessy, and when Spade's partner Miles Archer is shot while on Thursby's trail, Spade finds himself both hunter and hunted: can he track down the jewel-encrusted bird, a treasure worth killing for, before the Fat Man finds him? THE AUTHOR B.1894, d.1961. After spells as newsboy, freight clerk, labourer, messenger, stevedore and advertising manager, Hammett became an operative of the Pinkerton Detective Agency. His experiences as a private detective laid the foundation for his writing career.

Accident victim Faith Parker has done what her doctors feared she never would: awakened from the coma that held her prisoner for weeks. But she has no memory of the crash that nearly killer her - or the life that led up to it. Nor does she remember journalist Dinah Leighton, the steadfast friend who visited her in the hospital. Until she disappeared without trace. As Faith begins to regain her strength, she's shocked by intimate dreams of a man she doesn't recognise and tortured by visions of violence that feel painfully real. Something inexplicable ties her lost memories to Dinah's chilling fate. But even as Faith tries to understand the connection and reach out to save Dinah, death is stalking both women. And one of them will not escape its lethal grasp.

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A picture-perfect Tennessee town has just become a monster's hunting ground. Two bodies are found tortured to death. A third person goes missing. What little evidence is left behind defies all explanation. Is the terror just beginning? Or have the good citizens of Gladstone harboured a dark secret for a long time? Sheriff Miranda Knight is determined to make her small town safe once more. And she does what she swore she would never do - involve FBI profiler Noah Bishop. He's the one man who knows about her unique abilities, and that knowledge almost destroyed her sister years ago. But now Miranda and Noah are about to hunt for a killer whose madness has no bounds, a killer who knows exactly how to destroy Miranda: by preying on her sister.