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  Homicide in Chicago - From the...

  Edward Marston

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  First published as Saint's Rest under Keith Miles.
  Chicago, 1931. While the Great Depression has tightened its grip on the world, there are still some who have the means to make their dreams a reality. One of these men is Hobart St John, who wants a mansion in the suburb of Oak Park. For young Welsh architect Merlin Richards, the opportunity to work on the house is an answer to his prayer.
  But Richards' elation soon turns to confusion and fear. A body has been found on site hanging from a rafter. The authorities dismiss it as suicide but how can that be the case when his hands were tied behind his back? Richards' dream assignment is fast becoming a nightmare, and he realises that the answers he wants might cost him his life.

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  Snow Tiger

  Desmond Bagley

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  Action thriller by the classic adventure writer set in New Zealand. 
  Fifty-four people died in the avalanche that ripped apart a small New Zealand mining town. But the enquiry which follows unleashes more destructive power than the snowfall. As the survivors tell their stories, they reveal a community so divided that all warnings of danger went unheeded. At the centre of the storm is Ian Ballard, whose life depends upon being able to clear his name… 
  In the realm of suspense thrillers, Snow Tiger by Desmond Bagley is among the best. This top-rated fiction novel is a masterclass in tension and narrative drive. 
  For fans of Eric Ambler (The Mask of Dimitrios), Dick Francis (In the Frame), Michael Connelly (The Waiting), Robert Harris (The Cicero Trilogy), and Stephen King (Pet Sematary).

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  Burn It Down - A Ty Draker...

  Rik Carter

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  DISAVOWED.
   
  
   
  HUNTED.
   
  
   
  RUNNING OUT OF TIME.
   
  
   
  Ty Draker is a marked man with no idea why.Chased by ruthless operatives, Draker’s sole ally is Beau—just a mysterious voice on the phone. In exchange for Beau’s help clearing his name, Draker agrees to work as a fixer, crisscrossing the country to right wrongs.
   
  
   
  Draker plunges into a race against time after unearthing a terrorist plot with global implications. As he digs deeper, an unsettling realization dawns—shadowy threads seem to connect the terrorists, his pursuers, and the obscure events of his earlier life as a CIA operator.
   
  
   
  With the hunters closing in and catastrophe looming, Draker must solve the puzzle fast. Millions of lives depend on a man who can’t trust his own history.
   
  
   
  If you like action heroes with the steely resolve of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher, the calculating will of Gregg Hurwitz’s Orphan X, and the raw power of Mark Greaney’s Gray Man, then you’ll love Ty Draker, a new thriller series by Erik Carter, bestselling author of the Silence Jones Series.
   
  
   
  ©2024 Aethon Books (P)2024 Aethon Audio

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  The Boy at the Keyhole

  Stephen Giles

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  “A fiendishly efficient, gorgeously written, nasty little thrill ride of a psychological thriller. I couldn’t put it down, and it’s entirely possible that I’ll never sleep again. A true tour-de-force of a debut novel.”—Lyndsay Faye, author of The Gods of Gotham and Jane Steele For fans of Shirley Jackson, Sarah Waters and Daphne du Maurier, an electrifying debut about a boy left alone in his family’s English estate with a housekeeper he suspects has murdered his mother Nine-year-old Samuel lives alone in a once-great estate in Surrey with the family’s housekeeper, Ruth. His father is dead and his mother has been abroad for months, purportedly tending to her late husband’s faltering business. She left in a hurry one night while Samuel was sleeping and did not say goodbye.Beyond her sporadic postcards, Samuel hears nothing from his mother. He misses her dearly and maps her journey in an atlas he finds in her study. Samuel’s life is otherwise regulated by Ruth, who runs the house with an iron fist. Only she and Samuel know how brutally she enforces order.As rumors in town begin to swirl, Samuel wonders whether something more sinister is afoot. Perhaps his mother did not leave but was murdered—by Ruth.Artful, haunting and hurtling toward a psychological showdown, The Boy at the Keyhole is an incandescent debut about the precarious dance between truth and perception, and the shocking acts that occur behind closed doors.

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  Gina Washington Slept Here

  Katherine Bolger Hyde

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  Don't give up, Erin. I'm waiting for you. Find me. 
   
   
   
  What happened to Gina Washington? Twelve-year-old Erin's world was turned upside down twenty years ago when her mother suddenly vanished and never returned. 
   
   
   
  Arriving at the Seafarer's Rest B&B in the coastal resort of Pacific Grove in California for a much-needed vacation, Erin is stunned to learn that her mother stayed at the inn shortly after disappearing all those years ago and makes a disturbing discovery in the grounds. Did Gina lay clues in the hope that Erin would one day try to find her? Drawn into a life-changing quest to unravel the truth, Erin uncovers deception, conspiracy and passion. But as she finally starts to find answers to the many questions around her mother's disappearance, Erin's own life is in grave danger . . .

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  Amiable Charlatan An - The most...

  E. Phillips Oppenheim

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  From the sophisticated drawing rooms of pre-war London to the clandestine gambling dens of Paris, comes a new twist on the art of the steal. Master-storyteller E. Phillips Oppenheim presents An Amiable Charlatan, a captivating mystery where elegance and crime are inseparable. 
  Follow the young, aristocratic Mr. Paul Walmsley, who finds his charmed life turned upside down when he crosses paths with the enigmatic and irresistible Mr. Joseph H. Parker. Parker is a master of deception—a charming 'charlatan' whose polite exterior masks a daring criminality. He claims to expose frauds, but Walmsley soon discovers Parker may be the most successful fraud of all. 
  When Walmsley falls hopelessly in love with Parker's beautiful daughter, he is drawn relentlessly into their world of elaborate schemes, daring escapes, and the highest high-society scandals. With every perfect crime Parker commits, the stakes rise, and Walmsley must decide if he is a victim, an accomplice, or the key to exposing the charlatan before they all fall together. 
  Heard only on Inaudio, and narrated with witty, masterful tension by the legendary Richard A Molina, An Amiable Charlatan is a Molina Classics Publishing release.

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