Crime / Thrillers

  • Reykjavik

    Reykjavik

    16.95

    What happened to Lara?

    Iceland, 1956. Fifteen-year-old Lara spends the summer working for a couple on the small island of Videy, just off the coast of Reykjavik.

    In early August, the girl disappears without a trace.

    The mystery becomes Iceland’s greatest unsolved case. What happened to the young girl? Is she still alive? Did she leave the island, or did something happen to her there?

    Thirty years later in August, 1986, as the city of Reykjavik celebrates its 200th anniversary, journalist Valur Robertsson begins his own investigation into Lara’s case.

    But as he draws closer to discovering the secret, and with the eyes of Reykjavik upon him, it soon becomes clear that Lara’s disappearance is a mystery that someone will stop at nothing to keep unsolved . . .

  • The Trap

    The Trap

    14.95

    Stranded on a dark road in the middle of the night, a young woman accepts a lift from a passing stranger. It’s the nightmare scenario that every girl is warned about, and she knows the dangers all too well – but what other choice does she have?

    As they drive, she alternates between fear and relief – one moment thinking he is just a good man doing a good thing, the next convinced he’s a monster. But when he delivers her safely to her destination, she realizes her fears were unfounded.

    And her heart sinks.

    Because a monster is what she’s looking for.

    She’ll try again tomorrow night. But will the man who took her sister take the bait?

  • Just Another Missing Person

    Just Another Missing Person

    17.50

    OLIVIA. 22 years old. Last seen on CCTV, entering a dead-end alley.

    And not coming back out again. Missing for one day and counting …

    Julia is the detective heading up the case.

    She knows what to expect.

    A desperate family, a ticking clock, and long hours away from her children.

    But Julia has no idea how close to home it’s going to get.
    Because her family’s safety depends on one thing: Julia must NOT find out what happened to Olivia – and must frame somebody else for her murder …

    What would you do?

  • A Game of Lies

    A Game of Lies

    17.50

    They say the camera never lies.
    But on this show, you can’t trust anything you see.

    Stranded in the Welsh mountains, seven reality show contestants have no idea what they’ve signed up for.

    Each of these strangers has a secret. If another player can guess the truth, they won’t just be eliminated – they’ll be exposed live on air. The stakes are higher than they’d ever imagined, and they’re trapped.

    The disappearance of a contestant wasn’t supposed to be part of the drama.

    Detective Ffion Morgan has to put aside what she’s watched on screen, and find out who these people really are – knowing she can’t trust any of them.

    And when a murderer strikes, Ffion knows every one of her suspects has an alibi . . . and a secret worth killing for.

  • The Seventh Passenger

    The Seventh Passenger

    16.95

    Seven Titanic passengers disembark at Queenstown. One carries a secret.

  • Everyone Here Is Lying

    Everyone Here Is Lying

    14.95

    Welcome to Stanhope – a safe neighbourhood.

    A place for families.

    William Wooler is a family man, on the surface. But he’s been having an affair, an affair that ended horribly this afternoon at a motel up the road. So when he returns to his house, devastated and angry, to find his difficult nine-year-old daughter Avery unexpectedly home from school, William loses his temper.

    Hours later, Avery’s family declare her missing.

    Suddenly Stanhope doesn’t feel so safe.

    And William isn’t the only one on his street who’s hiding a lie. As witnesses come forward with information that may or may not be true, Avery’s neighbours become increasingly unhinged.

    Who took Avery Wooler?

  • None of This is True

    None of This is True

    15.95

    Celebrating her 45th birthday at her local pub, podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair.

    Josie is also celebrating her 45th birthday. They are, in fact birthday twins.

    A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix’s children’s school. Josie has been listening to Alix’s podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for Alix’s series.

    She is, she tells Alix, on the cusp of great changes in her life.

    Alix agrees to a trial interview. Josie’s life appears to be strange and complicated, and although Alix finds her unsettling, she can’t quite resist the temptation to keep digging.

    Slowly Alix starts to realise that Josie has been hiding some very dark secrets, and before she knows it Josie has inveigled her way into Alix’s life – and into her home.

  • The Ink Black Heart

    The Ink Black Heart

    5.00

    When frantic, dishevelled Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, private detective Robin Ellacott doesn’t know quite what to make of the situation. The co-creator of a popular cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, Edie is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure who goes by the pseudonym of Anomie. Edie is desperate to uncover Anomie’s true identity.

    Robin decides that the agency can’t help with this – and thinks nothing more of it until a few days later, when she reads the shocking news that Edie has been tasered and then murdered in Highgate Cemetery, the location of The Ink Black Heart.

    Robin and her business partner Cormoran Strike become drawn into the quest to uncover Anomie’s true identity.

    But with a complex web of online aliases, business interests and family conflicts to navigate, Strike and Robin find themselves embroiled in a case that stretches their powers of deduction to the limits – and which threatens them in new and horrifying ways . . .

    A gripping, fiendishly clever mystery, The Ink Black Heart is a true tour-de-force.

  • One Last Secret

    One Last Secret

    9.95

    One last client A week at a beautiful chateau in the south of France – it should be a straightforward final job for Dora. She’s a smart, stunning and discreet escort and Daniel has paid for her services before.

    This time, all she has to do is convince the assembled guests that she is his girlfriend. Dora is used to playing roles and being whatever men want her to be. It’s all about putting on a front. One last chance. It will be a last, luxurious look at how the other half lives, before Dora turns her back on the escort world and all its dangers.

    She has found someone she loves and trusts. With him, she can escape the life she’s trapped in. But when Dora arrives at the chateau, it quickly becomes obvious that nothing is what it seems… Dora finds herself face to face with a man she has never forgotten, the one man who really knows her.

    And as old secrets surface, it becomes terrifyingly apparent that one last secret could cost Dora her life…

  • The Dark Hours

    The Dark Hours

    6.95

    Description
    Detective Renee Ballard is working the graveyard shift again, and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours only to find that an older man has snuck in and is rifling through old file cabinets.

    The intruder is none other than legendary LAPD detective Harry Bosch, working a cold case that has gotten under his skin. Ballard kicks him out, but eventually Bosch persuades her to help and she relents.

    Bosch is investigating the death of fifteen-year-old Daisy Clayton, a runaway who was brutally murdered. He crossed paths with her devastated mother while working a previous case, and Daisy’s story has seized hold of him.

    Now, Ballard joins forces with Bosch and his former partner Lucia Soto to find out what happened to Daisy and finally bring her killer to justice…

  • The Apollo Murders

    The Apollo Murders

    5.00

    1973: a final, top-secret mission to the Moon. Three astronauts in a tiny module, a quarter of a million miles from home. A quarter of a million miles from help.

    As Russian and American crews sprint for a secret bounty hidden away on the lunar surface, old rivalries blossom and the political stakes are stretched to breaking point back on Earth.

    Houston flight controller Kazimieras ‘Kaz’ Zemeckis must do all he can to keep the NASA crew together, while staying one step ahead of his Soviet rivals. But not everyone on board Apollo 18 is quite who they appear to be.

    Full of fascinating technical detail, twists and tension, The Apollo Murders puts you right there in the moment. Experience the dark majesty of space, the fierce G-forces of launch and the rush of holding on to the outside of a spacecraft travelling at 17,000 mph, as told by a former Commander of the International Space Station who has done all of those things in real life.

    Strap in and count down for the ride of a lifetime.

  • The Devil and the Dark Water

    The Devil and the Dark Water

    12.50

    Three impossible crimes. Two unlikely detectives. One deadly voyage. It’s 1634 and Samuel Pipps, the world’s greatest detective, is being transported from the Dutch East Indies to Amsterdam, where he is set to face trial for a crime that no one dares speak of. But no sooner is the ship out to sea than devilry begins to blight the voyage.

    Strange symbols appear on the sails. A figure stalks the decks. Livestock are slaughtered.

    Passengers are plagued with ominous threats, promising them three unholy miracles. First: an impossible pursuit. Second: an impossible theft.

    Then: an impossible murder. With Pipps imprisoned in the depths of the ship, can his loyal bodyguard, Arent Hayes, solve the mystery before the ship descends into anarchy?

    From the author of the dazzling The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, winner of the Costa Best First Novel Award, comes an adventurous and wildly entertaining murder mystery.

    Think of a Holmes and Watson-style duo operating in a Pirates Of The Caribbean-style universe‘ Metro

    A glorious mash-up of William Golding and Arthur Conan Doyle‘ Val McDermid

    A superb historical mystery: inventive, twisty, addictive and utterly beguiling … A TRIUMPH‘ Will Dean

    CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY MAIL, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY EXPRESS AND i PAPER; LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER AWARD