The Murder Book: The incredibly dramatic Sunday Times Tom Thorne bestseller

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A fantastic thriller, combining a gripping plot and lead characters of remarkable depth…Readers who grab this one but aren’t familiar with its predecessors will be seeking them out. A series to savor.” — Booklist (starred review), on Their Little Secret What would you think if you walked into your friend's library room and found a bookshelf full of volumes of something called a "Murder Book". After a tip from a reporter, Eve Dallas finds the body of a young woman in a Delancey street dumpster. Just hours before, the news station had mysteriously received a portfolio of professional portraits of the woman. The photos seemed to be nothing out of the ordinary for any pretty young woman starting a modeling career. Except that she wasn't a model. And that these photos were taken after she had been murdered.

I loved this book. It's similar yet different than others I've read. I quite like Harry's seemingly gruff, no nonsense take towards the people around him and the suspects. He really does outwit each and every one of them like a boss. And the way he goes about it? Look, I laughed. He makes them look so dumb. What is real? What is imagined? Who is in danger? Who is in control? In this diabolically gripping thriller, no one--and nothing--is what it seems.A fantastic thriller, combining a gripping plot and lead characters of remarkable depth . . . Readers who grab this one but aren’t familiar with its predecessors will be seeking them out. A series to savor.”— Booklist (starred review)

Someone is killing the richest people in the city-and the Women's Murder Club will pay a high price for hunting him. At the party of the year, San Francisco's most glamorous couple is targeted by a killer-and it's the perfect murder. While Detective Lindsay Boxer investigates the high-profile killings, a saintly street preacher is brutally executed. Reporter Cindy Thomas inquires into this neglected case and discovers the victim may have had very dark secrets. When a sudden crime wave hits several small midwestern towns, the U.S. Attorney for the region calls on Harry Duncan to investigate. An ex-cop known for his unorthodox methods, Duncan is reluctant to go up against a widespread criminal organization—but the attorney in question is Ellen Leicester, the wife who left him fifteen years earlier, and to her, he can’t say no. As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children. He is gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing blood-filled sneakers and unable to recall a single detail of the previous hours. The Ellen Leicester, the wife who left Harry fifteen years ago calls and askes him to investigate a sudden crime wave, including possible extortion that has hit several small midwestern towns, one of them Parkmans Elbow.Before too long she’s staying the night at this house and being introduced to his nine year old daughter. Neither did Rosie. Everyone thought she had gone to England on her own and was over there living a shiny new life. Then, twenty-two years later, Rosie's suitcase shows up behind a fireplace in a derelict house on Faithful Place, and Frank is going home whether he likes it or not. Peter James It actually scared me the first time I read it as a kid. And I have always liked it. It is my favourite of all his books and it has a very clever ending. (Source) They're a writer? An avid reader of crime novels? A collector of oddities? Well, Chicago cop, turned private eye, Harry Duncan has exactly that. It's a technique he uses when compiling any relevant information he thinks he's going to need to when he was working a homicide The latest thriller from internationally bestselling author Mark Billingham finds Tom Thorne settling into a newly content existence, but a spate of brutal murders sets him off on an investigation that may just shatter every happiness he has built.

When Ella Longfield overhears two attractive young men flirting with teenage girls on a train, she thinks nothing of it—until she realises they are fresh out of prison and her maternal instinct is put on high alert. But just as she’s decided to call for help, something stops her. The next day, she wakes up to the news that one of the girls—beautiful, green-eyed Anna Ballard—has disappeared. Now, with her friends in the Women's Murder Club, Lindsay must battle for her life on two fronts: in a trial rushing to a climax, and against an unknown adversary willing to do anything to hide the truth about the homicides-including kill again? I will sum up Perry's Murder Book in one word: phenomenal. That is honestly the one word which constantly came to mind as I sat in awe while listening to this amazing twisty rollercoaster of a storyline unfold. I have never encountered a Thomas Perry novel which I did not devour. His protagonist's are always have a perfect balance of believability, flawed histories, humility, and intelligence. I have written novels that have sold more than 70 million copies around the world but mysuccess as a guy “who makes it up” came after a career as a journalist who covered lawenforcement and crime for newspapers on both coasts,” said Michael Connelly. “No matterwhat success I achieve as a storyteller I have always and will always feel I am still a journalist atheart — I put the truth in my novels and I research them like a reporter on a story. In the lastcouple years as I have seen a growing threat against the integrity of journalism and lawenforcement, it has awakened a desire in me to return in some way to telling the real stories ofthe unsung heroes of law enforcement. What better place than in a podcast, which I view as thenew arena of journalism. It is not the written truth but the spoken truth. The Murder Bookpodcast will tell it like it is from the front line of the justice system, exploring the stories of lawofficers who are relentless in their pursuit of justice and the truth. These will be stories thatinspire me and may inspire the listeners as well.”Billingham is a world-class writer and Tom Thorne is a wonderful creation. Rush to read these books.”—Karin Slaughter Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden’s wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption. Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color yellow. What he discovers is much more dangerous and illegal than he ever imagined. Upon his arrival in one of the towns he is immediately confronted with bad guys who make it very clear he is not welcome. In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruders, her children clinging to her legs. They never saw her again. Her abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as The Troubles. Everyone in the neighborhood knew the I.R.A. was responsible. But in a climate of fear and paranoia, no one would speak of it. In 2003, five years after an accord brought an uneasy peace to Northern Ireland, a set of human bones was discovered on a beach. McConville's children knew it was their mother when they were told a blue safety pin was attached to the dress--with so many kids, she had always kept it handy for diapers or ripped clothes.