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St Petersburg, 1914. Dr Otto Spethmann, a famous psychoanalyst, is implicated in a murder. But he is preoccupied with two disturbing new patients: Anna Petrovna, the troubled society beauty with whom he is inappropriately falling in love, and Avrom Rozental, the brilliant chess master, who is due to play the most important competition of his life but is on the verge of a breakdown. With the city rife with speculation and alarm, Spethmann must rely on his wits if he wants to save those he loves and escape from a Zugzwang of passion and politics.

Author: Ronan Bennett

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Meet Dez Limerick, a retired mercenary known in the shadows as 'The Gatekeeper'—the man who opens doors that others want kept tightly shut. While checking out sunny California, his hotel suddenly falls under a meticulously planned attack. Being in the wrong place at the right time, Dez steps in to thwart the kidnapping of Petra Alexandris, the daughter of a major military contractor. What starts as a rescue mission quickly spirals into a dark conspiracy involving media manipulation, armed militias, and a full-scale plot to fracture the United States.

Author: James Byrne

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A stolen Renaissance painting. A woman trapped in a cult. A secret buried deep within Charleston's elite society. When Nick Barrett is drawn into a decades-old mystery, he uncovers a web of deception that will test both his courage and his faith. A gripping psychological thriller exploring redemption, mercy, and the power of grace.

Author: Sigmund Brouwer

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In the northern town of Algonquin Bay, four teenagers are missing and the police have run out of leads. Enter Detective John Cardinal—a persistent loner on the brink of losing his career, his family, and his spot in homicide. Haunted by a dark past and suspected of corruption by his own partner, Cardinal is the only one willing to face the truth when a young girl's body is found in an abandoned mineshaft. As the media and police question his every move, Cardinal follows tenuous threads into a race against time—not just to find a vicious killer, but to save another victim trapped in a basement, wondering when her captors will strike.

Author: Giles Blunt

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An ambitious detective, a forced leave, and a killer hiding in plain sight. In Lifeless, the pulse-pounding fifth entry in Mark Billingham's Tom Thorne series, our hero goes undercover among London’s homeless to stop a brutal murderer. With rumors swirling that the killer is a policeman and a fifteen-year-old secret threatening to emerge, Thorne must navigate a dangerous underworld where the rules are different and justice is hard to find.

Author: Mark Billingham

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Newly promoted, Detective Sergeant William Warwick has been reassigned to the drugs squad. His first case: to investigate a notorious south London drug lord known as the Viper. But as William and his team close the net around a criminal network unlike any they have ever encountered, he is also faced with an old enemy, Miles Faulkner. It will take all of William's cunning to devise a means to bring both men to justice: a trap neither will expect, one that is hidden in plain sight...

Author: Jeffrey Archer

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Kate Marshall was a promising young police detective when she caught the notorious Nine Elms serial killer. But her greatest victory suddenly became a nightmare. Fifteen years after those catastrophic, career-ending events, a copycat has taken up the Nine Elms mantle, continuing the ghastly work of his idol. Enlisting her brilliant research assistant, Tristan Harper, Kate draws on her prodigious and long-neglected skills as an investigator to catch a new monster. But there's much more than her reputation on the line: Kate was the original killer's intended fifth victim... and his successor means to finish the job.

Author: Robert Bryndza

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Danny Cartwright is an ordinary man with everything to live for—until he is framed for the murder of his own brother. Sentenced to twenty-two years in Belmarsh prison, Danny’s life is shattered by a ruthless legal conspiracy. But Danny is far from finished.

Author: Jeffrey Archer

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