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Three women are connected by one man in this kaleidoscopic thriller.Restauranteur Paddy Swann was the life of the party until the day a man pushed him in the path of an oncoming train, leaving his twenty-something daughter Ash and wife Nina devastated. Shortly after Paddy’s funeral, the two women receive a surprise in the mail: a note and package from Nick Ratcliffe, an old friend of Paddy’s, and a nondescript lighter that once belonged to him decades ago. This unexpected gift draws Nick and Nina closer together—much to Ash’s dismay.Martha is a small-town florist with dreams of expansion. She lives with her second husband Al, her baby, and two sons from her prior marriage. But they never seem to have any money, and with his constant traveling for work, she feels like a single parent—especially when an emergency makes her realize something needs to change.But Nick and Al may not be who they say they are, leading these three women on a shocking collision course, wishing they had heeded a warning: Don’t let him in.

He's the perfect man. He says he loves you. You think he might even be made for you. Before long he's moved into your house - and into your heart. And then he leaves for days at a time. You don't know where he's gone or who he's with. And you realise - if you looked back - you'd say to yourself: DON'T LET HIM IN. Don't miss the new read-in-one-sitting Lisa Jewell novel; a cautionary story that could happen to YOU ... __________ Love for None of This is True . . . ***** 'Gloriously dark' Lucy Foley ***** 'A moody, slippery novel' Gillian McAllister ***** 'One hundred percent brilliant' Clare Mackintosh ***** 'Shocking and creepy and glorious' Nicola Walker ***** 'Utterly addictive' Claire Douglas

From New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage and You Shouldn't Have Come Here comes a chilling family thriller about the (sometimes literal) skeletons in the closet. After their mother passes, three estranged siblings reunite to sort out her estate. Beth, the oldest, never left home. She stayed with her mom, caring for her until the very end. Nicole, the middle child, has been kept at arm's length due to her ongoing battle with a serious drug addiction. Michael, the youngest, lives out of state and hasn't been back to their small Wisconsin town since their father ran out on them seven years before. While going through their parent's belongings, the siblings stumble upon a collection of home videos and decide to revisit those happier memories. However, the nostalgia is cut short when one of the VHS tapes reveals a night back in 1999 that none of them have any recollection of. On screen, their father appears covered in blood. What follows is a dead body and a pact between their parents to get rid of it, before the video abruptly ends. Beth, Nicole, and Michael must now decide whether to leave the past in the past or uncover the dark secret their mother took to her grave.

Exploring a grittier, street-level perspective of the Marvel Universe, this first installment of the Marvel Crime series sets the stage for thrilling narratives featuring beloved characters. It promises a darker tone and original stories, with upcoming novels spotlighting Luke Cage by S.A. Cosby and Daredevil by Alex Segura, ensuring fans can expect intense and engaging adventures in this new series.

Meet Jessica Jones: a private investigator and retired super hero based out of Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, who goes from job to job as a hard living, rough talking, loner. And then a wealthy Upper East Side woman pays her a visit. Amber Randall is concerned about her twin sixteen-year-olds, Lark and Fox, who have acted and looked very different since they returned from spending the summer with their British father in the UK. She tells Jessica that her children have unnaturally perfect skin for teenagers and have lost all the tics and habits that made them who they were. They are not Lark and Fox, she tells Jessica. Something has happened to them.To find out more, Jessica travels to Essex to talk to their father and once there meets Belle who is living a curiously isolated existence in a run-down farmhouse with her guardian Debra. Jessica knows that Lark and Fox had spent the summer with Belle—but can this unworldly teenager really be responsible for Lark and Fox's new personas?Jessica soon discovers that, behind Belle and Debra, evil geniuses are playing a dangerous game with technology in order to make the world a "better place", not caring who gets hurt, maimed or even killed in the process. Can Jessica stop them from wreaking destruction on a whole generation of young people?Nothing is certain in Lisa Jewell's gripping and most imaginative novel yet.

Majsterka napätia a nepredvídateľných zvratov Lisa Jewellová prináša po úspešnom románe Rodina v podkroví ďalší napínavý triler – tentoraz o sile manipulácie a klamstiev a ich schopnosti ničiť ľudské životy. Úspešná žurnalistka a autorka podcastov o príbehoch silných žien Alix Summerová oslavuje svoje štyridsiate piate narodeniny v miestnom pube, keď sa jej prihovorí nenápadná Josie Fairová, ktorá tam tiež oslavuje. Sú narodeninové dvojičky. Josie presvedčí žurnalistku, aby sa vo svojom ďalšom projekte venovala práve jej životnému príbehu: svojho manžela stretla, keď mala trinásť a on štyridsať. Keď však začnú nahrávať podcast, Alix si rýchlo uvedomí, že jej nová známa skrýva desivé tajomstvá, a skôr než sa nazdá, Josie sa jej votrie nielen do života, ale aj do domu. Alix sa začne obávať, že sa svojej novej spolubývajúcej už nikdy nezbaví, no tá náhle zmizne. Až vtedy žurnalistka zistí, akú skazu po sebe Josie zanechala, pričom život Alix a životy jej blízkych sú v smrteľnom ohrození. Kto je Josie Fairová a čo má na svedomí?

***THE TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER*** 'A dazzling psychological thriller' - Sunday Times. 'Deliciously sinister and obsessive ... with one hell of a twist' - Observer. 'Twist follows twist, like The Red Shoes rewritten by Patricia Highsmith' - Mail on Sunday. 'It seems so effortless ... it's brilliant and you really do not guess what's coming' - Virgin Radio, Graham Norton. 'Expect deceit, duplicity and one hell of a twist!' - RED. 'Kelly's best yet ... Genius twists and turns' - Good Housekeeping. 'Erin Kelly is at the top of her game. A seriously clever, and humane, novel' - SARAH VAUGHAN. Ava has dedicated her life to achieving the pinnacle of success, but now that she’s there, she feels isolated and paranoid. Someone is watching her—a rival willing to do anything to take what she has, even if it means murder. Praise highlights include: 'Kelly's depiction of this claustrophobic and ambitious world is brutally convincing ...' - Daily Mail. 'Psychological crime is the specialty of Erin Kelly, and this is a prime example ...' - Barry Forshaw, Financial Times. 'A captivating hall of mirrors of a novel, where nothing and no one is as they seem' - Paula Hawkins. 'From the first page, I was wrapped up in Ava's all-consuming passion ...' - Adele Parks. 'Most ambitious and captivating book to date ... thrilling and unexpected' - Lisa Jewell. 'A cleverly plotted, beautifully written thriller; a mesmerising glimpse behind the curtain

Il n'y a pas de fumée sans feu... Cate vit à Londres avec son mari et leurs deux enfants. Ces derniers temps, Roan rentre de plus en plus tard, et ses petites attentions se raréfient. Il y a des signes qui ne trompent pas : persuadée que son mari a une liaison, Cate se met à l'épier de façon maladive. Mais cette mère de famille va bientôt avoir d'autres sources d'inquiétude : sa fille, Georgia, affirme avoir été suivie à son retour de l'école. Et l'une de ses camarades prétend avoir été agressée à deux pas de là, avant de retirer sa plainte. Cate a sa petite idée sur le coupable : son voisin d'en face, Owen Pick, un vieux garçon qui la met mal à l'aise. Le soir de la Saint-Valentin, une jeune femme disparaît dans le quartier - et la dernière personne à l'avoir vue vivante, c'est lui. " Un roman aussi captivant qu'émouvant. Lisa Jewell tient toujours ses promesses. " Clare Mackintosh " J'ai lu ce roman d'une traite. C'est son meilleur ! " Jojo Moyes " A travers ce roman sombre, Lisa Jewell explore les facettes les plus noires de l'âme humaine et déjoue tous les pronostics jusqu'à un dénouement imprévisible." Daily Mail (Payot)

Lisa Jewellová po úspešnom románe Rodina v podkroví prináša ďalší strhujúci román o tom, kam až sme schopní zájsť, aby sme ochránili našich milovaných: román o komplikovaných manželstvách, rozbitých rodinách a smrtiacich tajomstvách.Vrchný inšpektor Samuel Owusu rieši prípad nájdených kostí troch ľudí, ktorých pred tridsiatimi rokmi našli mŕtvych v starom sídle v Chelsea.Rachel Rimmerová zistí, že jej manžela Michaela zavraždili v pivnici jeho domu vo Francúzsku a miestna polícia ju žiada, aby sa dostavila na vypočúvanie.Lucy Lambová sa po tridsiatich rokoch vracia do Anglicka, zatiaľ čo jej brat pátra po chlapcovi z ich spoločnej minulosti.Všetci nástojčivo hľadajú odpovede na otázky súvisiace s navzájom prepletenými záhadami. A pomaly zisťujú, že ich spája viac, ako si vôbec vedia predstaviť.

V roku 2017 sa stratí mladá 19-ročná mamička, ktorú aj s partnerom pozvali na party bohatí spolužiaci. Z večierka sa viac domov nevrátila. Jej zúfalá matka zalarmuje políciu, tá však podozrieva oboch tínedžerov, že jednoducho ušli pred náročnou zodpovednosťou za dieťa. Matka tejto verzii neverí a neprestáva pátrať po svojej dcére, dokonca požiada o pomoc miestneho detektíva. Do prípadu sa nakoniec zahryzne autorka detektívok, ktorá v zmiznutí páru nachádza zaujímavú zápletku.

When Saffyre Maddox was ten, something terrible happened, and she's carried the pain of it ever since. The man who she thought was going to heal her didn't, and now she hides, learning his secrets, invisible in the shadows. Owen Pick is invisible too. He's never had a girlfriend; he's never even had a friend. Nobody sees him. Nobody cares. But when Saffyre goes missing from opposite his house on Valentine's night, suddenly the whole world is looking at Owen. Accusing him, holding him responsible for Saffyre's disappearance

Une troublante impression de déjà-vu… Ellie a disparu à l’âge de quinze ans. Sa mère n’a jamais réussi à faire son deuil, d’autant plus que la police n’a retrouvé ni le coupable ni le corps. Dix ans plus tard, cette femme brisée doit pourtant se résoudre à tourner la page. C’est alors qu’elle fait la connaissance de Floyd, un homme charmant, père célibataire, auquel elle se lie peu à peu. Mais lorsqu’elle rencontre la fille de celui-ci, Poppy, âgée de neuf ans, le passé la rattrape brutalement : cette fillette est le portrait craché de sa fille disparue…

'FOREVER MAN is Dashiell Hammett 2.0' (Brad Parks): A hilarious and biting neo-noir send-up of Silicon Valley, written pseudonymously by New York Times tech reporter Matt Richtel--

Jeden dom. Dve rodiny. Tri telá. Vo veľkom dome v módnej štvrti Chelsea leží v postieľke dieťa. Zjavne sa oň starajú, je nakŕmené a očividne čaká, že ho niekto vezme na ruky. V kuchyni už niekoľko dní ležia tri rozkladajúce sa mŕtvoly. Vedľa nich je narýchlo naškrabaný odkaz. Kto sa medzitým staral o dieťa? Libby sa na svoje 25. narodeniny dozvie, že zdedila dom v Chelsea. Čoskoro zistí, že dom skrýva temnú históriu, a spolu so známou novinárkou sa pustia do pátrania. Londýnčanka Lisa Jewellová je dôstojnou pokračovateľkou Agathy Christie.

You're back home after four years working abroad, new husband in tow. You're keen to find a place of your own. But for now you're crashing in your big brother's spare room. That's when you meet the man next door. He's the head teacher at the local school. Twice your age. Extraordinarily attractive. You find yourself watching him. All the time. But you never dreamed that your innocent crush might become a deadly obsession. Or that someone is watching you.

Tínedžerka Ellie sa vybrala do knižnice, no od tej doby ju nikto nevidel. Jej matka Laurel verí, že dcéra žije, ale nevie, kde ju hľadať. Po desiatich rokoch sa traumatizovaná rodina rozpadne a Laurel ostane sama so svojím žiaľom. Keď stretne sympatického Floyda, opäť zažije šťastie, no je to naozaj skutočné? Môže nájsť lásku vo veku päťdesiatpäť rokov? Prečo sa slávny spisovateľ zamiloval práve do nej, staršej ženy? Pri prvom stretnutí s Floydovou dcérou Poppy ju premkne zlá predtucha. Bolo ich zoznámenie náhodné? Floydov vzťah s dcérou je zahalený tajomstvom, príliš dokonalý, aby bol pravdivý. Laurel má podozrenie, že niečo nie je v poriadku. Odpovedá Floyd na jej city, alebo je to len pretvárka? Strhujúci príbeh o zmiznutom dievčati je vyrozprávaný z viacerých perspektív a časových odstupov, pričom napätie je neznesiteľné. Čitatelia sa ocitajú v neistote, nevedia, komu veriť a čo je pravda. Román nie je krvák, no napriek tomu vyvoláva hrôzu a zimomriavky vďaka postavám, ktoré autorkina fantázia oživila, aby si pohrávala s nervami čitateľov.

Birdovi bydlí v malebné anglické vesničce v domě se zahradou. Čtyři děti – pragmatická Meg, zasněná Beth a dvojčata Rory a Rhys – chodí do místní školy a po večerech sedávají u společných večeří s milujícími rodiči – hodným tatínkem Colinem a veselou, trochu praštěnou maminkou Lorelei. Jejich dětství je jako z pohádky, dokud do něj jednoho osudného velikonočního víkendu nezasáhne tragédie. Rodina se začíná rozpadat, děti dospívají, odcházejí a z matčiny nevinné sběratelské vášně se stává patologická posedlost. Po letech se Meg do domu vrací. Jaká tajemství se tady skrývají? Má rodina ještě šanci? A co se vlastně tehdy o Velikonocích stalo?

Two women. Twenty years of secrets. And a man who doesn't remember anything.Or does he?_____________________'Fresh and intriguing, with characters so real I ached for them. I loved I Found You'Clare Mackintosh'I LOVED I Found You. A proper thriller with wonderful characters'Sabine Durrant_____________________Everyone has secrets. What if you can't remember yours? 'How long have you been sitting out here?''I got here yesterday.''Where did you come from?''I have no idea.'Lilyhas only been married for three weeks. When her new husband fails to come home from work one night, she is left stranded in a new country where she knows no one. Alicefinds a man on the beach outside her house. He has no name, no jacket, no idea what he is doing there. Against her better judgement, she invites him into her home.But who is he, and how can she trust a man who has lost his memory?

Dark secrets, a devastating mystery and the games people play: the gripping new novel from the bestselling author of The House We Grew Up In and The Third Wife. You live on a picturesque communal garden square, an oasis in urban London where your children run free, in and out of other people's houses. You've known your neighbours for years and you trust them. Implicitly. You think your children are safe. But are they really? Midsummer night: a thirteen-year-old girl is found unconscious in a dark corner of the garden square. What really happened to her? And who is responsible? Utterly believable characters, a gripping story and a dark secret buried at its core: this is Lisa Jewell at her heart-stopping best.

The unforgettable new novel from Top Ten bestseller Lisa Jewell, author of Ralph's Party, The Making of Us and The House We Grew Up In. You think you have the perfect life. You're successful. Attractive. Well liked. And you've just got married for the third time. But that's OK because everyone's happy. Your children are happy. You're happy. And so is your new wife... London, 3am: a tragic accident, and Adrian's life starts to fall apart. Because everyone has secrets and secrets have consequences. Some of which can be devastating.

Meet the Bird family. They live in a honey-colored house in a picture-perfect Cotswolds village, with rambling, unkempt gardens stretching beyond. Pragmatic Meg, dreamy Beth, and tow-headed twins Rory and Rhys all attend the village school and eat home-cooked meals together every night. Their father is a sweet gangly man named Colin, who still looks like a teenager with floppy hair and owlish, round-framed glasses. Their mother is a beautiful hippy named Lorelei, who exists entirely in the moment. And she makes every moment sparkle in her children's lives. Then one Easter weekend, tragedy comes to call. The event is so devastating that, almost imperceptibly, it begins to tear the family apart. Years pass as the children become adults, find new relationships, and develop their own separate lives. Soon it seems as though they've never been a family at all. But then something happens that calls them back to the house they grew up in -- and to what really happened that Easter weekend so many years ago. Told in gorgeous, insightful prose that delves deeply into the hearts and minds of its characters, The House We Grew Up In is the captivating story of one family's desire to restore long-forgotten peace and to unearth the many secrets hidden within the nooks and crannies of home.

London, 1920. Arlette works in Liberty by day, and by night is caughty up in a glamorous whirl of parties, clubs, cocktails and jazz. But when tragedy strikes she flees the city, never to return.Over half a century later, in the grungy mid-'90s, her graddaughter Betty arrives in London.She can't wait to begin her new life. But before she can do so, she must find the mysterious woman named in her grandmother's will.What she doesn't know is that her search will uncover the heartbreaking secret that changed her grandmother's life, and might also change hers for ever...

The stunning new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author. Lydia, Robyn and Dean don't know each other - yet. They live very different lives but each of them, independently, has always felt that something is missing. What they don't know is that a letter is about to arrive that will turn their lives upside down. It is a letter containing a secret - one that will bind them together, and show them what love and familyand friendship really mean...

Šarmantná Jem Cattericková a mladý výtvarník Ralph McLeary sa pred jedenástimi rokmi našli v spoločnom londýnskom byte a zaľúbili sa do seba. Prispela k tomu aj vernisáž Ralphových obrazov s jediným námetom – portrétom milovanej Jem. Pravdaže, mysleli si, že to bude naveky. Ich rodina sa rozrástla, z dvoch sa stali štyria, byt vymenili za dom. Romantické večery odrazu vystriedali bezsenné noci, dlhé pútavé rozhovory nahradili trápne chvíle ticha. Obaja čoskoro zistili, že život nie je taký jednoduchý, ako si predstavovali. Stalo sa niečo nepredstaviteľné! Dvaja ľudia, ktorí boli pre seba ako stvorení, sa odcudzili – Ralph sa stiahol do ústrania a vyčerpaná Jem netuší, ako ďalej. V snahe nájsť si k sebe cestu a vzkriesiť bývalé čaro obaja vstúpia do zradných vôd. Možno však predsa len nie je všetko stratené, možno sa dokážu opäť nájsť...

Keď mala Melody Brownová deväť rokov, rodine zhorel dom a s ním aj všetky hračky, fotografie, šaty a staré vianočné pohľadnice. Požiar však nezničil len jej osobné predmety, pripravil ju aj o spomienky. Melody Brownová si nepamätala nič, čo sa odohralo pred jej deviatymi narodeninami. Teraz tridsaťtriročná Melody žije v malom byte uprostred Londýna spolu so sedemnásťročným synom. Pre oboch vytvorila pekný život a nič na ňom nemieni meniť. Jedného dňa sa jej však prihodí niečo nezvyčajné. Prijme pozvanie na rande, prvé po ôsmich rokoch, a navštívi predstavenie slávneho hypnotizéra. Zrazu upadne do mdlôb, a keď sa preberie, zistí, že pamäť sa jej vracia. Spočiatku pre ňu nové spomienky nič neznamenajú, no pomaly, deň za dňom, ich v duchu spája a vynára sa skutočný príbeh jej detstva. Lenže s každou záhadou, ktorú vyrieši, sa objaví ďalšia, a každá otázka, na ktorú nájde odpoveď, vyvolá nasledujúcu. Melody už začína pochybovať, či si vôbec niekedy úplne poskladá svoju minulosť...

In a rambling north London house, failed poet Toby Dobbs has created a refuge for people who need one. But when a quiet tragedy and an unwelcome letter interrupt Toby's sedate existence, he needs his housemates to find some direction in their lives - and fast.

Remember falling in love for the first time? Remember thinking, This is The One? Remember life getting in the way? From adolescent snogging to apartment shares, relationships, career crises, and children, Vince & Joy is the unforgettable story of two lives lived separately but forever entwined. Back in the 1980s, teenagers Vince and Joy met, fell desperately in love, and never quite said good-bye. Now nearly twenty years later they've both begun to ask themselves if that long-ago romance was the enduring love that they've been searching for.

De tre brødre Tony, Sean og Ned har haft en god, beskyttet barndom og har et fint forhold til forældrene, men virkelighedens hverdag begynder at give problemer med skilsmisse for Tony, skriveblokering for forfatteren Sean, en lejer i forældrenes hus - og hvorfor kommer Ned uventet hjem fra Australien

Bee Bearhorn had a number-one hit single in 1985 – and was never heard of again. Fifteen years later she is found dead in her flat and nobody seems to care ... But Ana Wills always day-dreamed about the exotic half-sister she hasn’t seen in years. And when she comes to London to clear Bee’s flat, she uncovers a life more exotic than she imagined: a secret country cottage, mysterious weekends away, and even a missing cat. With Bee’s closest friends – mad Lol and strong, silent Flint – Ana sets out to discover exactly what did happen to Bee Bearhorn, the one-hit wonder ...

Ever wondered what happened to your first love? Imagine bumping into them twelve years later and realizing you still fancy them rotten. That’s exactly what happens to Dig Ryan when he sees Delilah again. Now imagine you’re Nadine. You and Dig have been best friends for fifteen years. And you’ve finally realized that you’re in love with him. So when Delilah – who always was your nemesis – returns, you’re mad with jealousy and can’t help behaving childishly. Like phoning your first love Phil – just to get your own back ... Thirty-Nothing is a story of ex-boyfriends, ex-girlfriends and friends dabbling with yesterday when they really should be thinking about today.

Šarmantný romantický príbeh vám odhalí tie najtajnejšie tajomstvá obyvateľov domu číslo 31 na Almanac Road v Londýne. Ralph je tridsaťročný talentovaný „chalan“. Študoval na Kráľovskej akadémii umenia a počas štúdia získal prestížnu cenu za svoju ročníkovú prácu. Odvtedy takmer nič nenamaľoval. Celé dni vysedáva doma, len príležitostne pracuje ako grafický dizajnér pre cestovnú kanceláriu, fajčí červené marlborky a pláva z jedného vzťahu do druhého, najradšej s bezduchými dlhonohými blondínami. Najlepšie si rozumie s kamarátom, spolubývajúcim Smithom. Keďže peňazí je málo, prenajmú izbu Jemime – a obaja sa do nej zamilujú. Tá je presvedčená, že jeden z nich je ten pravý, lenže ktorý? Jem Ralphovi poskytne úžasnú inspiráciu na novú kolekciu obrazov, ktorú Ralph predstaví na večierku v galérii v Notting Hille v prítomnosti kopy priateľov vrátane femme fatale domu číslo 31, vyzývavej susedky Cheri. Odrazu vysvitne, že nič nie je také, ako sa zdalo... Z anglického originálu Ralph’s Party (Penguin Books Ltd., Londýn 1999) preložila Zuzana Horváthová.