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TWO WOMEN: Martina Cole writes brilliantly about life on the Inside.

When Cathy Connor and Eamonn Docherty are thrown together as children in the East End their fate is sealed. Cathy's miserable life as a prostitute's child changes forever when she's forced into care. The ordeal that follows leaves her with no choice but to run away to Soho, and she learns to survive in the violent heart of London's underworld. Meanwhile, Eamonn, who fled to New York, has gained a reputation as a ruthless villain. But when their paths cross again, Cathy's an equal match for Eamonn - and nothing's going to make her run away this time ...

No one thinks a seventeen-year-old girl can take on the hard men of London's gangland, but it's a mistake to underestimate Maura Ryan: she's tough, clever and beautiful - which makes her one very dangerous lady. Together, she and her brother Michael are unbeatable but notoriety has its price. The police are determined to put Maura away once and for all - and not everyone in the family think that's such a bad idea. When it comes to the crunch, Maura has to face the pain of lost love in her past - and the dangerous lady discovers her heart is not make entirely of stone.

Eleven years ago Marie Carter was convicted of killing her two best friends. Now she is being released from prison, but life has moved on and Marie has nowhere to go. Her parents have disowned her, her friends have abandoned her, even her kids don't want to know. But some people out there are watching her, following her every move - they know that Marie Carter wants retribution.

Donna Brunos worships her husband and is devastated when he is jailed for armed robbery. Georgio swears he’s been set up and persuades Donna to help him escape. Implementing ‘the jump’ takes Donna into a twilight world she never believed existed - a world of brutal sex and casual violence. Finally, she is confronted by a series of shattering revelations that threaten not only everything she believes in but also, ultimately, her own life...

Highly acclaimed for her hard-hitting, uncompromising and compelling writing, as well as her phenomenal No. 1 success, Martina Cole is the only author who dares to tell it like it is.CLOSE has been a runaway success in hardback and is the story of the women who are left behind. Set in London's dark and violent gangland, this novel tells the tale of a gutsy mother and her two sons, and their lives in and out of jail. With her characteristica lly haunting writing and visceral subject matter, Martina Cole has written yet another compulsive bestseller - her best yet.

Megan Collier è una ragazzina timida, solitaria, piena di rabbia. Soprattutto verso i genitori, Bett e Tate, divorziati da poco e troppo presi da se stessi per prendersi cura di lei. Finché arriva il dottor Peters, il suo nuovo psicanalista, che in poche sedute riesce a stregarla e a far crollare tutte le sue barriere. Quando Megan scompare, tutti pensano al gesto ribelle di un’adolescente, ma la verità è un’altra: qualcuno sta usando la ragazza come pedina in un piano di ricatto e vendetta. Per salvare Megan, i suoi genitori dovranno sprofondare negli inferi del proprio passato, in bilico sul filo sottile che separa realtà e follia. Uno dei più riusciti thriller psicologici di Jeffery Deaver, La figlia sbagliata cattura il lettore in una rete di tensione e colpi di scena da cui è difficile uscire.

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Za prudké sněhové bouře se do nevlídné kalifornské vysočiny zřítí soukromé letadlo. Kromě zmrzačených těl posádky se v útrobách vraku skrývá tolik infekčních toxinů, že by mohly vyhladit většinu lidstva. Dva lidé – zkušený horal Kier Wintripp a agentka FBI Jessie Mayfieldová – v bouři náhodou najdou havarované letadlo a odhalí, jaký se v něm skrývá nebezpečný obsah. Právě kvůli tomuto zjištění se vzápětí stanou terčem lidí, kteří se nezastaví před ničím, jen aby pravda o děsivém obsahu letadla zůstala utajena. Zatímco bouře přetrvává, nesourodá dvojice putuje divokou přírodou, aby si před zabijáky-stopaři zachránila holý život. V této drsné krajině však platí zákon silnějšího, a tak přežijí jen lidé obdaření základními instinkty…

Sarah Pribek is a police officer in the Missing Persons department. She, of all people, knows that the first 36 hours in a missing persons case are the most crucial. When she learns that her husband Shiloh has failed to show up for FBI training in Quantico, Sarah commences a Missing Persons search for her own husband. But already it's the 37th hour. The search takes her to his family where she hears of a sister she never knew he had, to New Mexico, where (coincidentally?) she grew up, and finally back to her ex police partner, Genevieve, where all the threads of this brilliantly told novel come together.