Part 32 (2/2)

Zoe, Jennifer and Nadia are three women with nothing in common except the letters they receive, each one full of intimate details about every aspect of their lives from the clothes they wear to the way they act when they think they're alone. And if that isn't terrifying enough, the letters also contain a shocking promise: that soon each life will come to a sudden, violent end. Can Zoe, Jennifer and Nadia discover who their tormentor is? And if so, will any of them live long enough to do anything about it?

'A nail-biting, can't-put-it-down read' Marie Claire Marie Claire 'Chilling, startling' Daily Mail Daily Mail 'Brilliant' Evening Standard Evening Standard KILLING ME SOFTLY.

You have it all: the boyfriend, the friends, the career.

Then you meet a stranger and on impulse, you sacrifice everything.

You're in pa.s.sionate love.

And grave danger...

Alice Loudon couldn't resist abandoning her old, safe life for a wild affair. And in Adam Tallis, a rugged mountaineer with a murky past, she finds a man who can teach her things about herself that she never even suspected. But s.e.xual obsession has its dark side and so does Adam. Soon both are threatening all that Alice has left. First her sanity. Then her life.

'Compulsive, s.e.xy, scary' Elle Elle 'Cancel all appointments and unplug the phone. Once started you will do nothing until you finish this thriller' Harpers & Queen Harpers & Queen 'A real frightener' Guardian Guardian THE RED ROOM.

The man who almost killed you has been accused of murder.

And you hold the key to his future...

After psychologist Kit Quinn is brutally attacked by a prisoner, she is determined to get straight back to work. When the police want her help in linking the man who attacked her to a series of murders, she refuses to simply accept the obvious. But the closer her investigation takes her to the truth behind the savage crimes, the nearer Kit gets to the dark heart of her own terror.

'Gripping, chilling, moving' Observer Observer 'Absorbing, highly addictive' Evening Standard Evening Standard 'French is excellent at building up suspense and elegantly exploiting all our worst fears' Daily Mail Daily Mail SECRET SMILE.

You have an affair.

You finish it.

You think it's over.

You're dead wrong...

Miranda Cotton thinks she's put boyfriend Brendan out of her life for good. But two weeks later, he's intimately involved with her sister. Soon what began as an embarra.s.sment becomes threatening then even more terrifying than a girl's worst nightmare. Because this time Brendan will stop at nothing to be part of Miranda's life even if it means taking it from her...

'Creepy, genuinely gripping' Heat Heat 'A must read' Cosmopolitan Cosmopolitan 'Nicci French at the top of her game' Woman & Home Woman & Home LAND OF THE LIVING.

You wake in the dark, gagged and bound.

He says he will kill you just like all the rest.

Abbie Devereaux is being held against her will. She doesn't know where she is or how she got there. She's so terrified she can barely remember her own name and she's sure of just one thing: that she will survive this nightmare. But even if she does make it back to the land of the living, Abbie knows that he'll still be out there, looking for her.

And next time, there may be no escape.

'Shocking, uncomfortable, exhilarating' Independent on Sunday Independent on Sunday 'Dark, gripping' Heat Heat CATCH ME WHEN I FALL.

You're a whirlwind. You're a success. You live life on the edge. But who'll catch you when you fall?

Holly Krauss lives life in the fast lane. A successful young businesswoman with a stable home life, she is loved and admired by all who meet her. But that's only one side of Holly. The other sees her take regular walks on the wild side where she makes evermore reckless mistakes.

And when those mistakes start mounting up, the two sides of Holly blur together and her life quickly spirals out of control. She thinks she's being stalked, someone is demanding money from her threats lurk around every corner and those closest to Holly are running out of patience.

But is she alone responsible for what's happening? Are her fears just the paranoia of an illness or intimations of very real very real danger? And if she can no longer rely on her own judgement, who can she trust to catch her when she falls? danger? And if she can no longer rely on her own judgement, who can she trust to catch her when she falls?

LOSING YOU.

What is worse than your child going missing? Your child going missing and n.o.body believing you...

Nina Landry has given up city life for the isolated community of Sandling Island, lying off the bleak east coast of England. At night the wind howls. Sometimes they are cut off by the incoming tide. For Nina though it is home. It is safe.

But when Nina's teenage daughter Charlie fails to return from a sleepover on the day they're due to go on holiday, the island becomes a different place altogether. A place of secrets and suspicions. Where no one friends, neighbours or the police believes Nina's instinctive fear that her daughter is in terrible danger. Alone, she undergoes a frantic search for Charlie. And as day turns to night, she begins to doubt not just whether they'll leave the island for their holiday but whether they will ever leave it again.

UNTIL IT'S OVER (available in hardback) Dead. Unlucky.

Young and athletic, London cycle courier Astrid Bell is bad luck for other people. First Astrid's neighbour Peggy Farrell accidentally knocks her off her bike and not long after is found bludgeoned to death in an alley. Then a few days later, Astrid is asked to pick up a package from a wealthy woman called Ingrid de Soto, only to find the client murdered in the hall of her luxurious home.

For the police it's more than coincidence. For Astrid and her six housemates it's the beginning of a nightmare: suspicious glances, bitter accusations, fallings out and a growing fear that the worst is yet to come...

Because if it's true that bad luck comes in threes who will be the next to die?

TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT NICCI FRENCH, VISIT.

Get the inside story behind all the novels.Read fascinating interviews with Nicci Gerrard and Sean French. Learn more about the authors individually and how they write their novels together.Extras include a piece from Nicci French's UK editor on the publis.h.i.+ng process, and an article from Professor Sue Black on what life is really ike for a forensic anthropologist.Take Nicci and Sean's (not too serious) test and find out if you are a sociopath!

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