Power has its price.
David Blake should be enjoying the high life now that he's top dog, controlling everything in the city that's worth controlling.
But when it becomes clear that someone wants him dead, Blake struggles to maintain his restraint. From the heroin-laced high-rises of Newcastle to the seedy back streets of Bangkok, in a world of contract killers, corrupt politicians, bent detectives, fast women, and dangerous men, Blake is in a race against time to find—and stop—his potential assassin.
Packed with action and attitude, The Damage is a gripping gangland thriller for fans of the hit films The Town and Goodfellas.

The Damage (A David Blake Thriller, 2)

Literature & Fiction

Linskey, Howard

Genre Fiction

William Morrow Paperbacks

An unstoppable serial killer. A fifth girl missing. A long-buried secret. A gripping crime thriller perfect for fans of LJ Ross, Mel Sherratt and Mark Billingham.
There's a serial killer on the loose in north-east England. Four bodies have already been discovered. A fifth girl, Michelle Summers, has just disappeared.
When a body is discovered, everyone fears the worst. But this isn't Michelle - this corpse has been dead for over fifty years.
Out-of-favor DC Ian Bradshaw is pulled off the main case to investigate the skeleton. But it soon becomes clear that dark secrets lay buried along with the body - and now the police have more than one killer to worry about...
The beginning of the highly acclaimed series starring Ian Bradshaw and journalists Helen Norton and Tom Carney, this is a gripping crime thriller you won't be able to put down.
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"Howard Linskey is one of the best new writers around and this is the start of a must-read series." —Mark Billingham
"A new master of the gripping, gritty thriller. Howard Linskey takes you right to the heart of it." —Paul Finch
"This is lacerating fare that makes most current crime fiction look like thin gruel." —Financial Times
"Linskey has elevated this story to a level of complexity and humanity seldom approached by British writers previously . . . A new name on our criminal horizon." —Maxim Jakubowski
"Gripping and convincing." —Kimberley Chambers
"Brilliant . . . This is first class stuff, an unstoppable tale, a real page-turner not to be missed." —Sarah Broadhurst
"Serial killer thrillers don't come much better than this. Old secrets and terrible new crimes woven into an immensely satisfying, utterly compelling narrative which keeps you constantly guessing. Fans of Linskey's critically acclaimed David Blake series will already know what an outstanding author he is, everyone else . . . prepare to add another name to your must-read list." —Eva Dolan
"Linskey weaves together a compelling and twisty tale that gripped me from page one. If you like Val McDermid's thrillers, you'll love this." —Mark Edwards

No Name Lane

Literary

Penguin Uk

A corpse is found: its identity extinguished in the most shocking manner imaginable. Detective Ian Bradshaw can't catch the killer if no one can ID the victim. Out there, somewhere, a missing young woman may hold the answers. Journalist Helen Norton is about to uncover a massive criminal conspiracy. She just needs the final piece of the puzzle. Soon, she will learn the price of the truth. True-crime writer Tom Carney receives letters from a convicted murderer who insists he is innocent. His argument is persuasive—but psychopaths are often said to be charming.

Behind Dead Eyes

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Michael, Joseph

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Someone knows where the bodies are buried...
Little Susan Verity went missing during the heatwave of 1976. An unprecedented amount of police resource went into finding her, but to no avail. Until now.
Convicted serial killer Adrian Wicklow was always the prime suspect. In the past, he's repeatedly lied to the police about where Susan's body is buried - playing a sick game from behind bars.
But this time, he says, he'll tell the truth. Because Adrian Wicklow is dying.
Detective Ian Bradshaw works with investigative journalists Helen Norton and Tom Carney to find the body. However, this is Wicklow's life's work. Would a murderer on death's door give up his last secret so easily...?

The Search

Ungentlemanly Warfare

"A stellar novel of high octane action, adventure and suspense." --Steve Berry, New York Times&nbsp;bestselling author &nbsp; A secret assassin. An impossible mission. Failure is not an option. &nbsp; 1943. With Nazi Germany facing defeat, Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering has authorized mass production of the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet, a jet-propulsion engine aircraft faster than any plane in the Allies' arsenal. But the Komet is unstable, and British Intelligence has discovered that German scientist Professor Gaerte has been tasked to fix the plane's flaw. To prevent the Komets from getting airborne, an undercover task force must infiltrate Nazi-occupied France and assassinate Gaerte. &nbsp; Captain Harry Walsh is one of Britain's most effective, ruthless, and unorthodox Special Operations Executive agents. Allied with an American OSS and Free French operatives, Harry leads his squad behind enemy lines where he's reunited with fellow SOE operative--and former lover--Emma Stirling. But as the team proceeds with their mission, an SS officer from Harry's past pursues the Englishman on a very personal mission of revenge . . . &nbsp; "Reads like the new&nbsp;The&nbsp;Day of the Jackal--swift, deadly, game over!" --John Ellsworth,&nbsp;USA Today&nbsp;bestselling author of&nbsp;The Point of Light "A heart-pounding thriller from cover to cover. I couldn't put it down." --James D. Shipman, author of&nbsp;Task Force Baum &nbsp; "A&nbsp;perfect companion for fans of the great Ken Follett." --Chuck Driskell, author of&nbsp;Final Mission: Zion

Pinnacle

Hunting the Hangman

What an entire army couldn’t do, two men must: take out the Butcher of Prague.\nOperation Anthropoid has been engaged.\n1941. The Third Reich is at its zenith. Its protector is Reinhard Heydrich, the most merciless senior figure in Hitler’s inner circle, and the Fuhrer’s eventual successor. Under Heydrich’s oppressive command, thousands of lives have already been erased in Czechoslovakia’s capital. It’s only Heydrich’s first ruthless step in service to the German people. Heydrich’s ultimate endgame is the Final Solution. But under the cloak of night, the resistance conspires as well.\nTrained in subterfuge by the British Special Operations, Josef Gabcik and Jan Kubis are unfailingly dedicated soldiers. Now, as committed allied agents they’ve been tasked with an audacious and seemingly impossible mission: parachute into an occupied city in lockdown, rally the remaining Czech rebels, and assassinate one of the most dangerous men alive. Outmanned against insurmountable odds, Gabcik and Kubis have no choice but to succeed. The fate of Europe and the world is in their hands.\nHigh Acclaim for Ungentlemanly Warfare\n“A stellar novel of high-octane action, adventure and suspense.” 
—Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author\n“Reads like the new The Day of the Jackal—swift, deadly, game over!” 
—John Ellsworth, USA Today bestselling author of The Point of Light\n“A heart-pounding thriller from cover to cover. I couldn’t put it down.” 
—James D. Shipman, author of Task Force Baum\n“A perfect companion for fans of the great Ken Follett.” 
—Chuck Driskell, author of Final Mission: Zion

DS Ian Bradshaw and investigative journalists Helen Norton and Tom Carney must combine once more to unravel a chilling secret that links two generations of women who vanished without trace or explanation. These are not teenage runaways or drug users, vulnerable prostitutes or victims of domestic abuse, there is no strife at home or problems at school. There are no leads or explanations and, crucially, no bodies are found. The only thing that links these ordinary women is what they leave behind; distraught families, devastated partners, shocked friends, all longing for the same answer; what could have happened to The Disappeared? The disappearance of seemingly normal women. The blackmail of someone with a dark secret. The mind of a reluctant killer twisted by years of abuse. The Disappeared is the dark and compelling new novel from Howard Linskey.

The Chosen Ones

Penguin

Can she find the murderer, before he finds her? A gripping, suspenseful and nail-biting new thriller from the author of Alice Teale is Missing Eriston is a small town. It's the kind of place where everyone knows your name - and your secrets. Rebecca hasn't been back in years, but she grew up in the shadow of the dark local legend. There have always been deaths in Eriston - more than can easily be explained. People dying in their houses, behind locked doors. Her father, Sean had always warned her of the dangers. Don't let him in. When Rebecca returns, she discovers that her father wasn't willing to let the legend lie. He was on the verge of uncovering the town's darkest truth. He thought he was on the trail of a killer. Sean knew too much. Now he's dead. And Rebecca could be next...

Don't Let Him In

A manor house and money beyond her wildest dreams. It could all be hers, if she catches a killer . . .\nSarah doesn't know much about her estranged aunt, Evelyn.\nSo when Evie dies, Sarah is shocked to hear her final wishes.\nEvie wants Sarah to inherit her fortune - including a foreboding mansion in a small Northumberland town.\nBut that's not all she wants. For most of her life, she'd been haunted by the loss of a friend. A girl who'd gone missing, from the very house Evie has left to Sarah. A girl who was never found. A house whose secrets were never revealed.\nNow, her conditions are simple. Sarah can have everything - but she has to catch a killer first...

The Inheritance

David Blake is no gangster, or so he likes to think—the trouble is, when money and a man go missing, his gangster boss blames himDavid Blake is a white-collar criminal, working for gangster Bobby Mahoney, enjoying the good life while the money keeps on pouring in. The trouble is, a big chunk of that money has just gone missing, along with Geordie Cartwright, and Blake is getting the blame. Has Geordie run off with the drop, or has he been killed by a rival gang? As Blake goes deeper into the Newcastle underworld, a seedy and violent place filled with dodgy clubs, pubs, lap-dancing bars, and brothels, he slowly starts to uncover the truth—there's a rat in Bobby's crew and someone else is planning a take-over. Meanwhile with the crime squad and an ambitious D.I. both closing in on Bobby, it's just a matter of time before he's finally nicked for good. If that weren't enough, he has to choose between his girlfriend and his boss's gorgeous young daughter, who could be the most dangerous person in his life right now, if her dad finds out. In a desperate and bloody finale, Blake has to make an agonizing choice, and someone has to pay the ultimate price.

The Drop

Old Castle

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