The hilarious and deeply moving diary novel from bestselling author Alex Barclay – this might just be the funniest book ever to make you cry your eyes out.
This is the diary of me, Ellery Brown, aged fifteen and a half. I’m supposed to use it to record my feelings about my mum, since she died. So why do I keep thinking about who my dad might be, instead . . . ?
I have so much STUFF to think about – including a whole new life in Ireland. So why can I not stop thinking about my DAD? Especially because it it so weird to think about someone you don’t know. Like, literally, I have NO IDEA who my dad is.
My best friend Meg has narrowed it down to three authors my mum knew. (She was an author too.) But they’re not just in different countries; they’re on different CONTINENTS. Which means fake IDs, passports, plane tickets, and somehow getting away from my self-obsessed grandmother . . .
One thing’s for sure: this year is going to be INTERESTING.
They won't all live to tell the tale...
An addictive and twisty standalone psychological thriller from the bestselling Alex Barclay.
Seven friends. One killer. No escape...
A group of childhood friends are reunited at a luxury inn on a remote west coast peninsula in Ireland. But as a storm builds outside, the dark events that marred their childhoods threaten to resurface.
And when a body is discovered, the group faces a shocking realisation: a killer is among them, and not everyone will escape with their lives...
The heart-stopping new thriller in the Ren Bryce series by Alex Barclay, bestselling author of DARKHOUSE and KILLING WAYS.When Special Agent Ren Bryce is called to Tate, Oregon to investigate the disappearance of twelve-year-old Caleb Veir, she finds a town already in mourning.Two other young boys have died recently, although in very different circumstances. As Ren digs deeper, she discovers that all is not as it seems in the Veir household - and that while Tate is a small town, it guards some very big secrets...Can Ren uncover the truth before more children are harmed?
Dark times lie ahead for Special Agent Ren Bryce and the Rocky Mountains Safe Streets Task Force in the heart-stopping new thriller from the bestselling author of DARKHOUSE and BLOOD LOSS.In the game of vengeance, he holds a killer hand.In her most shocking case yet, FBI Special Agent Ren Bryce takes on a depraved serial killer fuelled by a warped sense of justice.A master of evasion, each life he takes ramps up Ren's obsession with finding him. Then one victim changes everything and brings Ren face to face with a detective whose life was destroyed by the same pursuit.Together, can they defeat this monster? Or will he take them both down?
Nach dem blutigen und tragischen Ende einer Routineuntersuchung quittiert Detective Joe Lucchesi seinen Dienst bei der New Yorker Polizei und zieht mit Frau und Sohn in einen ruhigen Ort an der Ostküste Irlands. Sie sind glücklich. Sie fühlen sich sicher. Und sie werden einen Albtraum erleben, der weit schlimmer ist als jener, den sie hinter sich gelassen haben. Denn Joe Lucchesi hat einen Feind, der alles daransetzt, die Familienidylle zu zerstören. Ein Feind, der von unbändigem Hass getrieben wird.
Die New Yorker Polizei findet die entstellte Leiche eines Mannes und glaubt zunächst an einen Einzelmord. Doch Detective Joe Lucchesi entdeckt in der Vergangenheit ähnliche Fälle. Der Mörder treibt schon lange sein Unwesen. Er tötet brutal und hinterlässt keine Spuren. Seinen Opfern ringt er eine Beichte ab - eine Blutbeichte. Am Telefon müssen sie ihren Liebsten die Lügen ihres Lebens gestehen. Dann richtet er sie hin. Lucchesi fehlt jede Spur, bis er einen Brief des Mörders erhält. Der Absender auf dem Umschlag führt zu einer geistesgestörten Frau und einem einsam lebenden Reporter. Sie sind scheinbar die einzigen Opfer, die dem Killer entkommen konnten. Oder steckt einer von ihnen selbst hinter den Morden? Lucchesi kann ihnen nicht trauen, doch sie sind sein einziger Anhaltspunkt, will er die Mordserie beenden.
FBI Agent Ren Bryce finds herself entangled in two seemingly unrelated mysteries. But the past has a way of echoing down the years and finding its way into the present.In the end, the truth will find you...When Special Agent Ren Bryce discovers the body of a young woman in an abandoned car, solving the case becomes personal. But the more she uncovers about the victim's last movements, the more questions are raised.Why was Laura Flynn driving towards a ranch for troubled teens in the middle of Colorado when her employers thought she was hundreds of miles away? And what did she know about a case from fifty years ago, which her death dramatically reopens?As Ren and cold-case investigator Janine Hooks slowly weave the threads together, a picture emerges of a privileged family determined to hide some very dark secrets - whatever the cost.
In the tone of The Hobbit, comes the first thrilling story in an epic fantasy adventure, from a major new voice.Fourteen-year-old Oland Born lives in dark times, in a world ruled by evil tyrant, Vilius Ren. Vilius and his fearsome, bloodthirsty army have wrecked the prosperous kingdom of Decresian, once ruled by good King Micah. Oland himself has been kept as Vilius's servant in grim Castle Derrington, and he knows little about his past - or why Vilius keeps such a sharp, close eye on him.One night, Oland finds a letter addressed to him, from the long-dead king. No sooner has he read the message than a mysterious stranger tries to kidnap him. Oland runs, the dead king's warning ringing in his ears...If Oland is to live he must restore the shattered kingdom. This is his quest. This is his curse. Let the trials of Oland Born begin. . .The setting is a hugely atmospheric fantasy world of medieval castles, Romanesque games arenas, supernatural forests and harsh seas. Terrifying hybrid creatures and monsters abound - and Oland's greatest ally is a girl called Delphi who has dark secrets of her own.
Kidnap and murder collide in Alex Barclay's heart-stopping new thriller featuring FBI Agent Ren Bryce.The only way to reach the end is to turn back...When the body of FBI agent Jean Transom is found on the frozen slopes of Quandary Peak, the nearby town of Breckenridge, Colorado, becomes the focus of a major investigation.A quiet, dedicated agent on the surface, it soon becomes clear that there was another side to Jean Transom. And who better to uncover it than Special Agent Ren Bryce, an expert in violent crime and a woman with secrets of her own; secrets that could compromise the entire investigation and put an end to her distinguished career.Her boss, her informant, her colleagues, her ex - Ren needs to know who she can trust ... because the last person she can trust is herself.
Alex Barclay is back with another stunning Ren Bryce FBI thrillerNOWHERE TO RUNFBI agent Ren Bryce's hunt for some of the country's most dangerous killers is about to turn into a nightmare. There is unfinished business between Ren and those she is pursuing, and soon she is forced to confront both personal and professional traumas.NOWHERE TO HIDEThen someone close to Ren is murdered and secrets from her past look set to be revealed, throwing her into a world of fear, paranoia and danger.NO ONE TO TRUSTDark forces are at work and someone is determined to destroy Ren's life. But time is running out and Ren must catch a killer before he catches her...
FBI agent Ren Bryce takes on her most heart-wrenching case yet when a father's work places his young daughter in terrible danger...OUT OF SIGHTWhen a teenage girl is found beaten and raped in the grounds of a derelict asylum, FBI agent Ren Bryce is called in to assist. But she is soon diverted to a missing persons' case when an eleven-year-old girl and her teenage babysitter vanish without a trace from their hotel room.OUT OF MINDFaced with conflicting evidence and inconsistent witnesses, Ren works obsessively to unravel the dark family secrets at the heart of the case, before it's too late...OUT OF CONTROLDetermined to uncover the truth, Ren's behaviour becomes increasingly reckless. Putting her own safety at risk, she enters a world where innocent lives are ruined for profit ... and kidnap, rape and murder are all part of the deal.
NERVE-SHATTERING SUSPENSE FROM ONE OF THE MOST ORIGINAL AND EXCITING NEW VOICES IN THRILLER FICTION.From a broken childhood comes an unbreakable and deadly bond.In New York, when a routine investigation comes to a violent and tragic end, Detective Joe Lucchesi takes leave from the NYPD and moves with his wife and son to a quiet village on the south-east coast of Ireland. But their lives are torn apart when a young girl goes missing and the village closes ranks.Desperate to protect his family, Joe sets out to find the truth and uncovers a trail that leads back across the Atlantic to a Texan backwater, where decades earlier, a chilling pact bound two teenage boys forever in a dark and twisted loyalty.
