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The start of a dark, gripping crime thriller series from UK Top 50 bestselling author John NichollBe careful who you trust.The Mailer family are oblivious to the terrible danger that enters their lives when seven-year-old Anthony is referred to the child guidance service by the family GP following the breakdown of his parents'marriage.Fifty-eight year old Dr. David Galbraith, a sadistic, predatory paedophile employed as a consultant child psychiatrist, has already murdered one child in the soundproofed cellar below the South Wales Georgian townhouse he shares with his wife and two young daughters.Anthony becomes Galbraith's latest obsession and he will stop at nothing to make his grotesque fantasies reality.A note from the author: While fictional, this book was inspired by true events. It draws on the author's experiences as a police officer and child protection social worker. The story contains content that some readers may find upsetting. It is dedicated to survivors everywhere.Get ready to be on the edge of your seat and delve into this addictively shocking crime thriller series. Perfect for fans of The Housemaid, The Girl on the Train, and The Couple at No.9.Praise for John Nicholl:‘A dark, gritty, and compulsive read'Daily Express'The chill is tangible'Owen Mullen'A frightening book that lures us into the darkness where monsters live. John Nicholl's knowledge of this world from his years of police work makes his characters ring true'Billy Hayes‘An outstanding piece of work by a truly masterful storyteller'Anita Waller'Dark and disturbing. One to really get your pulse racing. This is a story you won't forget'Ross Greenwood‘The hairs on the back of my neck are still up!… Makes your skin quiver… I was well and truly hooked… The twist had my mouth dropping and rereading twice!'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review‘Absolutely addictive and gripping. I seriously WOULD NOT even start this book unless you have cleared your schedule because you will not be able to put it down!!! I absolutely blew through it in one sitting and it genuinely was unputdownable!!! A true page turner absolutely rammed with suspense, tension and everything you want when you read a psychological thriller'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review‘I was hooked… Will leave you with shivers down your spine and chills in your heart. Some of the twists in this book left my jaw on the floor. And the ending blew me away. Outstanding!'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review‘A real psychological thriller with a dark side. Creepy, chilling with undertones of something darker. At times I had goosebumps on my goosebumps. I found this book impossible to put down and finally turned the last page at 1am. Yes. This book is that good!!!… MUST READ!!!!!'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review‘Absolutely brilliant… Immensely readable… Gripping… Never slows down at all'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review‘A completely unputdownable psychological suspense thriller that reeled me in right from the very start. The twists left me speechless. I did gasp out loud at the ending which I thought was brilliant'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader ReviewPreviously published as White is the Coldest Colour

A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK! • An empowering, behind-the-scenes novel of a young Hollywood actress and the dark secret she's ready to confront. One of Summer 2020's Most Anticipated NovelsMarie Claire, Entertainment Weekly, Oprah magazine, Bustle, E! Online, Popsugar, Goodreads, Today Show online, New York Post, Betches, Better Homes & Gardens, HelloGiggles, Bad on Paper podcast, The Stripe, Shondaland, HuffPost, CNN.com, Mashable“Beautifully written and compulsively readable…At its core, this book is about redemption, grace, and pain.”—Jenna Bush Hager“A novel so full-blooded, so humane, that the pages feel almost warm to the touch. A clarifying, purifying chronicle of a promising young woman gone astray and the story of her comeback. Grace Turner can do it. You can do it, too.” —A.J. Finn Grace Turner was one movie away from Hollywood's A-List. So no one understood why, at the height of her career and on the eve of her first Golden Globe nomination, she disappeared. Now, one year later, Grace is back in Los Angeles and ready to reclaim her life on her own terms. When Grace is asked to present a lifetime achievement award to director Able Yorke—the man who controlled her every move for eight years—she knows there's only one way she'll be free of the secret that's already taken so much from her. The Comeback is a moving and provocative story of justice—a true page-turner about a young woman finding the strength and power of her voice.

'Wer sich an Kindern vergreift, hat es nicht verdient zu leben, der muss weg.'Dieser Meinung ist nicht nur ein pensionierter Richter, auch drei weitere Mitglieder des Skatclubs'Kreuz Ass'stimmen dem zu und machen es sich zur Aufgabe, Pädophile zu jagen und zu töten. Ausgerechnet Detlev Menke und sein Dackel Alli finden das erste Opfer und sind damit wieder mitten drin in einer spektakulären Mordserie...

A família Mailer não tem a menor ideia do terrível perigo que adentra suas vidas quando Anthony, de sete anos, é encaminhado ao Serviço de Orientação Infantil após a separação de seus pais. Dr. David Galbraith, psiquiatra infantil, cinquenta e oito anos, pedófilo e sádico. Já assassinou uma criança no porão à prova de som de sua casa requintada onde mora com sua esposa e duas filhas pequenas no sul do País de Gales. Anthony se torna a mais nova obsessão de Galbraith e nada o fará desistir de tornar suas fantasias grotescas em realidade. O conteúdo do livro pode perturbar um pouco alguns leitores no início. Brilhantemente cativante, Branco é a cor mais fria te prenderá desde a primeira página, fazendo você segurar sua respiração e seu coração palpitar com seu final chocante. Resenhas de ‘‘Branco é a cor mais fria” ‘Um dos melhores suspenses psicológicos que eu já li.” The Book Review Cafe ‘‘A leitura é excelente, eu fui totalmente dominada pelo suspense psicológico.” Read along with Sue ‘‘Confesso ter segurado a respiração quando o final se aproximava.” Crimesquad.com ‘‘Nicholl é um excelente contador de histórias; é uma arte escrever um livro com um enredo tão violento e brutal e recheá-lo com detalhes bem fundados.” Great Book Escapes ‘‘Um suspense psicológico magistralmente escrito.” Albina Hume -autora ‘‘Não acho que eu tenha jamais lido um livro que explore tanto a escuridão da mente e da alma humana tão bem quanto Branco é a cor mais fria” Books, Movies and Wine Reviews ‘‘Um dos melhores suspenses psicológicos que eu já li.” Carissa Backherms, autora ‘‘Se você gosta de suspense psicológicos, eu recomendo fortemente esse livro.‘‘ Cheekypee Reads and Reviews ‘‘Uma leitura psicológica inteligente, perspicaz e muito emocionante. Criminalmente bem escrito. Leitura obrigatória a

'An arresting account of the contemporary Haitian-American experience.'--Publishers Weekly'This novel in short stories will appeal to readers of literary and Caribbean fiction.'--Library Journal'Ulysse displaces and redeems her characters with formidable skill, while her precise cuts through all preconceptions....Intense and necessary.'--Booklist'Humanity is lost and found in these stories...Ulysse has created a fascinating world of class and cultural distinctions; her stories are engaging.'--Kirkus Reviews'Assimilating qualities of Danticat and Alvarez, Ulysse paints a variegated literary tableau, more sociological than psychological or historical, that translates into fiction the reality, as well as the fragility and vivacity, of life for young Haitian American women of few means.'--World Literature Today'A superb novel in the form of interconnected short stories that follow Haitian families as they move between time and place, before and after the devastating earthquake of 2010.'--Teaching Tolerance Magazine, Summer 2015 Staff Pick'Powerful, piercing and unforgiving...Drifting transcends escapism, materialism and gaudy promises...Ulysse's prosaic brilliance is unmistakable.'--Kaieteur News (Guyana)'Captivating and honest....This novel is a win-win for anyone who enjoys character development just as much as plot.'--The Review Lab, Columbia College Chicago'Drifting is an intoxicating account of various short stories by Haitian novelist and literary genius Katia D. Ulysse...highly recommended.'--Black Star News'Ulysse paints a vivid picture of customs, culture, and experiences. And like the characters, readers are engulfed in a vast array of emotions.'--OOSA Online Book Club'A good, worthwhile read.'--Book Lust'Katia D. Ulysse has written an engaging debut novel, Drifting....Drawing on rural Haiti, the class system, Vodou and folklore, Ulysse shows how immigrating to the US, while often seen as the only real option, does not always retain or strengthen families or improve one's economic station.'--The World is RobertKatia D. Ulysse's debut provides the rare opportunity to peer into the private lives of four secretive Haitian families. The interwoven narrative spans four decades--from 1970 through 2010--and drifts among various provinces in Haiti, the United States, churches, vodun temples, schools, strip clubs, and the grave. Ulysse introduces us to a childless Haitian American couple risking it all for a baby to call their own; a Florida-based predatory schoolteacher threatening students with deportation if they expose him; and the unforgettable Monsieur Boursicault, whose chain of funeral parlors makes him the wealthiest man in Haiti. This daring work of fiction is a departure from the standard narrative of political unrest on the island. Ulysse's characters are everyday people whose hopes for distant success are constantly challenged--but never totally swayed--by the hard realities accompanying the immigrant's journey.

Don't mess with the creepy new girl Ryan Devlin, a predator with a past, has been forced to take a job as a handyman at an exclusive private school, Crossley College. He's losing his battle to suppress his growing fascination with a new girl who seems to have a strange effect on the children around her. Tara Marais fills her empty days by volunteering at Crossley's library. Tara is desperate, but unable, to have a baby of her own, so she makes Reborns - eerily lifelike newborn dolls. She's delighted when she receives a commission from the mysterious'Vader Batiss', but horrified when she sees the photograph of the baby she's been asked to create. Still, she agrees to Batiss's strange contract, unaware of the consequences if she fails to deliver the doll on time. Both Tara and Ryan are being drawn into a terrifying scheme - one that will have an impact on every pupil at Crossley College...

A group of parents, trapped in middle-class stability, deal with marriage, kids and their suburban life in very different ways. Todd, the handsome stay-at-home-dad - the one all the playground Moms admire in a silent look-but-do-not-touch fashion. He's trying (for his wife's sake) to pass his bar exam although he blatantly doesn't want to be a lawyer, and in a desperate attempt to reclaim his youth joins a midnight touch-football team.and starts a passionate affair with Sarah. Sarah is a lapsed feminist who isn't quite sure how she ended up being a traditional wife. She's the kind of mother who (shock horror) is capable of forgetting her daughter's snack, and in a moment's rebellion dares to kiss Todd in front of the mother's group.

From the towering imagination of Joyce Carol Oates, literary icon and author of BLONDE, now a major motion picture, a powerful and controversial novel about every parent's worst nightmare.Daddy Love, aka Reverend Chester Cash, has for years abducted, tortured, and raped young boys. His latest victim is Robbie, now renamed'Gideon', and brainwashed into believing that he is Daddy Love's real son. Any time the boy resists or rebels he is met with punishment beyond his wildest nightmares.As Robbie grows older he begins to realize that the longer he is locked in the shackles of this demon, the greater chance he'll end up like Daddy Love's other'sons'who were never heard from again. Somewhere within this tortured boy lies a spark of rebellion... and soon he will see just what lengths he must go to in order to have any chance at survival.Reviews for Joyce Carol Oates:'A writer of extraordinary strengths.'Guardian'Oates chillingly depicts the darkness lurking within the everyday.'Sunday Express'Both haunting and sublime.'Literary Review'Splendidly chilling.'Financial Times'Visceral, psychologically involving, and socially astute.'Booklist

A routine personal injury case leads a lawyer into a decade-old murder mystery: “[A] superb legal thriller... Wonderfully diverting reading” (Booklist). Ben Kincaid's air-conditioner is on the fritz, his staff is on half-pay, and his sister has just disappeared, leaving him holding her baby. He needs fast money, and a quick-and-dirty personal injury suit could do the job. But what looks like a sure-fire case turns out to be something far more complicated. His prospective client hopes to rescue his son—a twenty-eight-year-old with the mind of a child. Ten years earlier, Leeman was accused of murdering a woman with a golf club, and he has been locked in a mental institution ever since. Now he is finally about to come to trial, and Kincaid sees no way to save him. But when a young Tulsa boy goes missing, Kincaid senses a connection between the two cases. Finding the abductor and could mean saving lives—Leeman's, the kidnapped child's, and those of the countless victims to come.

When a twelve-year-old boy is found strangled to death with multiple stab wounds, his killer is assumed to be a pedophile. Lieutenant Tromp Kramer and his sidekick, Bantu Detective Sergeant Mickey Zondi begin to investigate and soon learn that the boy had been involved in a detective club that encouraged children to spy and snitch on people, and no one likes a snitch. Whom was Boetie spying on? As the two men look into possible leads on the case, they must also navigate increasing tensions surrounding racism in the'70s in South Africa, and Kramer finds himself on the receiving end of much of the hatred himself.

They watched as the car burnt. A smell of gasoline mingled with the throat-catching stench of melting rubber, almost masking the sickly sweet smell of roasting flesh. No one spoke. The time for recriminations and the appointment of blame would come. For now they were united by the need to cover up a crime and destroy the evidence. As DCI Fenwick investigates a powerful and predatory paedophile ring and Inspector Nightingale is left to deal with an ex-serviceman turned vigilante, they are both forced to ask themselves: when is a murderer not a murderer, and how far are they prepared to go to see justice done?

In this blistering conclusion to the nationally bestselling series, Burke is forced into a journey that will change the lives of the urban survivalist and his outlaw family forever.The only person Burke has ever called father, known throughout the underground as “The Prof,” is in a coma, barely clinging to life in an off the-books hospital. So when Pryce, a slippery man with government connections, offers the best medical services for the Prof and a clean slate for all concerned, Burke takes the contract without reading it. The two-year-old son of a Saudi prince has been kidnapped. A highly professional snatch; no mistakes, no clues, and no ransom note. Burke's job: get the kid back, whatever it takes. To do so, the ultimate man-for-hire must return to the day “Baby Boy Burke” was written on his birth certificate, and write, in the blood of his enemies, the final act of this story.

Inspector Hal Challis has been summoned to his boyhood home, Mawson's Bluff in the Australian Outback, where his father is dying. There his past comes back to haunt him... and endanger his life. Meanwhile, a serial pedophile is on the loose on the Mornington Peninsula, and Sergeant Ellen Destry, who is left to head up the area's Crime Investigation Unit, must find a little girl who was abducted from the fairgrounds at the annual Waterloo Show before it is too late.