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When a tourist girl disappears on a vacation island - and the police investigation goes nowhere - 11-year-old local boy Billy Wheatley steps in to help. He’s a little young to play detective, and he can’t tell anyone what he’s up to. But he's kind of a child prodigy, or at least, he thinks he is. Either way, he’s got a very good reason to want the police off his beach. His style of investigation is unlike anything you’ve ever heard of before, but he gets results.

After setting up his own detective agency on Lornea Island, Billy Wheatley delves into a decades-old mystery that has haunted the community for years. But when he befriends troubled teenager Amber and a man from his father's past arrives with a bag full of cash, Billy finds himself in the middle of a web of deceit and danger.

As I sit in her dimly lit bedroom, surrounded by flickering candles, I feel the crushing weight of my daughter’s absence. It's been two years since Layla was murdered. The police have searched tirelessly for her killer, but they've found nothing – it's like whoever did it vanished into thin air. My once-perfect marriage is falling apart, we can hardly look at each other anymore. Our ten-year-old son Gale is struggling. He’s changed since she died. He’s more secretive and also…

Kate’s son Jack insists he used to be someone else. Someone who died, tragically. At first, Kate’s confused about what he’s telling her. Don’t little kids say the weirdest things? But soon she can’t pretend it isn’t something more. No four-year-old should know what Jack does – have memories from before he was born.

When Ava Whitaker is kicked out of medical school–and dumped by her boyfriend–her life falls apart. But the real problem isn't her future. It's in her past. She was born on the Greek island of Alythos, where her mother once mixed cocktails at the luxurious Aegean Dream Resort. Yet her mother has never spoken about that time, never explained why she left so suddenly, and never answered the one question that's haunted Ava her entire life: Who was her father?

Erica Sands keeps her family legacy locked away – very few people know that her father is in a high-security prison, forever stained by the blood of his many victims. But when the body of a woman is found in an isolated cottage, a cryptic note concealed nearby, Erica is once more dragged into her father’s dark orbit.

How do you catch a killer, when you’re just a kid? Now 16 years old, Billy Wheatley has given up all thoughts of childish detective work in favor of his emerging scientific career. He lands a coveted place on a research ship studying great white sharks a hundred miles off the Australian coast. But when he manages to find evidence of a crime even out here, he can’t help but investigate. The only problem - in these shark-infested waters - he quickly bites off more than he can chew.

The trail has gone cold, and the authorities believe he has disappeared forever. But Erica knows her father better than anyone and feels his presence lurking in the shadows. When journalist Pierre Cloarec uncovers a massive financial fraud–the same method Sterling used to fund his escape–his investigation leads him to a seemingly quiet coastal village. There, a new friendship with a mysterious American takes a dark and disturbing turn, and Erica’s instincts tell her this is no coincidence.

After the sudden death of her husband, Christine Harvey would do anything to give her precious children Molly and Ryan a fresh start. The huge clifftop house she’s hastily purchased has the most breath-taking ocean view she’s ever seen. Surely here they can someday be happy again? But Christine had no idea that her family’s new dream house is right next door to where a child was abducted and murdered. And nobody told her that the father – who was the main suspect in the police investigation before it collapsed – still lives there.

Julia Ottley has a secret. She’s burst onto the literary scene with the highest ever advance paid to a British debut author. Her novel - featuring a fabulous tower of translucent icy crystal - is garnering rave reviews. But as she embarks upon her new life, she discovers that nothing can be hidden forever, especially when living within walls of glass. She fights to keep her secret, but as the stakes steadily rise, she faces a stark choice. How far is she really prepared to go to stop her life from coming shattering down?

Fourteen-year-old Jesse is shipped halfway round the world after the death of his father. He struggles to adapt to life on the Welsh Atlantic coast but eventually befriends John, a popular, charismatic, and outwardly charming boy. But as their friendship grows, a darker side to John emerges. Will Jesse notice before it's too late?

Nachdem er auf Lornea Island seine eigene Detektei eröffnet hat, taucht Billy Wheatley in ein jahrzehntealtes Rätsel ein, das die Einwohner schon lange beschäftigt. Aber als er sich mit der schwierigen Teenagerin Amber anfreundet und ein Mann aus der Vergangenheit seines Vaters mit einer Tasche voller Bargeld auftaucht, findet sich Billy in einem Netz aus Lügen und Gefahren wieder.

Alice is the smart and beautiful daughter of a powerful businessman. She lives a charmed life - until her father is killed in a tragic accident. Then she meets Jamie, a young man from a very different background, who has evidence that her father met a much darker end. Together they embark upon a search for the truth, delving into the murky background of Alice’s family fortune. What they discover leads Alice to question everything about her father - and herself. But it also turns them into targets.

Wie kannst Du einen Mörder fangen, wenn Du nur ein Kind bist? Als mitten im Sommer ein junges Mädchen aus einem Küstenstädtchen verschwindet, kann die Polizei bei ihrer groß angelegten Suche ihr Schicksal nicht aufdecken. Also schreitet Billy Wheatley ein, um den Fall zu lösen. Mit elf Jahren ist er zwar noch etwas jung, um Detektiv zu spielen, aber niemand kennt sich besser mit dem leeren Sand, den windgepeitschten Klippen und den versteckten Höhlen seiner Heimatinsel aus.

Der mittlerweile sechzehnjährige Billy Wheatley hat alle Gedanken an kindische Detektivarbeit aufgegeben und sich stattdessen seiner aufstrebenden wissenschaftlichen Karriere verschrieben. Er ergattert einen begehrten Platz auf einem Forschungsschiff, das hundert Meilen vor der australischen Küste Weiße Haie untersucht. Doch als er sogar hier draußen Hinweise auf ein Verbrechen findet, kann er nicht anders, als Nachforschungen anzustellen. Das einzige Problem: In diesen von Haien bevölkerten Gewässern hat er sich schnell mehr aufgehalst, als er bewältigen kann.

Newly-graduated Jake has a money problem, a job problem, and a girlfriend problem too. But his best friend has the perfect plan to fix all three. It draws upon all they’ve learnt in their Economics degree: International trade. Supply and Demand. The only potential issue? What they're trading isn't exactly legal. Which is why Jake's about to be arrested with enough dope to put him in prison for the next twenty years. But by now, this is only his second biggest worry. Can they somehow escape? How exactly did they get there? And what’s really on Jake’s mind..?

Tras la inesperada pérdida de su esposo, Christine Harvey está decidida a construir un nuevo futuro para sus hijos, Molly y Ryan. De forma algo impulsiva, decide comprar una majestuosa casa en lo alto de un acantilado, con unas vistas al mar que cortan la respiración. ¿Podría ser este el lugar donde su familia encuentre la felicidad perdida.

Un asesino excepcional. Su enigmática hija. Una peligrosa obsesión por la muerte. La inspectora Erica Sands mantiene su legado familiar bajo llave. Pocos saben que su padre cumple condena en una prisión de máxima seguridad, marcado para siempre por la sangre de sus numerosas víctimas. Sin embargo, el hallazgo del cadáver de una mujer en una pequeña casa de campo, con una enigmática nota oculta en la escena del crimen, amenaza con arrastrar a la inspectora hacia la oscura órbita de su padre.

La vida de Natalie, una joven psicóloga, se desmorona cuando su marido Jim desaparece haciendo surf. Todo parece indicar que no ha sido más que un trágico accidente hasta que recibe una llamada telefónica que le hace sospechar lo contrario. A partir de ese momento, Natalie se embarca en una búsqueda de la verdad. Pero ¿va a revelar un secreto que puede acabar costándole la vida? Tras la trágica muerte de su padre, Jesse, un adolescente de trece años, se ve obligado a abandonar su adorada Australia y a empezar de nuevo en Gales. Allí conoce a John.

La inspectora Erica Sands está a la caza de su padre, el infame asesino en serie Charles Sterling, quien desapareció sin dejar rastro tras su audaz fuga de una prisión de máxima seguridad, donde cumplía cadena perpetua. La pista se ha enfriado, y las autoridades creen que ha desaparecido para siempre. Pero Erica conoce a su padre mejor que nadie y siente su presencia acechando en las sombras.