Catagory: Crime, Thriller & Mystery

**Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers 2023**

**WINNER Crime Novel of the Year, Irish Book Awards 2023**

**SHORTLISTED for The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award**

**LONGLISTED for the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award 2024**

Sally Diamond cannot understand why what she did was so strange. She was only doing what her father told her to do, to put him out with the rubbish when he died.

Now Sally is the centre of attention, not only from the hungry media and police detectives, but also a sinister voice from a past she cannot remember. As she begins to discover the horrors of her childhood, Sally steps into the world for the first time, making new friends and big decisions, and learning that people don’t always mean what they say.

But who is the man observing Sally from the other side of the world? And why does her neighbour seem to be obsessed with her? Sally’s trust issues are about to be severely challenged . . .

*****
‘In Sally Diamond, Nugent has given us an astounding creation with a singular voice . . . an absorbing, twisty, compulsive psychological thriller with surprising humour and pathos’ Sunday Independent

‘Strikingly well-observed and consistently surprising’ The Times

‘Incredible’ Sara Cox

‘Strange indeed . . . and smart, too! Shocking, disturbing and utterly original, Strange Sally Diamond will grip you from first page to last’ Paula Hawkins

‘Irresistibly compelling, this dark story is shocking yet endearing. A brilliant read that will suck you in’ Crime Monthly

‘Liz Nugent has outdone herself. Twisted and twisty, dark and gripping, no one is going to forget Sally Diamond in a hurry!’ Graham Norton

‘It creeped me out (in a good way) . . . Terrific’ Ian Rankin

‘Dark, compelling and deeply moving’ Ruth Ware

‘So, so good! Sally gets under your skin and worms her way into your heart. I didn’t want it to end’ Jane Fallon

‘I’m lost in admiration for Liz and her writing . . . vivid, pacy, taut but so very moving’ Marian Keyes

‘Jaw-droppingly clever . . . One of the best books I’ve read in a long, long time. I can’t stop thinking about it’ Lucy Foley

‘An outstanding achievement which transforms the dark psychological thriller map with both bravura and delicacy. One for the ages’ Maxim Jakubowski

अमेरिका के कैपिटॉल बिल्डिंग में हॉर्वर्ड के सिम्बॉलॉजिस्ट रॉबर्ट लैंग्डन सायंकालीन लैक्चर देने जाते हैं तभी अजीबोगरीब घटना घटती है। वहाँ एक पाँच चिह्नों वाली वस्तु मिलती है और लैंग्डन पाते हैं कि वह कोई प्राचीन आमंत्रण है जिसे पाकर अतीत के ज्ञान को हासिल किया जा सकता है। लेकिन इसी बीच जब उनके गुरु का अपहरण हो जाता है, तो उन्हें पता चलता है कि उन्हें छुड़ाने का एक मात्र रास्ता उस आमंत्रण को स्वीकार करना ही है।
क्या लैंग्डन अपने गुरु को छुड़ा पाते हैं?
क्या वह प्राचीन ज्ञान को हासिल कर पाते हैं?
यहीं द लॉस्ट सिम्बॉल की कहानी है। 

From the multi-million bestselling phenomenon Dan Brown, a 5 book-boxset starring the one and only Harvard professor Robert Langdon.

Titles in this boxset:

ANGELS AND DEMONS (BOOK 1)
A world-renowned scientist is found brutally murdered with a mysterious symbol seared onto his chest. In a breathtaking race against time, Robert Langdon must decipher a labyrinthine trail of ancient symbols if he is to defeat those responsible – the Illuminati.

THE DA VINCI CODE (BOOK 2)
Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been brutally murdered inside the museum. As Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, begin to sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to find a trail that leads to the works of Leonardo Da Vinci.

THE LOST SYMBOL (BOOK 3)
Robert Langdon believes he is in Washington to give a lecture. He is wrong. Within minutes of his arrival, a shocking object is discovered. It is a gruesome invitation into an ancient world of hidden wisdom. When Langdon’s mentor, Peter Solomon is kidnapped, Langdon realizes that his only hope of saving his friend’s life is to accept this mysterious summons.

INFERNO (BOOK 4)
Robert Langdon awakes in a hospital bed in Florence with no recollection of where he is or how he got there. Nor can he explain the origin of the macabre object that is found hidden in his belongings. A threat to his life will propel him and a young doctor, Sienna Brooks, into a breakneck chase across the city.

ORIGIN (BOOK 5)
Robert Langdon arrives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of a discovery that “will change the face of science forever”. Langdon and several hundred other guests are left reeling when the meticulously orchestrated evening is blown apart. With his life under threat, Langdon is forced into a desperate bid to escape, along with the museum’s director, Ambra Vidal.

A twisting, pulse-pounding thriller from Freida McFadden, the New York Times, Sunday Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Housemaid and The Coworker.
The third book in the Housemaid series.
“You must be our new neighbors!” Mrs. Lowell gushes and waves across the picket fence. I clutch my daughter’s hand and smile back: but the second Mrs. Lowell sees my husband a strange expression crosses her face. In that moment I make a promise. We finally have a family home. My past is far, far behind us. And I’ll do anything to keep it that way…

I used to clean other people’s houses—now, I can’t believe this home is actually mine. The charming kitchen, the quiet cul-de-sac, the huge yard where my kids can play. My husband and I saved for years to give our children the life they deserve.

Even though I’m wary of our new neighbor Mrs. Lowell, when she invites us over for dinner it’s our chance to make friends. Her maid opens the door wearing a white apron, her hair in a tight bun. I know exactly what it’s like to be in her shoes. But her cold stare gives me chills…

The Lowells’ maid isn’t the only strange thing on our street. I’m sure I see a shadowy figure watching us. My husband leaves the house late at night. And when I meet a woman who lives across the way, her words chill me to the bone: Be careful of your neighbors.

Did I make a terrible mistake moving my family here?

I thought I’d left my darkest secrets behind. But could this quiet suburban street be the most dangerous place of all?

From Sunday Times bestselling author Freida McFadden comes the next instalment of the unbelievably twisty, tension-packed and globally bestselling Housemaid series. This book can be enjoyed as a standalone read: and once you start, it will have you up all night racing through the pages until the final explosive twist.

Those closest to you often have the most to hide. With its pristine beaches, clear turquoise waters and an ancient lighthouse towering over it, the picturesque hamlet of Movim in Goa seems like the perfect holiday spot for detective Janardan Maity and his friend, Prakash Ray. But when the father of a local teenage girl receives a letter asking for a large sum of money in exchange for his daughter, Maity and Prakash find themselves in the thick of an unlikely mystery. For they discover that the girl has not been kidnapped at all, and is in fact still safe and sound in her house. As they begin to investigate, the duo realizes that the residents of the tiny village – a popular young priest; a retired teacher; an indiscreet ex-sailor; and a god-fearing old widow – are not what they seem. And, of course, there’s Sally Sequeira – the frail and shy girl who keeps to herself, but steps out onto the beach in the night to dance to tunes her father plays on his piano. What truth does the village of Movim hide? Who is the mysterious man that Sally has been seen with recently? And how will Janardan Maity solve a crime that has not yet been committed?

In the middle of one of the worst storms to hit the city, a mysterious letter arrives for Prakash Ray, an out-of-luck journalist, inviting him to a quaint, suburban bungalow, to celebrate the 60th birthday of an uncle he has never heard of… As Prakash reaches the venue, he is introduced to a motley group of people, all gathered there for the old man’s big day: his son, his reticent brother, a dignified middle-aged lady who once owned the bungalow, a listless lawyer who manages his legal affairs, a mild-mannered young man who works as his secretary, his beautiful, young biographer, and his mysterious friend, who has never lost a game of chess to him. As the storm lashes on through the night, one of the people in the bungalow is murdered! In a game of cat and mouse that follows, Prakash soon finds out that under the surface of apparent warmth and friendliness, nothing is as it seems and that the bungalow holds one shocking secret after another! In a bid to save his own life, Prakash hunts for the truth, which lies in a mysterious penumbra of shadows and lights, covered in a sheath of deceit and guile, only to realize that the worst is yet to come!