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Blood Runs Deep in the Northern Streets. Danger Lurks Within and Without. After a year in psychiatric care, Detective Inspector Erasmus Bukowski is finally on the mend. But when a body surfaces on the cliffs of his hometown, he faces an impossible choice: stay safe in recovery or risk his mental health to solve the case?Still haunted by the unsolved disappearance of a young girl, Bukowski knows he can't walk away. Secrecy and lies have poisoned his family for generations. To uncover the truth, he'll have to dig deep into his own psyche and the dark underbelly of the streets he once called home.With his career and sanity on the line, Bukowski quickly learns that the deadliest demons lurk within. He must first confront the memories lurking in his mind to catch a killer. And failure could mean a fate far worse than death.

Twelve-year-old Ella Finn's parents have disappeared.So she's sent from London to Teesside to live with her aunt and uncle, the Twists. But Ella's new family hate her, especially her three cousins. Feeling lonely at home and school, Ella's only friends are the animals in the barn where she sleeps at night.That's until she discovers a mystery house on the cliffs that only she can see. Inside the house, Ella finds the Book of All Life, a magical tome that brings mythological creatures called Elementals to Earth.These Elementals can heal human illness and fix climate change. And maybe they can help Ella find her missing parents.But when her horrible cousins' find out about the book, Ella has to prevent them from using it to control all the adults in their town.And she has to stop an Elemental Goddess from destroying the world.

Ella Finn thought she'd stopped the end of the world, but she'd only delayed it.Leaving her family and friends behind, Ella travels to the multiverse, where animals can talk and disco dancing penguins want to eat her. She's kidnapped by a community of cats and dragged underground by revolutionary pigs. And it's all because Ella's on a quest to find the Goddess who's sworn to destroy all humans. Ella's the only one who can save humanity, but she'll need the help of a six-foot-tall talking rabbit and a community of cows living on the moon if she's to prevent the enslavement of humanity.And even if she can do that, she'll still have to find her way out of the multiverse to return home.

Astrid sat at the table, cradling a pint in her hand. Unfortunately, it was only half-full since the rest of it dripped from the bloke's head opposite her.A gang of four lurked behind him.They glared at her as the sounds of sirens shot through her head. She thought her internal jukebox had kicked into automatic for one second and she was listening to The Clash or The Beastie Boys. Then she realised it came from outside and was getting closer. The goons must have heard it as their mugs dropped faster than a snitch in a concrete overcoat. That's when she knew what she had to do.A cryptic message sends Astrid Snow deep into the heart of Texas, answering the call from her only friend in the world. There, she has to prove a seemingly guilty man didn't kill two little girls while acquiring an unlikely partner during her investigation.

Ella Finn races against time to save the lives of her loved ones, finding herself pitted against two groups trying to manipulate her: The Institute want to use Elementals as weapons, while Destroy All Monsters are out to kill all Elementals. Caught between two opposing forces, Ella needs to escape and use the Book of All Life to open a portal into another world. Ella meets The Dreamers in this realm, immortal creatures with a secret link to all humans. She seeks their help to save her family and friends, but something evil lives within The Dreamers - something terrible enough to threaten Ella and all of humanity.Former foes become allies as Ella and Elementals work together to stop dark powers from enslaving humans and controlling the world.

Some secrets last a lifetime.Frank Walker caught a serial killer. And it ruined his life. Now, after twenty-five years in London, he's back north, living with the father who never loved him, in a community that distrusts him. Being an ex-copper in the Hills is just as bad as walking through that estate in a blue uniform.When his next-door neighbour disappears at the same time as her husband's murder, all of Frank's experience as a detective can't save him from the suspicions of the police and the fury of the locals. And he's the prime suspect in both crimes.Frank needs to discover who's setting him up by recovering hazy memories from his past and confronting the present out to get him. If he doesn't catch a killer, his only future will be sharing a prison with those he's spent most of his life putting behind bars.

Orphaned science nerd and maths prodigy Alice Valentine wants to ace her studies. She's spent all her life struggling to make friends, passed between foster families and care homes, isolated and lonely. Losing herself in academia from an early age, she becomes the first sixteen-year-old at her local university. Her whole world changes, but nothing can prepare Alice for the night she's attacked by a werewolf.But even that isn't as strange as discovering she has an identical twin sister, Cassie.And Cassie kills werewolves. And all the other monsters Alice didn't believe existed.Alice and Cassie set off to discover what happened to their parents, a journey that takes them from northern England to the edge of the apocalypse, unsure if they will save the world or destroy it.

Astrid Snow is a woman of mass distraction.'Are you a good woman, Ms Snow?'A deep curve on Astrid's lips made the world stop around her. 'Not very.'The beer chilled her throat, the taste reminding Astrid of the time she threw up over the neighbour's cat. Then she smiled at her companion.They appeared to be a loving couple, the way they held hands as the candle flickered next to them. But they were the opposite of in love. The sparkle in his face wasn't because of desire but concentration to stop him from screaming. She'd already damaged one of his fingers as she squeezed again.Astrid Snow is in America to retrieve a child from the rich father who kidnapped her. A seemingly straightforward rescue from New York leads her into small-town USA and the disappearance of a teenager, a girl whose political activism appears to have upset several people, including the local senator.Astrid has to reach into the dark underbelly of America to discover what happened to the girl who reminds her so much of herself while dealing with the consequences of a sister who hates her.

Catch a killer or save a child. What would you do?DI Jen Flowers thought she'd seen it all after fifteen years on the force, but when a vigilante serial killer hits the city and uses social media to gather supporters, she must fight the public and her doubts to catch a murderer and save her daughter.Suffering from blackouts and abandoned as a child by her father, Ruby Vasquez has been chasing that one scoop to make her an internet star. Living with an alcoholic mother who hates her, Ruby discovers a secret about the vigilante's first victim, which puts her in the killer and DI Flowers' sights.Jen and Ruby have to overcome the secrets in their past while battling each other to discover the Hashtag Killer's identity. Jen will have to choose between keeping her daughter safe or finding a killer, while Ruby will need to decide if becoming famous is more important than doing the right thing.