Joseph Delaney used to be an English teacher, before becoming the best-selling author of the Spook's series, which has been published in 30 countries and sold over 4.5 million copies worldwide. The first book, The Spook's Apprentice, was adapted into a major motion picture starring Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore.

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On the night Malcolm and Maud Angel are murdered, their daughter, Tandy, knows just three things: 1. She was one of the last people to see her parents alive. 2. She and her brothers are the only suspects. 3. She can’t trust anyone – maybe not even herself. Having grown up under their parents’ intense perfectionist demands, none of the Angel children have come away undamaged. 
 
Tandy decides that she will have to solve the crime on her own, but digging deeper into her powerful parents’ affairs is a dangerous game. As she uncovers haunting secrets and slowly begins to remember flashes of disturbing past events buried in her memory, Tandy is forced to ask: What is the Angel family truly capable of? 
 
Returning to the genre that made him the world’s bestselling author, James Patterson introduces a teen detective on a mission to bring her parents’ killer to justice, even if it means uncovering her family’s darkest secrets – and confessing some of her own.

Confessions of a Murder Suspect

(Confessions 1)

WHEN YOUR FAMILY IS ALL YOU HAVE . . . 
 
Scarred by the deaths of their parents and accusations of murder, Tandy Angel and her siblings start a new life in Paris under the watchful eye of an uncle they hardly know. 
 
BUT THEY'VE BETRAYED YOU TIME AND AGAIN . . . 
 
A born detective, Tandy discovers a locked room in her grandmother's house that holds ugly secrets about her family's treacherous past. 
 
WHO CAN YOU REALLY TRUST? 
 
As Tandy delves deepr into the mysteries, the stakes get dangerously high when her family's enemies seek the ultimate revenge for long-ago sins. 
 
THE BRIGHT LIGHTS OF PARIS ARE ABOUT TO GO DARK.

Confessions: The Paris Mysteries

(Confessions 3)

Kathy Reichs

Tory Brennan, great-niece of Tempe Brennan, and her three friends, contract a strange virus and discover they have developed canine abilities. Calling themselves the Virals, they find their new powers useful when it comes to solving crimes.

Tory Brennan - great niece of Dr Temperance Brennan - and the Virals return for their most terrifying adventure yet. 
 
Morris Island has barely had a chance to return to normality after the high profile trial of the Gamemaster, when two local students seem to vanish into thin air. 
 
Tory Brennan and the Virals pack move quickly in their attempts to discover what has happened to their twin classmates. But the pack’s canine powers are growing wilder, and it is becoming ever harder to conceal the secret which protects them. 
 
When Tory and her friends find evidence of blood in the students’ basement, they realise that the disappearance is no game. 
 
But in order to save the twins, the Virals must risk the exposure of their powers, and in doing so put even their own lives in terrible danger.

Exposure

(Virals 4)

ALEX CROSS is a genius detective. 
 
ALI CROSS is following in his father's footsteps. 
 
When Ali sees a friend get hurt, he's the best person to find out who did it. Even if he's only a kid. 
 
After all, he's Alex Cross's son. Solving crimes runs in the family.

Ali Cross: Like Father, Like Son

Keir Graff

Living in the luxurious Arcanum building - with its interior balconies perfect for playing tag, an elevator like an iron birdcage, and quirky neighbours behind every apartment door - has always been fun and games for twelve-year-old Minerva Keen . . . until her neighbours start getting poisoned. Anyone could be next, and everyone is a suspect, including Minerva herself. 
 
To clear her name and help the police crack the case, Minerva starts her own detective club. So what if it only has two other members, one Minerva's accident-prone daredevil brother and the other the biggest and quietest kid in school, who happens to be afraid of his own shadow? Minerva knows that with her brainpower, the club's sleuthing skills, and case files full of suspects, they can unmask the poisoner . . . hopefully before it's too late.

Minerva Keen’s Detective Club

School, mysteries, crime-solving - just an ordinary day for Ali Cross! 
 
Ali has helped to solve two big cases and he knows he has what it takes to follow in the footsteps of his famous father, Alex Cross. 
 
Eager to keep solving crimes, Ali and his friends hack into police calls and secretly check out crime scenes to crack the cases themselves. 
 
But when Ali witnesses something terrible, he must grapple with some tough questions about what it means to be a detective, and a detective's son. 
 
Will Ali be the one in danger this time?

Ali Cross: The Secret Detective

Alex Cross 
The brilliant DC detective who never gives up on a case. 
 
Ali Cross 
The tenacious kid who's determined to follow in his father's footsteps. 
 
The case that finally gives him a chance 
Ali knows Gabe Qualls better than anyone, so when his friend goes missing, Ali jumps right into action. Alex Cross has taught his son the values he needs to solve the mystery: intelligence, persistence, and logic. One thing Ali hasn't learned? Patience. 
 
Because Ali realises that with every day that passes without the police finding Gabe, the less likely it is that he'll ever be found. And being Alex Cross's son, he refuses to accept those odds.

Ali Cross

Kathy Reichs' Virals series has been an enormous hit with Young adult and adult readers alike. In this collection of short stories, Kathy ties up all the loose ends in Tory's world 
 
Fans of the Virals series will be thrilled with this companion volume that includes three short stories originally published as digital short stories as well as an all-new, never-before-seen Virals adventure! Shift, Swipe, Shock and the new story Spike give further glimpses of the Virals' world as they work with Tory's famous great aunt, Temperance Brennan, to solve more mysteries, take a look at where it all started before they became Virals, and get to the bottom of an attempted sabatoge at Kit and Whitney's wedding.

Trace Evidence

A Virals Short Story Collection

In the dramatic conclusion to the bestselling Confessions series, Tandy Angel's next murder case could be her own! 
 
Tandy Angel is losing her mind – or so she thinks. Even as she's forced to fight for the family company, she's imagining new dangers in every shadow. And as her detective prowess is called into question and her paranoia builds, she has to face the very real possibility that the stalker she's convinced will take her life could be all in her head – or the very real danger that finally brings her down.

Confessions: The Murder of an Angel

(Confessions 4)

CONFESS IF YOU DON'T FEEL SAFE. 
 
Young women from New York's most exclusive neighbourhoods are being murdered, and the police aren't looking for answers in the right place. 
 
CONFESS IF YOU DON'T TRUST ANYONE. 
 
Enter Tandy Angel. The first case she nailed was the mystery of her magnificently wealthy parents' deaths. Now she's working to exonerate her superstar brother in his glamorous girlfriend's murder. And danger just got closer. 
 
CONFESS IF YOU'RE IN TOO DEEP. 
 
One of the victims of the recent murder streak was a student at Tandy's own elite school. She has a hunch it may be the work of a serial killer, but the NYPD isn't listening to her... and Tandy can't ignore the disturbing fact that she fits the profile of the killer's targets. Can she untangle the mysteries before she becomes the next victim? 
 
THE CONFESSIONS REVEAL ALL.

Confessions: The Private School Murders

(Confessions 2)

A terrifying new adventure for Tory Brennan – great niece of Dr Temperance Brennan – and the Virals as they come face to face with their greatest enemy. 
 
Tory Brennan and the Virals pack are forced to confront the existence of a rival pack – The Trinity – who want them off the scene – declaring war by engraving ‘One Territory. One Pack’ on a local landmark. What’s more this pack’s powers seem stronger and their eyes glow red rather than golden when they flare. 
 
Chance Claybourne, who now owns his father’s pharmaceutical company, shares The Trinity’s powers – he accidentally infected himself and his ex-lab tech Will Speckman. Chance claims he’s on the Virals’ side but can they trust him? And if Speckman is one of The Trinity, who are the other two? 
 
As the tension mounts between the two packs an even greater threat looms. Covert government agents are closing in on them, determined to find out exactly how their powers work, to experiment on them. Have The Trinity pack given them Virals to save themselves? Or are both packs at risk?

Terminal

(Virals 5)

Someone—or something—has it out for MK’s Detective Club.Minerva Keen is the absolute best kid detective Chicago has ever seen, and she’s hungry for a new mystery to solve with her friends.Standing in her way is the know-it-all new girl, Zoe, who tries to take control of MK’s Detective Club. Worse still, the club adviser who has always had a soft spot for Minerva takes Zoe’s side, and that’s just the start of the strange decisions Ms. Voyant is suddenly making.Add in terrifying nightmares, the return of Minerva’s parents, and shocking new developments — MK’s Detective Club just might have more mysteries than they can solve.With nowhere to turn, the club walks right into danger.…Will they be able to find their way out?

Minerva Keen’s Detective Club: The Double Trouble Puzzle

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All her life, Maximum Ride has been fighting to save the world. 
 
But the unthinkable has happened, and the world she once knew is gone. 
 
Max and her broken flock are left roaming the post-apocalyptic earth, searching for answers to what happened, and for the few survivors. 
 
In the midst of the chaos and destruction, a new evil force has emerged – one that threatens to end everything, once and for all. 
 
In the final battle of good versus evil, who will emerge victorious? 
 
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Forever: A Maximum Ride Novel

(Maximum Ride 9)

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