by Simon Kernick
(2014)
Publisher: Penguin RandomHouse
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DEAD MAN’S GIFT
MP Tim Horton arrives home to find his seven-year-old son has been abducted – and the nanny brutally murdered.
The kidnapping gang’s demands are simple: Tim must sacrifice his own life to save his son’s.
A dead man’s gift…
Tim Horton’s son Max is kidnapped, and his au pair murdered which shows that the perpetrators mean business. Tim is a senior politician and comes with all the trappings, including mistress. The kidnappers have an objective which means Tim has to choose between his own life and that of his son. Enter Scope – Tim’s brother-in-law and perhaps the only person with the experience to be able to act quickly enough to save them both.
ONE BY ONE
Six former school-friends have been reunited on a remote island.
Separated since a fateful night twenty-one years ago, when their friend Rachel was killed, they’re afraid for their lives – because the man arrested for Rachel’s murder has been released.
They think he’s coming for them. They’re almost right.
Plus three more thrillers guaranteed to keep you gripped to the page. Can you withstand five full-strength doses of Simon Kernick?
Also included the following short stories: The Debt, Flytrap, Funeral For a Friend, Robert Hayer’s Dead, and The Glint in a Killer’s Eyes.
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