THE best-selling author of more than 20 novels, including After I’m Gone and 2015’s Hush Hush returns with Wilde Lake, an evocative tale about the Brant family in Columbia, Maryland.

Tornadoes and storms ripping through several central states in the US have killed two people and injured dozens, officials say.

A man carrying a shotgun opened fire at a busy US shopping mall, killing two employees of a skate shop and then himself as panicked shoppers ran for cover.

Three people have been killed in a shooting a mall in Maryland, US, police said.