‘The world’s greatest storyteller’ Guardian ‘Is this his best yet?…Full of sinister menace and propulsive pace with twisty plotting’ Lee Child *Sometimes the danger is on the inside . . . High on a Cornish cliff sits a vast uninhabited mansion. Uninhabited except for Blake, a young woman of dubious background, secretive and alone, currently […]
A Simple Favour: An edge-of-your-seat thriller with a chilling twist
Now a major film starring Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively as a pair of mismatched best friends, each with something to hide . . .‘Packed with betrayal, secrets and plenty of twists and turns’ – Telegraph What happened to Emily? When her best friend, Emily, asks Stephanie to pick up her son from school she […]
Burial of Ghosts
Burial of Ghosts is a page-turning stand alone novel from Ann Cleeves, creator of the astounding Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series. Twenty-five-year-old Lizzie Bartholomew has had more than her fair share of struggles. Abandoned as a baby, she spent her childhood moving between foster homes. Now she is running away from her past . […]
The Cry
The Cry was longlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. When a baby goes missing on a lonely roadside in Australia, it sets off a police investigation that will become a media sensation and dinner-table talk across the world. Lies, rumours and guilt snowball, causing the parents, Joanna and Alistair, […]
River Bodies (Northampton County Book 1)
In this dark, gripping mystery, a brutal murder unearths old secrets that should have stayed buried. A body just turned up in the small town of Portland, Pennsylvania. The crime is eerily similar to a twenty-year-old cold case: another victim, brutally murdered, found in the Delaware River. Lead detective Parker Reed is intent on connecting […]
The Girl in the Ice: A gripping serial killer thriller (Detective Erika Fos…
Her eyes are wide open. Her lips parted as if to speak. Her dead body frozen in the ice…She is not the only one. When a young boy discovers the body of a woman beneath a thick sheet of ice in a South London park, Detective Erika Foster is called in to lead the murder […]
Foxglove Summer: The Fifth Rivers of London novel (PC Peter Grant Book 5)
In the fifth of his bestselling series Ben Aaronovitch takes Peter Grant out of whatever comfort zone he might have found and takes him out of London – to a small village in Herefordshire where the local police are reluctant to admit that there might be a supernatural element to the disappearance of some local […]
Nine Perfect Strangers
One house. Nine strangers. Ten days that will change everything . . .FROM THE WORLDWIDE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR BEHIND EMMY- AND GOLDEN GLOBE-WINNING HBO SERIES BIG LITTLE LIES AND SMASH-HIT NOVEL THE HUSBAND’S SECRETAS FEATURED ON RADIO 4’S BOOK AT BEDTIME . . . The retreat at health-and-wellness resort Tranquillum House promises total transformation. Nine […]
Edinburgh Twilight (Ian Hamilton Mysteries Book 1)
As a new century approaches, Edinburgh is a city divided. The wealthy residents of New Town live in comfort, while Old Town’s cobblestone streets are clotted with criminals, prostitution, and poverty. Detective Inspector Ian Hamilton is no stranger to Edinburgh’s darkest crimes. Scarred by the mysterious fire that killed his parents, he faces his toughest […]
Murder in the Morning: An absolutely unputdownable cozy murder mystery nove…
Cream teas, buttered crumpets and a very curious crime… Melissa Craig is settling in nicely to a new teaching position in the quaint little village of Upper Bembury, getting to know her way around, drinking tea with the eccentric staff, even sowing the first seeds of romance… But when she arrives one morning to find […]