Crime and Thriller

LAUREN BAILEY HAS DISAPPEARED. As her friends and the police search for answers, Matt Barker begins to dream of trees and black skies and something drawing closer. Through fragments of journals, blog posts and messages, a sinister, slender figure emerges and all divisions between fiction and delusion, between nightmare and reality, begin to fall. The urban legend of the Slender Man has inspired sh

A brand new, gripping tale on marriage and the secrets we keep from the Sunday Times bestseller Adele Parks. Daisy and Simon's marriage is great, isn't it? After years together, the arrival of longed-for daughter Millie sealed everything in place. A happy little family of three. And so what if Simon drinks a bit too much sometimes - Daisy's used to it, she knows he's letting off steam. Until one n

An original story from the creator and writer of the hit BBC One TV series, Death in Paradise, featuring on-screen favourite detective, DI Richard Poole.

An African coup may force Josh Duffy to choose between his mission and his family in this intense thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Gray Man series. Josh Duffy and his wife Nikki are both working for the State Department's Diplomatic Security Service providing protection for diplomats in the field. They've been sent to Ghana with a team of US embassy personnel who a

The phenomenal new legal thriller from international bestseller John Grisham. NO ONES WRITES DRAMA LIKE GRISHAM.

'The stuff of legend' Mirror It's time to confess their sins. Steph Barker can't forget her past. A single mother, Steph runs a women's shelter for local prostitutes while coming to terms with a tragic loss. And it's people like Joseph Potter, battling with his own grief, who keep her going. When Hennie, one of her friends from the shelter, goes missing, Steph's convinced Hennie's violent pim

The brand new Slough House thriller from the #1 bestseller Mick Herron *Now an award-winning Apple TV+ series starring Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Jack Lowden* ---- 'Mick Herron is our best and most topical spy writer' Ian Rankin 'No one can rival Mick Herron' The Times 'A superb thriller' The Spectator ---- Spies lie. They betray. It's what they do. Slow horse River Cartwrigh

The Keeper of Lost Causes (originally published in the UK as Mercy) is the nail-biting first book in the internationally bestselling Department Q series. It is now a major movie, released in the UK in August 2014. At first the prisoner scratches at the walls until her fingers bleed. But there is no escaping the room. With no way of measuring time, her days, weeks, months go unrecorded. She vows

Fans of Jo Nesbo, The Killing, and Scandi noir will love this gripping thriller from international bestselling crime-writing sensation A closed case hides a terrible secret . . . _______ Department Q solves the unsolvable. So when a file on the brutal murder of a brother and sister 20 years ago lands on the desk of Detective Carl Mørck, he doesn't understand why. Because the killer has

Don’t miss this transporting novel full of family secrets, a disputed inheritance, and a century-old unsolved mystery … ‘A gritty and whip-smart read. Strong friendships, powerful women, mighty lives. I utterly devoured it, was swept to Sicily, loved the denouement’ Amanda Geard, author of The Midnight House ‘As much a feminist adventure as a redemptive family mystery … I was gripped and ent

Now widely available in English for the first time, Tokyo Express is celebrated around the world as Seicho Matsumoto's masterpiece - and as one of the most fiendish puzzles ever written.

Pre-order the hugely entertaining slasher horror of the summer . . .

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Willow is in need of an escape.

A former sitcom star, she's been publicly shamed on the internet after posting something she really shouldn't have.

She checks in to Camp Castaway, an adults-only retreat based at an old campground in the woods.

It's the first nigh

'An absolute classic, and a whole new world to explore ... irresistible' Lee Child

'Beautiful and melancholic, Inspector Imanishi Investigates is not just an ingenious and elegant mystery, but a fascinating window into 1960s Japan' Paula Hawkins

A thrilling crime classic, from the bestselling author of Tokyo Express

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**Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers 2023**

'Shocking, disturbing and utterly original - will grip you from first page to last' - Paula Hawkins

Sally Diamond cannot understand why what she did was so strange. She was only doing what her father told her to do, to put him out with the rubbish when he died.

Now Sally is the centre of attention, not only f

'Satisfyingly dark, cleverly plotted and pleasingly Donna Tarttish' Emma Flint, Little Deaths
'Seamlessly blends Gone Girl and Promising Young Woman. Smart, sophisticated, seductive' S J Watson, Before I Go To Sleep
'A deeply compelling story of friendships turned rotten' Rosemary Hennigan, The Truth Will Out

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THE RESORT OF THEIR DREAMS.
A DESTINATION TO DIE FOR...

Welcome to paradise!

Or so the staff say when they greet the Hamiltons at the idyllic Asana Fushi resort in the Maldives.

And it starts off that way: champagne picnics on powder-white sand, snorkelling in the serene blue sea and moonlit walks under the stars.

But lies lurk beneath the

An unputdownable, dark and pulse-pounding page-turner that peels back the fragile veneer of two suburban families - next-door neighbours and best friends - and the secrets between them. By the end of the summer, the residents of Hot Springs Drive will never be the same again...

The twenty-fourth book in the multi-million copy bestselling and perennially adored No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.

From Japanese crime writer Keigo Higashino, who has sold over a million copies in Japan, The Final Curtain is the fourth and final instalment in the Detective Kaga series

Scarlett's aunt lived - and was brutally murdered - in the apartment upstairs. But Scarlett is determined that life should return to some kind of normal, even if that means living with just a ceiling between her and the scene of such a devastating crime. After all, this is her home. She's safe here. Isn't she?