Crime and Thriller

As part of our exciting King reissue programme (2020-2024), we are relaunching his paperbacks with a stunning new cover look. THE OUTSIDER is a captivating CRIME THRILLER.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Dark
· Addictive · Twisty · Chilling · Domestic Suspense
"Lapena is a master of manipulation."

"Matthew Quirk moves into David Baldacci and John Grisham territory with The Night Agent, a paranoid, pulse-pounding thriller that could not be more prescient. If you're wondering where the best of the next generation of suspense talent is headed, look no further." -- Joseph Finder To find a Russian mole in the White House, an FBI agent must question everything. . . and trust no one.

New York Times bestseller Laura Lippman's latest mesmerizing thriller tells the story of Amber Glass, desperately trying to escape her tabloid past but compulsively drawn back into a game of cat-and-mouse with the prom date who destroyed everything she was reaching for.

Older women often feel invisible, but sometimes that's their secret weapon. They've spent their lives as the deadliest assassins in a clandestine international organization, but now that they're sixty years old, four women friends can't just retire-it's kill or be killed in this action-packed thriller by New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated author Deanna Raybourn.

An instant New York Times bestseller!

Armed with only hazy memories, a woman who long ago witnessed her friend's sudden, mysterious death, and has since spent her life trying to forget, sets out to track down answers. What she uncovers, deep in the woods, is hardly to be believed. . . .

In the waning days of the turbulent 1970s, in the wake of unsolved child-killings that have shocked Detroit, the lives of several residents are drawn together with tragic consequences. There is Hannah, wife of a prominent local businessman, who has begun an affair with a darkly charismatic stranger whose identity remains elusive; Mikey, a canny street hustler who finds himself on a chilling mis

Originally published: New York: Leisure Books, 2004.

The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new ­partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient.

In One of Our Kind, Jasmyn and King Williams move to the utopian Black community of Liberty, California. While King embraces its wellness culture, Jasmyn feels alienated by the residents' superficiality. When she discovers a dark secret about Liberty, she must confront how its ideals threaten her family's future, exploring the complexities of freedom and identity.

Life has not been the same for Rurik the Viking since leaving Maire of the Moors, the fiery witch who put the blue zigzag on his face after a night of passion.