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A A Gill

Andrew Swanston read law at Cambridge, but was inspired to write by his lifelong interest in early modern history. His Thomas Hill novels – The King’s Spy, The King’s Exile and The King’s Return – are set against the backdrops of the English Civil War, Cromwell’s Commonwealth and the early Restoration respectively. He is also the author of Waterloo: The Bravest Man and Beautiful Star and Other Stories. His first historical thriller set during the reign of Elizabeth I – Incendium (published in paperback as The Incendium Plot) – introduced readers to the academic, lawyer and intelligencer Dr Christopher Radcliff, whose adventures continue in Chaos. Andrew Swanston lives in Surrey.

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A E Langsford

A G Hopkins

A. J. BAIME is the New York Times best-selling author of The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War and Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans. Both books are in development for major motion pictures. Baime is a longtime regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal, and his articles have also appeared in the New York Times, Popular Science, and Men’s Journal. He lives in Granite Bay, California. Visit him at facebook.com/ajbaime and trumanbook.com.

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A J P Taylor

Anthony James Pollard is a British medieval historian, specialising in the fifteenth century and in particular the Wars of the Roses. A leading authority in the field, he is profesor emeritus of Teesside University. His books include North-Eastern England during the Wars of the Roses, Richard III and the Princes in theTower, Imagining Robin Hood: the Late Medieval Stories in Historical Context and Warwick the kingmaker: Politics, Power and Fame.

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A J Rochester

A K Benjamin is a clinical neuropsychologist and the author of Let Me Not Be Mad: A Story of Unravelling Minds.

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A. L. Berridge read English at Oxford, and taught for ten years before moving into television, where her production credits range from period drama and thrillers to long-running soaps. She has written two previous novels, Top Ten besteller Honour and the Sword and In the Name of the King. Into the Valley of Death is her third novel.

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Alison Gaylin's first job was as a reporter for a celebrity tabloid, which sparked a lifelong interest in writing about people committing despicable acts. More than a decade later, she wrote and published her Edgar-nominated first novel, HIDE YOUR EYES. 
 
She's since published nine more books, including the USA Today and international bestselling Brenna Spector suspense series, which has been nominated for the Edgar, Anthony and Thriller awards and won the Shamus award. 
 
She lives in upstate New York with her husband, daughter, cat and dog.

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A.S. Webb is the Sunday Times bestselling author of Daughter of Chaos, the first instalment of The Dark Pantheon Trilogy. She is inspired by stories rooted in history and mythology, that push the boundaries of imagination and urge us to reflect on what it means to be human.

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A. A. Dhand is the author of six previous novels, and has been shortlisted for the CWA Steel Dagger Award. His DI Harry Virdee novels are currently being adapted for TV by the BBC. He was raised in Bradford and spent his youth observing the city from behind the counter of a small convenience store. After qualifying as a pharmacist, he worked in London and travelled extensively before returning to Bradford to start his own business and begin writing. The history, diversity and darkness of the city have inspired all his novels. For more information about A. A. Dhand and his books, follow him on X @aadhand, and on Instagram @aa_dhand.

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A. B. Poranek grew up sharing her time between Ontario, Canada and rural Poland, and eventually completed a veterinary degree at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences. A lover of mythology and history, she enjoys exploring both in her writing. Her debut novel, Where the Dark Stands Still, an instant New York Times bestseller, is an ode to Poland's folktales, while A Treachery of Swans transports readers to a world inspired by 17th century France.

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Professor A. C. Grayling is Principal of the New College of the Humanities at Northeastern University, London, and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. He has written and edited over thirty books on philosophy, history, science and current affairs. For several years he wrote columns for the Guardian newspaper and The Times and was the chairman of the 2014 Man Booker Prize.

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A.D. Miller is the author of Snowdrops, The Earl of Petticoat Lane and The Faithful Couple. Snowdrops was a bestseller and was shortlisted for many prizes including the Man Booker and the CWA Gold Dagger. It was translated into 25 languages. As Moscow Correspondent of The Economist A.D. Miller has travelled across the former Soviet Union and covered the Orange Revolution in Ukraine; he is now the magazine’s Culture Editor based in London. 
 
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A. Igoni Barrett was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, in 1979 and lives in Lagos. He is a winner of the 2005 BBC World Service short story competition, the recipient of a Chinua Achebe Center Fellowship, a Norman Mailer Center Fellowship, and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency. His short story collection, Love is Power, or Something Like That, was published in 2013. In 2014 he was named on the Africa39 list of sub-Saharan African writers under 40. Blackass is his first novel.

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The short life of A.J.A. Symons (1900-41) was described by his biographer as an intricate and largely harmless confidence trick. His many interests included the collection of musical boxes and rare books as well as the study and practice of forgery; they left him time to edit an anthology of Edwardian verse and compose studies of H.M. Stanley and other notable figures. He is remembered for The Quest for Corvo, one of the most remarkable biographies ever written, and for co-founding the Wine and Food Society.

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Nicci Cloke

Daughter. Friend. Lover. Murderer? 
 
When four wealthy and influential members of London’s most exclusive private club are poisoned, a young waitress is charged with their murder. As the trial grips the nation, five men begin to question how well they really knew her. 
 
There's her father, who remembers the sweet girl growing up in Devon; her childhood friend, who is swept up in her fascination with conspiracy theories; her lover, who wants to distance himself from a young woman with an obsession; her barrister, who knows she's hiding something; and the journalist investigating the case, who is convinced he knows exactly what she is: a cold-blooded killer. 
 
To each of them, she is something different. But which is the true face of Katie Cole?

Her Many Faces

Jo Nesbo

'Many authors know how to make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. Jo Nesbo's one of the few who keeps them there' Linwood Barclay 
 
'A series of spectacular plot twists leads to a thrilling finale. Highly recommended' Guardian 
 
THE MARK OF THE DEVIL. 
 
A young woman is murdered in her flat and a tiny red diamond in the shape of a five-pointed star is found behind her eyelid. 
 
THE SIGN OF A KILLER. 
 
Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case, alongside his long-time adversary Tom Waaler, and initially wants no part in it. But Harry is already on his final warning and has little alternative but to drag himself out of his alcoholic stupor when it becomes apparent that Oslo has a serial killer on its hands. 
 
IS THIS AN EVIL THAT ONLY HARRY HOLE CAN STOP?

Detective Hole: The Devil’s Star

D. B. John

A gripping international thriller from the author of THE STAR OF THE NORTH 
 
It's 2018. A desperate, starving 18-year-old North Korean defector makes it to the US consulate in Hanoi, Vietnam. He knows only one Western name. Jenna Williams. He asks to meet her. 
 
Jenna works under an alias at the US embassy in Russia arranging university exchanges - the cover for her role as a senior intelligence officer assigned to the CIA's Moscow station. She 37 years old, a Korean-African-American. 
With Jenna's help, Woo-jin, known as 'Books', receives the asylum and US citizenship granted to all North Korean defectors. He speaks Russian and English well, so at Jenna's suggestion he starts to study at the American School in Moscow so that she can help him acclimatise to the world outside North Korea. 
 
But while watching a television news conference on the eve of a summit in Singapore, Books is shocked to discover he recognises one of the the president's aides, Eric Rahn. He was a fellow cadet of the Mangyongdae Revolutionary School in North Korea. 
 
Jenna requests an urgent face-to-face meeting with the CIA director to warn him that the White House has been infiltrated. But with North Korean killers closing in, Jenna must get out of Russia fast. At the same time in Singapore, as the historic meeting with the North Korean leader is about to begin, Eric Rahn has the President's ear, and urges him to make a secret promise that will have fateful consequences...

Red Star Down

Denise Mina

** FROM THE NY TIMES and Costa shortlisted author, comes a NEW standalone thriller** 
 
The truth might set her free ... but will it be the death of her? 
 
When blood spatter expert Claudia O’Shiel finds herself on stage to talk about the most famous criminal case in recent history, she has a choice to make: explain how her evidence put away the man responsible for the brutal double murder? Or tell them the truth – that the real killer is still out there, and if she tries to expose this conspiracy, it won’t just be her life on the line. 
 
A taut, intelligent suspense novel for fans of Val McDermid, Elly Griffiths and Tana French, The Good Liar is about power, class, and the lengths we're willing to go for family. 
 
Praise for Denise Mina 
'Crime-writing royalty' IAN RANKIN 
'A delight' ANN CLEEVES 
'Highly original' THE TIMES 
'Darkly brilliant' OBSERVER

The Good Liar

Philip Gray

A master forger. A hidden fortune. A dangerous game of cat and mouse... 
 
In post-war Flanders, Adelais de Wolf's family is slowly, inexplicably, falling apart: her mother evermore lost to religious devotion, her father to alcohol. But with the death of a beloved uncle, Adelais finds herself in receipt of an unexpected legacy: a shuttered house in a rundown district and its contents – contents that hold the promise of independence and wealth. All that is required is application, nerve, and a willingness to break the law. 
 
Adelais stifles her doubts and her fortunes are transformed. But with her rise comes complications: her victimless crimes may not be as victimless as she supposed. Nor has she counted on the singular fanaticism of Major de Smet of the Federal Gendarmerie, a brutal detective who never forgives and never forgets. 
 
Embroiled in a game that has gone on too long, will Adelais find the cost of her fortunes too high?

The House with Nine Locks

This killer has a story. 
 
When a small-time crook is shot down in the streets of Minneapolis, all signs point to a lone wolf, a sniper who has vanished into thin air. 
 
To tell it, he needs to get caught. 
 
When the shooter strikes again, it’s maverick detective Bob Oz they call in to crack the case. They don’t think this victim will be the last. 
 
And this wolf wants the world to know... 
 
As the body count rises, Oz suspects something even more sinister is at play. And the closer he gets to the truth, the more disturbed he becomes. Because this serial killer reminds him of someone dangerous: himself. 
 
He’s only just getting started. 
 
Wolf Hour is a gritty standalone thriller packed with unexpected twists, dark secrets and bubbling personal and political tension, from the king of the cliffhanger.

Wolf Hour

Asta Olivia Nordenhof

A groundbreaking, profound and intimate novel about capitalism’s effects on the human heart: Money to Burn is the first volume of the Scandinavian Star series, a new masterpiece of Danish literature 
 
'Buzzes with electricity… intriguing, maddening, exciting. I’m in’ Observer 
 
'Taut and intelligent… a moving love story and an incendiary indictment of contemporary society' Literary Review 
 
Maggie and Kurt are struggling to hold their marriage together after their only daughter has left home. They live in an old farmhouse in Nyborg but somehow keep missing each other, unable to discuss the events that brought them together. 
 
Decades ago, a passenger ferry called the Scandinavian Star caught fire, killing 159 people. The event is still considered a national tragedy in Denmark and Norway. Years later, it was revealed not to be an accident, but the result of an insurance scam gone wrong. 
 
How is the Scandinavian Star disaster connected to Maggie and Kurt? How does money affect and infect our closest relationships? And is it ever possible to escape? 
 
‘A comet in Scandinavian literature’ OLGA RAVN 
 
‘Startling and irresistible’ CLAIRE-LOUISE BENNETT 
 
'Unusual, fascinating, and complicated in the best way' CLAIRE FULLER 
 
'Nordenhof's writing is electrifying' CHETNA MAROO

Money to Burn

Joseph O'Connor

In a city under siege, no one can be trusted. The acclaimed wartime thriller from the internationally bestselling author of My Father's House. 
 
'Thrilling, terrifying and entertaining in equal measure' Liz Nugent, Number One Bestselling author of Strange Sally Diamond 
 
February 1944. Six months since Nazi forces occupied Rome. 
 
Inside the beleaguered city, the Contessa Giovanna Landini is a member of the band of Escape Line activists known as ‘The Choir’. Their mission is to smuggle refugees to safety and help Allied soldiers, all under the nose of Gestapo boss Paul Hauptmann. 
 
During a ferocious morning air raid a mysterious parachutist lands in Rome and disappears into the backstreets. Is he an ally or an imposter? His fate will come to put the whole Escape Line at risk. 
 
Meanwhile, Hauptmann’s attention has landed on the Contessa. As his fascination grows, she is pulled into a dangerous game with him – one where the consequences could be lethal. 
 
 
'As thrilling, beautiful and sensational a novel as you'll read this year or any year' Donal Ryan, Sunday Times 
 
'Vivid and moving' Guardian 
 
‘A stellar piece of storytelling’ Daily Mail 
 
'Not just a wartime thriller, but a meditation on how we remember, how we resist and how, even in the darkest times, humanity endures' New York Times 
 
'Excellent...rings so emotionally true and clear... The writing has the energy and tension of a thriller, yet the language is rich, visual and beautiful' Sunday Independent

The Ghosts Of Rome

Laurent Binet

'There is no living writer whose new books I fall on with greater delight than Laurent Binet. . . Perspectives is a proper treat' Naomi Alderman 
 
'A dazzling romp' Guardian 
 
Florence,1557. As dawn breaks, a painter is discovered lying on the floor of a church, stabbed through the heart. 
 
Above him, the paintings he laboured over for more than a decade. At his home, a hidden portrait scandalously depicting Maria de Medici, daughter of the Duke of Florence, as a naked Venus. Who is the murderer? Who made the painting? As the city erupts in chaos, Giorgio Vasari, the great art historian, is picked to lead the investigation. 
 
Letters fly back and forth carrying news of plots and speculation about the killer’s identity – between Maria and her aunt Catherine de’ Medici, the queen of France; between Catherine and her secret agents; and between Vasari and his friend Michelangelo. And the truth, when it comes to light, is as shocking as the bold new artworks that have made Florence the red-hot centre of Europe. 
 
Bursting with characters and colour, Perspectives is a mystery like no other that shows us Renaissance Florence as we’ve never seen it before – a dazzling, hugely entertaining novel of court machinations, murder and art. 
 
'Doesn’t get much better than this' Sunday Telegraph 
 
'A racy and enjoyable detective story' The Times 
 
'A dazzling romp' Guardian 
 
'Funny and very gripping' Financial Times

Perspectives

Arnaldur Indridason

'Arnaldur Indridason is a literary phenomenon - and it's easy to see why' HARLAN COBEN 
 
'Indridason writes crime novels that are as chilling as the landscape where they're set' ANN CLEEVES 
 
'The undisputed King of the Icelandic Thriller' Guardian 
 
A lifetime of secrets. A murder that will expose the truth. 
 
A woman is found murdered in her Reykjavík home, her apartment ransacked. On her desk lies a note with retired detective Konrad’s phone number. Days earlier, she had begged him to find the child she gave up nearly fifty years ago. But Konrad, reluctant to reopen old wounds, turned her away. Now, haunted by guilt, he vows to uncover the truth – for her and for himself. 
As Konrad digs into the woman’s past, he is drawn into a web of secrets, lies and betrayal. Each revelation points to a hidden life that connects her death to a decades-old murder – and to shadows from Konrad’s own family history. 
 
The Quiet Mother is a masterful blend of human tragedy and relentless suspense, where every discovery comes at a cost. Arnaldur Indridason once again proves why he is the voice of Nordic Noir, delivering a harrowing tale of guilt and redemption. 
 
'One of the greats of modern crime fiction' Sunday Times'Arnaldur Indridason is indeed an expert storyteller... The Quiet Mother is yet another feather in the author’s cap … a work of genius' Steinthor Gudbjartsson, Iceland Monitor Daily 
 
*OVER 20 MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDE*

The Quiet Mother

Ajay Chowdhury

A ritual killing. An ancient curse. What's myth... and what's murder? 
 
After a bruising encounter with a terrorist group, Detective Kamil Rahman has decided to hand in his resignation to the Met and set up a detective agency with his friend Anjoli. But when his boss asks him to go to India to investigate the murder of a British engineer who was found with eighteen arrows stuck in his body, Kamil agrees to take the case, as long as Anjoli can accompany him. 
 
When they arrive in Mumbai, they find someone is on a gruesome killing spree, striking down those connected to the engineer in increasingly macabre ways. Meanwhile, an old friend of Kamil’s gets in touch to beg for his help: he believes his family are cursed, and that he is going to die on his 47th birthday, just like his father and grandfather before him. 
 
As the body count rises, Kamil is torn between solving a very real murder case and protecting his friend from a grisly – if far-fetched – fate. Can he catch a killer and prevent an ancient curse before more people lose their lives?

The Shadow

Carys Green

You can hear his every thought. But he can hear yours too... 
 
When Elijah suggests going to OneMind to celebrate their ten-year anniversary, Anna is dubious about getting the implant that will allow them to hear each other’s thoughts. However, she’s eager to please him, and to make up for the fact she can’t give him what he really wants, she agrees to take this step towards the ultimate intimacy. 
 
And at first things are great. Anna feels closer to her husband, and the novelty of communicating mind to mind is a thrill. But then she develops a strange side effect and begins having dreams that aren’t dreams, but memories. Memories that aren’t hers. And if Anna is now seeing Elijah’s memories, what if he can see hers? Will he discover what she's kept buried in her past? 
 
Desperate to keep the truth from her husband, Anna's mind becomes a prison she can't escape. How long can she keep the traitorous thoughts at bay before she drives herself mad? 
 
A clever exploration of toxic relationships, power imbalances, and privacy from an exciting new voice in the high-concept thriller space.

Always on My Mind

Kotaro Isaka

A LUXURY HOTEL FULL OF KILLERS. FIND THE TRUTH. CHECK OUT ALIVE. 
 
Nanao, ‘the unluckiest assassin in the world’, has been hired to deliver a birthday present to a luxury Tokyo hotel. By the time he leaves the guest's room one man is dead and more will soon follow. As events spiral out of control as it becomes clear that several different killers are taking a stay in the hotel at the same time. And they're all looking for a young woman with a photographic memory, hiding out on one of the twenty floors. 
 
Will Nanao find the truth about what’s going on? And will he check out alive? 
 
PRAISE FOR KOTARO ISAKA: 
 
‘Inventive fun...dark humour’ The Times 
 
‘Fresh and fun and full-throttle’ A. J. Finn, bestselling author of The Woman in the Window 
 
‘The twists and turns make this a lively read’ Daily Mirror 
 
‘A near-perfect thriller' Booklist 
 
‘Laden with dark humour’ New York Times Book Review

Hotel Lucky Seven

Samantha Harvey

FROM THE AUTHOR OF 2024 BOOKER PRIZE WINNING ORBITAL 
 
15th century Oakham, in Somerset; when a man is swept away by the village's river, an explanation has to be found: accident, suicide or murder? 
 
The village priest, John Reve, is privy to many secrets in his role as confessor. But will he be able to unravel what happened to the victim, Thomas Newman, the wealthiest, most capable and industrious man in the village? And what will happen if he can’t? 
 
Moving back in time towards the moment of Thomas Newman’s death, the story is related by Reve – an extraordinary creation, a patient shepherd to his wayward flock, and a man with secrets of his own to keep. Through his eyes, and his indelible voice, Harvey creates a medieval world entirely tangible in its immediacy. 
 
'A rich and sumptuous delight' DAILY TELEGRAPH 
 
'Astonishing… A rollicking mystery and a profound meditation on faith and existence’ OBSERVER

The Western Wind

Ruth Ware

*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, NOW A NETFLIX FILM STARRING KEIRA KNIGHTLEY* 
 
‘An edge-of-your-seat thriller’ Reese Witherspoon 
 
A PASSENGER IS MISSING...BUT WAS SHE EVER ON BOARD AT ALL? 
 
This was meant to be the perfect trip. The Northern lights. A luxury press launch on a boutique cruise ship. A chance for travel journalist Lo Blacklock to recover from a traumatic break-in that has left her on the verge of collapse. 
 
Except things don’t go as planned. 
 
Woken in the night by screams, Lo rushes to her window to see a body thrown overboard from the next-door cabin. But the records show that no-one ever checked in to that cabin, and no passengers are missing from the boat. 
 
Exhausted and emotional, Lo has to face the fact that she may have made a mistake –- either that, or she is now trapped on a boat with a murderer... 
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Praise for THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10: 
'Brilliantly claustrophobic' Sunday Times 
'A twisty puzzle' Shari Lapena 
'Terrifically tense' Good Housekeeping 
'Scary and unsettling' The Sun 
'Reads like Agatha Christie got together with Paula Hawkins to crowdsource a really fun thriller' Stylist

The Woman in Cabin 10

Regina Porter

Brooklyn, 2020. Theo Harper and his blonde, blue-eyed, pregnant wife Darla head upstate to their summer cottage to wait out the lockdown. Not everyone in their fancy apartment building has this privilege: not Xavier, the restless teenager in the Cardi B t-shirt, nor Darla’s black best friend Ruby and her partner Katsumi, who stay behind to save their restaurant.During an upstate hike, Theo lets slip a long-held secret about his mixed-up ancestry. When Darla disappears after the ensuing argument, he suddenly finds himself the prime suspect at the centre of a front-page police search for the perfect missing woman…

The Rich People Have Gone Away

FAMILY COMES FIRST. NO MATTER THE COST. 
 
'A 100% buy-today-read-tonight delight' LEE CHILD 
 
'Bracingly and bleakly funny' Telegraph 
 
Brothers Carl and Roy Opgard have succeeded in life. Or at least they’ve had as much success as is possible in a small town like Os, where they've killed their way to the top. Carl manages the swanky spa hotel, while Roy has made ambitious plans for an amusement park. 
 
Life’s good at the top. But the local sheriff is looking to bring them down. 
 
Sheriff Kurt Olsen believes he has new evidence that will prove the brothers’ involvement in several past murders – but Carl and Roy are used to covering their tracks, and they're not afraid to get their hands dirty. 
 
The body count in Os is about to get even higher. 
 
Blood Ties is an explosive suspense novel about family, loyalty, and the lengths someone is willing to go to for both, from crime writing's king of the cliffhanger.

Blood Ties

Rachel Kushner

This summer, meet Sadie Smith: seductive, cunning and going undercover – the Booker-shortlisted, wickedly entertaining New York Times bestseller 
 
‘Hugely enjoyable’ SUNDAY TIMES 
‘Wonderfully seductive’ ALAN HOLLINGHURST 
‘Really fantastic – get it!’ SARAH JESSICA PARKER 
‘Entrancing’ MICK HERRON 
 
Sadie Smith – a 34-year-old American undercover agent of ruthless tactics and bold opinions – is sent by her mysterious but powerful employers to a remote corner of France. 
 
Her mission: to infiltrate a commune of radical activists influenced by the beliefs of an enigmatic elder, Bruno Lacombe. But just as she is certain she’s the seductress and puppet master of those she surveils, Sadie becomes caught in the crossfire between the past and the future… 
 
‘Kill Bill written by John le Carré’ OBSERVER 
 
‘Smart, sinuous…brimming with heat’ NEW YORK TIMES 
 
‘Reinvents the spy novel in one cool, erudite gesture’ HERNAN DIAZ 
 
‘Laced with a killer dose of deadpan wit’ WASHINGTON POST 
 
* A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, DAILY TELEGRAPH, NEW YORK TIMES, VOGUE, INDEPENDENT, HARPER’S BAZAAR AND MORE *

Creation Lake

Layne Fargo

'Deliciously dark, razor-sharp, and unapologetically wrong in all the right ways' C.J. Skuse, author of SWEETPEA 
 
He wasn’t afraid of me. That was his first mistake. 
 
Read the cult word-of-mouth hit readers are obsessed with: 
 
‘Such an incredible read!’ 
‘Holy hell this book was fun!’ 
‘Included all the things I like in fiction…vigilantism/revenge, cold, calculating women, themes of obsession, queer desire’ 
‘Amazing twists!’ 
‘You guys NEED TO READ THIS!’ 
 
 
Scarlett Clark is an exceptional English professor and an even better serial killer. She’s made it her mission in life to track down predatory men on campus and kill them and she’s preparing for her biggest murder yet. 
 
Carly Schiller is just trying to survive her freshman year at college – keeping her head down and focussing on work. But when her roommate Allison is assaulted at a party Carly becomes obsessed with making the attacker pay. 
 
When police start investigating the spate of local deaths, Scarlett starts to realise it’s only a matter of time before her secret life is exposed and everything she’s built comes crashing down with it… 
 
‘Deliciously satisfying… The feminist revenge thriller we need and deserve’ Megan Collins 
 
‘A gorgeously-written ragestorm of a thriller…will shock readers as much as it satisfies them’ Wendy Heard 
 
‘Grabs you by the throat and doesn’t let go’ Samantha Downing

They Never Learn

Sunjeev Sahota

In one night, Nayan lost everything. Years later, his world is at risk again. 
 
Nayan has fought hard to move on, losing himself in his political work, trying to make a better world. A fresh challenge arrives with newcomer Megha, who threatens not just his career ambitions, but his ideals. 
 
Meanwhile the enigmatic Helen Fletcher returns to Chesterfield and Nayan finds himself growing close to her. But Helen carries secrets which connect her to Nayan in ways he doesn’t realise. 
 
The Spoiled Heart is an explosive story of how a few words or a single action – to one person careless, to another, charged – can trigger a cascade of unimaginable consequences. 
 
’One of Britain’s finest writers…page-turning’ Observer 
 
‘Withheld revelations and dark secrets...plot-packed, propulsive’ New York Times 
 
‘Gripping...irresistible...brilliant’ The Times 
 
'Utterly compelling, original and very moving' Tessa Hadley 
 
‘Moving and revelatory’ Financial Times 
 
‘Smart and sophisticatedly written’ Daily Telegraph 
 
‘Perfectly paced…gripping’ Guardian

The Spoiled Heart

Mahi Cheshire

You don’t know her, but she’s watching you… 
 
Anika’s life is turned upside down when her patient dies in surgery, and she’s given the blame. 
 
Hounded by news reporters and online trolls, she’s left with no choice but to escape to Sri Lanka and take up a mysterious housesitting job – a job she thinks could be her fresh start. 
 
But when a man is found dead close to where she’s staying, and the towns people start telling her to leave, people she’s never seen before, she fears her past may be catching up with her in ways she never could have imagined…

The Lying Guest

Abir Mukherjee

**A historical mystery from one of Britain's BEST crime writer's, COMING OUT in Quick Reads Format** 
 
India, 1919. A man is found dead. A note has been left in the dead man’s mouth. It warns the English to leave India. If they don’t, more blood will be spilled. 
 
Two police officers, Captain Wyndham and Sergeant Banerjee must solve the crime quickly. But there are some people who will do anything to stop them. 
 
You won’t be able to put down A Rising Man, the first mystery in the Wyndham and Banerjee series by award-winning crime writer Abir Mukherjee.

A Rising Man

Quick Reads 2025

10th Anniversary Edition

Irvine Welsh

OLD TRUTHS HAVE NEW CONSEQUENCES 
 
Ray Lennox is determined to move on from his darkest days. The maverick former detective has left Edinburgh for a fresh start in Brighton. Soon, his fixations and addictions have been replaced with quiet evenings and a rigorous fitness regime. 
 
Then Lennox meets Mathew Cardingworth. Rich, smooth-talking and immaculately dressed, he presents himself as a successful, and respectable, property developer. Yet their encounter reawakens memories that have haunted Lennox for decades, sending him into a spiral of confusion and rage. 
 
Lennox has no choice – he must confront the events of his childhood. But the more he identifies the links between Cardingworth, the disappearance of a group of foster care boys and the violence of his past, the more he finds himself asking: 
 
What will he sacrifice to achieve resolution at last?

Resolution

Brooke Robinson

TEN PEOPLE WENT INTO THE MUSEUM THAT DAY. ONLY SEVEN CAME OUT... 
 
Police officer Tia recently failed her exam to become a negotiator: her dream job. But when a peaceful climate change protest at a London museum escalates, and one of the radicalised members takes Tia and others hostage, she realises this is her chance to prove she has what it takes. 
 
Only not everyone gets out of the siege alive. 
 
Three years later, Asher is being released from prison for the part he played at the museum that day. He’s always maintained his innocence, but when someone starts threatening the survivors, leading one of them to take their own life, Tia isn’t convinced Asher is telling the whole truth. Refusing to have another death on her conscience, Tia begins to investigate. 
 
But Tia was a hostage that day too... and now she's a target. 
 
 
Praise for Brooke Robinson: 
 
'I raced through it. Brilliant writing, properly tense' Harriet Tyce, Sunday Times bestselling author of Blood Orange 
 
'Compelling and ingenious' Prima 
 
'Exciting and original' Heat 
 
'Intriguing' Daily Mail 
 
'An ingenious premise, cleverly executed' Sunday Times bestseller Sabine Durrant

The Negotiator

Susan Stokes-Chapman

A remote village, a mysterious death, a secret cult – a gripping gothic mystery from the author of number one bestseller Pandora 
 
‘A gripping, beautifully executed historical thriller, full of magic and mythology’ Rosie Andrews 
 
After a grave mistake, Henry Talbot has been forced to take a position as village doctor in remote Wales where he can't speak the language and belief in myth and magic is rife. When Henry discovers his predecessor died in mysterious circumstances, and starts to notice a cryptic symbol appearing in odd places, he sets out to find answers. 
 
The lady of the manor, Linette Tresilian, is vexingly unhelpful at first. She seems to know little about the shelves of occult books Henry notices in her family’s library. But Linette has suspicions of her own about what’s happened in the village and, together, their investigations will bind their destinies in ways neither thought possible. 
 
‘An alluring, immersive Gothic mystery’ Jennifer Saint 
 
'A haunting, transporting mystery…kept me completely enthralled' Elodie Harper 
 
‘I was gripped… the story was so dark and clever’ Stacey Thomas 
 
 
Readers love The Shadow Key 
 
'Deliciously dark, atmospheric, and brimful of folklore, magic and myth, this Gothic thriller held me spellbound from start to finish' 
 
'Devoured this book over two days' 
 
'What begins as a murder mystery turns into a gothic classic which is not to be missed. Highly recommend' 
 
'I loved the feel of this book and I was hooked from the first chapter' 
 
'A breathtaking gothic fiction with an unforgettable finale, Stokes-Chapman is quickly becoming one of my favourite authors'

The Shadow Key

Your kids are missing, accused of plotting to kill thousands. Can you find them before it's too late? 
 
It's a week before the presidential elections when a bomb goes off in an LA shopping mall. 
 
In London, armed police storm Heathrow Airport and arrest Sajid Khan. His daughter, Aliyah entered the USA with the suicide bomber, and now she's missing, potentially plotting another attack on American soil. 
 
But then a woman called Carrie turns up at Sajid's door after travelling halfway across the world. She claims Aliyah is with her son and she has a clue to their whereabouts. Carrie knows something isn't adding up - and that she and Sajid are the only ones who can find their children and discover the truth. 
 
On the run from the authorities, the two parents are thrown together in a race against time to stop their kids and prevent a catastrophe the likes of which the world has never seen. 
 
For fans of Adrian McKinty's The Chain, Clare Mackintosh's Hostage and global bestseller I Am Pilgrim, this blockbuster contemporary thriller will turn your world on its head.

Hunted

ONE BOY MISSING. ONE MAN UNDERCOVER. A WHOLE NATION AT RISK. 
 
Detective Kamil Rahman is working for the Met Police when he gets the call from MI5. They’ve received intelligence of a terrorist plot, and it’s Kamil they need. 
 
Posing as a disaffected cop, and working back in his friend Anjoli’s beloved restaurant on Brick Lane, Kamil attempts to infiltrate the cell. What he uncovers leads him halfway across the world to Kashmir, and face to face with an old nemesis. 
 
Meanwhile Anjoli starts to investigate the disappearance of a young boy who’s sending coded messages to his parents. As she attempts to solve his clues, she finds herself in greater danger than she could have imagined. 
 
Time is running out for Kamil and Anjoli: can they save the boy, and save a nation, before it’s too late? 
 
 
For fans of Robert Galbraith, Anthony Horowitz and Elly Griffiths, The Spy is the compelling, thought-provoking new mystery in the Detective Kamil Rahman series.

The Spy

DG Coutinho

Ellen is tired of being overshadowed at work. Tired of watching less competent, entitled suits take the promotions she’s earned. But when one of them pushes her too far, things take a murderous turn. And it turns out the darker Ellen goes, the shinier her future starts to look. 
 
Business can be murder, but it turns out murder can also be good business for Ellen. Torn between capitalising on her newfound success and desperately covering her tracks she soon discovers that others in the company are also interested in dramatically adjusting its toxic office culture. Will she be able to survive the competition?

The Light and Shade of Ellen Swithin

Tess Amy

‘They called us swindlers, fraudsters, tricksters, cheats. But make no mistake: we never crossed anyone who didn’t deserve it’ 
 
Emma Oxley and Nellie Yarrow have been inseparable their whole lives. Ever since they reinvented themselves, changing their names and wiping clean their digital footprints, they have made a game of following wherever the next adventure leads and challenging themselves to thefts, street cons, and mind games. 
 
Adhering to only two rules—they will only swindle men, and only ones who deserve it—Emma and Nellie are secure in their reputation as the most trustworthy swindlers on the European black market. Until suddenly, they must play to save their own lives. 
 
Blackmailed into stealing a priceless bracelet from a high-security exhibit, Emma will reexamine everything she believed to be true. This heist takes her far beyond her comfort zone and she and Nellie will need allies among the glitzy bejeweled gathering in London in order to survive. But will they be able to do the right thing before it’s too late? 
 
A story of female friendship, found family, and how one woman rediscovers her self-confidence.

The Confidence Games

Francis Duncan

Discover the perfect classic mystery for the Christmas season: mulled wine, mince pies...and murder. 
 
Mordecai Tremaine, former tobacconist and perennial lover of romance novels, has been invited to spend Christmas in the sleepy village of Sherbroome at the country retreat of one Benedict Grame. 
 
Arriving on Christmas Eve, he finds that the revelries are in full flow - but so too are tensions amongst the assortment of guests. 
 
Midnight strikes and the party-goers discover that it's not just presents nestling under the tree...there's a dead body too. A dead body that bears a striking resemblance to Father Christmas. 
 
With the snow falling and the suspicions flying, it's up to Mordecai to sniff out the culprit - and prevent someone else from getting murder for Christmas. 
 
'The book nods towards Agatha Christie but retains a crackling atmosphere of dread and horror that will chill the heart however warm your fireside' Metro

Murder for Christmas

The year is 1Q84. This is the real world, there is no doubt about that. But in this world, there are two moons in the sky. Discover the 1Q84 Trilogy by Haruki Murakami.

1Q84

365 Days of Art

A BBC Christmas

A Black Book Thriller

A Box Full of Murders

A Cal Leandros Novel

A Christmas Mystery

The intelligent and capable police commissioner Guido Brunetti confronts crime in and around his home town of Venice.

A Commissario Brunetti Mystery

A DC Smith / Kings Lake Investigation Series

A Daisy Story

Chronicling the lives of over three hundred characters, unrivalled for its scope and humour, this is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England.

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