Crime Fiction

Saint-Sauver, home to Richard Ainsworth and Valerie d'Orcay's detective agency, is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its town twinning with Anglethorp Spa in Lincolnshire. Events are planned, a huge brocante,...

'The work of a master storyteller ' Daily Telegraph 'One of crime's most engaging duos' Guardian THE SUNDAY TIMES CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2023 ________ Private Detective Cormoran Strike...

HE TRUSTS HIS LAWYER WITH HIS LIFE . . . HE SHOULDN'T. For fans of Steve Cavanagh, Linwood Barclay and Gillian McAllister, this is the latest novel from the master...

'You'll be lucky if you read a more engaging novel this year' The Times Thriller of the Month ' Small Mercies is thought-provoking, engaging, enraging, and can't-put-it-down entertainment' Stephen King...

The story of a deadly epidemic spread not merely by microbes but by sinister sabotage - a terrifying cautionary tale for the millennium as the health care giants collide. After...

When you dig, will you strike gold ... or unearth dangerous secrets? An exciting new series from the queen of rural crime. No matter how much or how little you...

You did what any mother would do . . . and now someone else's son is dead Sarah always thought of herself and her husband, Tom, as good people. But...

You made a mistake. But they're saying it's murder . . . Every Monday, 49-year-old Ellie looks after her grandson Josh. She loves him more than anyone else in the...

THE MILLION COPY #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO KILL YOUR FAMILY IS BACK WITH THE NEW BOOK OF THE MOMENT Delicious' JOJO MOYES 'Super-sharp, lethally witty' NIGELLA LAWSON 'Wonderfully...

'I absolutely loved The Lost Man. I devoured it in a day. Her best yet!' Liane Moriarty From the international bestselling author of The Dry and new novel The Survivors....

'A page-turner ... nothing less than magical' Observer 'An extraordinary slice of suburban noir' Daily Mail From one of America's most renowned storytellers comes a novel about love and deceit,...

'Marvellous' Bridget Collins, The Sunday Times bestselling author of The Binding Sometimes the greatest spectacle hides the darkest secrets . . . In an alternate London, the city's Theatre District...

PRE-ORDER THE SWAN'S DAUGHTER , THE LATEST FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ROSHANI CHOKSHI! 'LINGERS LIKE A FEVER DREAM' V.E. SCHWAB 'INTOXICATING' EMILY HENRY The addictive and haunting Sunday Times...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King's beloved novella, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption - the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award-nominee The Shawshank Redemption - about an...

The rules of the running club are the same as they have always been: keep your breath steady, keep your mind sharp, record your laps! Only now there's a new...

A CASTLE ROCK NOVEL WITH A FOREWORD BY STEPHEN KING Something evil has swept into the small Maine town of Castle Rock on the heels of the latest winter storm....

The cell rings twice, and then his old partner in his ear... 'I'm at the scene of what appears to be a murder-suicide. I'd like you to come and take...

'Dinuka McKenzie has talent to burn' Dervla McTiernan A parent's worst nightmare. A case that's too close to home. The tense, must-read new Detective Kate Miles novel from the award-winning...

EVERYONE HAS THEIR PRICE. A judge has been brutally murdered. His body is found in a remote lakeside cabin. There is no sign of forced entry or a struggle. Just...

THE GRIPPING THRILLER THAT INSPIRED THE MAJOR NEW NETFLIX SERIES Every couple has their secrets . . . It's wedding season, and tensions are brewing. When one lavish wedding ends...

TEN DAYS TO SAVE A LIFE. ONE SECOND TO END IT. Mitch McDeere has cheated death and come out the other side. Fifteen years ago, he stole millions from the...

** With a bonus story for the paperback edition. ** 'You like it darker? Fine, so do I' writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of...

King and Chizmar join forces again with a powerful stand-alone novel that is also the final chapter in the Gwendy trilogy. When Gwendy Peterson was twelve, a stranger named Richard...

FIRST HE TAKES YOU. THEN HE BREAKS YOU. The 13th adrenaline-packed Robert Hunter thriller and Top Ten Sunday Times bestseller . . . 'Gruesome but utterly riveting - and all...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PETRONA AWARD 2025, CELEBRATING THE BEST SCANDINAVIAN CRIME NOVELS OF THE YEAR From the internationally bestselling author of Quicksand , a brilliant, gut-wrenching story of childhood friends...

' A Neighbour's Guide to Murder is fiendishly sharp, clever and gripping . Nobody captures the mores of neighbourhoods and communities, and multi-generational complexities, like Louise Candlish. She's in a...

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The engrossing and propulsive historical fiction debut from a talented new writer, for readers of Geraldine Brooks' Year of Wonders , Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet , Lauren Groff's Matrix , Robyn...

The daring and electrifying book that inspired one of the most notorious films ever made 'What we were after was lashings of ultraviolence' In this nightmare vision of youth in...

Hugh Arkwright's remote childhood in the Central African bush, and its sudden disruption, leaves him with a legacy of magic, mystery and tragic loss. Late in his life, he returns...

The incredible new novel from C.S. Green - featuring Detective Rose Gifford Something terrible happened in that house... 'An enthralling, multi-layered crime novel that fans of Peter James and Lisa...

To the outside world, suave, charming and confident doctor Marcus Valentine has it all. A loving wife, three kids, a great job. But there's something missing, there always has been....

Soon to be a Paramount+ original series. Welcome to Chapel Croft where all your worst nightmares come true . . . Reverend Jack Brooks is looking for a fresh start....

To the girls who came to make it big in the town's 'What the Butler Saw' movie industry, Aberystwyth was the town of broken dreams. To Dean Morgan who taught...

Don't miss the latest utterly emotional thriller, brimming with family drama from Sunday Times bestseller Susan Lewis! What happened to her was unforgivable. But what she did was worse... A...

Thirteen-year-old Emily Houchens doesn't have many friends. She spends her time alone in the woods near her house - her safe place, until she finds the body of a young...

Defectors are not always welcome. Is the information they bring worth the cost of protecting them for the rest of their lives? Is it even genuine? Might they be double...

PRE-ORDER HOTEL UKRAINE , THE BRAND NEW ARKADY RENKO NOVEL FROM MARTIN CRUZ SMITH, COMING SUMMER 2025! 'Martin Cruz Smith does more on a page than most writers manage in...

Maria is an ambitious young graduate about to embark on a journey round the world with friends. Her life is a million miles from that of her early childhood in...

The Smallwoods are a middle-class, small-town, South Carolina family. You would not look for treachery in a family like the Smallwoods. You would not look for bloodstains or double bolt...

Instant New York Times Bestseller "Unimpeachably terrific." - The New York Times Book Review For fans of Ruth Ware, Shari Lapena, and Donna Tartt: a twisty, fast-paced, cinematic literary thriller,...

Inspired by true events, a thrilling Depression-era novel from the author of The Librarian of Burned Books about a woman's quest to uncover a mystery surrounding a local librarian and...

Winner of the Crook's Corner Book Prize, finalist for the Golden Poppy Award, and longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize "This immersive, full-bodied novel will keep its...

' Jane Eyre meets American Psycho . Gloriously outrageous, sensationally unhinged' SUNDAY TIMES 'Simmering with rage, propulsive and laugh-out-loud funny' CATRIONA WARD 'Weird and wonderful' LUCY MANGAN, GUARDIAN Winifred Notty...

Heaven and Earth is a novel about sisterhood in its many guises, about how social reality appears to a 25 years old activist called Sarah and to her artistically gifted...

' A Neighbour's Guide to Murder is fiendishly sharp, clever and gripping . Nobody captures the mores of neighbourhoods and communities, and multi-generational complexities, like Louise Candlish. She's in a...