Detective Inspector Jane Tennison was beginning to feel she'd made a big mistake.Having requested a transfer to a station nearer her home, she's now wondering if any serious crimes are ever committed in Bromley. Especially since the first case she's assigned to involves nothing...

Detective Lindsay Boxer has finally married her long-time boyfriend Joe. But she doesn't even have time for a honeymoon before returning to work and a traumatic case. A fifteen-year-old girl is found lying unconscious in the street, naked but for a cheap plastic raincoat,...

Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, creation of the CWA Diamond Dagger award-winning author Peter James, faces his most engrossing case yet inand Left You Dead.Niall and Eden Paternoster start their Sunday the same way they always do - with a long drive, a visit to...

Determined to re-evaluate her life, Jude Murray flees America to take refuge in Faerie Hill Cottage in the small Irish village of Ardmore. Surrounded by the beautiful scenery and refreshed by a more relaxed lifestyle, Jude finds herself fascinated by the local folklore. Even...

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Dickens' last novel is a mystery built around a presumed crime - the murder of a nephew by his uncle. Dickens died before completing the story, leaving the mystery unsolved and encouraging successive generations of readers to turn detective. Beyondthe preoccupying fact of this...

Did you know that one of the world's sharpest and most forensic minds inhabited the persona of an attractive old lady, with pink cheeks and blue eyes, and a gentle, rather fussy manner? Discover the secrets of Miss Marple in this gorgeous book of...

Discover Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson through the eyes of those who knew them best.From familiar faces like Mrs Hudson to minor characters like Lomax the sub-librarian,and Observations by Gaslightand - told through diaries, telegrams, and even grocery lists - paints a masterful portrait...

Discover the explosive second instalment in the Lorien Legacies series by Pittacus Lore, the bestselling author ofand I AM NUMBER FOUR'Exhilarating . . . Each book grows more and more cataclysmic and heroic'and 5***** Reader Review'This series is consistently captivating. It makes me shiver...

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Do you want to play the game?Once a year, a road appears in the woods at midnight and the ghost of Lucy Gallows beckons, inviting those who are brave enough to play her game. If you win, you escape with your life. But if...

Does what you see change who you are?Kayleigh is broke. Out of options, she takes a job as a content moderator, reviewing horrors and hate online and deciding which posts needs to be removed. Kayleigh is good at her job, and in her colleagues...

Dolls can't move by themselves.and . . . Or can they?Special anniversary edition of the hair-raising mystery that's kept readers up at night for thirty-five years. Foreword by Goosebumps creator R.L. STINE and new embossed, glow-in-the-dark jacket.Amy is terrified. She hears scratching and scurrying...

Domestic terrorism. Financial uncertainty. Troops abroad, fighting an unsuccessful and bloody war against guerrilla insurgents. A violent generation gap emerging between a discontented youth and their disapproving, angry elders.This was the early seventies in America, and it was against this backdrop that the kidnapping...

Dominic Caruso. Nephew of President Jack Ryan. FBI agent and operator for The Campus, a top secret intelligence agency that works off the books for the U.S. government. Already scarred by the death of his brother, Caruso is devastated when he can't save a...

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Donna Nightshade's first rule of composting: shred. Things rot quicker that way - cabbages, flowers, dead bodies... When Donna branches out from floristry to private investigation and opens The End of the World Detective Agency, the last thing she expects is to have a...

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Don't miss A to Z Mysteries-alphabetic adventures that are full of thrills, chills, and cases to crack! W is for Wolf... In the twenty-third book of the A to Z Mysteries-an early chapter book mystery series featuring strong boy and girl characters-Dink, Josh, and...

Don't miss CITY IN RUINS, the final instalment in the trilogy, available to preorder now!*Waterstones Best Book of 2023: Crime and Thriller*'This is storytelling at its inspiring, epic best, and it feels like a movie in the making.'and Daily Mail As powerful as anything...

Don't miss the captivating new page-turner from Sunday Times bestselling author Susan LewisYou think you're safe.You think you know your neighbours.But can you ever really know who's telling the truth?and Jeannie Symonds is a force to be reckoned with - an eccentric, award-winning publisher,...

Don't miss the latest utterly emotional thriller, brimming with family drama fromand Sunday Timesand bestseller Susan Lewis!What happened to her was unforgivable. But what she did was worse…A fresh start where no-one knows her name is exactly what jazz musician Catie Mac is looking...

Don't miss the next emotionally gripping thriller fromand Sunday Timesand bestseller Susan Lewis!THE STORY…The first chapter of a manuscript arrives on Publisher Marina's desk. She assumes it's just another novel by another aspiring writer…THE SECRET…As the chapters arrive one by one, Marina is convinced...

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Don't miss the series that inspired the major ITV drama,and Karen Pirie, starring Lauren Lyle -and Out of Boundsand is the fourth Karen Pirie thrillerRead Val McDermid's masterful new novel,and 1989, now and pre-order the eagerly awaitedand New Karen Pirie Thriller, publishing October 2023'It...

Don't miss the series that inspired the major ITV drama,and Karen Pirie, starring Lauren Lyle -and The Skeleton Roadand is the third Karen Pirie thrillerRead Val McDermid's masterful new novel,and 1989, now and pre-order the eagerly awaitedand New Karen Pirie Thriller, publishing October 2023__________'Gripping,...

Dr Julie Reesand is working in the ER in downtown Vancouver when calls of an emergency come in - fiveand teenagers have overdosed. Three died at the scene, two are in cardiac arrest and on their way to the hospital. It's a race against...

Driving home during a swirling blizzard, Vera Stanhope's only thought is to get there quickly. But the snow is so heavy, she becomes disoriented and loses her way. Ploughing on, she sees a car slewed off the road ahead of her. With the driver's...

DS Benjamin Chambers and DC Adam Winter are hunting a twisted serial killer who recreates famous works of art using the bodies of his victims. But after Chambers almost loses his life, the case goes cold - the killer lying dormant, his collection unfinished.Jordan...

During a fight with The Joker, Batman falls into a chemical vat that somehow turns him into a baby. Who is going to take care and help raise baby Batman? The Joker, that's who.Written by Satoshi Miyagawa (Uchuu Senkan Tiramisù) and illustrated by Keisuke...

During prohibition, gangsters grew rich on our vices, and rivalries between criminal organizations resulted in open war. But unknown to the masses, a more sinister power controlled the crime cartels, using greed, gluttony, lust and other sins to fuel a more lucrative trade: mortal...

Early on a bitterly cold Minnesota morning‚ three men burst through the door of a hospital pharmacy‚ duct-tape the hands‚ feet‚ mouth and eyes of two workers‚ and clean the place out. Then things go bad‚ as one of the workers dies and the...

EASILY THE GREATEST OF OUR CRIME WRITERS'Sunday Times'Absolutely loved it. So clever, just masterful stuff.'and Richard Osman'A beautiful puzzle: fiendishly clever and hugely entertaining. A masterpiece.'and Lucy Foley, author ofand The Hunting Party'You have to hand it to Horowitz: the guy never fails to...

East Prussia, 1943. Hitler hides away in the Wolfsshanze - his hidden headquarters. The tide is turning in the war and his enemies circle ever closer.Ten women are chosen.Ten women to taste his food and protect him from poison.Twenty-six-year-old Rosa has lost everything to...

Ed, an American author on the hunt for a story for his next book, arrives in London looking for inspiration. A stranger in a strange city, he's haunted by a deadly secret that refuses to stay buried, and no matter how hard he tries...

Eddie was given a dragon's egg by his uncle for his last birthday, and one day he notices a crack in the egg. Soon the egg breaks open and out comes a very unusual creature. Just as Eddie and Emily are trying to cope...

EDGE-OF-YOUR-SEAT READ' CHRIS HAMMER'SERIOUSLY GOOD. INGENIOUS PLOTTING' SARAH VAUGHAN'A MUST-READ' ELLERY LLOYD'GENUINELY CREEPY'and THE TIMESIt's not the lies that kill you. It's the truth.They predicted Ivo would become a tycoonThey predicted Ayda would go on to become a hotshot lawyerThey didn't predict that Lily...

Edward Mira is a powerful man, with a lot of enemies. But when the former senator is violently abducted, Lieutenant Eve Dallas suspects his kidnap is more personal than political. Someone is seeking justice; the bloodier the better. Edward's cousin Dennis was injured during...

Eeeny meeny, miney, moe. Who lives, who dies only I know.When the body of a doctor is discovered brutally murdered in local woodland,and Detective Kim Stoneand is shocked to discover the victim is Gordon Cordell - a man linked to a previous case she...

Eight years a soldier, Peter Ash came home from Iraq and Afghanistan with only one souvenir: what he callsand 'white static', a buzzing claustrophobia due to post-traumatic stress that has driven him toand spend a yearand roaming the Pacific coast's mountains and forests, sleeping...

Eighteen-year-old Kerry Dowling is found fully dressed at the bottom of the family pool. She threw a party the night before, while her parents were away; her house was full of people. But no one saw anything.The police immediately suspect her boyfriend, with whom...

Elena: the golden girl, the leader, the one who can have any boy she wants.Stefan: brooding and mysterious, he seems to be the only one who can resist Elena, even as he struggles to protect her from the horrors that haunt his past.Damon: sexy,...

Eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku, the second best runner in Year 7, races through his new life in England with his personalised trainers - the Adidas stripes drawn on with marker pen - blissfully unaware of the very real threat around him. Newly-arrived from Ghana with...

Ellery's never been to Echo Ridge, but she's heard all about it. It's where her aunt went missing at age sixteen, never to return. Where a Homecoming Queen's murder five years ago made national news. And where Ellery now has to live with a...

Elliot Von Doppler and his friend Leslie think nothing ever happens in Bickleburgh; the only excitement is the rumour about what goes on deep inside the gleaming headquarters of DENKi-3000, the world's eighth-largest electronics factory. No one seems to know what goes on, until...

Emika Chen barely made it out of the Warcross Championships alive. Now she can no longer trust the one person she's always looked up to - Hideo Tanaka. His plan: to wipe out all crime on Earth by ending the free will of its...

Emperor Gallienus has amassed a huge army across the Alps to seize back the mountains from the usurper Postumus.War has come.Ballista and his cavalry are on the frontline, battling in the most brutal of conditions. But if he is to survive the campaign and...