Shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association International Dagger AwardSpectatorand Best Books of 2019'An intriguing mashup of police procedural and golden age puzzle mystery'and GuardianInternational bestseller Keigo Higashino returns with his latest mindbender -and Newcomerand - as newly transferred Tokyo Police Detective Kyochiro Kaga is...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA DAGGER IN TRANSLATION'Disturbing and powerful . I loved it' - Leïla Slimani, author ofand Lullaby'Icy and chilling... In sharply drawn sentences, Sedira summons the beauty of a small French village, and the shocking acts of the people inside it' -...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER 2023'As great a contribution to the noble British genre of detective fiction as any writer for decades' Stephen Fry'This moody, atmospheric novel is full of surprises'and Sunday Timesand (Crime Book of the Month)----------------------------------------------------------Ryan Wilkins grew up on a...

Shortlisted for theand Financial Timesand Business Book of the Year Award***A Waterstones Best Books of 2022 pick***Aand Financial Times,and The Timesand andand The Economistand Book of the Year'Gripping...and Aand startling tale of fraudand and impunity.and 'and Theand Economist'I read it in one sitting, and...

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2008'Sea of Poppiesand boasts a varied collection of characters to love and hate, and provides wonderfully detailed descriptions . . . utterly involving and piles on tension until the very last page'and Sunday TimesAt the heart of this...

Shortlisted for The Orange Prize for Fiction 2012 If it hadn't been for the child then none of this might have happened. She saw me kissing her father. She saw her father kissing me. The fact that a child got mixed up in it...

Shortlisted for the YA Book Prize 2018HOW DO YOU KNOW WHO TO TRUST WHEN YOU CAN'T EVEN TRUST YOURSELF?I look at my hands. One of them says FLORA BE BRAVE.Flora has anterograde amnesia. She can't remember anything day-to-day: the joke her friend made, the...

Should be at the top of everyone's wish list. Fennell has created one of the most compelling characters in UK crime fiction' -and M.W. CRAVENFOR THIS KILLER IT'Sand DEATH AT FIRST SIGHTand . . .The brilliantly dark new serial killer thriller from one of...

Simon Mason has created crime fiction's most entertaining double act in decades' Mick Herron'As great a contribution to the noble British genre of detective fiction as any writer for decades'and Stephen FryOxford. A city of lost things - and buried crimes.At three o'clock in...

Sisters Tiao and Fan grew up in the shadow of the Cultural Revolution where they witnessed ritual humiliation and suffering. They also witnessed the death of their baby sister in a tragic accident. It was an accident they could have prevented; an accident that...

Sixteen-year-old Amanda McCready has disappeared. Her anxious aunt contacts Patrick Kenzie to investigate. It is not the first time she has gone missing, as Patrick well knows - he was the investigator who worked on her case when she was kidnapped before, as a...

Sleepless nights were just the beginning . . .Natalie already loves her newborn son, Oliver, with everything she has. From the moment he was born, she knew that she was meant to be his mother.But when Oliver refuses to sleep, and her husband Tyler...

Smart, sophisticated and suspenseful.'and HARLAN COBEN'Sleek, cunning and breakneck.'and MEGAN ABBOTT'Thriller writing at its absolute best.'and JEFFREY DEAVER'Top-tier.'and New York TimesFrom the top ten bestselling author ofand The Expats:and Kate Moore is back in a pulse-pounding thriller which takes place over the course of...

Smuggled to the Middle East as a child.Trained as one of the most elite insurgents of his generation.Forced to do things no one should, for a cause he couldn't believe in.But as his brothers were preparing to kill, he was looking for a way...

So chillingly addictive you'll forget to breathe' CHRIS WHITAKER, author of WE BEGIN AT THE ENDTHEY BELIEVE HIS LIES.and SHE KNOWS THE TRUTH.You can't lie to Izzy Lambert. Her highly developed empathic abilities allow her to read people's emotions with terrifying accuracy - and...

So how do I greet the New Millennium? In despair. I'm a single parent, I live with my mother . . . I have a bald spot the size of a jaffa cake on the back of my head . . . I can't...

So when one of his former apprentices is kidnapped in the badlands of Pakistan, Shepherd doesn't hesitate to join a rescue mission. But when the plan goes horribly wrong, Shepherd ends up in the hands of al-Qaeda terrorists. His SAS training is of little...

Solve the mystery with the Secret Seven - everyone's favourite detective club! A brand-new, action-packed Secret Seven adventure by prizewinning author Pamela Butchart.When Peter discovers an old skull hidden in his bedroom, it's time for an urgent meeting of the Secret Seven. Setting off...

Solve the mystery with the Secret Seven - everyone's favourite detective club! These timeless stories are perfect for young fans of mystery, adventure or detective series. Also available in audiobook!In book four, something mysterious is going on at Tigger's Barn, and the Secret Seven...

Solve the mystery with the Secret Seven - everyone's favourite detective club! These timeless stories are perfect for young fans of mystery, adventure or detective series. Also available in audiobook!In book four, something mysterious is going on at Tigger's Barn, and the Secret Seven...

Solve the mystery with the Secret Seven - everyone's favourite detective club! These timeless stories are perfect for young fans of mystery, adventure or detective series. Also available in audiobook!In book seven, the Secret Seven have a fantastic new hiding place, but somebody else...

Solve the mystery with the Secret Seven - everyone's favourite detective club! These timeless stories are perfect for young fans of mystery, adventure or detective series. Also available in audiobook!In book six, Peter and Janet are the only witnesses when a car is stolen....

Solve the mystery with the Secret Seven - everyone's favourite detective club! These timeless stories are perfect for young fans of mystery, adventure or detective series.In book fifteen, the Seven are determined to help out. They are very fond of Tolly and his sick...

Solve the mystery with the Secret Seven - everyone's favourite detective club! These timeless stories are perfect for young fans of mystery, adventure or detective series.In book fourteen, Scamper the spaniel discovers an unwanted visitor, then he protects the Secret Seven as they spy...

Solve the mystery with the Secret Seven - everyone's favourite detective club! These timeless stories are perfect for young fans of mystery, adventure or detective series.In book nine, a girl has mysteriously run away from home and her parents are frantic with worry. Can...

Solve the mystery with the Secret Seven - everyone's favourite detective club! These timeless stories are perfect for young fans of mystery, adventure or detective series.In book ten, the gang witness the horror of a house going up in flames. Then there's the theft...

Solve the mystery with the Secret Seven - everyone's favourite detective club!and This fantastic bumper collection contains Secret Seven books 10-12, with illustrations by Tony Ross.Book 10: Puzzle For The Secret Sevenand (first published in 1958)In book ten, the gang witness the horror of...

Some people rob banks because they're greedy. Others enjoy the adrenalin rush. Me? I robbed a bank because of guilt. Specifically: guilt and a Nepalese scented candle…When fifteen-year-old Dylan accidentally burns down the house of the girl he's trying to impress, he feels that...

Some secrets are worth killing for.In an upscale Bel Air property, two lovers are found dead in a swimming pool. The man is the playboy heir to a business empire, and the woman is his even wealthier married neighbour.An illicit affair is the perfect...

SOMEONE KILLED YOUR DAUGHTER.SOMEONE YOU KNOW...***and SUNDAY TIMESand CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH, from the bestselling author of FOUND***'The unravelling of a family are brilliantly portrayed in this painfully realistic novel'and SUNDAY TIMES'Brilliant, compelling, heart-wrenching writing' PETER JAMESYour daughter isn't answering your calls.She's not...

Someone wants Jack Ryan Dead - and fast...Covert operative Jack Ryan Jr is enjoying some well-earned Randamp;R when an attempt is made on his life. He survives, only to learn that another attempt on his life is imminent.Having barely survived the first time, Jack...

Something is lurking beneath the water's surface...Recently widowed actress Casey Fletcher has escaped to her family's lake house for peace and quiet. She's been happily losing herself in her thoughts and several bottles of bourbon, until the glamorous couple across the lake catch her...

Something is waiting in the dark…The stunning new thriller from the bestselling author of Velocity and Breathless.Billy Lucas confesses to a shocking crime. He's only fourteen years old but he's a sadistic killer and proud of it. He's in the secure wing of the...

Something sinister is stirring in the veins if Arkham Asylum's inmates.and Psychotic and frothing with fiendish strenght, they are unleashed onto the streets of Gotham.and The Dark Knight must do everything in his power to protect the people and unmask the culprit behind the...

Sometimes figuring out the truth means going to the point of no return. For Mitchum, returning isn't something he concerns himself with.HIDDEN:and Rejected by the Navy SEALs, Mitchum is content to be his small town's unofficial private eye, until his beloved 14-year-old cousin is...

Sookie Stackhouse is a small-town cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She's pretty. She does her job well. She keeps to herself - she has only a few close friends, because not everyone appreciates Sookie's gift: she can read minds. That's not exactly every man's...

SOON TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX FILMDisappearing intelligence analysts lead the Gray Man deep into a conspiracy in the latest explosive novel from number oneand New York Timesand bestseller Mark Greaney.The first agent's disappearance was a puzzle.The second was a mystery.The third was a...

Sophie Breeze is a brilliant bridesmaid. So brilliant, in fact, that she's made it her full-time job.As a professional bridesmaid, Sophie is secretly hired by brides to be their right-hand woman, ensuring their big day goes off without a hitch. From wrangling rowdy hen...

Southall, West London. After being released from prison, Zaq Khan is lucky to land a dead-end job at a builders' yard. All he wants to do is keep his head down and put the past behind him.But when Zaq is forced to search for...

Sparkling white snowdrifts, beautiful presents wrapped in ribbons, and multicolored lights glittering in the night through the falling snow. A Christmas Eve snowstorm transforms one small town into a romantic haven, the kind you see only in movies. Well, kinda. After all, a cold...

Spellbinding and suspenseful, Jeffrey Archer delivers thrills like no other author inand The Prodigal Daughter. A magnificent story of love and politics, a No. 1 worldwide bestseller and the enthralling sequel to the multimillion-selling global phenomenonand Kane and Abel.With a will of steel, Florentyna...

Spetsnaz was once a name to strike fear into the hearts of Mother Russia's enemies. But what was there left to fight now the country had gone to the dogs? Dima Mayakovsky once a revered figure inside the elite Special Forces unit - wanted...

Spider Shepherd's MI5 controller, Charlie Button, has gone rogue, using government resources to get revenge on the men who killed her husband. Spider is told to betray her. Worse, he's asked to cooperate with his nemesis at MI6, Jeremy Willoughby-Brown, in taking Charlie down....

SPIKY, WITTY, A BREATH OF FRESH AIR'and PANDORA SYKES'IMAGINE IF THE WRITERS OF MOTHERLAND TRIED THEIR HANDS AT A MISSING PERSON MYSTERY'and INDEPENDENTA 'HOTTEST, MUST-READ NEW BOOK FOR 2025' INand SUNDAY TIMES,and STYLIST,and INDEPENDENTand ANDand SERVICE95Maybe having a few enemies on the school run...

SShe thought losing him was the worst thing that could happen.She was wrong.They tell her not to worry. Her sister, the police. They say it's only natural, when someone close to you dies, to see him everywhere, sense him still nearby.But they don't know...

STAR PICK IN THEand SUNDAY TIMESand CRIME CLUBWINNER OF THE CWA JOHN CREASEY NEW BLOOD DAGGER, FROM THE AUTHOR OFand WHEN GHOSTS COME HOME'Bold, daring, graceful and engrossing.' BOBBIE ANN MASON____________They said Pastor Chamblis was a good man.They said he could perform miracles, heal...

Stephanie Patrick is devastated after her whole family dies in a plane crash. But when she discovers that the downing of flight NE027 wasn't an accident but an act of terrorism, Stephanie enters the fight of her life to achieve her one goal: revenge.When...

Stephanie Patrick's life is destroyed by the crash of flight NE027: her family was on board and there were no survivors.Devastated, she falls into a world of drugs and prostitution - until the day she discovers that the crash wasn't an accident, but an...

Stephanie Plum breaks the rules, flirts with disaster, and shows who's boss in the latest smash hit from No. 1and New York Timesand bestselling author Janet Evanovich.Monday mornings should be predictable. Stephanie Plum knows that something is amiss when she turns up for work...

Stephen King's legendary debut, about a teenage outcast and the revenge she enacts on her classmates. Carrie White may have been unfashionable and unpopular, but she had a gift. Carrie could make things move by concentrating on them. A candle would fall. A door...