Atkinson on her finest form. A marvel of plate-spinning narrative knowhow, a peak performance of consummate control.'and OBSERVER'This isand the perfect novel for uncertain times.' THE TIMES'I can think ofand few writers other than Dickensand who can match it' SUNDAY TIMES'Brilliant'and RICHARD OSMAN'Kate Atkinson...

August 30, 1975. The day of the disappearance. The day Somerset, New Hampshire, lost its innocence.That summer, struggling author Harry Quebert fell in love with fifteen-year-old Nola Kellergan. Thirty-three years later, her body is dug up from his yard, along with a manuscript copy...

Award-winning children's book author Willy Patrick seems to be having a breakdown. Figures from her past are coming to visit her, most frightengly her dead daughter, Holly, who was murdered together with Willy's first husband. Then Willy discovers her mysterious fiance may well have...

Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective, he had an inspiring mentor who taught him to take the work personally and light the fire of relentlessness for every case. Now that mentor, J.J. Thompson, is dead, but after his funeral his...

Backbench MP Tom Goodfellowe is caught up in the search for the new Dalai Lama in this highly original and compelling thriller from the author of GOODFELLOWE MP and HOUSE OF CARDS now reissued in new cover style. Tom Goodfellowe is the unlikeliest of...

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BBC Between the Covers Book Club pick!Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who is charged with the brutal murder of her former master.'Outstanding' - Madeline Miller- The Women's Prize for Fiction Shortlist- The Guardian First...

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR - YOU MIGHT JUST GET IT... Buddy is just your average guy, So imagine his surprise when he fills in a survey on a wish-fulfilment website and only days later hooks up with the hottest actress in Hollywood....

Beautiful writing, juicy secrets... and drumbeat suspense.'and Andrea BartzSix friends. One college reunion.and One unsolved murder.Ten years after graduation, Jessica Miller has planned every detail of her triumphant return to Duquette university. Everyone will see who she wants them to see - confident, beautiful,...

Beautifully crafted by Sansom, Professor Morley promises to become a little gem of English crime writing; sample him now' Daily MailOctober 1937. Swanton Morley, the People's Professor, sets off to Essex to continue his history of England, The County Guides. Morley's daughter Miriam continues...

Beck Hardin returns to his Texas hometown - and his estranged father - after the death of his wife leaves him with two children to raise. The town is still reeling from the murder of sixteen-year-old Heidi, whose father - Beck's old college friend...

Beneath the glittering heights of the rich and powerful, lie secrets that can destroy them all...The perfect summer read, for fans ofand Cruel Intentions, Gossip Girl andand One of Us is Lying.'It is the perfect book to read at the beach. But be warned:...

Benjamín Chaparro is a man haunted by his past-a retired detective, he remains obsessed with the decades-old case of the rape and murder of a young woman in her own bedroom. As he revisits the details of the investigation, he is reacquainted with his...

Berlin in 1933 is in upheaval. Eleven-year-old Carla von Ulrich struggles to understand the tensions disrupting her family as Hitler strengthens his grip on Germany. Into this turmoil steps her mother s formidable friend and former British MP, Ethel Leckwith, and her student son,...

Best friends Azim Khan and Karan Nahru never considered politics a career choice, but then fate decreed otherwise. Forced by circumstances to rethink their professions, the two friends find themselves willy-nilly contesting the elections. Slowly but surely, Azim makes western Uttar Pradesh his electoral...

Bestselling phenomenon Simon McCleave is back with a gripping, atmospheric new crime thriller series set on the Isle of Anglesey. Will there be blood in the water? Three years ago, DCI Laura Hart was the top Hostage and Crisis Negotiator for the Greater Manchester...

BESTSELLING PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE, AND A TOP RICHARD andamp; JUDY SELECTION_____________________________OVERand 1,000and 5* REVIEWS ?and this is why readers love this book:'Grips to the point ofand OBSESSION''My lifeand STOPPEDand while I read this book''My heart wasand THUMPINGand in my chest''This isand EDGE OF YOUR SEATand...

Between 2005 and 2009, in a remote Mennonite colony, over one hundred girls and women were raped by what many thought were ghosts or demons. Their accounts were dismissed as 'wild female imagination'. Women Talking is an imagined response to these real events. When...

Biography New York Times-bestselling author Sue Grafton is published in twenty-eight countries and twenty-six languages--including Estonian, Bulgarian, and Indonesian. Books in her alphabet series, begun in 1982, are international bestsellers with readership in the millions. And like Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald, Grafton has...

A Dedicated Man is the second novel in Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series, following on from Gallows View.Near the village of Helmthorpe, Swainsdale, the body of a well-liked local historian is found half-buried under a drystone wall. Harry Steadman has been brutally murdered. But...

A gifted clairvoyant. A shocking vision. A deadly killer.Dean Koontz writes a spine-chilling novel inand The Face of Fearand - a gripping tale of predator and prey. Perfect for fans of Richard Laymon and Harlan Coben.'Real suspense... tension upon tension!' -and The New York...

An Expert in Murderand is the first in a new series that features Golden Age crime writer Josephine Tey as its lead character, placing her in the richly-peopled world of 1930s theatre which formed the other half of her writing life. It's March 1934,...

Understated and perfectly paced....What makes The Drop so good is not just the pacing, which is just about right, but the mood.... There's also the very stylish writing.--Philadelphia Inquirer Lehane is a master of the sort of deadpan-nor pioneered by the late Elmore Leonard...

Book 18 in the acclaimed and number one-bestselling Three Pines series featuring the beloved Chief Inspector Armand Gamache.It's spring and Three Pines is re-emerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying dormant should return.But something has.As...

BRAVE HERO OR CRIMINAL MASTERMIND?TONIGHT WE FIND OUT'Simon Kernick writes with his foot pressed hard on the pedal. Hang on tight!' HARLAN COBEN'Great plots, great characters, great action' LEE CHILD'Heaven for readers who love ruthless, full-throttle thrillers' SUNDAY TIMESUndercover cop Chris Sketty became a...

Troy Phelen is one of the richest men in the United States, and he's looking for a way to die. He might just have found it.Nate O'Riley is a high-octane Washington litigator who's lived too hard, too fast, for too long. Emerging from his...

Breathtaking twists and turns'and Anthony Horowitz'An unmissable, breakneck ride'and James Swallow'Exhilarating, high stakes action'and Lesley Kara______________________________A priest is murdered and a Private agent is the number one suspect.Jack Morgan is in Rome celebrating the opening of a new local Private office, when the party...

'Breathtaking... I haven't been so entirely consumed by a book for years' Telegraph 'I couldn't put it down. I'll never stop thinking about it' Ann Patchett FEAR KEEPS THEM RUNNING. HOPE KEEPS THEM ALIVE. Vivid, visceral, utterly compelling, AMERICAN DIRT is the unforgettable story...

Breath-takingly fierce, smart and tender,Only the Oceanand is a story of survival, and courage in the midst of darkness that will thrill fans of Patrick Ness and Sarah CrossanThe two girls sat at opposite ends of the boat and Kel dug and stretched the...

Bret Easton Ellis'sand American Psychoand is one of the most controversial and talked-about novels of all time. A multi-million-copy bestseller hailed as a modern classic, it is a violent and outrageous black comedy about the darkest side of human nature.With an introduction by Irvine...

BRINGING DANGER CLOSE TO HOME . . . The gripping new thriller from bestselling author Nicci French'Fantastic - a breathless drumbeat of dread and suspense . . .and no one does it better than Nicci French'and Lee Child'Heart-thumping, head-scratching, nail-biting stuff:and The Favourand is...

Brings twist after delicious twist. I love this book.'and Jo Spain______________________________Small town. Huge scandal.Beverley Franklin will do whatever it takes to protect her local school's reputation.So when a scandal involving her own daughter threatens to derail the annual school musical's appearance on national television,...

But iconoclastic New York Police investigator Jeremy Fisk believes there's more to this than a simple open-and-shut terrorism case. Fisk -from the department's Intelligence Division - suspects that in reality this is an early warning signal that another potentially more devastating attack is imminent.

But in Cambridge a child has been murdered, others are disappearing, and King Henry has called upon a renowned Italian investigator to find the killer - fast. What the king gets is Adelia, his very own Mistress of the Art of Death. The investigation...

But Sam soon discovers that for all their similarities, the government and their hired contractors have vastly different motives. As he struggles to adjust to a more corporate, profit-driven version of the work that had been his life, he stumbles across an intelligence anomaly...

By global bestselling Anthony Horowitz, a brilliantly entertaining new mystery in the Hawthorne and Horowitz series.Richmond Upon Thames is one of the most desirable areas to live in London. And Riverview Close - a quiet, gated community - seems to offer its inhabitants the...

Cairns intends to murder the hit-and-run driver who killed his young son, but when his intended victim is found dead and Cairns becomes the prime suspect, the author insists that he has been framed. An old friend of Cairns calls in private detective Nigel...

Calcutta police detective Captain Sam Wyndham and his quick-witted Indian Sergeant, Surrender-not Banerjee, are back for another rip-roaring adventure set in 1920s India.1905, London.When Bessie Drummond, an old flame of Sam Wyndham's, is attacked in the street, he is determined to get to the...

Calista Langley operates an exclusive 'introduction; agency in Victorian London, catering to respectable ladies and gentlemen who find themselves alone in the world. But now, a dangerously obsessed individual has begun sending her trinkets and gifts suitable only for those in deepest mourning -...

Cameron McDonald, the police chief of his small New England town, is forced to make the toughest arrest of his life when his cousin Jamie confesses that he has killed his wife. He claims that since she was suffering from a terminal disease, he...

CAN YOU CATCH A KILLER?OR ARE YOU ALREADY IN THE WEB?From the 17 million copy global bestseller Lars Kepler comes the most anticipated crime thriller of 2023 - perfect for fans of Jo Nesbo, Ragnar Jonasson and Alex North.________________Three years ago, Detective Saga Bauer...

Can you solve the mystery of Evelyn Hardcastle?WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARDWINNER OF THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG NOVEL AWARDA WATERSTONES THRILLER OF THE MONTHSHORTLISTED FOR THE SPECSAVERS NATIONAL BOOK AWARDSSHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS DEBUT OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE...

CAN YOU STOP A MURDER WHEN IT'S ALREADY HAPPENED? 'Perfection, every word, every moment. One of the best books I've ever read' LISA JEWELL 'Ingenious. A book to blow your mind and break your heart' ERIN KELLY 'Extraordinary' HARRIET TYCE 'I am totally in...

Can you succeed without being a terrible person? We often think not: recognising that, as the old saying has it, 'nice guys finish last'. But does that mean you have to go to the other extreme, and be a bully or Machiavellian to get...

'Caroline Corcoran's workplace thriller has more twists than a forkful of spaghetti!' - Fabulous Her dream job just became her worst nightmare... My name is Rose, and I work for one of the country's biggest newspapers. I was the Day Editor. Will Frost was...

Casey Carter was convicted of murdering her fiance fifteen years ago. But Casey claims - has always claimed - she's innocent. And although she was charged and served out her sentence in prison, she is still living under suspicion'. She hears whispers at the...

Cat O' Nine Talesand is the fifth collection of irresistible short stories from the master storyteller Jeffrey Archer,and illustrated by the internationally acclaimed artist, Ronald Searle, creator of Molesworth.These twelve yarns are satisfying and ingeniously plotted, featuring richly drawn characters and Jeffrey Archer's trademark...

Celebrating her 45th birthday at her local pub, podcaster Alix Summer crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie is also celebrating her 45th birthday. They are, in fact birthday twins.A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again,...

CERN Institute, Switzerland: a world-renowned scientist is found brutally murdered with a mysterious symbol seared onto his chest.The Vatican, Rome: the College of Cardinals assembles to elect a new pope. Somewhere beneath them, an unstoppable bomb of terrifying power relentlessly counts down to oblivion.In...

Charlatansand is an explosive thriller fromand New York Timesand bestselling author and master of the medical thriller Robin Cook.Noah Rothauser is the new super chief resident at the state-of-the-art Boston Memorial Hospital. Taking on such a prestigious job is a dream come true, but...