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The instant Sunday Times bestseller. 'A deftly-written whodunnit' Jennie Godfrey There's a killer on the airwaves... and they're calling for you. Darkness looms over sunny Sidmouth, when an unsolved murder...

HE WILL TRAP YOU IN A WORLD OF TERROR The groundbreaking first novel in the bestselling Joona Linna thriller series. Perfect for fans of Jo Nesbo. Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm. Detective...

Two decades after an event that shook the world, a chilling cold case murder is about to make the headlines all over againDNA from a tiny bone fragment has allowed...

The unmissable thriller from the Grande Dame of Suspense, MARY HIGGINS CLARK, and New York Times bestselling author ALAFAIR BURKE.The Met Gala ball: the world's most glamorous fundraising party, an...

The snow is thick, the phone line is down, and no one is getting in or out of Warbeck Hall. With friends and family gathered round the fire, all should...

In 1986, news that East-West nuclear-arms negotiations are taking place lead many to believe the Cold War may finally be thawing.For British intelligence officer Major Tom Fox, however, it is...

Follow the Dead is the thrilling twelfth book in Lin Anderson's Rhona MacLeod series.On holiday in the Scottish Highlands, forensic scientist Dr Rhona MacLeod joins a mountain rescue team on...

Inspector Kurt Wallander is home from an idyllic holiday in Rome, full of energy and plans for the future. Autumn settles in, and Wallander prays the winter will be peaceful....

'Highly recommended' Nuala Ellwood'Tense and creepy . . . brilliant' Harriet Tyce 'Hooks readers in and keeps them dangling will the very last page' Daily Mail'Without a doubt the best...

Milo Weaver is still haunted by his last job. As an expert assassin for the Department of Tourism, an ultra-secret group of super-spooks buried deep in the corridors of the...

Someone has a score to settle with DI Kelly Porter.When a teenage girl throws herself off a cliff, DI Kelly Porter is left asking why. A once champion runner, Jenna...

FORTUNES OF WAR is set in the year 2008. A defenceless Russia, which has destroyed its nuclear warheads in return for foreign aid, appeals to the United States for help...

Detective Lou Perlman has become an outcast from police HQ, doomed by a sadistic Chief-Superintendent to a seemingly infinite 'sick-list'. Deprived of doing battle with Glasgow's criminal underworld - which...

'Gritty as hell. I loved it. A great urban cop thriller' Ian Rankin As heard on BBC Radio 5 Live Phil Williams Show'Talents such as Knox rarely emerge more than...

Prepare to be hooked by this compulsive cat-and-mouse thriller from bestselling thriller author, James Patterson, in which a brilliant cop must nail down an ingenious true crime writer for murder....

There's no better time to rediscover James Bond.SMERSH, the Russian intelligence unit, is hell-bent on destroying Special Agent James Bond.His death would deal a hammer blow to the heart of...

Mitch Rafferty has just sixty hours to save his wife. A suspense novel - and love story - from one of the most acclaimed and popular authors of modern times....

'A sizzling read sauced with scares galore' - ORLANDO MURRIN'Forget five stars, this deserves a Michelin star' - J.M. HEWITT'A deliciously dark tale with a mouth-watering mystery at its heart'...

Louise is bereft.Her seven-year-old son Joseph has been sent away to boarding school against her wishes, and she misses him desperately.And the neighbour from hell is keeping her awake at...

It is the week before Christmas. The effects of the credit crunch have prompted Dr Kay Scarpetta to offer her services pro bono to New York City's Office of the...

Still raw from the brutal slayings of his wife and daughter, and the events surrounding the capture of their killer, The Travelling Man, Charlie Parker retreats to the wintry Maine...

Get ready for your new obsession - the unputdownable No. 1 bestselling thriller.Your neighbours have secrets. How far would they go to keep them?*AN INSTANT NO.1 BESTSELLER*'Andrea Mara's best book...

They call him the Wolfman - because he takes a bite out of his victims and because they found the first victim in the East End's lonely Wolf Street. Scotland...

Hands in his pockets, Rebus turned to face Cafferty. They were old men now, similar builds, similar backgrounds. Sat together in a pub, the casual onlooker might mistake them for...

WINNER OF THE GLASS KEY AWARD 2023 FOR THE LAST GRUDGE While her colleagues investigate the brutal murder of a prominent businessman, Jessica Niemi must battle demons from her past...

A suspicious accident, a dead man's gun and a lost tomb. Strange events disturb the peace of Lanscombe Park, the magnificent country seat of Lord Godolphin Sinclair.Adventurer, gold prospector and...

James Bond is missing. 007 has been captured, perhaps even killed, by a sinister private military company. His whereabouts are unknown. Meet the new generation of spies...Johanna Harwood, 003. Joseph...

In a race against time, Lincoln and Amelia are recruited to track down a cargo ship carrying two dozen illegal immigrants, as well as well as the notorious human smuggler...

'A masterclass in mystery writing' Ragnar Jonasson'Expect plenty of puzzles, red herrings and juicy murders' Express'Worthy of Agatha Christie' Publishers Weekly *Starred Review*'The computer isn't born that can out-plot Horowitz...

Now a major film directed by Idris Elba, Yardie by Victor Headley shone a light on the brutal underworld of 90s London gang culture.At Heathrow Airport's busy immigration desk, a...

His mission should have been straightforward: to keep one man alive for one week.ONE PRISONERSuper-intelligent and brutally violent, Frank 'Reaper' Hays is a leading member of America's most powerful white...

They said there'd be karma, but he thought, why wait?They killed his wife, now he must wrap his daughter in love... but that doesn't mean they'll get away with it.Father,...

Give Mum the perfect escape with the Sunday Times bestseller from the author of Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers'A tour-de-force of a novel; brilliantly plotted and superbly written...

Jeffrey Archer, one of the greatest popular novelists of our generation, delivers a truly page-turning thriller. When an aristocratic old lady is brutally murdered in her country home the night...

'It's impossible not to think of Lee Child's super-selling Jack Reacher' The Times John Milton is the man the government call when they want a problem to vanish . ....

The first death came unexpectedly. An old man attacked outside his home, his murder a shock to the town. Then the second death came and with it fear.For Raythune County's...

At nightfall on June 22, 1965, a soldier walked in from the outskirts of a small town in the Dominican Republic and reported that he had just shot and killed...

The gripping new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Tall Bones, the haunting bestseller and Book of the Month for the Guardian, Grazia and the Observer.'A propulsive, bold...

The New York Times bestselling novel, from the author of Station Eleven.'A damn fine novel . . . haunting and evocative and immersive' George R R Martin, author of A...