Crime Fiction

The Hunting Party meets Succession, THE CONTEST is a jaw-dropping, read-in-one-sitting thriller from the bestselling author of THE PERFECT GIRLFRIEND.

The new thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author Steve Cavanagh

An ingenious thriller about a father who has to adopt his nephew, despite fearing he is a psychopath

They were perfect neighbours. Now they are prime suspects. A dark, twisty, character-rich thriller with a shocking secret vibrating at its core.

Dark family secrets lie hidden beneath layers of wealth and power - TV's "Succession" meet Shadow of the Wind

The new genre-busting crime novel from the bestselling author of The Appeal and The Twyford Code

Detective Zaitsev is back to solve the murder of a Red Army horseman in this atmospheric and relentlessly dark detective series set in Stalinist Russia - for fans of Babylon Berlin and Boris Akunin

Karen Pirie returns in a thrilling new novel from the internationally bestselling Val McDermid

When a brutally murdered man is found hanging in a Covent Garden theatre, Detective Sergeant Rex King becomes obsessed with the case.

Something bad happened to that child.And it was because of you.

The report that has just landed on Commissario Martusciello’s desk is unlike any other. The lifeless body of the Neapolitan singer Jerry Vialdi, a.k.a. Gennaro Mangiavento, has been found at the Naples football stadium; another corpse, this time a Jane Doe, has been discovered in the Bentegodi Stadium ...

Izzo's Marseille is explosive, tragic, breathtakingly beautiful and deadly.

A mind-blowing, unputdownable serial killer thriller of a very different kind -- perfect for all fans of Mindhunter and Girl A

But their half-sister Mildred has returned to a nearby coastal cottage where her husband - the mysterious Uncle Paul - was arrested for his first wife's attempted murder: and family skeletons emerge.

When his byre - and the forty-three cows within it - goes up in flames, Barnabas Kane asks the rural community for help to get his family back on their feet, yet all his requests yield are suspicion and sanctimony. Humiliated, Barnabas grows ever more indignant. Before long this anger makes its mark on an innocent, and toil turns to tragedy.

When Spenser is approached by Walter Clive, president of the Three Fillies Stables, to find out who is threatening his horse, Hugger Mugger, he can hardly say no: he's been doing pro bono work for so long his cupboards are just about bare. Disregarding the resentment of the local Georgia law enforcement, Spenser accepts the case. But it...

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'Dark, clever, terrifying' Paula Hawkins
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'You won't want to eat, sleep or blink' Tammy Cohen

The fourth book in Mark Ellis' critically acclaimed DCI Frank Merlin.

Father Ramon feels no remorse for the sins. His years in jail were spent not atoning but plotting his revenge: and now he is free. David Hidalgo is once again dragged into danger...

An afterlife of your own design, what could go wrong? The dark and gripping thriller from an exciting new voice in speculative fiction. Perfect for fans of Black Mirror.