Three crime writers are dead. Each received the same one-star review first. This morning, it arrived for her.★☆☆☆☆I've read this before. The ending was predictable.Maya Lennox knows the sentence quoted beneath the review. She wrote it two weeks ago, in a chapter of her unfinished novel that almost no one has seen.In fourteen months, three Scottish crime novelists have died in apparent accidents, each one mirroring a scene from their ...

Two thousand people watched him die. Every one of them heard his last words. His microphone recorded nothing at all.Gil Rafferty is Britain's most famous true-crime podcaster. His series on Lucy Maclean, a Glasgow student who vanished in 2011, made him a star and sent her boyfriend to prison for murder.Now, at a sold-out live show during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the lights go out for his famous Dark Minute. In the blackness, two thousand people hear h...

**OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK 2024****NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CLUB PICK 2024**NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CILLIAN MURPHYA New York Times Bestseller • Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize • Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political FictionOne of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st...

“No one does suspense better.” —Stephen KingCyrus Haven and Evie Cormac return in this “razor-sharp and emotionally charged” (Lisa Gardner) psychological thriller, which finally unlocks the secrets of Evie’s past.The mystery of Evie Cormac’s background has followed her into adulthood. As a child, she was discovered hiding in a secret room where a man had been tortured to death. Many of her captors and abusers escaped justice, unseen but not...

Disturbing the Dead is the latest in a unique series with one foot in the 1860s and the other in the present day. The Rip Through Time crime novels are a genre-blending, atmospheric romp from New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong.Victorian Scotland is becoming less strange to modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson. Though inhabiting someone else’s body will always be unsettling, even if her employers know that she’s not actual...

In the tradition of Elizabeth George, Louise Penny, and P. D. James, New York Times bestselling author Deborah Crombie delivers a powerful tale of intrigue, betrayal, and lies that will plunge married London detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James into the unspeakable darkness that lies at the heart of murder.Recently transferred to the London borough of Camden from Scotland Yard headquarters, Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and his new murder investigation team are called...

A chaotic young doctor might be the only person who can catch a killer in this "hilarious, macabre, and heartrending" (Lucy Foley) debut mystery from Adam Kay, former doctor and BAFTA-winning author of This is Going to Hurt.“A thrilling, twisting mystery. . . . Impossibly funny but also deeply moving and often heartbreaking.” ― Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of All the Colors of the DarkWhen his...

The USA Today bestselling author of The Gown returns with another enthralling and royal historical novel— as the lives of three very different residents of London’s historic Blue Lion hotel converge in a potentially explosive climax on the day of Queen Elizabeth’s Coronation.It is Coronation Year, 1953, and a new queen is about to be crowned. The people of London are in a mood to celebrate, none more so than the residents of the Blue Lion hotel.

Danger in the air. Lovers on the brink.With the justiciary understaffed, a series of horrifying occult murders to be investigated, and a young student flying off the rails, magical law enforcer Stephen Day is under increasing stress. And the strain is starting to show in his relationship with his aristocratic lover, Lord Crane.Crane chafes at the restrictions of England’s laws, and there’s a worrying development in the blood-and-sex bond he shares with Stephen. A d...

A twisty, chilling psychological thriller cum gothic ghost story set in a Victorian psychiatric home with a disturbing history, and someone set on revenge…LONGLISTED for the Guardian's Not the Booker PrizeNumber One Bestseller in Ebook'Cements Holliday's position as one of the most gifted and entertaining psychological thriller writers in the business' Steve Cavanagh'Saunters from c...

**CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF RYAN AND RAY? GET THE LATEST BOOK, THE DANGEROUS STRANGER, NOW**'Move over Morse. Simon Mason Oxford crime novel breathes fresh life into the police procedural' Val McDermid'As great a contribution to the noble British genre of detective fiction as any writer for decades' Stephen FryA DI RYAN WILKINS MYSTERYA SHOCKING DISAPPEARANCEA four...

A search for the bodies of Black Death victims may unleash a new modern-day plague in this thriller by the international bestselling author . . .John Motram, a cell biologist at Newcastle University, firmly believes that Black Death was not caused by bubonic plague but by an unknown virus. So he's excited when Oxford University informs him that there might be preserved bodies of Black Death victims hidden under Dryburgh Abbey.Motram launches an excavation, bu...