Lapland can be a lonely place for many, but for a serial killer like Max, it’s a deserted playing field. Quiet roads, isolated people, and huge forests for bodies to disappear in.Max can’t help himself. It’s all he thinks about. All day, every day. Everything in his life disguises the real him, his real purpose, his driving desire—his need to kill. In this environment, people never see it coming.Robert didn’t see it coming—he was too interested in the cemen...

Remember that old abandoned house? The one that creeped you and your friends out when you were kids. Still does, doesn’t it—if you’re honest. It's malevolence spills onto the pavement and makes you walk as close to the kerb as you can when you pass by. These houses don’t like us. They don’t want us near them, and they certainly don’t want us inside them. Every now and then someone stops and looks up at the house, but it’s only fear that keeps them from moving on. Sometimes...

Lapland can be a lonely place for many, but for a serial killer like Max, it’s a deserted playing field. Quiet roads, isolated people, and huge forests for bodies to disappear in.Max can’t help himself. It’s all he thinks about. All day, every day. Everything in his life disguises the real him, his real purpose, his driving desire—his need to kill. In this environment, people never see it coming.Robert didn’t see it coming—he was too interested in the cemen...

A stunning debut novel with an intriguing literary hook: written in part as a letter from a victim to her abductor. Sensitive, sharp, captivating! Gemma, 16, is on layover at Bangkok Airport, en route with her parents to a vacation in Vietnam. She steps away for just a second, to get a cup of coffee. Ty--rugged, tan, too old, oddly familiar--pays for Gemma's drink. And drugs it. They talk. Their hands touch. And before Gemma knows what's happening, Ty takes her. Steals her away. The unknow...

In this standalone spy thriller, Mick Herron, New York Times bestselling author of Slow Horses, brings to life a man with a violent past and only one thing to live for: Avenging his son's death.Tom Bettany is working at a meat processing plant in France when he gets a voicemail from an Englishwoman he doesn’t know telling him that his estranged 26-year-old son is dead—Liam Bettany fell from his London balcony, where he was smoking pot.Now ...

A pupil. A teacher. A mother's worst nightmareAn addictive novel of psychological suspense. A gripping crime thriller for fans of Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies and Louise Doughty's Apple Tree Yard.My daughter is a liar. A liar, liar, liar. And I'm starting to see where she gets it from.When Rosalind's fifteen-year-old daughter, Stephanie, ran away with her teacher, this ordinary family became...

⭐ Out now: The Land in Winter, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025 ⭐Now We Shall Be Entirely Free: a stunning historical novel with the grip of a thrillerOne of The Times' Best Novels of the 21st Century'Excellent' Observer'This is fiction - storytelling - at its best' Spectator'That rarest of treats - propulsive storyte...

Detective Inspector Jack Caffery brings his considerable investigate skills to bear on the most unsolvable and horrific criminal cases. This special five-book bundle contains five Caffery novels: Birdman, The Treatment, Ritual, Skin, and Gone.

'An intricately crafted novel, sharp-eared, current and full of heart' Guardian, Books of the YearA spirited fourteen-year-old, Fay, goes missing from a Lincoln council estate. Is she a runaway, or a victim – another face on a poster gradually fading with time? The story of her last few days before she vanishes is interwoven with the varied lives of six locals – all touched in life-changing ways.David is on a family holiday on the bleak Lincolnshir...

Inlands is the story of a young woman moving from Stockholm to a small community on the edge of the Arctic Circle, to her boyfriend's home town. But when their relationship ends shortly after her arrival, she decides not to return to the city. It's a brilliantly wrought piece of fiction, an account of our protagonists's struggles to adjust to new customs, with a quiet poetry to the descriptions of her experience in the alternating endless sunlight and bitter cold of the Swedish inlands.

Join Special Agent Fangs Enigma - the world's greatest vampire spy - and his werewolf sidekick Puppy Brown as they battle society's worst criminal monsterminds. First in a new series of comedy horror adventures from the bestselling author of Scream StreetSpecial Agent Fangs Enigma and his sidekick, werewolf Agent Puppy Brown, were recruited by secret intelligence agency MP1 (Monster Protection, 1st division) to stop the world’s super(natural) villains and ...

Save the world – but live forever. Peter and Festival have a terrifying choice to make . . .When Peter and his friend Festival destroyed the book called How To Live Forever so it could no longer work its spell, they didn’t know it would have disastrous consequences.Now, Peter’s world is in the worst drought ever – and Festival’s world, inside the museum, is drowning. The only solution is to re-create the book.Can they reverse the water flow? And if they re-...