‘CB Everett is a master of fiendishly plotted, intelligent mysteries’ MARK EDWARDSA missing author. A lost manuscript. A final chapter that could reveal the truth.Ten years ago, bestselling literary novelist Jonathan Durward vanished without a trace - leaving behind no body, no answers, and no final book.Now that missing manuscript has finally surfaced. But it isn’t the masterpiece anyone expected. It’s a spy novel: pulpy, outlandis...

Pre-order The Last Chapter**, a** beguiling thriller about writing and writers where C. B. Everett himself is under suspicion. Coming Spring 2026.'Hellishly good fun' The Times‘A blackly funny twist on the Country House mystery, with bodies and wit galore’ John ConnollyAnd Then There Were None meets The Seven De...

'Hellishly good fun' The Times‘A blackly funny twist on the Country House mystery, with bodies and wit galore’ John ConnollyAnd Then There Were None meets The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle.Ten strangers.An old dark house.A killer picking them off one by one.And a missing girl who's running out of time . . .Ten strangers wake up inside an old...

Seven guests. Three courses. One evening they'll never forget…Seven strangers meet at Serendipity's for an anonymously hosted dinner party. As the evening reaches its close, small black envelopes are placed in front of the diners… revealing the age at which each will die.Spooked, but not wholly shaken, the group disperses into the rainy night with the hope of forgetting the ghoulish stunt.But two weeks later, one dinner guest dies at the age foretol...

**Brought to you by Penguin.How many times would you let your child get away with murder? The new break-out thriller from Sam Lloyd, author of Richard & Judy Book Club pick The Memory Wood.**When you look down at your newborn baby, you realise they were right, those smug parents you’ve always rolled your eyes at: you’d do literally anything for your child. To make them happy, keep them safe.So when Joseph Carver wakes one night to find his teenage son Max s...

Brought to you by Penguin.A master forger transforms a young woman’s life – but what will it cost her?In post-war Flanders, Adelais de Wolf's family is slowly, inexplicably, falling apart: her mother evermore lost to religious devotion, her father to alcohol. But with the death of a beloved uncle, Adelais finds herself in receipt of an unexpected legacy: a shuttered house in a rundown district and its contents – contents that hold the promise of independenc...

Brought to you by Penguin.A powerful and spine-tingling gothic tale exploring mother-daughter relationships, sexuality, and class.There are some facts about the world that only your mother can teach you.Marguerite had been confined for the sake of her wellbeing.That’s what her mother had said.Marguerite Périgord is locked in the attic of her family home, a towering Chelsea house overl...

**Gripping and emotional, The Sunshine Man is a powerful story of a terrible crime and the revenge plotted over decades, set against the haunting beauty of rural Devon.From the bestselling author of The Lamplighters, Emma Stonex.**'Luminously unsettling' - The Observer'Deeply thrilling and emotionally rich' - Lucy Clarke'A wholly original and immersive thriller' - Harriet Evans

Brought to you by Penguin.YOU SAW IT. YOU WERE TOO SCARED TO ACT. BUT NOW IT’S COMING FOR YOU.From the mind behind the international bestseller The Whisper Man comes a new nightmare…Daniel Garvie was a teenager when he encountered a serial killer: ‘the man made of smoke.’Unlike the victims, he survived.Now Dan’s a criminal psychiatrist, unpicking the motives of the darkest k...

**A Book of the Year in THE TIMES, THE GUARDIAN, ELLE and THE IRISH EXAMINER‘A treat'** - Paul Murray, author of The Bee Sting‘Dazzling' - Colin Walsh, author of Kala‘Brilliant’ - The Times‘Ingenious’ - The Telegraph‘Terrific’ - The New York Times‘Heartbreaking’ - The GuardianTHE HEART ...

Seven guests. Three courses. One evening they'll never forget…Seven strangers meet at Serendipity's for an anonymously hosted dinner party. As the evening reaches its close, small black envelopes are placed in front of the diners… revealing the age at which each will die.Spooked, but not wholly shaken, the group disperses into the rainy night with the hope of forgetting the ghoulish stunt.But two weeks later, one dinner guest dies at the age foretol...

**Brought to you by Penguin.As the snow falls, the haunting begins... Get ready for the most gripping cosy murder mystery debut of the year.**A grand country estate.On her last day as a Detective, Midge McGowan is given the retirement present from hell: a ticket to take part in a haunted house tour. She’ll have to spend the weekend before Christmas ghost-hunting in an isolated mansion with a group of misfits, including a know-it-all paranormal invest...