A slick, smart, stylish - and shocking - thriller from one of the most exciting new voices in crime fiction.On a remote farm, an elderly woman takes a fall outside and, unable to move, is consumed overnight by two of her pigs.The victim was the renowned and reclusive photographer Sophie Bertilak - and the first photo she ever took remains her most infamous: a missing girl who was never seen again. Most strangely, inside the house, all the photos ha...

'Irresistible' - Val McDermid, author of the Karen Pirie series'Breathtaking' - Daily MailForensic, dark and utterly gripping, Sixteen Horses is the debut literary thriller from an extraordinary talent, Greg Buchanan. For fans of Jane Harper’s The Dry.Near the dying English seaside town of Ilmarsh, local police detective Alec Nichols discovers sixteen horses’ heads on a farm, each buried w...

** FEATURED ON BBC TWO'S BETWEEN THE COVERS **'Unlike anything else you'll read this year, Sixteen Horses is a deeply disconcerting ride. Irresistible' - Val McDermid, author of Still Life'Totally gripping from start to finish' - Alex Michaelides, author of The Silent Patient'Original, beautifully written, terrifying and haunting' - Sophie Hannah, author of Haven't The...

A slick, smart, stylish - and shocking - thriller from one of the most exciting new voices in crime fiction.On a remote farm, an elderly woman takes a fall outside and, unable to move, is consumed overnight by two of her pigs.The victim was the renowned and reclusive photographer Sophie Bertilak - and the first photo she ever took remains her most infamous: a missing girl who was never seen again. Most strangely, inside the house, all the photos ha...

Leaving isn't safe... But staying would be deadly.'An addictive read. . . Patricia Highsmith meets Shirley Jackson' - GILLIAN MCALLISTER'A deliciously creepy tale of three sisters forced to take refuge in an abandoned mansion. Seddon deftly weaves between past horrors at the manor and the present-day struggle of the sisters to survive the night. What sets this thriller apart is the stellar writing and bone-chilling atmosphere Seddon creates.'

Hollywood actress Jeanette Marchand was beautiful, talented, beloved by audiences.During a time of personal crisis, she declares she is going to take a vacation in England, to explore the possibilities of working in London, before returning to the USA.She never returned to the USA. She never even left the airport. At least - no-one saw her leave.Years later, a young film student finds himself digging deeper into her disappearance. Where did she go? Was she really dea...

'Abandon is terrific . . . A great storyteller hitting his stride' – Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher seriesA century-old mystery - and a desperate battle to survive. Abandon is a compulsive standalone thriller from Blake Crouch, the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and Recursion.. . .On Christmas Day in 1893, every man, woman, and child in a remote mini...

The scorching, heart-pounding new thriller of a killer that leaves no trace, from the internationally bestselling author of Dear ChildThey say he's a murderer. But how could he be?Berlin, 2017: several young girls have been disappearing for the past fourteen years. Red ribbons show the police the way to their bodies, but there's no trace of the killer.One evening, internationally r...

Brought to you by Penguin.Vivvy Bouchet, respected scientist and reluctant psychic, saved a boy's life after a premonition when she was a child.That boy is now a Texas police officer.He convinces Vivvy to help him solve a high-profile cold case, working alongside detective Jesse Sharp, a sceptic of anything but fact.Three-year-old Lizzie Solomon disappeared in broad daylight from her home.A body was never found, but the child's mother,...

Brought to you by Penguin.Over a hundred years ago, the citizens of F- did something rather bad. And local school teacher Catherine Evans has made writing the definitive account of what happened when Ilsbeth Clark drowned in the well her life's work.The town's people may not want their past raked up, but Catherine is determined to shine a light upon that shameful event. For Ilsbeth was an innocent, after all. She was shunned and ostracised by rumour-mongers...

Brought to you by Penguin.The winds shift nervously on the Kansas plain whispering of travelers lost and buried, whispering of witches. Something dark and twisted has taken root at the Bender Inn . . .At first the townspeople of Cherryvale welcome the rising medium Kate Bender and her family. Kate's messages from the Beyond give their tedious dreams hope and her mother's potions cure their little ills-for a price. No one knows about their other bus...

'A clever and utterly absorbing thriller which marks the arrival of an author to watch' i News'A powerful feminist thriller . . . twisted in the best way' Clémence Michallon, author of The Quiet TenantSeven women stand in shock in a seedy hotel room; a man's severed head sits in the centre of the floor. Each of the women - the wife, the teenager, the ex, the journalist, the colleague, the friend, and the woman who raised h...