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...

Fans of Stephen King, Karin Slaughter and Stuart MacBride will devour this dark and disturbing thriller.'Intensely enthralling' OBSERVER'Expect plenty of blood, gore and black magic' DAILY MIRROR'A vivid and thorough exploration of the clash between ancient superstition and modern science, with plenty of thrills and chills along the way'GUARDIAN'If it's real terror yo...

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...

It's autumn in Gothenburg and an anxious mother calls the police: her little boy was lured into a car by a man offering sweets. The child is returned unharmed but then the same thing happens with a little girl, and then another. Each child attends a different nursery, and each parent contacts a different police station, so, at first, no connection is established and the reports are filed and then forgotten.Meanwhile DCI Winter is investigating a series of random attacks on strangel...

Three-time winner of the Swedish Crime Writers' Award.While carefree teenagers celebrate the holidays in Gothenburg, tragedy waits to pierce the heady days of summer.It is late when nineteen-year-old Jeanette bids goodbye to her friends and sets off for home. She takes a shortcut through the park... Next morning, police come to question Jeanette about her rape, but she has already washed away all traces of the crime.When a second rape ends in murder...

He saved your son's life.Now he wants yours.Tessa and Marcus went on holiday to save their marriage.Instead they nearly lost their son.In that fatal moment of inattention a stranger stepped in. And now Dave Jepsom is in their lives.They owe him - they know that - but he seems to want everything. He's on the streets they walk down. He's at the office where they work. He's knocking at their front door......

'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.