Arthur Du Fuss, bitter, alone, and ignored by his neighbours, has two secrets: one dies with him when he commits suicide; the other is the vast wealth he amassed through the creation of a cult board game.Now his erstwhile neighbours receive a post-mortem invitation to the offices of a charismatic City lawyer to play a final version of the game; the prize - Arthur's fortune. As they dice with the devil, the game first exposes the fragility of their relationships, and then tears them apart, ...

A “sophisticated and sinister” globetrotting thriller by author David Palin.As the world celebrates the fall of the Berlin wall three men, all ex-Stasi operatives, exploit the chaos and escape Germany. Thick as thieves the trio stick together; quietly reinventing themselves in the shadows of the British criminal underworld. Michael and Richard still live and breathe the violence that got them where they are, but Marcus is different. Crafting a sinister double life, Marcus uses the internet...

Some secrets should stay buried. Some destinations should never be explored.When a legendary oceanographer announces one final expedition, his archaeologist daughter, Jane Sutch, joins him on a journey shrouded in secrecy. Accompanied by a vaunted photographer and Jane's reckless husband, whose motives are far from pure, the team set off for a remote, unmapped group of islands, unknown to the modern world.What they discover is more than just a forgotten civilisation. A trap laid centuries ...

THIS CHANGED EVERYTHING is a dark psychological thriller has more surprising twists and turns than the wild Cornish road on which newly pregnant Claire Treloggan suffers a sinister and voyeuristic sexual assault.Inspector Ben Logan – an enigmatic police officer who has risen quickly through the ranks despite the problems he struggles to control and hide, not least of which is the prosopagnosia which renders him incapable of recognising faces.When the events...

The plot of The Armistice Killer is as intriguing as the characters who stalk its pages all the way from Cornwall to Afghanistan.The bizarre and brutal murder of a military hero - retired RSM Tom Wright - sets in motion a complex investigation headed by the troubled Inspector Logan.The detective's prosopagnosia - facial recognition blindness - is almost the least of his problems as his overlapping inner demons and desires threaten his professional competence.

"...why are we - by which, of course, I mean am I - here?"A question Paula Godwin could have, perhaps should have, asked more often as her once secure life spirals downwards almost to insanity.Little is she to know that she will discover demons other than just her own when, prompted by finding a Post-it note in a rain-sodden service station near Winchester, she makes a random telephone call.In this taut prequel to This Changed Everythin...

A completely shocking and gripping thriller from UK Top 50 bestseller John NichollAlice Granger is no ordinary survivor. She has a tale to tell, a story of revenge.Alice feels driven to protect the innocent from dangerous men. Men like her father. Men who hurt children. Predators who prey on the innocent. And there’s nothing Alice won’t do to make them pay.Alice wants to make them suffer as their victims did. But the police are one step behind. An...

A captivating action and adventure thriller from bestselling duo, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.In 1695, a notorious English pirate buried his bounty in a maze of booby-trapped tunnels on an island off the coast of Maine. In three hundred years, no one has breached this cursed and rocky fortress.Now, a treasure hunter and his high-tech, million-dollar recovery team embark on the perfect operation to unlock the labyrinth's mysteries.First the com...

Do we ever really know what goes on behind closed doors?'Dark and twisty; devious and taut. An amazing debut that will keep you from sleep and in suspense!!!' DIANE JEFFREYEve and Gregg were the perfect couple, with the perfect marriage... which has become the perfect lie.Gone is the charming, attentive Gregg - instead Eve wakes up each morning beside a manipulative and sinister man who controls his w...

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize“A gut-punch of a novel…Small Boat explores the power of the individual and asks us to consider the havoc we may cause others, the extent to which our complacency makes us complicit – and whether we could all do better.”—The 2025 Booker judgesA singular, gut-punching parable for our times about complicity in the face of tragedy, based on the true story of a French navy of...

'This series just gets better and better' Breakaway Reviewers.He wasn't always a killer. At first, he just wanted to talk.D.C. Charlie Stafford has an odd case on her hands. And it may be her toughest one yet.A burglar who isn't interested in valuables, the subject of Operation Greystream is a strange but smooth operator. In the dead of the night, gloved and masked, he visits the elderly. He doesn't hurt them and, if they beg, he won't take anything of real value. All...

A killer targets single women at weddings: "[An] intense plot…McDermid keeps each twist believable." — The Washington PostIn the north of England, single women are beginning to disappear from weddings. A pattern soon becomes clear: Someone is crashing the festivities and luring the women away—only to leave the victims' bodies in their own burned-out cars in remote locations. Psychologist Tony Hill and former police detective Carol Jordan are called upon to ...