*THE OBSERVER THRILLER BOOK OF THE MONTH**A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK*----------------------------------------The perfect couple. The perfect house.. . . The perfect crime.Londoners Jack and Syd moved into the house a year ago. It seemed like their dream home: tons of space, the perfect location, and a friendly owner who wanted a young couple to have it.So when they m...

You don't know it exists, but when you have nowhere else to turn, the Haven will find you ... An adrenaline-fuelled adventure in a new series by top thriller writer Simon Lelic.*Shortlisted for the CrimeFest Awards*Our city. Our secret. Our rules.Alone. On the run. Ollie Turner has nowhere to hide.But he gets a second chance. Underneath the city there's a secret organisation, far from adult eyes.

An unimaginable crime and the man who must defend it-a probing psychological thriller from the author of A Thousand Cuts.A chance phone call throws the biggest muder case in southern England into the hands of provincial attorney Leo Curtice. Twelve-year- old Daniel Blake stands accused of murdering an eleven-year-old girl. But who is truly responsible when one child kills another? As Curtice sets out to defend the indefensible, he soon finds himself pitted against an enrag...

THE DARKLY ADDICTIVE THRILLER THAT READERS CAN'T STOP TALKING ABOUT. IF YOU LIKED WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN, YOU'LL LOVE THIS________________________________'Brilliantly chilling' Cara Hunter, author of Close to Home and In the Dark'You'll try to outguess the plot but always be one step behind' C J Tudor________________________________

'A proper heartpounding thriller' Sun, Book of the Week'Compelling and infused with a simmering tension' Sarah Pearse, The Sanatorium'A taut pacy murder mystery' Imran Mahmood, You Don't Know MeFOUR FRIENDS. ONE MURDER. A GAME THEY CAN'T ESCAPE----------'It was only a game'... Until a boy went missing.'No one was meant to get ...

A stunning debut novel that unravels the hidden story behind a school shootingIt should be an open-and-shut case. Samuel Szajkowski, a recently hired history teacher, walked into a school assembly with a gun and murdered three students and a colleague before turning the weapon on himself. It was a tragedy that could not have been predicted. Szajkowski, it seems clear, was a psychopath beyond help. Yet as Detective Inspector Lucia May- the only woman in her high-tes...

‘Find what you were looking for, Inspector?’Every day the same question. A different uniform but the same question. They thought Lucia enjoyed being here. They thought that was why she kept coming back. But they were asking the wrong thing. She had found what she was looking for – she had found what she had been sent to discover – but she had found out more besides. The question was what to do about it. The question was whether to do anything at all.In the...

The Girl Before meets The Couple Next Door in a Hitchcockian thriller about a couple who moves into their dream neighborhood only to discover nothing is as it seems...The perfect couple. The perfect house. The perfect crime.Londoners Jack and Syd found their dream home: lots of space, a great location, and a friendly owner who wanted a young couple to have it.Everything is exactly what they hoped for when they move in--exc...

A quiet English town is left reeling when twelve-year-old Daniel Blake is discovered to have brutally murdered his schoolmate Felicity Forbes.For provincial solicitor Leo Curtice, the case promises to be the most high profile – and morally challenging - of his career. But as he begins his defence Leo is unprepared for the impact the public fury surrounding Felicity’s death will have on his family - and his teenage daughter Ellie, above all.While Leo struggles to get Daniel ...

Henry Graves has dedicated his life to the prison service, but he is unprepared for the challenge his new and secret assignment brings. Tasked with managing a government facility hidden deep in the countryside, Henry finds himself tested as never before: by the confused and frightened prisoners, by the sinister Dr Silk and, above all, by his conscience.Tom Clarke, a precocious but naive journalist, has his own problems meanwhile. His career – and his life – is turned upside down by...

"Who are you? Are you the police? This isn't legal, you know. You can't hold me like this."In a near-future dystopian Britain, democracy has been undermined. Emboldened by new anti-terrorism laws, police start to “disappear” people from the streets for unspecified crimes. But when unassuming dentist Arthur Priestley is snatched and held prisoner at a top-secret facility, his estranged wife, Julia, and a brave but naive journalist named Tom Clarke embark on...

You don't know it exists, but when you have nowhere else to turn, the Haven will find you ... An adrenaline-fuelled adventure, second in the Haven series, by top thriller writer Simon Lelic.*The Haven, first in the series, shortlisted for the CrimeFest Awards*Our city. Our secret. Our rules.When pupils start going missing from a prestigious boarding school, Ollie Turner knows it's a job for the Hav...