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Andrew Swanston read law at Cambridge, but was inspired to write by his lifelong interest in early modern history. His Thomas Hill novels – The King’s Spy, The King’s Exile and The King’s Return – are set against the backdrops of the English Civil War, Cromwell’s Commonwealth and the early Restoration respectively. He is also the author of Waterloo: The Bravest Man and Beautiful Star and Other Stories. His first historical thriller set during the reign of Elizabeth I – Incendium (published in paperback as The Incendium Plot) – introduced readers to the academic, lawyer and intelligencer Dr Christopher Radcliff, whose adventures continue in Chaos. Andrew Swanston lives in Surrey.

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A E Langsford

A G Hopkins

A. J. BAIME is the New York Times best-selling author of The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War and Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans. Both books are in development for major motion pictures. Baime is a longtime regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal, and his articles have also appeared in the New York Times, Popular Science, and Men’s Journal. He lives in Granite Bay, California. Visit him at facebook.com/ajbaime and trumanbook.com.

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Anthony James Pollard is a British medieval historian, specialising in the fifteenth century and in particular the Wars of the Roses. A leading authority in the field, he is profesor emeritus of Teesside University. His books include North-Eastern England during the Wars of the Roses, Richard III and the Princes in theTower, Imagining Robin Hood: the Late Medieval Stories in Historical Context and Warwick the kingmaker: Politics, Power and Fame.

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A J Rochester

A K Benjamin is a clinical neuropsychologist and the author of Let Me Not Be Mad: A Story of Unravelling Minds.

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A. L. Berridge read English at Oxford, and taught for ten years before moving into television, where her production credits range from period drama and thrillers to long-running soaps. She has written two previous novels, Top Ten besteller Honour and the Sword and In the Name of the King. Into the Valley of Death is her third novel.

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Alison Gaylin's first job was as a reporter for a celebrity tabloid, which sparked a lifelong interest in writing about people committing despicable acts. More than a decade later, she wrote and published her Edgar-nominated first novel, HIDE YOUR EYES. 
 
She's since published nine more books, including the USA Today and international bestselling Brenna Spector suspense series, which has been nominated for the Edgar, Anthony and Thriller awards and won the Shamus award. 
 
She lives in upstate New York with her husband, daughter, cat and dog.

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A.S. Webb is the Sunday Times bestselling author of Daughter of Chaos, the first instalment of The Dark Pantheon Trilogy. She is inspired by stories rooted in history and mythology, that push the boundaries of imagination and urge us to reflect on what it means to be human.

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A. A. Dhand is the author of six previous novels, and has been shortlisted for the CWA Steel Dagger Award. His DI Harry Virdee novels are currently being adapted for TV by the BBC. He was raised in Bradford and spent his youth observing the city from behind the counter of a small convenience store. After qualifying as a pharmacist, he worked in London and travelled extensively before returning to Bradford to start his own business and begin writing. The history, diversity and darkness of the city have inspired all his novels. For more information about A. A. Dhand and his books, follow him on X @aadhand, and on Instagram @aa_dhand.

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A. B. Poranek grew up sharing her time between Ontario, Canada and rural Poland, and eventually completed a veterinary degree at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences. A lover of mythology and history, she enjoys exploring both in her writing. Her debut novel, Where the Dark Stands Still, an instant New York Times bestseller, is an ode to Poland's folktales, while A Treachery of Swans transports readers to a world inspired by 17th century France.

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Professor A. C. Grayling is Principal of the New College of the Humanities at Northeastern University, London, and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. He has written and edited over thirty books on philosophy, history, science and current affairs. For several years he wrote columns for the Guardian newspaper and The Times and was the chairman of the 2014 Man Booker Prize.

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A.D. Miller is the author of Snowdrops, The Earl of Petticoat Lane and The Faithful Couple. Snowdrops was a bestseller and was shortlisted for many prizes including the Man Booker and the CWA Gold Dagger. It was translated into 25 languages. As Moscow Correspondent of The Economist A.D. Miller has travelled across the former Soviet Union and covered the Orange Revolution in Ukraine; he is now the magazine’s Culture Editor based in London. 
 
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A. Humphreys

A. Igoni Barrett was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, in 1979 and lives in Lagos. He is a winner of the 2005 BBC World Service short story competition, the recipient of a Chinua Achebe Center Fellowship, a Norman Mailer Center Fellowship, and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency. His short story collection, Love is Power, or Something Like That, was published in 2013. In 2014 he was named on the Africa39 list of sub-Saharan African writers under 40. Blackass is his first novel.

A. Igoni Barrett

The short life of A.J.A. Symons (1900-41) was described by his biographer as an intricate and largely harmless confidence trick. His many interests included the collection of musical boxes and rare books as well as the study and practice of forgery; they left him time to edit an anthology of Edwardian verse and compose studies of H.M. Stanley and other notable figures. He is remembered for The Quest for Corvo, one of the most remarkable biographies ever written, and for co-founding the Wine and Food Society.

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Karin Slaughter

Set in rural Georgia, and starring Dr. Sara Linton, the town’s pediatrician and coroner, Jeffrey Tolliver, her wayward ex-husband and chief of police, and Lena Adams, the county’s only female detective.

'One of the boldest thriller writers working today' TESS GERRITSEN 
'Her characters, plot, and pacing are unrivalled. . .' MICHAEL CONNELLY 
________________________________________ 
 
The second book in Karin Slaughter's #1 bestselling GRANT COUNTY series. 
 
When a teenage quarrel in the small town of Heartsdale explodes into a deadly shoot-out, Sara Linton - paediatrician and medical examiner - finds herself entangled in a horrific tragedy. What seems at first to be an individual catastrophe has wider implications when the autopsy reveals evidence of long-term abuse and ritualistic self-mutilation. 
 
Sara and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver start to investigate, but the children surrounding the victim close ranks. The families turn their backs. Then a young girl is abducted, and it soon becomes clear that the first death is linked to an even more brutal crime. 
 
And unless Sara and Jeffrey can uncover the deadly secrets the children hide, it is going to happen again. 
_________________________________________ 
 
Crime and thriller masters know there's nothing better than a little Slaughter: 
 
'I'd follow her anywhere' GILLIAN FLYNN 
'Passion, intensity, and humanity' LEE CHILD 
'A writer of extraordinary talents' KATHY REICHS 
'Fiction doesn't get any better than this' JEFFERY DEAVER 
'A great writer at the peak of her powers' PETER JAMES 
'Raw, powerful and utterly gripping' KATHRYN STOCKETT 
'With heart and skill Karin Slaughter keeps you hooked from the first page until the last' CAMILLA LACKBERG 
'Amongst the world's greatest and finest crime writers' YRSA SIGURÐARDÓTTIR

Kisscut

(Grant County Series, Book 2)

'I'd follow her anywhere' GILLIAN FLYNN 
'One of the boldest thriller writers working today' TESS GERRITSEN 
'Her characters, plot, and pacing are unrivalled' MICHAEL CONNELLY 
_________________________________________ 
 
The first book in Karin Slaughter's #1 bestselling GRANT COUNTY series. 
 
She was found in the local diner. Brutally murdered. Ritually mutilated. 
And she won't be the last. 
 
The sleepy town of Heartsdale, Georgia, is jolted into panic when Sara Linton, paediatrician and medical examiner, finds a woman dead in the local diner. 
 
She has been cut: two deep knife wounds form a lethal cross over her stomach. But it's only once Sara starts to perform the post-mortem that the full extent of the killer's brutality becomes clear. 
 
Police chief Jeffrey Tolliver - Sara's ex-husband - is in charge of the investigation, and when a second victim is found, crucified, only a few days later, both Jeffrey and Sara have to face the fact that themurder wasn't a one-off attack. What they're dealing with is a seasoned sexual predator. A violent serial killer... 
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Crime and thriller masters know there's nothing better than a little Slaughter: 
 
'Passion, intensity, and humanity' LEE CHILD 
'A writer of extraordinary talents' KATHY REICHS 
'Fiction doesn't get any better than this' JEFFERY DEAVER 
'A great writer at the peak of her powers' PETER JAMES 
'Raw, powerful and utterly gripping' KATHRYN STOCKETT 
'With heart and skill Karin Slaughter keeps you hooked from the first page until the last' CAMILLA LACKBERG 
'Amongst the world's greatest and finest crime writers' YRSA SIGURÐARDÓTTIR

Blindsighted

Grant County Series, Book 1

A Faint Cold Fear

Grant County Series, Book 3

'One of the boldest thriller writers working today' TESS GERRITSEN 
'Her characters, plot, and pacing are unrivalled' MICHAEL CONNELLY 
_________________________________________ 
 
The fifth book in Karin Slaughter's #1 bestselling GRANT COUNTY series. 
 
Deep in the Georgia woods, Dr Sara Linton and Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver stumble across the body of a young girl. Initial evidence suggests that she was buried alive and, quite literally, scared to death. 
 
Troubled by their own turbulent past, Sara and Jeffrey must work together to identify the killer and prevent another death. 
 
The trail will soon lead to the neighbouring county, an isolated community, and a terrible secret... 
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Crime and thriller masters know there's nothing better than a little Slaughter: 
 
'I'd follow her anywhere' GILLIAN FLYNN 
'Passion, intensity, and humanity' LEE CHILD 
'A writer of extraordinary talents' KATHY REICHS 
'Fiction doesn't get any better than this' JEFFERY DEAVER 
'A great writer at the peak of her powers' PETER JAMES 
'Raw, powerful and utterly gripping' KATHRYN STOCKETT 
'With heart and skill Karin Slaughter keeps you hooked from the first page until the last' CAMILLA LACKBERG 
'Amongst the world's greatest and finest crime writers' YRSA SIGURÐARDÓTTIR

Faithless

Grant County Series, Book 5

'One of the boldest thriller writers working today' TESS GERRITSEN 
'Her characters, plot, and pacing are unrivalled' MICHAEL CONNELLY 
_________________________________________ 
 
The fourth book in Karin Slaughter's #1 bestselling GRANT COUNTY series. 
 
Two armed men enter the police station in tiny Heartsdale, Georgia, and open fire. When the shooting stops, an officer is dead, Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver is seriously wounded, and the survivors&mdash;including a class of grade-school children and medical examiner Sara Linton&mdash;are held hostage. 
 
In a tense standoff that could erupt at any moment into more bloodletting&mdash; and with her ex-husband on the threshold of death&mdash;Sara must search for answers and an escape in the memories of a time at the start of their relationship when another brutal, shocking crime shattered their small-town world. 
 
Because the sins of the past have caught up with Sara and Jeffrey. . .with a vengeance. 
_________________________________________ 
 
Crime and thriller masters know there's nothing better than a little Slaughter: 
 
'I'd follow her anywhere' GILLIAN FLYNN 
'Passion, intensity, and humanity' LEE CHILD 
'A writer of extraordinary talents' KATHY REICHS 
'Fiction doesn't get any better than this' JEFFERY DEAVER 
'A great writer at the peak of her powers' PETER JAMES 
'Raw, powerful and utterly gripping' KATHRYN STOCKETT 
'With heart and skill Karin Slaughter keeps you hooked from the first page until the last' CAMILLA LACKBERG 
'Amongst the world's greatest and finest crime writers' YRSA SIGURÐARDÓTTIR

Indelible

Grant County Series, Book 4

'One of the boldest thriller writers working today' TESS GERRITSEN 
'Her characters, plot, and pacing are unrivalled' MICHAEL CONNELLY 
_________________________________________ 
 
The sixth book in Karin Slaughter's #1 bestselling GRANT COUNTY series. 
 
Lena Adams has spent her life struggling to forget her childhood in Reece, the small town which nearly destroyed her. She's made a new life as a police detective in Heartsdale - but nothing could prepare her for the violence which explodes when she is forced to return. 
 
A vicious murder leaves a young woman incinerated beyond recognition. And Lena is the only suspect. 
 
Her boss, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, has no choice but to help. Soon after his arrival, a second victim is found dead and the town closes ranks. 
 
Jeffrey is soon entangled in a horrifying underground world of bigotry and rage. 
 
Can he discover the truth before the killer strikes again? 
_________________________________________ 
 
Crime and thriller masters know there's nothing better than a little Slaughter: 
 
'I'd follow her anywhere' GILLIAN FLYNN 
'Passion, intensity, and humanity' LEE CHILD 
'A writer of extraordinary talents' KATHY REICHS 
'Fiction doesn't get any better than this' JEFFERY DEAVER 
'A great writer at the peak of her powers' PETER JAMES 
'Raw, powerful and utterly gripping' KATHRYN STOCKETT 
'With heart and skill Karin Slaughter keeps you hooked from the first page until the last' CAMILLA LACKBERG 
'Amongst the world's greatest and finest crime writers' YRSA SIGURÐARDÓTTIR

Skin Privilege

Grant County Series, Book 6

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