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Alma Katsu

Shortlisted for the Bram Stoker Award for the Best Novel of 2020. 
 
'Totally terrifying.' said C. J. TUDOR, bestselling author of The Chalk Man 
 
'Truly haunting' said SARAH PINBOROUGH, bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes 
 
'As ghostly as Gothic' said JOSH MALERMAN, bestselling author of Bird Box 
 
Bringing together Faustian pacts, the occult, tales of sirens and selkies, guilt and revenge, desire and destiny, The Deep offers a thrilling, tantalizing twist on one of the world's most famous tragedies. 
 
Someone - or something - is haunting the Titanic. 
 
Deaths and disappearances have plagued the vast liner from the moment she began her maiden voyage on 10 April 1912. Four days later, caught in what feels like an eerie, unsettling twilight zone, some passengers - including millionaire Madeleine Astor and maid Annie Hebbley - are convinced that something sinister is afoot. And then disaster strikes. 
 
Four years later and the world is at war. Having survived that fateful night, Annie is now a nurse on board the Titanic's sister ship, the Britannic, refitted as a hospital ship. And she is about to realise that those demons from her past and the terrors of that doomed voyage have not finished with her yet . . .

The Deep

We all know the story of the Titanic . . . don't we?

Ariana Franklin

Adelia Aguilar is a rare thing in medieval Europe - a woman who has trained as a doctor. Her speciality is the study of corpses, a skill that must be concealed if she is to avoid accusations of witchcraft. 
 
But in Cambridge a child has been murdered, others are disappearing, and King Henry has called upon a renowned Italian investigator to find the killer - fast. 
 
What the king gets is Adelia, his very own Mistress of the Art of Death. 
 
The investigation takes Adelia deep into Cambridge; its castle and convents, and streets teeming with life. And it is here that she attracts the attention of a murderer who is prepared to kill again...

Mistress Of The Art Of Death

Mistress of the Art of Death, Adelia Aguilar series 1

Simon Beckett

* Don't miss 'THE CHEMISTRY OF DEATH' TV SERIES - now streaming on Paramount+ * 
 
Adapted from The Chemistry of Death and Written in Bone - starring Harry Treadaway as Dr David Hunter 
 
'Atmospheric . . . a tense, gripping read' Sunday Times 
 
It's not the dead we need to fear. . . 
 
Top forensics expert Dr David Hunter is facing an uncertain future - his career hangs in the balance and his personal life has taken a turn for the worse. So when he gets a call from Essex police, it comes at the perfect time. 
 
A badly decomposed body has been found in the mudflats and salt marshes of the Backwaters. Could it be linked to two unsolved missing-person cases? 
 
But as these desolate wetlands begin to give up their grisly secrets, more remains are discovered. 
 
With its eerie, claustrophobic sense of place, authentic forensics and explosive, heart-in-mouth moments, The Restless Dead is a masterclass in crime fiction.

The Restless Dead

(David Hunter 5): Harry Treadaway is Dr David Hunter: the darkly compelling new TV series ‘The Chemistry of Death’ – streaming now on Paramount+

Tom Bradby

Life for Dr Laura Strong shouldn’t be this hard. Nights working thankless A&E shifts. A much-loved handicapped brother to look after. Loan sharks at her door. She needs a miracle to stop her life collapsing around her.The arrival of South American coffee magnate Rafael Fernandez appears to be the answer to her prayers. A devoted father with a sick son requiring a 24/7 care, he is prepared to pay any price for expertise he can trust.But if something appears to be too good to be true, then it probably is. Behind the façade of Rafa’s gilded existence lies a dark family history which he has been doing his best to avoid – until the death of his estranged father brings it crashing back into his – and Laura’s – world.What had at first seemed to be a remarkable escape from an impossible situation now threatens to destroy everything Laura cares about. Friendless and far from home, she must rely on her own instincts to find a way out of this terrifying new landscape. Sometimes it’s easier to trust the devil you know…

Red Scorpion

Antony Johnston

**Preorder the new Can You Solve the Murder? novel now** 
 
YOU are the detective in this interactive crime novel, where YOU must investigate a murder and YOUR choices will determine whether you solve the crime... 
 
A village of dark secrets. 
A young woman is found dead inside an ancient stone circle at the heart of a remote forest. She’s a rock singer, who was filming a music video. Now her bandmates are suspects, along with the eccentric locals. 
 
Every suspect has an alibi. 
There’s just one problem: they all have water-tight alibis, and many villagers believe the singer was actually killed by the ‘Stone Warden’ – a figure from local folklore who haunts the forest. 
 
Who killed her? What do the strange symbols on the stones mean? What dark secrets are the villagers hiding? And can you find the killer before they strike again? 
 
No one is telling the truth. 
Decide who to interview, decode the symbols, and uncover what the villagers are hiding behind closed doors. Will your choices uncover the killer – or will they be your downfall? 
 
Only YOU can decide… 
 
Can You Solve the Murder? was a Top Ten Kindle Bestseller, July 2025

Can You Solve the Murder? - The Forest of Death

Louise O'Neill

2002. 
 
Twin sisters Madeline and Chelsea Stone are joint stars of the AtomicKids sitcom Double Trouble, but everyone knows it’s Maddie who shines most brightly. Until Chelsea beats her sister out for the role of a lifetime and is catapulted into the spotlight. And just as Chelsea’s star reaches impossible new heights, Maddie disappears. 
 
2025. 
 
Chelsea Stone retired from acting after her sister’s disappearance – but living life under the radar is easier said than done when you’re the most famous woman of your generation. 
 
When a storage locker is found containing heart-breaking truths about the year Maddie went missing, Chelsea feels a flicker of hope for the first time in twenty years. This is her chance to discover what really happened to her twin, but to follow the trail she’ll have to face the past and step back into the spotlight . . .

Whatever Happened to Madeline Stone?

Dennis Lehane

There are threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected. 
 
When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled up their street. One boy got in the car, two did not, and something terrible happened - something that ended their friendship and changed all three boys forever. 
 
Twenty-five years later, Sean Devine is a homicide detective. Jimmy Marcus is an ex-con who owns a corner store. And Dave Boyle is trying to hold his marriage together and keep his demons at bay -demons that urge him to do horrific things. 
 
When Jimmy Marcus' daughter is found murdered, Sean Devine is assigned to the case. His personal life unravelling, he must go back into a world he thought he'd left behind to confront not only the violence of the present but the nightmares of his past. His investigation brings him into conflict with Jimmy Marcus, who finds his old criminal impulses tempt him to solve the crime with brutal justice. And then there is Dave Boyle, who came home the night Jimmy's daughter died covered in someone else's blood...

Mystic River

Catherine Ryan Howard

If these walls could talk, they’d scream… 
 
When Ellie moves into 1 Delaney Row, all she has to her name is the house, a small suitcase and the terrible secrets she’s desperate to keep. But what she doesn’t know is that her new home is already hiding someone else’s secrets – and the people determined to keep them are watching her. 
 
When a grim discovery prompts Ellie to find out more about the house’s past, she unwittingly puts herself on a deadly collision course not just with her new home’s history, but with her own as well… 
 
Inspired by so-called ‘stigmatised properties’ – houses with dark and violent pasts – Buyer Beware is an intricate puzzle-box of a thriller with a pulsing emotional heart, from an author at the very top of her game.

Buyer Beware

* Don't miss 'THE CHEMISTRY OF DEATH' TV SERIES - now streaming on Paramount+ * 
 
Adapted from The Chemistry of Death and Written in Bone - starring Harry Treadaway as Dr David Hunter 
 
'As bone-chillingly bleak as its subject . . . this doesn't disappoint' Financial Times 
 
A serial killer is on the loose and David Hunter suddenly finds that the past is far from dead and buried. 
 
The escape of a psychotic rapist and multiple murderer brings DI Terry Connor to David Hunter's doorstep, years after their bitter rift. 
 
This unwelcome reminder of the past forces Hunter to confront the situation at hand: eight years earlier Hunter and an ill-fated Body Recovery team, has tried to find the graves of Monk's teenage victims on the bleak expanse of Dartmoor. 
 
Only one of the missing girls' bodies was ever found. 
 
Suddenly Hunter receives an appeal from Sophie Keller, a young woman who also worked on the operation, and nothing is quite as it seems. Hunter is forced to question who he can really trust. 
 
Especially when his own life depends on it.

The Calling of the Grave

(David Hunter 4): Harry Treadaway is Dr David Hunter: the darkly compelling new TV series ‘The Chemistry of Death’ – streaming now on Paramount+

* Don't miss 'THE CHEMISTRY OF DEATH' TV SERIES - now streaming on Paramount+ * 
 
Adapted from The Chemistry of Death and Written in Bone - starring Harry Treadaway as Dr David Hunter 
 
'A classy debut' The Times 
'Best thriller I've read all year' Tess Gerritsen 
 
Dr David Hunter hoped he might at last have put the past behind him. But then they found what was left of Sally Palmer . . . 
 
It isn't just that she was a friend that disturbs him. Once he'd been a high-profile forensic anthropologist and all too familiar with the many faces of death, before tragedy made him abandon this previous life. 
 
Now the police want his help. 
 
But to become involved will stir up memories he's long tried to forget. Then a second woman disappears, plunging the close-knit community into a maelstrom of fear and paranoia. 
 
And no one, not even Hunter, is exempt from suspicion. 
 
Gruesome and gripping, this startling new British crime thriller has an unnerving and original twist.

The Chemistry of Death

(David Hunter 1): Harry Treadaway is Dr David Hunter: the darkly compelling new TV series ‘The Chemistry of Death’ – streaming now on Paramount+

Twelfth-century anatomist, Adelia Aguilar must once again examine the dead as gruesome events are beginning to unfold... 
 
Henry II's favourite mistress, Rosamund Clifford, has been poisoned - and, rumour says, by his jealous wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine. If Henry believes the stories, England will be torn apart as King battles Queen. 
 
In a race against time to prove Eleanor's innocence, and with a dangerous assassin on the loose, Adelia has never faced greater danger. The armies that might cause civil war lie behind her. The icy winds of a dreadful winter blow around her. And ahead she must brave the thorns of the impenetrable labyrinth that surrounds Fair Rosamund's tower, and decipher the mystery of the dead woman who lies frozen within.

The Death Maze

Mistress of the Art of Death, Adelia Aguilar series 2

Lee Child

Jack Reacher is a former major in the US Military Police who, since leaving the army, has drifted round the wide open spaces of America, hitchhiking or on buses, wherever the whim takes him. He has no permanent address, no job, no family ties, no car, no luggage, no mobile phone, no credit card - all he carries with him is a folding toothbrush. 
Reacher is never looking for trouble, but somehow trouble always find him. He is the ultimate hero for our troubled times, with a keen moral compass and sense of justice, even if he is often prepared to take the law into his own hands: he says he doesn't want to put the world to rights, he just doesn't like people who put it to wrongs.

Jack Reacher is alone, the way he likes it. 
 
He watches a man cross a New York street and drive away in a Mercedes. The car contains $1 million of ransom money. Reacher's job is to make sure it all turns out right - money paid, family safely returned. 
 
But Reacher is in the middle of a nasty little war where nothing is simple. 
 
What started on a busy New York street explodes three thousand miles away, in the sleepy English countryside. 
 
Reacher's going to have to do this one the hard way. 
 
_________ 
 
Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, The Hard Way is the 10th in the series. 
 
And don’t miss Reacher's newest adventure, No.30, Exit Strategy! ***OUT NOW***

The Hard Way

(Jack Reacher 10)

Tess Gerritsen

What if your child wanted you dead? 
 
'I defy you to read the first chapter and not singe your fingers reading all the rest. It’s that compelling. It’s that good.' David Baldacci 
 
Julia is terrified by her daughter's aggressive behaviour. Lily has changed from an angelic little girl into someone she is afraid to be alone with. 
 
What scares Julia most, though, is that she knows why Lily is acting this way, but no-one will believe her. If she is going to help Lily, she will have to find the answers alone, embarking on a search that will take her to the shadowy back streets of Venice. 
 
There Julia finds far more than just answers, and uncovers a heartbreaking, long-buried tale of tragedy and devastation. And this discovery has put her in serious danger . . .

Playing with Fire

Boston private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro's relationship has hit the skids - their long-standing professional commitment and growing romance have disintegrated due to seemingly irreparable personal differences. But despite these problems, Prayers for Rain brings them together again to close down a predator whose modus operandi seems to put him beyond the law. This killer's insidious murder weapon is within his victims' minds: no smoking gun, no bloody knife, just merciless manipulation until despair drives his targets to kill themselves. 
 
As Patrick and Angie attempt to identify and save his next victim, this sinister force turns on them and thus begins a dangerous battle of wits: a tormenting, life-threatening game of psychological warfare in which simple survival seems a mixed blessing - because not even the winner will emerge unscathed.

Prayers For Rain

Christopher Fowler

Arthur Bryant and John May are Golden Age detectives living in the modern world. Together they head up the Peculiar Crimes Unit, ready to solve any of the weird and wonderful crimes that fall across their desks.

Long regarded an anachronism and a thorn in the side of its superiors, the Peculiar Crimes Unit is to be disbanded. For octogenarian detectives Arthur Bryant and John May, it seems retirement is now the only option. But then a headless body is found in a freezer, and on the perimeter of a massive construction site near King's Cross, a gigantic figure has been spotted - dressed in deerskin and sporting antlers made of knives and suddenly, with limited resources and very little time, the PCU are back in business...

Bryant and May On The Loose

(Bryant & May Book 7)

Samantha Sotto Yambao

Raya is a lost soul, going through the motions of life without a dream of her own. 
 
One night, on her subway ride home, Raya’s thoughts wander too far. She wakes on the Elsewhere Express, a magical train that offers its passengers a sense of purpose, peace, and belonging. The train’s endless journey is a chance for Raya to reimagine her life – but only if she finds her compartment before time runs out. 
 
On board, Raya meets a charming, handsome artist named Q and together they race to find their place on the train, through a boarding car carpeted in meadow grass and along a dining carriage where passengers picnic on lilypads. 
 
But a mysterious stowaway has boarded with them, and with it a dark, malignant magic that threatens to destroy the train and everything in it. The closer Raya comes to uncovering the stowaway's identity, the nearer she draws to the ultimate question: what is her life's true purpose – and might Q be connected to it?

The Elsewhere Express

Two female army high-flyers. Both acquainted with Jack Reacher. Both forced to resign from the service. 
 
Now they're both dead. 
 
Found in their own homes, naked, in a bath full of paint. Apparent victims of an army man. A loner, a smart guy with a score to settle. 
 
A ruthless vigilante. 
 
A man just like Jack Reacher. 
 
_________ 
 
Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, The Visitor is the 4th in the series. 
 
And don’t miss Reacher's newest adventure, No.30, Exit Strategy! ***OUT NOW***

The Visitor

(Jack Reacher 4)

JACK REACHER NEVER LOOKS BACK . . . UNTIL NOW. 
 
'There's only one Jack Reacher. Accept no substitutes.' - Mick Herron. 
 
The present can be tense . . . 
 
A young couple trying to get to New York City are stranded at a lonely motel in the middle of nowhere. Before long they're trapped in an ominous game of life and death. 
 
But the past can be worse . . . 
 
Meanwhile, Jack Reacher sets out on an epic road trip across America. He doesn't get far. Deep in the New England woods, he sees a sign to a place he has never been - the town where his father was born. But when he arrives he is told no one named Reacher ever lived there. Now he wonders: who's lying? 
 
As the tension ratchets up and these two stories begin to entwine, the stakes have never been higher for Reacher. 
 
That's for damn sure. 
 
 
_________ 
 
Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, Past Tense is the 23rd in the series. 
 
And don’t miss Reacher's newest adventure, No.30, Exit Strategy! ***OUT NOW***

Past Tense

(Jack Reacher 23)

James Becker

An Englishwoman is found dead in a house near Rome. 
 
Her distraught husband enlists the help of his closest friend, Chris Bronson, who discovers an ancient inscription on a slab of stone above their fireplace. It translates as 'Here Lie the Liars.' 
 
But who are the liars? And what is it they are lying to protect? 
 
Pursued across Europe, Bronson uncovers a trail of clues that leads him back to the shadowy beginnings of Christianity; to a chalice decorated with mysterious symbols; to a secret code hidden within a scroll. 
 
And to a deadly conspiracy which - if revealed - will rock the foundations of our modern world.

The First Apostle

Don't miss the brand new action-packed thriller (Martini Club 3) from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Spy Coast and The Summer Guests. 
 
Being retired has never been more dangerous . . . 
 
***** 
 
'The Thursday Murder Club on steroids' Saga Magazine 
 
'I love this new series!' SHARI LAPENA 
 
***** 
BEING RETIRED HAS NEVER BEEN MORE DANGEROUS . . . 
 
Maggie Bird’s ‘book group’ is an unusual one – a group of retired spies living an anonymous life in the quiet town of Purity. Today they are visiting the Cod Cove Resort for a terrifying conference on global catastrophe. 
But a murder at the hotel coincides with the return of an old flame for ex-spy Ingrid - a CIA agent she worked with decades ago, in an operation that ended in the deaths of three people. Has the killer resurfaced after all these years? 
 
When Ingrid abruptly vanishes, her husband Lloyd is devastated. He has no experience in the field, but he’ll stop at nothing to track down his wife - wherever in the world she is. With a concerned Maggie at his side, Lloyd unwittingly sets off a chain of events that threatens Ingrid's life. 
 
Meanwhile in Maine, local cop Jo Thibodeau and the rest of the covert cohort uncover startling evidence that turns all their assumptions upside down . . . 
 
***** 
 
PRAISE FOR THE MARTINI CLUB SERIES 
'I love this new series . . . I couldn't put it down' SHARI LAPENA 
'What a ride . . . Immersive, compelling, utterly addictive – a masterclass in storytelling.’ ANDREA MARA, bestselling author of No One Saw a Thing 
'Irresistible and highly recommended!' LEE CHILD, author of the Jack Reacher series 
'Hugely entertaining!' ANN CLEEVES, author of the Vera Stanhope series 
'I love her books. She is a big influence' FREIDA McFADDEN, bestselling author of The Housemaid

The Shadow Friends

* Don't miss 'THE CHEMISTRY OF DEATH' TV SERIES - now streaming on Paramount+ * 
 
Adapted from The Chemistry of Death and Written in Bone - starring Harry Treadaway as Dr David Hunter 
 
'Menacing, beautifully paced' Daily Mail 
 
A serial killer is at work, and the death toll is rising . . . 
 
The victim has been bound and tortured, the body decomposed beyond recognition. 
 
Then a second body is found. A nightmare is about to begin. 
 
Once a brutal abduction takes place, it becomes a terrifying race against time for forensic expert David Hunter . . .

Whispers of the Dead

(David Hunter 3): Harry Treadaway is Dr David Hunter: the darkly compelling new TV series ‘The Chemistry of Death’ – streaming now on Paramount+

Andrea Mara

Is your daughter the victim ... or the killer? 
 
‘The thing is, we always believe the best of our own kids. What mother thinks her own daughter will do something terrible? But every bad deed is carried out by a person who was once someone’s child.’ 
 
Get ready for your new obsession. Pre-order the gripping new psychological thriller from the No.1 Sunday Times bestseller Andrea Mara. 
 
The truth will unravel everything... 
 
The morning after a glamorous, luxury wedding, you and your best friend go to wake your twenty-four-year-old daughters. You open the door to their shared room in the pool-house and find a lamp smashed on the floor, a blood stain on the carpet, a ringing phone – and both girls are nowhere to be seen. 
 
The police come and you discover something shocking. Something inexplicable. Is one of your daughters trying to kill the other? And that’s when you and your best friend begin to unravel what's really going on between the girls. 
 
You need to work together to find your daughters, testing your friendship to its limits. And you can’t help but wonder: which girl is the killer and which is the victim? 
 
Everyone is talking about Andrea Mara: 
 
'Impossible to put down'. Chris Whitaker 
'Andrea Mara is a star.' Lee Child 
'Probably the most suspenseful book I will read all year.' Liz Nugent 
'One of the most tense thrillers of the year so far.' John Marrs 
'I was hooked by the end of chapter one.' Jane Casey

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