FICTION

End Game*Special Collector’s Edition available to the first UK print run only! Featuring a gold foil on board design beneath the dust jacket. Available while stocks last. All pre-orders will receive this edition.*William Warwick and Ross Hogan will return, for one last time, in a gripping and unputdownable finale. Available to pre-order now!London, 2012.The eyes of the world are on Britain as the country prepares to host the Olympic Games.?But the glare of the spotlight makes London a target for some of the most dangerous people on earth. And the moment the bid is won, an international conspiracy is set in motion to unleash a devastating attack that will leave the world in chaos.?One man stands between triumph and disaster: Commander William Warwick, heading up Scotland Yard's elite team. But as he pursues the shadowy organisation, he sets off a deadly game of cat and mouse which will take him from the bustling streets of London to the hidden corridors of power. Can Warwick stop the assassin before the greatest show on earth becomes a catastrophe … ?

Ann Cleeves is the author of more than thirty-five critically acclaimed novels, and in 2017 was awarded the highest accolade in crime writing, the CWA Diamond Dagger. She is the creator of popular detectives Vera Stanhope, Jimmy Perez and Matthew Venn, who can be found on television in ITV’s Vera, BBC One’s Shetland and ITV’s The Long Call respectively. The TV series and the books they are based on have become international sensations, capturing the minds of millions worldwide. Ann worked as a probation officer, bird observatory cook and auxiliary coastguard before she started writing. She is a member of ‘Murder Squad’, working with other British northern writers to promote crime fiction. Ann also spends her time advocating for reading to improve health and wellbeing and supporting access to books. In 2021, her Reading for Wellbeing project launched with local authorities across the North East. She lives in Northumberland where the Vera books are set.

The Silent Ones The murder of an innocent shakes Ireland to its core. Garda Mary Shea is given the rare opportunity to do some real police work in a quest to find the answers.One cold January morning in 1980, on a beach in Kerry, the body of a newborn baby is found in its most sheltered sand dune. When local police are called to the incident, Garda Mary Shea is first on scene.The Dublin major crimes team are called to investigate and because Mary is able to get crucial, female witnesses to cooperate, lead detective Matt Foley takes her under his wing in his bid to solve the biggest case of his career. More questions than answers are found when it becomes clear many locals conduct secret lives — but who would do such a thing?

The Bodies How many times would you let your child get away with murder? The new break-out thriller from Sam Lloyd, author of Richard & Judy Book Club pick The Memory Wood.When you look down at your newborn baby, you realise they were right, those smug parents you've always rolled your eyes at- you'd do literally anything for your child. To make them happy, keep them safe.So when Joseph Carver wakes one night to find his teenage son Max scrubbing the kitchen, hands wet with blood and panic flooding his voice as he promises it was an accident, he didn't mean to do it, Joseph does the only thing he can. He helps Max bury the body.Joseph thinks that's the end of the nightmare. Until he finds Max with stricken eyes and bloody hands once again . . .You'd do anything for your child - even cover up a murder.But how many times?

A Slowly Dying Cause Elizabeth George is the no. 1 New York Times, Times and Der Spiegel bestselling author of more than twenty British crime novels featuring Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley. Her novels have been translated into thirty languages and featured on television by the BBC. She has twice been nominated for the Edgar Award and is the recipient of the Anthony Award, the Agatha Award, France’s Grand Prix de Littérature Policière and Germany’s MIMI.

Can You Solve the Murder? Crime novel meets gamebook in this gripping, inventive locked-room murder mystery, set in a wellness retreat in a country mansion, from award-winning crime author and veteran games writer.ARE YOU READY TO BE A DETECTIVE?In this gripping interactive crime novel, at the end of every chapter, YOU choose what to do next...You arrive at Elysium, a wellness retreat in an English country manor, to investigate a murder. You find the body of a local businessman on the lawn, with a rose placed in his mouth.When you examine the body, you learn that he fell to his death from the balcony above. But that balcony can only be accessed through a locked door - and the key is missing.Everyone in Elysium is now a suspect, but who will you interview first? Be careful what you choose, because every decision you make has consequences, and some of them will prove fatal...Do you have what it takes? Can YOU solve the murder?Experience a gripping new type of story, unlike anything you've read before, from Antony Johnston, award-winning crime author and veteran games writer.

To Love A Liar A heart-pounding and emotional thriller about marriage and deceit, by an R&J selected author.HUSBAND. LOVER. KILLER?PC Chris Fletcher is a man with secrets. Hiding away in remote Scotland, he awaits the verdict on the death of his ex-lover, Sophia Roy. His innocence hangs by a thread, but telling lies is what Chris was trained to do.With him is his loyal wife, Jillian, wondering if the man she loves is who she thought he was.Then Chris wakes to find her gone without a trace. One woman dead, another missing. A man guilty of a crime, but which one?

Victorian Psycho'Jane Eyre meets American Psycho. Gloriously outrageous, sensationally unhinged' SUNDAY TIMES‘Simmering with rage, propulsive and laugh-out-loud funny' CATRIONA WARD'Weird and wonderful' LUCY MANGAN, GUARDIANWinifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect Victorian governess. She’ll dutifully tutor her charges, Drusilla and Andrew, tell them bedtime stories, and only joke about eating children. But the longer Winifred spends within the estate’s dreary confines and the more she learns of the perversions and pathetic preoccupations of the Pounds family, the more trouble she has sticking to her plan.Whether creeping across the moonlit lawns in her undergarments or gently tormenting the house staff, Winifred struggles at every turn to stifle the horrid compulsions of her past until her chillingly dark imagination breaches the feeble boundary of reality on Christmas morning. Wielding her signature sardonic wit and a penchant for the gorgeously macabre, Virginia Feito returns with a vengeance in Victorian Psycho.NOW BEING ADAPTED FOR A MAJOR FILM BY A24What readers are saying…'Psychotic, strange, utterly hilarious, strangely relatable' ?????'Dark, gruesome, hilarious, wild, weird' ?????'One hell of a ride. Perfection!' ?????'I frequently found myself blindsided, mouth agape, and loved every second of it' ?????

Mirage'Hello Niklas Sockenberg. We hope you have been satisfied with our services during this time, which has now reached its end. You have 14 days, 1 hour and 12 minutes left to live'A deadly threatOn Christmas Eve, Sweden’s Minister of Justice receives an ominous call. An automated voice tells him he has just fourteen days to live.A gruesome discoveryThe same day, a human skeleton is found in the Stockholm subway, belonging to a high-ranking financier. With the team grieving the loss of one of their own, Police inspector Mina Dabiri calls in mentalist Vincent Walder to help with the case.A race to find a killerWhen another pile of bones is found underground, the team is put to the test – what is going on in the tunnels deep under Stockholm? And can they uncover who is threatening the minister, before his time runs out?Readers love MIRAGE'Scandi detective fiction at its best'?????'A five-star read … highly original, completely absorbing, interesting and entertaining'?????'This is another excellent book in the Mina and Vincent series'?????'Definitely one of the best crime thrillers I have ever read!!!' ?????

Isaac Bell returns for another white-knuckled mission in a new installment of the thrilling seriesCharismatic, handsome, and fiercely loyal, Isaac Bell is a no-nonsense private detective at the Van Dorn Detective Agency. Travelling all over early 20th century America in pursuit of justice for his clients, chasing down a steam train in a sports automobile is all in a day's work for Bell. And while he's on the trail of thieves, killers, and sometimes much worse, he'll have to use his every last wit to stay ahead of those he seeks, and to stay alive . . .Praise for Clive Cussler-'The Adventure King' Sunday Express'Just about the best in the business' New York Post'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail

A high-stakes thriller that could be ripped from today's headlines - from the bestselling author of The Frenchman.

An unputdownable crime thriller featuring Detective Antigone Pollard from the bestselling author of The Unbelieved.

'Mum, please. I need your help. I've done something stupid ... They're coming for me.'

The author of instant bestseller Geneva returns with an unmissably twisty psychological thriller