Published By: Hodder and StoughtonPages: 480Released On: 15/08/2023 ‘I am waiting for someone to kill me. Tonight would be a good night for it.’Agent Seventeen, the most infamous hitman in the world, has quit. But whoever wants to become Assassin Eighteen must track him down and kill him first.So when a bullet hits the glassContinue reading “Assassin Eighteen – John Brownlow”
Category Archives: Mystery & Thrillers
The Turnglass – Gareth Rubin
Published By: Simon and SchusterPages: 512Released On: 31/08/2023 Imagine you’re holding a book in your hands. It’s not just any book though. It’s a tête-bêche novel, beloved of nineteenth-century bookmakers. It’s a book that is two books: two intertwined stories printed back-to-back. Open the book and the first novella begins. It ends at the middleContinue reading “The Turnglass – Gareth Rubin”
The Death I Gave Him – Em X. Liu
Published By: SolarisPages: 432Released On: 14/09/2023 A lyrical, queer sci-fi retelling of Shakespeare’s Hamlet as a locked-room thriller. A Twenty-First Century Hamlet. Hayden Lichfield’s life is ripped apart when he finds his father murdered in their lab, and the camera logs erased. The killer can only have been after one thing: the Sisyphus Formula theContinue reading “The Death I Gave Him – Em X. Liu”
All the Little Liars – Victoria Selman
Published By: QuercusPages: 384Released On: 31/08/2023 What REALLY happened at Turtle Lake? You think you know. Think again. California, 2003: A thirteen-year-old girl disappears from a party at Carlsbad’s Turtle Lake. Discovered on the trunk of a nearby cottonwood tree is the word LIAR graffitied in blood. What you know – three teenagers went toContinue reading “All the Little Liars – Victoria Selman”
Over My Dead Body – Maz Evans
Published By: HeadlinePages: 320Released On: 03/08/2023 Hello? Can you hear me? Probably not. I’m Dr Miriam Price . . . and I’m dead. The local police, who couldn’t investigate their own nostrils, think I drank myself into an early grave. The nerve! I was murdered. I was just too plastered to know whodunnit, that’s all.UnlessContinue reading “Over My Dead Body – Maz Evans”
Good Bad Girl – Alice Feeney
Published By: MacmillanPages: 320Released On: 03/08/2023 Sometimes bad things happen to good people, so good people have to do bad things.Twenty years after a baby is stolen from her push-chair, a woman is murdered in a care home. The two crimes are somehow linked, and a good bad girl may be the key to discoveringContinue reading “Good Bad Girl – Alice Feeney”
A Game of Lies – Clare Mackintosh
Published By: Sphere Pages: 384Released On: 20/07/2023 They say the camera never lies.But on this show, you can’t trust anything you see. Stranded in the Welsh mountains, seven reality show contestants have no idea what they’ve signed up for. Each of these strangers has a secret. If another player can guess the truth, they won’tContinue reading “A Game of Lies – Clare Mackintosh”
Mister Magic – Kiersten White
Published By: Random HousePages: 288Released On: 01/08/2023 Thirty years after a tragic accident shut down production of the classic children’s program Mister Magic, the five surviving cast members have done their best to move on. But just as generations of cultishly devoted fans still cling to the lessons they learned from the show, the cast, known asContinue reading “Mister Magic – Kiersten White”
The Birdcage Library – Freya Berry
Published By: HeadlinePages: 400Released On: 22/06/2023 Dear Reader, the man I love is trying to kill me…1932. Emily Blackwood, a young adventuress and plant hunter, travels north for a curious new commission. A gentleman has written to request she catalogue his vast collection of taxidermied creatures before sale. On arrival, Emily finds a ruined castle, itsContinue reading “The Birdcage Library – Freya Berry”
None of This is True – Lisa Jewell
Published By: CenturyPages: 400Released On: 20/07/2023 Celebrating her 45th birthday at her local pub, podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie is also celebrating her 45th birthday. They are, in fact birthday twins.A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix’s children’sContinue reading “None of This is True – Lisa Jewell”
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