Enthralled by the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Victorian readers around the world developed a fascination with eccentric detectives and bizarre crimes. Featuring an international array of authors and characters, this compilation of 16 short stories showcases the best of the mysteries inspired by the Baker Street sleuth. Their heroes range from famous...

The truth lies in what she can’t remember.

There is another who harbors her unspeakable secrets.

Meeting her is where the danger lies.

On a dark January night in 2019, Gloria finds herself behind the wheel of a car, beaten and covered in blood. She has no idea where she’s coming from, or where she might be headed. After pulling to the side of the road...

One corpse. Two dead women. And LA’s biggest crime conspiracy.

Los Angeles, 2030. Criminagent Milo Deckman witnesses the murder of a woman in the street. At the morgue, retinal identification indicates not one, but two identities…each with her own husband.

Going against his better judgment, Deckman can’t resist getting involved in the case, but he soon...

New from the Nebula Award winning author of Beggars in Spain: A riveting climate-change technothriller of espionage, conspiracy, and stakes so high they could lead to the destruction of humanity itself. In this environmental page-turner, activist lawyer Renata Black—covert member of the Org—must go deep underground to unravel the truth behind the ecological...

In a Europe on the verge of collapse, the Nazi organisation Ahnenerbe is pillaging sacred landmarks across the world. Their aim is to collect treasures with occult powers, which will help them establish the Third Reich. The organisation's head, Himmler, has sent SS officers to search a Tibetan sanctuary in a forgotten valley in the Himalayas, whilst he...

New York Times bestselling author Robin Cook takes on the ripped-from-the-headlines topic of using genealogical DNA database tracking to catch a killer in Genesis, an unforgettable medical thriller.

When the body of twenty-nine-year-old social worker Gloria Montoya, seven weeks pregnant with her first child, shows up on Chief New York City Medical Examiner...

From “the reigning royalty of Minnesota murder mysteries” (The Rake) comes a striking new heroine: a young Irish immigrant caught up in a deadly plot in nineteenth-century Deadwood

When I was fifteen and my brother Seamus sixteen, we attended our own wake. Our family was in mourning, forced to send us off to America.

The year is 1880, and of all the places...

They were the perfect family. It was the perfect crime.

The new gripping DCI Matilda Darke crime thriller about the dark secrets that lie within a perfect family. For fans of Patricia Gibney and Angela Marsons.

It’s the most disturbing crime scene DCI Matilda Darke has ever seen…
 
The morning after a wedding reception at a beautiful...

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER THE WOMAN BEFORE ME

'Utterly chilling and enthralling from the first line to the last.' Karen Maitland

What I want to say is that suicide is my choice. No-one else is to blame. Man seeks beautiful woman for the journey of a lifetime: Will you help me to die?

When Probation Officer Cate Austin is given her new...

Eddie stands at his door anxiously waiting for the woman to arrive, touching the engagement ring box in his pocket for luck. He doesn’t hear the footsteps behind him until it’s too late…

Detective Finnegan Beck is called to a crime scene – a remote house near the rural Irish town of Cross Beg – where a dog lies whimpering beside his beloved owner’s body.

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Edinburgh, 1850. Despite being at the forefront of modern medicine, hordes of patients are dying all across the city, with doctors finding their remedies powerless. But it is not just the deaths that dismay the esteemed Dr James Simpson – a whispering campaign seeks to blame him for the death of a patient in suspicious circumstances.

Simpson’s protégé...

Daniel, 16, is sent to a special ‘school' instead of prison. Experiments are being conducted on youths there. Daniel must find out why. A group of teenagers, facing prison time for various crimes, are instead "rescued" from the legal system and given the opportunity to attend a special school. But the ‘school' is an isolated rural house and lessons are...

When Avri Lawrence’s high school sweetheart leaves her to enlist in the military, she nurses a broken heart. When Dillon returns four years later, their attraction to each other is stronger than ever, but life’s experiences has changed them. When her life is threatened she’s not sure he’ll come to her rescue or like what he finds. She has secrets and she’s...

The perfect couple…or the perfect lie?

A year and a half ago, Gemma met the love of her life, Danny. Since then, their relationship has been like something out of a dream. But one Friday evening, Gemma returns home to find Danny is nowhere to be seen.

After two days with no word from her husband, Gemma turns to the police. She is horrified with what she...

Introducing Oxford don Michael Flint and antiques dealer Nell West in the first book in a haunted house thriller series.

A house with a sinister past – and a grisly power.

When Michael Flint is asked by American friends to look over an old Shropshire house they have unexpectedly inherited, he is reluctant to leave the quiet of his Oxford study. But when he...

The 1960s are meant to be progressive, but as a new psychiatrist to Black Roding, Ruth does not find the staff at the large London asylum so. Instead of encouraging her attempts to implement the asylum’s Superintendent’s ideas, the staff are strangely reluctant to progress the asylum’s ways. Challenged at every turn, Ruth is forced to turn to the patients –...

An intelligence-led police raid; smear campaigns; attempted character assassinations; behind-the-scenes manoeuvring; dubious allegations of corruption versus real corruption on a grand scale; fake news versus investigative reporting; government surveillance versus the circumvention of that surveillance; ‘soft power’, hybrid war and identity politics; these...

A man is found dead in his bed, suffocated, covered in confetti and with his ring finger missing. Detective Rachel King informs his daughter and takes her to identify the body.

But she’s never seen the man before in her life.

WHAT IF YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW WHO THE KILLER REALLY WANTED TO MURDER?

Then a second murder. This time a woman, Alison, also...

Shortly before September 11, 2001, Joe Biden warned, "The question is not if we will be attacked by terrorists again, but rather when and where."

In the pages of No Safe Place, terrorism has come to America once again.

Sleeper agents for a radical Islamic terrorist group that calls itself Ansar Inshallah have managed to blend into American society and go...

Poaching for tusks is a deadly game that must be stopped.

Dr. Robert Merriweather takes on the corruption of rhino and elephant poachers and the corrupt international network selling their ivory and horns for profit.

When Merriweather attends the double wedding of twin brothers of Chinese descent, he has no idea he will soon be embroiled in a murder mystery...

Ebony Daniels, med student by day and sexy stripper by night—she had it all. Money, glamour, and popularity.

She had her life all planned out until one day, her two worlds collide. Her med career is on the line and so is her family. Now Ebony must find the balance between good and evil.

Now she must right all her wrongs and set things straight to get her...

The Lost Treasure is a thriller about four young adolescents who come together to solve a deadly mystery. The spirit of a long-dead pirate seeks his 300-year-old buried treasure through the possessed body of a diabolical descendant. It's up to Bobby Holmes from England, his American cousin Brenda Watson, and a couple of unlikely heroes, one of whom has...

THE MOST HEART-POUNDING THRILLER YOU WILL READ THIS YEAR

THREE WOMEN.

ONE WILL SACRIFICE HER LIFE TO STOP HIM. ONE IS HIS NEXT VICTIM. ONE MUST TRY TO PUT HIM BEHIND BARS.

Holly Maguire takes a taxi to a clifftop location. She is determined to make things right. Then the car goes over the edge of the cliff.

As Holly falls to her death, she...

From bestselling author Debbie Herbert comes a chilling, fast-paced story about family tragedy and confronting what terrifies us most.

In the eighteen years since her father went to prison for killing her mother and brother, Della Stallings has battled a crippling phobia. Her fear only grows when her father’s released. She still believes he killed her...

A medical thriller that will leave you guessing all the way to the end.

Dr. Daniel Ross has invented a cure for glaucoma—a debilitating, blinding disorder. He's ecstatic - until his psychopathic boss steals his breakthrough.

Daniel is then framed for stealing secret Department of Defense documents from a server and is now being blackmailed. If he wants his...

Who's poisoning Manchester? Well, surely it can't be the man called the Public Health Officer for the city? Or could it?

Melia is working undercover, and was just thinking she had enough trouble with all these terrorists popping up in her territory, linked to a recent increase of people coming to England for asylum and safety.

Perhaps they are not all they...

There are inheritances people want. Then there are those legacies no one wishes to bear ...

The Modronovich, a cargo ship testing a prototype Newtonian drive, loses contact on its shakedown cruise. It was briefly seen, overdue and far off course, and then never heard from again.

Two-hundred and fifty years later, Penelope Middleton walks into Spaulding...

"A gripping and evocative page-turner that vibrantly brings Elizabeth's London to life." Steven Veerapen, author of A Dangerous Trade

London 1578 - a cauldron of conspiracy, intrigue and torture.

The might of Spain and the growing influence of the Catholic League in France all threaten the stability of Queen Elizabeth and her state.

William Constable, a...

Rupert has spent years searching for his perfect wife. Now he’s found her.

 Her name is Charlotte Aldridge and she’s wonderful. A talented artist, modest and beautiful, she’s everything he ever dreamed of. Her hair, her eyes, her mouth - every little detail is perfect.

Rupert is confident that when they meet, she’ll fall in love with him just as he has...

The New Husband is a riveting thriller about the lies we tell ourselves from D. J. Palmer, the author of Saving Meghan.

Just because you love someone doesn’t mean you know them.

Nina Garrity learned that the hard way after discovering that her missing husband, Glen, had been leading a double life with another woman. But Glen's gone—presumably drowned while...

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A body is found in the hills – but the truth still lies buried...

In a small town in the Deep South, Flora Dane is part of a task force committed to hunting down every last trace of notorious serial kidnapper Jacob Ness. As his last victim, imprisoned by Ness in a small box for over a year...

It happens to every mother. One day, the daughter whose whole world you once were, becomes someone you barely know. And you don’t know the secrets she’s hiding…

One night, 15-year-old Olivia comes home late from a party she was strictly forbidden from going to, and she and her mother, Hannah, start arguing. Soon Olivia speaks the words that every parent...

'A new young writer I believe in' Jeanette Winterson

'Made me want to shout out in anger' Val McDermid

Coming in Spring 2020, KEEPER is the addictive literary thriller that's already starting conversations, for readers who loved Lullaby and Three Women.
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He's been looking in the windows again. Messing with cameras. Leaving notes.
Supposed to be...

**THE THIRD NAIL-BITING THRILLER FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MY SISTER'S BONES AND DAY OF THE ACCIDENT**

'Gripping, poignant . . . I read it in one sitting' Rosamund Lupton on Day of the Accident
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No matter how far you run . . .
He's never far behind

Lisa needs to disappear. And her friend's rambling old home in...

New York Times bestseller Julia Spencer-Fleming returns to her beloved Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne mystery series with new crimes that span decades.

1952. Millers Kill Police Chief Harry McNeil is called to a crime scene where a woman in a party dress has been murdered with no obvious cause of death.

1972. Millers Kill Police Chief Jack Liddle is called...

Gone Girl meets Room in this page-turning thriller from one of Germany's hottest new talents

A windowless shack in the woods. Lena's life and that of her two children follows the rules set by their captor, the father: Meals, bathroom visits, study time are strictly scheduled and meticulously observed. He protects his family from the dangers lurking in the...

Quinn Victoria Caine is back in her hometown of Vienna, Virginia. Her parents have a charming bookshop, and that's where she's made her new life as a book binder, and she has the best trusty sidekick, German shepherd RBG--'Ruff Barker' Ginsburg. All is well in the world of QVC, that is, until she finds her old high school nemesis Tricia Pemberley dead on...

DISCOVER A BRILLIANTLY GRIPPING CRIME THRILLER FROM A BEST-SELLING AUTHOR

DETECTIVE INSPECTOR MIKE CROFT RETURNS TO THE GREENWAY TO FACE HIS MOST DIFFICULT CASE YET

A BODY ON THE BEACH.

In the hot, dry heat of high summer, Martha Toolin is found stabbed to death. She was a stranger to the area and had been seen arguing with a teenage boy.

BUT SHE...

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‘A stunningly original thriller set in the world of tomorrow that will make you think about what’s happening today.’
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'Wonderful: boldly imagined and beautifully...

When machine murders man, one detective is the world’s only hope of preventing an all-out-war…

Dhata Mays has become used to living on the fringes. Unlike most of humanity, the detective treats the synth population with the respect they deserve. But when a gruesome murder points to a synth as the perpetrator, Dhata must do everything in his power to...

On an Icelandic Island, an illegal experiment intended to create the perfect biological weapon has transformed a once-innocent creature into the biblical Leviathan that once terrorized the world. Able to shatter steel and granite as easily as it can melt the strongest containment shields, Leviathan escapes from its pen and is loose in a vast underground...

England, 1941. And the battleship Bismarck is about to set sail.

Undercover agent Xanthe Schneider has returned to England, following her mission in Berlin, with vital information… and a baby growing inside her.

In the months that lead up to the birth, Xanthe occupies herself with work and regular visits to Bletchley Park, but this does little to take her...

When a girl called Doris informs ghostwriter, Joe Tye, that someone has “stolen her beautiful new breasts” and asks for his help, he is plunged into the dark and dangerous worlds of people-trafficking and modern slavery.

At the same time as dealing with the amorous advances of the sixteen year-old daughter of a gangster, who also happens to be his client...

Former British cop Jim Grant is back in Boston, now a fully-fledged member of the Boston PD based at Jamaica Plain.

Working the nightshift for fellow detective Sam Kincaid should have been an easy job but after saving a kidnapped child from a blazing house and attending a drive-by shooting in Beacon Hill it proves to be anything but. The trouble is the...

It’s 1943, and Captain Hook is at sea aboard a hijacked German U-boat.

Hook has heard all the Peter Pan-themed jokes about his name—he knows that humour can be an indispensable tool for survival in war. And now, as his crew embark on their most daring mission yet, they may need it more than ever.

The crew set off for the French port of La Rochelle, with the...

Jake Silver is haunted by a cruel irony. He secretly suspects that he’s the reason Swede Bergstrom, the hero who saved his life, has fallen on hard times. Upon learning that Swede has been killed in the commission of a crime, the guilt-driven Jake quickly agrees to to follow Swede’s mysterious and beautiful sister, Christina, on a search to clear her...

Rudolph “Rudy” Dersch is the newly minted CEO of the world’s largest corporate conglomerate. But the job comes with an unexpected twist – an invitation to join the Consortium, a small, secretive group of global elites who effectively decide what’s best for the rest of humanity. In a not-so-distant future of extreme income inequality, can anyone break their...

Mary seems like an ordinary 46-year-old divorcee, beginning a new life in rural England, but she has depths of pent-up pain, the result of 20 years of marital infidelities and abuse. All she needs is a trigger to unleash savage emotions. 

When she becomes entangled with Jonas, a married man, Mary suddenly finds herself in the opposite role of the ‘other...

Gabacho is the true tale of youthful angst, crime, misunderstandings, love, friendship and redemption.

Over Christmas break of his senior year, a University of Utah theatre student disenchanted with his conservative Mormon upbringing, took off for Mexico with a college friend seeking a wild adventure. If the adventure hadn’t included smuggling drugs it...

Once a cop always a cop. Ex vice squad cop Vince McNulty copes with life outside the force by visiting the Northern X massage parlours he used to police. Until a return to his old stomping ground prompts a change in fortunes. Several girls have gone missing. All young masseuses. All from parlours that McNulty has visited. When one of them turns up dead...

Sometimes, a snake is just a snake. And sometimes…

First-century Rome.

Senator Gaius Lucius Nerva is taken ill at a dinner party and dies a few days later. His heartbroken wife, Flavia, is told it was a natural death. Calidus, Nerva’s recently freed slave, suspects otherwise.

As he embarks upon the funeral ceremonies, Calidus becomes more and more...

Leeds, Autumn 1936.

During a British Union of Fascists rally, a body is found.

War veteran Detective Sergeant Urban Raven is tasked with finding the killer.

But with virtually no clues, no witnesses, and no obvious motive, he has few leads to start the investigation.

Leeds has become a shadow of its former self. Once a bright, vibrant and progressive...