Crime & Mystery
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The Ending Writes Itself: The new twisty and gripping locked room mystery crime thriller everyone is talking about for 2026
‘In the running for the best mystery of 2026. With a trove of tropes that mystery lovers will love, it will remind you, in the best way, of Agatha Christie.’ Stephen King
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‘A cracking read’ Val McDermid
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It’s the perfect plot. All it needs is a killer ending.
Six authors.
One private island.
Seventy-two hours to write the ending.
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World-famous author Arthur Fletch is dead. His final novel, the most anticipated book in history, remains unfinished. But the ending won’t write itself.
When six struggling authors are invited to Fletch’s private Scottish island and presented with the opportunity of a lifetime, the plot thickens: whoever writes a worthy ending will receive a game-changing book deal and two million dollars.
Why have they been chosen to attend? Who is behind the invitation? And just how far would they go to secure a place on the bestseller list?
They have just seventy-two hours, a typewriter and a blank page. All they have to do is write…
Starting is often the hardest part. But getting to the end could be murder.
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‘Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None meets Yellowface… Great fun!’ Kate Mosse
‘A great locked-room thriller and a brilliant satire on the publishing industry’ Karin Slaughter
‘Hugely entertaining and thrilling’ B A Paris
‘Full of twists and turns … A must-read for any mystery fan!’ G.T. Karber
‘Fiendishly clever and compulsively readable… An absolute must read’ Ellery Lloyd
‘Funny, razor sharp and scarily relatable’ Sarah Crossan
‘A wonderfully twisty mystery that plays with all the tropes we know so well. An absolute delight to read!’ Phoenicia Rogerson
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The Mysterious Affair Of Judith Potts: Don’t miss the brand-new gripping funny cosy crime murder mystery novel from the Sunday Times bestseller, … Book 5 (The Marlow Murder…
*Pre-order the brand-new gripping novel in the Marlow Murder Club Mystery series now!*
NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES starring Samantha Bond, Jo Martin, and Cara Horgan. Season 3 coming in 2026!
‘Smart, funny, and packed with twists, friendship, and of course crosswords’ Reader review⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
‘An entertaining, funny, exhilarating, complex, fabulous novel’ Reader review⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
‘This series just gets better and better’ Reader review⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
‘A cracking addition to an already well-loved series’ Reader review⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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A killer is on the loose. The bodies are piling up. And Judith is hiding a deadly secret …
Someone from Judith’s past has turned up in Marlow and is stirring up trouble. With all the murders that the Marlow Murder Club have had to solve and her work setting crosswords, Judith’s been too busy to give her old life much thought. But now it’s knocking on her door and won’t go away.
On top of that, Marlow’s celebrities are getting murdered! When a footballer and a thriller writer are found dead, Judith, Suzie, and Becks must untangle a web of scandal to find the killer. But with Judith keeping secrets, the Marlow Murder Club find themselves drifting apart.
The pressure is on in more ways than one …
Can they find the killer and help Judith in time, or could this be the end of the Marlow Murder Club?
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‘The best thing since Jerome K Jerome!’ Orlando Murrin, author of Knife Skills for Beginners
‘An unputdownable page-turner … and a plot so ingenious it kept me guessing until the very end’ Matt Dunn
‘Full of unexpected twists and turns … we will be enjoying the mysteries of Robert Thorogood for many years to come’ Daily Mail
Robert Thorogood’s book ‘Murder on the Marlow Belle’ was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2025-01-20.
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Absolute Batman Vol. 2: Abomination (Absolute Batman: Abomination, 2)
In this chilling new saga, Batman confronts the icy menace of Mr. Freeze and the brutal force of Bane as he uncovers dark secrets within the Ark M facility that link Victor Fries, the Joker, and Gotham’s deepest evils.The story marks the debut of Mr. Freeze’s Absolute Universe version, focusing on Victor Fries, his connection to the Ark M experiment, and its mysterious link to the Joker. Batman faces a deadly battle against Mr. Freeze, uncovering chilling secrets about Ark M and the Joker’s involvement. Ark M is a facility meant to help society’s broken, but it has also played a role in creating evil. When Bruce Wayne infiltrates Ark M, he encounters Bane–an old foe with a brutal origin story and a terrifying plan to break Batman. The narrative reveals Bane’s background, motivations, and how he arrived in Gotham, all while Bruce and his friend Waylon Jones endure harrowing trials inside Ark M.
Collects Absolute Batman #7-14
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My Husband’s Wife: (Special Limited Edition): From The Sunday Times bestselling Author Of Beautiful Ugly And His & Hers
‘My Husband’s Wife was non-stop thrills from the first page and kept me guessing until the end! The best Feeney book yet!’ – Freida McFadden, author of The Housemaid
**ALL first edition hardback copies feature beautiful sprayed edges – available while stock lasts**
The Sunday Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ugly is back with a psychological masterpiece that will leave you questioning everything you know about love, identity and revenge.
Eden Fox, an artist on the brink of her big break, sets off for a run before her first exhibition. When she returns to the home she recently moved into – Spyglass, an enchanting old house in the pretty seaside village of Hope Falls – nothing is as it should be. Her key doesn’t fit. A woman, eerily similar to her, answers the door. And her husband insists that this stranger is his wife.
One house. One husband. Two women. Someone is lying.
Six months earlier, a reclusive Londoner named Birdy, reeling from a life-changing diagnosis, inherits Spyglass. This unexpected gift from a long-lost grandmother brings her to Hope Falls. But then Birdy stumbles upon a shadowy London clinic that claims to be able to predict a person’s date of death, including her own. Secrets start to unravel and, as the line between truth and lies blurs, Birdy feels compelled to right some old wrongs.
My Husband’s Wife weaves a tangled web of deception, obsession and mystery that will keep you guessing until the last page. Prepare yourself for the ultimate mind-bending marriage thriller and step inside Spyglass – if you dare – to experience a story where nothing is as it seems.
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A Sociopath’s Guide to a Successful Marriage: Don’t miss this gripping new darkly funny crime thriller for fans of HOW TO KILL YOUR FAMILY
The witty and gripping new thriller introducing your new favourite murderous heroine: Lalla Rook.
‘Lalla Rook is ruthless, unapologetic and shamelessly murderous, you’re going to love her’ Gillian McAllister
‘A wickedly dark and hilarious debut … witty, wise and wildly entertaining’ Alice Feeney
‘Deliciously dark, clever satire. Lalla Rook is a genius creation. I absolutely loved it!!’ Shari Lapena
‘The most wildly entertaining novel you’ll read this year: suspenseful but funny, shocking yet stylish’ A. J. Finn
‘Razor-sharp … Destined to be a hit’Vaseem Khan
‘Big Little Lies meets Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ Booklist
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There’s a dead body in my living room.
I’ve not called the police because it was I who stabbed him. Seven times in all. The truth is, it’s surprisingly difficult to dispatch someone with a vegetable knife.
In case you’re wondering, the dead man is not my husband. I do resent our pitiful sex life and his woeful lack of ambition, but I wouldn’t murder him for it. Not yet, anyway.
Right now, I have far more pressing concerns: scheming to get my daughter into the perfect school; buying my dream home in Hampstead; and disposing of a corpse.
A woman’s work is never done. I’ve created the perfect life – and I’ll kill to keep it.
READERS LOVE LALLA ROOK
‘This one is a wild ride, but in the best way possible … What a main character!!!!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘Perfection to read … such a good ride’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘An incredibly fun read! A one-of-a-kind main character … I honestly couldn’t get enough of her. Twisty, sharp, and wildly entertaining’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘Witty and wild … an unforgettable female protagonist finding her own way through some very bad days’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘Totally chaotic and that’s why I adored it … chock full of twists and turns’⭐⭐⭐⭐
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All at Sea: Can you solve the clues in the most fiendish new cosy crime novel?
A murder at sea, a killer below deck?
BELOW DECK meets KNIVES OUT in this breathless voyage into murder and mayhem on the high seas…
Howie Temple is down on his luck and desperate for cash. Once an action movie star, he now lives off a crumbling reputation. On his way to film a new reality TV show, which casts a team of c-list celebrities as crew aboard a luxury yacht, he meets fellow contestant, influencer-of-the-moment Cassandra Troy. The duo take an immediate dislike to each other.
After a hectic first day of filming, the pair are shocked discover that the captain of the ship has been murdered – locked in his control room, slumped over the wheel, a knife in his back. Convinced by the show’s ever-opportunistic director to keep the cameras rolling, the pair team-up to hunt the murderer.
Will the show make Howie and Cassandra bigger stars than they could ever dream of? And can they crack the case before the killer strikes again, or will they go down with this sinking ship?
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To All the Men I’ve Killed Before: The brand new dark, twisted and hilarious psychological thriller for 2026 from the bestselling author of How to Kill Men and Get Away With It
The brand-new novel from the bestselling author of How to Kill Men and Get Away With it. Available to pre-order now!
If a man hurt your best friend – like, really hurt her – what would you do?
- Key his car?
- Broadcast what a scumbag he is to everyone in his life?
- Hunt him down and chop him into little pieces?
If you picked number 3, I think we could be friends. Because that is exactly what I intend to do.
I’ve tracked this lowlife to LA and brought my little sister Antoinette along for the ride. It’s like a girls’ trip, only with more knives.
It won’t be the first time I’ve killed for revenge. But it will be the sweetest.
Readers LOVE Katy Brent!
‘In a world of toxic masculinity and misogyny, we all need a Kitty Collins’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘A riot from start to finish… I’m hopeful that we haven’t heard the last of our favourite serial killer’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘Full of dark humour, wit and misogynistic men getting their comeuppance, this is a book that I highly recommend ’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘Being a man I really shouldn’t like this book. Well I didn’t like it. I loved it! Oh I just couldn’t stop reading this.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘How to Kill Men was an absolute treat to read, sending out American Psycho and Promising Young Woman vibes.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘AMAZING!!! Where has Kitty been all my life?’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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Judge Dredd: And to the Sea Return
When The Barge, an aquatic prison containing 10,000 violent inmates, crashes into a Mega-City One port, it brings with it a plague of black worms that infect the citizens Judge Dredd has sworn to protect. At the head of this horrific incursion is the prophet Carver, who claims immortality and heralds the arrival of a god from the depths determined to bring destruction to Dredd’s city. Judge Dredd and Judge Anderson must stop an insane enemy that does not care one iota for his Law!Read more
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Felicia’s Favourites: The perfect story for Mother’s Day about loss, love and family
Felicia’s Favourites is a powerful story of family secrets, and one mother’s extraordinary legacy, from billion-copy bestselling author Danielle Steel.
Felicia Weston leaves her five daughters more than just cherished memories as it is revealed that she led a double life keeping the long-held secret of her celebrated pen name and her extraordinary career as a famous bestselling novelist.
Devastated at the loss of their mother, and wishing they’d known her better, the girls come together to learn that the legacy included a substantial inheritance and a picturesque Connecticut farmhouse, a sanctuary where Felicia wrote most of her novels and enjoyed a loving relationship of which her daughters had no knowledge.
Each of the sisters is confronting a personal crossroads. From mending the scars of a disastrous marriage and navigating life-altering injuries, to untangling forbidden loves and facing the harsh light of truth on infidelity, each journey is as unique as the women themselves.
Bound by blood and complexity, can the precious sanctuary their mother left behind be the catalyst for individual renewal and family unity? Or will it simply unravel the threads that bind them?
The pain of loss brings blessings of its own. And love, betrayal, secrets, and the enduring legacy of one remarkable mother can transform lives forever.
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I’m Not the Only Murderer in My Retirement Home
RETIREMENT WILL HAVE TO WAIT.
When former serial killer Carol takes her place in a luxury retirement home, she begins to find her feet with a small new group of friends. If she can only keep her past hidden, maybe she has a chance at happiness.
That’s when she discovers that, absurdly, every other one of Sheldon Oaks’ residents was involved in the law somehow. It’s not long before her true identity is leaked, and when a former police commissioner resident is murdered, naturally all eyes turn to her…
Now she must solve the case to prove her innocence – just as her new friends start their own investigations into whether there is more than one killer at Sheldon Oaks.
Praise for Fergus Craig:
‘What’s better than a good crime novel? I’ll tell you – a spoof crime novel, by the absurdly funny and clever Fergus Craig’ MIRANDA HART
‘I can’t wait for you to get involved in [this] VERY silly thriller. We all need more laughs like this’ AISLING BEA
‘Laugh out loud funny.’ MARK BILLINGHAM
‘Tea-spittingly hilarious.’ CHRIS BROOKMYRE
‘Funny and gripping’ DARA Ó BRIAINRead more
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