Meet Margaret. At age twelve, she was head detective of the mystery club Girls Can Solve Anything. Margaret and her three best friends led exciting lives solving crimes, having adventures, and laughing a lot. But now that she's entered high school, the club has...

Tightly plotted and razor sharp, Work for a Million is hard-boiled detective noir stunningly rendered against a 1970s urban backdrop.When Helen Keremos, Private Detective, is hired by a beautiful recording artist who has just won a million dollar lottery prize, her plan for a...

Cards on the TableFifty years ago a glamorous Hollywood party ended in murder--the only clue a bloody Tarot card. Reporter Timothy North is trying to find out what happened that long ago summer's night. Mummy DearestDrew Lawson is racing against the clock. He's got...

'Brilliant... sensational... unforgettable' Guardian. 'The queen of crime is still at the top of her game' Independent. There is one serial killer who has shaped and defined police profiler Tony Hill's life. One serial killer whose evil surpasses all others. One serial killer who has the...

When Charlie Flint is sent a mysterious package of cuttings about a brutal murder, it instantly grabs her attention. The murder occurred in the grounds of her old Oxford college - a groom battered to death just hours after his wedding. As his bride...

Val McDermid's Number One bestselling crime series, featuring psychological profiler Dr Tony Hill and Jacko Vance - protagonist of new novel THE RETRIBUTION - in the suspenseful and ferociously readable thriller that led to the much-loved TV show. Young girls are disappearing around the...

The Number One bestselling crime series featuring Dr Tony Hill, hero of TV's Wire in the Blood, written by the award-winning Val McDermid. The hunt for a serial killer leads from Britain through Europe in this terrifying psychological thriller. A twisted killer targeting psychologists...

The first novel in the bestselling Karen Pirie series The award-winning Number One bestseller and Queen of crime fiction Val McDermid carves out a stunning psychological thriller. The past is behind them, but what's still to come will tear them apart... Some things just...

Don't miss the electrifying new Karen Pirie thriller - STILL LIFE is out now. 'One of the most surprising twists you'll read this year. Outstanding' Irish Independent. 'Engrossing... a colossal reminder of just why McDermid has been the queen of crime for three decades' Heat....

Everyone knows that the two greatest thieves in the city are the Moth and the Whisper. Very few know that the Moth and the Whisper disappeared six months ago. And what nobody knows is that the new Moth and Whisper are actually one person...

A Lucifer Box Novel Lucifer Box - the gorgeous butterfly of King Bertie's reign, portraitist, dandy and terribly good secret agent - is feeling his age. Assigned to observe the activities of fascist leader Olympus Mons and his fanatical Amber Shirts in a snow-bound...

PRE-ORDER NOW: 28TH JANUARY 2025“I glance at the empty seat next to me, wishing I’d stayed at home”When twenty-three-year-old master’s student Tadhg Kelly joins his twin brother and his girlfriend on their getaway to a cabin in rural Ireland, he hopes to escape all...

There's no thrill like breaking the rules...'MISCHIEVOUS, MAGNETIC AND HEAPS OF FUN' EMMA GANNON. 'PJ ELLIS IS A GENIUS' LUCY VINE. Cat has a dangerously dwindling bank balance. She also has: a month before her landlord kicks her out, a surprise wedding invitation from...

'No one can plot or tell a story like she can' Daily Express. The Queen of Crime Val McDermid is a master of the dark and sinister story, and these powers are demonstrated in full force in Christmas is Murder, a festive collection of...

'No one can tell a story like she can' Daily Express. 'One of today's most accomplished crime writers' Literary Review. 'The queen of psychological thrillers' Irish Independent. 'The bodies never stay buried forever...' On a freezing winter morning, fishermen pull a body from the...

The Long Call is the No.1 bestselling first novel in the Two Rivers series from Sunday Times bestseller and creator of Vera and Shetland, Ann Cleeves. In North Devon, where the rivers Taw and Torridge converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn...

From Leonardo Padura-whose crime novels featuring Detective Mario Conde form the basis of Netflix's Four Seasons in Havana- 'The Transparency of Time' sees the Cuban investigator pursuing a mystery spanning centuries of occult history. Mario Conde is facing down his sixtieth birthday. What does...

The 'Father of Greater New York' is dead. Shot outside his Park Avenue mansion in the year of our Lord, 1903. In the hour of his death, will the truth of his life finally break free? Born to a struggling farming family in 1820,...

It was the kind of story that barely made the news in London. When 91 year-old Alice Hoffman dies of neglect in her top floor flat on a busy London road, the story is upheld as an example of what has gone wrong with...

'No-one can plot or tell a story like she can. The hairs on my neck literally stood up' Daily Express. 'So gripping it puts your life on hold' The Times. 'You should have been a detective. If there's one thing the last year has...

The Number One bestselling crime series featuring Tony Hill, hero of TV's Wire in the Blood, written by the award-winning Val McDermid. This is a psychological thriller - and serial killer - that will keep you up at night. For some, there is nothing...

The milkman found her. On Prince Philip Playing Fields. He crossed the dew-soaked grass toward what he took to be a bundle of clothes, but then he came across a discarded shoe, and then t' mutilated body. her name wor Wilma McCann. 'Leeds, late 1975...

'Her detective novels are hilarious - less about detecting than delighting, with absurd farce and a wonderful turn of phrase... Nancy Spain was bold, she was brave, she was funny, she was feisty. I owe her a great deal' Sandi Toksvig Miriam Birdseye is daring,...

Even though Thom Creed's a basketball star, his high school classmates keep their distance. They've picked up on something different about Thom. Plus, his father, Hal Creed, was one of the greatest and most beloved superheroes of his time until a catastrophic event left...

Trouble is brewing... After Beacon Academy fell, Coco, Fox, Velvet, and Yatsuhashi made a vow: no one else is getting left behind. It's been more than a year since Team CFVY saw their school destroyed by the creatures of Grimm, their friends felled in...

An ancient evil returns! Long ago, the mighty generals of the Mongol Empire rode from Siberia to Carpathia and conquered all who stood in their way. Legends tell of a witch who walked with them, who could infect the hearts of any warriors in...

Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2018. Nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2018. Long listed for the Branford Boase Award 2018. In three years I will be able to vote and I will still have less power than I did at the...

Harleen Quinzel is many things, a gymnast, anxious, broke…but the last thing anyone would call her is evil. Harley Quinn on the other hand…“Good and evil are so close as to be chained together in the soul.”- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and...

It’s 1927 and the strict laws of prohibition have done little to temper the roaring 20s nightlife, even in the nation’s capitol. Everyone knows the booze has never stopped flowing, especially amongst the rich and powerful, and seventeen-year-old Gertrude and her best friends Clara...

Two brothers return to their family home to care for their dying father, only to find the ghosts of their pasts are restless and hungry for blood in this gothic horror, perfect for fans of Hereditary and readers of Stephen Graham Jones. When their...