Thriller / suspense

Lethal Trap

Lethal Trap

Leigh Russell

LETHAL TRAP, the twenty-sixth novel in Leigh Russell’s bestselling Geraldine Steel series, turns the obvious suspect on his head. When a grieving husband becomes the prime target of a murder investigation, DI Geraldine Steel is the only one who doubts his guilt, and her instinct leads her straight into a killer’s trap. Readers of Ann Cleeves, Val McDermid and Peter James will love this series.

Backwater

Backwater

James Sallis

From the author of Drive, a spare, haunted crime novel set in the rural American South. John “Bishop” traded his detective’s badge for a jazz guitarist’s life in New York. But Anne’s Ferry, the town he fled, pulls him back, and what he finds there – blood, silence, and a history no one will name – won’t let him go.

When They Weren’t Looking

When They Weren’t Looking

Charlotte Bigland

When a viral photo suggests Ruby is missing Isla Blake, she’s thrust into a storm of memories, doubt, and a mystery that refuses to stay buried.

This Ends Us

This Ends Us

Chris Simms

A 1,200-year-old bog body. An entity that has waited centuries to get out. When forensic archaeologist James Sullivan opens Heyney Man’s skull, something ancient and lethal is unleashed. Dr Trevor Whittaker is the only person who knows what’s coming, but nobody will listen until it’s too late…

Bride in Funeral Clothing

Bride in Funeral Clothing

Samantha Lee Howe

Former army mechanic Mel Greenway investigates the abduction of bride-to-be Lorelie Courtney at crumbling Avonby estate in post-war Britain. As police investigator Derrin Bradley struggles for answers, Mel uncovers abuse, buried secrets, and links to their military past. Captured herself, Mel must use courage and ingenuity to survive and prevail.

Not a Good Mother

Not a Good Mother

Karabi George

When an isolated young woman finds herself struggling to cope with new motherhood in a new country, she begins to feel like things can’t get much worse – until her baby goes missing.

Promised Land

Promised Land

Henry Wise

From Edgar Award-winning author Henry Wise comes a decisive sequel where word is bond—until the past threatens to break it.this forceful sequel to Holy City …

Dead Man’s Dock

Dead Man’s Dock

Nick Triplow

Detective Sergeant Max Lomax is back in the new novel by critically acclaimed Nick Triplow.

Close Enemy

Close Enemy

Leigh Russell

CLOSE ENEMY – the twenty-fifth novel in Leigh Russell’s bestselling Geraldine Steel series – is a police procedural where the enemy is hiding in plain sight. A page-turning murder mystery set in York that combines careful detective work with a chilling portrait of obsession. Readers of Ann Cleeves and Val McDermid will love this series.

The Crimson Fog

The Crimson Fog

Paul Halter

In this gripping novel, master of impossible crime Paul Halter turns his lens on one of history’s most notorious killers: Jack the Ripper. Drawing on real events, Halter explores who the Ripper was, what drove him, and how he vanished amid the terror that gripped London in 1888.

But a year before the Ripper’s reign, an impossible murder in the quiet village of Blackfield shocked England. Could the two cases be connected?

The Other Doctor

The Other Doctor

C.J Griffiths

An itinerant agency doctor with a troubled past finds herself in the wrong place when an attack at work following a case of mistaken identity leads her into a web of lies and cover-ups.

The Custodian

The Custodian

Nick Guthrie

When severed fingers are delivered in the post, DI Bolam is forced to reopen the dark back pages of the city where his dead wife grew up.