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No Exit Press is an award-winning crime imprint first introduced in 1987. From classic detective novels and page-turning spy thrillers to singular writing that just grabs the attention, our books are carefully crafted by some of the world’s finest writers and brought to you by a small but passionate team.

New Releases

A Deadly Abode

A Deadly Abode

Jane McParkes

The third in the Olivia Wells eco-mystery series, set in the small Cornish town of Penbartha where the tension between locals and second homers is boiling over.

The Lizard

The Lizard

Domenic Stansberry

S.E. Reynolds, once an investigative journalist and now a political ghostwriter, becomes ensnared in a lethal conspiracy after an affair turns fatal. Each move to free himself only tightens the net, drawing the gaze of government agents with hidden motives.

Pragmatic, amoral, yet bound by a conflicted love for his family, Reynolds navigates both sides of the political divide while his personal life unravels.

Death Comes to Firebrace Court

Death Comes to Firebrace Court

Kay Blythe

The third novel in the 1920s Jemima Flowerday series takes our dressmaker/amateur sleuth to a house party that is also a murder mystery weekend which turns real.

Bad Company

Bad Company

Sara Paretsky

After forty years in the CIA, Lily was forced into retirement – too outspoken, too stubborn, too good at her job. Now in her seventies, a magazine article about her first posting in the old Soviet republic of Hayalistan reignites questions she thought long buried.

Determined to uncover the truth, Lily starts digging, but the CIA wants her silenced. As the hunters become the hunted, she must rely on her wits and fading strength to survive one final mission.

Robert B. Parker’s Booked

Robert B. Parker’s Booked

Alison Gaylin

Robert B Parker

Boston PI Sunny Randall is hired by bestselling author Melanie Joan Hart to unmask “Book Babe,” a viral reviewer who’s tanked her career with a vicious one-star post. But when the critic turns up dead and Melanie becomes the prime suspect, Sunny must unravel their tangled past before the killer strikes again.

Sleuth

Sleuth

Charlotte Langley

In a remote Scottish town, Detective Ruth Lindsey hunts for a vanished teenager. But when true-crime YouTuber Mia Chaplin arrives, the search turns into a spectacle.

As Mia’s videos expose the town’s darkest secrets, Ruth begins to see the truth: the monster she’s chasing isn’t hiding, she’s performing.

The Boy

The Boy

Mark Gyves

When his mother’s death shatters his world, a boy is drawn into Cork’s criminal underbelly — a lyrical, devastating story of family, violence and the inescapable legacy of grief, for fans of Colin Barrett, Donal Ryan and Stuart Neville.

This Changes Everything

This Changes Everything

Lisa Scottoline

In this gripping thriller from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline, a woman risks her life and her sanity to solve the murder of her best friend’s grandmother in a secretive town simmering with danger.

Knit One, Heist One

Knit One, Heist One

Donna Moore

At Janus Lodge, Sylvia Abercrombie and her feisty, foul-mouthed friends face eviction by a shady developer. To save their home, they launch a secret knitwear empire with a scandalous twist – but as sales soar, secrets surface, and Sylvia’s ex looms nearby, the gang must pull off the ultimate heist. Hilarious, heartfelt, and full of mischief, this tale proves age is no barrier to adventure.

The Trial of Katterfelto

The Trial of Katterfelto

Michael Redhill

A true and faithful account of the trial and punishment of the esteemed Dr Gustavus Katterfelto, the greatest natural philosopher who ever lived.

Robert B. Parker’s Big Shot

Robert B. Parker’s Big Shot

Christopher Farnsworth

Robert B Parker

Police Chief Jesse Stone goes up against Ramsey Devlin, a corrupt hedge fund billionaire determined to destroy him. After Jesse arrests Devlin for drunk driving, the tycoon uses his wealth and political clout to make Jesse’s life hell. But when Devlin disappears and blood is found in his mansion, Jesse is suspended and branded the prime suspect. To clear his name, he must uncover the truth before he’s the one behind bars.

A Nest of Wasps

A Nest of Wasps

Mark Ezra

Former spy Felicity Jardine is caught up in the long tentacles of an operation at the Greek Embassy in the 1980s, in this gripping new spy thriller by the author of A Sting in her Tale.

Consider the Ravens

Consider the Ravens

Cressida Downing

This debut crime novel, the first in a series, set on the Holy Island of lindisfarne in the late 15th century is atmospheric, suspenseful and richly evocative.

Poison and Peacocks in the Dales

Poison and Peacocks in the Dales

Maria Malone

The second smalltown mystery featuring Police Dog Wilson and Police Sergeant Ali Wren in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales.

World’s Edge

World’s Edge

James Sallis

James Sallis’ World’s Edge presents five masterful novellas exploring fractured societies, human resilience, and the fragile intersections of morality and survival. Sallis’s prose, as sharp as it is evocative, captures the nuances of his dystopian and near-future settings, resonating with themes of dislocation and identity. Widely regarded as a pivotal voice in contemporary US fiction, Sallis’ stories draw readers into a world both intimate and unyielding, where existential questions lurk beneath stark, elegant narratives.

The Interpreter’s Secret

The Interpreter’s Secret

Andrew Rosenheim

A tense and elegant literary thriller about power, peril, and the truths politicians dare not speak. A State Department interpreter witnesses a secret pact between Washington and Moscow and flees to England, only to find himself hunted on all sides. With nothing but a cryptic red-ink note as proof, he must expose a conspiracy that threatens global stability.

Recent Updates

Double film score for award winning Michael Farris-Smith

5th June, 2023

We are extremely excited to announce that not one but two books from award-winning author Michael Farris-Smith are due to be released as movies this …

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