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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 third book in the the series featuring retired detective inspector Thomas Maitland, still haunted by death whereever he goes…

When a brutally murdered man is found hanging in a derelict London theatre, Detective Sergeant Rex King becomes consumed by the case. The corpse is anonymous, ritually mutilated, and disturbingly symbolic. As Rex investigates, the inquiry fractures, drawing him into memories he has long suppressed. The search for the victim’s identity becomes inseparable from a darker question: who is Rex King himself?

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.

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.

From acclaimed thriller master Dan Fesperman comes a razor-sharp, high-stakes spy novel. When disgraced comedian Hal Knight is sent to infiltrate an Eastern European dictator’s inner circle, he must deliver the performance of his life—or die trying. A taut, intelligent, and powerful page-turner of power, deception, and redemption.

A collection of brand new crime stories based around Christmas, from authors published by Bedford Square.

The second in the charming and colourful Haveli Hotel mystery series, featuring unlikely crime solving partnership Sister Agatha and hotel owner Avtar.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.