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Agatha Christie

Trick or treat? No one believes Joyce Reynolds when she boasts she once witnessed a murder. Until, that is, she is found drowned, face down in an apple-bobbing tub. What exactly was it she saw? Then the victim's brother is found drowned too, and the mysteries multiply. Hercule Poirot and Ariadne Oliver must race to get at the truth, and prevent further tragedy. ...

Peter Swanson

'Hello there.' I looked at the pale, freckled hand on the back of the empty bar seat next to me in the business class lounge of Heathrow airport, then up into the stranger's face. "Do I know you?' Delayed in London, Ted Severson meets a woman at the airport bar. Over cocktails they tell each other rather more than they should, and a dark plan is hatched - but are either of them...

Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie's most exotic murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful, a girl who had everything - until she lost her li...

Agatha Christie

CLASSIC FICTION (PRE C 1945). A boxed set of the three books that have been confirmed in a popular vote as the World's Favourite Agatha Christie novels. In a worldwide poll to mark the Queen of Crime's 125th birthday on 15 September 2015, three books stood out as clear favourites amongst Christie fans past and present. And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie's 1939 standalone...

Gillian Flynn

THE ADDICTIVE No.1 BESTSELLER THAT EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT Who are you? What have we done to each other? These are the questions Nick Dunne finds himself asking on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn't true...

Agatha Christie

A wheelchair-bound Poirot returns to Styles, the venue of his first investigation, where he knows another murder is going to take place... ...

Philip Kerr

THE ACCLAIMED TRILOGY FROM THE MASTER THRILLER WRITER '[Philip Kerr's] Bernie Gunther novels are extraordinary' Ian Rankin The first three in the Bernie Gunther series, March Violets, The Pale Criminal and A German Requiem are true crime classics that transport readers to the rotten heart of Nazi Berlin, and introduce the cynical, wise-cracking private eye who sought justice wi...

John Berendt

"Genteel society ladies who compare notes on their husbands' suicides. A hilariously foul-mouthed black drag queen. A voodoo priestess who works her roots in the graveyard at midnight. A morose inventor who owns a bottle of poison powerful enough to kill everyone in town. A prominent antiques dealer who hangs a Nazi flag from his window to disrupt the shooting of a movie. And a...

Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie's world-famous mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Ten strangers, apparently with little in common, are lured to an island mansion off the coast of Devon by the mysterious U.N.Owen. Over dinner, a record begins to play, and the voice of an unseen host accuses ea...

Agatha Christie

CRIME & MYSTERY FICTION. Agatha Christie's most famous murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An ...

Agatha Christie

The special edition hardback of Agatha Christie's disturbing 1960s mystery thriller, with a gorgeous new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Gipsy's Acre was a truly beautiful upland site with views out to sea - and in Michael Rogers it stirred a child-like fantasy. There, amongst the dark fir trees, he planned to build a...

Riley Sager

PRE-ORDER NOW! THE BRAND NEW HEART-POUNDING GOTHIC THRILLER FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR At seventeen, Lenora Hope Hung her sister with a rope Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Ot...

Kristen Perrin

'VERY funny' Jennie Godfrey 'Smart, twisty, and original' Heat 'Terrific' J. M. Hall 'Superb' Glamour 'Wildly original' Elly Griffiths 'Delightfully refreshing' Daily Mail FRANCES ALWAYS SAID SHE'D BE MURDERED. SHE WAS RIGHT. In 1965, Frances Adams was told by a fortune teller that one day she'd be murdered. Frances spent the next sixty years trying to prevent the crime t...

Alex Michaelides

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE MULTIMILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SILENT PATIENT 'Infinitely thrilling and delicately crafted, the plot keeps everyone guessing until the very end, with an unscrupulous villain to underline just how good it is. DO NOT MISS IT' Daily Mail ----- It begins with a phone call. And it ends with a murder . . ...

Nita Prose

*Molly the Maid returns in THE MAID'S SECRET - available to buy now!* ________ DO NOT DISTURB. WHODUNNIT IN PROGRESS... Molly the maid sees everything at The Regency Grand Hotel. So when a renowned guest drops very dead on the tearoom floor, sullying the hotel's five-star reputation, it falls to Molly to sweep up the clues. An unfortunate accident? Or a murderous mess? The an...

Chris Whitaker

A missing persons mystery, a serial killer thriller, and an epic love story - with a unique twist on each... * * * * * Late one summer, the town of Monta Clare is shattered by the abduction of local teenager Joseph 'Patch' Macauley. Nobody more so than Saint Brown, who is broken by her best friend's disappearance. Soon, she will eat, sleep, breathe, only to find him. But whe...

Freida Mcfadden

From the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Housemaid, The Boyfriend and The Tenant comes a twisty psychological thriller like no other - a story of sinister secrets that will keep you enraptured through to the shocking finale. Quinn Alexander has committed an unthinkable crime. To avoid spending her life in prison, Quinn makes a run for it. She leaves behind her home,...

Raymond Chandler

A CLASSIC NOVEL BY THE MASTER OF HARD-BOILED CRIME, THE HIGH WINDOW IS RAYMOND CHANDLER'S THIRD STORY FEATURING LACONIC PI PHILIP MARLOWE. 'He lay crumpled on his back. Very lonely, very dead. The safe door was wide open. A metal drawer was pulled out. It was empty now. There may have been money in it once.'Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe's on a case: his client, a dried-up husk ...

Dan Brown

The world's most celebrated thriller writer and author of The Da Vinci Code returns with his most stunning novel yet--a propulsive, twisty, thought-provoking masterpiece that will entertain readers as only Dan Brown can do. Robert Langdon, esteemed professor of symbology, travels to Prague to attend a groundbreaking lecture by Katherine Solomon--a prominent noetic scientist wi...

John Marrs

"Electrifying and page-turning, John Marrs is not to be missed."--#1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden "I am such a fan of John Marrs' books and You Killed Me First is another five star read."--#1Sunday Times bestselling author Sarah Pinborough "This is trademark John Marrs and then some."--Sunday Times bestselling author Andrea Mara Three women. Three smoulderi...

Ellie Marney

Dexter meets The Bourne Identity in a gritty thriller about the unkillable past, the first in a pulse-pounding new series from New York Times bestselling author Ellie Marney. Simon Noone is a serial killer...but he doesn't know it. Pulled from a river in Guatemala in 1982 with nothing--not even his memories--he returns to America five years later, looking for answers. He finds ...

Stacy Willingham

She thought the murders had stopped. She was wrong. 'A smart, edge-of-your-seat story with plot twists you'll never see coming' Karin Slaughter 'Spectacular' Daily Mail 'Tense, twisty and threatening, A Flicker in the Dark will make you abandon your box sets' Val McDermid The instant New York Times bestseller, soon to be a major TV series, developed by Emma Stone Chloe Davis' f...

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Agatha Christie

Gillian Flynn

Gillian Flynn

Josh Silver

The deliciously dark new thriller from award-winning YA author Josh Silver, perfect for fans of Black Mirror and Holly Jackson. 'A visceral and gripping thriller ... you have no choice but to follow Eli into Traumaland.' Lex Croucher, author of Gwen & Art Are Not in Love Welcome to TraumaLand. You are now Jack. Your story will start in 3... 2... 1... Eli has been in a near-fata...