Adult & Contemporary Fiction

"I was gripped"—Louise Jensen, author of The Fall Teenage girls can do some pretty awful things... Lexie and Amber used to share everything, especially their dream of getting out of their small-town home. Born only ten months apart, they once...

A mother in mourningTwo years ago, Sarah’s husband was jailed for her murder; her body was never found. Now, her mother, Claire, spends her sleepless nights running a helpline for vulnerable women.A woman with a secretClaire takes many calls, but...

JUST ANOTHER DEAD-END JOB.DEATH. IT'S A DIRTY BUSINESS.When Diya Burman's best friend Angie dies, it feels like her own life is falling apart. Wanting a fresh start, she joins Slough & Sons - a family firm that cleans up after the recently deceased...

As if selling a house weren’t stressful enough! And dealing with your family on top of it. If you don’t have chills yet, wait until you find out about the house that goes on the market. Spoiler alert: IT’S HAUNTED!AN INSTANT NEW...

Five Nights at Freddy's fans won't want to miss this collection of three chilling stories that will haunt even the bravest player...   How do you know what's imagined and what is not? . . . After spending most of his life trying to become an...

A shocking act of sabotage draws a retired spy into a deadly conspiracy in an explosive thriller by an Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author.   After three decades in counterintelligence, Brad Trasker is retired,...

Ninth House meets The Dead and the Dark in this gothic dark academia novel that delves into the human capacity for great love, great art, and great evil.    Magni animi numquam moriuntur. Great minds never die.  The students...

In this official authorized edition from the Queen of Mystery, the normally unflappable Hercule Poirot faces his most baffling investigation: the seemingly motiveless murder of the thirteenth guest at dinner party, who choked to death on a cocktail...

A quiet English village is plagued by a fiendish serial killer in Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie’s classic thriller, Murder is Easy. Luke Fitzwilliam does not believe Miss Pinkerton’s wild allegation that a multiple murderer is at work...

It’s all fun and gameshows until a body is discovered, a DEAD BODY that is…and everyone is a suspect in this debut by Jessa Maxwell. As with one of our Monthly Pick’s for Mystery/Thriller, The Appeal, the victim is as unknown as...

Ann Cleeves has created several distinctive police procedural series from Inspector Ramsay to Detective Jimmy Perez and Vera Stanhope. Now add Detective Matthew Venn to your mystery library. The past haunts Venn as he dives into a community he was once...

In this #1 New York Times bestseller,an attention-seeking copycat from the Women’s Murder Club’s past is recreating murders by a famous killer—with devastating new twists.   Detective Lindsay Boxer put serial killer Evan...

An eerie, striking debut by an award-winning author for fans of Emma Stonex, Francine Toon and Megan HunterNot all that is hidden is lostFor twelve years Aina and Whitney have been in exile on an island for a crime they committed together, tethered to a...

After all, there are only a few things truly worth fighting for: freedom, of course, and all that it brings with it. Poetry, perhaps, and a good glass of wine. A nice meal. Nature. Love, if you're lucky.One summer following the Second World War, Robert...

Between this book and Riley Sager’s The House Across the Lake , we're thinking the book is better than the movie even though there is no movie. If Sager nods to Hitchcock, this debut novel reads like a film noir movie with double lives,...

'Simultaneously tragic and uplifting. And I have to say at times funny. Charlotte Levin is SUCH a clever writer . . . A magnificent read.' - Ruth Jones, author of Love Untold'This emotional rollercoaster is alternately heart-breaking and hopeful. I...

An effervescent exploration of the romantic comedy and all of its tropes, Curtis Sittenfeld delivers a sophisticated confection of a novel with many enjoyable layers.NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • A comedy writer...

Ann Patchett is back with a gorgeous novel about family, our pasts and how our lives are built on so many small choices. Weaving the past with the present, Patchett reminds readers that our parents had entire lives before us and are so much more than we...

This bold and beautiful crime fiction novel starts like a punch in the gut and leaves you with an overwhelming tug of the heart. You will find yourself propelled from page to page. And then, as you get into the last chapters, you will slow down, turning...

In the vein of the Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine Book Club pick The Other Woman, Sandie Jones’s heart-pounding new novel The Blame Game will keep readers on the edge of their seats.Games can be dangerous. But blame can be deadly...