Adult & Contemporary Fiction

A riveting standalone thriller from the author of the Ash Henderson series, In a Place of Darkness finds DC Angus MacVicar hunting down the vicious 'Fortnight Killer' in reluctant collaboration with a braggart FBI forensic psychologist. The gripping...

#1 NYT Bestseller. #1 USA Bestseller. #1 WSJ Bestseller. An Amazon Editors' Best Book of the Year. A Kirkus Best Fiction Book of the Year. An iBooks Book of the Month. "Fascinating, suspenseful, and bated-breath exciting.... Silva proves once again that...

A new job. A new home. A new start.It's all Anna wants.But in a closed rural community, strange traditions and a suspicion of outsiders mean everything is not as it seems. Three teenage girls have vanished at the annual Gathering as they reach their...

First published in 1999. This edition has been fully revised and edited.Young Cassie Booth goes missing on her paper round. Then her bloodstained jacket is found in a boathouse belonging to Karl Wilding - but there is little evidence against him...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Vince Flynn “has never been better” (The Providence Journal) in this high-octane thriller following Mitch Rapp as he searches for a missing CIA asset, whose disappearance puts Rapp’s own life at risk...

From the New York Times bestselling author of None of This Is True comes a “compelling and heartbreaking” (Jojo Moyes) novel about three strangers who are brought together by the father they never knew.Lydia, Dean, and Robyn don’t know...

In this icy, knife’s-edge story of a life that progresses backward through time, unfolding into one of the darkest episodes of the 20th century, Amis (“at his intriguing, heedful, and powerful best” —Time Out), finds a...

Based on the hit TV series, a murder at exclusive spa resort leaves a small circle of suspects for the British detective inspector on the case.  DI Richard Poole has been seconded from London to the beautiful Caribbean island of Saint Marie. More...

The new cozy crime novel from the bestselling author of The Marlow Murder Club, soon to be a major TV series on PBS Masterpiece. Verity Beresford is worried about her husband. Oliver didn't come home last night, so of course Verity goes straight to...

**Featured on BBC Radio 4 A Good Read**'Written with such love and heart. Sarah has done an exceptional job of marrying her trademark comedy with deep and raw emotion. I loved it!' GIOVANNA FLETCHERFROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE UNMUMSY...

Hines’s classic story of a troubled Yorkshire lad and the salvation he finds in raising a kestrel hawk combines a bleakly compelling coming-of-age tale with a blistering slice of social realism. With prose that is every bit as raw, intense and...

"I won't rest until everyone in America has read (and fallen in love with) this fabulous author." —Elizabeth Gilbert. The debut novel that redefined the coming-of-age genre, now with an introduction by New York Times bestselling author Maria Semple...

In 1836 the 23-year-old Dickens was invited by his publishers to write `a monthly something' illustrated by sporting plates. Thus the Pickwick Club was born: its supposed `papers' soom outgrew their origins and became a brilliantly comic novel, still...

The picaresque adventures of a collection of bumbling Regency gentlemen, Dickens’s vast comic extravaganza is one of the most astonishing debuts in fiction. Cramming countless hilarious episodes into its capacious, joyfully rambling pages, The...

James Joyce's Dubliners is an enthralling collection of modernist short stories which create a vivid picture of the day-to-day experience of Dublin life. This Penguin Classics edition includes notes and an introduction by Terence Brown.Joyce's first...

Two former serial killers trying to keep their past buried realize that old habits die hard in this “wildly original, razor-sharp thriller” (Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of All the Colors of the Dark).“An invaluable...

'Sarah Sprinz creates a world that I enjoyed getting lost in. If Dunbridge Academy is taking applications, let me know!' -- ANNA TODD.One single night turns Olive Henderson's whole life upside down.After a devastating fire at Dunbridge Academy, severe...

He's never had much luck in love, and she brings unwanted trouble to every relationship she's in. The town of Blue Moon is in for a sizzling treat.From the #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Things We Never Got Over   "Your kids...

The start of a new series from Lucy Score! A soldier returns home looking for small-town farm life, but finds complications in the form of a big city journalist. From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Things We Never Got Over "Are...

From the USA Today bestselling author of Still Beating comes an angsty, standalone contemporary romance that offers a grieving widow a second chance at love… or the potential for a broken heart all over again. Melody's husband is her world –...