Adult & Contemporary Fiction

One dead wife is tragic. Two looks like murder. Welcome to Lowbridge. Where secrets hide behind every door. When newly divorced Jude arrives in the small town of Lowbridge, she is soon drawn to widower Will, the father of her young daughter's best friend...

An irresistible island-set murder mystery perfect for fans of The Fury and The Guest List, this page-turning treat from the bestselling author of The Cloisters revolves around the wealthy Lingate family and the unanswered...

The first book in the Kay Scarpetta series, from No. 1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell - coming soon to Prime Video. A serial killer is on the loose in Richmond, Virginia. Three women have died, brutalised and strangled in their own bedroom. There...

The fraud. The imposter. The cheater. The fake. The murderer.   Which one am I?   The guest list for Brit and Joe's joint bachelor-bachelorette weekend is small and exclusive: the bride, the groom, the best man, a work...

Salon owner Marla Shore discovers a whirlpool of secrets when she joins a sports club and solves a nail-biting murder in this humorous cozy mystery.Hairstylist Marla Shore joins a fitness club to get in shape but discovers a dead body instead of an...

Thirty-year-old Sarah Jones gets caught up solving a murder after unknowingly befriending a dangerous con artist (who’s nothing like what she seems) in this playful, twisty mystery from acclaimed author Kathleen West.It feels like kismet when Sarah...

Amateur sleuth Odessa Dean is about to discover the only thing harder than finding her way out of an escape room is finding an affordable apartment in Brooklyn in this sequel to Killer Content.Odessa Dean has made a home of Brooklyn. She has a fun...

Colleen Hoover’s originality is on full display in Maybe Someday, with a cast of characters that will leave you begging to see more. This is the perfect blend of music and desire, of passion and heartbreak. If Colleen Hoover were a musician,...

A thrilling gothic debut • The untimely death of a student at a girls’ boarding school marks the first in a haunting series of escalating supernatural events, and uncovers buried truths of teenage repression, queer desire, and...

A critically acclaimed #1 bestseller in France—a novel of art, desire, and time lost and regained, from Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano “[Modiano’s] words conjure up the promise of hidden worlds.”—Tobias...

In every generation since the legendary 'whale rider', a male descendant inherits the title of chief. But now there is no male heir-there's only Kahu. She should be next in line for the title, but her great-grandfather is blinded by tradition and sees no...

'Tons of heart and sizzling romance' – Aamna Qureshi, bestselling author of The Baby Dragon Cafe'A swoon-worthy romance, perfect for anyone in their yeehaw era' – Lucy Jane Wood, bestselling author of RewitchedThe Diamond...

A genre-expanding collection of stories that Publishers Weekly calls “perplexingly captivating” and “astonishing.”Wild Milk is like Borscht Belt meets Leonora Carrington; it’s like Donald Barthelme meets...

"Fierce, funny and unflinching."—Coco Mellors, New York Times bestselling author of Blue Sisters.A richly drawn, unsettling, and wickedly funny story of envy and ambition set against the glamor and privilege of media and high society...

“Molly is one of the greatest young female characters I’ve had the luck of reading since I picked up Joy Williams’s The Quick and the Dead back in 2000 . . . I TRULY LOVE THIS BOOK!!!!!!” —Gillian Flynn, Gillian Flynn Books...

The second in Nathalie Léger’s acclaimed genre-defying triptych of books about the struggles and obsessions of women artists.“I believe there is a miracle in Wanda,” wrote Marguerite Duras of the only film American actress Barbara...

A darkly funny, electrifying tale of polyamory, illness, health-care malfeasance, and gynecological crime mixed with Oulipian madness.   Cumin Baleen is a forty-one-year-old writer living in Philadelphia—this city of hospitals—who works...

Thirteen-year-old Agostino is spending the summer at a Tuscan seaside resort with his beautiful widowed mother. When she takes up with a cocksure new companion, Agostino, feeling ignored and unloved, begins hanging around with a group of local young...

Humbert Humbert - scholar, aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love with Dolores Haze, his landlady's gum-snapping, silky skinned twelve-year-old daughter. Reluctantly agreeing to marry Mrs Haze just to be close to Lolita,...

'The classic and gripping spy novel of Cold War Berlin' Guardian. 1963 Berlin is dark and dangerous. The anonymous hero of The IPCRESS File has been sent to help arrange the defection - in an elaborate mock coffin - of a leading Soviet...