Adult & Contemporary Fiction

It’s your first day at Bash Street School and there’s something strange going on. No, it’s not the boy in a red-and-black jumper carrying a dog as if it were a backpack. Where are the teachers?! In this epic new Beanotown adventure,...

A young couple are entangled in a nightmare spiral of lies when they pretend to be someone else.  Exquisitely dark psychological suspense by the international bestselling author of The Bird Tribunal 'A delightfully insightful and wicked little read...

She loved writing the perfect murder mystery, but she never wanted to be written into one.Just as Jen gets to work on her next book, the owner of the town’s rival bookstore is found murdered and suspicions turn to Jen. Time is ticking for Jen to...

Sometimes, you can be your own worst enemy… Rhiannon Lewis thought she finally had it all: thanks to the pandemic she’s had to keep a much lower profile but has found happiness with her fiancé Rafael and his family. For once, she is...

AS SEEN ON ITVX.OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES OF APPLE TREE YARD SOLD. The novel from Sunday Times bestselling author.Platform Seven at 4am: Peterborough Railway Station is deserted. The man crossing the covered walkway on this freezing November morning is...

“Amina Akhtar’s Almost Surely Dead is a witty, fresh psychological thriller that’s part stalker thriller, part ghost story. This book took turns I never saw coming. I was up all night, tearing through the pages as the mysterious pieces...

Benny is so nice they feel compelled to destroy him, but he has a friend who should scare the hell out of them in this breathtaking new kind of thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz. Benny Catspaw’s perpetually...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. Australia, 1983 Life is pretty tough right now for twelve-year-old Eli – what with his mute brother, a convicted murderer for a babysitter, a drug-dealing stepfather, an incarcerated mother and a long-lost father...

From the author of The Silent Companions and The Shape of Darkness comes a thrilling gothic tale of dangerous bargains and vaulting ambition, as an actress makes a pact with an ancient Greek muse to become the greatest performer of all time. Be...

A taut thriller that tackles misogyny and upends the idea of the "nice guy" while retaining a satisfyingly twisty plot with a major payoff. This is a great read for fans of A Good Marriage or Scorched Grace. Two young women vanish in a seaside town. At...

In New York Times bestseller Steve Berry’s next Cotton Malone adventure, a secret dossier from a World War II-era Soviet spy comes to light containing information that, if proven true, would not only rewrite history — it could impact...

Join the Women's Murder Club on an exhilarating thrill ride as love and murder test their friendships like never before.Someone is killing the richest people in the city-and the Women's Murder Club will pay a high price for hunting him. At the party of...

Detective Isaac Bell's investigation into an attempted assassination brings him to the construction site of the Panama Canal—and straight into a nest of vipers—in the latest adventure in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series from Clive...

The dynamic thriller duo is back with one of the most memorable main characters in Patterson's lengthy history in the genre. This courtroom thriller is ripe with tension and oozing with suspense.“Patterson and Lupica make a great team” (Carl...

Lisbeth is back, now at the hands of Karin Smirnoff, who brings her distinctive style to the series. That said, this is still distinctly in the vein of the rest of the series. It’s high-octane, brutal, vivid and fans will feel right at home. NEW...

Winterson enfolds her seventh novel within the world of computers, and transforms the signal development of our time into a wholly human medium. The story is simple: an e-mail writer called Ali will compose anything you like, on order, provided you're...

When a career-ending injury and a messy breakup send prima ballerina Daniela Verdi back to Queens, New York, she fills her days with countless distractions: meaningless sex, pinot grigio, and video games. It takes a chance meeting with her brother's best...

Four decades. Four seasons. Four chance encounters with the same man. Spring 1986, Oxford. Rachel has landed on her feet: engaged to handsome author Jonny, soon to be stepmother to his young daughter Teddy, and with a dream to open her own art gallery...

You're not who you say you are. But neither is she.Olive Anderson has accepted that tonight she'll be dining alone, without her husband. So when a beautiful stranger appears at Olive's dinner table, telling the waiter she's her wife, Olive is immediately...

The moment you stop looking, that's when Prince Charming will come knocking on your door! Summer Knowles does not want a boyfriend. Relationships have caused enough problems in her life. As bridesmaid at her sister's wedding, she's going to avoid all...