Adult & Contemporary Fiction

The death of a Vietnamese immigrant brings former death claims investigator Dave Brandstetter out of retirement.As an insurance investigator, Dave Brandstetter built a reputation unraveling suspicious deaths. Now, well into middle age, he has decided to...

A genre-breaking novel from a powerful new African voice  It is 2019, The Year of Return. Ghana is inviting Black diasporans to return and get to know the land of their enslaved ancestors. Elton, Vincent, and Scott arrive from America to explore...

Fierce, poignant sci-fi, about hacking, love, and resistance.  Jumping to alternate realities sounds great, if you're in control. But what if you're not? What if you're propelled away from the people and places you love the most in...

In defiance of the brutal military government that took power in Uruguay in the 1970s, and under which homosexuality is a dangerous transgression, five women miraculously find one another—and, together, an isolated...

A haunting historical fiction standalone inspired by real-life stories from WWI, this is the tale of siblings separated by the war, and the search for reunion. With a speculative twist, The Warm Hands of Ghosts weaves the historical with the...

From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Imperfectionists, the story of a chameleonic writer desperate to finish her final book, and the indelible characters from her own life who intrude on those efforts with increasingly unpredictable...

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...