Horror, Mystery & Thriller

A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB YA PICKSoon to be adapted at Netflix for TV with President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama's production company, Higher Ground.   "One of this year's most buzzed about young adult novels." --Good Morning...

Named by Goodreads as One of the Most Anticipated Mysteries and Thrillers of 2021   "A modern-day Crucible....Beneath the surface of a suburban utopia, madness lurks." --Liv Constantine, bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish   "A sinkhole opens on...

The blockbuster spy thriller of 2020, from the award-winning author of Corpus. Autumn 1941. The war is going badly for Britain and its allies.If Hitler is to be stopped, a new weapon is desperately needed. In Cambridge, professor Tom Wilde is approached...

From the Sunday Times million-copy bestselling author of Richard & Judy Book Club pick THE HOLIDAY, comes the perfect escapist thriller. She says he's perfect. I know he's lying.  He caught me watching, and our eyes met. That was when it hit me...

SOME THINGS SHOULD REMAIN BURIED . . .The Sunday Times bestselling first book in a brand new thriller series by the Queen of Crime Drama, Lynda La Plante. DC Jack Warr and his girlfriend Maggie have just moved to London to start a new life together...

The stunning debut from the new name to watch in espionage thrillers. For fans of Charlotte Philby and The Bletchley Circle, this is perfect Sunday night drama. LISBON, 1943: When her cover is blown, SOE agent Elisabeth de Mornay flees Paris.Pursued by...

In 1978 East Germany, nothing is as it seems. The state's power is absolute, history is re-written, and the "truth" is whatever the Stasi say it is. So when the murder of a woman is officially labeled an "accidental death," Major Karin Müller of the...

A "stylish and sharp" character-driven suspense novel, "with wicked hairpin turns," about a famous novelist and a small-town striver locked in a struggle for fortune and fame. (Maria Semple, author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette?)   Florence Darrow is a...

The follow up to Richard Osman’s bestselling phenomenon The Thursday Murder Club finds our ageing heroes enmeshed in an underworld escapade involving stolen diamonds and vicious gangsters. The second novel in the record-breaking, million-copy bestselling...

Navigating the complicated waters of family-making and motherhood in the twenty-first century, this exciting and very funny debut follows the lives of three trans and cis women living in New York.   Empire's Pick for The Best Books Made By Women in...

From the beloved bestselling author Santa Montefiore comes a new novel filled with humour and heart. For fans of The Temptation of Gracie, Flappy now takes centre stage, more charismatic and competitive than ever.Underneath her graceful exterior lies a...

A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene's gripping...

A quartet of siblings face a heart-pounding quest to discover the dark truth about their family in the latest YA murder mystery from the author of One of Us Is Lying. The Storys are the envy of their neighbours: owners of the largest property on their...

What if everything you thought you knew about your life was a lie?Lauren is adopted and eager to know more about her mysterious past. But when she discovers she may have been snatched from her family as a baby, her whole life suddenly feels like a sham...

An electrifying real-life financial thriller of a man who shook the global economy to the core. Investigating the 2010 market collapse and the unlikely, contradictory character behind it, Flash Crash is a compelling, eye-opening story of international...

TO SURVIVE A KILLER, YOU NEED A KILLER'S INSTINCT.An unbelievably gripping psychological thriller to keep you awake at night full of twists you'll NEVER see coming. Perfect for fans of C.L. Taylor's The Fear and Karin Slaughter's The Good Daughter.'If...

Former Empire Children’s Book Prize category winner Patrice Lawrence serves up a deftly constructed YA thriller centred on a missing girl and the eight clues which may, or may not, help her stepsister find her.  Shortlisted for the YA Book...

A tantalising combination of clique rivalry, murder mystery and secret-society intrigue, The Magpie Society: One for Sorrow is an unmissable high-stakes, high school thriller for all fans of Pretty Little Liars and One of Us Is Lying. "A nail-biting...

Young Native American woman Daunis is drafted into a covert FBI operation in this gripping and brilliantly nuanced debut thriller about community, corruption and identity. Soon to be a Netflix series Keep the Secret. Live the Lie. Earn your Truth...

(Available after June 24, 2021) The fifth installment of J.K. Rowling’s acclaimed pseudonymous crime series delivers more skilful misdirection, as Strike and Ellacott confront a serial killer at large and a baffling case over four decades old...