Horror, Mystery & Thriller

Gripping and full of suspense, A BETTER MAN is the spellbinding new crime thriller from New York Times number one bestseller, Louise Penny.'She makes most of her competitors seem like wannabes' -- THE TIMES'Louise Penny is one of the greatest crime...

The second outing for Ranger Darren Matthews, Heaven My Home blends a twisty, high-paced thriller with a powerful, angry portrait of Trump’s America.   Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2020 Nine-year-old Levi King knew he should...

A true tale of Antarctic misadventure that shaded into psychological horror, Sancton’s chilling account of the tragic Belgica expedition to the South Pole reads like a harrowing historical thriller. The harrowing, survival story of an early polar...

Now a major film on Netflix starring Amy Adams, Gary Oldman and Julianne Moore.OVER 5 MILLION COPIES SOLD! THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. 'Astounding. Thrilling. Amazing' -- Gillian Flynn 'One of those rare books that really is...

The debut thriller from the high-profile US politician and activist deploys all Abrams’s insider knowledge of intrigue and duplicity on Capitol Hill, as a young law clerk must unravel a trail of clues that leads all the way to the White House.   An...

From the #1 global bestselling author of WHEN YOU SEE ME'I just read Before She Disappeared in a day and a half. It was that gripping. And Frankie is one of my new favourite characters. Highly recommended!' -- SHARI LAPENA, author of The End of...

A deliciously creepy horror novel with a story line inspired by the Ripper murders and an unexpected, blood-chilling conclusion.Seventeen-year-old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was born a lord's daughter, with a life of wealth and privilege stretched out before...

Four Army Rangers are accused of murdering civilians in cold blood in this scorching summer thriller from the worldwide bestseller James Patterson.THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFor seven unsuspecting victims, death comes in the dark Once a luxurious getaway...

'Intriguing and very scary' --  Ken Follett Abducted at thirteen.Returned at twenty-eight.Is it time to go back into the labyrinth?A young woman named Samantha Andretti wakes up in a hospital bed.Samantha was abducted when she was thirteen.She was kept...

From Daniel Silva, author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers The New Girl and The Other Woman, comes a stunning new action-packed thriller of high stakes international intrigue featuring the enigmatic art restorer and master spy Gabriel Allon. LOST FOR...

Legend is the much-anticipated dystopian thriller debut from US author, Marie Lu. THE must-read dystopian thriller fiction for all teen fans of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Divergent by Veronica Roth. A brilliant re-imagining of Les...

From the bestselling author of The Family Next Door comes a new domestic page-turner about that trickiest of relationships and what happens when it all goes wrong**ORDER THE GOOD SISTER NOW**'Fiction at its finest' --  Liane Moriarty, Number One...

'There's only been one time that Rose couldn't stop me from doing the wrong thing and that was a mistake that will haunt me for the rest of my life.'Fern Castle works in her local library. She has dinner with her twin sister Rose three nights a week. And...

“A book that demands to be read in a single sitting, and through the cracks between one’s fingers. There has never been a horror story quite like this. Josh Malerman truly delivers.” — Hugh Howey, New York Times bestselling...

REESE'S BOOK CLUB x HELLO SUNSHINE AUGUST 2019 PICK!FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ALL THE MISSING GIRLS'The perfect summer thriller ... twisty and tense, with a pace that made my heart race. An edge-of-your-seat, up-all-night read.' -- Riley...

One missing. Four left behind. The author of international bestseller The Dry delivers a powerful new novel of dark secrets, corporate intrigue and bushland survival. The gripping new novel from the author of the bestselling Empire's Thriller of the...

A small Australian town, parched by endless drought, staggers through the trauma of a mass murder in its midst in Jane Harper’s stunningly atmospheric crime thriller. The Dryburns with oppressive heat on every page, tacitly involving the reader in the...

An ambitious, epic dystopian novel - part political thriller and part satire. From the Fatherland, with Love is set in an alternative, dystopian present in which the dollar has collapsed and Japan's economy has fallen along with it. The North Korean...

** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! ** The Tonight Show Summer Reads Winner ** A New York Times Notable Book of 2021 ** "Insanely readable." —Stephen King. Hailed as "breathtakingly suspenseful," Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Plot is a propulsive read...

Olga Tokarczuk turns from the roving, travelling kaleidoscope of Flights to a fabulous, ecological neo-noir. Mike, manager of our Bridport shop, neatly describes the novel as ‘a book that is in every way not bland’, the tale’s central character of...