Horror, Mystery & Thriller

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...

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...

An oppressive, forensic, psychological thriller: J.K. Rowling meets Antony Beevor, Stephen King and Marina Warner ... Schiff's writing is to die for' ----THE TIMES It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's niece...

(Available after 3-20 days) The tragic end to an intimate dinner in an affluent West London home unearths a mesh of secrets and deception in this chilling, ingeniously plotted domestic noir from the author of Hold Your Breath. Empire Thriller of the...

At once a gripping thriller and an insightful study of a family tragedy in a tight-lipped community, Our Fathers sees a young man return to solve the terrible events of his past in the untamed landscape of the Hebrides. Empire Thriller of the...

Sharp, menacing and darkly funny, this first novel from Nigerian author Oyinkan Braithwaite is a breath of fresh air. Not just an inventive take on the serial-murder thriller, the novel is also a tender examination of sibling relationships in an...

The political tinderbox of 1780’s London provides the perfect backdrop for a tightly plotted and impeccably researched thriller from Laura Shepherd-Robinson, in which an aspiring politician The political tinderbox of 1780’s London provides the perfect...

"Pop your favorite Agatha Christie whodunnit into a blender with a scoop of Downton Abbey, a dash of Quantum Leap, and a liberal sprinkling of Groundhog Day and you'll get this unique murder mystery." —Harper's Bazaar. The 7½ Deaths of...