Horror, Mystery & Thriller

Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake, with their closest neighbours more than two miles in either direction.As Wen catches grasshoppers in the front yard, a stranger...

Discover John Fowles' compelling classic first novel'Short and spare and direct, an intelligent thriller with psychological and social overtones' Sunday TimesWithdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. He is...

A chance locomotive encounter sets in motion a diabolical transaction in one of Highsmith’s most perfectly plotted and morally disturbing psychological thrillers. The psychologists would call it folie a deux...'Bruno slammed his palms together...

Merging a beautifully judged gay love story with a terrifying post-apocalyptic zombie thriller, Charlton’s scintillating debut is as rich in characterisation as it is in scares.   Empire's Picks on Fiction 2021 Shortlisted for the YA Book...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2014 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVELWINNER OF THE 2014 DILYS AWARDA SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2013From New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger, a brilliant new novel about a young man, a small...

'A feminist page-turner that reads like a thriller' -- Mail on SundayThe New York Times and USA Today BestsellerHedy Lamarr possessed a stunning beauty. She also possessed a stunning mind. Could the world handle both?Her beauty almost certainly saved her...

A sensual tale of envy, revenge and violence set in an elite ballet school, Abbott’s flinty thriller layers twist upon twist in an exquisitely choreographed routine of suspense. The new thriller, set in the hothouse world of a ballet school, from the...

Centred on the disappearance of his daughter’s husband and a set of family secrets that the maverick detective isn’t sure that he wants to uncover, A Song for the Dark Times is an intensely personal case for John Rebus...

Aria, Emily, Spencer, Hanna and Alison have been best friends since the third grade. They go everywhere together, thinking no-one can come between them. If anyone is the ringleader of the group it is Alison, and the other girls cannot help but confide...

'Shari expertly traps you, confounds you and leaves you gasping at the end. More, please...' --  FIONA BARTONWhy would you run scared from a happy home?You're waiting for your beloved husband to get home from work.You're making dinner, looking forward to...

Featuring the first four spine-chilling books of the bestselling series, Fear Street the Beginning will whisk the reader into the cursed world of missing teenagers, mysterious deaths and dangerous strangers. The classic and heart-pounding Fear Street...

The epic finale to The Bone Witch series! As Tea's dark magic eats away at her, she must save the one she loves most, even while her life-and the kingdoms-are on the brink of destruction. Perfect for readers of Leigh Bardugo's Ninth House and Holly...

Moving to a new town to escape her dark past, Amelia Collins is determined to keep her head down and finish her senior year.But her plan is proving difficult when she runs into Aiden Parker - the school's hottest bad boy. Initially she can't imagine...

Vibrantly alive with multilayered characters and dazzling set pieces, Crossroads finds the acclaimed author of Freedom and The Corrections delivering a breathtaking saga of family dysfunction at a pivotal moment in...

(Available after October 31th, 2021)From the author of You Must Not Miss comes a haunting contemporary horror novel that explores themes of mental illness, rage, and grief, twisted with spine-chilling elements of Stephen King and Agatha Christie, now as...

An Amazon Charts bestseller. Near an isolated mansion lies a beautiful garden. In this garden grow luscious flowers, shady trees…and a collection of precious “butterflies”―young women who have been kidnapped and intricately tattooed to...

Number-one New York Times best seller. “A thrilling finale to a trilogy that will stand as one of the great achievements in American fantasy fiction.” (Stephen King) You followed The Passage. You faced The Twelve. Now...

Shortlisted for the Bram Stoker Award for the Best Novel of 2020.'Beautifully written, thoroughly absorbing and totally terrifying.' --  said C.J. Tudor, bestselling author of The Chalk ManA spine-tingling novel that 'blends psychological thriller and...

A high-school student enmeshed in research for an epic essay on the unifying theory of classic slasher films starts to notice a disturbing pattern in recent events of her hometown in this petrifyingly suspenseful read. The Jordan Peele of horror...

"This smart and original mystery is a true page-turner… will baffle, surprise, and draw out suspicion until the final few pages. With each book, Higashino continues to elevate the modern mystery as an intense and inventive literary form." —Library...