Horror, Mystery & Thriller

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...

The brilliant #1 New York Times bestseller   Named a best book of 2020 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, The Guardian, and many more   With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with...

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...

(Available on Septermber 2, 2021)One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2021:- Newsweek- CNN- E! Online- Goodreads- BuzzFeed- PopSugar- BookBub- Bibliofile- Mystery and Suspense A Library-- A Top Book Voted by Librarians for March 2021-- An Indie Next...

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 INSTINCTAn 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 you...

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...

When the National Security Agency's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls in its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant, beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves...

(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...

'Are you happy in your life?' Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious. Before he awakes to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits. Before the man he's never...

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...

Empire Thriller of the Month for April 2020 Blood will have blood… I lean forward on my elbows, so my face is only a few inches from his, so he hears every word when I lower my voice. “It must eat you alive, not knowing. Not knowing who, not...

(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...