Fiction > Thriller

At the Verinder family's coastal mansion, a fascinating and ancient jewel arrives as an inheritance on Rachel Verinder's eighteenth birthday: La Piedra Lunar (The Moonstone), a diamond stolen from a Hindu shrine, laden with mystery and foreboding. That night, under the warm glow of...

Sally Diamond cannot understand why what she did was so strange. She was only doing what her father told her to do, to put him out with the rubbish when he died. Now Sally is the center of attention, not only from the hungry...

Evil lurks in the shadows. The winter calm of the idyllic Swedish village of Åre is shattered when Johan Andersson, a former Olympic skier much loved in the area, is found bound and beaten to death in the middle of the forest. The crime...

A remote retreat... Nestled high in the Tuscan hills lies Villa Volpone, home to renowned crime writer Jonah Moore and his creative writing course. It’s also the last place retired DCI Dan Armstrong expected to spend his retirement! Dan’s no writer, but maybe this...

The fourth Shetland novel. Shetland detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to Fair Isle to introduce his fiancée to his parents. With the autumn storms raging, the island is cut off from the rest of the world....

Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rectory alongside his widowed mother - opinionated, fearless, ever-so-slightly annoying Audrey - and his two dachshunds, Cosmo and Hilda. When Daniel announces a plan to install a...

A judge dead. A lawyer turned detective. When lawyer Gabriel Ward steps out of his chambers on a bright May morning in 1901, his mind is so absorbed in his latest case — the disputed authorship of the bestselling children’s book Millie, the Temple...

Arthur Fletch, one of the world’s bestselling novelists, is a reclusive genius known for his iconic protagonists and fiendish twists. When six struggling authors are invited to spend a weekend on his private Scottish island, they arrive to discover a shocking secret: Arthur Fletch...

As boys, best friends Jeremy Cox and Rafe Howell went missing in a vast West Virginia state forest, only to mysteriously reappear six months later with no explanation for where they’d gone or how they’d survived. Fifteen years after their miraculous homecoming, Rafe is...

When a woman is murdered in Blackdown, a quintessentially British village, newsreader Anna Andrews is reluctant to cover the case. Detective Jack Harper is suspicious of her involvement, until he becomes a suspect in his own murder investigation. Someone isn’t telling the truth, and...

A stunning second installment in the acclaimed Shetland Island Quartet, White Nights is sure to garner American raves for international sensation Ann Cleeves. This series is the basis for the hit BBC show Shetland, starring Douglas Henshall, which attracted over 12 million viewers in...

Raven Black is the first book in Ann Cleeves' Shetland series - filmed as the major BBC1 drama starring Douglas Henshall, Shetland. It is a cold January morning and Shetland lies buried beneath a deep layer of snow. Trudging home, Fran Hunter's eye is...

A masterful tale of betrayal, ambition, and revenge, with an ending as unexpected as it is brutal. When power conspires in the shadows, no one escapes unscathed. Former Peruvian president Alan García is enjoying his retirement in Madrid when, out of the blue, he...

In the cult classic novel Bunny, Samantha Heather Mackey, a lonely outsider student at a highly selective MFA program in New England, was first ostracized and then seduced by a clique of creepy-sweet rich girls who call themselves “Bunny.” An invitation to the Bunnies’...

The humdrum life of Teresa, a young pharmacist from Ciudad Real who is deeply concerned about caring for her mother with dementia, is about to change forever. One night, just before closing her shop, she is assaulted. The attack awakens fears she believed long...

Sheriff Sarah Colbert’s life has been marked by loss and pain. After being missing for eleven years, her sister has been found dead in the woods. The autopsy rules it an accidental death, but she had only been dead a few hours when she...

Red Bones marks the third in a stellar suspense series set on the Shetland Islands from bestselling author Ann Cleeves--the basis for the hit BBC show Shetland, starring Douglas Henshall. When a young archaeologist discovers a set of human remains, the locals are intrigued....

Harris draws the guilty and the innocent into an engrossing tale while inventing a heroine as capable and potentially complex as P. D. James's Cordelia Gray' (Publishers Weekly). #1 New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris introduces a librarian whose bookish...

La Misericordia Orphanage, Zabalburu (Bilbao), 1974. On her sixteenth birthday, Natalia, a young woman who has known nothing but beatings and silence, receives a visit from a rough and cold man who claims to be her father. He has returned. The nuns at the...

Dee Dee, loving mother, grieving widow and occasional model, walks away from home with a kiss in the air before disappearing around the corner. And she doesn’t come home that night. Or the next... Maggie, her self-absorbed teenage daughter, refuses to accept that her...