The stunningly written, atmospheric new debut crime thriller you won’t want to miss! Winner of the 2024 CrimeFest Debut Crime Novel of the Year!A detective ready for a new lifeJake Jackson, high-flying ex-city detective, inherits a rural retreat from his reclusive uncle. It’s the perfect chance to start anew.A death that disrupts everythingBut then the local annual treasure hunt spirals into terror when a young woman’s bones a...

A PERFECT DAY. A TWISTED CRIME. THE AWARD-WINNING JAKE JACKSON SERIES RETURNS…'This series is irresistible' LEE CHILD'Atmospheric and chilling' ELLY GRIFFITHS'Totally immersive' ANN CLEEVES'My favourite new crime series' LUCY FOLEY'Highly recommend' KARIN SLAUGHTERA beautiful summer dayWhen young nurse Claire Davidson goes missing on ...

Some ruins hide more than just history…A generation of lost children…In Victorian England, unwanted babies were a problem to be solved. And in a lonely part of the countryside, The Wainwright School was praised for giving them a home. But the children who passed through its doors had a troubling habit of disappearing.A detective drawn back to the past…Jake Jackson should be taking things easy. His wife is pregnant, and a dan...

A beautifully written new crime thriller you won’t want to miss. In a beautiful village, a terrible storm is brewing…A rural paradise…Detective Jake Jackson moved to the countryside for a quieter life.A shocking secret…But the return of an old case shatters the calm, and pulls him into a shadowy group that caters to the darkest desires of the rich and famous.An enemy closes in…As the web arou...

'This series is irresistible' LEE CHILD ‘An immersive, intelligent delight' LUCY FOLEY 'The Jake Jackson books get better and better' ELLY GRIFFITHS ‘Highly recommend’ KARIN SLAUGHTER 'A pleasure' BERNARD CORNWELLA beautiful landscape…It began as the project of a lifetime. A group of archaeologists uncovering the remains of a Roman settlement in the English countryside.A looming threat…But strange threatening letters shatter...

A PERFECT DAY. A TWISTED CRIME. THE AWARD-WINNING JAKE JACKSON SERIES RETURNS…'This series is irresistible' LEE CHILD'Atmospheric and chilling' ELLY GRIFFITHS'Totally immersive' ANN CLEEVES'My favourite new crime series' LUCY FOLEY'Highly recommend' KARIN SLAUGHTERA beautiful summer dayWhen young nurse Claire Davidson goes missing on ...

'Absorbing . . . an intelligent and clear-eyed account of much that goes on in our country' Sunday Times'Wry and readable' GuardianGetting to grips with Great Britain is harder than ever. We are a nation that chose Brexit, rejects immigration but is dependent on it, is getting older but less healthy, is more demanding of public services but less willing to pay for them, is tired of intervention abroad but wants to remain a...

A beautifully written new crime thriller you won’t want to miss. In a beautiful village, a terrible storm is brewing…A rural paradise…Detective Jake Jackson moved to the countryside for a quieter life.A shocking secret…But the return of an old case shatters the calm, and pulls him into a shadowy group that caters to the darkest desires of the rich and famous.An enemy closes in…As the web arou...

'This series is irresistible' LEE CHILD ‘An immersive, intelligent delight' LUCY FOLEY 'The Jake Jackson books get better and better' ELLY GRIFFITHS ‘Highly recommend’ KARIN SLAUGHTER 'A pleasure' BERNARD CORNWELLA beautiful landscape…It began as the project of a lifetime. A group of archaeologists uncovering the remains of a Roman settlement in the English countryside.A looming threat…But strange threatening letters shatter...

An audiobook to help make books part of your life.For a whole year on his train to work, Stig Abell read books from across genres and time periods. Then he wrote about them, and their impact on our culture and his own life.The result is a work of many things: a brisk guide to the canon of Western literature; an intimate engagement with writers from Shakespeare to JK Rowling, Marcel Proust to Zora Neale Hurston; a wise and funny celebration of the power of w...

Some ruins hide more than just history…A generation of lost children…In Victorian England, unwanted babies were a problem to be solved. And in a lonely part of the countryside, The Wainwright School was praised for giving them a home. But the children who passed through its doors had a troubling habit of disappearing.A detective drawn back to the past…Jake Jackson should be taking things easy. His wife is pregnant, and a dan...

For a whole year on his train to work, Stig Abell read books from across genres and time periods. Then he wrote about them, and their impact on our culture and his own life.The result is a work of many things: a brisk guide to the canon of Western literature; an intimate engagement with writers from Shakespeare to JK Rowling, Marcel Proust to Zora Neale Hurston; a wise and funny celebration of the power of words; and a meditation on mental unrest and how to tackle it. It will help ...