Rated "Most Popular Fiction Magazine 2024" by Chill SubsNamed Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023, 2024" by Chill SubsRated "Top 50 Fiction" by SubstackDelight in intriguing, thought-provoking conversations about ethics, philosophy, and social issues! After Dinner Conversation is a monthly literary magazine publishing short fiction. Each issue features both established writers and up-and-coming authors who contri...

The first in a stunning new crime series from 2m+ international bestseller Adam Croft.A peaceful Sunday morning in Rutland is shattered when a dead body is discovered on the rocks at Normanton Church.The victim has been laid out in a crucifixion pose, facing the altar. DI Caroline Hills is certain there’s a religious connection — one which threatens the tranquility of life in the area.The killer...

Stand-up comedy should be fun. But murder tends to sour the mood.Charlie Sparks’s comedy isn’t Kempston Hardwick’s cup of tea. Not many things are. But when the comedian drops dead during his set, Kempston thinks someone’s taking things a bit far.Kempston wanted a quiet night out. Ellis Flint wanted an autograph. But Charlie Sparks’s inconvenient death drives them both towards justice — and Fettlesham.But who would want to murder a washed-up has-bee...

She vanished twenty years ago. But someone is still wearing her red coat.Mara Ellison came to Red Hollow looking for peace, not answers.A quiet escape to the desert quickly turns into a nightmare when Mara encounters a woman standing alone among the sandstone cliffs. She wears a bright red coat. She says nothing. She simply watches.Then she disappears.Moments later, Mara finds a weathered silver medallion hidden among the rocks — an object t...

For Judd Shaw, a medically retired Army Ranger, a quiet life managing his schizophrenia is all he wants. His only anchor is Boris, his fiercely loyal Bull Terrier. When he and his friends get an exclusive invite to beta test a revolutionary new AI-driven virtual tabletop game, it seems like the perfect, safe way to spend a night in.But the moment they click "play," they aren't just logging in. They're physically abducted.Now trapped in a brutal fantasy world where death is ...

THE BLOCKBUSTING, BESTSELLING CRIME SERIES WITH MORE THAN 250,000 COPIES SOLD AROUND THE WORLDThis exclusive, limited edition box set includes the fourth, fifth and sixth books in the bestselling Knight & Culverhouse crime thriller series plus an exclusive prequel novella.ROUGH JUSTICEWhen a man is found dead, mutilated in his house, DS Wendy Knight and DCI Jack Culverhouse soon realise that Jeff Brelsford was killed for one reason:...

What if the serial killer you were investigating was someone you knew?DS Wendy Knight's first murder case was always going to test her limits, but even she couldn't anticipate that a sadistic serial killer might be someone she knew - very well.As her investigation unfolds, so too does a sinister plot that will turn her world upside down and make it increasingly difficult to distinguish friend from foe in her tightknit world.By the time Wendy realise...

The first three books in the worldwide bestselling Knight & Culverhouse crime fiction series: Too Close for Comfort, Guilty as Sin and Jack Be Nimble.BONUS: Also includes two free short stories, Six Feet Under and No Rest for the Wicked.“Incredible” — BBC NewsWelcome to Mildenheath. A small town with big problems.The town’s major crimes unit faces a unique set of challenges. Staff numbers are falling. Budgets are be...

In the kingdom of Valdris, power has a price — and the Obsidian Throne never forgets a debt.From the ash-choked valleys where prophets speak to the dead, to the drowned shores where memory dissolves like salt in water, to the dying frontier towns where the last smiths forge blades from the throne's own glass — these twelve tales map the boundaries where kingdoms end and something older begins.A cartographer follows an impossible map into a valley that should not exist. A st...

What if your loved one wanted you dead?Grace wants to spend the rest of her life with Tom. She needs to. Because otherwise he'll kill her.He’s the perfect gentleman. He’s kind, attentive and caring. Her family love him. And he needs Grace dead. But why?As the feeling grows that Tom is not as perfect as he seems, he begins to slowly and systematically destroy her life. Can she discover the truth and escape with her life?From the #1 in...

What if you discovered your husband was a serial killer?Megan Miller is an ordinary woman with a young family — until a shocking discovery shatters her perfect world.When two young boys are brutally murdered in their tight-knit village community, Megan slowly begins to realise the signs all point to the lovable local primary school teacher — her husband.But when she begins to delve deeper into her husband's secret life, she makes di...

In Salt-Howl, the dead are kept below by a bell and a flame. Twice a day the Whelm Bell rings from the Tooth, and twice a day the blue flame in the Lantern Chapel drinks whatever offering the town can spare — a name, a face, a remembered lullaby — to hold the tide and the drowned it carries.Nessa Vale is the ringer's foundling, a girl who cannot forget. While the flame eats the memories of everyone else in Salt-Howl, it cannot touch hers. As old Esh Kettle burns himself hollow to p...