'Was rich Mrs Gertrude Hullett murdered at her luxurious 15-room home on Beachy Head? Detectives are tonight trying to establish the cause of the 50-year-old widow's sudden death . . . ' Daily Mail, 1957In July 1957, the press descended in droves on the south-coast town of Eastbourne. An inquest had just been opened into the suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of Mrs Bobbie Hullett. She died after months of apparent barbiturate abuse - the drugs prescribed to ca...

‘The perfect thriller’ Elle ‘Immensely gripping’ Sophie Hannah ‘Gripping, creepy and very addictive!’ BA Paris‘He’s so handsome and clever and romantic. I just wished he hadn’t forced Tilda under the water and held her there so long.’Callie loves Tilda. She’s her sister, after all. And she’s beautiful and successful.Tilda loves Felix. He’s her husband. Successful and charismatic, he is also control...

Bessie Mundy, Alice Burnham and Margaret Lofty are three women with one thing in common. They are spinsters and are desperate to marry. Each woman meets a smooth-talking stranger who promises her a better life. She falls under his spell, and becomes his wife. But marriage soon turns into a terrifying experience.In the dark opening months of the First World War, Britain became engrossed by 'The Brides in the Bath' trial. The horror of the killing fields of the Western Front was the ...

‘The perfect thriller’ Elle ‘Immensely gripping’ Sophie Hannah ‘Gripping, creepy and very addictive!’ BA Paris‘He’s so handsome and clever and romantic. I just wished he hadn’t forced Tilda under the water and held her there so long.’Callie loves Tilda. She’s her sister, after all. And she’s beautiful and successful.Tilda loves Felix. He’s her husband. Successful and charismatic, he is also control...

With the smart suspense of Emma Donoghue’s Room and the atmospheric claustrophobia of Grey Gardens, this “bizarrely unsettling, yet compulsively readable” (Iain Reid, internationally bestselling author of I’m Thinking of Ending Things) thriller explores the twisted realities that can lurk beneath even the most serene of surfaces.What becomes of a child who grows up without love?Marion Zetland lives with her domineering older broth...

In the tradition of Gillian Flynn and Paula Hawkins, The Substitute is a deliciously creepy psychological thriller that will keep you guessing until the very last page.Warren Botts is a disillusioned Ph.D. taking a break from his lab to teach middle-school science. Gentle, soft-spoken, and introverted, Warren befriends thirteen-year-old Amanda, a lonely student looking for guidance.One morning, Warren returns from a jog to find Amanda dead, hanging...

With the smart suspense of Emma Donoghue’s Room and the atmospheric claustrophobia of Grey Gardens, this “bizarrely unsettling, yet compulsively readable” (Iain Reid, internationally bestselling author of I’m Thinking of Ending Things) thriller explores the twisted realities that can lurk beneath even the most serene of surfaces.What becomes of a child who grows up without love?Marion Zetland lives with her domineering older broth...

Now a major Apple TV+ series starring Octavia Spencer and Aaron Paul—produced by Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine!Serial meets Ruth Ware’s In A Dark, Dark Wood in this inventive and twisty psychological thriller about a mega-hit podcast that reopens a murder case and threatens to unravel the carefully constructed life of the victim’s daughter.The only thing more dangerous than a lie…is the truth.Josie Bu...

Now a major Apple TV+ series starring Octavia Spencer and Aaron Paul—produced by Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine!Serial meets Ruth Ware’s In A Dark, Dark Wood in this inventive and twisty psychological thriller about a mega-hit podcast that reopens a murder case and threatens to unravel the carefully constructed life of the victim’s daughter.The only thing more dangerous than a lie…is the truth.Josie Bu...

‘A page-turning whodunit.’ – Ruth Ware, bestselling author of The Woman in Cabin 10She always trusted her husband.Until he died.Clara Solberg’s world shatters when her husband and four-year-old daughter are in a car crash, killing Nick while Maisie is remarkably unharmed.But when Maisie starts having nightmares, Clara becomes obsessed that Nick’s death was far more than just an accident.Who ...

The Breakdown is now released as the major movie, Blackwater Lane‘Brilliant, chilling, scary and unputdownable’ Lesley Pearse'Utterly compelling, brilliant and tense’ Lisa Hall‘You’ll be unable to rest until you’ve followed the twists and turns to an ending you didn’t foresee’ Daily Express*****If you can’t trust yourself, who can you trust?...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBarnes and Noble Best Book of the YearBookpage Best of 2017Booklist Best Crime NovelPopSugar Best Book of 2017The new novel from New York Times bestseller Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River and Shutter Island“Lehane is the master of complex human charact...