'I could probably have been an actress.It is not difficult to pretend to be somebody else.Isn't that what I've been doing for most of my life?'Cordelia Russell has been livi...
'A masterclass in psychological suspense' Claire Douglas'A gripping new thriller' Shari Lapena'A superbly plotted' Lucy Clarke'A one-sit read' Sarah Pearse'Twisty and propul...
From the author of the BBC 2 Between the Covers hit, The Fine Art of Invisible Detection'The world's greatest storyteller' Guardian'One of the finest crime writers of any generati...
Media superstar Melanie Lange has disappeared.Her father, billionaire business tycoon Sir Peter Lange, says she is a danger to herself and has been admitted to a private mental health c...
It begins with the house – and a body:Alan Hobbes stabbed to death in his own bed.For years, he’s lived as a recluse in the remains of a derelict mansion that once bel...
A whirlwind romance. An unforgettable tragedy. Two teenagers face their cruelest test yet. Ever since Hartley Wright met Easton Royal, her life hasn't been the same. There are enemies b...
An undercover CIA officer has seven days to save her country from the world's most dangerous double-agent.The CIA's highly classified Special Activities Division is in the business of t...
You do not mess with Jack Reacher.He is as close to untraceable as a person can get. A loner comfortable in his anonymity and solitude. So when a member of his old Army unit finds a way...
A gripping new crime novel featuring Alex Delware from the bestselling master of suspense.When a photographer is found inside an LA warehouse slumped in bed, shot to death, it sets in m...
Senara has never been in love before. She's not done anything exciting before. Always the sidekick . . . Until the summer that changes everything.Cliff House is closed off for most of t...
The classic novel that inspired 'the greatest crime film of all time'Tyrant, blackmailer, racketeer, murderer - his influence reaches every level of American society. Meet Don Corleone,...
The Lady in the Lake is a classic detective novel by the master of hard-boiled crime, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time.Derace Kingsley's wife ran away to Mexico to ge...
Survival can be murder . . .During a deadly snowstorm, Hannah awakens to carnage, all mangled metal and shattered glass. Evacuated from a secluded boarding school, her coach careered of...
'Dripping with atmosphere and edged with danger, Threads That Bind weaves together a gorgeous dark tapestry of mystery, fated romance and modern myth. You won't be able to put this one down' Alexan...
A master criminal and a master detective are locked in battle. Who will win?They call her the 'Dark Angel'. Queen of Tokyo's underworld, Mme Midorikawa is famed for her beauty, her jewe...
BODIES FOUND UNDER PATIOWhen pregnant Saffron Cutler moves into 9 Skelton Place with boyfriend Tom and sets about renovations, the last thing she expects is builders uncovering a body. ...
The Outsider is an enduring classic of existential writing by Albert Camus'Mother died today.Or maybe yesterday, I don't know'Meursault is different. He will not lie. ...
Twelve girls. Three rounds. One ultimate prize . . . for the last one left alive.Edgewater Academy is a school for the very rich and very powerful.Adina Walker is neither of...
Widower Kane Black has never got over the death of his wife, Lily. Until he sees a woman with her inimitable beauty on Manhattan's streets, and whisks her up to his towering penthouse.B...
'He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson ... He sits motionless, like a spider in the centre of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them'