Little Brown

'Fantastic' Martina Cole 'Dark, sharp and compelling' Peter James 'A thrilling curtain raiser for what looks set to be a great new series' Mick Herron

'I swear I'm one bad mood away from calling it black magic and going home . . .'

The first thrilling Ben Koenig book from The Sunday Times bestselling author of Dead Ground and The Botanist, featuring a brand-new hero. Ben Koenig is obody's hero . . . because he doesn't exist.

Are you sitting comfortably? Then he'll begin . . .

'A powerful thriller from an explosive new talent. Tightly plotted, and not for the faint hearted!' - David Mark Welcome to the other side of the mirror . . .

This is a story about a piano and its most prodigious player - how it, along with him, survived.

A rural, working class New England town elects as its mayor a New York hedge fund millionaire in this urgent and inspired novel for our times.

Ronnie James Dio was a heavy metal icon and frontman of three of the best-selling, most influential and famous rock bands in history: Rainbow, Black Sabbath and his own multi-million selling band, Dio. He died in 2010 - and was writing this when he died - being finished by Mick Wall.

Brilliant . . . really made me realise how no one has pulled back and given an overall story to the last 20 years . . . It's clever because it makes me think about now' ADAM CURTIS, FILMMAKER

From the band at the very beginning until his retirement in 2011 (and even still as a member of the band's board of directors), Downing has seen it all and is now finally at a place in his life where he can also let it all go.

No more days, no more times, no more tides. No more secrets. A compelling novel about family secrets and the legacy of trauma, set against the changing fortunes of an English seaside town, from award-winning writer Stella Duffy.