New Trade Paperbacks - Fiction

The unputdownable new thriller from bestselling author Nicci French.

The new keep-you-up-all-night suspense thriller from one of the UK's best crime writers.

She’s loved by all who meet her. But someone wants her gone . . .

An ingenious locked room thriller with a stunning twist, confirming Nicci French as 'the giant of the genre, upon whose shoulders other writers stand' (Erin Kelly)

Our greatest living mystery writer weaves a masterful tale of breath-taking beauty and suspense, asking how we decide what's right and wrong in a world where neither is simple, and what we risk if we fail.

It's a blazing summer when two men arrive in the village. They're coming for gold. What they bring is trouble.

With characteristic wit, careening style, and array of cultural references, high and low and everything in between-from Shakespeare, the Bronte sisters, and Vladimir Nabokov to Talking Heads, superhero movies, and Rick and Morty-the second volume of Fresan's trilogy is one of the most ambitious, unique, and entertaining novels of our time.

'In the first few months after Charlie died, I began hearing from her much more frequently' Lost and Wanted is a searing novel from one of America's most exciting writers about the sacred knottiness of female friendship, the forces which fuse us together and those which drive us apart.

The truth will set you free - but it's the lies that keep you safe. Single mother Lee has the daily routine down to a science: shower in six minutes. Cut food into perfect squares. Never leave her on-the-spectrum son Mason in someone else's care. She'll do anything - anything - to keep his carefully constructed world from falling apart. Do anything to keep him safe.

A literary folklore retelling - put through a horror blender. Perfect for fans of Katherine Arden and unremitting dread, Honeysuckle is a dark and twisted fairytale with rot at its heart . . .

The Municipalists is a thrilling, funny, and touching adventure story, a tour-de-force of imagination that trenchantly explores our relationships to the cities around us and the technologies guiding us into the future.