Days of Wonder - Keith Stuart (pub. Little Brown)

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Tom, single father to Hannah, is the manager of a tiny local theatre. On the same day each year, he and its colourful cast of part-time actors have staged a fantastical production just for his little girl, a moment of magic to make her childhood unforgettable. But there is another reason behind […]

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The Cliff House - Amanda Jennings (pub HQ)

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Cornwall, summer of 1986. The Davenports, with their fast cars and glamorous clothes, living the dream in a breathtaking house overlooking the sea. If only… thinks sixteen-year-old Tamsyn, her binoculars trained on the perfect family in their perfect home. If only her life was as perfect as theirs. […]

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Our House - Louise Candlish (Simon & Schuster)

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On a bright January morning in the London suburbs, a family moves into the house they’ve just bought in Trinity Avenue. Nothing strange about that. Except it is your house. And you didn’t sell it. For better, for worse. When Fi arrives home to find a removals van outside her house, she is […]

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The Fear - C.L. Taylor (Avon Books)

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When Lou Wandsworth ran away to France with her teacher Mike Hughes, she thought he was the love of her life. But Mike wasn’t what he seemed and he left her life in pieces. Now 32, Lou discovers that he is involved with teenager Chloe Meadows. Determined to make sure history doesn’t repeat itself, […]

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Last Time I Lied - Riley Sager (pub. Ebury Press, Random House)

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Have you ever played two truths and a lie? Emma has. Her first summer away from home, she learned how to play the game. And she learned how to lie. Then three of her new friends went into the woods and never returned . . . Now, years later, Emma has been asked to go back to the newly re-opened Camp […]

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Perfect Death - Helen Fields (pub. Avon)

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Unknown to DI Luc Callanach and the newly promoted DCI Ava Turner, a serial killer has Edinburgh firmly in his grip. The killer is taking his victims in the coldest, most calculating way possible – engineering slow and painful deaths by poison, with his victims entirely unaware of the drugs […]

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The Marriage Pact - Michelle Richmond (pub. Michael Joseph)

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Would you stake your life on your marriage? Newlyweds Jake and Alice are offered a mysterious wedding gift - membership of a club which promises its couples will never divorce. Signing The Pact seems the start to a perfect marriage. Until one of them breaks the rules. The marriage of their dreams […]

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Exquisite - Sarah Stovell (pub. Orenda)

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Bo Luxton has it all - a loving family, a beautiful home in the Lake District, and a clutch of bestselling books to her name. Enter Alice Dark, an aspiring writer who is drifting through life, with a series of dead-end jobs and a freeloading boyfriend. When they meet at a writers' retreat, the […]

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Find Me - J. S. Monroe (pub. Head of Zeus)

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Five years ago, Rosa walked to Cromer pier in the dead of night. She looked into the dark swirling water below, and she jumped. She was a brilliant young Cambridge student who had just lost her father. Her death was tragic, but not unexpected. Was that what really happened? The coroner says it was. […]

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The Break - Marian Keyes (pub. Michael Joseph)

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'Myself and Hugh . . . We're taking a break.' 'A city-with-fancy-food sort of break?' If only. Amy's husband Hugh says he isn't leaving her. He still loves her, he's just taking a break - from their marriage, their children and, most of all, from their life together. Six months to lose himself in […]

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The Friend - Dorothy Koomson (pub. Cornerstone)

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After her husband’s big promotion, Cece Solarin arrives in Brighton with their three children, ready to start afresh. But their new neighbourhood has a deadly secret. Three weeks earlier, Yvonne, a very popular parent, was almost murdered in the grounds of the local school – the same school where […]

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Nothing Stays Buried - P.J. Tracy (pub. Michael Joseph)

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Nothing Stays Buried is the eighth book in P.J. Tracy's addictive and internationally bestselling Monkeewrench series There's a search for a missing girl, and another for a serial killer: death holds all the cards . . . When Marla Gustafson vanishes on her way to her father's farm, her car left […]

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I Know Where She Is - S.B Caves (Canelo)

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On the tenth anniversary of her daughter Autumn's abduction, Francine receives an anonymous note containing just five words: I KNOW WHERE SHE IS When a young woman approaches her the next day claiming to have sent the letter Francine wants to dismiss it as a cruel, twisted joke. But the stranger […]

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The Art of Hiding - Amanda Prowse (pub. Lake Union )

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Nina McCarrick has it all: a loving husband, two beautiful boys, a well-appointed home and more time than she knows what to do with. Life is perfect. Until her husband, Finn, is killed in a car accident and everything Nina thought she could rely on unravels. Alone, bereft and faced with a mountain […]

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Here and Gone - Haylen Beck (pub. Harville Secker)

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Audra has finally left her abusive husband. She’s taken the family car and her young children, Sean and Louise, are buckled up in the back. This is their chance for a fresh start. Audra keeps to the country roads to avoid attention and finds herself on an empty road in Arizona, far from home. She's […]

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Last Seen Alive - Claire Douglas (pub. Michael Joseph, Penguin)

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THE HERO Libby Hall never really wanted to be noticed. But after she saves the children in her care from a fire, she finds herself headline news. And Horrified by the attention. It all reminds her of what happened nine years ago. The last time she saw her best friend alive. THE SWAP Which Is why […]

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Last Seen Alive - Claire Douglas (pub. Michael Joseph, Penguin)

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THE HERO Libby Hall never really wanted to be noticed. But after she saves the children in her care from a fire, she finds herself headline news. And Horrified by the attention. It all reminds her of what happened nine years ago. The last time she saw her best friend alive. THE SWAP Which Is why […]

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Two Nights - Kathy Reichs (pub.

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Meet Sunnie Night a woman with physical and psychological scars, and a killer instinct . . . Sunnie has spent years running from her past, burying secrets and building a life in which she needs no one and feels nothing. But a girl has gone missing, lost in the chaos of a bomb explosion, and the […]

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The Scandal - Fredrik Backman (pub. Michael Joseph)

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'Late one evening towards the end of March, a teenager picked up a double-barrelled shotgun, walked into the forest, put the gun to someone else's forehead and pulled the trigger. This is the story of how we got there.' Beartown is a small town in a large Swedish forest. For most of the year it is […]

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Perfect Prey - Helen Fields (pub. Avon)

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In the midst of a rock festival, a charity worker is sliced across the stomach. He dies minutes later. In a crowd of thousands, no one saw his attacker. The following week, the body of a primary school teacher is found in a dumpster in an Edinburgh alley, strangled with her own woollen scarf. DI […]

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