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Looking for books like The Thursday Murder Club? Readers who enjoyed Richard Osman’s bestselling series will love our ...
Books to watch out for in 2025 We’ve rounded up the most exciting new reads heading our way this year. Read More ...
The Fury by Alex Michaelides The bestselling author of The Silent Patient returns with another page-turner with a unique premise. A reclusive former movie star invites six friends to a private island.
It’s another stand-out month for new crime fiction. From high-concept thrillers to murder mysteries, July’s new releases are brimming with intensity, intrigue, and unexpected twists. These stories ...
From Liverpool to Cambridge, Norfolk to Northumberland, English crime writers have found inspiration up and down the country in both the rolling green countryside and the rough, tough streets of the ...
Looking for Jussi Adler-Olsen’s Department Q books in order? Look no further! With new TV series Department Q hitting Netflix, now is the perfect time to discover the engrossing series of books behind ...
2. Blood Test (1986) Doctors believe that they can successfully treat five-year-old cancer patient, Woody Swope. But Woody’s parents, members of a cult called ‘The Touchers’, are not only refusing the ...
3. Iceberg (1975) The towering iceberg drifting in the North Atlantic was a floating tomb. Embedded in the great gleaming mass was a ship – sealed in so solidly that not even its mast protruded. Here ...
Shari Lapena, author of Not A Happy Family: A book that I thoroughly enjoyed recently is Richard Osman’s The Man Who Died Twice. The main characters live in a posh retirement village in England, and ...
Thomas Morris Thomas Morris is a writer and historian. His first book, The Matter of the Heart, a critically-acclaimed history of heart surgery, was published in 2017 and won an RSL Jerwood Award for ...
1. Titus Andronicus You don’t get much more of a blood bath than Titus Andronicus and it’s number one for crime. Thought to be Shakespeare’s first tragedy, it features executions, assassinations, rape ...
At a star-studded ceremony at the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate, the great and the good of the crime community came together to see the inaugural Dead Good Reader Award ...