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An unoccupied flat. A freshly dressed bed. The body of a young woman laid out neatly on the duvet. The dead girl looks familiar troublingly familiar but Detective Inspector Cassie May cant place her. And to compound her troubles, Cassie has just started dating the flats owner, James Flynn.When her boyfriend is accused of murder, an ambitious young DI risks her career and her life by defying her bosses, the security services, and a crime syndicate, to prove the innocence of a man who seems more worried about the long-buried secrets she might unearth than the murder charge hanging over him.Set across the leafiest of Sheffield suburbs, the sink estates of South Manchester, and the bleak and snowy Pennine moors that separate them, The Wythenshawe Dandy presents a discomforting picture of a world where privilege and wretchedness coexist.

What links a prostitute, a Flemish painter and a tower watchman? All three claim to have seen a ghost on the same street in fifteenth-century Tallinn. And all of them have been found dead soon after.Melchior Wakenstede, apothecary, is charged with unearthing the truth behind these seemingly-supernatural murders. But when a pious and powerful merchant dies, along with a castrated and disfigured tramp, Melchior perceives a more medical connection between the deaths.Melchior must rise above the competing interests of merchant guilds, religious orders and Teutonic knights, to get to the bottom of the mystery.

Former spy Felicity Jardine is caught up in the long tentacles of an operation at the Greek Embassy in the 1980s, in this gripping new spy thriller by the author of A Sting in her Tale.After a month of various people clearing up various messes, Felicity Jardine is finally cleared to go back to her little village cottage. But when a celebratory cream tea with her new and well-connected friend Percy is interrupted by a snipers bullet, shes off again, to a safe house in Notting Hill. There her only contact is her former colleague Matthew, still with MI6, who offers her a bit of investigation she can do online to pass the time. But Felicity is not one to work from home when she can be out and getting stuck in, especially when someone on the inside seems to be betraying her...

Secret cults, forbidden knowledge, and cryptic prophecies await in this companion collection to Shadows Over Innsmouth, containing 12 more short stories inspired by the legendary horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.Featuring stories from some of the biggest names in horror fiction, including H. P. Lovecraft, Ramsey Campbell, Kim Newman, Caitlin R. Kiernan, and many more.This newly redesigned edition also includes a revised and updated Introduction and Contributor Notes, along with additional artwork exclusive to this printing.In this companion to the acclaimed anthology Shadows Over Innsmouth, World Fantasy Award-winning editor Stephen Jones assembles some of todays most talented horror authorsthe finest of the modern Lovecraftian acolytes.Return to Innsmouth with these 12 haunting horror stories and encounter a scientist who stumbles upon a secret cult, a thief whose heist goes horrifically awry, and a magician who usurps a prophecy only to bring about something much, much worseplus H. P. Lovecrafts previously discarded draft of The Shadow Over Innsmouth! This newly redesigned edition also includes a revised and updated Introduction and Contributor Notes, along with additional artwork exclusive to this printing.Featuring stories from: H. P. Lovecraft Ramsey Campbell Hugh B. Cave Basil Copper John Glasby Caitlin R. Kiernan Brian Lumley Richard A. Lupoff Paul McAuley Kim Newman Michael Marshall Smith Steve Rasnic Tem

By the Bram Stoker Award Winning author of the Fisherman, this masterful and haunting blend of horror and fantasy sees a young Conan visit the cursed village where the ultimate crime took place. Where will this journey into the darkness take the young barbarian?On the day he was born, warriors attacked Conans village in Cimmeria, kidnapping children before fleeing. The villagers pursued the raiders and exterminated them to a man. But they were too late. The children were already dead.Fourteen years later, Conan and his cousin, Ruardih visit the site of the massacre, finding strange artefacts and feeling a dreadful unease as they near the cursed village. Upon their arrival, they are greeted by the corpses of the damned.Despite the portents, Conan and Ruaridh continue exploring the village. Met with bizarre and arcane creatures, they will stumble upon darknesses that should not have been revisited. What is this strange place? Who were the mysterious raiders who attacked the village? And why did they sacrifice innocent children? The answers lie deeper in the mountains, and Conan will chase them into the dark, whatever the cost.

In this thrilling sequel to The Gryphon King, old rivalries and new threats pull Bataar and Nohra into a swirling cauldron of gods, monsters and djinn.Sweeping Southwest Asian-inspired epic fantasy starring morally gray characters and lady knights, perfect for fans of Godkiller and Shannon Chakraborty. With Bataars campaign to conquer Dumakra victorious, he turns his eyes to Aglea in the north, where pagan berserkers rule over inhospitable marshes and ritualistically butcher unicorns. Prince Nassar and his entourage have also fled to Aglea to rally his supporterstaking the ghoulish variant of vermilrot they unearthed from the abandoned depths of Anhabar with them.Nohra and Bataar are soon to be married. Nohra has not forgiven the rhahs sins against Kalafar or her family, but her thirst for vengeance wars with her feelings for Qaira. Bataars supernatural gifts are increasingly powerful, and his hold on Dumakra more secure by the day. Serving him is now the only path Nohra can see that ends with her younger brother one day restored to Kalafars throne.The power struggle between Bataar and Nassar fast becomes a swirling conflict of religions and gods: the Agleans revere Darya for her demonic powers; Nohra and Qaira are heralded as the two manifestations of Dumakras Goddess; and Bataar is the walking embodiment of his peoples Preeminent spirit. In this febrile atmosphere, the ghoul sickness is spreading rapidly, and monsters continue to encroach on human towns, causing violence and dismay. The war, and the world, hang in the balance. Just one wrong move could tip everything into chaos.

When Nazi forces invade Oslo, quiet librarian Liv Dahl becomes an unlikely resistance leader, risking everything to safeguard secrets and lives. As danger tightens around her, Liv must outwit Gestapo agents, protect hidden allies, and navigate a forbidden romance with a mysterious spy. But when betrayal strikes and Liv is deported to Ravensbruck concentration camp, survival becomes her only mission. An unforgettable heart-wrenching story of a woman who dares to resist, and the quiet heroism that changes the course of lives including her own.

Its summer in London, and things are quiet. But while Holmes and Watson chafe at their inactivity, a train, carrying a vital encoded communication, is entering a tunnel in an obscure region of the Balkans - never to be seen again.The case of the disappearing train is only the beginning of the nations difficulties. The missing message must be found and decoded, and a diplomats wife must be rescued from the clutches of a pernicious blackmailer.The nation is in danger, and if a diplomatic scandal of disastrous proportions is to be avoided, Sherlock Holmes brilliance may not be enough.

A dark mystery for Sherlock Holmes. and of course Mrs Hudson!A man is accidentally knocked down outside 221B Baker Street by a carriage. His dying words are he has seen a man rise from the grave. At the same time a visitor arrives with a mystery of unparalleled international importance. The Viscount Wrexham is missing, presumed dead, in strange circumstances. In the North, rumours stir of a dead man haunting the moors. Broomheath Hall is, apparently, beset by ghostly lights and spectres. What does it all mean? Can arcane knowledge bring people back from the dead? And what is the connection with the Cumberland town of Alston? The redoubtable Mrs Hudson - Sherlock Holmes housekeeper and the Great Detectives best kept secret - and her assistant Flotsam are once again thrown into dark adventure full of gripping twists and murderous intrigue. Together with Holmes and Dr. Watson they must race against the forces of darkness to uncover the truth behind the mysterious document known as the Lazarus Testament. As mystery after mystery is slowly uncovered, everyones future hangs in the balance. The puzzle must be solved. But not before a slice of Dundee cake...

A pitch-black, Dexter-like thriller from the winner of the 2024 Crime Writers Associations Debut Dagger, in which a Tokyo paparazzo commits murders in order to generate the photos his magazines readership ghoulishly demands. A razor-sharp skewering of our darkest fantasies and obsession with true crime for fans of Bella Mackies How to Kill Your Family and Oyinkan Braithwaites My Sister, The Serial Killer.A pitch-black, Dexter-like thriller from the winner of the 2024 Crime Writers Associations Debut Dagger, in which a Tokyo paparazzo commits murders in order to generate the photos his magazines readership ghoulishly demands. A razor-sharp skewering of our darkest fantasies and obsession with true crime for fans of Bella Mackies How to Kill Your Family and Oyinkan Braithwaites My Sister, The Serial Killer.Ken Kato is a half-British, half-Japanese photojournalist working for a low-brow weekly magazine in Tokyo. He achieved fame with a photograph of a boy who drowned in the tsunami that hit Japan in 2011, who he could have saved had he not been more concerned with finding the right light and composition for his shot.Four years later, he has failed to repeat that success and, facing irrelevancy (and, worse, redundancy), he decides to turn serial killer to generate his own attention-grabbing pictures for which hes inevitably always first on the scene. His magazine then publishes the pictures, causing a sensation in a society where murder is almost unheard of, and tripling its sales figures.Hoping to impress his colleague Hayashis estranged wife Makoto, who he is stalking after a short affair (though she clearly sees things differently), Kato murders only men and women with the same name as her. Inevitably the police are suspicious, but can find no evidence as he is meticulous in his planning and execution. Katos editor is also suspicious, but is willing to ignore the evidence in front of him as sales boom.A pitch-dark satire on where ambition will take us, as well as our ghoulish obsession with true crime and our fascination with morally repellent serial killers (especially if theyre good-looking and charismatic), The Makoto Murders asks plenty of uncomfortable questions of the reader while never forgetting its first and foremost a page-turning thriller.

When a self-styled Angel of Death begins granting the dying a final act of mercy on the streets of Newcastle, DCI Jack Parker is forced to confront both a ruthless killer and his own advancing dementia. The gripping third instalment in Trevor Woods addictive, gritty DCI Jack Parker series.__________Killer or saint?Death is stalking the streets of Newcastle. An anonymous killer is offering the terminally ill a dignified escape. Mercy to some. Murder to others.DCI Jack Parker doesnt want the case. He has a secret of his own an early-onset dementia diagnosis hes desperate to conceal. But the signs are becoming impossible to ignore. As his mind begins to betray him, the city faces its own moral reckoning.While politicians debate a contentious new law and the self-styled Angel of Death selects another victim, Jacks world is shaken when the killings are traced to a carers support group one his wife, Helen, has been attending in secret.Yet his deepest fear is also his darkest temptation. Because when his disease becomes unbearable, Jack cant escape one haunting question: could the Angel of Death be the saviour hes been waiting for?_______________Praise for the DCI Jack Parker series:Weaves together an incredibly clever plot with a beautiful, soulful story. An absolutely magnificent bookVictoria DowdSuch a great story, so cleverly written. Taut, tender and full of very human twists. This is the start of something big William ShawOne of the best hooks for a novel Ive seen this year, and artfully executed by a writer at the top of his game. An absolute masterpiece of teasing tension thatll drag you by the scruff of the neck to the very last pageRobert RutherfordA juicy theme for a series of police procedurals . . . exquisiteThe TimesCrime fiction at its very best - the keep-you-guessing story is peopled with characters you cant help caring about. A superb start to this intriguing series Frances QuinnA super-smart and highly original police thriller, written with huge heart Doug JohnstoneTold with Woods signature directness, its serpentine twists keep the reader guessing. It heralds an exciting new series Daily MailWood crafts characters that drip with humour and heart and you will not want to stop reading when you startSun

During Cornwalls Dark Sky Festival, children begin to disappear, with mermaid charms left behind. Grieving DI Ben Kitto desperately races to stop a killer before his own young son is next. The bestselling, critically acclaimed Isle of Scilly series continuesA classy, edge-of-the-seat thriller which will keep you guessing throughout!B.A. PARISAn absolute master of pace, plotting and characterELLY GRIFFITHSRhodes does a superb job of balancing a portrayal of a tiny community oppressed by secretsSunday Express No one produces more elegantly written work than RhodesFinancial Times_______DI BEN KITTO RETURNSA COAST IN CELEBRATIONWhen DI Ben Kitto sees a baby thrown into Penzance harbour, he prays its a trick of the light. But the threat is real. The child survives barely and soon a chilling pattern emerges. As the Dark Sky Festival brings dancers, dreamers and stargazers to Cornwalls coast, children begin to vanish.A KILLER IN THE CROWDA small mermaid figurine is found beside each scene, echoing the legend of the Mermaid of Zennor, who lured a man to his death beneath the waves. Still reeling from a devastating bereavement and determined to protect his young son, Ben is pulled back into the field and into a deadly investigation. When the killers messages begin arriving at his home, the threat becomes terrifyingly personal.A FINAL RECKONINGSuspicions fall on familiar faces. When the summer solstice approaches, Ben must confront the boundaries of love, loss and obsession. In a final, desperate chase along the headland, only his bond with Noah and the loyalty of his dog, Shadow can prevent tragedy from repeating itself.Praise for Kate RhodesDark, intense, and expertly craftedRACHEL ABBOTTAn atmospheric and moving depiction of a tightly knit community in a rugged and often dangerous landscape tense and deftly plottedGuardian[A] superb seriesDaily MailA truly absorbing, chilling storyPeoples FriendKate Rhodes directs her cast of suspects with consummate skill, keeping us guessing right to the heartbreaking endLOUISE CANDLISHA vividly realised protagonist whose complex and harrowing history rivals the central crime storylineSOPHIE HANNAHExpertly weaves a sense of place and character into a tense and intriguing storyMETROThe whole book tingles with tension. I hope it does for the Scilly Isles what Ann Cleeves did for ShetlandMEL MCGRATHEvocative, immersive, twistySARAH VAUGHANGripping, clever and impossible to put downERIN KELLY

From the opening of her own yarn shop, to the anticipated proposal from her boyfriend Richard, everything seems to be working out for Tabitha Grey.That is until the sweater curse starts to come into play... a theory that from the moment you make something for your partner, disaster will be around the corner. After finishing her crochet cashmere sweater for Richard, she comes home to find him with another woman. Following a shattering break up, Tabitha impulsively gathers together everything shes ever made him, taking the crochet goods to the local charity shop and out of her life.But it isnt long until the fateful jumper reappears, on a mysterious man emerging from a narrowboat along the canal. Cooper seems to be everywhere in her small town, and while Tabitha tries to distance herself from everything that connected her to Richard, she cant seem to stop running into Cooper.Amidst a growing attraction to the new resident, and the possibility of a second chance with Richard, Tabitha finds herself tangled up in a series of events that threaten to throw her plans overboard.

An archaeologist travels to a distant planet to spend time among a mysterious community: a people who live in temperature-controlled domes, worship a deity called Dog, and repeat an elliptical phrase from which they draw their name: mulai, the tree comes. The descendants of a long-forgotten space mission, they have abandoned the social norms that once bound them to Earth. Over centuries of isolation, their language has become more about change than stability, and the ways they eat, write, reproduce, bury their dead and understand gender have all transformed into something almost unrecognizable. As the archaeologist records his attempts to understand their world a strange negative of our own questions of translation, meaning-making and the ultimate precarity of civilization come to the fore. Drawing on Borges, Le Guin and Calvino, The Mulai is a mind-bending work of metafiction whose interlocking puzzles resound with Munir Hachemis singularly playful and eclectic style.

Lindisfarne in 1494 is a place of secrets.The scribe Linnet is running from her criminal past and seeking sanctuary in the island of her childhood. Shes friendless in the monastery, the monks resentful of a woman scribe, and her only company is Tom the fisherman and a child, Isabelle watchful, clever and unlikeable with her partly tamed raven Pol.The monastery bursar Oswyn threatens to expose Linnets past but she isnt the only one with secrets to hide. Intent upon uncovering the monks misdeeds is the fanatic inspector, sent by the new Bishop of Durham to write a report on the monastery. When Oswyn is found drowned, Linnet suspects the death is not accidental. After another death, Linnet realises theres a killer amongst the brethren, and her own precarious position makes her vulnerable unless she can first identify who it could be

A twisty New York City-set mystery that sees Teddy Roosevelts daughter, Alice Roosevelt, team up with Holmes and Watson to save the president from a kidnapping and attempted assassination on the eve of international peace talks. Holmess British parlour tricks meet hard-boiled American noir in this pastiche for fans of Gareth Rubins Holmes and Moriarty.Celebrity socialite Alice Roosevelt is taking London by storm in 1905 when her letter containing sensitive details of upcoming peace talks between Japan and Russia is stolen. The case pulls Holmes from retirement, and with Alices help the letter is retrieved.After returning to the U.S., Alice goes missing. At Teddy Roosevelts request, Holmes and Watson travel to New York where they discover Alice has turned detective herself, working undercover to thwart a kidnapping plot targeting her father. Her warnings are dismissed, but then the president is kidnapped. Alice and the detective duo join forces to search for her father, only to lose Holmes to the escaping kidnappers.Alice proves herself the equal to the great detective by leading Watson in the rescue of Teddy Roosevelt as well as Holmes, but the stakes are higher than they realise. In a race against time, they must stop a plan to bomb the peace talks or risk an escalation of war on a global scale.

A savage, hypnotic dive into the lives and deaths of a coven of vampires living in 19th Century Paris, perfect for fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Laura Purcell and Elizabeth KostovaParis, 1869. The Theatre Saint-Simeon is the place to be, if you can get in. The black slips of paper that guarantee entry are rare and highly desired, and given only to certain persons. The actors on stage are magnetic and ageless, performing only at midnight and never seen during the dayArnault and his clan of vampires have survived for as long as they have by observing a rigid set of rules. At night, they perform on stage at the Theatre Saint-Simeon, picking off just enough people in the audience to survive. But they understand the city, and how to live in it without being noticed.Their peace is shattered first with a visit from Beatrice, a witch who forms a strange connection to Arnault; then with the arrival of Victor de Rouvray and his sister Françoise, vampires from a very different world. And, as Arnault grows closer and closer to the beautiful, enigmatic Victor, he risks becoming distracted from the constant bickering of his immortal friends, from the daily running of the theatre, and worse, from the premonitions of blood, death and starvation that he receives at night.For a terrible change is on the horizon, revolt and revolution are brewing in the streets and soon, the city, and Arnault will never be the same again.

A bloody and wickedly funny twist on Hitchcocks iconic classic Psycho. Trapped in a world full of sexism, abusive men and glass ceilings, Marion is on the run. Then one fateful night at a rundown motel, she turns the knife on Norm, kicking off a murder spree and with the knife in her hands, shell prove shes no victim.NORMAN WAS HER FIRST.Marion is in deep. Shes stolen money from the Manhattan ad agency where she works in a desperate bid to help her sister escape an abusive marriage, but the bus breaks down before she can make it to Saratoga Springs. Its late at night, and the only place with vacancies is an old set of cabins on the outskirts of town. She pays for a room in cash, and ends up chatting with Norm, the young innkeeper whos handsome, charming and a touch hung-up on his elderly mother. Back in her room, she steps into the shower, scrubbing off the late-summer heat, when the curtain is pulled back...Norm Billings is there with a knife. He raises his arm to strike, but before he does, Marion knees him in the balls, grabs the knife, and stabs the life out of him. Now, shes covered in blood, and shes a woman on the runnot just a thief, but a killer, too. Where will she go? How will she save both herself and her sister? And what mysteries will she uncover as she does?In Psycho, Hitchcock shocked audiences when he killed off his protagonist. But what if the leading lady had fought back? Marion offers an alternate history of the most famous dead blonde to ever grace the silver screen. Only this time, the knife is in her handsand shes no victim.

Discover bestselling author Jesse Q. Sutantos debut dark fantasy following an assassin, a scholar, a con man, and a guard racing to save their world from a miracle gone wrong.Mara has no memory of life before her assassin training behind the fortress-like walls of Tchu-Morrokhai, which has been her world since she was five. Practicing discipline and strategy, sacrifice and solitude, she has dedicated herself to resisting the Divine Empresss plans of eradicating the all-but-forgotten magic. She longs for a world once again filled with magicand freedom and love. And shell do whatever it takes to find those things.In the faraway city of Velingard, Livya is the privileged daughter of the revered scientist whose invention of an indestructible new metal was the catalyst for a great revolution. Yet Livyas bored of suitors and balls, more interested in philosophical debates. But when an invite to a secret salon leads to a kidnapping attempt, Livya is suddenly on the runwith the unlikely aid of charming con man Kaian, a once dear childhood friend inexplicably turned frosty stranger.Captain Fonde has served Velingard faithfully in the twenty years since the revolution, and all has been peaceful... until now, when hes informed that their "indestructible" metal is inexplicably starting to crumble. Ships, bridges, buildings, statuestheir entire post-revolution world is literally about to come apart. Could it be that the metaland therefore the revolutionwas flawed all along? Or is there something darkerevil, ancient, inhumanat play?With stunning world-building, Jesse Q. Sutanto weaves an epic tale of characters whose lives irrevocably intertwineand unravelas paths collide across continents, racing toward an explosive twist that will forever change all of their fates...

One calm night in Twickenham, a businessman named Tom Treadnor is shot off his barstool at The Queen. Superintendent Richard Jury is called in to investigate, and quickly realizes that everyone in Treadnors life - from his widow, Alice, to the staff at his manor, to his business partner - had differing opinions of him.Meanwhile, Wiggins, Jurys partner at New Scotland Yard, becomes sidetracked by an investigation of his own: his sister, missing for years and presumed dead, has just sent a postcard to their mother. When Wiggins takes off in search of his sister, the two investigations begin to converge.Funny, eccentric and fueled by Richard Jurys talent for seeing clues in the most unlikely places, The Red Queen is a welcome return to a classic character and an exciting addition to a series that has been called delightful, surprising, even magical (Washington Post).