The Demon Lover was first published in 1927, the same year as H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu. Dion Fortune was among a generation of occult horror writers that formed popular culture's obsession with secret societies, vampires, demons, ritual magick, and dark powers lurking in the shadows. What sets Fortune apart from so many of her contemporaries is her deep knowledge of the inner workings
The protagonist in this saga of intrigue and supernatural mystery, Jonathan Ramsey, is a human geographer and specialist in the study of sacred places. He is called upon to investigate the sudden disappearance of the healing powers of a famous shrine in New Mexico. What he discovers along the way is the very meaning of Jesus's call “to be like him.” Ramsey, also, learns of his own role in fosterin
From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new collection of twelve short stories, many never-before-published, and some of his best EVER. “You like it darker? Fine, so do I,” writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into
Shocking, grotesque, and downright filthy, Brainwyrms confronts the creeping reality of political terrorism while exploring the depths of love, pain, and identity.
All legends begin somewhere, and the two novels here are where one of the world's best-loved legends began. In 'A Study in Scarlet', Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson first meet and investigate a seemingly impossible mystery that begins with a corpse in a deserted house.
'Historical fiction at its very best' ELLY GRIFFITHS. A Times Historical Fiction Book of the Month. They will see me hang for this. London, 1855. In the grey mist of the early morning a body is dumped on the shore of the Thames by a boatman in a metal canoe. Talk soon spreads of the killer and his striking accomplice: a young widow in mourning dress. Birdie Quinn's sleeplessness led her to the riv
A policeman's death leads Inspector Celcius Daly across the Irish border and into a labyrinth of lies and corruption.
Daly is in Dreesh, a desolate village where law and order have ground to a halt, and whose residents, ruined by a chain of bankruptcies, have fallen under the spell of a malevolent crime boss with powerful connections. Out of his jurisdiction and out of his comfort zone, Daly is
'Serial killers turn up all the time in crime fiction, but few are as patient or as devious as the murderer in Zhou Haohui's Death Notice. This extraordinary novel is the first in a trilogy, and it is already China's bestselling crime series to date' Sunday TimesTHE LAW IS WEAK For nearly two decades an unsolved double homicide has haunted Sergeant Zheng Haoming of the Chengdu Police Department.I
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She ran from the truth. She will do whatever it takes to hide it.
Jessica returns home one day to find her husband, Patrick, dead. It’s unclear what caused his death and though the shock is huge, she cannot pretend it’s entirely unexpected. The police have questions, and Jessica knows that once they hear the answers her fate may well be sealed.
Eight years ago, Jessica was living another life. S
THE THRILLING NEW YORK TIMES #2 BESTSELLING NOVEL FROM C.J. BOX.Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett faces two different kinds of rampaging killers - one animal, one human - in this riveting adventure from award-winning author C.J. Box. A rogue grizzly bear has gone on a rampage, killing, among others, the prospective fiance of Joe Pickett's daughter. A
'Easily the greatest of our crime writers' Sunday Times
'[Horowitz is] a master puppeteer' The Times
'Incredible plotting, richly layered and wonderfully intricate. I inhaled it' Liz Nugent
'A clever murder mystery...playful and twisty. Nobody does this crime fiction better than Anthony Horowitz' Crime Time FM
'Spectacularly good fun, wickedly clever, with a pinch of the macabre, this is eve
New historical crime from award-winning writer Clare Whitfield, based on a real-life all-female London crime gang. Twenty-one-year-old Eleanor Mackridge leaves behind her working-class family to reinvent herself as 'Nell the Mack' in the Forty Elephants.
The debut thriller from the bestselling author of The Last. He's paid to kill. Not paid to think. Nic Caruana never wanted to be a killer. But life took a few wrong turns, and now he works as a hitman for a violent arms dealer. His boss's teenage daughter has been kidnapped, and it's Nic's job to find her – using any weapon he needs to get to the truth. Nic's hunt for the girl will take him to the
If you thought your best friend deserved to die, could you kill her? From the author of The French Girl comes a novel full of secrets, suspense, and deadly twists.
‘Intriguing, enigmatic literary thriller’ The Financial Times ’A unique premise, chillingly written and evocative’ Woman’s Own
‘An enigmatic novel . . . a metaphysical thriller’ Edmund White
‘Like the best of Highsmith and Hitchcock rolled into one’ Marisa Silver
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Rebecca’s on-again, off-again boyfriend, Ezra, has gone missing, but when she notifies the police,
Boy Parts meets My Sister, the Serial Killer in this feminist psychological horror about the making of a female serial killer from a Korean-American perspective.
'An excellent action-thriller' Daily Telegraph 'The action never lets up for a moment'Daily Mail 'Very entertaining' Guardian 'An old-fashioned blockbuster...Conway writes with brio and ambition' Financial Times 'The most incredible spy franchise since Ian Fleming' Matthew Vaughn _____________________