THE LAST HOUSE ON NEEDLESS STREET Catriona Ward Viper (serpentstail.com/viper) £12.99 Ted Bannerman lives in the house at the end of Needless Street with his cat, Olivia. Sometimes his daughter, Lauren, comes to stay; sometimes the visits are fun, and often they’re stressful. Delilah Walters has one mission in life: to find and punish the […]
Read More THE LAST HOUSE ON NEEDLESS STREET by Catriona WardLATER Stephen King (stephenking.com) Hard Case Crime (hardcasecrime.com) £8.99 Looking back on it, I sometimes think my life was like a Dickens novel, only with swearing. From a young age Jamie Conklin has been able to see dead people. Sometimes it’s difficult to tell, because they don’t look like anyone’s conventional idea of a ghost, […]
Read More LATER by Stephen KingTHE KILLING CHOICE Will Shindler Hodder & Stoughton (www.hodder.co.uk) £16.99 A man walks with his adult daughter through a quiet park in East London. Confronted by a man in a strange mask and carrying a knife, he is offered a choice: walk away and allow his daughter to be raped, or stay and die. This […]
Read More THE KILLING CHOICE by Will ShindlerINSCAPE Louise Carey(louise-carey.com) Gollancz (gollancz.co.uk) £14.99 In the future, London is run by giant corporations. Less like a city and more like a series of campuses, everyone who lives in the city is affiliated with one “Corp” or other, while those who live outside in the Unaffiliated Zone are seen as outcasts at best, dangerous […]
Read More INSCAPE by Louise CareyTHE LAST THING TO BURN Will Dean Hodder & Stoughton (https://www.hodder.co.uk/) £12.99 Leonard – Lenn to those that know him – lives in the small farmhouse on Fen Farm in which he was born, and in which he has lived his whole life; first with his mother, Jane; then with his first wife, also called […]
Read More THE LAST THING TO BURN by Will DeanONE BY ONE Ruth Ware (https://ruthware.com/) Harvill Secker (https://www.penguin.co.uk/) £12.99 The directors and shareholders of Snoop, the hottest new music/social media app, have hired a cabin in the little alpine ski resort of Saint Antoine, where they aim to take a well-earned break and chew over the multi-million dollar buyout that could make them all […]
Read More ONE BY ONE by Ruth WareONE BY ONE by Ruth Ware is published in hardback (priced £12.99) by Harvill Secker on 12th November 2020.
Read More Meet TIGER-BLUE ESPOSITO from Ruth Ware’s ONE BY ONEDON’T TURN AROUND Jessica Barry Harvill Secker (www.penguin.co.uk) £14.99 Cait volunteers for an organisation that helps women when they are most in need. Tonight, Cait’s job is to collect Rebecca from her fancy home in Lubbock, Texas and drive her the 300 miles through the night to Albuquerque, New Mexico, then bring her home safely […]
Read More DON’T TURN AROUND by Jessica BarryWE BEGIN AT THE END Chris Whitaker Zaffre Books (www.zaffrebooks.co.uk) £14.99 Walker has been Cape Haven’s Chief of Police for over twenty years. In the sleepy California coastal town, his job consists mainly of being nice to tourists, and keeping an eye on his old friend Star Radley and her two kids: thirteen-year-old Duchess and […]
Read More WE BEGIN AT THE END by Chris WhitakerTHE BRAMBLE AND THE ROSE Tom Bouman (www.tomboumanbooks.com) Faber & Faber (www.faber.co.uk) £8.99 When a headless body, half-eaten by bears, is found in the woods outside the small town of Wild Thyme, Pennsylvania, local policeman Henry Farrell finds himself partnered with biologist and bear expert Dr Mary Weaver, hunting the bear before its new-found taste […]
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