DARKER DAYS by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

DARKER DAYS Thomas Olde Heuvelt (oldeheuvelt.com) Translated by Lia Belt (smarttranslations.nl) Bantam Books (penguin.co.uk) £20 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop In the small town of Lock Haven, Washington you’ll find a secluded cul-de-sac called Bird Street. There are half a dozen houses on Bird Street, a handful of families who harbour a […]

KING SORROW by Joe Hill

KING SORROW Joe Hill (joehillfiction.com) Headline (headline.co.uk) £25 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop It’s 1989 and Arthur Oakes is in his third year at Rackham College, with his best friend Donovan “Van” McBride and Van’s twin sister, Donna, Allison Shiner and Colin Wren. His mother is incarcerated in Vermont’s House of Correction […]

GOING HOME IN THE DARK by Dean Koontz

GOING HOME IN THE DARK Dean Koontz (deankoontz.com) Thomas & Mercer (amazon.com) £19.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Rebecca, Ernie, Bobby and Spencer have always been the “four amigos”, ever since bonding as outcasts, four nerdy teens against the rest of the school, the town, the world. When they grow, Rebecca, Bobby […]

NEVER FLINCH by Stephen King

NEVER FLINCH Stephen King (stephenking.com) Hodder & Stoughton (hodder.co.uk) £25 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Welcome back to Buckeye City, Ohio, where the Chief of Detectives at the city’s Police Department has just received a disturbing letter from someone promising to kill thirteen innocent – and one guilty – people to atone […]

THE BOOKSELLER by Tim Sullivan

THE BOOKSELLER Tim Sullivan (timsullivan.co.uk) Head of Zeus (bloomsbury.com) £20 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Nonagenarian rare bookseller Torquil Squire returns from a book-buying trip to London to find his son, Ed, lying dead in the middle of his shop. When DS George Cross of the Avon and Somerset Police arrives on […]

ICE TOWN by Will Dean

ICE TOWN Will Dean Hodder & Stoughton (hodder.co.uk) £20 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop When news reaches Gavrik that a Peter Hedberg, a young deaf man, has gone missing, Tuva Moodyson packs up and takes the nine hour drive to Sweden’s arctic north. She is chasing the story, but she also hopes […]

THE FOREST OF LOST SOULS by Dean Koontz

THE FOREST OF LOST SOULS Dean Koontz (deankoontz.com) Thomas & Mercer (amazonpublishing.amazon.com) £19.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Orphaned at the age of five, Vida was taken in and raised by her Uncle Ogden, in a remote cabin in the woods just outside the town of Kettleton. Not quite a hermit, Ogden […]

THE CHAMBER by Will Dean

THE CHAMBER Will Dean Hodder & Stoughton (hodder.co.uk) £20.00 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Ellen Brooke is a saturation diver, used to spending long periods in a confined space pressurised to one hundred meters beneath the sea and beyond. Her latest job is a month-long session in the North Sea, repairing oil […]

THE LAST MURDER AT THE END OF THE WORLD by Stuart Turton

THE LAST MURDER AT THE END OF THE WORLD Stuart Turton (stuturton.com) Raven Books (bloomsbury.com) £20.00 Almost a century ago, the world was overrun by a myterious insect-filled fog that killed everyone it touched. The last survivors – 122 villagers and 3 scientists who are treated like gods – can be found on a small […]

THE BAD WEATHER FRIEND by Dean Koontz

THE BAD WEATHER FRIEND Dean Koontz(deankoontz.com) Thomas & Mercer (apub.com) £19.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Benny Catspaw is a nice guy. Just a genuinely nice guy, who can’t imagine being rude or unfriendly to anyone. Even when his life starts to fall apart, Benny can’t believe that it’s anything other than […]