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 […]
Read More NEVER FLINCH by Stephen KingTHE 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 […]
Read More THE BOOKSELLER by Tim SullivanPALISADE Lou Gilmond (lougilmond.com) Fairlight Books (fairlightbooks.co.uk) £9.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Chief Whip Esme Kanha and back-bencher Harry Colbey are back, and this time they’re in Opposition. When a popular journalist dies in a road accident, Kanha finds herself in possession of a list of names; names of people from […]
Read More PALISADE by Lou GilmondTHE 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 […]
Read More THE FOREST OF LOST SOULS by Dean KoontzQUINT Robert Lautner (robert-lautner.com) The Borough Press (boroughpress.co.uk) £16.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Before he fished for shark off Massachussetts’ Amity Island, Quint was a boat for hire on Florida’s Merritt Island, taking daytrippers and too-rich college boys out sea-fishing; before that, he was in the US Navy, stationed on the USS […]
Read More QUINT by Robert LautnerTHE BEACH HUT Leah Pitt Hodder & Stoughton (hodder.co.uk) £9.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop In the summer of 1997, 15-year-old Matilda is killed in what seems to be a tragic accident, slipping on rocks on the Dorset beach where she holidays with her parents. Her best friend, Sophie, has been holidaying […]
Read More THE BEACH HUT by Leah PittTHE BOOKSELLER Tim Sullivan (timsullivan.co.uk) Aries (headofzeus.com) £22 COMING 16th JANUARY 2025 Pre-order from your favourite independent bookshop Here at Reader Dad we’re big fans of Tim Sullivan’s DS George Cross books, so we’re delighted to help his publisher, Aries, reveal the cover of the latest book in the series, where Sullivan turns his attention […]
Read More Cover Reveal: THE BOOKSELLER by Tim SullivanTHE 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 […]
Read More THE CHAMBER by Will DeanSMOKE KINGS Jahmal Mayfield (jahmalmayfield.com) Melville House (mhpbooks.com) £16.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Following the racially-motivated murder of one of their number, a small group of New Jersey friends decide to take the law into their own hands. But rather than seek revenge on the boys who killed their friend, they […]
Read More SMOKE KINGS by Jahmal MayfieldTHE 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 […]
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