Exclusives

ONE 8.30AM | MINA   ‘Stop that, you’ll fall.’ A week’s worth of snow has pressed itself into ice, each day’s danger hidden beneath a night-time dusting of powder. Every few yards my boots travel […]

Every morning when I wake up to the cries of the baby next door, I turn you on. In the dark of a room that smells of the dog that lived here before, you tell […]

Chapter 1 Ellie   ‘She’s not my sister.’   I’d said it so many times now, I was thinking about having it printed on a T-shirt. The lady in the restaurant toilets blushed as she […]

Prologue She could almost have been one of The Survivors. Standing there, outlined by the weak light, her back turned and the salt water lapping at her feet. Then she moved. Just a small shift […]

1 Dublin, Ireland, 2014   On that crisp January afternoon, the park lay silvery and deserted, coated in a thin layer of frost. The grass crunched under Georgina’s feet as she followed shrieks of laughter […]

Welcome to…Twelve Days of Criminal Christmas Content     Over the next 12 days, bestselling crime and thriller authors will reveal what they’ll be reading over the festive period. From Val McDermid and Mark Billingham […]

PROLOGUE   Roger Thomas. F.R.C. Path.   Dr Angela Wilson, HM Coroner, Southwark.   26 June 2000 Dear Angela, Following our recent telephone conversation, I write to summarise certain concerns which you might like to […]

Prologue   1965   The West End club was heaving, jam- packed with the usual Saturday- night crowd. The music was loud and the air thick with expectation. Lads circled the dance floor like wolves, […]

PROLOGUE   18 June 1933   Outside, the horizon had been lost to the darkness, with sky and sea both black as the underside of a dead man’s eyelids. No stars shone and the moon […]

  Ahead of the publication of The Mitford Trial, the fourth book in the thrilling Mitford Murders series by bestselling author Jessica Fellowes, we’ll be sharing extracts from the first three books in this brilliant series. […]

  Ahead of the publication of The Mitford Trial, the fourth book in the thrilling Mitford Murders series by bestselling author Jessica Fellowes, we’ll be sharing extracts from the first three books in this brilliant […]

Chapter 1 The Todes of Tode Hall Lady Tode stood by the Great North Door of her important house, a vision of slimness and grief as she watched her husband take leave of the building […]