Exclusives

Chapter One The scream stopped her in her tracks. It was sharp, shrill and chilling – quite the most horrendous noise that Agatha Raisin had heard since she had left her office for her lunchtime […]

FARYAB PROVINCE, AFGHANISTAN SIX MONTHS AGO   It’s called Hell Hour. Every kill or capture mission is the culmination of days, months, sometimes years of careful planning. Intelligence gathering and data crunching and rehearsal exercises […]

Prologue     Fat flakes blew into his face, cold wet kisses on his cheeks and eyelids.  Last  time  there  had  been  a  winter  like this, he’d been a wee boy and all he remembered […]

Almost all of the action in The Perfect Guests, whether it’s in the past or the present, takes place at an isolated mansion called Raven Hall. I love setting my stories in big, rambling country […]

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, […]