Exclusives

Day One Present   The call comes at ten in the morning. I’m in the middle of signing off on an investigation that has ended well for me and my partner, Dan. Without breaking a […]

 It’s a Wonderful Life For Elena, Sebastiano and Vera   Dario, Vally, Federica, Emily and I stood at the great entrance to the Basilica of the Salute and realised that balloons were going to be […]

DECEMBER 1986     The third elf climbed aboard just as the steam train was pulling away from Morbay station. He took a seat at the rear of the carriage but the other two elves […]

Want more of Poe and Bradshaw? M.W. Craven has written an *exclusive* Washington Poe short story, and we are delighted to share it here with you. Enjoy . . . ‘Once in a Red Moon’ […]

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 […]