Fiction

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Summary Specs Notes The mayor of New York has a daughter who's missing. Detective Michael Bennett has a son who's in prison. Can one fa...

The British Library Women Writers series is a curated collection of novels by female authors who enjoyed broad, popular appeal in their day. In a c...

James Bennett, nephew of Sir Henry Merrivale (the cantankerous yet genius sleuther), has been invited to stay at White Priory for Christmas, among ...

Book 3 in the Three Births of Daoloth trilogy. The present day, or something very like it. Dominic Sheldrake has retired from lecturing and lives ...

Character-forming moral fables, Viking and Nordic folk and fairy tales take the magic of the natural world and combine it with the practical common...

H. P. Lovecraft is best known for his tales of cosmic horror, in which unnameable nightmares torment the limits of human consciousness. This master...

'Like any other boy I expected ghost stories at Christmas, that was the time for them. What I had not expected, and now feared, was that such thing...

In the latest page-turning F.B.I K-9 novel, Special Agent Meg Jennings and her search-and-rescue Labrador, Hawk, find that a training session in th...

Snow Country, perhaps the most of Yasunari Kawabata's classic Japanese novels, is a dazzling portrait of a country geisha, Komako, in a Japanese ho...

Atmospheric, chilling and often witty tales from the storytellers of ancient and modern phantom appearances. From the misty air of the highlands, ...

"Now tell us about your crime novel. Take my advice and don't try to be intellectual over it. What the public likes is blood." Mr and Mrs Surray a...

For retiree-turned-PI Poppy Harmon, spending her golden years running the Desert Flowers Detective Agency is far from the glamorous life she once k...

'The sea that night sang rather than chanted; all along the far-running shore a rising tide dropped thick foam, and the waves, white-crested, came ...

Set in Ireland's striking, rugged countryside, USA Today bestselling author Carlene O'Connor's dark, atmospheric new crime fiction series combines ...

When two newlyweds discover that a corpse has been buried in the basement of their new home, a gruelling case begins to trace the identity of the v...

USA Today bestselling author Andrea Penrose's atmospheric mystery series sends newlywed sleuths, Lady Charlotte and the Earl of Wrexford, beyond th...

Against all expectations in Edwardian England, newly married American heiress Stella Kendrick and British aristocrat Viscount "Lyndy" Lyndhurst are...

During the height of the 90s grunge era, five high school friends living on the fringe are driven to the breaking point. When one of their friends ...

M.R. James's celebrated ghost stories resonate still, their chilling narratives drawing us unsuspecting into the deadly shadows. His tales are haun...

A fascinating field guide to Philippine monsters and mythology! From award-winning authors Budgette Tan and David Hontiveros comes The Lost Journa...

An Early feminist writer who dared explore a world without men. A lost world fantasy in the tradition of Arthur Conan Doyle and the Utopianism of ...

In the winter months, the cosiness of the hearth and armchair - or reading nook of choice - comes together with tales of creeping horror to form an...

It is 1942, and struggling up the hill to the new military hospital, Heron's Park, Kent, postman Higgins has no idea that the sender of one of the ...