Gritty, tender and moving, A Sinner’s Prayer is M. P. Wright’s fourth crime novel featuring reluctant Bajan private eye JT Ellington.

1970s Bristol, JT Ellington has taken himself out of the investigation game, but when an old friend asks him to help a doctor whose son disappeared hours after his wedding, his commitment to a life lived under the radar is...

At a dark place in Edinburgh's heart, secrets refues to lie dormant.

At Police Scotland HQ, Grace Macallan has pitched up in Counter Corruption. But the demons of her past are never far behind.

Meanwhile, Edinburgh's gangland is in turmoil. As a new breed of upstarts challenges the old criminal order, their battle for territory causes serious havoc.

Into...

‘A triumph of tone, very moving, completely convincing’ – ANDREW MARR

‘A Baltic Brief Encounter’ – INDEPENDENT

Every morning, Mayor Tibo Krovic stops off at the local café on his way to work. He drinks his Viennese coffee with extra figs, leaves a bag of sweets for the owner, and then continues on to his office. There he awaits the arrival of his secretary:...

‘The Irish Amy Poehler and Tina Fey – I was crying with laughter!’ – VIP MAGAZINE

Ava O’Hara looks to have it all at almost forty: a dream job at a Dublin gallery, a cottage in the countryside, a très beau co-worker, and a rock star fiancé that her friends call ‘The Tuner’ (aka Simon).

Simon says he loves her, but he’s got a funny way of showing it. And when...

 A TAUT, COMPELLING CRIME THRILLER SET IN DUBLIN, FOR FANS OF SAM BLAKE AND ALEX BARCLAY 

 ‘Shocking and compulsive, Black Water offers a grittily realistic insight into the causes and consequences of inner-city drug crime – think The Wire set in Dublin.’

BRIAN MCGILLOWAY, NYT bestselling author of Little Girl Lost

Tara Crowe is on a mission to clean up the...

‘Chronicles the courage and endurance of two women in wartime Shanghai, separated, then reunited, in a dangerous and desperate place.’
SARAH MAINE

April 1939. Berlin and Vienna. For Esther and Kitty, life is fraught with terror. The choice they share is brutal. Flee Europe, or face the ghetto, incarceration, death. Unexpectedly, Shanghai offers a hope of...

Edinburgh, 1953.

Kirsten Mowat, eighteen years old and with a joyful spring in her step, couldn’t be more in love with her sea-faring sweetheart Duncan Armstrong.

But, seven years later – after a hasty wedding, a twist of lies and wrenching loss – Duncan and Kirsten’s relationship has faded to tatters. When those closest to her turn their backs, Kirsten –...

Expose the truth or let the dead lie still?

Grace Macallan's life is on an even keel – at last. But a 9-to-5 career away from the frontline isn't all it's cracked up to be.

So when she's sent to investigate a suicide at Glasgow's notorious Barlinnie prison, Grace gladly escapes her desk. The dead inmate is Tommy McMartin, heir to a ferocious criminal family...

Rumi Seto spends a lot of time worrying. What to eat, where to go, who to love. But one thing she is sure of – she wants to spend her life writing music with her younger sister, Lea.

Then Lea dies in a car accident, and Rumi is sent to live with her aunt in Hawaii. Now, miles from home, Rumi struggles to navigate the loss of her sister, feeling abandoned by...

Up in the Alps, Cara's old life feels a million miles away. Nobody at Hope Hall knows her past. With secrets to keep, can Cara allow herself this chance to live again?

New Year's Eve, San Francisco.

The most promising party of the year ends in tragedy.

Georgina is gone and nothing will bring her back.

Nine months later, Cara's mother decides a Swiss boarding...

I AM A DAUGHTER OF DEATH.
FROM THE ASHES I ROSE,
LIKE A PHOENIX FROM THE PYRE.

I had a sister once.

I promised her the throne would not come between us.

But it is a fact of life that one must kill or be killed. Rule or be ruled.

Sometimes the title of Queen is given. Sometimes it must be taken.

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In a world ruled by fierce warrior queens, a grand empire was...

Set in the badlands of urban Scotland, this taut, suspense-filled debut showcases a compelling new voice in Scottish crime fiction. When an expensively dressed, well-spoken Englishman walks into the shabby Dundee office of Allan Linton & Associates, Inquiry Agents, it’s the promise of a hefty fee that convinces Allan to take the case on. The Englishman...

TYLER’S STORY FROM THE SENSATIONAL DIMILY SERIES

“And all that’s left is me. The Tyler who doesn’t know who he really is.” 

At seventeen, Tyler Bruce is hot – a hot mess. His girlfriend is a knockout, his reputation untouchable, parties are nothing without him. Even his car is unreal. But inside Tyler is in ruins – and he’ll stop at nothing to keep that a...

Imagine waking up in the middle of the night to find your new neighbor dangling out of your window. And not only is he dangling out of your window, he’s also clutching your tattiest bra in his hand. What. The. Actual. Fudge. When notorious bad boy and new kid on the block, Alec Wilde, moves in next door to Riley, sparks fly. Alec is everything that Riley...

The Scottish Highlands, 1943 A family torn apart by the secrets of war. In a remote corner of Scotland something momentous is underway. When Effie's father receives a government notice to quit Kirk Farm, the lives of the Ross family and those of the whole community are utterly disrupted. But for Effie – irrepressible, beautiful, vital – wartime changes...

Grace Macallan is at breaking point. All around her, events threaten to run out of control – and a new investigation is testing her to the limit. 

An undercover officer is missing and a woman is washed up, traumatised and barely alive, on the shores of Berwickshire. She has witnessed horror on the dark waters of the North Sea, but survival turns her life...

Arizona, 1989

Joy Sheldon loves the plants that bloom in the desert but dreams too of the sea’s elemental wildness. Now, riven by terrible secrets, Joy embarks on a journey to seek her identity – and to discover why the sea pulls at her heart.

London, 1967

Lewis Bell, a young graphic designer, is aiming for the big time – if only he can keep his creative...

One farm. Two worlds. Three generations. 

Fuelled by dreams of a rural idyll, Lorna Sixsmith and her husband swap the 9 to 5 for a return to her family’s ancestral farm at Garrendenny. 

They love the fields and lanes of their corner of Ireland where their black and white herd flourishes, the land where the patterns of their lives echo those of generations of...

Abbie is missing. Her mother knows who’s to blame. 

But nobody is listening.

When the case falls to DCI Bob Valentine, he has no choice but to listen. Haunted by the girl’s cold gaze and her mother’s hurt, Valentine finds himself at the centre of the most harrowing investigation of his police career. 

As he uncovers a ring of ritualistic abuse that circles up...

BIOTERRORISM.
Real. Invisible.
Devastating.

And it’s taking New York by storm.

With its insatiable hunger for fast food, easy fixes and life lived at breakneck speed, the city that never sleeps is hurtling towards disaster. Now John Wyse, an ordinary New York cop, looks set to be the only person who can thwart catastrophe on an apocalyptic scale . . .New York...