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Gilding The Lily

Gilding The Lily
  • Author(s): Justine John
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Later 2000

A gripping mystery of jealousy, murder and lies. An invitation to her estranged, wealthy father’s surprise 75th birthday party in New York sees Amelia and her husband, Jack, set off across the pond to meet a whole new world...

Girl A

Girl A
  • Author(s): Abigail Dean
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

‘Girl A,’ she said. ‘The girl who escaped. If anyone was going to make it, it was going to be you.’ Lex Gracie doesn’t want to think about her family. She doesn’t want to think about growing up in...

Gone Without A Trace

Gone Without A Trace
  • Author(s): Mary Torjussen
  • Location(s): The Wirral
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

No one ever disappears completely… You leave for work one morning. Another day in your normal life. Until you come home to discover that your boyfriend has gone. His belongings have disappeared. He hasn’t been at work for weeks....

Good Samaritans

Good Samaritans
  • Author(s): Will Carver
  • Location(s): United Kingdom, Warwickshire
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Seth Beauman can’t sleep. He stays up late, calling strangers from his phonebook, hoping to make a connection, while his wife, Maeve, sleeps upstairs. A crossed wire finds a suicidal Hadley Serf on the phone to Seth, thinking she...

Happiness for Beginners

Happiness for Beginners
  • Author(s): Carole Matthews
  • Location(s): Buckinghamshire
  • Genre(s): Romance, Humour
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Molly Baker is living her best life. Thirty-eight years old, she lives on the twenty-five-acre Hope Farm in Buckinghamshire, surrounded by (mostly) four-legged friends and rolling hills. There’s Anthony the anti-social sheep, Tina Turner the alpaca with attitude, and...

Her Husband’s Lover

Her Husband’s Lover
  • Author(s): Julia Crouch
  • Location(s): South London, Cambridgeshire
  • Genre(s): Domestic Noir
  • Era(s): Modern

She stole her husband. Now she wants to take her life. After the horrors of the past, Louisa Williams is desperate to make a clean start. Her husband Sam is dead. Her children, too, are gone, victims of the...

Hester and Harriet

Hester and Harriet
  • Author(s): Hilary Spiers
  • Location(s): Basingstoke
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

“Hester and Harriet are reluctantly driving to visit relatives when they come across a young woman hiding with her baby in a bus shelter. Seeing the perfect excuse for returning to their own warm hearth, the sisters insist on...

I Think We Should Kill Other People

I Think We Should Kill Other People
  • Author(s): L M Chilton
  • Location(s): Norway, South East England
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The nation watched them fall in love. Now someone’s watching them die. Hazel and Marc were paired together on revolutionary new reality TV show Love Synced, in which sophisticated AI matches hopeful lovers based on its perceptive algorithms. But...

In The Blink of An Eye

In The Blink of An Eye
  • Author(s): Jo Callaghan
  • Location(s): Warwickshire
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In the UK, someone is reported missing every 90 seconds. Just gone. Vanished. In the blink of an eye.  DCS Kat Frank knows all about loss. A widowed single mother, Kat is a cop who trusts her instincts. Picked...

Instructions for Heartbreak

Instructions for Heartbreak
  • Author(s): Sarah Handyside
  • Location(s): South London
  • Genre(s): New Adult, Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

What if heartbreak came with a manual? It starts with a late-night knock on the door. Dee, Liv and Rosa share a flat in south London, while Katie lives close by with her boyfriend. But, when Katie’s nine-year relationship...

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