Blogs in April 2026

The First Act of Summer 17th April 2026

As children, Hester and Elias were inseparable. Every year, their families would spend the summer together at their beach huts on a wild and windswept sandbank, where the two of them never left each other’s side. But childhood friendships...

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The Killer in Room Five 15th April 2026

This is Louisa Scarr writing as Sam Holland A terrible confession In an isolated room in Hollowpines, an infamous psychiatric hospital, Joe Sinclair is confessing to a violent murder. An impossible crime Locked away, Joe couldn’t possibly have killed...

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Eye Spy 14th April 2026

Waiting for the Eurostar in Paris, Mark’s four-year-old daughter alerts him to a ‘Bad Man’ during a game of ‘Eye Spy’. Things only get worse when Mark notices that the man is on their train with a suspicious-looking suitcase,...

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The Enigma Challenge 14th April 2026

Zoe Wilder has the unflashy, solitary life of an academic, studying ciphers in literature at a California university. When her research takes her to a cryptology conference in Madrid, she’s not expecting to kick off the Enigma Challenge, a...

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The Palm House 14th April 2026

Laura and Putnam have been friends for a long time. Theirs is a happy meeting of minds, with long evenings spent huddled in an ancient pub by the Thames, where they share office gossip, reflect on their teenage passions,...

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