When Colin Thurcroft decided to expand his hiking gear business with a retail outlet, the derelict shop close to the centre of his home town seemed ideal. But something truly bizarre happened there nearly forty years ago, and it has … Continue reading Area 62 by Michael R. Martin
A potent, powerful and timely thriller about migrants, drug lords and gang warfare set on the US/Mexican border by prize-winning novelist, Marcus Sedgwick. Anapra is one of the poorest neighbourhoods in the Mexican city of Juarez – twenty metres outside … Continue reading Saint Death by Marcus Sedgwick
When celebrity astronomer Edwin Bubble is found battered to death by his own telescope, the morning after a ‘Blood Moon’ lunar eclipse, Detective Inspector Clinton Trump crashes onto the scene like a megaton meteorite who’s late for a date with … Continue reading The Blood Moon of Doom by Paul Mathews
Andorra Pett has left the Oort Cloud Café; she’s back on Mars, a place she vowed she’d never visit again. She’s gone back for her friend Maisie’s funeral. Everyone thinks it was suicide but the more she learns, the less … Continue reading Andorra Pett on Mars by Richard Dee
He’s watching… He’s waiting… Who’s next? Buried in a woodland grave are a mother and her child. One is alive. One is dead. DC ‘Charlie’ Stafford is assigned by her boss, DI Geoffrey Hunter to assist with the missing persons … Continue reading Mummy’s Favourite by Sarah Flint
The last person who called me Sweetpea ended up dead… I haven’t killed anyone for three years, and I thought that when it happened again I’d feel bad. Like an alcoholic taking a sip of whiskey. But no. Nothing. I … Continue reading Sweetpea by C.J. Skuse
Single-mother bounty hunter Lori Anderson has finally got her family back together, but her new-found happiness is shattered when she’s snatched by the Miami Mob – and they want her dead. Rather than a bullet, they offer her a job: … Continue reading Deep Dirty Truth by Steph Broadribb
An unnamed defendant stands accused of murder. Just before the Closing Speeches, the young man sacks his lawyer, and decides to give his own defence speech. He tells us that his barrister told him to leave some things out.Sometimes, the … Continue reading You Don’t Know Me by Imran Mahmood
Katelyn Deason was young, naIve, and innocent at six years old. That is, until she made the mistake of descending those cellar steps and viewing the first of many horrors down below. You see, her father wasn’t who she thought … Continue reading My Daddy The Serial Killer by Cindy Kovacik
London is a city on wheels – a future city like you’ve never known before. In the terrible aftermath of the Sixty Minute War, cities which survived the apocalypse became predators, chasing and feeding on smaller towns. Now London is … Continue reading Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve
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