Collection: Fiction

The world's number one thriller writer introduces a cast of unforgettable characters in twenty pulse-pounding standalone short stories, collected together for the first time. Here are twenty meticulously plotted, intimate portraits of humanity at its best and worst, featuring assassins, CIA agent...

One murder, three families destroyed. And a detective guilty of a crime of her own... When 18-year-old Ben Renshaw is found dead in city woodland, DCI Robin Lyons is plunged into one of Birmingham's most controversial cases. Months earlier, Ben and his best friend gave testimony that sent a forme...

A devious collection of short stories from the master of misdirection, featuring appearances from Lincoln Rhyme and Colter Shaw. Amongst the dead ends... A murder at a crime writers' conference. The method is entirely literary, the motive seems obvious - but can the detective who was first on sce...

An old sanatorium. A terrifying murder. Six suspects and a case that never closed... Once a hospital dedicated to treating tuberculosis, The Akureyri Sanatorium now sits haunted by the ghosts of its past. But a single wing remains open, housing six employees. When one of the hospital's nurses, Yr...

The Carryx - part empire, part hive - have waged wars of conquest for centuries, destroying or enslaving species across the galaxy. Now, they are facing a great and deathless enemy. The key to their survival may rest with the humans of Anjiin. Caught up in academic intrigue and affairs of the hea...

After the dark events that scarred her childhood, Kier Templer escaped her hometown and twin to live her life on the road. They've never lost contact until, on a trip to a Portuguese national park, Kier vanishes without a trace. Detective Elin Warner arrives in the same park ready to immerse hers...

Cora-Jane Winslow's father walked out on her family 23 years ago; his letters to her over the years the only connection she has had to him. When his body is discovered in an abandoned building, she is shocked to discover he has been dead all this time. What happened to him and who would cover up ...

Lyla Santiago has spent months working on a research project that could be the key to getting a permanent job in her field. So, she can't really drop everything to go to a desert island with her actor boyfriend Nico to film "One Perfect Couple", a new reality TV show that Nico is sure will lead t...

Set between rural Australia and London, The Echoes is a story about the weight of the past and the promise of the future.Max didn't believe in an afterlife. Until he died. Now, as a reluctant ghost trying to work out why he remains, he watches his girlfriend Hannah lost in grief in the flat they ...

Hatushaly, last scion of the Firemane dynasty, his beloved Hava, and their dubious friend Donte have been transported across space and time from the war-torn world of Garn to the relative peace of Midkemia. There, on Sorcerer's Isle, under the guidance of the magician Magnus and his erstwhile fat...