A mental patient escapes his institution in search of bloody vengeance.When rain falls on the mental hospital, Calvin Duggai knows it’s time to leave. Institutionalized after he abandoned five men to die in the Mojave Desert, he has spent years...
The 16 stories in this stellar volume in Akashic's noir series paint a vivid portrait of the underside of Phoenix, where the gulf between rich and poor ensures [c]rime, and lots of it, as Millikin observes in his introduction. The writers make...
When an award-winning foreign journalist reveals the existence of an Amsterdam-based sweatshop known as a “knot shop” that employs and enslaves young girls as laborers, private security firm Rutherford Risk is hired by a philanthropist to find...
On a balmy June night, Kirsten, a young university student, is strolling home through a silent moonlit park when she is viciously attacked.
When she awakes in the hospital, she has no recollection of that brutal night. But then slowly, painfully,...
‘This richly imagined thriller is set in an alternate past… Tightly plotted, tense and set in a chillingly plausible world’ Sunday Mirror
‘A gripping story, with heart’ Best thrillers of 2019, Daily Telegraph
It’s 1952 and...
In this twisted debut thriller, a reclusive author sets the perfect trap for her sister's murderer — but is he really the killer?
For 11 years, the bestselling author Linda Conrads has mystified fans by never setting foot outside her home....
Inside the world's most advanced submarine, Vulkan, a man holds a list of U.S. targets — each one will mean millions of casualties and a world thrown into nuclear chaos. Capt. Cooksey knows that his elusive prey can be brought down only one...
“If you don’t pay me £250,000.00 in the next 48 Hours you will die”. The text on Josh Hammond’s BlackBerry was blunt and chilling. Surely it must be a joke, but when Josh is attacked in broad daylight and people around him start to die he...
From Wall Street messenger-boy to president of his own multi-million-pound company at dazzling speed, though not without a few dubious deals, Harvey Metcalfe rose to dizzying financial heights and was determined to stay there.
Harvey loved...
Jake Adams has seemingly retired and gone fly fishing in Patagonia. But his quiet retreat is interrupted when the Agency sends a man to retrieve him to testify before a congressional committee. His testimony quickly becomes an internet sensation...