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Mother’s Day Gone Bad

It’s Mother’s Day! A day dedicated to celebrating, thanking, and spoiling all the wonderful mums out there. But what if your relationship with your mum is problematic? In our latest blog post, novelist Koren Zailckas talks about her awful relationship with her own mum, which fed into her chilling novel … Read More

Mark Sennen: Location, Location, Location

We’re very excited to welcome Mark Sennen to the blog today talking about setting the scene for Bad Blood…   There was, apparently, a writer called Doyle who set a story on Dartmoor. The story featured a large dog and a detective called Holmes. Other… Read More

PANTHEON has landed…

 This week saw the launch party for PANTHEON, the explosive new World War Two thriller by No. 1 bestseller Sam Bourne (the pseudonym of award-winning journalist and presenter of Radio 4’s The Long View, Jonathan Freedland). https://s23783.p595.sites.pressdns.com/pantheon/ It’s a page-turning, thoroughly-researched thrill-ride that… Read More

A list of Killer Reads…

As well as covering titles and goings on from wider crime fiction and thriller community, Killer Reads focuses on those authors and books from the HarperFiction, Blue Door and Avon lists. The list covers a wide breadth of writers and is the proud home of crime royalty including Agatha Christie,… Read More

Andrew Gross

An international best seller and co-author of 5 James Patterson books, a native New Yorker he has combined sales of over 10 million worldwide Read More

Jessie Keane

One for fans of Martina Cole, Lynda La Plante et al. Jessie Keane writes bold, engrossing tales of London's gritty East End Read More

Dean Koontz

A New York Times bestselling author, Dean Koontz is known for vast back catalogue of titles that cover a plethora of genres including horror, thrillers, sci-fi and mystery Read More

J. A. Kerley

A former advertising man, J.A. or Jack Kerley gave it all up on the advice of his wife to become a full time thriller writer Read More

Warren Fahy

Find out all about the man who coined the term for one of the hair world's greatest do's...the mullet Read More

Greg Iles

Greg Iles was born in Germany in 1960, where his father ran the US Embassy Medical Clinic during the height of the Cold War. He spent his youth in Natchez, Mississippi, and graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1983. Read More

Robert Wilson

Robert Wilson was born in 1957, the son of an RAF pilot. After graduating from Oxford in English, he was forced to re-think his sporting career following a motoring accident. Read More
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