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Showing 41–80 of 637 books
Fair PlayeBook · Fiction |
Roy M. Burgess | Carrie Taylor | 2 | Police Procedural | 430 | 19 May 2026 | 2026 |
Fleetwood Mac - All the SongseBook · Nonfiction |
Olivier Roubin & Romuald Ollivier | Standalone | — | Music | 600 | 13 May 2026 | 2025 |
Mrs Shim is a KillereBook · Fiction |
Kang Jiyoung | Standalone | — | Crime | 368 | 6 May 2026 | 2026 |
The Book ClubeBook · Fiction |
C J Cooper | Standalone | — | Thriller/Psychological | 376 | 28 Apr 2026 | 2019 |
The Sleeping SeasoneBook · Fiction |
Kelly Creighton | DI Sloane | 1 | Police Procedural | 278 | 21 Apr 2026 | 2020 |
A Song of Me and YouPaperback · Fiction |
Mike Gayle | Standalone | — | Contemporary Fiction | 346 | 17 Apr 2026 | 2023 |
Memoirs of a Teenage AmnesiacPaperback · Fiction |
Gabrielle Zevin | Standalone | — | Young Adult | 274 | 17 Apr 2026 | 2007 |
Peter Tobin - Hunting ShadowsPaperback · Nonfiction |
Jane Hamilton | Standalone | — | Biography | 319 | 15 Apr 2026 | 2026 |
The Ex-Wives Murder ClubeBook · Fiction |
Mette Ivie Harrison | Standalone | — | Crime | 224 | 13 Apr 2026 | 2026 |
Heavy Metal MurdereBook · Fiction |
Kristen Andrews | Standalone | — | Crime | 270 | 9 Apr 2026 | 2025 |
A Bad Bad PlaceeBook · Fiction |
Frances Crawford | Standalone | — | Thriller/Psychological | 384 | 7 Apr 2026 | 2026 |
Time Will TelleBook · Fiction |
Adrian Cousins | Jason Apsley | 6 | Time Travel | 422 | 4 Apr 2026 | 2025 |
Borrowed TimeeBook · Fiction |
Adrian Cousins | Jason Apsley | 5 | Time Travel | 466 | 31 Mar 2026 | 2024 |
My Bags are BigeBook · Fiction |
Tibor Fischer | Standalone | — | General Fiction | 192 | 26 Mar 2026 | 2026 |
The Devil's CodeeBook · Fiction |
Michael Wood | Dr. Olivia Winter | 2 | Thriller/Psychological | 477 | 23 Mar 2026 | 2025 |
The Mind of a MurderereBook · Fiction |
Michael Wood | Dr. Olivia Winter | 1 | Thriller/Psychological | 481 | 15 Mar 2026 | 2024 |
Happy Never AftereBook · Fiction |
Lynn Painter | Standalone | — | Romance | 352 | 6 Mar 2026 | 2024 |
Beth is DeadeBook · Fiction |
Katie Bernet | Standalone | — | General Fiction | 400 | 2 Mar 2026 | 2026 |
The Last Stop Video ShopeBook · Fiction |
Keith A. Pearson | Standalone | — | Time Travel | 339 | 1 Mar 2026 | 2026 |
Lost LambseBook · Fiction |
Madeline Cash | Standalone | — | General Fiction | 336 | 28 Feb 2026 | 2026 |
Old Guy MusiceBook · Fiction |
Bruce Harris | Standalone | — | General Fiction | 256 | 28 Feb 2026 | 2026 |
An Unlikely ExposureeBook · Fiction |
Gina X Grant | Unlikely Murder Club | 5 | Crime | 281 | 26 Feb 2026 | 2025 |
An Unlikely RevelationeBook · Fiction |
Gina X Grant | Unlikely Murder Club | 4 | Crime | 316 | 19 Feb 2026 | 2025 |
The Accidental WomaneBook · Fiction |
Jonathon Coe | Standalone | — | Contemporary Fiction | 168 | 9 Feb 2026 | 1987 |
The Twitter CrusheBook · Fiction |
Kristin McTiernan | Standalone | — | General Fiction | 280 | 5 Feb 2026 | 2026 |
Kill Your BosseBook · Fiction |
Jack Heath | Kill Your | 3 | Thriller/Psychological | 349 | 31 Jan 2026 | 2025 |
Kill Your HusbandseBook · Fiction |
Jack Heath | Kill Your | 2 | Thriller/Psychological | 384 | 20 Jan 2026 | 2023 |
Kill Your BrothereBook · Fiction |
Jack Heath | Kill Your | 1 | Thriller/Psychological | 352 | 17 Jan 2026 | 2021 |
Fun City HeisteBook · Fiction |
Michael Kardos | Standalone | — | Crime | 208 | 12 Jan 2026 | 2025 |
1985 - Robbie JameseBook · Fiction |
Jason Ayres | A Year in the Life | 6 | Time Travel | 287 | 6 Jan 2026 | 2025 |
An Unlikely DramaeBook · Fiction |
Gina X Grant | Unlikely Murder Club | 3 | Crime | 300 | 4 Jan 2026 | 2025 |
Closing TimeeBook · Fiction |
Jason Ayres | Time Bubble | 15 | Time Travel | 268 | 29 Dec 2025 | 2024 |
Borrowed TimeeBook · Fiction |
Adrian Cousins | Jason Apsley | 5 | Time Travel | 466 | 22 Dec 2025 | 2024 |
An Unlikely EscapeeBook · Fiction |
Gina X Grant | Unlikely Murder Club | 2 | Crime | 244 | 18 Dec 2025 | 2025 |
A Killer of InfluenceeBook · Fiction |
J.D. Kirk | DCI Logan | 20 | Police Procedural | 414 | 15 Dec 2025 | 2024 |
InceleBook · Fiction |
Phil M. Williams | Standalone | — | Thriller/Psychological | 301 | 9 Dec 2025 | 2023 |
The Unliklely Murder ClubeBook · Fiction |
Gina X Grant | Unlikely Murder Club | 1 | Crime | 283 | 5 Dec 2025 | 2025 |
Remember Where You've Buried the BodieseBook · Fiction |
Julie Lancaster | Standalone | — | Crime/Comedy | 338 | 2 Dec 2025 | 2025 |
The Long ShoeeBook · Fiction |
Bob Mortimer | Standalone | — | Crime/Comedy | 336 | 26 Nov 2025 | 2025 |
Welcome to CottonmoutheBook · Fiction |
Jay S. Bell | Standalone | — | Crime | 384 | 19 Nov 2025 | 2025 |
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1 Nov 2026
October 2026 Books
October 2026 book reviews: five books, 1,417 pages and a book of the month. Keith A Pearson, Ilona Bannister, Sally Rooney, J.D. Salinger and…
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5 Oct 2026
September 2026 Books
Ten books and 3,742 pages in September: time travel, romance, Suffolk authors, four V.C. Andrews revisits and the return of Ruth Dugdall’s Cate Austin.
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29 Sep 2026
Mother Missing
Ruth Dugdall returns to Cate Austin after an eleven-year gap with Mother Missing, a dark Suffolk psychological thriller involving three women, a disappearance and…
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