Collection: Adult fiction

An exhilarating, gripping new psychological thriller from the author behind the record-breaking, multimillion-copy bestseller, The Silent Patient. This is a tale of murder. Or maybe that's not quite true. At its heart, it's a love story, isn't it? One spring morning, reclusive ex-movie star Lana ...

It is 1914, and the storm clouds of war are building on the horizon. In Sydney, Josiah Steele is the new head of the family and grappling with his two very different sons - David, upstanding, decent and heir to the family enterprises; and Benjamin, wayward, restless and a magnet for trouble. To g...

Has ex-SAS soldier Ben Hope finally got out of his depth? That's the question Ben faces when the hunt for a missing girl takes him to China. He's a stranger in a strange land -- but he's also the victim's only hope. To make things worse, she's almost family. As the pressure mounts, so does the gr...

Maitland, 1889. When nineteen-year-old Constance Montague wakes one Wednesday she expects the day to unfold like any other. Breakfast with her grandmother Nell and her mother Faith, a meeting in Maitland with the ladies of the Benevolent Society, perhaps a gentle stroll along the banks of the Hun...

Still fiery and feisty at eighty-seven, Veronica McCreedy, the very first Penguin Ambassador, is determined to prove that nothing is impossible when you put your mind to it. Eileen, Veronica's ever-patient assistant, is content taking care of other people. But when a new adventure calls, it makes...

Detective Dawn Grave is a career cop-a workaholic, hiding from a tumultuous past. A recent threat on her sister's life forced Dawn back to the place where her nightmares began. She's since managed to overcome most of her demons, but a local murder investigation threatens to unearth a secret she's...

Bringing secrets to light can be dangerous... keeping them buried might prove deadly. Dawn Grave is a career detective who's holding on to a dark past - one that destroys relationships and wreaks havoc on her personal life. For more than twenty years, she's tried to forget the horrors of her yout...

Relentless phone calls interrupt the peace of a warm August morning in Three Pines. Though the tiny Québec village is impossible to find on any map, someone has managed to track down Armand Gamache, head of homicide at the Sûreté, as he sits with his wife in their back garden. Reine-Marie watc...

Will past secrets resurface over a long hot summer as Kitty Cox lets an old friend back into her home? Kitty Cox is adjusting to a new life alone. She's spent several years caring for her ailing husband but now she's having to adjust to a life without him. When Kitty's old friend Vee reappears in...

Multi-award winning Dutch author Gerbrand Bakker's phenomenal new novel about grief and the unavoidable power of family ties. Simon never knew his father, Cornelis. When his wife told him she was pregnant, Cornelis packed his bags, and a day later he was dead. Or everyone assumed he was dead; aft...