Thriller

A businessman boasts about cheating on his wife, only to find his own back to the wall. A beautiful country rectory reverberates to the echo of a historical murder. A compulsive liar finds herself caught out by an act of impulsive revenge. Atmospheric, mysterious and never predictable, these are ...

New and uncollected tales of murder, mischief, magic and madness. Ruth Rendell was an acknowledged master of psychological suspense: these are ten (and a quarter) of her most chillingly compelling short stories, collected here together for the first time. In these tales, a businessman boasts abou...

A cunning collection of short stories from the master of misdirection, with tales featuring the hugely popular series characters Lincoln Rhyme and Kathryn Dance.

This is a cunning collection of short stories from the master of misdirection, with tales featuring the hugely popular series characters Lincoln Rhyme and Kathryn Dance.

After narrowly escaping death on a train, two people find themselves in an eerie deserted village - and make a grisly discovery. On a dark and stormy night, locals gather in an inn to tell a frightening tale. A writer's country holiday gets off to a bad start when he finds a corpse in his cottage...