The Hollow Boys* THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR OF THE MIDNIGHT KING * 'A brilliantly unsettling piece of purest American Gothic' JAMES OSWALD 'The master of the small town thriller at the top of his game' JANICE HALLETT 'An atmospheric thriller. I loved this book' SARAH PINBOROUGH Two children lost. The wrong one found. The town of Aurora is waiting to die. A few miles away a deep seam of coal burns underground, the fire creeping closer ever year.

kind and sad: a book you do not want to be away from'

Her only chance of survival is if she can remain the one that they least suspect

Claustrophobic and clever storytelling' JANE SHEMILT

IT NEEDS A KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOUR

Kenya and Australia

The police belonged to another world the world they saw on the television or in the papers

A Backward Place humorously explores contradictions in attitudes and lifestyles and the interplay between culture and individuality

THE FIRST BOOK IN THE GRIPPING THURSDAY MURDER CLUB SERIES BY TV PRESENTER RICHARD OSMAN

‘Her best thriller yet … What a triumph' JILL MANSELL

the whine of bullets overhead

It was only when he woke up that Tom realized he'd been asleep

Kinseys on the point of giving up