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Please note this competition is now closed. To celebrate the upcoming release of Lisa Jewell’s new novel, Don’t Let Him In, we are giving away three exclusive locked boxes containing a signed proof of ...

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8 Months Left by James Patterson . 8 Months Left by James Patterson . Following on from last year’s legal drama 12 Months to Live, this book continues the story of tough-as-nails criminal defence ...

Monk Netflix may be known for its original content, but the streaming service is also loved for its broad offering of old favourites. Fans of Monk – and there are plenty of them – will have been very ...

You can often tell if a novel is worth reading from the pace of its first page: it’s how we separate the slow-burners from the addictive page-turners. With that in mind, we’ve rounded up the crime ...

The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris. The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris . No list of psychological thrillers would be complete without The Silence of the Lambs.For anyone who hasn’t read ...

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Shari Lapena, author of Not A Happy Family:. One of the best crime books I read this year – and still can’t stop thinking about – is Act of Oblivion, by Robert Harris.It’s an historical crime thriller ...

Thomas Morris. Thomas Morris is a writer and historian. His first book, The Matter of the Heart, a critically-acclaimed history of heart surgery, was published in 2017 and won an RSL Jerwood Award for ...

When I first began working as a barrister, prosecuting daily, it struck me how the events that take place in the criminal courts are often stranger than fiction. People would behave in ways that ...

Tokyo Vice by Jake Adelstein. Tokyo Vice. Baby Driver and West Side Story‘s Ansel Elgort plays Jake Adelstein, an American journalist who moves to Tokyo and finds himself taking on the city’s criminal ...