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Fran Donoghue has just killed her neighbour. Don’t worry, you’ll agree, he deserved it. Detective Gareth Donoghue has a terrible feeling about his missing neighbour. By the time this is over, that will be the least of his worries… A dark, sharp and hilarious novel about love, marriage, and murder, with an ending you won’t see coming… Gareth certainly didn’t.

Al of Trowbridge Rescue works a shift on a commercial ambulance on the day that Vermont experiences the first ears of sweet corn. One medic says: “I wanna eat so much corn, I’ll shit kernels ‘til Thursday.” He partner replies, “The butter and salt will drip down my chin”. The crew of two ambulances celebrate an ersatz holiday.

Nicht nur für Schottland-Liebhaber sondern auch für alle Fans von Spannung mit einem guten Schuss schwarzen Humors: Nachdem sie einen richtig großen Job versaut haben, bleibt drei Glasgower Auftragskillern nur die Flucht auf die karge und schöne Hebriden-Insel Jura, getarnt als Outdoor-Touristen. Ihre Tarnung fliegt auf, doch Juras eigenbrötlerische Einwohner zeigen sich gesprächsbereit; schließlich gilt es zu verhindern, dass ein Milliardär die Insel in einen Golfclub verwandelt.

'Sinister and hilarious. Great fun' SUN '[A] smart, funny and deftly executed page turner' GUARDIAN 'Extraordinarily fun and oh-so-gripping' i PAPER 'Dark, witty . . . had me racing for the end' JANICE HALLETT 'Funny, and so very, very clever . . . the most fun I've had reading a book in a long...

Anthony Wistern es más rico de lo que cualquiera podría imaginar. Lo tiene todo: una esposa despampanante, un puñado de hijos muy fotogénicos, un castillo francés, una mansión en Cotswold, una plétora de amantes, una inclinación a tomar atajos morales... Por desgracia para él, también está muerto. Ahora, con su fortuna como inminente herencia, todos los miembros de la familia caen bajo sospecha. Y es entonces cuando todo se viene abajo...

Obituary writer Bud Stanley isn’t really living his best life. He’s fallen into a funk after a divorce. (She left him for another man, who, in fairness, was far more interesting.) He’s not doing his job well. He’s given up on dating. And he’s about to be fired for accidentally publishing his own obituary one mildly drunken night (though technically the company can’t legally fire a dead person). As Bud awaits his fate at work, he does the only logical thing: He goes to the wakes and funerals of total strangers to learn how to live again.

Auch wenn es die Form einer Kuckucksuhr hat, verspricht das Hotel, in das Heff und seine Mannen sich zurückgezogen haben, besseren Schutz zu bieten als die Hütte im Wald - oder etwa nicht? Denn mit dem Hausverwalter Jacob Torrans scheint etwas nicht zu stimmen ...

*** GAME ON, the final book from the MULTI-MILLION BESTESELLING INTO DARKNESS series is OUT NOW *** THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of TikTok's favourite dark and steamy romance, Lights Out, comes Navessa Allen's second book in the New York Times bestselling Into Darkness...

A darkly funny feminist debut about a resentful stay-at-home wife and her vindictive marriage therapist Revenge is in session. Eliza Sheridan is at her wits' end with her husband, Richard. Not only did he uproot her and their daughter Mara's lives for his career, but he also hasn’t honored the...

'Murder has no right to be this funny. Imagine Hannibal Lecter as written by Victoria Wood. Perfect for fans of Caroline Kepnes and CJ Skuse' ERIN KELLY 'A wickedly funny and darkly compelling debut' JOANNA WALLACE Julie Tudor is NOT a Psychopath. Julie Tudor is 49 and has it all: a fantastic...

‘You're a stinkbug and they're worried if they come near you, your stench will get all over them and they won't be able to wash it off.' When Edith and a select group of employees at Winked advertising agency are sent to Consequi, an elite three-day work retreat in the remote mountains, she...

Join a small crew of EMTs and paramedics (characters from The Little Ambulance War of Winchester County) who undertake a hilarious and disgusting anatomy refresher as part of their on-going training requirements. Given the location (rural Vermont) and the season (hunting season), the crew explores the heart and lungs of a deer.

In the ancient city of York, a master charm has been stolen - one powerful enough to raise an army of metal guardians across the country. Built to protect, they can just as easily destroy, and in the wrong hands, they will. Which is bad enough. But if the charm isn't recovered soon, they won’t be the only ones on the rampage. Because Heather - near-goddess of the wood and wild, and deeply unimpressed partner of the charm's creator - will tear the city apart to stop them.

Liv ist 48, Ehefrau, Mutter, Küchenplanerin und – nachdem ihre erste Hitzewallung eine tödliche Kettenreaktion ausgelöst hat: Mörderin. Jetzt schläft sie nicht mehr nur wegen des Hormonmangels schlecht, sondern auch wegen ihrer Schuldgefühle. Aber sich stellen und ins Gefängnis gehen...

What would you do if you thought your coworker was getting away with murder - literally? Dolores dela Cruz has been dying to spot one in the wild, and he fits the mold perfectly: strangler gloves, calculated charm, dashing good looks that give a leg up in any field ... including fields of...

'A masterful love story' Nicola Dinan 'Very special ' Laura Kay 'Wildly entertaining, lovingly written' Jess Kidd 'Rib-achingly funny' Curtis Garner 'Delicious' Lily Lindon 'A firecracker of a book' Emma Morgan 'Achingly funny and utterly heartrending' Sara Nisha Adams It's 2067 at Palm Meridian...

El thriller más irreverente, ingenioso y divertido del año con una protagonista inolvidable a la altura de Bridget Jones Florence Grimes siempre toma las peores decisiones. Soltera, sin dinero y frustrada tras el humillante final de su carrera musical, lo único que la motiva para levantarse de la cama todas las mañanas es Dylan, su hijo de diez años. Hasta que Alfie Risby desaparece misteriosamente durante una excursión con el colegio y Dylan se convierte en sospechoso.

By the author of The Handmaid's Tale, The Testaments and Alias Grace The trick was to disappear without a trace, leaving behind me the shadow of a corpse, a shadow everyone would mistake for solid reality. At first I thought I'd managed it. Fat girl, thin girl. Red hair, brown hair. Polish...

A novelization of the hit horror-comedy spoof of slow-moving Gothic soap operas of the 1970s, Grave Mood Rings.

Years after fleeing San Francisco and getting sober, Jhanvi has made a life for herself working at a grocery co-op and saving for her surgeries. But when her friend (and sometimes more) Henry mentions that he and his techie festival-goer friends spent $100,000 to transform a warehouse basement into a sex dungeon, Jhanvi starts wondering if there's a way to exploit these gullible idiots. She returns to San Francisco, hatching a plan to marry Henry for his company's generous healthcare benefits.