New Adult Fiction

Updated August 14, 2025
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Blood like ours
Neville, Stuart
The stunning, darkly thrilling follow-up to the acclaimed Blood Like Mine, one of the New York Times Best Horror Books of 2024 and shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award 2025. YOU WOULD DO ANYTHING FOR YOUR FAMILY......
The children of Eve
Connolly, John
Paper Book
'Connolly grips like a vice and he's an extraordinary storyteller' Crime Time 'One of the best thriller writers we have' Harlan Coben Wyatt Riggins, the boyfriend of rising Maine artist Zetta Nadeau, has gone missing, leaving behind a cell phone containing...
The compound : a novel
Rawle, Aisling
Paper Book
** A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK ** 'Lord of the Flies meets Love Island - dark, thrilling, and delightfully twisted' LOUISE O'NEILL 'So gripping and propulsive that it beats reality TV at its own game. Why watch TV when Aisling Rawle does it better?' TORREY PETERS 'THIS is...
The conditions of will
Hastings, Jessa
Paper Book
THE BRAND NEW NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF TIKTOK SENSATION MAGNOLIA PARKS **** London-based Georgia Carter, professional lie-detector and body-language savant, has long been estranged from her infuriating, close-minded, wealthy South Carolina family....
A daughter's secret
Cox, Josephine
Don't miss the brand new epic family drama from the nation's favourite storyteller... Will a dark shadow destroy her family? As a servant below stairs at the big manor house, Rose dreams of running her own teashop one day, and carefully saves a few shillings each...
Don't forget me, little Bessie : a novel
Burke, James Lee
Bestselling author James Lee Burke tells his most thrilling and insightful story yet through the eyes of fourteen-year-old Bessie Holland **** At the beginning of the twentieth century, as America grapples with forces of human and natural violence more powerful...
FDR Drive : a crime novel
Comey, James
A TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTH New York lawyer Nora Carleton faces her biggest case yet in this gripping legal thriller from the critically acclaimed author of Central Park West and former director of the FBI, James Comey. EVEN FREE SPEECH HAS...
The Garden Club Murders
Whitelaw, Jonathan.
Paper Book
Growing, growing, gone... Penrith, in the heart of the Lake District, is not the kind of place you can easily vanish. Certainly not when the members of the Penrith Bingo Club are trying to track you down. But even stalwart sleuth, Amita Khatri, and her son in law,...
The ghostwriter : a novel
Clark, Julie
A woman reckons with her own family's dark past as her father, famous for his novels but also as prime suspect for the murder of his siblings, prepares to reveal long-held secrets in his tell-all memoir she is ghostwriting. But is he telling the truth?
The girl I was : a novel
Rose, Jeneva
'It's messy, hilarious, painfully real - and by the end, I was actually in tears.' Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.' When Alexis Spencer loses her job and her relationship...
Hotel Ukraine
Smith, Martin Cruz
Arkady Renko returns in this tense political thriller, from one of the undisputed masters of the genre.   When Arkady Renko is charged with investigating the murder of Alexei Kazasky, the Deputy Minister of Defence, he knows he has to tread carefully....
It takes a psychic
Castle, Jayne
Dive into the alien world of Harmony in this new novel by New York Times bestselling author Jayne Castle. Leona Griffin is at the height of her career as a para-archeologist thanks to a recent Underworld discovery. Her high profile attracts the attention of an...
It's Always the Husband
Taylor, C. L.
Paper Book
One dead wife is tragic. Two looks like murder... ________ 'Motherland meets Big Little Lies, It's Always the Husband is a totally addictive, up-all-night read. A masterclass in misdirection with clever twists and thrilling reveals right up until the final page. I loved it!'...
Katabasis
Kuang, R. F.
Paper Book
'Katabasis is a formidable, timeless work, destined to be a modern classic' OLIVIE BLAKE 'Katabasis is more than a novel to savor. This book is an experience. I envy those who get to read it for the first time' REBECCA ROSS 'A witty, gory, harrowing ride' LEIGH BARDUGO ...
Kill your darlings : a novel
Swanson, Peter
SOON TO BE A MAJOR FILM STARRING JULIA ROBERTS FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'A dazzlingly clever murder mystery, told backwards.' GILLIAN McALLISTER 'Deliciously dark.' JOHN MARRS 'Exhilarating' DANYA KUKAFKA
Knife in the back
Rose, Karen
The explosive new thriller in the New Orleans series, from Sunday Times bestselling author Karen Rose. 'Intense, complex and unforgettable' James Patterson 'Fast and furious' Sun 'High-wire suspense that keeps you riveted'...
The listeners
Stiefvater, Maggie
Paper Book
A beguiling, powerful and heartbreaking novel from an exceptional voice in fiction, The Listeners is the story of ordinary people thrown together in extraordinary circumstances, and the things we do to survive. 'Cinematic and so very satisfying... a phenomenally...
Marble Hall Murders : A Novel
Horowitz, Anthony.
Paper Book
'Expect plenty of puzzles, red herrings and juicy murders' Express Susan Ryeland has had enough of murder. She's edited two novels about the famous detective, Atticus P nd, and both times she's come close to being killed. Now she's back in...
Mirage
Lackberg, Camilla.
The epic conclusion to Camilla Läckberg and Henrik Fexeus' pulse-racing Swedish crime thriller trilogy 'Hello Niklas Sockenberg. We hope you have been satisfied with our services during this time, which has now reached its end. You have 14 days, 1 hour and 12 minutes left...
My Friends
Backman, Fredrik
Paper Book
The beautiful new novel that will make you laugh and cry, from the global bestselling author of Anxious People and A Man Called Ove. Fredrik Backman returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a...
Not Quite Dead Yet
Jackson, Holly
Paper Book
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE NO.1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A roller coaster ride of page-turning suspense and knock-out twists!' FREIDA MCFADDEN 'A thrilling, twisting, heartbreaker' CHRIS WHITAKER 'An original and...
The shadow
Chowdhury, Ajay
A RITUAL KILLING. AN ANCIENT CURSE. WHAT'S MYTH... AND WHAT'S MURDER? 'A slick, masterfully plotted, white-knuckle ride of a read,' A.A. CHAUDHURI 'A highly enjoyable and hugely entertaining read' NILESHA CHAUVET After a bruising encounter with a...
The Society of Unknowable Objects
Brown, Gareth
Paper Book
Get ready to be spellbound by the new, fantastical novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of fantasy sensation The Book of Doors. The world of unknowable objects - magical items that most people have no idea possess powers - has been quiet for decades...
The Stolen Heart
Kurkov, Andrey
Paper Book
Samson Kolechko has been assigned a most perplexing case - though it is mostly perplexing because it's hard to understand why selling the meat of one's own pig constitutes a crime. But apparently it does, and at the insistence of the Chekist secret police officer assigned to...
Strange houses
Uketsu
Paper Book
A Japanese mystery bestseller, revolving around a series of unsettling floorplans, in which the reader is the detective - from the Youtube sensation Uketsu
A terribly nasty business : a Beatrice Steele novel
Seales, Julia
Paper Book
After achieving her lifelong dream of solving a murder, Beatrice Steele feels like everything is finally falling into place. Accompanied by her ever-trusty chaperone, Miss Bolton, she's traded her small town for London and opened a new office with prickly, annoyingly logical Inspector Drake to...
Totally and completely fine : a novel
Sussman, Elissa
From the bestselling author of Funny You Should Ask comes an inspiring romance novel about honouring the past, living in the present, and loving for the future. Can you really find a once-in-a-lifetime love . . . twice? In her small Montana...
The White Crow
Robotham, Michael.
The No.1 bestseller and three-time Crime Writers' Award Winner returns with a nail-biting new book. If you loved When You Are Mine or you're hunting for thrillers that make you think and feel, you won't want to miss this. As the daughter of a London crime boss, PC...
The winds from further West
McCall Smith, Alexander
Paper Book
'A call to arms for a better society' - BBC Radio 4Often a small and seemingly insignificant event can change the course of our lives.Not long after starting a new job, Neil meets Chrissie. Romance soon blossoms and together they move to a lavish flat in Edinburgh. Everything seems to be...
You shouldn't have come here
Rose, Jeneva
Paper Book
'HOOOOLY MOOOOLY. My jaw is on the floor. What. A. Wild. Ride. I need to go stare at the wall in the dark for a few minutes... I read this book in ONE day because I couldn't put it down! The ending?! 👀' Reader Review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ...

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