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'One of the most arresting thrillers I have read for a while. I devoured it in a day and cannot stop thinking about it'
#TheHollowBoys by @tariqashkanani.bsky.social gets a superb review in the Nerd Daily. This small-town thriller about two missing boys is out now!
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Final spot of today and it’s this cool customer at #TootingBec on the #NorthernLine 😍 right beside #AvenueQ too! 🍻 Still buzzing from the thrill of this campaign and so grateful for the collected talents of the entire team at @viperbooks.bsky.social 🙏 Thank you 🤩
Some very intriguing #bookmail today - THE FIFTEENTH MAN, the debut spy novel from veteran journalist William Cook. Can’t wait to dig into to this one. Thank you to @mirandajewess.bsky.social and @viperbooks.bsky.social for sending it over!
Following the award-winning Murder on the Red River, Marcie R. Rendon is back with the second novel in the Cash Blackbear series!
'An addictive and authentically Native crime series' Louise Erdrich
#GirlGoneMissing is out this November 🩸
🚨 #TheHollowBoys by @tariqashkanani.bsky.social is out today 🚨
The latest thriller from the McIlvanney Prize winning author of #TheMidnightKing, set in a dying rust-belt town in America. Two children lost, the wrong one found...
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We are delighted and incredibly proud to have Zoë Rankin shortlisted for this year's Bloody Scotland Debut Prize for #TheVanishingPlace!
Set deep in the heart of the New Zealand bush, this propulsive and atmospheric thriller is out now in paperback 📚
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Read a Q&A with @tariqashkanani.bsky.social, who talks his small-town American setting, police procedurals and his favourite dark fiction ahead of tomorrow's publication of #TheHollowBoys 📚
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'The Hollow Boys has a well-constructed, propulsive plot and tremendous atmosphere ... a masterpiece of smalltown horror'
#TheHollowBoys by @tariqashkanani.bsky.social gets a wonderful write-up in the Guardian – out now in hardback! 📚
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We are thrilled to have two fantastic books shortlisted for this year's CWA Daggers 🔪🩸
#TheMidnightKing by @tariqashkanani.bsky.social is up for the Steel Dagger and #TheVanishingPlace by Zoë Rankin for the Debut Dagger!
Viper is also shortlisted for Best Crime & Mystery Publisher 🎉
It's Hammer Time...! 🔨🔨🔨
Joanna Wallace returns this August with #TheArtOfGettingHammered, now available to request on NetGalley!
👉 tinyurl.com/GettingHammeredNetGalley
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Honey by Imani Thompson; Quite Ugly One Evening by Chris Brookmyre; The Final Chapter by CB Everett; The Hollow Boys by Tariq Ashkanani; Shrink Solves Murder by Philippa Perry