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Books with bite: crime, thrillers mysterious fiction | British Book Awards Imprint of the Year 2022, CWA Publisher of the Year 2023 | bit.ly/Vipersign-up

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Viper Books@ViperBooks
19 Nov 2025
We are delighted to announce that @JaniceHallett is returning to Lower Lockwood with #TheSilentAppeal, the long-awaited sequel to her smash-hit debut The Appeal. Coming September 2026 🎭 A New Play. Another Murder. Who Will Speak the Truth? Signed copies: waterstones.com/book/the-sil…
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We are thrilled to have two fantastic books shortlisted for this year's CWA Daggers 🔪🩸 #TheMidnightKing by @TariqAshkanani is up for the Steel Dagger and #TheVanishingPlace by Zoë Rankin for the Debut Dagger! Viper is also shortlisted for Best Crime & Mystery Publisher 🎉
Covers for two books -- The Vanishing Place by Zoe Rankin and The Midnight King by Tariq Ashkanani -- on a blue, green and orange gradient background with a roundel for the CWA daggers in the bottom left-hand corner.

ALT Covers for two books -- The Vanishing Place by Zoe Rankin and The Midnight King by Tariq Ashkanani -- on a blue, green and orange gradient background with a roundel for the CWA daggers in the bottom left-hand corner.
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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 📚 viperbooks.co.uk/work/the-va…

Bloody Scotland@BloodyScotland
May 28
HUGE congratulations to the five women who have made the shortlist for this year's Bloody Scotland Debut Prize. The winner will be announced at the festival, on Friday 18th September. thebookseller.com/news/the-b…
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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 gets a superb review in the Nerd Daily. This small-town thriller about two missing boys is out now! thenerddaily.com/review-the-…

Review: The Hollow Boys by Tariq Ashkanani | The Nerd Daily

The Hollow Boys is the type of book that makes you stare into space upon finishing, needing to process everything that has just occurred. It leaves you with an unnerving tale of tragedy and complex...

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It's Hammer Time...! 🔨🔨🔨 @JoWallaceAuthor returns this August with #TheArtOfGettingHammered, now available to request on NetGalley! 👉 tinyurl.com/GettingHammeredN…
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'The Hollow Boys has a well-constructed, propulsive plot and tremendous atmosphere ... a masterpiece of smalltown horror' #TheHollowBoys by @TariqAshkanani gets a wonderful write-up in the Guardian – out now in hardback! 📚 theguardian.com/books/2026/m…

The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

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

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🚨 #TheHollowBoys by @TariqAshkanani 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... viperbooks.co.uk/work/the-ho…
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Read a Q&A with @TariqAshkanani, who talks his small-town American setting, police procedurals and his favourite dark fiction ahead of tomorrow's publication of #TheHollowBoys 📚 viperbooks.co.uk/2026/05/13/…
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Read an extract from @TariqAshkanani's gripping new thriller, following the fallout after two boys go missing in a dying rust-belt town. #TheHollowBoys is out tomorrow! viperbooks.co.uk/2026/05/13/…
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#TheHollowBoys by @TariqAshkanani has been recommended by The Critic, described as a 'powerful book'. Get your hands on a copy of the McIlvanney Prize winning author's new thriller this Thursday! 📚 thecritic.co.uk/murders-for-…

Murders for May | Jeremy Black | The Critic Magazine

Murder is not fun, but a witty detective story is a hell of a lot better than the pressure from reading a “psychological thriller” let alone the tedium of the oft-repeated plot lines of so many…

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Janice Hallett@JaniceHallett
May 11
Gasp! 😱 Not only is it an absolute honour for #TheExaminer to be longlisted for the #TheakstonsAwards but also there is a MUG to commemorate the occasion 🤩 Thanks so much @HarrogateFest 🙏 Don't forget to cast your vote here before Thursday 28 May👇 bit.ly/TheakstonsAwards
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We are incredibly proud to have two fantastic authors shortlisted for the Fingerprint Awards 🎉📚 #TheMidnightKing by @TariqAshkanani for Overall Crime Book of the Year 🚨 #TheRush by Beth Lewis for Historical Crime Book of the Year 💰 Vote here: capitalcrime.org/fingerprint…
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'A page-turning, unsettling read' #TheHollowBoys by @TariqAshkanani, author of the award-winning thriller #TheMidnightKing, is an iPaper best new crime book! Get your hands on a copy next Thursday 📚 inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/…

The best new crime and thriller books to read in May 2026

Our pick of 14 great new page-turners, including a mystery that will keep you guessing

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Janice Hallett@JaniceHallett
May 7
Yay! #TheKillerQuestion is out in paperback in the UK TODAY! 🍻 Huge thanks to @mirandajewess and the team at @viperbooks as well as all the amazing bloggers, readers, reviewers, librarians and booksellers who've supported this quiztastic tale 🕵️‍♀️🔎 Happy sleuthing!
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#TheKillerQuestion by @JaniceHallett is out today in paperback 🍻✏️🩸 Janice Hallett's sixth Sunday Times bestselling mystery, featuring battling pub quiz teams and a grisly murder. Can you can solve the case of the missing landlords? viperbooks.co.uk/work/the-ki…
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A huge congratulations to @JaniceHallett and @TariqAshkanani, who are longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Award for #TheExaminer and #TheMidnightKing 🦂🚨 Public voting for the shortlist is now open! To vote head to tinyurl.com/mva39uw3
The covers of The Midnight King by Tariq Ashkanani and The Examiner by Janice Hallett are show on a black background with the logo for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Award next to them and smoke tendrils on either side of the image

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Canada, 1898. The gold rush is on, fortunes are lost as quick as they're won and dangerous men will do anything for a glimpse of gold 💰 Longlisted for CWA's Historical Dagger and Gold Dagger, #TheRush by Beth Lewis is out in paperback today! viperbooks.co.uk/work/the-ru…
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The secret is out... We are delighted to be publishing Will Dean's latest mind-bending thriller #TheLightAtTheEndOfTheWorld in April 2027. And Then There Were None meets Station Eleven in a genre-busting read! 🦌 thebookseller.com/rights/wil…
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Janice Hallett@JaniceHallett
Apr 20
Happy Monday! 🍻 What a glorious day signing special editions of #TheKillerQuestion paperback 🕵️‍♀️🔎 Check out that killer spredge! 🤩 The perfect read for crime fans, quizzers and anyone who loves a confounding mystery! Out 7 May @viperbooks 🎉 Available to pre order now
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We are delighted to have such a great sweep of nominations for this year's CWA Daggers! In addition to four of our books being longlisted, Viper is also up for Best Crime & Mystery Publisher 🐍🩸 thecwa.co.uk/awards-and-comp… @The_CWA
A promotional graphic featuring four books. From left to right the books are The Vanishing Place by Zoe Rankin, A Trial in Three Acts by Guy Morpuss, The Midnight King by Tariq Ashkanani and The Rush by Beth Lewis. The books are on a blue to orange gradient background with a gold Viper logo centred underneath and a CWA roundel in the bottom right-hand corner.

ALT A promotional graphic featuring four books. From left to right the books are The Vanishing Place by Zoe Rankin, A Trial in Three Acts by Guy Morpuss, The Midnight King by Tariq Ashkanani and The Rush by Beth Lewis. The books are on a blue to orange gradient background with a gold Viper logo centred underneath and a CWA roundel in the bottom right-hand corner.

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#TheVanishingPlace by Zoë Rankin is up for the ILP John Creasey First Novel Dagger 🏔️ A young girl stumbles into town, stained with blood. She won't speak, but her path is tracked through New Zealand's wilderness to a cabin and scene of a double murder. Out now in paperback.
A promotional graphic featuring with the book cover of The Vanishing Place by Zoë Rankin. The book is on a blue to orange gradient background with a gold Viper logo in the bottom left-hand corner and a CWA roundel to the right of the book.

ALT A promotional graphic featuring with the book cover of The Vanishing Place by Zoë Rankin. The book is on a blue to orange gradient background with a gold Viper logo in the bottom left-hand corner and a CWA roundel to the right of the book.

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Viper is up for Best Crime & Mystery Publisher! We publish books with bite: crime, thrillers and other mysterious fiction 🐍🩸
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