From award-winning writer David Joy comes a searing new novel about the cracks that form in a small North Carolina community and the evils that unfurl from its center.\nToya Gardner, a young Black artist from Atlanta, has returned to her ancestral home in the North Carolina mountains to trace her family history and complete her graduate thesis. But when she encounters a still-standing Confederate monument in the heart of town, she sets her sights on something bigger.\nMeanwhile, local deputies find a man sleeping in the back of a station wagon and believe him to be nothing more than some slack-jawed drifter. Yet a search of the man's vehicle reveals that he is a high-ranking member of the Klan, and the uncovering of a notebook filled with local names threatens to turn the mountain on end.\nAfter two horrific crimes split the county apart, every soul must wrestle with deep and unspoken secrets that stretch back for generations. Those We Thought We Knew is an urgent unraveling of the dark underbelly of a community. Richly drawn and bracingly honest, it asks what happens when the people you've always known turn out to be monsters, what do you do when everything you ever believed crumbles away?

Those We Thought We Knew: The new literary crime thriller from the prizewinning master of American noir fiction

Literature & Fiction

David Joy

Genre Fiction

Mountain Leopard Press

'Atmospheric, intricate and authentic' ERIN KELLY 
'Utterly immersive and completely compelling . . . A dazzling debut' D. V. BISHOP 
'Keating's delicious debut guides us through the little-known world of Victorian London's Chinese community in working-class Limehouse' STELLA DUFFY\n***\nDARKNESS LIES IN THE SHADOWS OF VICTORIAN LONDON\nOpium, treachery, murder . . .\nPearl Fitzgerald arrives in Limehouse - London's very first Chinatown - to settle her late father's affairs and claim her inheritance. But when she unwittingly finds herself at the scene of a murder, her plans are thrown off course. Even more so by the alluring Mei, sister to the dead man. Utterly infatuated, Pearl promises Mei that she will bring her brother's killer to justice, and she dives into the East End's criminal underworld.\nBut in the city of smoke and silk, where cultures clash and the hangman's noose is always waiting, the truth comes at a cost. With each step of the investigation Pearl risks her livelihood, her relationship with Mei, and her life. Because the killer will strike again, and they're already hunting for the next victim . . .\nOpium smuggling, murder and unexpected romance meet in this historical thriller for fans of Leonora Nattrass, Laura Shepherd-Robinson and Sarah Waters.\n'A tale that brings a lost world vividly back to life' NEIL BARTLETT

Smoke and Silk: a compulsive historical mystery set in Victorian London

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Keating, Fiona

Mystery

An Orphan's Dream (The Shaw Family in Liverpool)

Judy Summers

Under Darkening Skies: Love, war, courage - and a life-changing medical discovery

HILARY JONES

DUAS MULHERES DESCONHECIDAS. UM HOMEM MISTERIOSO.\nUMA VIAGEM QUE NUNCA DEVERIA TER ACONTECIDO.\nStephanie está numa viagem de negócios. Uma profissional rigorosa, séria, com uma ética inabalável e um compromisso absoluto com o seu trabalho. Jasmine está a fugir de uma relação abusiva e vive em constante sobressalto. Duas estranhas que, por acaso, partilham o mesmo voo. 
Alguns dias depois de aterrar, as duas enviam mensagens quase idênticas aos seus ambas dizem ter-se apaixonado por Trent McCarthy, um homem charmoso e enigmático, e que vão fugir com ele.\nE depois, silêncio. As mensagens param. Os sinais de alerta surgem. Os amigos entram em pânico. As duas mulheres são dadas como desaparecidas.\nÀ medida que os alarmes disparam e a investigação começa, uma teia de mentiras, manipulações e meias-verdades vem à tona. Quem é Trent McCarthy? O que aconteceu a Stephanie e Jasmine? Estarão em perigo? Ou serão elas quem está a esconder algo?\nReviravolta após reviravolta, onde nada é o que parece, descemos aos confins da mente de um manipulador brilhante. 
Mas, afinal, quem está a manipular quem?\n«Uau... incrível, viciante e com uma sucessão constante de reviravoltas. Adorei a forma pouco convencional como a história é contada — li o dia inteiro porque precisava de saber como ia terminar!» 
Freida McFadden\n«Uma estreia impressionante e madura, com personagens incrivelmente próximas da realidade e uma narrativa viciante, que me manteve a virar páginas noite dentro. Bravo!» 
B.A. Paris\n«Adorei! Um thriller de primeira classe que aumenta a tensão a cada página. Sempre que achava que tinha percebido tudo, Garcia puxava o tapete debaixo dos meus pés.» 
Sarah Pearse

The Business Trip: a completely addictive psychological thriller to keep you hooked in 2025

Jessie Garcia

PRE-ORDER NOW!\nMeet Daphne St Clair: glamorous ninety-year-old grandmother, care home resident, and your new favourite serial killer.\nMeet Ruth Robinson: broke, depressed, aspiring true crime podcaster.\nWhen Daphne confesses to killing a number of men throughout her lifetime, she chooses Ruth to produce the podcast reporting her story. Each episode charts Daphne's humble beginnings from the Dust Bowl in Canada to her glittering life in 70s New York - and a string of murders in her wake.\nDaphne tells her story. Ruth listens. And edits it.\nThe public are hooked. Is she a feminist icon taking revenge on bad men? Or just a ruthless criminal? Then, as the podcast finale approaches, it becomes clear that neither woman has been entirely honest with the other. Who has been controlling the narrative?\nAfter all, the truth doesn't always make for the best story...\nA darkly witty thriller, sparking conversations around true crime and female serial killers, for fans of Janice Hallett, Bella Mackie and Katy Brent.

The Six Murders of Daphne St Clair: a darkly witty and unputdownable debut thriller to keep you hooked in 2025

Common, MacKenzie

When We Meet Again: A sweeping and heart-breaking WW2 novel from a New York Times bestselling author

Kristin Harmel

The Room on Rue Amelie: A powerful novel of fate, resistance, and family by a New York Times bestselling author

''Kristin Harmel is firmly in the top echelon of WW2 storytellers'' HEATHER MORRIS 
''A master storyteller'' SANTA MONTEFIORE 
''The best at sweeping historical drama'' KELLY HARMS 
''A dazzling diamond of a novel'' HAZEL GAYNOR\n***\nParis, 1942: In the midst of the Nazi Occupation, Annabel Marceau begins stealing from Germans and funnelling money to the French Resistance. But when she takes a pair of valuable bracelets from a high-ranking Nazi officer, she finds herself - and her two young daughters - in the line of fire, with devastating consequences.\nBoston, 2018: Colette Marceau, now in her eighties, has spent a lifetime determined to find out what happened to her mother and sister that fateful night. When one of the missing bracelets surfaces at the Boston Diamond Museum, can she finally find the answers - and justice - she has been looking for?\n*Published under the title The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau in the US*\nA heart-wrenching and evocative dual-timeline novel, perfect for fans of Santa Montefiore, Rachel Hore, Lucinda Riley and Kristin Hannah.\n***\nPRAISE FOR THE PARIS DAUGHTER:\n''An unmissable reading treat'' Lancashire Evening Post 
''Beautifully written and emotionally charged . . . impossible to put down'' HAZEL GAYNOR 
''The Paris Daughter tore up my heart and put it back together again'' MARTHA HALL KELLY 
''A gorgeous, gut-wrenching read!'' KATE QUINN

All the Diamonds in Paris: the sweeping new novel from the New York Times bestselling author

THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED DEBUT ADULT NOVEL BY LOUIS SACHAR, THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF CHILDREN''S FICTION AND AUTHOR OF CLASSIC NOVEL, HOLES.\n****\nIs true love the greatest form of magic?\nLong ago, in a kingdom far away, the magician of tiger castle is on thin ice. Once the greatest in the land, Anatole''s spells have dried up. He can''t even turn sand into gold anymore. The only one who still believes in him is kind Princess Tullia, and he hopes - for the sake of their friendship - that he can soon redeem himself and stay within the king''s court.\nWhen the opportunity arises, Anatole is faced with an impossible decision. Princess Tullia is betrothed to the prince of a rich neighbouring kingdom, an alliance which will save bankrupt Esquaveta and all its citizens. But, Tullia has secretly fallen in love with a lowly apprentice scribe and refuses to wed the prince.\nThe King tasks Anatole with the most difficult magic of all: an anti-love potion. Anatole can save everything and everyone if he can shatter the young lovers'' romance. But, with the fate of the kingdom hanging in the balance, can he achieve it? Can he even bring himself to try? After all, is true love not the purest form of magic?\nTold with the same wit and warmth that has made Louis Sachar''s books classics of children''s literature, The Magician of Tiger Castle is a colourful and enigmatic tale of adventure, love, loss and triumph.\n''Wise and whimsical . . . I loved it'' Alix E. Harrow, bestselling author of Starling House\n''The kind of book that lodges itself in your heart!'' Sarah Beth Durst, bestselling author of The Spellshop

The Magician of Tiger Castle: the highly anticipated debut adult novel from the international bestselling author

Louis, Sachar

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