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Viper Books is our superb crime imprint, publishing books with bite: crime, thrillers and mysterious gothic fiction. Our books include Sunday Times bestsellers The Appeal by Janice Hallett and The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward, and Reese Witherspoon Book Club sensation The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave.

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The Artful Anna Harris

Tracy Maton

Tom Ripley and Grace Bernard collide in this stylish debut thriller. A modern twist on Patricia Highsmith's much-loved classic

Nowhere Burning

Catriona Ward

The stunning new literary thriller from the bestselling author of The Last House on Needless Street and Sundial

Mischance Creek

Garry Disher

Hirsch returns to his rural outback beat for his fifth mystery in the international bestselling Paul Hirschhausen series

Vivian Dies Again

C.E. Hulse

How to Solve Your Own Murder meets The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle in this genre-bending, time-looping mystery

The Vanishing Place

Zoë Rankin

A debut thriller, with the wild atmosphere of Kristin Hannah's The Great Alone and propulsive pace of Abigail Dean's Girl A

The Killer Question

Janice Hallett

The fifth mystery by bestselling author Janice Hallett, a fiendishly clever story of missing persons, murder, and battling pub quiz teams

The Dead Husband Cookbook

Danielle Valentine

The new gripping thriller from Danielle Valentine, author of Delicate Condition, the inspiration for American Horror Story: Delicate

Guide Me Home

Attica Locke

The final book in the award-winning Highway 59 series from the author of Bluebird, Bluebird and Heaven, My Home

Snapshot

Garry Disher

The third novel with Detective Inspector Hal Challis and Sergeant Ellen Destry, from Australia's King of Crime

Chain of Evidence

Garry Disher

The awarding-winning fourth novel with Detective Inspector Hal Challis and Sergeant Ellen Destry, from Australia's King of Crime

The Rush

Beth Lewis

From the author of The Wolf Road comes a gripping historical novel about three women whose lives intertwine during the Yukon Gold Rush

The Examiner

Janice Hallett

The new genre-busting crime novel from the bestselling author of The Appeal, The Twyford Code and The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels

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