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- An afternoon with Janice Hallett and Barbara Nadel in conversation with Tom Mead 🎟️ Come along to Finchley Church End library this Sunday 4th May to hear @janicehallett.bsky.social discuss her latest twisty mystery #TheExaminer 🦂 barnet-libraries.played.co/venues/63aff...
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- School's out. Murder's in. And #TheDeadFriendProject is out in paperback today 🍷 Get your hands on Joanna Wallace's gripping and hilarious thriller now: tinyurl.com/TheDeadFrien...
- #TheKillerQuestion is now on NetGalley! We'll be approving 10 requests to read and review every Thursday, so get your requests in now and you could be reading Janice Hallett's latest mystery in a sunny beer garden this Easter weekend 🍻 www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book... @janicehallett.bsky.social
- #TheRush by @bethlewis.bsky.social is now available to request on NetGalley 🪙 Out in June, this historical novel tells the story of three women battling for survival in the perilous, male dominated world of the Klondike Gold Rush. www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...
- Husband. Father. Serial Killer. One of the most hotly anticipated thrillers of the year, #TheMidnightKing is out this Thursday 🔥 viperbooks.co.uk/work/the-mid... @tariqashkanani.bsky.social
- 'The Midnight King is psychological crime thriller at its best and its darkest'
- The Midnight King by Tariq Ashkanani @TariqAshkanani @ViperBooks @tariqashkanani.bsky.social Source: Review copyPublication: 10 April 2025 from ViperPP: 352ISBN-13: 978-1805222279 My very grateful thanks to Viper for an advance copy for review This is not a confession.' Lucas Cole is a…
- 'Those twists…*chefs kiss*' A wonderful review of #TheMidnightKing by @tariqashkanani.bsky.social from @damppebbles.bsky.social Get your copy this Thursday!
- *NEW BLOG POST* My review of #TheMidnightKing by Tariq Ashkanani is live on #damppebbles! Hugely tense, highly unsettling, totally irresistible and all-consuming. Skilled storytelling. Check out my review... ➡️ buff.ly/CMC5M5Y @viperbooks.bsky.social #BookSky #skybrarians #bookish #booklovers
- 'This book is a work of fiction. It is not a confession.' Read the opening of #TheMidnightKing, a dark and twisty thriller from Tariq Ashkanani. Out this Thursday, it's a must-read for fans of Thomas Harris or Chris Whitaker. viperbooks.co.uk/2025/04/07/t... @tariqashkanani.bsky.social
- Check out this stunning new look for the paperback of Leonora Nattrass' historical mystery #TheBellsOfWestminster, out this September 👑 Not long now until you can lose yourself down the winding passages of Westminster Abbey...
- #TheMidnightKing by Tariq Ashkanani is an iPaper thriller of the month 💙 Out next week, this darkly clever thriller will leave you reeling from twist after twist 👀 inews.co.uk/inews-lifest... @tariqashkanani.bsky.social
- Proofs of #TheKillerQuestion are in! 🍻 The latest mystery from five-time bestselling author Janice Hallett is out this September, featuring battling pub quiz teams and a grizzly murder... Can you answer the Killer Question? ✏️ viperbooks.co.uk/work/the-kil... @janicehallett.bsky.social
- A great review of #ATrialInThreeActs, Guy Morpuss' clever legal thriller, in Maxim Jakubowski’s Crime Time column ⚖️🩸 www.crimetime.co.uk/to-the-max-m... @guymorpuss.bsky.social
- We are so excited to be publishing #TheVanishingPlace by Zoë Rankin this October 📚 Expect beautiful writing, pace and plot twists galore, plus a wonderfully cinematic setting 🏞️ www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article...
- What better way to celebrate Easter than with a good crime novel to sink your teeth into? 🐣🩸 Join Tariq Ashkanani, author of #TheMidnightKing, for an event with Serenity Booksellers 📍Wednesday 16th April, Stockport www.ticketsource.co.uk/serenity-boo... @tariqashkanani.bsky.social
- 'Splendid... both a tense courtroom drama and a classic locked-room mystery' #ATrialInThreeActs by Guy Morpuss is included in the Financial Times' roundup of new crime fiction ⚖️ www.ft.com/content/54cb... @guymorpuss.bsky.social
- 📢 Calling all horror fans 📢 Join bestselling author Catriona Ward for an evening celebrating women in horror, along with Neena Viel and V. Castro 🖤 🎫 Waterstones Covent Garden, 6pm 19th March waterstones.com/events/women... @catrionaward.bsky.social @vlatinalondon.bsky.social
- When a famous actress is beheaded live on stage, a tumultuous trial is sure to follow... #ATrialInThreeActs by Guy Morpuss is a delightfully clever legal mystery for fans of Richard Osman and Janice Hallett, out now ⚖️ viperbooks.co.uk/work/a-trial... @guymorpuss.bsky.social
- What do courtroom dramas get wrong about the law? Read former barrister, Guy Morpuss KC's piece on the errors found in your favourite TV whodunnits, and how he avoided similar mistakes in his legal thriller #ATrialInThreeActs ⚖️ www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-r... @guymorpuss.bsky.social
- Janice Hallett will be at Books in the Park in Beckenham on Saturday 26th April, talking all things #TheExaminer 🦂 Get your tickets now 🎫 www.ticketsource.co.uk/books-in-the... @janicehallett.bsky.social @booksinthepark.bsky.social
- 'I will provide one further clue. Charles Konig KC solves the crime not by identifying the murderer, but by working out how the murder was carried out. Readers can do the same' @guymorpuss.bsky.social on #ATrialInThreeActs for Shots magazine ⚖️ wwwshotsmagcouk.blogspot.com/2025/03/cour...
- #ATrialInThreeActs by Guy Morpuss is out today ⚖️ Nail-biting courtroom drama meets a Christie-esque twist in this mixed-media legal thriller 'A delicious mystery' Daily Mail 'Ingenious' The Times 'A future book of the year' Janice Hallett viperbooks.co.uk/work/a-trial... @guymorpuss.bsky.social
- Read a Q&A with the author of A Trial in Three Acts, Guy Morpuss. He chats his return to the courtroom and his approach to writing a mixed-media thriller ⚖️ #ATrialInThreeActs is out tomorrow 'Ingenious' The Times viperbooks.co.uk/2025/03/05/a... @guymorpuss.bsky.social
- Read an extract from #ATrialInThreeActs by Guy Morpuss, out on Thursday 🩸 'Ingenious' The Times 'A delicious mystery' Daily Mail 'My verdict: all rise for a future book of the year' Janice Hallett viperbooks.co.uk/2025/03/04/a... @guymorpuss.bsky.social
- 'A delicious mystery', #ATrialInThreeActs by Guy Morpuss is one of the Daily Mail's best new crime novels 📚 Get your copy of this clever legal thriller when it hits shelves next week. There's a killer in court, but are they in the dock? www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/a... @guymorpuss.bsky.social
- 🩸 The Darkside of Brighton 2025 🩸 On 8th March, Viper author @tinabakerbooks.bsky.social will be at The Darkside of Brighton - Crime Fiction Festival! 📅 8th March 2025 📍 The Old Ship Hotel, Brighton 🕡 9:30 AM - 6 PM Buy your tickets here: tinyurl.com/3v5yaus9
- 🩸COVER REVEAL 🩸 From the author of #DelicateCondition, comes a deliciously rich thriller following a celebrity chef after the mysterious disappearance of her husband 20 years ago... #TheDeadHusbandCookbook by Danielle Valentine is out August 2025 🍽️ 🔗 tinyurl.com/TheDeadHusbandCookbook
- 'Are you scared yet? You ought to be' Read an extract from the first book in Garry Disher's Hal Challis series, #TheDragonMan 🐉 viperbooks.co.uk/2025/02/25/t...
- Battling pub quiz teams and a grizzly murder, #TheKillerQuestion by Janice Hallett is coming this September 🩸 Pre-order your signed edition: waterstones.com/book/the-kil... @janicehallett.bsky.social
- Join Oskar Jensen at Waterstones Newcastle, talking all things #HellesHound with Howard Linskey 🐾 www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev... @oskarjensen.bsky.social
- 'What book does Oskar Jensen not understand the hype around?' Oskar Jensen, author of #HellesHound, is in the Mail Online talking about his favourite books! Read the full piece below: tinyurl.com/4ssd7wr8 @oskarjensen.bsky.social
- 'Since the beginnings of detective fiction animals have figured extensively in tales of murder and mystery' 🐾 Read Oskar Jensen's piece 'A Tail of Murder', featuring his own canine creation of Mortimer in #HellesHound wwwshotsmagcouk.blogspot.com/2025/01/a-ta... @oskarjensen.bsky.social
- Read an extract of #HellesHound by Oskar Jensen, out now 🐾 A dead art historian. Cold War skulduggery. A reluctant Danish sleuth. And an extremely hungry dog. viperbooks.co.uk/2025/01/30/h... @oskarjensen.bsky.social
- Read an extract from #HellesHound by Oskar Jensen ahead of tomorrow's publication day 🐾 A witty murder mystery perfect for fans of Golden Age crime 📚 bookanista.com/at-the-funer... @oskarjensen.bsky.social
- We're so excited that #GuideMeHome author @atticalocke.bsky.social is a special guest at this year's Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival 🥳 We're counting down the days until July. @harrogatefestivals.bsky.social Get your tickets here: tinyurl.com/Harrogate2025Tickets
- Calling all Torben Helle fans! Oskar Jensen will be in conversation with author Howard Linskey at Waterstones Newcastle, talking all about his new book #HellesHound 🐾 www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev... @oskarjensen.bsky.social
- #HellesHound by @oskarjensen.bsky.social is one of the i paper's top picks for crime novels out this January 🐾 inews.co.uk/culture/book...
- Here's a sneak preview of our Spring 2025 titles 👀 Which books are you adding to your TBR? viperbooks.co.uk/2025/01/08/l... @oskarjensen.bsky.social @guymorpuss.bsky.social @tariqashkanani.bsky.social @janicehallett.bsky.social @bethlewis.bsky.social
- 'A trial is rather like a play. We wear our costumes. We perform to the audience. And on a good day no-one gets murdered' A beheading live on stage and the case of the century, #ATrialInThreeActs is a clever legal mystery coming March 2025 🩸 viperbooks.co.uk/work/a-trial... @guymorpuss.bsky.social
- Congratulations to @atticalocke.bsky.social whose book #GuideMeHome is an Editor's Choice @crimefictionlover.bsky.social Book of the Year! And congratulations to author @janicehallett.bsky.social, the Editor's Choice for Best Author! We couldn't be prouder! crimefictionlover.com/2024/12/the-...
- Attica Locke's #GuideMeHome is one of Nick Harkaway's top books to gift this Christmas 🎄 'Attica Locke has produced another must-have... compelling detective fiction with plenty to say about Trump’s America' www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d... @atticalocke.bsky.social
- Don’t miss this exclusive Newcastle Noir event and take home a goodie bag and proof copy of @tariqashkanani.bsky.social's must-read thriller #TheMidnightKing months ahead of publication! 📅 Friday 6th December 🕖 7 PM 📍 Tyneside Cinema Get your free tickets here: tinyurl.com/xtcj4yru
- We had a blast at the #ViperShowcase2025 last night celebrating our 5th birthday 🥳 Thank you to our authors @oskarjensen.bsky.social, Leonora Nattrass, @bethlewis.bsky.social, @tariqashkanani.bsky.social, @janicehallett.bsky.social and @guymorpuss.bsky.social, as well as our wonderful Viper readers!
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- 'One of the wittiest and most entertaining historical crime novels of the year' #TheBellsOfWestminster by Leonora Nattrass is one of @thetimes.com' best historical fiction books of 2024 🔔
- 'Fans of @janicehallett.bsky.social's fiendish whodunits will enjoy her latest festive offering' Good Housekeeping has named #TheChristmasAppeal as one of their 'Best books to get you in the Christmassy mood' 🎁🩸 t.co/sv32EImYVK
- 'A vivid tale of Westminster Abbey past' A charming review for Leonora Nattrass' #TheBellsOfWestminster in the Church Times 🔔 tinyurl.com/3p2zs78y
- #TheChristmasAppeal, @janicehallett.bsky.social's festive thriller, has been listed as one of @dailymail.co.uk's 'Best Christmas books to get you in the festive spirit'🎄🩸 tinyurl.com/26tw9dts
- We're so thrilled that #TheMysteriousCaseOfTheAlpertonAngels by @janicehallett.bsky.social is in the @nytimes.com '100 Notable Books of 2024' list! 🩸 'A modern take on the epistolary novel' t.co/KjpT7oVcjp
- There's a killer in the court. But is he in the dock? ⚖️ We're getting read to send out proofs of #ATrialInThreeActs, a gripping courtroom mystery from the brilliant legal mind of @guymorpuss.bsky.social. Bloggers, DM us for a review copy! Read the synopsis here: serpentstail.com/work/a-trial...
