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24/07/2024

Final copies of have landed 🎓

The mature students of Royal Hasting’s new art course have been trouble since day one. The course is blighted by students setting fire to one another’s work, a rumoured affair and a disastrous road trip. After all, when students have nothing in common except their clashing personal agendas, what could possibly go wrong? The answer: murder 🩸

Pre-order your copy now and be the first to dive into Janice Hallett’s latest mind-bending mystery 🦂

23/07/2024

No one can run forever…

is the latest thriller from the king of Australian crime, Garry Disher. Out 15th August 🏡🩸🚨

Grace is a thief - a good one. But she’s always on the move, always looking over her shoulder. A run-in with an old associate forces her to lie low in a small rural town, where Grace glimpses a different life, and perhaps a home.

But there are dangerous men watching her, and Grace should know better than to let her guard slip. Because no matter how far she runs, her past is always just a few steps behind...

11/07/2024

SCHOOL’S OUT. MURDER’S IN.

Today’s the day! Joanna Wallace’s witty, dark and funny thriller is out now! Motherland meets murder, this is an unputdownable whodunnit where all the mums at the schoolgate are suspects. Pour yourself a glass of wine, and dive in… 🍷

10/07/2024

Your reading assignment for next week’s seminar is… The Examiner. Six students. One murder. Your time starts now…

Do you want to be one of the lucky readers who gets an early look at the latest mind-bending mystery from national treasure Janice Hallett? Head to NetGalley and put in your request! Every Friday we will be approving 30 requests and enrolling a new group of students in the most disastrous art course in history 🎨

When six students have nothing in common except their clashing personal agendas, what could possibly go wrong? 🦂

is out this August 🎓

04/07/2024

Everyone brings their secrets to the island 🏝️⚡️

Happy paperback publication day to by the bestselling author Tina Baker 💙

On the beautiful and windswept island of Tresco, wealthy visitors come to stay at their lavish properties. But while the blue skies and savage waves make the island seem a wild paradise, under the surface the inhabitants are concealing more than they dare reveal. The truths about their marriages, their love affairs, and what they do in the darkness while their neighbours are sleeping.

The islanders must finally reveal what they did in the storm ⛈️🌪️☔️

13/06/2024

The school run can be murder…

Only four weeks to go until we publish Joanna Wallace’s new witty and gripping thriller !

Forever feeling tortured by the judgey mums at the school gate, Beth has never felt more alone. Not only has her husband left her for her friend, her only confidante and fellow mum Charlotte has been killed after being hit by a car on an evening jog. But suddenly, Beth has reason to believe that Charlotte’s death was not an accident and attempts to solve the mystery behind her friend’s untimely death. And what better place to start than the circle of chatty school mums, who can’t be as perfect as they pretend. But which of them is hiding something? Beth’s determined to find out. Once she’s put the kids to bed, of course...

is out 11th July 🍷

06/06/2024

A rigged election. A feuding Cornish town. A suspicious death. And a sharp-witted pig 🐷

Laurence Jago returns in the latest instalment from Leonora Nattrass, the bestselling author of and . Historical fiction fans, you don’t want to miss , the blazing 18th-century mystery, out now in paperback!

30/05/2024

Only one week to go 🚨

, out next Thursday, is a chilling thriller that will have you obsessing over its twists long after the final page 📚

Astrid Webb is missing. The police have found her car crashed near the woods, the diver’s door open, the seat spotted with blood. But there's no sign of Astrid 🚘

As the days pass, her husband Bryan starts to look like a suspect. He’s cooperating but is he telling the whole truth? It starting to seem like both Astrid and Bryan have something to hide.

It’s always the husband... isn’t it?

21/05/2024

💚 GIVEAWAY 💚

To celebrate the paperback publication of Catriona Ward’s latest novel Looking Glass Sound this Thursday, we are giving one lucky reader the chance to win all three of her mind-bending books.

🌕 The Last House on Needless Street

🌵 Sundial

🪞 Looking Glass Sound

This isn’t horror as you know it.

To enter:
✨ Like this post
✨ Make sure you’re following Viper Books
✨ Tag a bookish friend below
✨ Add this post to your story for an extra entry

Giveaway is UK only and closes Tuesday 28th May 📚

13/05/2024

A snowstorm. A country house. Old friends reunited. It’s going to be murder...

Summer might be on its way but snowstorms and murder are just around the corner 👀

Helle and Death by Oskar Jensen is out in paperback this October with a rather spectacular new cover ❄️🩸

Torben Helle - art historian, Danish expat and owner of several excellent Scandinavian jumpers - has been dragged to a remote snowbound Northumbrian mansion for a ten-year reunion with old university friends. Things start to go sideways when their host, a reclusive and irritating tech entrepreneur, makes some shocking revelations at the dinner table. And when these are followed by an apparent su***de, the group faces a test of their wits... and their trust.

‘A glorious debut’ SUNDAY EXPRESS

‘Recommended reading for a long winter night’ GUARDIAN

10/05/2024

These books are our pick for best dressed at this year’s Met 🌿

Which Viper book would you like to see walk the iconic Met steps? 🩸

21/09/2023

CLAIRE IS HERE & SHE'S READY TO SLAY 🔨

Happy publication day to Jo Wallace & You'd Look Better As A Ghost, out now in hardback.

Out now 👉🏽https://linktr.ee/betterasaghost

13/09/2023

Everybody's talking about Delicate Condition 🥀

'A first class, heart-stopping story' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
'A mix of both Stephen King and American Horror Story... a beautifully, dark novel' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
'Brilliantly CREEPY 😱 I absolutely loved it!!' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Out now: https://linktr.ee/delicatecondition

02/09/2023

Everybody's talking about Delicate Condition 🥀

'The feminist update to Rosemary's Baby we all needed' - ANDREA BARTZ
'A timely, terrifying, heartfelt thriller' - CHRIS WHITAKER
'Perfectly terrifying and terrifyingly perfect' - JANICE HALLETT

Out now: https://linktr.ee/delicatecondition

31/08/2023

Praise for 🪽

'The queen of tricksy crime' - SUNDAY TIMES
'Her best so far' - MARIAN KEYES
'Another resounding success' - DAILY EXPRESS

2 weeks until paperback publication!

25/08/2023

I wanted this baby so badly.
But she may be the death of me...

Delicate Condition is the spellbindingly dark thriller that inspired a major TV series.

Get your copy 🥀 https://linktr.ee/delicatecondition

17/08/2023

I wanted this baby so badly.
But she may be the death of me...

Happy publication day to Delicate Condition 🥀 A spellbindingly dark thriller you MUST read.

Get your copy 👉🏽 https://linktr.ee/delicatecondition

16/08/2023

Are you ready for Delicate Condition? 🥀

The book that inspired a major TV series.

Out tomorrow...

https://linktr.ee/delicatecondition

03/08/2023

Daybreak to day’s end 🌅
Dirt roads and dust 🚔
A mysterious arson and an unknown body… 🔪

The latest thrilling instalment in the Paul Hirsch series by Garry Disher is out TODAY! ☀️

Have you ordered your copy yet? 👀

13/04/2023

A mansion. A brutal murder. And a killer who can unwind time… 🕙

by Guy Morpuss is now out in paperback!

A gripping locked-room mystery with a speculative twist that will leave you at the edge of your seat - unmissable for fans of Agatha Christie, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and The Sanatorium!

06/03/2023

🪞GIVEAWAY🪞

To celebrate the arrival of these gorgeous finished copies of latest masterpiece , we are giving away not one, but TWO copies to a pair of lucky bloggers 🤩

TO ENTER:

🔪 Like this post and follow us
🔪 Comment with and tag a friend you’d like to read this with
🔪 BONUS: share to your stories

UK only. Winner will be selected randomly. CLOSES 13 MARCH 🇬🇧

Good luck! 🍀

14/02/2023

THEY BELIEVE HIS LIES.
SHE KNOWS THE TRUTH.

You can't lie to Izzy Lambert. Her highly developed empathic abilities allow her to read people's emotions with terrifying accuracy – and consequences. As a child her insights sparked her parents' divorce. As an adult she avoids getting too close to people for fear of what she might learn.

But now young girls are going missing in her town. The police have no suspects but, seeing her old school caretaker interviewed on the news about the story, Izzy comes to a chilling realisation: he knows where the missing girls are. When the police won't take her seriously despite the lives at stake, she will risk everything to uncover the truth…

David Jackson’s chilling new serial killer thriller publishes in paperback on Thursday 💙🖤

23/01/2023

It’s almost time to set sail for a thrilling adventure on the high seas…! 🌊🌊🌊

On 2nd February, we publish in paperback, Leonora Nattrass’ pageturning historical thriller! Join Laurence Jago aboard the mail ship Tankerville en route to Philadelphia, where he’s faced with a murder on board and the disappearance of a vital treaty. Trapped on the ship with a strange assortment of travellers including two penniless French aristocrats, an Irish actress and a dancing bear, Laurence must hunt down both the lost treaty and the murderer, before he has tragic ‘accident’ himself…

Only 10 days to go!

05/01/2023

We couldn’t be more pleased that by J. B. Mylet is Waterstones’ Scottish Book of the Month for January!

🧡

A thousand unwanted children live in The Homes, a village of orphans in the Scottish Lowlands on the outskirts of Glasgow. Lesley was six before she learned that most children live with their parents. Now Lesley is twelve, and she and her best friend Jonesy live in Cottage 5, Jonesy the irrepressible spirit to Lesley’s quiet thoughtfulness.

Life is often cruel at The Homes, and suddenly it becomes much crueller. A child is found murdered. Then another. With the police unable to catch the killer, Lesley decides to take the matter into her own hands. But unwanted children are easy victims, and Lesley is in terrible danger…

🧡

Comment below if you’re interested in a review copy! ⬇️

03/01/2023

🖤 P R O O F G I V E A W A Y 🖤

We’ve heard your calls and we’ve listened! You want , so we’re giving you the chance to get your hands on a proof of Kate Griffin’s dark, twisted and unputdownable gothic thriller in our new year competition!

🥀

On the day of her grandmother's funeral, Marta discovers that she is to be sent to be governess at Fyneshade, her charge the young daughter of the owner, Sir William Pritchard.

All is not well at Fyneshade. Sir William is mysteriously absent, and his son and heir Vaughan is forbidden to enter the house. Marta finds herself drawn to him, despite the warnings of the housekeeper that Vaughan is a danger to all around him. But Marta is no innocent to be preyed upon. Guided by the dark gift taught to her by her grandmother, she has made her own plans. It will take more than a family riven by murderous secrets to stop her...

🥀

To enter, like this post, simple follow .books and tag a friend who you know will love this book! UK only, competition ends Friday 6th January at midday.

07/12/2022

Amanda Bailey might just be your new favourite true crime writer.

Read Janice Hallett's to discover her devilish new project...

Pre-order your copy 👼🖤
https://amzn.to/3uzsPIu
https://uk.bookshop.org/a/132/9781800810402
https://bit.ly/AlpertonAngelsWaterstones

20/10/2022

‘Death came aboard with the cormorant. It arrived on the seventh day of our voyage…’

🌊⚓️

AVAST! Leonora Nattrass’ swashbuckling historical thriller is out today! We are so excited for the return of reluctant spy Laurence Jago, along with a whole host of brilliant characters, from fugitive French aristocrats and an American plantation owner, to an Irish actress and her dancing bear 🐻

Sail away with this captivating tale of political machinations, treason and murder…

is out now! 💙

17/10/2022

Only 3 more days until this swashbuckling historical thriller lands! 🌊⚓️

From Leonora Nattrass, author of which was chosen a Times book of the year 2021, comes charting the adventures of reluctant spy Laurence Jago on the high seas. This is a riveting tale of murder, revolution and treachery, and is one NOT to be missed.

Who’s excited? 💙🖤

08/09/2022

A locked room. A brutal murder. And a killer who can unwind time…

Can Ella solve the mystery before time runs out… again! The new kind-bending thriller by Guy Morpuss published today! 🕵🏻‍♀️💙

Available now in all good bookshops.

05/09/2022

Sail away on the high seas in , the brilliant new historical mystery from Leonora Nattrass, author of the critically acclaimed !

🌊🌊🌊

This is the secret report of disgraced former Foreign Office clerk Laurence Jago, written on the mail ship Tankerville en route to Philadelphia. His mission is to aid the civil servant charged with carrying a vital treaty to Congress that will prevent the Americans from joining with the French in their war against Britain. When the civil servant meets an unfortunate 'accidental' end, Laurence becomes the one person standing between Britain and disaster.

Join reluctant spy Laurence Jago and a wonderfully motley crew – among them fugitive French aristocrats, an American plantation owner, an Irish actress and her dancing bear – in this pageturning new book, publishing 20th October.

Get your hands on a proof by taking part in our ! Email [email protected] with your social media handles by Thursday 8th September for a chance to get involved.

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Are you ready to solve the murder of the century? It's #TheTwyfordCode cover reveal! We're thrilled that @waterstones has uncovered the beautiful look for the new book by @JaniceHallett , author of #TheAppeal (which we know LOADS of you are giant fans of!). Pre-order their exclusive edition today - link in bio! #janicehallett #coverreveal #crimebook #bookstagram

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David Jackson on THE RULE

My dad says bad things happen when I break it... #TheRule is out tomorrow! For those of you who can't wait to learn more, here is the brilliant David Jackson talking about his heart-pounding thriller. Pre-order now and get ready to #FollowTheRule: https://bit.ly/TheRuleST

It's the most innovative crime novel you'll read this year: can you work through the evidence - emails, texts, letters - to solve the crime? Discover @janice.hallett’s #TheAppeal, out in paperback a week today - pre-order your copy via the link in our bio! #theappeal #paperback #comingsoon #crimereads #crimenovel #bookstagram

@lauradaveauthor has a special message for her Viper family and UK readers about her #1 New York Times bestseller! With its breakneck pacing, dazzling plot twists and unforgettable characters, #TheLastThingHeToldMe is bestselling author Laura Dave's finest novel yet, certain to shock you with its final, heartbreaking turn. Don’t miss this propulsive thriller! Just make sure to #CancelYourPlans before you start; it is certain to keep you reading into the night. Out now in hardback, audio and eBook. #LauraDave #TheLastThingHeToldMe #ReeseWitherspoon #ReeseBookClub

‘Holy Moly!... you will NOT be able to put this book down! ... The ultimate page turner' @ReeseW A Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick, an #1 Amazon bestseller, a Vogue Best Books to Read in 2021, a Reader’s Digest 50 Best Books to Read This Year and a NetGalley Book of the Month. Shall we go on? With its breakneck pacing, dazzling plot twists and unforgettable characters, #TheLastThingHeToldMe is bestselling author Laura Dave's finest novel yet, certain to shock you with its final, heartbreaking turn. This propulsive thriller with a heart is perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty and Celeste Ng. Don’t miss this propulsive thriller! Just make sure to #CancelYourPlans before you start. It is certain to keep you reading into the night. Out now in hardback, audio and eBook. #LauraDave #TheLastThingHeToldMe #ReeseWitherspoon #ReeseBookClub #ReadwithRead #protecther #HelloSunshine #JuliaRoberts #thriller #psychologicalthriller #domesticthriller

Have any plans tonight? You might want to cancel them because Laura Dave's hotly-anticipated #TheLastThingHeToldMe is out in hardback and audio today! Pick up your copy and make sure you #cancelyourplans before you start reading... you won't want to stop.

They said I hurt that little girl. But they could never prove it... Can you trust Ted? To find out, download the audiobook of Catriona Ward's #TheLastHouseOnNeedlessStreet, read by the incredible Christopher Ragland: https://adbl.co/3alAdfT

Call Me Mummy

NEXT MOTHER'S DAY YOU WILL CALL HER MUMMY The potently pink proofs of #CallMeMummy have arrived with Tina Baker and we can't wait to see this thriller devoured. 'Horrifying and beautiful in equal measure' - HARRIET TYCE 'An astonishing debut' - DAVID JACKSON Pre-order your copy publishing March 2021: https://amzn.to/3jZfge7

You think you're isolating alone. But have you checked your attic? David Jackson has an urgent message - watch before it's too late... Request your copy: http://netgal.ly/iHzKTR Pre-order your copy: https://amzn.to/2VAPu6c

We're very excited about this - a team of crime writers, including the excellent Kate Simants, has put together an anthology which will raise money for Samaritans. AFRAID OF THE LIGHT is coming to Amazon Kindle on 28th April. Find out more: https://www.thebookseller.com/news/crime-writers-launch-anthology-samaritans-during-covid-crisis-1200511?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_term=&utm_content=&utm_campaign=Morning%20Briefing%20-%20200420

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The Resident by David Jackson

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Welcome to Viper Books

Welcome to Viper Books, the home of books with bite: crime, thrillers and other mysterious fiction.

Viper launched in November 2019 with a sssssuper fun party in London. Our first book will be published in February 2020: A Famished Heart, a haunting police procedural by Irish author Nicola White.

The list currently stands at 20 titles featuring a mix of debut authors, such as NPR senior editor Vikki Valentine writing under her pen name V L Valentine with The Plague Letters, and established names, such as David Jackson. His standalone thriller, The Resident, follows a serial killer on the run as he hides out in an abandoned house, only to realise he can access all the other houses on the terrace through the attic space, and begins to play deadly games. Viper will publish in July 2020.

Viper Books is led by the brilliant Miranda Jewess (on Twitter @MirandaJewess).