True Crime Family Drama

Fifteen years after graduating from Harvard, five close friends on the cusp of middle age are still pursuing an elusive happiness and wondering if they’ve wasted their youthful opportunities. Jules, already a famous actor when she arrived on campus, is changing in mysterious ways but won’t share what is haunting her. Mariam and Rowan, who married young, are struggling with the demands of family life and starting to regret prioritising meaning over wealth in their careers.

When comedian Barry Rothbart was growing up in Queens in the 90s, there were two things he knew for sure… his father, Allan, was his best friend and he was also Jon Bon Jovi’s manager. But then everything changed in 1997, when Barry’s dad got arrested and admitted that he actually worked for the Italian mafia, running the largest bookmaking operation in the United States.

Fall River, Massachusetts, August 1892. A city sweltering under a suffocating heatwave holds its breath, waiting for something to break. Inside the Borden home on Second Street, the air is thick with more than just heat. It’s a place of oppressive silence, resentful family dynamics, and secrets locked away like the house’s many doors. When Andrew Borden and his wife, Abby, are discovered brutally murdered with a hatchet, the tight-knit community is shattered. Suspicion falls on the unlikeliest of suspects: Andrew’s younger daughter, Lizzie. A quiet, church-going spinster of thirty-two...

A pulse-pounding thriller about a woman who survived a horrifying abduction and has used her ordeal to help other women avoid the same fate, but when she’s invited on a cruise by her estranged sister to reconnect, she begins to realize that every corner of this ship hides terrifying secrets...

On the wind-swept plains of 1870s Kansas, a homestead stands in uneasy silence. When a string of travelers vanish along the Osage Trail, young Clara Whitcomb watches her father, Elias, join a band of vigilantes bent on finding those responsible. What they uncover in a lonely cabin will haunt the prairie—and their family—for generations. Told in the spare, luminous prose of a vanished frontier, Prairie Shadows reimagines the chilling legend of the Bloody Benders through the eyes of an innocent girl who grows up to question the price of justice. As Clara revisits the snow-covered ruins of...

Don’t miss the next captivating page-turner from Sunday Times bestseller Susan Lewis! Book 3 in the Cristy Ward series A dead husband. A missing wife. Will they find her in time? Romy Kaplan has vanished from her home. Or has she? When Romy begins posting on her social media accounts asking...

“The Felons’ Ball is full of secrets—ones that refuse to reveal themselves and ones that refuse to stay buried. It's also full of wit and empathy and characters as real as your own family members. This novel is assured, propulsive, and thrilling, and I tore through it.”—Rebecca Makkai...

Into the Wild meets Helter Skelter in this riveting true story of a modern-day homesteading family in the deepest reaches of the Alaskan wilderness – and of the chilling secrets of its maniacal, spellbinding patriarch. When Papa Pilgrim appeared in the Alaska frontier outpost of McCarthy...

Don’t miss the instant Sunday Times bestseller starring true crime podcast host Cristy Ward from the author of Nothing to See Here! Book 2 in the Cristy Ward series They raised her. Nurtured her. And lied about everything. They told Sadie she was adopted. They gave her a home and showered her...

The gripping new Cristy Ward thriller from Sunday Times bestseller Susan Lewis! Book 4 in the Cristy Ward series A terrible crime. A shocking confession. Do you believe her? Twenty years ago, Nicole’s twins disappeared without a trace. No bodies. No witnesses. Despite her pleas of innocence...

A delightful and salacious debut novel about the frightful world of high school, SATs, the college essay, and the Common Application—and how getting in is getting in the way of growing up. Tiger mothers, eat your hearts out. Anne the ""application whisperer"" is the golden ticket to success...

'Hausmann is a force to be reckoned with' DAVID BALDACCI She went missing decades ago. He is still looking for her . . . Julie Nowak has been missing since 7th September 2003. It broke her family. Only her father, Theo, doesn't give up on her. On the 20th anniversary of her disappearance, Theo...

She’s lost herself in his life—but what will she do without him? Tony looks from the smoking gun to me, his eyes wide with mingled grief and shock. I set the pistol down on the desk and sit. The grip bears my bloody handprint. “Is everyone ready to get to business now? Because we have a huge mess to clean up.” *** Eleni Everyone I love goes away or betrays me. I’m tired of getting my heart broken. When the empty boss’s chair offers me the opportunity to seize power and control, I don’t know how to refuse. Dante? I’m not used to taking a backseat. I’m not used to wearing my...

The Menendez Brothers: Inside the Beverly Hills Murders That Shocked America, is a detailed account of one of the most controversial and unforgettable murder cases in American history. This comprehensive book examines the 1989 slayings of José and Kitty Menéndez, a wealthy Beverly Hills couple gunned down in their own home by their sons, Lyle and Erik. Initially appearing to be victims of a home invasion, the shocking truth unraveled over months of investigation, exposing a disturbing tale of privilege, violence, and alleged abuse. Through court transcripts, interviews, psychological ...