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What Happens in the Dark

Kia Abdullah

The Midnight King

Tariq Ashkanani

The Impossible Thing

Belinda Bauer

What the Night Brings

Mark Billingham

Human Remains

Jo Callaghan

The Death of Us

Abigail Dean

The Chemist

A. A. Dhand

Beautiful Ugly

Alice Feeney

The Frozen People

Elly Griffiths

The Examiner

Janice Hallett

The Blue Hour

Paula Hawkins

Clown Town

Mick Herron

Quantum of Menace

Vaseem Khan

Paperboy

Callum McSorley

The Good Liar

Denise Mina

Gunner

Alan Parks

We Live Here Now

Sarah Pinborough

A Schooling in Murder

Andrew Taylor