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Books with bite: crime, thrillers mysterious fiction | British Book Awards Imprint of the Year 2022, CWA Publisher of the Year 2023.
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'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

📣 Bargain Alert! 📣 The ebook of my latest novel #TheExaminer 🎓🦂 is available for a murderously cheap £1.99 on Amazon 💰 But this offer won’t last long so grab it while you can! Click here 👇 www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0CJ...

🩸 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

Love this series, and Garry Disher deserves more recognition outside of Australia for his sublime writing 📚💙

'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...

Unboxing some amazing #bookmail from @viperbooks.bsky.social @mirandajewess.bsky.social - A TRIAL IN THREE ACTS by @guymorpuss.bsky.social vm.tiktok.com/ZNd1CTAS4/

Beautiful final copies of #TheMidnightKing by @tariqashkanani.bsky.social are in the @viperbooks.bsky.social lair! Such a stunning novel, so proud to be publishing this in April 💙💙💙

#TheMidnightKing by @tariqashkanani.bsky.social was one of my most anticipated reads of 2025. I've just finished reading my Netgalley copy and now I can breathe again! Devastatingly dark, gritty and twisted, this is a truly exceptional, unmissable thriller! @viperbooks.bsky.social #BookSky 💙📚

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

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 #ATrialinThreeActs from @guymorpuss.bsky.social and @viperbooks.bsky.social is a thrilling murder mystery combined with a legal thriller, with some historical fiction thrown in for good measure. Published 6/3/25 #booksky #bookblogger Reading For Leisure review: tinyurl.com/39zetf56

Just snorted at page 171 ‘letters to the editor’ @guymorpuss.bsky.social - I love Charles’ wit 😂 @viperbooks.bsky.social

📚📮#BookPost📚📮 Look at how stunning this paperback cover of #TheWreckageOfUs by Dan Malakin is!😍 Absolutely loved this book when it was released last year, if you haven’t read it yet then add this to your TBR!📚 Huge thanks to @viperbooks.bsky.social for sending📖 #BookSky📚💙 #bookblogger

If you're looking to start a new read this weekend & love a dark, gothic vibe, check out The Underhistory by @KaaronWarren, out now as a paperback.🖤 amzn.to/3COgl7w Via @viperbooks.bsky.social #Ad

A huge thanks to Drew at @viperbooks.bsky.social for this wonderful copy of The Tush by @bethlewis.bsky.social out in June. I hear this one is amazing!

The Underhistory by @kaaronwarren.bsky.social has just come out as a paperback. We're putting our own early proof up for grabs. Enter to win here: www.facebook.com/CrimeFiction... @viperbooks.bsky.social Draw closes 8am Sunday morning.

I'm absolutely thrilled to reveal the fabulous UK cover for #TheKillerQuestion my next adult novel, out in September. Read the text messages, WhatsApps, emails and quiz rounds to see if you can answer The Killer Question 🕵️‍♀️🔎 Happy sleuthing! 🙏 Thanks for this amazing cover @viperbooks.bsky.social

Join Oskar Jensen at Waterstones Newcastle, talking all things #HellesHound with Howard Linskey 🐾 www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev... @oskarjensen.bsky.social

An eerie atmosphere. Creeping suspense. A family history retold through tales of death. And an old lady who is more than she seems...🙀 If gothic mystery is what you need, check out The Underhistory by @kaaronwarren.bsky.social is out now as a PB. amzn.to/4gxzs3B via @viperbooks.bsky.social #Ad

'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

It felt SO good to be reunited with Torben Helle! 💚 A complex, witty and thoroughly entertaining mystery with brilliant characters and a baffling new murder to solve. Another triumph, @oskarjensen.bsky.social! Brilliantly done! 😊 Helle's Hound is out NOW! 🐾 @viperbooks.bsky.social

Solving a murder is no walk in the park: Helles Hound (Helle & Death #2) by Oskar Jensen via @bethsy.bsky.social #bookreview #booksky #OskarCoxJensen @viperbooks.bsky.social @serpentstail.bsky.social

Yay!! 🎉 Happiest of happy publication days to the lovely @oskarjensen.bsky.social ‬⁩for the wonderful second book in his delightfully ‘golden age’ Helle Torben murder mystery series 🥂🥳 #HellesHound is out now from @viperbooks.bsky.social 🐾🦴

My ebook book pick for today is A Trial In Three Acts by @guymorpuss.bsky.social . Very excited to start. Out March 6th from @viperbooks.bsky.social www.amazon.co.uk/A-Trial-in-T... #booksky #books #amreading #attialinthreeacts #comingsoon

Out now - Helle's Hound by @oskarjensen.bsky.social from @viperbooks.bsky.social classicmystery.blog/2025/01/31/h...

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

Fantastic surprise book mail thank you @viperbooks.bsky.social I love the sound of these Garry Disher Hal Challis books Kittyhawk Down and The Dragon Man and am thrilled to find them in my post box! 📚❤️ viperbooks.co.uk?s=Garry+Disher

📚📚📚 Book Mail 📚📚📚 A Trial In Three Acts by Guy Morpuss 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. Thank you so much for my copy @viperbooks.bsky.social #booksky #atrialinthreeacts #bookmail

Evening reading Helle's Hound by Oskar Jensen. A great cosy crime novel. Thanks @viperbooks.bsky.social for this proof. #booksky

'Helle's Hound' by Oskar Jensen | @viperbooks.bsky.social noveldeelights.com/2025/01/23/h... - via @noveldeelights.bsky.social 💙📚

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

THANK YOU @viperbooks.bsky.social @mirandajewess.bsky.social MORE than lived up to expectations! I was mesmerised!! Kristin Hannah comps apt, but it also reminded me of Jane Urquhart's AWAY (one of my all-time favourites) and every great pioneer story EVER!

Ta dah! 🎉🥂 I can finally reveal the gorgeously creepy paperback cover for #TheExaminer 🦂🎓 Out in the UK on 22 May 🇬🇧 Thanks @viperbooks.bsky.social 🙏🤩

Book 3: Helle’s Hound - @oskarjensen.bsky.social I read this at the end of last year, now I’ve listened to the audio. @viperbooks.bsky.social are producing some of my favourites right now. Adore Torben Helle’s mysteries, modern mysteries with a retro feel. Out Jan 30.

Thanks so much to @viperbooks.bsky.social for gifting me a proof of @guymorpuss.bsky.social's #ATrialinThreeActs which is out March 2025. A Trial In Three Acts follows the cast of a hit play thrown into chaos when the leading lady is beheaded live on stage and every cast member has a motive! #ad

My grateful thanks to the brilliant Drew for sending me a proof of The Midnight King by @tariqashkanani.bsky.social coming from @viperbooks.bsky.social in April. This one sounds simply fabulous 📚

#TheRush by @bethlewis.bsky.social. What a book! I absolutely loved this. It's richly written, following the intertwined lives of three women in the gold rush of 1890s Canada. My favourite book of this year so far! Out with @viperbooks.bsky.social June 2025

'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

Newcastle Noir was just brilliant - I finished with @viperbooks.bsky.social proof party last night for #themidnightking which I’ll be starting as soon as I’ve tackled only the ENTIRE history of crime writing by Martin Edwards that I couldn’t resist after his talk with @anncleeves.bsky.social 😍🙌🏻🙌🏻

Gritty, vivid & completely addictive, #TheRush by @bethlewis.bsky.social brings to life the brutal realities of gold fever, with three determined women embroiled in an intriguing mystery that will keep you hooked to the final page. Out June ‘25 @viperbooks.bsky.social @mirandajewess.bsky.social

Thank you so much @viperbooks.bsky.social for sending me an ARC of A TRIAL IN THREE ACTS, new from @guymorpuss.bsky.social. Out March '25 🤩 Really looking forward to this! #BookSky 💙📚

Received some beautiful bookmail this morning - it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas ~ thanks @viperbooks.bsky.social and @guymorpuss.bsky.social PR product

Huge thanks to @viperbooks.bsky.social for this copy of #ATrialinThreeActs I loved the festive wrapping ❤️🎄 Out March 6th Pre-order bit.ly/4gcAlyV #Bookmail #BookSky

Book 353: Helle’s Hound - Oskar Jensen (published by @viperbooks.bsky.social) out Jan 30. Torben Helle is back, this time pairing up with uni friend Leyla to investigate the death of his mentor in London. Knowingly in the style of golden age mysteries. Full review to follow.