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The next darkly-funny thrill-ride of a book in the bestselling Washington Poe series. Praise for M W Craven: 'Heart-pounding, hilarious, sharp and shocking, Dead Ground is further proof that M.W. Craven never disappoints. Miss this series at your peril.' Chris Whitaker 'Dark and entertaining...

Winner of the prestigious CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER AWARD 2022 Longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year 2022 'Heart-pounding, hilarious, sharp and shocking, Dead Ground is further proof that M.W. Craven never disappoints. Miss this series at your peril.' Chris...

NOW A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The next unmissable novel* in the Sunday Times bestselling, multi-award-winning Washington Poe series. Poe and Tilly fans: be prepared for the most twisted thrill-ride so far . . . --- 'Another standout entry in a series that keeps setting the bar higher', Heat 'The...

Shortlisted for CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2025 for thriller of the year ----- 'Craven has unleashed Ben Koenig into the thriller world. Long may he raise hell in the pages.' David Baldacci, #1 New York Times bestselling author 'Perhaps for the first time, Jack Reacher has a convincing rival...

'Mesmerising, macabre and magnificent. The Mercy Chair is truly terrifying, laugh-out-loud funny, and impossibly clever. Poe and Tilly are unstoppable' Chris Whitaker 'Washington Poe is a brilliant creation, from one of the finest and most inventive crime writers of today' Peter James ---- Are...

'A brutal and thrilling page-turner' The Sun 'Compelling' Heat 'The best pure mystery plot of the year' Morning Star 'Gleefully gory and witty, with a terrific sense of place' Sunday Mirror LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER ______________________ After The Puppet Show, a new storm is coming...

'Deeply layered, fiendishly clever and absorbing' Matt Hilton, author of the Joe Hunter series The first gritty thriller in the Avison Fluke series by M. W. Craven, the acclaimed author of The Puppet Show. Detective Inspector Avison Fluke is a man on the edge. He has committed a crime to get...

'Fantastic' Martina Cole 'Dark, sharp and compelling' Peter James 'A thrilling curtain raiser for what looks set to be a great new series' Mick Herron *SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 CWA GOLD DAGGER AWARD* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR IN THE AMAZON PUBLISHING READERS' AWARDS*...

'This is high quality crime writing' A A Dhand The second dark and twisted thriller in the Avison Fluke series by M. W. Craven, the acclaimed author of The Puppet Show. Investigating how a severed hand ends up on the third green of a Cumbrian golf course is not how Detective Inspector Avison...

In The Killing Field, Poe and Tilly are having breakfast, wondering how to spend the rest of their holiday, when their presence is requested at a Cumbrian airfield. An airfield that, during the 2001 foot and mouth crisis, was known as the killing field...

In A Permanent Solution Poe and Tilly are on an HR course in Wales when a murder is committed in their hotel. But, maybe not everything is as it seems. This story first appeared in First Edition: Celebrating 21 Years of Goldsboro Books...

MAJOR STREAMING NEWS TO COME 'Koenig's insouciant style and sharp thinking pack a very hefty punch' The Times 'A superb thriller that will have everyone gasping' David Baldacci 'Badass and brilliant' Chris Whitaker 'A blistering barnstormer of an action thriller, this demands to be read' Heat...

Shortlisted for the VN Thriller of the Year 2022 Longlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger 2021 'Dark, sharp and compelling' PETER JAMES 'Fantastic' MARTINA COLE 'Britain's answer to Harry Bosch' MATT HILTON 'A powerful thriller from an explosive new talent' DAVID MARK LONGLISTED...

Poe's just hanging around on a Saturday afternoon... Dangling from a hook in a meat packing plant isn't how Detective Sergeant Washington Poe wants to spend his weekend. He's been punched and kicked and threatened, and when a contract killer arrives it seems things are about to go from bad to...

A collection of seven short stories, recorded here for the first time. In The Killing Field, Poe and Tilly are having breakfast, wondering how to spend the rest of their holiday, when their presence is requested at a Cumbrian airfield. An airfield that, during the 2001 foot and mouth crisis, was...

WINNER OF THE THEAKSTON OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2023 'The most joyously exciting novel I've read in years . . . [The] sense of fun and adventure . . . allied to a remarkable lightness of touch over nightmarish subject matter, makes for the kind of novel that inspired me to write...

In Once in a Red Moon, whilst on a murder-mystery evening in deepest darkest Northumberland, Poe manages to annoy everyone whilst simultaneously solving a mystery - what happened to a five-carat red diamond called the Red Moon of...

Mondo Bizzarro sees Tilly drag Poe to Durham to meet her favourite fantasy author, Aldridge Fowler but when they arrive, he's already dead - killed by his own hand. Despite the overwhelming evidence though, Poe suspects the bookshop staff might be hiding a terrible secret...

Dead Man's Fingers sees Poe, Tilly and Edgar, Poe's English springer spaniel, enjoying a picnic at a nature reserve. When Edgar chases a rabbit, and Poe and Tilly chase after Edgar, they stumble upon a twenty-year-old mystery, a mystery that couldn't be solved until now...

Ein Serienmörder foltert seine Opfer in den uralten Steinkreisen der Grafschaft Cumbria und verbrennt sie bei lebendigem Leibe. Der Täter hinterlässt keinerlei Spuren – bis die scheinbar willkürlichen Foltermale des dritten Opfers bei einer genauen Untersuchung den Namen "Washington Poe" ergeben. Könnte Detective Poe das nächste Opfer sein?