Viper Books

We are delighted to announce that @JaniceHallett is returning to Lower Lockwood with #TheSilentAppeal, the long-awaited sequel to her smash-hit debut The Appeal. Coming September 2026 🎭 A New Play. Another Murder. Who Will Speak the Truth? Signed copies: waterstones.com/book/the-silen…

It's Hammer Time...! 🔨🔨🔨 @JoWallaceAuthor returns this August with #TheArtOfGettingHammered, now available to request on NetGalley! 👉 tinyurl.com/GettingHammere…

'The Hollow Boys has a well-constructed, propulsive plot and tremendous atmosphere ... a masterpiece of smalltown horror' #TheHollowBoys by @TariqAshkanani gets a wonderful write-up in the Guardian – out now in hardback! 📚 theguardian.com/books/2026/may…

🚨 #TheHollowBoys by @TariqAshkanani is out today 🚨 The latest thriller from the McIlvanney Prize winning author of #TheMidnightKing, set in a dying rust-belt town in America. Two children lost, the wrong one found... viperbooks.co.uk/work/the-hollo…

Read a Q&A with @TariqAshkanani, who talks his small-town American setting, police procedurals and his favourite dark fiction ahead of tomorrow's publication of #TheHollowBoys 📚 viperbooks.co.uk/2026/05/13/aut…

Read an extract from @TariqAshkanani's gripping new thriller, following the fallout after two boys go missing in a dying rust-belt town. #TheHollowBoys is out tomorrow! viperbooks.co.uk/2026/05/13/the…

#TheHollowBoys by @TariqAshkanani has been recommended by The Critic, described as a 'powerful book'. Get your hands on a copy of the McIlvanney Prize winning author's new thriller this Thursday! 📚 thecritic.co.uk/murders-for-ma…

Gasp! 😱 Not only is it an absolute honour for #TheExaminer to be longlisted for the #TheakstonsAwards but also there is a MUG to commemorate the occasion 🤩 Thanks so much @HarrogateFest 🙏 Don't forget to cast your vote here before Thursday 28 May👇 bit.ly/TheakstonsAwar…

We are incredibly proud to have two fantastic authors shortlisted for the Fingerprint Awards 🎉📚 #TheMidnightKing by @TariqAshkanani for Overall Crime Book of the Year 🚨 #TheRush by Beth Lewis for Historical Crime Book of the Year 💰 Vote here: capitalcrime.org/fingerprint-aw…

'A page-turning, unsettling read' #TheHollowBoys by @TariqAshkanani, author of the award-winning thriller #TheMidnightKing, is an iPaper best new crime book! Get your hands on a copy next Thursday 📚 inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyl…

Yay! #TheKillerQuestion is out in paperback in the UK TODAY! 🍻 Huge thanks to @mirandajewess and the team at @viperbooks as well as all the amazing bloggers, readers, reviewers, librarians and booksellers who've supported this quiztastic tale 🕵️‍♀️🔎 Happy sleuthing!

#TheKillerQuestion by @JaniceHallett is out today in paperback 🍻✏️🩸 Janice Hallett's sixth Sunday Times bestselling mystery, featuring battling pub quiz teams and a grisly murder. Can you can solve the case of the missing landlords? viperbooks.co.uk/work/the-kille…

A huge congratulations to @JaniceHallett and @TariqAshkanani, who are longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Award for #TheExaminer and #TheMidnightKing 🦂🚨 Public voting for the shortlist is now open! To vote head to tinyurl.com/mva39uw3

Canada, 1898. The gold rush is on, fortunes are lost as quick as they're won and dangerous men will do anything for a glimpse of gold 💰 Longlisted for CWA's Historical Dagger and Gold Dagger, #TheRush by Beth Lewis is out in paperback today! viperbooks.co.uk/work/the-rush/

The secret is out... We are delighted to be publishing Will Dean's latest mind-bending thriller #TheLightAtTheEndOfTheWorld in April 2027. And Then There Were None meets Station Eleven in a genre-busting read! 🦌 thebookseller.com/rights/will-de…

Happy Monday! 🍻 What a glorious day signing special editions of #TheKillerQuestion paperback 🕵️‍♀️🔎 Check out that killer spredge! 🤩 The perfect read for crime fans, quizzers and anyone who loves a confounding mystery! Out 7 May @viperbooks 🎉 Available to pre order now

@guymorpuss Congratulations Guy, so deserved!!

Delighted to be part of this!

@TariqAshkanani @guymorpuss Viper is up for Best Crime & Mystery Publisher! We publish books with bite: crime, thrillers and other mysterious fiction 🐍🩸

@TariqAshkanani @guymorpuss #TheVanishingPlace by Zoë Rankin is up for the ILP John Creasey First Novel Dagger 🏔️ A young girl stumbles into town, stained with blood. She won't speak, but her path is tracked through New Zealand's wilderness to a cabin and scene of a double murder. Out now in paperback.

We are delighted to have such a great sweep of nominations for this year's CWA Daggers! In addition to four of our books being longlisted, Viper is also up for Best Crime & Mystery Publisher 🐍🩸 thecwa.co.uk/awards-and-com… @The_CWA