Cracking surprise book mail thank you Drew! Love the sound of The Art of Getting Hammered by Joanna Wallace coming from @viperbooks.bsky.social in August
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✍️📚AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT📚✍️
For #ThrillerThursday it’s time to celebrate the wonderful @janicehallett.bsky.social @viperbooks.bsky.social
#TheAppeal is one of my fave ever books & I’m EXTREMELY excited about the very much anticipated sequel, #TheSilentAppeal coming Sept!😍
#authorspotlight #janicehallett
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Viper is up for Best Crime & Mystery Publisher!
We publish books with bite: crime, thrillers and other mysterious fiction 🐍🩸
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A promotional graphic featuring with the book cover of The Vanishing Place by Zoë Rankin. The book is on a blue to orange gradient background with a gold Viper logo in the bottom left-hand corner and a CWA roundel to the right of the book.
#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 murder. Out now in paperback.
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#ATrialInThreeActs by @guymorpuss.bsky.social is up for the Whodunnit Dagger ⚖️
Six nights a week the cast of Daughter of the Revolution performs to a sold-out audience. Until one night leading lady Alexandra Dyce is beheaded live on stage. Out now in paperback.
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A promotional graphic featuring with the book cover of The Midnight King by Tariq Ashkanani. The book is on a blue to orange gradient background with a gold Viper logo in the bottom left-hand corner and a CWA roundel to the right of the book.
#TheMidnightKing by @tariqashkanani.bsky.social is up for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 🚨
Lucas Cole is a bestselling writer. A quiet and unassuming man, he's a beloved celebrity in his small town. Lucas Cole is also a serial killer. Out now in paperback.
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A promotional graphic featuring with the book cover of The Rush by Beth Lewis. The book is on a blue to orange gradient background with a gold Viper logo in the bottom right-hand corner and two CWA roundels on either side of the book.
#TheRush by @bethlewis.bsky.social is up for both the KAA Gold Dagger and the Historical Dagger ✨💰
Canada, 1898. The Yukon gold rush is on. Fortunes are made as quickly as they're lost, and Dawson City has become a lawless settlement. Out in paperback 23rd April.
viperbooks.co.uk/work/the-rush/
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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 🐍🩸
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A rectangular landscape graphic with a red background. In the centre of the graphic is the paperback book The Dead Husband Cookbook by Danielle Valentine. The Viper Books logo is in the bottom right-hand corner.
She has the recipe for the perfect murder...
Tuck in to a deliciously gripping new thriller from the author of #DelicateCondition. We're plating up #TheDeadHusbandCookbook by Danielle Valentine in paperback today 🍽️
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'Fans of inventive crime and quirky, laugh-out-loud storytelling will find themselves hooked'
Great to see #VivianDiesAgain by C.E. Hulse included in Northern Life’s Best Spring Reads!
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Viper, the crime and thriller imprint of Profile Books, has acquired two Cold War thrillers from journalist William Cook 👇 #BookSky
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Request #TheSilentAppeal by @janicehallett.bsky.social on NetGalley 🎭️
This September Janice Hallett is returning to Lower Lockwood and the world of The Appeal. Today we’ll be giving 50 lucky readers the chance to read on NetGalley ahead of the Easter weekend 📖
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#fivestarflashback ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
#BookReview: Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward @viperbooks.bsky.social #LookingGlassSound #damppebbles
➡️ buff.ly/3B5pzeG
#whattoread #bookish #BookSky #skybrarians #bookrecs #bookrecommendation
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@guymorpuss.bsky.social's twisty courtroom mystery #ATrialInThreeActs is out now in paperback! Featuring a decapitation, a nail-biting trial and an eccentric barrister ⚖️
🩸 'Delicious' Daily Mail
🩸 'Splendid' Financial Times
🩸 'Ingenious' The Times
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'Anna Harris is a fascinating twist on Ripley, replacing Highsmith’s antihero with a restless, amoral woman'
#TheArtfulAnnaHarris by Tracy Maton is featured on this list of @thetimes.com's nine best crime novels to read this month 🖤
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There's a killer in court. But are they in the dock?
@guymorpuss.bsky.social's twisty legal thriller #ATrialInThreeActs is out today in paperback. When an actress is decapitated live on stage, a nail-biting court case is sure to follow. But who is the guilty party?
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'An engaging début. I shall definitely be looking out for Tracy Maton’s next novel'
A stellar review in Bookmunch for #TheArtfulAnnaHarris by Tracy Maton, out now! 💫
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🖤 Unmissable lunchtime reading 🖤
To celebrate publication day, we're giving you the chance to dip into Tracy Maton's brilliant debut thriller #TheArtfulAnnaHarris.
Read an extract on the Viper website now: tinyurl.com/TheArtfulAnnaHarrisExtract
A rectangular, landscape graphic. The hardback book The Artful Anna Harris by Tracy Maton is in the centre of the graphic. Early reader reviews appear either side of the book. They say, 'I couldn't put it down', 'A page-turner full of sharp observations', 'Full of suspense and twists' and 'Hugely enjoyable read'. The Viper Books logo is at the bottom of this graphic.
Check out these stellar early reader reviews for #TheArtfulAnnaHarris 💫
Tracy Maton's stylish debut thriller – perfect for fans of The Talented Mr Ripley – publishes today! Who's got their copy?! 🖤
We can't wait for Anna to be your new favourite anti-hero!
tinyurl.com/TheArtfulAnnaHarris
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'Before I began to write I had decided Anna should be someone you might be friends with...'
A great Q&A with #TheArtfulAnnaHarris author Tracy Maton about her debut novel, anti-heroes and Highsmith 🖤
Anna Harris walks into your life tomorrow. Who's excited?!
Read more: tinyurl.com/TracyMatonQA
📚#BookReview📚
4⭐️#TheMidnightKing by @tariqashkanani.bsky.social @viperbooks.bsky.social is a captivating dark thriller that gives twist after twist taking you on an emotional rollercoaster of a journey throughout!👀
Full Review 🔗 tinyurl.com/6nweh285
#BookSky📚💙 #Bookblogger
*NEW BLOG POST*
My review of #NowhereBurning by Catriona Ward is live on #damppebbles!
Utterly compelling, highly unsettling, and my favourite book of the year so far. The sense of foreboding is exquisite. Truly unforgettable.
My review ➡️ buff.ly/nEYilBT
@viperbooks.bsky.social
#BookSky #bookish
A rectangular landscape graphic with a parchment background and an ornate green border, splattered with blood. The hardback book The Bells of Fortune by Leonora Nattrass stands in the centre of the graphic. On the left-hand side is text that reads, 'Leicestershire, 1774. The hunt for an ancient king could prove deadly...'. On the right-hand side is the text, 'November 2026' and the Viper Books logo.
🔔 COVER REVEAL 🔔
Susan Bell returns in the sequel to the critically acclaimed #TheBellsOfWestminster from bestselling author Leonora Nattrass 💚
#TheBellsOfFortune publishes November 2026. Historical thriller fans, mark your calendars!
@catrionaward.bsky.social’s spellbinding dark fairy tale #NowhereBurning is out today 🔥
‘Truly a masterpiece’
‘Bound to haunt me for weeks to come’
‘Unsettling, potent and packed with emotion’
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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Read a Q&A with @catrionaward.bsky.social, talking all things #NowhereBurning on the Viper website. From the wilderness setting of the Colorado Rockies to her folk horror inspirations 🔥
Nowhere Burning is out tomorrow!
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🎟️ EVENT 🎟️
@catrionaward.bsky.social is going to be at Foyles on Thursday, in conversation with Lauren Beukes, talking about her chilling new thriller #NowhereBurning 🔥
📍 Foyles Charing Cross Road
⏰ Thursday 19th Feb, 7pm
The Nowhere children are expecting you...
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Promotional graphic for Waterstones reading: “25% OFF RRP – Books Coming Soon” (Online Only, 17–20 February). Featured title: The Killer Question by Janice Hallett, a Sunday Times bestseller. The cover shows bold purple lettering on a cream background with red splatters, a pub quiz chalkboard with a large dripping red question mark, and the tagline “The sudden-death round will be murder…”.
The answer is murder. The question is whodunnit? 🍺
Get 25% off #TheKillerQuestion paperback, when you pre-order from
@waterstones.bsky.social until February 20th and use code: FEB26
'Some people attract death. It loves them, twines around them like ivy, follows them all their lives'
Read an extract from #NowhereBurning by @catrionaward.bsky.social, out in hardback on Thursday 🔥
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'A dark, grimly compelling and very twisty tale'
#NowhereBurning by @catrionaward.bsky.social is a Guardian pick for the best SFF and horror titles out this month! This chilling story about runaway children in the Colorado Rockies is out on Thursday 🔥
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'Extremely well-written ... An account of village life that is very different to that which is usually offered. Well worth reading'
A brilliant review for Tracy Maton's debut #TheArtfulAnnaHarris in The Critic 🖤