All sixteen year old Drew Finch wants is to be left alone. She's not interested in spending time with her mum and stepdad and when her disruptive fifteen year old brother Mason is expelled from school for the third time and sent to a residential reform academy she's almost relieved.

Everything changes when she's followed home from school by the mysterious Dr Cobey, who claims to have a message from Mason. There is something sinister about the `treatment' he is undergoing. The school is changing people.

Determined to help her brother, Drew must infiltrate the Academy and unearth its deepest, darkest secrets. Before it's too late.

WINNER OF THE PORTSMOUTH BOOK AWARD FOR LONGER NOVELS 2022 SHORTLISTED FOR THE CRIMEFEST AWARD FOR BEST CRIME NOVEL FOR YOUNG ADULTS 2021 WINNER OF THE WARWICKSHIRE YEAR 9 BOOK AWARDS 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUDLEY CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD 2021 *** Lost meets The Hunger Games in this thrilling young adult novel from C.L. Taylor, the Sunday Times and million-copy bestselling author. *** Welcome to The Island. Where your worst fears are about to come true... It was supposed to be the perfect holiday: a week-long trip for six teenage friends on a remote tropical island. But when their guide dies of a stroke leaving them stranded, the trip of a lifetime turns into a nightmare. Because someone on the island knows each of the group's worst fears. And one by one, they're becoming a reality. Seven days in paradise. A deadly secret. Who will make it off the island alive? *** Readers love C. L. Taylor's gripping YA novels: 'What a fabulous storyline. A heart-popping, fast-paced page-turner from start to finish.' 'A cracking, well-informed and interesting storyline. Simply excellent. C.L. Taylor has done it again!' 'A brilliant step into the YA world.' 'From the beginning I was hooked. Twists and turns really pull you in and you find yourself on a roller coaster ride of emotions.' 'I was gripped from start to finish!' 'The concept was brilliant; I really loved the twist turns and tension. Brilliantly written and a delight to read.'

The Sunday Times bestseller returns with her most thrilling book yet, An unputdownable read for fans of Into the Water and The Girlfriend. "Look after your daughter's things. And your daughter..." When a stranger asks Jo Blackmore for a lift she says yes, then swiftly wishes she hadn't. The stranger knows Jo's name, she knows her husband Max and she's got a glove belonging to Jo's two year old daughter Elise. What begins with a subtle threat swiftly turns into a nightmare as the police, social services and even Jo's own husband turn against her. No one believes that Elise is in danger. But Jo knows there's only one way to keep her child safe - RUN. Praise for C.L. Taylor: 'A gripping and disturbing psychological thriller' Clare Mackintosh 'Absorbing and disturbing' Alex Marwood 'Loved it' Fiona Barton 'Claustrophobic, tense and thrilling' Elizabeth Haynes

From the Sunday Times and Richard & Judy Book Club bestselling author, comes a thrilling, suspenseful tale that will leave you breathless. ‘An absolute belter of a novel’ ELIZABETH HAYNES ‘A sensational novel!’ GILLIAN MCALLISTER You come to Soul Shrink to be healed. You don’t expect to die. Two years ago, Fran’s sister Jenna disappeared on a wellness retreat in Gozo that went terribly wrong. Tom Wade, the now infamous man behind Soul Shrink Retreats, has just been released from prison after serving his sentence for the deaths of two people. But he has never let on what happened to the third victim: Jenna. Determined to find out the truth, Fran books herself onto his upcoming retreat – the first since his release – and finds herself face to face with the man who might hold the key to her sister’s disappearance. The only question is, will she escape the retreat alive? Or does someone out there want Jenna’s secrets to stay hidden? The master of suspense is back. Prepare yourself for the latest heart-in-mouth rollercoaster ride from the Sunday Times bestseller. Readers love Her Last Holiday! ‘Hooked me in from the first few pages! Devoured it in one sitting and could not put it down.’ NetGalley review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Omg! Her best book yet! Brilliant! 10/10.’ NetGalley review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘The suspense throughout was immense!’ NetGalley review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘An absolutely spellbinding read!’ NetGalley review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I looooooooved this book! Kept me captivated from the very first page right up to the last!’ NetGalley review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Wow, wow and wow! I just couldn't put it down.’ NetGalley review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘This will keep you hooked until the very last word.’ NetGalley review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A twisty psychological thriller full to the brim with suspense!’ NetGalley review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

'Breathlessly gripping' - international bestselling author Lucy Foley, author of The Guest List Seven guests. Seven secrets. One killer. Do you dare to SLEEP? All Anna wants is to be able to sleep. But crushing insomnia, terrifying night terrors and memories of that terrible night are making it impossible. If only she didn't feel so guilty... To escape her past, Anna takes a job at a hotel on the remote Scottish island of Rum, but when seven guests join her, what started as a retreat from the world turns into a deadly nightmare. Each of the guests have a secret, but one of them is lying - about who they are and why they're on the island. There's a murderer staying in the Bay View hotel. And they've set their sights on Anna. Seven strangers. Seven secrets. One deadly lie. The million-copy bestseller is back in her darkest, twistiest book to date. Read it if you dare! Perfect for fans of Lucy Foley's The Guest List and Alice Feeney's Daisy Darker. Everybody is LOVING Sleep! 'Wow just wow!... I loved it' Karen's World 'WOW!... Sleep!!! You wont get any if you start to read it in the evening! So be warned!!!' Reader review 'Superb... her books just keep getting better and better - this one was a belter!!' Donna's Book Blog 'A cracking story... A heart in your mouth plot' Books from Dusk 'til Dawn 'Extremely creepy, atmospheric and twisty.' CLAIRE DOUGLAS, author of Do Not Disturb 'Sleep will keep you up all night.' MARK EDWARDS, author of The Retreat 'As always, C L Taylor knocks it out of the park!' Reader review "Reminiscent of Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None... a final killer twist that is as satisfying as it is unexpected" Mature Times "Everything we love in a thriller: creepy, tense and pacy enough to get your heart racing" Good Housekeeping 'A perfectly written psychological thriller... filled with plot twist after plot twist... I was on the edge of my seat for every page.' 2016 and Beyond

'A rollercoaster of a suspense novel with multiple twists' Daily Mail KEEPING THIS SECRET WAS KILLING HER... A gripping psychological thriller about the deadly secrets your children can keep... Sue Jackson has the perfect family but when her teenage daughter Charlotte deliberately steps in front of a bus and ends up in a coma she is forced to face a very dark reality. Retracing her daughter's steps she finds a horrifying entry in Charlotte's diary and is forced to head deep into Charlotte's private world. In her hunt for evidence, Sue begins to mistrust everyone close to her daughter and she's forced to look further, into the depths of her own past. Sue will do anything to protect her daughter. But what if she is the reason that Charlotte is in danger?

‘Wow. Addictive. And what an ending!’ – Sunday Times bestselling author Claire Douglas ‘A red-hot, non-stop rollercoaster of a book’ – Sunday Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell What would you do if your husband framed you for murder? Five years ago, Olivia Sutherland was convicted of plotting to murder her husband. Now she’s finally free, Olivia has three goals. Repair her relationship with her daughter. Clear her name. And bring down her husband – the man who framed her. Just how far is she willing to go to get what she wants? And how far will her husband go to stop her? Because his lies run deeper than Olivia could ever have imagined – and this time it’s not her freedom that’s in jeopardy, but her life… Your favourite authors LOVE The Guilty Couple! ‘Shot through with a propulsive sense of gritty threat and high-stakes tension, this is bold, memorable, top-tier thriller writing.’ – bestselling author B P Walter ‘The Guilty Couple is a one-breath rollercoaster ride, with twists, turns, ups and downs… then just when you think it’s over, there’s another loop ahead! A proper, classy thriller.’ – Janice Hallett, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Appeal ‘CL Taylor has done it again. A fast paced, thrilling read that I couldn’t put down. I loved it!’ – bestselling author Heidi Perks ‘I loved The Guilty Couple so much. Twisty, compelling, tense and fast-paced and thoroughly unputdownable.’ – multimillion-copy bestselling author Angela Marsons 'Wow, The Guilty Couple doesn’t let up for a moment – you’re in for ride!' – bestselling author Sarah Pinborough ‘Twisty, taut, unbearably tense. Brava, C.L. Taylor, you’ve done it again!’ – bestselling author Emma Stonex And readers LOVE The Guilty Couple, too! ‘A hugely entertaining, tense and twisting read.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Pulse-pounding’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Thrilling and exciting…the ending was brilliant.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘My heart was in my throat throughout the entire book.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘This is the best book I have read in a long time.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Wow!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER This was no accident... Haunting, compelling, this psychological thriller will have you hooked. Perfect for fans of Gone Girl and Daughter. I know your name's not really Jane Hughes . . . Jane Hughes has a loving partner, a job in an animal sanctuary and a tiny cottage in rural Wales. She's happier than she's ever been but her life is a lie. Jane Hughes does not really exist. Five years earlier Jane and her then best friends went on holiday but what should have been the trip of a lifetime rapidly descended into a nightmare that claimed the lives of two of the women. Jane has tried to put the past behind her but someone knows the truth about what happened. Someone who won't stop until they've destroyed Jane and everything she loves...

'Claustrophobic and compelling' KARIN SLAUGHTER 'A rollercoaster with multiple twists' DAILY MAIL 'A million dollar new story from a million selling author' SARAH PINBOROUGH Sometimes your first love won't let you go... When Lou Wandsworth ran away to France with her teacher Mike Hughes, she thought he was the love of her life. But Mike wasn't what he seemed and he left her life in pieces. Now 32, Lou discovers that he is involved with teenager Chloe Meadows. Determined to make sure history doesn't repeat itself, she returns home to confront him for the damage he's caused. But Mike is a predator of the worst kind, and as Lou tries to bring him to justice, it's clear that she could once again become his prey... The million copy Sunday Times bestseller returns with a gripping psychological thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat. Readers are gripped by The Fear: 'A 5-star read! It was so gripping that I was literally on the edge of my seat the entire novel just wondering what the hell was going to happen next!' Reader review 'A skewering portrait of obsessive love and psychological manipulation, this book gets under the skin from the outset and won't let you go until you've gasped at THAT ending. This is Taylor's best book yet.' - CJ Cooke author of I Know My Name 'One of my favourite psychological thrillers of the year!' Reader review 'Wow! Such a fast-paced, gripping, tense thriller. My heart was in my mouth at the end. Her best yet!' - Claire Douglas author of The Couple at No.9 'An amazing, enthralling rollercoaster of a story. I just couldn't put it down.' Reader review 'Wow! What a fantastic heart pounding read - with a very unexpected twist at the end! This book would make an excellent movie.' Reader review 'What a wild, rollercoaster of a ride with twists and turns you'll never guess. I couldn't put this book down - I read it through the night! If I could give more than five stars I would. Reader review

'The Missing has a delicious sense of foreboding from the first page, luring us into the heart of a family with terrible secrets and making us wait, with pounding hearts for the final, agonizing twist. Loved it' Fiona Barton, Author of THE WIDOW You love your family. They make you feel safe. You trust them. But should you...? 'A twisty-turny psychological thriller ... Well-written, pacy and gripping' Fabulous When fifteen-year-old Billy Wilkinson goes missing in the middle of the night, his mother, Claire, blames herself. She's not the only one. There isn't a single member of Billy's family that doesn't feel guilty. But the Wilkinsons are so used to keeping secrets from one another that it isn't until six months later, after an appeal for information goes horribly wrong, that the truth begins to surface. Claire is sure of two things - that Billy is still alive and that her friends and family had nothing to do with his disappearance. A mother's instinct is never wrong. Or is it? Sometimes those closest to us are the ones with the most to hide... "I was grabbed by this book from the first page and read the ending with an open mouth. I wish I could unread it so that I could go back and discover it again. Brilliant!" Angela Marsons, Author of SILENT SCREAM

A woman reports a crime to the police, with unexpected results The grieving widow who finds that she's about to lose more than just her husband When a man attempts the perfect murder, it's not quite as easy as he thinks Two men in prison play a deadly game of Scrabble A young woman tries to trick an old man and gets more than she bargained for Sometimes crimes are solved in ways you can't explain A murderer about to be hanged finds that's not the worst thing that can happen You never know who's going to turn up at your door Original stories from Mark Billingham, Clare Mackintosh, James Oswald, Jane Casey, Angela Marsons, Harry Bingham, Antonia Hodgson and CL Taylor - specially written for Quick Reads.

'Wow. Addictive. And what an ending!' - Sunday Times bestselling author Claire Douglas 'A red-hot, non-stop rollercoaster of a book' - Sunday Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell What would you do if your husband framed you for murder? Five years ago, Olivia Sutherland was convicted of plotting to murder her husband. Now she's finally free, Olivia has three goals. Repair her relationship with her daughter. Clear her name. And bring down her husband - the man who framed her. Just how far is she willing to go to get what she wants? And how far will her husband go to stop her? Because his lies run deeper than Olivia could ever have imagined - and this time it's not her freedom that's in jeopardy, but her life... Your favourite authors LOVE The Guilty Couple! 'Shot through with a propulsive sense of gritty threat and high-stakes tension, this is bold, memorable, top-tier thriller writing.' - bestselling author B P Walter 'The Guilty Couple is a one-breath rollercoaster ride, with twists, turns, ups and downs... then just when you think it's over, there's another loop ahead! A proper, classy thriller.' - Janice Hallett, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Appeal 'CL Taylor has done it again. A fast paced, thrilling read that I couldn't put down. I loved it!' - bestselling author Heidi Perks 'I loved The Guilty Couple so much. Twisty, compelling, tense and fast-paced and thoroughly unputdownable.' - multimillion-copy bestselling author Angela Marsons 'Wow, The Guilty Couple doesn't let up for a moment - you're in for ride!' - bestselling author Sarah Pinborough 'Twisty, taut, unbearably tense. Brava, C.L. Taylor, you've done it again!' - bestselling author Emma Stonex And readers love The Guilty Couple, too! 'A hugely entertaining, tense and twisting read.' 'Pulse-pounding' 'Thrilling and exciting...the ending was brilliant.' 'My heart was in my throat throughout the entire book.' 'This is the best book I have read in a long time.' 'Wow!'

From the Sunday Times and Richard & Judy Book Club bestselling author, comes a thrilling, suspenseful tale that will leave you breathless. 'An absolute belter of a novel' ELIZABETH HAYNES 'A sensational novel!' GILLIAN MCALLISTER You come to Soul Shrink to be healed. You don't expect to die. Two years ago, Fran's sister Jenna disappeared on a wellness retreat in Gozo that went terribly wrong. Tom Wade, the now infamous man behind Soul Shrink Retreats, has just been released from prison after serving his sentence for the deaths of two people. But he has never let on what happened to the third victim: Jenna. Determined to find out the truth, Fran books herself onto his upcoming retreat - the first since his release - and finds herself face to face with the man who might hold the key to her sister's disappearance. The only question is, will she escape the retreat alive? Or does someone out there want Jenna's secrets to stay hidden? The master of suspense is back. Prepare yourself for the latest heart-in-mouth rollercoaster ride from the Sunday Times bestseller. Readers love Her Last Holiday! 'Hooked me in from the first few pages! Devoured it in one sitting and could not put it down.' NetGalley review 'Omg! Her best book yet! Brilliant! 10/10.' NetGalley review 'The suspense throughout was immense!' NetGalley review 'An absolutely spellbinding read!' NetGalley review 'I looooooooved this book! Kept me captivated from the very first page right up to the last!' NetGalley review 'Wow, wow and wow! I just couldn't put it down.' NetGalley review 'This will keep you hooked until the very last word.' NetGalley review 'A twisty psychological thriller full to the brim with suspense!' NetGalley review

The Sunday Times bestseller and Richard & Judy Book Club author of Sleep returns with her most gripping book yet. STRANGERS: A TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTELLER 'Fast-paced and satisfying' DAILY MAIL 'I was glued from start to finish!' SHARI LAPENA Ursula, Gareth and Alice have never met before. Ursula thinks she killed the love of her life. Gareth's been receiving strange postcards. And Alice is being stalked. None of them are used to relying on others - but when the three strangers' lives unexpectedly collide, there's only one thing for it: they have to stick together. Otherwise, one of them will die. Three strangers, two secrets, one terrifying evening. The million-copy bestseller returns with a gripping new novel that will keep you guessing until the end.

The Sunday Times bestseller and Richard & Judy Book Club author of Sleep returns with her most gripping book yet. STRANGERS: A TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTELLER 'Fast-paced and satisfying' DAILY MAIL 'I was glued from start to finish!' SHARI LAPENA Ursula, Gareth and Alice have never met before. Ursula thinks she killed the love of her life. Gareth's been receiving strange postcards. And Alice is being stalked. None of them are used to relying on others - but when the three strangers' lives unexpectedly collide, there's only one thing for it: they have to stick together. Otherwise, one of them will die. Three strangers, two secrets, one terrifying evening. The million-copy bestseller returns with a gripping new novel that will keep you guessing until the end.