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Nothing Important Happened Today

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 14:48:22 +0200

When strangers take part in a series of group suicides, everything suggests that a cult is to blame. But how do you stop a cult when no one knows they are members? A shocking, mesmerisingly original and pitch-black thriller from the critically acclaimed Will Carver.
Nine suicides
One Cult
No leader
Nine people arrive one night on Chelsea Bridge. They've never met. But at the same time, they run, and leap to their deaths. Each of them received a letter in the post that morning, a pre-written suicide note, and a page containing only four words: Nothing important happened today.
That is how they knew they had been chosen to become a part of The People Of Choice: A mysterious suicide cult whose members have no knowledge of one another.
Thirty-two people on that train witness the event. Two of them will be next. By the morning, People Of Choice are appearing around the globe: a decapitation in Germany, a public shooting at a university in...

Hinton Hollow Death Trip

Thu, 27 Aug 2020 10:30:40 +0300

Five days in the history of a small rural town, visited and infected by darkness, are recounted by Evil itself. A stunning high-concept thriller from the bestselling author of Good Samaritans and Nothing Important Happened Today.
'Cements Carver as one of the most exciting authors in Britain. After this, he'll have his own cult following' Daily Express
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It's a small story. A small town with small lives that you would never have heard about if none of this had happened.
Hinton Hollow. Population 5,120.
Little Henry Wallace was eight years old and one hundred miles from home before anyone talked to him. His mother placed him on a train with a label around his neck, asking for him to be kept safe for a week, kept away from Hinton Hollow.
Because something was coming.
Narrated by Evil itself, Hinton Hollow Death Trip recounts five days in the history of this small rural town, when darkness paid a visit...

Kill them with Kindness

Wed, 26 Nov 2025 21:21:35 +0200

Girl 4

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:55:44 +0200

Detective Inspector January David has always put his professional before his private life, but the two worlds are about to clash horrifically as he visits his latest crime scene. He is confronted by a lifeless figure suspended ten feet above a theatre stage, blood pouring from her face into a coffin below. This gruesome execution is the work of an elusive serial killer. Three women from three different London suburbs, each murdered with elaborate and chilling precision. And as January stares at the most beautiful corpse he's ever seen, he detects the killer's hallmark.But Girl 4 is different: she is alive -- barely. And January recognises her...

Dead Set

Thu, 14 Nov 2013 12:22:36 +0200

Following on from Girl 4 and The Two, Detective Inspector January David is back in a fantastic new thriller.Detective Inspector January David doesn't love me.He loves his missing sister. He loves his job.But he doesn't love me. Not in the way he should.I am his wife. I am still his wife.And I will do anything for him.No matter what I have to sacrifice.

Suicide Thursday

Thu, 22 Dec 2022 00:11:48 +0200

Kill them with Kindness

Wed, 26 Nov 2025 21:21:35 +0200

Upstairs at the Beresford

Wed, 25 Jan 2023 10:31:54 +0200

Hotel Beresford: a grand old building, just outside the city, where any soul is welcome, and strange goings-on mask explosive, deadly secrets. A chilling, darkly funny sequel to Will Carver's bestselling The Beresford...

There are worse places than hell...

Hotel Beresford is a grand, old building, just outside the city. And any soul is welcome.

Danielle Ortega works nights, singing at whatever dive bar will offer her a gig. She gets by, keeping to herself. Sam Walker gambles and drinks, and can't keep his hands to himself. Now he's tied up in a shoe closet with a dent in his head that matches Danielle's broken ashtray.

The man in 731 has been dead for two days and his dog has not stopped barking. Two doors down, the couple who always smokes on the window ledge will mysteriously fall.

Upstairs, in the penthouse, Mr Balliol sees it all. He can peer into every crevice of every floor of the hotel from his screen-filled...

The Two

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 14:48:22 +0200

They Kill Without Mercy. Disappear Without Trace.They are The Two.And now the stakes are raised once more for Detective January David. 5 lie dead, brutally murdered - the first taken on the night of Halloween and as autumn bleeds into winter more ritualistic murders are discovered. January must battle his demons, for in his mind lies the clue to stopping a ruthless murderer. But his worst nightmares have literally come true when he discovers there's not one but two twisted killers on the loose ...

The Beresford

Wed, 21 Jul 2021 16:45:21 +0300

Everything stays the same for the tenants of The Beresford, a grand old apartment building just outside the city ... until the doorbell rings... Will Carver returns with an eerie, deliciously and uncomfortably dark standalone thriller.
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Just outside the city – any city, every city – is a grand, spacious but affordable apartment building called The Beresford.
There's a routine at The Beresford.
For Mrs May, every day's the same: a cup of cold, black coffee in the morning, pruning roses, checking on her tenants, wine, prayer and an afternoon nap. She never leaves the building.
Abe Schwartz also lives at The Beresford. His housemate, Sythe, no longer does. Because Abe just killed him.
In exactly sixty seconds, Blair Conroy will ring the doorbell to her new home and Abe will answer the door. They will become friends. Perhaps lovers.
And, when the time comes for one of them to die, as is always the case at The...

The Killer Inside

Fri, 15 Nov 2013 06:50:41 +0200

The Daves Next Door--The shocking, explosive new thriller from cult bestselling author Will Carver

Mon, 31 Oct 2022 18:30:25 +0200

The lives of five strangers collide on a London train carriage, as they become involved in an incident that will change them all forever. A shocking, intensely emotive and wildly original new thriller from Will Carver...
'Impossibly original, stylish, sinister and heartfelt. The Daves Next Door is so wildly fresh and unmatched, and once again proves that Will Carver has talent and creativity to burn' Chris Whitaker
'Once again, Will bends and twists the genre with a novel that is astonishing, profound and hard-hitting' David Jackson
'So clever, so dark, so utterly original. Where does Will Carver get his ideas?' Victoria Selman
'Stirring. Ambitious. Irreverent. Compassionate. Completely devoid of giveable f*@ks' Dominic Nolan
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A disillusioned nurse suddenly learns how to care.
An injured young sportsman wakes up find that he can see only in black and white.
A desperate old widower takes...

Good Samaritans

Wed, 14 Nov 2018 22:48:01 +0200

One crossed wire, three dead bodies and six bottles of bleach
Seth Beauman can't sleep. He stays up late, calling strangers from his phonebook, hoping to make a connection, while his wife, Maeve, sleeps upstairs. A crossed wire finds a suicidal Hadley Serf on the phone to Seth, thinking she is talking to The Samaritans.
But a seemingly harmless, late-night hobby turns into something more for Seth and for Hadley, and soon their late-night talks are turning into day-time meet-ups. And then this dysfunctional love story turns into something altogether darker, when Seth brings Hadley home...
And someone is watching...
Dark, sexy, dangerous and wildly readable, Good Samaritans marks the scorching return of one of crime fiction's most exceptional voices.
'I was blown away by this gripping book. I sense Carver will break out of genre boundaries and become a literary voice to be reckoned with' Sarah Pinborough
'Uncomfortable yet compulsive reading'...