We have five books included in Amazon’s Summer sale for print books. The following titles are price promoted throughout July! Whether you're looking for something for your holiday sun lounger or a book to take along to the park this weekend, snap up a great deal on your next summer read 🌞 🕶️ 📚️

Read a Q&A with the King of Australian crime Garry Disher on the Viper website, ahead of tomorrow's publication of #UnderTheColdBrightLights. Learn more about his approach to writing police procedurals and which crime fiction he recommends to readers 📚️ viperbooks.co.uk/2026/07/14/a...

Read an extract from Garry Disher's latest police procedural mystery to be published in the UK, #UnderTheColdBrightLights is out this Thursday 🚨 'A superb chronicler of cop culture' Sunday Times viperbooks.co.uk/2026/07/14/u...

Step into the scorching world of Garry Disher! ☀️🩸 Before you read the Australia's King of Crime's upcoming standalone thriller #UnderTheColdBrightLights, check out his previous books! Learn more here: tinyurl.com/mr28btde

Here's a sneak peak of our Autumn 2026 publishing 👀 We have a fantastic line-up of new books – from hunting Nazis in 1990s West Berlin to a mystery in 1770s Leicestershire and a momentous return to Lower Lockwood, there’s something for everyone this Autumn 📚 viperbooks.co.uk/2026/07/10/l...

#FearNotTheDark by Per Moritz Stenborg, translated by Alex Fleming, is Twin Peaks meets Scandi crime. Out January 2027❄️ 1983 Silvernäs, Sweden. The winter frost is melting when a body is discovered. As the floodwater rises, what secrets will come to the surface? www.waterstones.com/book/fear-no...

Join the King of Australian crime, Garry Disher, on his first ever UK book tour! 🚨 Join the award-winning author of police procedurals – including Hal Challis Investigations and Paul Hirsch Mysteries – at one of five events across the UK this month 🎟️ Tickets here: viperbooks.co.uk/2026/07/01/g...

'A hot, difficult, very human Australia, albeit with copperheads' Great to see #UnderTheColdBrightLights by included in The Critic's 'Murders for July' list! Garry Disher's standalone thriller is out 16th June. tinyurl.com/mrx8fe7w

Summer in Venice. A Masquerade ball. And a disappearing corpse. From @oskarjensen.bsky.social, author of #HelleAndDeath and #HellesHound, comes the third book in the Torben Helle series, #HelleInVenice! Coming February 2027 🎭️ www.waterstones.com/book/helle-i...

We are delighted to have two books on this year's McIlvanney Prize longlist for Scottish Crime Book of the Year 🎉 A huge congratulations to @tariqashkanani.bsky.social, author of #TheHollowBoys, and Zoë Rankin, author of #TheVanishingPlace, on their nominations! @bloodyscotland.bsky.social

We are absolutely delighted that #TheMidnightKing by @tariqashkanani.bsky.social has been shortlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2026! Cast your vote here 🗳️ 👉 www.harrogatetheakstoncrimeaward.com/vote @harrogatefestivals.bsky.social @edpr.bsky.social

The powerful first novel in the award-winning Cash Blackbear series, #MurderOnTheRedRiver by Marcie R. Rendon is out today! 'Addictive and authentically Native. I want a shelf of Cash Blackbear novels' Louise Erdrich viperbooks.co.uk/work/murder-...

Following the award-winning Murder on the Red River, Marcie R. Rendon is back with the second novel in the Cash Blackbear series! 'An addictive and authentically Native crime series' Louise Erdrich #GirlGoneMissing is out this November 🩸

We are thrilled to have two fantastic books shortlisted for this year's CWA Daggers 🔪🩸 #TheMidnightKing by @tariqashkanani.bsky.social is up for the Steel Dagger and #TheVanishingPlace by Zoë Rankin for the Debut Dagger! Viper is also shortlisted for Best Crime & Mystery Publisher 🎉

We are delighted and incredibly proud to have Zoë Rankin shortlisted for this year's Bloody Scotland Debut Prize for #TheVanishingPlace! Set deep in the heart of the New Zealand bush, this propulsive and atmospheric thriller is out now in paperback 📚 viperbooks.co.uk/work/the-van...

It's Hammer Time...! 🔨🔨🔨 Joanna Wallace returns this August with #TheArtOfGettingHammered, now available to request on NetGalley! 👉 tinyurl.com/GettingHammeredNetGalley

🚨 #TheHollowBoys by @tariqashkanani.bsky.social 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-hol...

Read a Q&A with @tariqashkanani.bsky.social, 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/a...

Read an extract from @tariqashkanani.bsky.social'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/t...

We are incredibly proud to have two fantastic authors shortlisted for the Fingerprint Awards 🎉📚 #TheMidnightKing by @tariqashkanani.bsky.social for Overall Crime Book 🚨 #TheRush by @bethlewis.bsky.social for Historical Crime Book 💰 Vote here: www.capitalcrime.org/fingerprint-...

#TheKillerQuestion by @janicehallett.bsky.social 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-kil...

The wall may have fallen. But there are still Nazis in Berlin... Take a look at our cover for #TheFifteenthMan, William Cook's unmissable Cold War thriller. Join journalist Michael Braun on the hunt for a Nazi war criminal who may have survived Hitler's Berlin bunker... Out 1st October.

Congratulations to @janicehallett.bsky.social and @tariqashkanani.bsky.social, 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 @bethlewis.bsky.social 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! 🦌 www.thebookseller.com/rights/will-...

Viper is up for Best Crime & Mystery Publisher! We publish books with bite: crime, thrillers and other mysterious fiction 🐍🩸 viperbooks.co.uk

#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. viperbooks.co.uk/work/the-van...

#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. viperbooks.co.uk/work/a-trial...

#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. viperbooks.co.uk/work/the-mid...

#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/