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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-sil…
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We are delighted to reveal the cover of #SinisterGraves by Marcie R. Rendon, the third novel in the award-winning Cash Blackbear series!
Spring, 1972. A flood in Red River Valley brings with it the body of an unidentified woman...
Coming May 2027 ⛪
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#TheSilentAppeal by @JaniceHallett is an instant Sunday Times bestseller! 🎉
This is the seventh bestselling mystery from the queen of tricksy crime, this time returning to Lower Lockwood and the world of her smash-hit debut mystery #TheAppeal 🎭🩸
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Will Dean as you've never seen him before...
We are delighted to reveal the cover of #TheLightAtTheEndOfTheWorld, bestselling author @willrdean's dazzling speculative novel!
And Then There Were None meets Station Eleven, coming April 2027 🦌
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'Hallett again ingeniously constructs the mystery from correspondence and case files to work out what happened'
#TheSilentAppeal by @JaniceHallett is one of the i Paper's best new crime and thriller books to read this September. Get your copy now! 🎭🩸📚
inews.co.uk/culture/books/be…
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We are incredibly proud to have two books on the 2026 McIlvanney Prize shortlist 🎉
Both #TheHollowBoys by @TariqAshkanani and #TheVanishingPlace by Zoë Rankin are up for @BloodyScotland's prestigious prize! A huge congratulations to our fantastic authors 📚🩸
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We are delighted to reveal the finalists for this year's McIlvanney Prize. The winner will be announced in The Church of the Holy Rude on Friday 18th September - well done all!
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In this town, everyone's a suspect...
#TheSilentAppeal by bestselling author @JaniceHallett is out today! Returning to Lower Lockwood and the world of her hit debut The Appeal, there's a new play to stage but not everyone will make it to opening night 🎭
viperbooks.co.uk/work/the-si…
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Viper Books retweeted
The Silent Appeal
"An absolute joy from cover to cover" Chris Brookmyre
"A superlative mystery, full of surprises" Alex Pavesi
"A brilliantly observed, utterly gripping mystery" A. J. West
OUT NOW @viperbooks 🇬🇧 and @atriabooks 🇺🇸
linktr.ee/janicehallett
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Can't wait any longer? Read an extract from #TheSilentAppeal by @JaniceHallett on the Viper website!
The bestselling author returns to the world of her smash-hit debut, The Appeal – hitting shelves tomorrow 🎭📚🩸
viperbooks.co.uk/2026/09/02/…
ALT The hardback of The Silent Appeal by Janice Hallett on a dark red background with a faint village illustration from the cover overlayed.
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'The Silent Appeal is that rare thing: a sequel even better than the original'
#TheSilentAppeal by @JaniceHallett is one of The Times' five best crime novels to read this month! The queen of crime's return to the world of her hit debut is out tomorrow 🎭
thetimes.com/culture/books/a…
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Sssh! 🤫 Silence is golden 💛 and so too is the book inside this box... let's open it together! #TheSilentAppeal @ViperBooks
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'Beware that if you pick it up you are not going to want to put it down'
Such a brilliant review of @JoWallaceAuthor's #TheArtOfGettingHammered over on Bookmunch 🔨
The most thrilling reading for the long weekend! Have you got your copy yet?
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A great big thank you to Sammy at @foyles who hosted an impromptu signing session and let me use the amazing old fashioned Photo Booth to take these wonderfully retro snaps! Signed books in store now!
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🚨 @janicehallett.bsky.social is live on Reddit! 🚨
Now is your chance to ask the bestselling author of #TheAppeal & #TheSilentAppeal all your burning questions...
Head over now and ask away teddit.net/r/AMA/comments/1v…
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Today's the day! At 12pm @JaniceHallett will be on Reddit to answer all your burning questions 🚨
📍Reddit
📅 Today
🕒 12pm-4pm
Check back in at 12pm for a link to the six-time bestselling author's Reddit 'Ask me Anything'! 🩸
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Get this date in the diary, now is your chance to ask @JaniceHallett all your burning questions!
📍Reddit
📅 Tomorrow, Thursday 27th August
🕒 12pm-4pm
Check back in tomorrow for a link to the six-time bestselling author's Reddit 'Ask me Anything'! 🩸
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Brilliant to see @JaniceHallett's #TheSilentAppeal in this list of the biggest autumn books from the Guardian 🎭🩸
Who's excited?!
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Thrilled to see the final dustjacket for my debut novel #TheFifteenthMan published by @ViperBooks @ProfileBooks 1st October 2026. Berlin, 1990: spies, blackmail and corrupt, backstabbing journalists... 🇬🇧🇩🇪
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'Delivers exactly what its irreverent title promises: sharp laughs, sharp plotting and, naturally, the occasional sharp blow from Claire’s favourite weapon'
A killer review for #TheArtOfGettingHammered by @JoWallaceAuthor from @CriFiLover🔨
crimefictionlover.com/2026/0…
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Join @JaniceHallett on tour!
The queen of tricksy crime is on tour across the UK for her latest mystery #TheSilentAppeal. Come along to hear about her return to Lower Lockwood and the world of her smash-hit debut #TheAppeal 🎭️ 🩸
🎟️ Get your tickets: viperbooks.co.uk/2026/08/12/…
ALT A graphic with a cream background and text reading 'The Silent Appeal Book Tour with Janice Hallett' next to a book cover for The Silent Appeal by Janice Hallett.
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