Bøker utgitt av Verve Books

She doesn't trust the police. She used to be one of them. Hardened by ten years on the murder squad, DNA expert Doctor Sian Love has seen it all. So when she finds two dead bodies in her new home, she knows the drill. But this time it's different. This time, it's personal......

A Language of Limbs is about love and how it's policed, friendship and how it transcends, and hilarity in the face of heartbreak. A celebration of queer life in all its vibrancy and colour, this story finds the humanity in all of us and demands we claim our futures for ourselves....

When an undercover assignment for the Bow Street magistrate sees sex worker Lizzie Hardwicke trade Mrs Farley's Bawdy House in Soho for life as a seamstress at the theatre on Drury Lane, it becomes clear quite quickly that what goes on in the wings is much more intriguing than the theatrics being played out onstage. When a high-profile investor is brutally hanged at centre stage, Lizzie discovers the body and is once again thrown together with the handsome Inspector Will Davenport. With the suspect list rivalling any casting call, Lizzie will have to use every trick she's hidden up her sleeves to unravel the tangled threads and bring the culprit into the spotlight.

The year is 1759, and London is shrouded in a cloak of fear. With the constables at the mercy of highwaymen, it's a perilous time to work the already dangerous streets of Soho. Lizzie Hardwicke makes her living as a sex worker, somewhat protected from the fray as one of Mrs Farley's girls. But then one of her wealthy customers is found brutally murdered... and Lizzie was the last person to see him alive. Constable William Davenport has no hard evidence against Lizzie, but his presence and questions make life increasingly difficult. Desperate to be rid of him and prove her innocence, Lizzie turns amateur detective, determined to find the true killer, whatever the cost. Yet as the body count rises, Lizzie realises that, just like her, everyone has a secret they will do almost anything to keep buried...

Hope You Are Satisfied welcomes you to Dubai as you've never seen it before... An astute satire in the vein of The White Lotus, with a touch of espionage. Malik's cast of characters undo the 'guest worker' stereotype one tequila shot at a time, even as their world teeters on the cusp of an explosive global conflict....

A deeply moving debut about one family's struggle to find connection in a rapidly changing world Human, Animal is an ode to the wild, a journey of self-discovery and a hopeful path to common ground....

A searing, unflinching collection of stories set in Nigeria that explores community expectations, familial strife and the struggle for survival....

A surreal exploration of one woman's life and death against a landscape of meat, office desks, and bad men....

In postwar London and Paris, the search for a missing husband puts Billie Walker on a collision course with an underground network of Nazi criminals....

Fans of J.A. Jance, Scott Turow, Lisa Unger, and Renee James will devour this propulsive and timely thriller about murder, prejudice, and police corruption, as Erin McCabe, transgender attorney of the Garden State, discovers that getting to the truth can be deadly......

An emotionally wrenching novel tackling key themes of generational trauma and what it means to be Black British, surviving between the gaps of knowledge around familial migrant journeys, set in today's London and Ghana in the mid-90s. ...

A profound and emotionally insightful debut novel about a cross-cultural relationship, strained family dynamics, Jewish identity, loneliness, love and loss....

A powerful coming-of-age story for our times, interrogating masculinity and queerness in the digital age as well as offering a fresh take on desire and intimacy, adolescent obsession and dangerous first love....

What is motherhood in the midst of uncertainty, buried trauma and an unravelling America? What it's always been - a love song....

A gripping, provocative, and sensual debut novel about an art historian who journeys to a Greek island in pursuit of a found sculpture and quickly finds herself immersed in a cultural tug-of-war and a complicated love affair....

Taut and compelling, How Can I Help You explores the dark side of human nature and the dangerous pull of artistic obsession....

A wry yet tenderhearted novel about a couple who attempt to buy their way into a 'wild and precious' existence in the Hudson Valley, where they quickly become entangled with a queer couple living the dream analog life....

At a meatpacking facility in the Missouri Ozarks, Dee-Dee and her co-workers kill and butcher 40,000 chickens in a single shift....

From Emmy Award-winning writer Rachel McRady comes a vital, illuminating debut novel of a broken family uniting in the face of terrifying crisis, for fans of This is Us and Parenthood....

A page-turning, thought-provoking novel about the lies we tell other people and the lies we tell ourselves....

Attorney and LGBTQ+ activist Robyn Gigl breaks the mold with her 'thrillingly complex [and] groundbreaking' (The New York Times) legal thrillers featuring ripped-from-the-headlines plots and a singular protagonist who, like the author herself, is a transgender lawyer. Fans of J.A. Jance, Scott Turow, Lisa Unger, and...

WWII may be over, but journalist Billie Walker's search for a missing young man will plunge her right back into the danger and drama she thought she'd left behind in Europe in this thrilling tale of courage and secrecy set in glamorous 1940s Sydney....

Tony, a Chinese-born engineer who immigrated to the U.S. to give his family a better life. His daughter, Tammy, who grapples with expectations surrounding a first-generation American, and Oliver, a charming, white lawyer with a dark family secret, who is continuously propelled towards Tammy and Tony, whether by fate or his choices......

An eerie and unsettling novel, Bird Spotting in a Small Town perfectly encapsulates the intensity of rural claustrophobia when you don't know who you can trust....

Unfolding during a city-wide solstice celebration in a near-future Philadelphia, Saturnalia is a story about environmental collapse and class warfare, trauma and rebirth, and magic - the extraordinary, ancient magic of alchemy, and the ordinary, timeless magic of bravery and forgiveness....

For the past two decades, Maeve has worked hard to build a normal life in New York City, where she keeps everything - and everyone - at a safe distance. When her cousin Andrea suddenly reappears, Maeve regains the only true friend she's ever had. Soon she's spending more time at Andrea's remote Catskills estate than in her own cramped...

A year into her dream job at a cutthroat Silicon Valley startup, Cassie is trapped in a corporate nightmare. Between the long hours, toxic bosses and unethical projects, she struggles to reconcile the glittering promise of a city where obscene wealth lives alongside abject poverty. Though isolated, Cassie is never alone. From...

Sunburn is an astute and tender portrayal of first love, adolescent anxiety and the realities of growing up in a small town where tradition holds people tightly in its grasp....