The Library After Dark
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Transworld Publishers Ltd
Publishing:14th May '26
£16.99
This title is due to be published on 14th May, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Discover this brand new, puzzle-box murder mystery that's guaranteed to keep you hooked until the very last page... perfect for fans of Sarah Pearse and Eight Detectives.
'Irresistible - bright, sharp and rife with danger.' A.J. Finn
'Atmospheric, chilling and brilliantly clever.' Sian Gilbert
In the centre of New York stands the city’s most notorious library.
It has a history of mysterious disappearances and freak accidents. But tonight, it opens its doors to welcome a group of strangers for an exclusive after-hours tour.
The famous author. The journalist. The professor. The bookseller. The architect.
They are here to see a legendary book – one of the most valuable in the world. But each visitor also has other, more sinister reasons for being in the library after dark.
As the tour takes them deeper into the building, one of the guests meets a gruesome, inexplicable end – and the others realise they are living on borrowed time.
The search for the murderer forces them to confront awful truths about themselves and decide which secrets are worth dying – or killing – to keep.
Readers can't put down The Library After Dark:
'Stephen King meets Agatha Christie in this brilliant thriller - a triumph. Do not miss this' - Hank Phillippi Ryan, bestselling author of All This Could Be Yours
'‘Richly imagined and wonderfully atmospheric… a fast-paced, locked room thriller’ - Mary Watson, Sunday Times Bestselling author of The Cleaner
'The Library After Dark is Agatha Christie by way of the Brothers Grimm’ - Kelsey Cox, bestselling author of Party of Liars
'I devoured it in one breathless, brilliant sitting' - Ryan Pote, author of Blood and Treasure
'Smart, edgy, and utterly unique, The Library After Dark will beckon you in… but it might never let you out’ - Tare Goedjen, author of Please Enjoy Your Stay
'A chilling and highly addictive locked-room thriller. Get ready for a ride!' - Darby Kane, international best-selling author of Pretty Little Wife
Praise for The Library After Dark: * : *
Atmospheric, chilling and brilliantly clever. With its gorgeous haunted library, creepy happenings and fresh twists, The Library After Dark is a true modern Gothic thriller. Do not read this one after dark! * Sian Gilbert *
Richly imagined and wonderfully atmospheric, The Library After Dark captures the dark heart of fairy tales in this fast-paced, locked room thriller. * Mary Watson *
Twisty, atmospheric, and wickedly clever—The Library After Dark is Ande Pliego at her absolute sharpest. A locked-library bloodbath laced with dark romance and secrets that cut deeper than any blade; I devoured it in one breathless, brilliant sitting. * Ryan Pote, author of Blood and Treasure *
Irresistible—bright and sharp and rife with danger, like a shard of mirror. And what a splendid library Ande Pliego has constructed here! A bibliophile's haunted house, crawling with secrets: in the shadows beneath the shelves, in the darkness behind the doors... and, of course, in the heart of our heroine. * A. J. Finn, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window *
Stephen King meets Agatha Christie in this brilliant total immersion locked library thriller. The incredibly talented Ande Pliego has managed to concoct a gripping genre-bending mix of fairytale, horror story, and murder mystery in one of the most hauntingly cinematic and cleverly plotted novels I’ve read in a long time. In the best of all possible ways, this is the stuff of nightmares— and a triumph of gorgeously written, twisty, and gasp-worthy suspense. All I can say is:Do not miss this. (But fair warning: Read it with the lights on.) * Hank Phillippi Ryan, USA Today bestselling author of All This Could Be Yours *
A brilliantly plotted locked-room mystery steeped in gothic atmosphere and fairy-tale menace. The Library After Dark is Agatha Christie by way of the Brothers Grimm. * Kelsey Cox, bestselling author of Party of Liars *
Ande Pliego’s twisty thriller is more breakneck than a guillotine, with all the foreboding of a dark fairytale. Smart, edgy, and utterly unique, The Library After Dark will beckon you in… but it might never let you out. * Tara Goedjen, author of Please Enjoy Your Stay *
Ande Pliego's sophomore novel affirms her position as a master of misdirection and spellbinding plots. The Library After Dark propels readers through a labyrinth of twists and turns, secrets and fairytales, turning a nighttime tour of a museum-like library into a chilling and highly addictive locked-room thriller. Sit down, open the book, and get ready for a ride! * Darby Kane, #1 internationally bestselling author of Pretty Little Wife *
Praise for Ande Pliego * : *
ISBN: 9780857505811
Dimensions: 240mm x 156mm x 40mm
Weight: 750g
352 pages