Shaun Hutson Books In Order

Heathen

Widowed by her husband Chris’s car accident, Donna Ward soon discovers the mysteries behind her dead husband’s hidden life, which include the corpse of a beautiful woman.

Hybrid

A gang of teenage youngsters is running riot on the streets. Responsible for a number of burglaries and car thefts, the police are at their wits’ end trying to put a stop to the gang’s activities. Terror and hatred have become part of everyday life for local residents and, just when it seems things cannot get any worse, the gang targets Shelby House an old people’s home. Supervisor Veronica Porter, her two staff and the nine elderly residents become the gang’s most vulnerable victims yet as the thugs conduct a hate campaign against them, sending abusive mail, daubing graffiti on walls and shattering windows. The intimidation escalates until Veronica’s own father is dragged into the scene of terror when, disturbing some of the gang members burgling his house he is put into a coma. But enough is enough. The senior citizens of Shelby House decide to take the law into their own hands and fight back…

Knife Edge

Catherine and Phillip believe that the suicides of three men, the desecrations of a number of children’s graves, and the suspected child abuse of a number of school pupils, are connected in some way. It soon becomes apparent that the spectre of child abuse is merely the tip of a terrifying iceberg.

Slugs

They slime, they ooze, they kill…

One female slug can lay one and a half million eggs a year a fact which holds terrifying consequences for the people of Merton. As the town basks in the summer heat, a new breed of slug is growing and multiplying. In the waist high grass, in the dank, dark cellars they are acquiring, new tastes, new cravings. For blood. For flesh. Human flesh…

Breeding Ground

The slugs have returned. They slither along the dank, fetid tunnels of London’s sewers in search of human flesh, and now they bring a new horror. Dr Alan Finch is the only man capable of destroying the Breeding Ground for ever. The author’s previous novels include ‘Slugs’, ‘Spawn’ and ‘Assassin’.

Spawn

Released from a mental hospital where he has spent all his adult life, Harold Pierce is given a job as a hospital porter. But that job involves the disposal of aborted foetuses, something which brings back nightmare memories of Harold’s accidental killing of his baby brother years before. A time of trauma and terror has begun, terror heightened by the escape from prison of convicted killer Paul Harvey who, hunted by the police, embarks on a murderous rampage. Pierce and Harvey, both disturbed, are about to unleash a terror beyond belief…

Erebus

Wakely was just a small farming community but something was terribly wrong there. Something wrong with the livestock, with the people. Something unspeakable. Perpetuated by the mysterious Venderburg Chemicals Group who sought to protect its interests and secrets no matter what the cost to the people of Wakely or, indeed, to the rest of mankind. And who would have thought that red meat could be so deadly?…

Nemesis

After the brutal murder of their young daughter, Sue and John Hackett retreat to the small, peaceful town of Hinkston. But Hinkston isn’t peaceful anymore. It’s being torn apart by a series of horrific unexplained murders. And it holds a fateful 50 year old secret.

Captives

Detective Inspector Frank Gregson must investigate a series of savage and apparently motiveless murders. Moreover, they are carbon copies of killings committed years earlier committed by men currently incarcerated in one of Britain’s maximum security prisons. How could this be?

Death Day

In a desolate graveyard, a workman finds an ancient amulet and untold terrors are released from the past. The author also wrote ‘Assassin’, ‘Spawn’ and ‘Slugs’.

Relics

A series of murders in which the victims are horrifically mutilated is triggered by the archaeological discovery of a hidden chamber filled with the skulls of children. Investigations reveal the possibility of an even greater evil. The author’s other novels include ‘Shadows’ and ‘Death Day’.

Butcher’s Window

For Nick Ryan, private detective, life is all work and no play; his family has left him, and he’s been given six months to live. When his daughter is kidnapped by a gang responsible for a series of murders, he begins an obsessive hunt fof her and will not stop. Time is running out for both of them.

Deadhead

For Nick Ryan, private detective, life is all work and no play; his family has left him, and he’s been given six months to live. When his daughter is kidnapped by a gang responsible for a series of murders, he begins an obsessive hunt fof her and will not stop. Time is running out for both of them.

Stolen Angels

Catherine and Phillip believe that the suicides of three men, the desecrations of a number of children’s graves, and the suspected child abuse of a number of school pupils, are connected in some way. It soon becomes apparent that the spectre of child abuse is merely the tip of a terrifying iceberg.

Purity

Ex model Amy has her own radio show with a popular phone in slot. When two prostitutes are murdered after a caller has admitted to fantasies of rape, Amy begins to suspect that the man she loves, who lives beneath her flat, may be a murderer. A call to her programme informs her that she is next.

Warhol’s Prophecy

After lost five year old Becky is returned to her mother, Hailey, by Adam Walker, her gratitude starts to turn to something else and she sees him as a way of revenging herself on her husband and his mistress. But maybe he has his own agenda?

Exit Wounds

A gang of teenage youngsters is running riot on the streets. Responsible for a number of burglaries and car thefts, the police are at their wits’ end trying to put a stop to the gang’s activities. Terror and hatred have become part of everyday life for local residents and, just when it seems things cannot get any worse, the gang targets Shelby House an old people’s home. Supervisor Veronica Porter, her two staff and the nine elderly residents become the gang’s most vulnerable victims yet as the thugs conduct a hate campaign against them, sending abusive mail, daubing graffiti on walls and shattering windows. The intimidation escalates until Veronica’s own father is dragged into the scene of terror when, disturbing some of the gang members burgling his house he is put into a coma. But enough is enough. The senior citizens of Shelby House decide to take the law into their own hands and fight back…

Compulsion

A gang of teenage youngsters is running riot on the streets. Responsible for a number of burglaries and car thefts, the police are at their wits’ end trying to put a stop to the gang’s activities. Terror and hatred have become part of everyday life for local residents and, just when it seems things cannot get any worse, the gang targets Shelby House an old people’s home. Supervisor Veronica Porter, her two staff and the nine elderly residents become the gang’s most vulnerable victims yet as the thugs conduct a hate campaign against them, sending abusive mail, daubing graffiti on walls and shattering windows. The intimidation escalates until Veronica’s own father is dragged into the scene of terror when, disturbing some of the gang members burgling his house he is put into a coma. But enough is enough. The senior citizens of Shelby House decide to take the law into their own hands and fight back…

Omnibus

Detective Inspector Frank Gregson must investigate a series of savage and apparently motiveless murders. Moreover, they are carbon copies of killings committed years earlier committed by men currently incarcerated in one of Britain’s maximum security prisons. How could this be?

Hell to Pay

A boy’s body is discovered on the shores of Kingsfield reservoir. Like the killer’s previous two victims, there’s no sign of violence, no fingerprints, nothing but two small puncture marks where the overdose of hero*in was injected. Whoever is carrying out the attacks is careful, methodical and clever. Detective Inspector Alan Fielding is frantic to find the killer before another child is taken…
In a run down house on a nearby estate, Nikki Reed knows only too well what the ominous knock on the front door means the loan sharks want their money back, and if they don’t get it, they’re going to get nasty. But Nikki and her husband Jeff can’t pay up until Nikki’s brother John comes up with a dangerous and high risk scheme that could make all of them rich…
Roma Todd’s relationship with record company boss David is rife with deceit and deception, but the one thing that holds them together is their daughter Kirsten. And though Kirsten may seem like any other child, she suffers from an extraordinary illness, one that without her medication can unleash a bizarre and deadly trail of horror…
All desperate people running out of time. When their worlds collide, there’ll be Hell to Pay…

Necessary Evil

It was to be a routine job. Matt Franklin and his companions would rob the Securicor van. Simple. Until the job turned into a nightmare. Two of them are shot dead and another fatally wounded. But who is trying to wipe them out, killing not just them but their families too? How are the Government and the British army implicated? What lurks within a secret research establishment in the English countryside? Franklin has to find out. Finally the only one left alive, he tires of being the prey and decides to become the hunter. His quest will bring him into conflict with forces he cannot begin to imagine or understand but he is driven by a need for revenge that overrides his fear. Aided by a desperate detective, Franklin becomes embroiled in a series of events that lead to a terrifying climax in the London Underground where he comes face to face with the answers he has sought. Like all of us, Franklin was told monsters don’t exist. He’s about to find out someone was lying…

Twisted Souls

Imagine your worst fear. A fear that eats away at you fear of death, of illness, of needles, of fire. Even of feelings. The people who live in Roxton know what it’s like to live like that. But they have no choice. Emma Tate had lived with her fear of losing everything for more than two years. Her job is in jeopardy, her parents have been killed in a car crash, her life is collapsing around her. She, her husband and two friends attempt to seek peace in a luxury house in the countryside close to Roxton for two weeks. But the village of Roxton LIKES fear it has a force within it which needs fear to sustain it and help it grow. And Emma and her companions cannot avoid becoming fearful…
For Emma and the others there will be no waking from THIS nightmare…

Unmarked Graves

When investigative telejournalist Nick Pearson is sent to Darworth in Hertfordshire, he finds a community divided. A steady influx of foreign immigrants has led to racial tension and open hostility and violence. The African newcomers are particularly targeted, regular victims of vandalism and even fire bombing. The Africans seem unwilling to fight back, until the arrival of a mysterious, powerful man who many of them know and fear. Nick begins to wonder if there might be some kind of connection between this newcomer and the desecration of a local cemetery an event followed by the disappearance of a number of corpses and a series of bizarre, ritualistic murders. In each case, the victims bear the same marks on their bodies. Scars that Nick has seen before, five years earlier in Africa. Ancient religion and modern prejudice are about to collide, and when they do, there may be no survivors. At least not human ones…

Body Count

Wounded. Exhausted. Losing blood. The figure in the mask stumbles through the streets. Closing in are others in masks but they don’t stumble, they stalk. They carry machetes, clubs and knives. And they know how to use them. They’ve killed before and they’re going to kill again. Who is kidnapping seemingly random victims and then slaughtering them in an elaborate game of cat and mouse? And why are these murders being streamed over the internet? Watching the horror unfold at New Scotland Yard is Detective Inspector Joe Chapman and his team. Chapman searches for clues, hints anything that might tell him where and when this savage hunt is happening. He’d give anything to know. He’d give almost anything to stop them. Unfortunately for DI Chapman, ‘almost’ anything might not be enough…

Last Rites

Almost beaten to death by a gang of violent teenagers, schoolmaster Peter Mason wants nothing more than to escape the simmering violence of London, his broken marriage and the memories of his daughter’s death. The perfect chance comes in the form of a position at a prestigious boarding school in the heart of the Buckinghamshire countryside. But the past is always lurking in the background. Not just his own past but that of the school and its former staff. Mason becomes obsessed with discovering what became of his predecessor. The man’s mysterious disappearance remains unexplained, leaving a chilling legacy behind. Mason finds that there are strange events occurring at the school violent and sinister events that have happened before and will, if he cannot stop them, happen again…

Epitaph

Almost beaten to death by a gang of violent teenagers, schoolmaster Peter Mason wants nothing more than to escape the simmering violence of London, his broken marriage and the memories of his daughter’s death. The perfect chance comes in the form of a position at a prestigious boarding school in the heart of the Buckinghamshire countryside. But the past is always lurking in the background. Not just his own past but that of the school and its former staff. Mason becomes obsessed with discovering what became of his predecessor. The man’s mysterious disappearance remains unexplained, leaving a chilling legacy behind. Mason finds that there are strange events occurring at the school violent and sinister events that have happened before and will, if he cannot stop them, happen again…

Dying Words

Wounded. Exhausted. Losing blood. The figure in the mask stumbles through the streets. Closing in are others in masks but they don’t stumble, they stalk. They carry machetes, clubs and knives. And they know how to use them. They’ve killed before and they’re going to kill again. Who is kidnapping seemingly random victims and then slaughtering them in an elaborate game of cat and mouse? And why are these murders being streamed over the internet? Watching the horror unfold at New Scotland Yard is Detective Inspector Joe Chapman and his team. Chapman searches for clues, hints anything that might tell him where and when this savage hunt is happening. He’d give anything to know. He’d give almost anything to stop them. Unfortunately for DI Chapman, ‘almost’ anything might not be enough…