Death At The White Hart

Author: Chris Chibnall

Crime & mystery

Published on 25 September 2025 by Penguin Books Ltd in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 368 pages
197 x 129 x 25 | 258g

The Sunday Times bestseller Waterstones Thriller of the MonthSoon to be a major ITV seriesDiscover the must-read mystery everyone’s talking about, from the creator of Broadchurch‘A masterclass whodunnit’ Gillian McAllister‘Everything I love in a crime novel’ Jennie Godfrey--The body is found abandoned in the middle of a Dorset country road – tied to a chair, stag antlers on his head.

It's Jim Tiernan, landlord of Fleetcombe’s The White Hart pub – and now a murder victim.

Newly arrived DS Nicola Bridge has her work cut out. Fleetcombe is a picture-postcard village. Murder is the last thing on anyone’s mind.

Except that here Nicola finds whispers, rumours, resentments and lie after lie.

Because the smaller the village, the darker its hidden secrets . . .

--More praise for Death at The White Hart:‘Layered, human, suspenseful and surprising - this guy knows how to tell a story, that's for sure’ Lee Child‘I loved it. A murder mystery that feels like it’s set right now, packed with vivid characters and a detective I adored – and I didn’t guess who did it. A wonderful book’ Russell T Davies‘Snappy dialogue, confident. Turns expectations of village life on their head’ Joan Smith, Sunday Times‘Literally unputdownable. SO pacy and delicious…Just a huge treat to read’ Marian Keyes