His Final Patient

His Final Patient

Publication date: 13 August 2026 (Head of Zeus)


THE PSYCHIATRIST believes he can predict when people will die and has been using his skills with chilling accuracy.

THE PATIENTS trust their shrink. They believe him when he tells them their date and the predictions have always come true.

THE DETECTIVE is shaken when a man shoots himself after claiming it’s his ‘death day’. On his body, DI Silas Hart finds an hourglass, catapulting him back to two suspicious deaths that have haunted him for years.

When the psychiatrist turns his sights on Hart, the countdown to his own death day begins.

Will he survive? Or is there no escaping fate?

Why readers love J.S. Monroe:

‘Full of unpredictable twists’ THE TIMES

‘Intricately woven and heart-stoppingly believable, this has bestseller written all over it’ CLARE MACKINTOSH

‘Intelligent writing, original and disturbing ideas and a tightly coiled and crafted plot’ DAILY MAIL

‘The most ingenious thriller you will read this year. I couldn’t put it down’ M. J.ARLIDGE

‘Highly recommended’ MICK HERRON

‘Brilliantly original and intriguing…kept me hooked, enthralled and guessing to the very end’ PETER JAMES

‘A real page-turner written with beguiling wit’ TOM BRADBY

‘Cunning, captivating and creepy’ JP DELANEY

No Place to Hide

NO PLACE TO HIDE
by J.S.Monroe
(aka Jon Stock)


‘Clever, convincing… Highly recommended.’
Mick Herron, Slow Horses

A spellbinding tale of psychological suspense, weaving together the dark web, murder, and blackmail…

You can shut the doors.
Adam lives a picture-perfect life: happy marriage, two young children, and a flourishing career as a doctor. But Adam also lives with a secret. Hospital CCTV, strangers’ mobile phones, city traffic cameras – he is convinced that they are watching him, recording his every move. All because of something terrible that happened at a drunken party when he was a student.

You can close the blinds.
Only two other people knew what happened that night. Two people he’s long left behind. Until one of them, Clio – Adam’s great unrequited love – turns up on his doorstep, and reignites a sinister pact twenty-four years in the making…

But once it begins, there’ll be no place to hide


Praise for No Place To Hide

A clever, convincing and wickedly twisty retelling of Faust that walks a knife-edge between horror and psychological thriller. Highly recommended.’
Mick Herron, Slow Horses

‘The Secret History meets The Capture – No Place To Hide is an intelligent and inventive thriller that grips to the very last page.’
J.P. Delaney, The Girl Before

‘Monroe builds up the tension well, offering a battle between good and evil and bringing in the kinds of questions most people ask themselves.’ 
Literary Review

‘A clever and complex story of unrequited love, ancient misjudgments and a truly devilish villain.’
Mail on Sunday

‘Disturbing and fun at the same time, this is a techno-thriller with an entirely human core.’ 
Morning Star

‘This retelling of Dr Faustus is compelling, relentless and genuinely frightening – a must-read for psychological thriller fans.’
Simon Russell Beale

No Place To Hide was published on 13 April 2023
by Aries (Head of Zeus/Bloomsbury)

Praise for J.S. Monroe:

‘Intelligent writing, disturbing and original ideas’
–Daily Mail
‘Cunning, captivating and creepy’ – J.P. Delaney
‘Full of unpredictable twists, topped by a savage climax’ – The Times
‘Intricately woven and heart-stoppingly believable’
–Clare Mackintosh

Hackpen Hill

THE MAN ON HACKPEN HILL

‘Impeccably researched… an unusual mystery told with exceptional skill’ – Daily Mail

A coded message. A Barbaric death. And the search for truth in a world of lies. An intelligent and twisty thriller set in rural Wiltshire.

‘Brilliantly plotted and original with not so much a twist as a seismic shifting of the ground under your feet. Amazing.’  – Rosamund Lupton, Three Hours 

‘A kind of Wiltshire Da Vinci Code, with crop circles, mathematical equations and shadowy figures from Porton Down. A real page-turner written with beguiling wit.’ – Tom Bradby, Secret Service

The Man on Hackpen Hill is now out in paperback

 

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FORGET MY NAME

‘An absorbing novel full of unpredictable twists,
topped by a savage climax’
– Marcel Berlins, The Times



How do you know who to trust…
…when you don’t even know who you are?
You are outside your front door.
There are strangers in your house.
Then you realise.
You can’t remember your name.

Forget My Name is out now in paperback

 

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FIND ME

‘Intricately woven and heart-stoppingly believable, this has bestseller written all over it’ – Clare Mackintosh, I Let You Go



‘Five years ago, Rosa walked to the pier in the dead of night, looked at the swirling water, and jumped. She was a brilliant Cambridge student who had just lost her father. Her death was tragic, but not unexpected. And then her boyfriend gets an email. ‘Find me, Jar… before they do.’

‘Cunning, captivating and creepy – a beautifully written thriller’– JP Delaney, The Girl Before