Crime & Thrillers

'Just incredible' Naomi Klein'Gripping and shocking...with the pace of a thriller' The TimesA New York Times bestseller, The Outlaw Ocean is a riveting, adrenalin-fuelled tour of a vast, lawless and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the...

The epic sequel to Victim Without a Face. ON A HOT SUMMER'S DAY. A car speeds through the streets of Helsingborg. When it reaches the harbour, the driver keeps going, straight into the cold, dark sea. A BODY IN THE WATER. But it is not a...

On a rainy night, a man gives a teenage girl a lift home, but the girl he picks up isn't the same one he drops off . . . Bestseller Linwood Barclay hooks the reader from page one with this suspense masterpieceFrom the author of FIND YOU FIRSTWhen Cal...

Soon no one on Earth will have a place to hide in this novel about fears known and unknown by #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz. In retreat from a devastating loss and crushing injustice, Katie lives alone in a fortresslike...

The brilliant new Bob Skinner mystery by the master of crime fiction, his most ambitious ever.After a tip-off, a man's body is exhumed from a shallow grave in Edinburgh. Murder surely, yet he died from natural causes, so, case closed? Indeed was there...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616955878Author Mick HerronFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Soho Press IncPublisher Soho Press IncWeight(grams) 264g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913401207Author Rachel McLeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Ackroyd PublishingPublisher Ackroyd PublishingWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

A NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST AND ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR'I read it in a fever, swept up in the kind of rapture you fall into when your most audacious friend kicks off on a hilarious, outrageous, but deeply sincere rant' Torrey Peters, Guardian...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES'If you're a crime fiction fan and haven't discovered them yet, welcome to the very best day of your life'Heat When a family man is tortured, killed and left in front of his family home for all the world to see, Eve...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780765376718Author William R ForstchenPage Count 448Imprint Tor BooksPublisher St Martin's Press

The Sunday Times bestseller from Graham Norton'A magnificent novelist.' STUART HERITAGE for THE GUARDIAN'Blend[s] dark humour and emotional weight with ease.' RADIO TIMES'His best yet.' THE SUNDAY POST 'Full of Graham's trademark warmth and wit. It's...

When the body of a man is found in the countryside outside Dundee with a gun in his hand, DI Dania Gorska dismisses suicide in favour of murder. Italian voice coach, Luca Terranova, in the city to search for his missing twin brother Piero - a fashion...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Alex Award - YALSA 2014 and Hugo Award 2016 and Indies Choice Book Award 2015 and John W. Campbell Award 2016 and RUSA Reading List Genre Award 2014. Short-listed...

Save lives... Or take them? A gripping novel of the Roman frontier.Ebook includes a new short story, entitled The West PastureArmy Medic Postumus Justinius Corvus is a long way from his native Britannia, in the Syrian provinces at the far corner of...

Ruby Mills is ruthlessly ambitious, strikingly beautiful - and one of the Forty Thieves' most talented members. Harriet Littlemore is an aspiring journalist from a 'good' family, engaged to a rising star of the Tory party - but she wants a successful...

'WILL MAKE READERS LONG FOR LAZY DAYS IN RURAL FRANCE' Irish IndependentA missing art student. An international investigation. A secret that will shatter Bruno's charming village of St Denis.A rich American art student is found dead at the bottom of a...

______________________________'One of the great triumphs of contemporary historical literature.' The Times______________________________WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR'Laws are silent in times of war.' CiceroOne of the great epics of political and...

'A storming debut' The Sun Perfect for fans of JP Delaney and C.L. Taylor, this is a complex thriller about the secrets we keep and the damage they do. ___________ SCOTTISH CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 SHORTLIST BEST SCOTTISH CRIME DEBUT 2021...

Codebreaker. Friend. Spy? A thrilling, nail-biting YA mystery with themes of friendship, loyalty, secrets, and a dash of romance. 'The appealing setting, nuanced and flawed heroines and engaging plot make this a gripping ...

'The father of contemporary European detective fiction' Ann Cleeves'Maigret would have found it difficult to formulate an opinion of him. Intelligent, yes, certainly, and highly so, as far as one could tell from what lay beneath some of his utterances...

'Andrew Taylor is a master story-teller' Daily Telegraph From the No.1 bestselling author of The Ashes of London and The Fire Court, this is the second instalment in the acclaimed Lydmouth seriesWhen a spinster of the parish is found bludgeoned to death...

The seventeenth instalment in the Number One bestselling DCI Banks seriesWhen Karen Drew is found sitting in her wheelchair staring out to sea with her throat cut one chilly morning, DI Annie Cabbot, on loan to Eastern Area, gets lumbered with the case...

_______________________________________You can take Michael Bennett out of New York City, but you can't take the cop out of Michael Bennett.Detective Michael Bennett is ready for a vacation after a series of crises push him, and his family, to the brink...

Featuring a new, intimate introduction from Jessie Burton talking about what Jackie and her books mean to her! Discover the empowerment, sex, scandal and glamour of Lucky, a book 'so hot it will have to be printed on asbestos', from the insatiable number...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva delivers another stunning thriller in his action-packed tale of high stakes international intrigue. On the morning after the Venice Preservation Society's annual black-tie gala, art restorer...

Nestled deep in the mist-shrouded mountains, The Village of Eight Graves takes its name from a bloody legend: in the sixteenth century eight samurai, who had taken refuge there along with a secret treasure, were murdered by the inhabitants, bringing a...

Upper Oddington is home to Umberto Kingly, as well as his three dogs, and will be Thea Slocombe's latest house-sitting assignment. Thea expects the location will be one of her quietest, until the serene atmosphere is shattered by a fatal hit-and-run. ...

When a woman's body is discovered at a lighthouse in the Icelandic town of Akranes, investigators discover shocking secrets in her past. First in the disturbing, chillingly atmospheric, addictive new Forbidden Iceland series. **WINNER of the Storytel...

Selected for ITV's Zoe Ball Book Club and shortlisted for the Guardian's Not the Booker prize A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year 'Will Dean's atmospheric crime thriller marks him out as a talent to watch. Dark Pines is stylish, compelling and as...

Can you solve the mystery of the tattoo murder? Tokyo, 1947. At the first post-war meeting of the Edo Tattoo Society, Kinue Nomura reveals her full-body snake tattoo to rapturous applause. Days later she is gone. A dismembered corpse is discovered in...

In his latest book, bestselling author Cass Pennant takes an engaging and unparalleled look at some of the most volatile and violent scenes of fans following their football clubs to have unfolded over the past five decades, and examines the lengths to...

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. NowCollins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language...

A terrible power struggle threatens the very core of Britain...In 1376, the Black Prince dies of a terrible sickness, closely followed by his father, King Edward III in 1377. The crown of England is left in the hands of a mere boy, and the great nobles...

Two girls go to a party, only one returns. Toni, the surviving teenager, is found deliriously wandering the muddy fields of the fens. She has been drugged and it's uncertain whether she'll survive. She says she saw her friend Emily being dragged away...

#1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford's 'haunting, unforgettable, ice-blooded thriller' - first in the Lucas Davenport series! The killer was mad but brilliant. He left notes with every woman he killed. Rules of murder: Never have a...

* A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK SPRING 2016 *When the mutilated body of a young woman is discovered, LAPD Detective Jessica Allen knows she's seen this MO before.A sadistic serial killer has been operating undetected for a decade, preying on lone...

From the bestselling author of Death and Croissants and Death and Fromage comes a murder mystery perfect for fans of Richard Osman, Julia Chapman, or MC Beaton Richard Ainsworth's French B&B has been taken over by a production company shooting a...

The debut novel from the author of My Brilliant Friend in a brand-new edition Following her mother's untimely death, Delia sets off on a breath-taking odyssey through the chaotic, suffocating streets of her native Naples in search of the truth about her...

Ralph Delchard, a former soldier in the infamous Battle of Hastings, and Gervase Bret, a gifted lawyer, continue to investigate discrepancies raised during the gathering of information for the Domesday Book, the great survey of England commissioned by...

'A fast-moving thriller. I was totally absorbed by it' ELLY GRIFFITHS'Vivid and compelling, with great evocation of the 1980s period' PETER JAMES'A masterclass in place and landscape' CHRISTIE WATSONPERFECT FOR FANS OF PETER JAMES AND STUART MACBRIDE...