Crime & Thrillers

One of the most original, moving and beautifully written non-fiction works of recent years, The Missing marked the acclaimed debut of one of Britain's most astute and important writers.In a brilliant merging of reportage, social history and memoir,...

One little lie just became deadly... 'Utterly absorbing, I couldn't put this thrilling whodunnit down' C.L. Taylor, bestselling author of Her Last Holiday 'A compelling page-turner' Fiona...

A MURDER TO SOLVE. A REPORTER ON THE TRAIL.IS THIS A CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY?Welcome, dear reader! You have happened upon the delightful village of Shady Hollow, a place where rabbits and raptors, squirrels and snakes live together in civilised accord ...

'A solid gold revival of the golden age whodunnit, with a delicious Danish twist' JANICE HALLETT 'A love letter to the classic country house murder mystery' J.M. HALL 'Wonderfully descriptive and loaded with atmosphere' IAN MOORE A snowstorm. A country...

Ever had a bad day? Try having one on the moon...'Fascinating' Tim Peake, Sunday Times bestselling author of Ask an Astronaut______________________WELCOME TO ARTEMIS. The first city on the moon.Population 2,000. Mostly tourists.Some criminals.Jazz...

Engrossing and addictive, No.1 Bestseller Jeffrey Archer's The Fourth Estate sees two newspaper barons in a battle for supremacy and power.Two men who seem to have little in common aside from their desire to stay at the top of their game.One, Richard...

The gripping race-against-time debut thriller from the internationally bestselling author of The Silence of the Lambs.Vietnam veteran Michael Lander wants the country that made him suffer to suffer in return.Al-Fatah operative Dahlia Iyad wants to help...

Ex-CIA master assassin Court Gentry has always prided himself on his ability to disappear at will, to fly below the radar and exist in the shadows - to survive as the near-mythical Gray Man. But when he takes revenge upon a former employer who betrayed...

Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2015. The Lie Tree is a wonderfully evocative and atmospheric novel by Frances Hardinge, award-winning author of Cuckoo Song and Fly By Night.Faith's father has been found dead under mysterious circumstances, and as...

'You can't ask for more emotionally moving entertainment' Stephen King A riveting collection of original fiction from the revered #1 international bestselling author of The Cartel trilogy and The Force ...

Each day we saw the outside world in all its splendour, and each day that view served as a reminder that we had wasted and ruined our lives. Jim Quillen, AZ586 - a runaway, problem child and petty thief - was jailed several times before his twentieth...

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'Utterly gripping, elegantly written... most definitely worth the wait' Observer'Epic and immersive, new and unexpected... deep and compelling' Mail on Sunday'Terrific action sequences and lashings of suspense... ticks all the boxes necessary for a...

A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY Agatha Christie called her 'a shining light'. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery?In Hide My Eyes, private detective Albert Campion finds himself hunting down a serial killer. A...

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'All his stories are amusing, intriguing, and he is a master of the final twist' - Agatha Christie'One of the most stunning trick stories in the history of detective fiction' - Julian SymonsGraham and Joan Bendix have apparently succeeded in making that...

***WINNER OF THE SPECSAVERS NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR CRIME THRILLER OF THE YEAR 2013***He swore he was a killer. The truth was worse.An overnight plane delay is bad.Having to share your hotel room with a stranger is worse.But that is only the beginning...

THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton and Jeremy Irons. Dominika Egorov, former prima ballerina, is sucked into the heart of Putin's Russia, the country she loved, as the twists and turns of a betrayal and counter-betrayal...

From the bestselling author of What You Did comes a stunning psychological thriller. One party. Thirteen people. By 3.02 p.m., one of them will be dead. The party should have been perfect: six couples from the same baby group, six newborns, a...

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The bestselling book that inspired the Bafta-winning BBC dramaCorruption. Blackmail. Conspiracy to murder. A Very English Scandal has all the hallmarks of a classic thriller with one difference. It's all true.In the late 1960s Jeremy Thorp, the...

'WOW!... Gripping... Keeps you guessing' NetGalley review 'Kept me up all night!... This thriller hits all the marks!' NetGalley review 'Omg a great read, I was absolutely gripped from start to finish' NetGalley review ...

THE GRIPPING NEW PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GIRL UNKNOWN'A really disturbing tale . . . Assured storytelling and neat twists' DAILY MAIL'Compelling, brilliant and entertaining. The twists just kept on coming' LIZ...

Fight for your country. Fight for your king. Fight for your life... Gripping adventure in the Tudor Navy. Jack Stannard has spent his whole life at sea, enduring savage beatings from his father and the furious aggression of whip-cracking storms. But a...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'They all agreed that it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly and spectral.' Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine, Conan Doyle's The Hound...

MEET DETECTIVE GEREON RATH IN THE BOOKS THAT INSPIRED THE HIT TV SERIES BABYLON BERLIN 'A gripping evocative thriller set in Berlin's seedy underworld during the roaring Twenties.' -Mail on Sunday Babylon Berlin is the first book in the...

The ninth Logan McRae thriller from the No. 1 bestseller Stuart MacBride. 'Dark and griping. A riveting page-turner' Independent on Sunday One mistake can cost you...

A mother battles to save her child's life by recounting an extraordinary true story of a sailor's fight for survival at sea during the Second World War ... a beautiful, poignant debut celebrating the power of words, and what it really means to be brave. ...

The daughter of an American millionaire dies on a train en route for Nice... When the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to wake serene Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. But she will never wake again - for a heavy blow has...

'Painfully beautiful' The New York Times Book Review'Heart-wrenching... a compelling love story' Entertainment Weekly'Astonishing' PeopleFor years, rumours of the 'Marsh Girl' have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in...

THE BEST-SELLING TRUE CRIME BOOK IN HISTORY______________________The shocking true story of the Tate-LaBianca murders, revealed in this harrowing, terrifying book penned by the prosecutor who finally put Charles Manson behind bars. Helter Skelter won a...

The latest book in the Sunday Times bestselling phenomenon that is the Inspector McLean series, from one of Scotland's most celebrated crime writers.The charred remains of an elderly woman are discovered in a burned out gamekeepers cottage, hidden away...

He killed himself, Lieutenant. He was hanging there, just hanging there from the ceiling light in the living room. And his face . . . Oh God.'Death follows New York City cop Eve Dallas everywhere - even on her honeymoon with Irish lover Roarke. When one...

Sergeant Malcolm Ainslie of the Miami police homicide department is about to take a well-earned family holiday when he is called away on an urgent mission.A criminal on Death Row with only a few hours to live before being sent to the electric chair has...

No clues, and everyone's a suspect...Agatha Kyteler, regarded as a witch by her superstitious neighbours, has no shortage of enemies. But when her body is found frozen and mutilated in a hedge one wintry morning, there seem to be no clues as to who could...

'An absolute triumph' Andrea Mara'Hard to put down' Liz NugentHome truths come at a heavy price ...THE GRIPPING NEW NOVEL FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR MICHELLE MCDONAGHAs her adoptive mother lays dying, journalist Cara Joyce overhears a shocking piece of...

Chilling and compulsive, Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller Lisa Gardner returns with Touch & Go - A FAMILY OF THREE ARE KIDNAPPED. CAN TESS LEONI (of LOVE YOU MORE), FIND THEM? Also featuring series lead Detective D.D. Warren. By the author proclaimed by...

A weekly dinner party Ten amateur sleuths The Tuesday Night Club murders On a quiet Tuesday in St Mary Mead, a group of friends gather for dinner. A policeman, a clergyman, a solicitor, an author, an artist,...

The Vinyl Detective goes punk in his fifth hilarious adventure. "Like an old 45rpm record, this book crackles with brilliance." David Quantick on Written in Dead Wax. Semi-retired god of rock guitar and local poseur Erik Make Loud has got himself a...

'A writer of almost cinematic talent' DAILY EXPRESSEVERY OPERATIVE KNOWS THE RULES.The mission comes first. You are a deniable asset. Betrayal is punished by death.Alex Reeve - OPERATIVE 66 - is a former special-ops soldier and one of the UK's most...