Crime & Thrillers

A middle-aged diplomat is accosted in an airport lounge and his identity stolen... Sir Stafford Nye's journey home from Malaya to London takes an unexpected twist in the passnger loungs at Frankfurt - a young woman confides in him that someone...

We call them the sleepers . . .At the elite Missing Persons bureau of the Federal Police, Mila Vasquez is tasked with finding the hundreds of lost people who vanished from their former lives. The longer they are gone, the more they are forgotten by...

Dallas's toughest female detective takes on a string of mysterious assassinations in the second novel of the 'violent, sexy, and completely absorbing' Betty Rhyzyk series (Kirkus Reviews). Not much can make Detective Betty Rhyzyk flinch. But when...

In 2001, Jay Dobyns was the first federal agent to infiltrate the inner circle of the Hells Angels. His aim was simple: to examine the criminal underbelly of the world's most famous biker group and bring a major case against them. No Angel tells the...

'She is one of the best' Harlan Coben' The first victim is pushed to her death. The second suffers a fatal overdose. The third takes a bullet to the heart. Three down, more to go. They're people who deserve to die. They're people who are in the way. And...

THE CARTER WOMEN DON'T FOLLOW THE RULES: THEY MAKE THEM. The brilliant new gangland thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of DIAMOND.Gangster Max Carter and his ex-wife Annie Carter are leading separate lives in separate countries: past hurts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593437889Author Rhys BowenFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

*WINNER OF THE CWA GOLD DAGGER AWARD 2023 FOR BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR*The apotheosis of Southern Gothic Noir' NEIL GAIMAN'Compelling characters and vivid settings make this impressive Southern narrative stand out among the best . . . not to be...

'Clever, captivating and colourful; an absorbing thriller rich in atmosphere' Philip Gwynne Jones, author of The Venetian Game and Vengeance in VeniceDeath stalks the medina of Marrakech . . .Marrakech, August. It is the start of Ramadan, the hottest in...

The first book in Swedish author Viveca Sten's enormously popular Sandhamn Murders series. On a hot July morning on Sweden's idyllic vacation island of Sandhamn, a man takes his dog for a walk and makes a gruesome discovery: a body, tangled in fishing...

'Unputdownable' MICK HERRON'Fast-paced and exhilarating, you'll be hooked' HEAT'A summer read which exudes menace' SARAH VAUGHAN'Mysterious, suspenseful and suffused with paranoia' ALEX MICHAELIDESWhen Finn Hensen gets a call from his sister Jess to say...

*** PRE-ORDER THE NEW DS ADAM TYLER NOVEL, SLEEPING DOGS - COMING IN SPRING 2024 ***FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FIREWATCHING AND NIGHTHAWKING 'A rollercoaster ride of a thriller . . . will keep you hanging on by your fingertips until the tense final...

She's made a deal with a devil... THE PACT____________Eve Weston, daughter of recently deceased con man Alexander Weston, knows a good deal when she sees it - and this one doesn't even come close. But if she doesn't want her vulnerable brother Terry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781542048385Author J. B. TurnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Thomas & MercerPublisher Amazon Publishing

Don Roberto Luciano, boss of the Sicilian Mafia, agrees to be chief witness in the trial of Paul Carolla, who murdered Luciano's firstborn son, Michael, 20 years ago. Despite round-the-clock protection, all the Luciano men are killed the night before a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486440064Author Henry MayhewFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Action thriller by the classic adventure writer set in Iceland. The assignment begins with a simple errand - a parcel to deliver. But to Alan Stewart, standing on a deserted road in Iceland with a murdered man at his feet, it looks anything...

FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER'Beautiful, haunting.' LOUISE KENNEDY'Vividly real . . . There's love here as well as pain.' MARIAN KEYES'A sure-footed and emotionally complex novel . . . absorbing.' IRISH TIMES'I...

Read the third novel in the Paddy Meehan series, from award-winning author Denise Mina. 'One of the most original voices in crime fiction' Daily Mail Paddy Meehan finally has it all: a flat of her own in Glasgow and a job as one of Scotland's leading...

The fourth book in the bestselling Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series.Dan 'Spider' Shepherd is used to putting his life on the line. It goes with the turf when you're an undercover cop. Now working for the Serious Organised Crime Agency, Shepherd is pitting...

The Gangs of New York is a tour through a now unrecognisable city of abysmal poverty and habitual violence centred around the infamous slum of Five Points, with its rival Irish and American gangs. Cobbled from legend, memory, police records, the...

A brilliant whodunnit mystery perfect for fans of M.C. Beaton and Richard Osman! Murder stalks the cobbles in England's finest Georgian town... When an accident forces Felicia Grant back to her family's...

A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYAgatha Christie called her 'a shining light'. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery?Scandal, secrets and suspicions abound when one of the directors at the prestigious publishing...

*Now with a brand new introduction from the multimillion-copy bestselling author Peter James*Perfect People is a compelling and thought-provoking thriller from bestselling author Peter James.John and Naomi are grieving the death of their four-year-old...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA. 'In this collection, Daphne du Maurier's peerless craftmanship, her eerie sense of the macabre, her gift for sheer story telling come to full fruition' KIRKUS REVIEWS'She wrote exciting plots ... a writer of...

The second thriller in the New York Times No.1 bestselling series featuring Penn Cage: a man who must face the dark heart of the Deep South - and question everything he believes in... One dead girl. And a town full of secrets... Rape and murder aren't...

'A superbly plotted historical drama... highly recommended!' The Wishing Shelf One woman must sacrifice everything to uncover the truth in this enthralling historical novel, inspired by the true World...

Hotel Beresford: a grand old building, just outside the city, where any soul is welcome, and strange goings-on mask explosive, deadly secrets. A chilling, darkly funny sequel to Will Carver's bestselling The Beresford... 'Superbly paced and remarkably...

'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily TelegraphMaude Slocum is in trouble. But luckily trouble is Investigator Lew Archer's business.A well-dressed, wealthy woman has arrived at Archer's L.A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948174404Author Red RileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Topix Media LabPublisher Topix Media LabWeight(grams) 441gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

From the bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Mr Wrong is a collection of dazzlingly original short stories.'Her talent seemed so effervescent, so unstoppable, that there was no predicting where it might take her' - Hilary...

FIVE BRUTAL MURDERS IN TWO COUNTRIES. 'Hollywood blockbuster material...you'll finish it in one gulp' Metro A WOMAN CONFESSES TO THE KILLINGS, THEN LEAPS OFF A BRIDGE TO HER DEATH. 'Kristina Ohlsson is a rising star of Scandinavian crime fiction'...

'Back and better than ever . . . A chilling, pulse-pounding thriller' MARY KUBICA __________The Cold Creek Highway stretches for five hundred miles through rugged wilderness. For decades, young women travelling the road have gone missing, falling prey to...

Everyone's favorite detective finds himself embroiled in two related investigations-one with a connection to a giant rat-in this clever Sherlock Holmes pastiche In deference to Sherlock Holmes' wishes, Dr. Watson kept the details of "The Giant Rat of...

'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray 'The palm trees around the railway station were motionless, fixed in a Saharan sun . . . It really felt as if they were stepping into another world, and they were embarrassed to be entering it in the dark...

A new order. An ancient evil. A battle about to begin.It is the near future. Adrian De Vere, President of the European Union, oversees the signing of an unprecedented international treaty, ushering in a new era of one-world government.Jason De Vere,...

THE INTERNATIONAL NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHORChosen as one of Amazon's Best Thrillers and Mysteries of 2019'A tsunami of a thriller. This may well be Gardner's best work' - DAVID BALDACCI_______________One death might be an accident.Two deaths looks...

'Even more thrilling than the plot is the atmosphere of shuddering suspense . . . No one brews it better than Agatha Christie' Daily ExpressFor more than 70 years, Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap has kept millions of people, from every corner of the...

The epic and action packed third novel in Low's Oathsworn series charting the adventures of Orm and his band of Viking brothers The Oathsworn have itchy feet. Battle-hungry and tired of keeping the homestead fires burning, they are restless...

Summer has come to the Lake District town of Windermere, where Persimmon 'Simmy' Brown runs her own florist shop. But there's no time for her to stop and smell the roses with the shop struggling for money, so a contract to provide floral displays for a...