Crime & Thrillers

Agatha Christie's seasonal mystery thriller in a sumptuous Christmas hardback Special Edition. 'There is, at Christmas, a spirit of goodwill. People who do not feel amiable are putting great pressure on themselves to appear...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Immensely gripping...Stayed up till past 2am to finish this' Sophie Hannah Four people walked into the dining room that night. One would never leave. Matthew: the...

*WINNER of the WOMEN'S PRIZE FUTURES AWARD*A Waterstones Best Book of the YearLonglisted for the Walter Scott PrizeLonglisted for the Portico Prize'Highly atmospheric and tense' Richard Osman From the bestselling author of The Familiars and The Foundling...

The latest instalment from the beloved THE NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY seriesCatch up on the latest from Mma Ramotswe, Mma Makutsi and other favourites in this new instalment of Alexander McCall Smith's The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.As the...

THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LEWIS TRILOGY AND THE CHINA THRILLERSAWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021'Enzo MacLeod is one of the most unusual crime solvers I have ever met.' BookBrowse'No one can create a more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800803541Author J M DalglieshFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Hamilton PressPublisher Hamilton Press

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER!LONGLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2024*** SHORTLISTED FOR THE DEBUT OF THE YEAR at the FINGERPRINT AWARDS ***WOULD YOU KILL FOR A GOOD STORY?'A confident, sassy, pitch-black debut' CAROLINE...

Shortlisted for Bloody Scotland Scottish Crime Debut of the Year 2023'A remarkable suspense debut... exciting and unsettling.' A. J. Finn, author of The Woman in the WindowHe won't rest until he finds out the truth...Cal Lovett is obsessed with finding...

PRE-ORDER THE NEXT INSTALMENT IN DONNA LEON'S COMMISSARIO BRUNETTI SERIES, A REFINER'S FIRE, NOW. AVAILABLE JULY 2024.'Donna Leon provides another delectable slice of the thoughtful policeman's life at work and at home... So Shall You Reap is as witty...

'There's only one Jack Reacher. Accept no substitutes' Mick Herron'The thing about Lee Child's books is that you can't put the damn things down. . .there's something about his writing that's addictive. The Enemy is no exception. . .Superb.' Independent...

'The Split meets Apple Tree Yard. Sharp, clever and wildly addictive... the ultimate summer page-turner' Sunday Times bestseller B P Walter 'The best kind of up-all-night page-turner... stylish, feisty, thrilling - you'll want to be on the...

IN THE GAME OF KINGS, THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE VICTOR. When a devastating attack on billionaire Auguste Kaprisky leaves the old man clinging to life, a trail of bodies and no clues, his last surviving relative calls the...

A mother with a dark secret...A daughter dying to tell.When 3-month-old Max is abducted, his parents are plunged into their worst nightmare. Devastated mum Sarah only took her eyes off him for a second, but that doesn't stop her guilt. Even husband Jake...

Set in an era of turbulent social changes on both sides of the Atlantic, A Place Called Freedom is a magnificent historical fiction novel from the undisputed master of suspense and drama, Ken Follett.A Life of PovertyScotland, 1767. Mack McAsh is a slave...

Don't miss the unforgettable new novel from Jenny Eclair - INHERITANCE is out now___________'Both heart-rending and compelling' Clare Mackintosh'I loved it SO MUCH' Marian Keyes'It occupied my mind constantly' Jo Brand It only took one night to tear a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781805083054Author Sally RigbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Storm PublishingPublisher Storm PublishingWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm...

In the winter of 1937, the village of Okamura is abuzz with excitement over the forthcoming wedding of a son of the grand Ichiyanagi family. But amid the gossip over the approaching festivities, there is also a worrying rumour - it seems a sinister...

"Child's best for some time...with detective-story and romcom elements (even sly humour) on top of the psychological duels and set-piece violence." (Sunday Times)Jack Reacher has no place to go, and all the time in the world to get there.A remote...

The true story of London's toughest, deadliest street gangs: the events, the rules and the real top boys. Are the streets of London some of the deadliest in the world? What's the truth behind the headlines? And who are the real top boys? Looking beyond...

________________________The gripping first novel in the DC Max Wolfe crime series by Tony Parsons, bestselling author of Man and Boy. Like Ian Rankin or Peter James? You'll love this.Twenty years ago, seven rich, privileged students became friends at...

The No. 1 bestselling author Stephen King's timeless coming-of-age novella, The Body - set in Castle Rock and originally published in his 1982 short story collection Different Seasons, and adapted into the film classic Stand by Me - is now available as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915185051Author Rhys DylanFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Wyrmwood BooksPublisher Wyrmwood BooksWeight(grams) 127g

'A stirringly painful, true account' Daily Mail'A cruel and sizzling war novel' The Sun'A book by a hero about heroes. It conveys the smell of battle, the pain of the doomed men as few other books ever have done' News of the World___________WITH AN...

An Amazon Charts bestseller. What would it take to make you intervene? When Ella Longfield overhears two attractive young men flirting with teenage girls on a train, she thinks nothing of it-until she realises they are fresh out of prison and her...

As a train speeds over the Sankey Viaduct, the dead body of a man is hurled into the canal below. Inspector Robert Colbeck and Sergeant Victor Leeming take charge of their most complex and difficult case yet. Hampered by the fact that the corpse has...

'A CHILLING new memoir by the daughter of mass murderer Fred West and his wife Rose describes the savage cruelty of her upbringing in 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester' DAILY MAIL'Mae, I mean this ... I'm not a good person and I let all you children down ...

A nail-biting, award-winning crime novel from the author of The Echo Man! A shocking crime scene...DCI Adam Bishop has never seen anything like it. Five murder victims - all with numbers written above their bodies. And the spray-painted daubs...

'Tightly plotted, tense... I was wholly drawn into the story' HARRIET TYCE. New Year's Eve, London. Outside the Hope & Glory pub, a man has been left to die. A victim of extraordinary violence, he will never walk or speak again. He remains in...

London, 1728. A young, well-dressed man is driven through streets of jeering onlookers to the gallows at Tyburn. They call him a murderer. But Tom Hawkins is innocent and somehow he has to prove it, before the rope squeezes the life out of him. It is,...

As seen on TV - DEXTER: NEW BLOOD - major new drama'A macabre tour-de-force' NEW YORK TIMESDexter Morgan isn't exactly the kind of man you'd bring home to your mum. At heart, he's the perfect gentleman: he has a shy girlfriend, and seems to lead a quiet,...

'Horowitz has captured Holmes Heaven' THE TIMES THE HOUSE OF SILK was the first official new Sherlock Holmes mystery and a SUNDAY TIMES bestseller from the author of MAGPIE MURDERSTHE GAME'S AFOOT . . .It is November 1890 and London is gripped by a...

The echo of the novels of The Cemetery of Forgotten Books series resonates in the stories of Carlos Ruiz Zafon: gathered here for the first time - and some never before published in English - these stories are a celebration of one of the world's great...

A loving mother. A notorious murderer. They both have reasons to hide their secrets in a novel of escalating shock and suspense by New York Times bestselling author A. R. Torre.Perla Wultz lives with her husband, Grant, and their precious daughter,...

Tokyo, 1958. Teiko marries Kenichi Uhara, ten years her senior, an advertising man recommended by a go-between. After a four-day honeymoon, Kenichi vanishes. Teiko travels to the coastal and snow-bound city of Kanazawa, where Kenichi was last seen, to...

'The ending gave me shivers' Claire Douglas'A plot that tightens like a vice' Erin KellyIt all started to go wrong the day the Wrights moved in next doorMyles and Lana Butler live on a gorgeous new development in Wimbledon, leaning on a mortgage that is...

Now with a stunning new cover look, Stephen King's spectacular suspense about how literature shapes a life - for good, for bad, for ever.1978: Morris Bellamy is a reader so obsessed by America's iconic author John Rothstein that he is prepared to kill...

*** PRE-ORDER THE DEATH WATCHER, THE THRILLING NEW CHRIS CARTER NOVEL, COMING SUMMER 2024! ***A killing like no other.A killer more twisted than he's ever seen before.A case that will test him to the limit. Has Robert Hunter finally met his match?'Do you...

Based on explosive new evidence, bestselling author David Talbot tells America's greatest untold story: the United States' rise to world dominance under the guile of Allen Welsh Dulles, the longest-serving director of the CIA. America's rise...

Introducing Inspector Jimmy Perez. Raven Black is the first book in Ann Cleeves' bestselling Shetland series - now a major BBC One drama starring Douglas Henshall.A remote community with a killer in their midst . . .On New Year's Day, Shetland lies...

THE GRIPPING SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER JULY 2022What happens when the person closest to you has led a life of deception?'Full of suspense and intriguing characters' MY WEEKLY'A gritty, gripping drama' WOMAN'S WEEKLY_______No one wants to believe their...