Crime & Thrillers

38-year-old Hawkwind fan and Stoneway's removal porter Peter Booth has recently split up with long-time girlfriend, Sarah, and finds himself in a tiny studio flat, self-confidence dwindling and alcohol levels rising. Possible salvation appears in the...

A gripping historical thriller from the CWA award-winning author of The Seeker - a must-read for fans of CJ Sansom and Rory Clements'One of the best writers of historical crime' The TimesAberdeen, 1631. University librarian Robert Sim takes receipt of a...

The dead were her business. She lived with them, worked with them, studied them. She dreamed of them. Praise for J. D. Robb:'J.D. Robb is a fantastic storyteller who knows how to keep the pages flying by' -#1 International Bestselling Author, Karin...

MAGIC IS A DRUG. IT'LL COST MORE THAN YOU CAN PAY.When a rare Blue Moon upsets the magical balance in the city, Detective Kate Prospero and her Magical Enforcement colleagues pitch in to help Babylon PD keep the peace. Between potions going haywire and...

An intense novel of war at the Roman frontier.On the Empire's Northern border trouble is stirring. For decades the barbarians have been at the gates. Now, facing threats from within as well as outside, the Emperor is provoking war.When his friend Atius...

'WITH BRUNO IN CHARGE THERE'S ALWAYS TIME FOR ONE OF THOSE CLASSIC FEASTS THAT MAKE THIS SERIES SUCH A MOUTH-WATERING TREAT' New York Times Book ReviewIn this eleventh addition to a beguiling and bestselling series, Bruno wonders which he's most afraid...

This explosive new erotic thriller series is equal parts DEXTER and FIFTY SHADES OF GREY.I broke the rules. I left, I killed, I loved itDeanna Madden locked herself away for three years. She never left the apartment. Never allowed herself contact with...

NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES 'A full-throttle thriller in the tradition of classic Stieg Larsson, drenched in atmosphere and charged with adrenaline. I loved this book' A. J. Finn, author of The Woman In The Window'A cracking ending that left me STUNNED'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451194749Author Jessica FletcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

The inside story of life with the KraysJohn Dickson arrived in London from Edinburgh in 1964, looking for work...and adventure. He soon found it in the pubs and card clubs of the East End, where he met and go to know the twins and the members of the...

From journalist Chris Blackhurst, Too Big to Jail unveils how HSBC facilitated mass money laundering schemes for brutal drug kingpins and rogue nations - and thereby helped to grow one of the deadliest drugs empires the world has ever seen.'Packed with...

Peter Tremayne, highly acclaimed author of HEMLOCK AT VESPERSand ACT OF MERCY, presents OUR LADY OF DARKNESS, the tenth gripping Celtic mystery featuring super-sleuth Sister Fidelma.PRAISE FOR THE SISTER FIDELMA SERIES: 'Definitely an Ellis Peters...

First Published as Enemy Action. September, 1940. With London having endured the Blitz for nearly a month, people are calling for vengeance, but once again the night heralds more destruction. In Custom House, anxious residents dutifully head to the...

Introducing DI Rowan Jackman and DS Marie Evans, the Fenland's finest detectives, in a race against time to stop a serial killer who has returned to the Fens after 20 years. Twenty years ago a farmer and his wife are cut to pieces by a ruthless serial...

Laine Tavish is an ordinary woman living an ordinary life in the small town of Angel's Gap, Maryland, as the proprietor of Remember When, an antique treasures and gift shop. At least, that's what everyone in Angel's Gap thinks. They have no idea that she...

A PERILOUS INVESTIGATION IN THE HEART OF LONDON RAVAGED BY THE GREAT FIRE September 1666. Meeting in the ashes of a devastated London, Christopher Redmayne, an architect with Cavalier instincts, and Jonathan Bale, a Puritan constable, are hardly...

For DCI Gillard, sometimes old sins cast long shadows...Under a motorway flyover lies the body of a young man. Days earlier, he had been involved in an altercation with DCI Craig Gillard's pregnant partner Sam. Now he's dead...Meanwhile, something is...

The opening of a new bookstore becomes the closing chapter in an author's life...Kilbane's new bookshop is hosting an event featuring up-and-coming Irish writers who will be taking up residency in the town for a month. Among them is indie author Deirdre...

The globally bestselling thriller that paved the way for THE DA VINCI CODE and countless copycat conspiracy novels. In the 8th century AD Ibn al'Arabi, the Moorish governor of Barcelona, bestowed a magnificent gift upon Charlemagne, Holy...

In the second instalment of The Conclave of Shadows.The Conclave demands its membership price from their new protege: Tal must gather information on the sinister magician Laso Varen. But, to do this means service with the sorcerer's master, Duke Kaspar...

She says she's an ordinary mother. He knows a liar when he sees one. Sarah thinks of herself as a normal single mum. It's what she wants others to think of her. But the truth is, she needs something new, something thrilling. Meanwhile, DI Tom Thorne is...

From New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed McCabe and Savage series comes an electrifying new thriller of taut and twisted suspense. On a freezing December night, Hannah Reindel leaps to her death from an old railway bridge into the rushing...

The final book of the smash-hit Wayward Pines trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter, Recursion, and UpgradeWhat's inside was a nightmare. What's outside is a thousand times worse.Welcome to Wayward Pines, the last town.Secret...

Civilisation is gone. Where does humanity go from here...?The world lies devastated after the massive oil crisis that was described in LAST LIGHT. Human society has more or less entirely broken down and millions lie dead of starvation or disease. There...

'A rising star of Australian crime fiction ' SUNDAY TIMES'Gripping' GUARDIANS. R. White is the real deal.' CHRIS HAMMER, author of SCRUBLANDSOne outback town. Two puzzling murders. Fifty suspects.In Unamurra, a drought-scarred, one-pub town deep in the...

WINNER OF THE BLOODY SCOTLAND SCOTTISH CRIME DEBUT OF THE YEAR 2020'Gritty and close to the bone, Hold Your Tongue is a compelling, addictive read that I devoured in one sitting.' Lisa Hall, bestselling author of Between You and MeIn the run up to...

'ENCHANTING COUNTRY MYSTERIES THAT EMBODY THE SUBLIME PHYSICAL BEAUTY OF THE DORDOGNE' New York TimesIn this latest mouthwatering mystery starring French country cop, Bruno, the body of a woman is found outside a cave beneath the ruined Templar chateau...

The assassin: the world's most successful contract killer. An anonymous professional with a unique calling card - one bullet in the head and one in the chest for each and every target.The Judas goat: an ex-member of the SAS, Mike Cramer is the perfect...

Jake Whyte is the sole resident of an old farmhouse on an unnamed British island, a place of ceaseless rains and battering winds. It's just her, her untamed companion, Dog, and a flock of sheep. Which is how she wanted it to be. But something is coming...

In the late 1800s, the city of Austin, Texas, was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis. But beginning in December 1884, Austin was terrorised by someone equally as vicious and, in some ways, far...

He will come for them, one by one... Five shocking murdersTwenty-five years ago, DCI Harry Rhimes arrested Andrew Streeter for the brutal murders of five young people. Streeter's 'kill list' of victims was found in his home, and he was...

THE CRIMES. THE STORIES. THE LAW 'Fascinating' - Sunday Times 'Masterful' - Judith Flanders 'A page-turning read' - Prof. David...

Winner of the 2009 Edgar Award for Best Novel, Blue Heaven is a thrilling read from New York Times bestseller C.J. Box, creator of the characters of hit TV shows Joe Pickett and Big Sky. They were running away from home. Now they're running for their...

A dark and twisting thriller from the master of psychological suspense, New York Times No. 1 bestseller Jonathan Kellerman, author of KILLER and BREAKDOWN. Perfect for fans of the thrillers of Harlan Coben and Michael Connelly, 'OVER THE EDGE is a...

'Richly evocative and glittering with atmosphere, this tale of ambition and identity had me gripped from start to finish' STACEY HALLS, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Familiars'Theatre of Marvels is a fascinating, empowering story of a young...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780295688Author Paul DohertyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 301gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 139mm *...

The definitive companion to the MISS MARPLE novels, short stories, films and TV appearances, now revised and updated. 'I have had a lot of experience in solving different little problems that have arisen.' Most of the 'little...

Republished for the first time in nearly 95 years, a classic winter country house mystery by the founder of the Detection Club, with a twist that even Agatha Christie couldn't solve! Stephen Munro, a demobbed army...

Private detective Isaac Bell returns in Clive Cussler's The Wrecker.1907: train wrecks, fires, and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroad's new express line . . .The desperate railroad hires the fabled Van Dorn Detective Agency, who send their...

King's Man by Tim Severin is the thrilling third volume in the captivating Viking trilogy - an epic adventure in a world full of Norse mythology and bloodthirsty battles.Constantinople, 1035: Thorgils has become a member of the Varangian lifeguard and...