Crime & Thrillers

When the plane crashed, 160 people perished. Now someone is killing off the survivors.Five years ago, a horrific airline disaster made headlines around the world. On the anniversary of the fatal crash, a number of those who were spared gather to mark the...

Adapted by the Coen Brothers into an Academy Award winning film, No Country For Old Men is a dark and suspenseful novel from Cormac McCarthy, author of The Road.Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles upon a transaction gone...

'Sliver is the ultimate fin de siecle horror novel' Stephen KingKay Norris, a successful book editor, moves into the affluent Carnegie Hill district of Manhattan, into an apartment in a slender high-rise. A man watches her. He watches her unpack, watches...

In December 1968 two girls who lived next door to each other - Mary, aged eleven, and Norma, thirteen - stood before a criminal court in Newcastle, accused of strangling two little boys; Martin Brown, four years old, and Brian Howe, three. Norma was...

An heir hidden A land divided A king in waiting Having fled their home of Camelot, Merlyn Britannicus and the Arthur Pendragon find sanctuary in an abandoned Roman fort as the protector continues the young heir's training. Sheltered from the forces that...

'A delicious adventure' Daily Mail Murder on the Riviera Express Gerald Hennessey - silver screen star and much-loved heart-throb - never quite makes it to Temple Regis, the quaint Devonshire...

People can buy your silence, but not your loyalty... Macy Taylor was born in the shadow of Tavistock Square, at the heart of her Manchester estate. It's got a reputation as a place where bad things happen. But it's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990837688Author Gary McAvoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Literati EditionsPublisher Literati EditionsWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Discover the classic mystery from Dick Francis, one of the greatest thriller writers of all time'A galloping good yarn, as fast paced as any horse race an utterly entertaining' 5***** Reader Review'Fast paced action from start to finish, Dick Francis is...

Pokemon folding fun for everyone! Turn your favourite Pokemon into folded art with the easy origami projects in Pokemon Origami: Fold Your Own Pokemon! Eighty full-colour pages featuring 48 pages of...

Queen Marie of Roumania, granddaughter to both Victoria, Empress of the British Empire, and Alexander II, Tsar of Russia, is in need of Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes' services. The Queen, a famous beauty who has transformed Roumania from a quiet...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641295963Author Sujata MasseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint Soho PressPublisher Soho Press

'A beguiling author who interweaves past and present' The TimesWhen a woman is burned to death in Grandal Field in Devon, it looks like it could be a case of mistaken identity. Until DI Wesley Peterson learns of a legend involving a woman who died in...

'The work of a master storyteller'Daily Telegraph'One of crime's most engaging duos'Guardian________Private Detective Cormoran Strike is contacted by a worried father whose son, Will, has gone to join a religious cult in the depths of the Norfolk...

'Delightful ... The ongoing plots bind the stories, yet each in themselves is precise ... They are a joy' - Stuart Kelly, Scotland on Sunday 'All manner of nostalgic delights. Perfect reading for a sunny English garden' - Kate Saunders, Independent ...

If you've always fancied yourself a match for the remarkable Sherlock Holmes, there's no better way to test yourself than against these ingenious puzzles.'Full of the atmosphere and ambience of 221b Baker Street, it will feel like you stepped back into...

PRE-ORDER ONE PERFECT COUPLE, THE THRILLING NEW NOVEL - AND THEN THERE WERE NONE meets THE TRAITORS - FROM INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR RUTH WARE, OUT JULY 2024! ‘This is Ruth Ware like you’ve never read her before’ DAVID BALDACCI ‘She’s done it...

Dense fog masks foul play in the streets of London, as Ann Granger brings us her seventh Victorian mystery featuring Scotland Yard's Inspector Ben Ross and his wife Lizzie.It is March 1870. London is in the grip of fog and ice. But Scotland Yard's...

A BARACK OBAMA SUMMER READING PICK 2023'You'll be lucky if you read a more engaging novel this year' The Times Thriller of the Month April 2023'At the heart of the book is a masterly psychological study of racism. Lehane (who was a writer on The Wire)...

Every morning Hakan von Enke takes a walk in the forest near his apartment in Stockholm. Then, one day he fails to come home.Detective Kurt Wallander is not officially involved but Hakan's son is engaged to his daughter Linda. A few months earlier Hakan...

The thrilling new historical adventure in the Warrior of Rome series from Sunday Times bestseller Harry Sidebottom.*** 'What Bernard Cornwell is to the Napoleonic Wars, Harry Sidebottom is to Roman legions: unassailable' - THE TIMES...

When a young mother is found drowned in the bath, clutching a receipt saying 'all debts paid', Detective Robyn Carter knows it's just the beginning of a harrowing case. She recognises the signs of a serial killer, and a second victim with a receipt...

'Totally amazing. I love Diane's writing, just love it . . . she is so skilled' – Cathy Kelly What if your child was accused of mass murder? When the local church is razed to the ground, dozens of trapped children manage to escape – many helped by...

On the 9th of June 1865, Charles Dickens was travelling aboard the Folkestone to London Boat Train with his mistress and her mother, when it derailed while crossing a viaduct near Staplehurst in Kent. The train plunged down a bank into a dry river bed,...

The thirty-three cases in this excellent book give a unique and fascinating insight into life in the Victorian period, in Liverpool and beyond. Although murder can never be condoned, it is clear from the accounts of the lives of the accused and their...

Christmas Eve. While the world sleeps, snow falls gently from the sky, presents lie under the tree ... and murder is afoot. In this collection of ten classic murder mysteries by the best crime writers from the 1920s to today, death and mayhem take many...

No. 1 international bestseller and Swedish crime sensation Camilla Lackberg's new psychological thriller featuring Detective Patrik Hedstroem and Erica Falck - irresistible for fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo. A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781448308651Author Paul DohertyFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate Books

'Just the thing to chase the blues away' M. C. BeatonWhen a body found on the Honeychurch Hall estate proves to be that of a villager who had supposedly moved to Ireland years earlier, tongues start wagging and theories abound. Charlie Green had always...

For fans of Jennifer McMahon and Silvia Moreno-Garcia comes a haunting and atmospheric new novel from debut author Katrina Monroe.If you can hear the call of the water,It's already far too late.They say Cape Disappointment is haunted. That's why tourists...

Prepare to feel paranoid with this deliciously addictive, Sunday Times bestselling psychological thriller.Someone knows Astrid's darkest secret. And they're going to have fun with it . . .It's been 192 days, seven hours and fifteen minutes since her last...

A New Statesman Book of the Year 2021A Metro Book of the Year 2021A Washington Post '10 Best Thriller and Mystery Books of 2021''Gripping.' FINANCIAL TIMES'A classy page-turner.' MAIL ON SUNDAY'A taut, subtle, postmodern literary thriller.' SUNDAY...

A SUPER-CHARGED THRILLER FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'Deadly conspiracies, bone-crunching action and a tormented hero with a heart . . . packs a real punch' Andy McDermott A WEB OF DECEIT.AND BEN HOPE IS...

'We've got a corpse that looks like one of the investigators, a houseful of Hollywood and a media machine that's going to eat it like gooey chocolate.'Lieutenant Eve Dallas is panicking - and she's not at a crime scene. Forced to attend a celeb-packed...

A dead witness. A forgotten crime. Hamish Macbeth never had it so hard as in this newest Highlands mystery!Morag Merrilea is working at the Shopmark Fashions factory during her summer holidays to earn some extra cash. But when the art student complains...

Olivier Norek: Former police officer, writer on SPIRAL and a million-copy bestseller"Exhilarating . . . This is not conventional crime" Barry Forshaw, FTWhen a routine kidnapping case goes badly wrong, Capitaine Vincent Coste breaks his golden rule: he...

Accident? Dangerous game gone wrong? Or murder? DI Blackwell faces her toughest case yet. When the body of a young woman is discovered in a shipping container in Bristol, the police suspect she was an illegal immigrant whose death was a tragic...

From the world-famous creator of "Perry Mason," Erle Stanley Gardner - at his death the best-selling American writer of all time - comes another baffling case for the Cool & Lam detective agency: TURN ON THE HEAT. Return to the sizzling 1940s as Bertha...

*The USA Today bestseller* 'An edge-of-your-seat, page-flipping, stay-up-all-night, heart-racing suspense thriller!' Real Reviewer 'Holy mother of...! This book was SO good. I devoured...

Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But will the SAS be able to find an IRA sniper, before he finds them...? 1989, South Armagh: cheering mobs stand over the body of a British soldier. He is the ninth to have been killed by the so-called...