Crime & Thrillers

'A summer must-read' Red 'Exotic and mysterious - I was gripped by this complex tale' Dinah Jefferies, author of number one bestselling The Tea Planter's Wife 'This story of twists and turns transcends era and genre. Absolutely brilliant' Kerry Fisher,...

Love can be a truly terrible thing.Marriages are tricky at the best of times, especially when one of you is dead.Vincent Banecroft, the irascible editor of The Stranger Times, has never believed his wife died despite emphatic evidence to the contrary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781896297Author Wendy DranfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Choc LitPublisher Choc LitWeight(grams) 322g

'One of his most enthralling creations' Daily TelegraphBroke and working as a tour guide in Germany, rootless Englishman Ted Mundy catches a glimpse of an old friend hiding in the shadows. A friend he thought was lost to him. A friend who took him from...

The bestselling author of The Kind Worth Killing returns with an electrifying psychological thriller As tantalizing as Rear Window, Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train and The Talented Mr Ripley 'I loved it! A brilliantly original premise, delivered with...

'The father of contemporary European detective fiction' Ann Cleeves 'Just take a look,' Duclos said in an undertone, pointing to the scene all round them, the picture-book town, with everything in its place, like ornaments on the mantlepiece of a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789319934Author David HodgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Joffe BooksPublisher Joffe BooksWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 18mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title 2012.Book InformationISBN 9780767929714Author Candice MillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House...

THE THRILLING SEQUEL TO TEXAS RANGERRory Yates of the Texas Rangers doesn't seek out hero status, but it's unavoidable once his girlfriend, country singer Willow Dawes, writes a song about his bravery.Rory escapes his new-found fame when he's sent to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803145259Author Samantha HayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint BookouturePublisher BookoutureWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 20mm

'Detailed and impeccably researched. Eye-opening' GUARDIAN 'Punchy and well-reported. Sommer is the perfect person to tell this story' NEW YORK TIMES How did a conspiracy theory reshape global politics? How did it tear...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Goodbye Man, discover Jeffery Deaver's chilling thriller that inspired the film starring Angelina Jolie and Denzel Washington and is now a major NBC TV series. Their first case, their worst killer . . . New...

The Sunday Times bestseller and Richard & Judy Book Club author of Sleep returns with her most gripping book yet. STRANGERS: A TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTELLER 'Fast-paced and satisfying' DAILY...

An omnibus comprising Raymond Chandler's three Philip Marlowe novels, THE LADY IN THE LAKE, THE HIGH WINDOW and THE LITTLE SISTER.About the AuthorRaymond Thornton Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888, but moved to England with his family when he was...

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...

The second book in Number One bestselling author Jasper Fforde's phenomenally successful Thursday Next series. 'Fans of the late Douglas Adams, or, even, Monty Python, will feel at home with Fforde' - HeraldThursday Next, literary detective and newlywed...

'A breathtaking page-turner of a mystery' Susi HollidayDon't trust everyone you meet here...A young British backpacker goes missing on the West Coast Trail.No one is sure whether she died or simply disappeared.Apart from Laura.Twenty years later, a body...

When Finnish mushroom entrepreneur Jaakko discovers that he has been slowly poisoned, he sets out to find his would-be murderer ... with dark and hilarious results. The critically acclaimed standalone thriller from the King of Helsinki Noir... ...

From the bestselling author of The Perfect Child comes a shocking thriller about the disturbing complexities of a mother's love and the deadly consequences of unravelling family secrets. On a humid summer day in Alabama, a mayor's wife turns up...

'In The Girl of His Dreams, Donna Leon is writing at her fluent best.' The Independent2008 Washington Post Book World Best Book of the YearIndependent Mystery Booksellers Association Bestseller____________________________________________One rainy morning...

Transferred to Naples after a tangle with the Sicilian Mafia, Detective Inspector Giuseppe Lojacono feels that he's marking time, waiting out an awkward scandal.But when the bloodied bodies of teenagers start appearing around the city, victims of a...

'James Patterson is The Boss. End of.' Ian Rankin'One of the greatest storytellers of all time' Patricia Cornwell'A writer with an unusual skill at thriller plotting.' Mark Lawson, Guardian__________________________________The third thrilling instalment...

Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage seriesFor two secret agents, there's no such thing as a quiet life in the countryside...In a peaceful Kent village, Mr Behrens lives with his aunt at the Old Rectory, where he plays chess and keeps bees. His...

The breathtakingly twisty new thriller - guaranteed to shock and surprise I'm alive. But I can't be saved . . . When a woman's body is found submerged in icy water, police are...

'One of the greatest crime writers of our times' DENISE MINAThere is more to solving a crime than following the clues.Welcome to Chief Inspector Gamache's world of facts and feelings.The air is unbearably tense as Armand Gamache returns to the Surete du...

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, is a much-loved cult classic, that has spawned radio dramas, television, theatre and comic book adaptations across the globe.What do a dead cat, a...

Chosen as one of the best books of 2018 by the Mail on Sunday'The master storyteller returns with a nail-biter every bit as good as Kane and Abel - utterly enthralling' - Joanna LumleyHeads You Win is the incredible and thrilling novel by the master...

'Incredibly tense and thriller-like . . . I totally recommend it' LEE CHILDThe greatest true-crime story in music history.A GLOBAL SUPERSTARIn the summer of 1980, ten years after the break-up of the Beatles, John Lennon signed with a new label, ready to...

"Thought-provoking and honest" - Winnie Li, author of COMPLICIT"A page-turner" - Louise Dean, author of BECOMING STRANGERS"I couldn't put it down" - Tasha Coryell, author of LOVE LETTERS TO A SERIAL KILLER"A riveting study of power and control..." -...

One spy. One dangerous book. One deadly mission. The first in a gripping, fantasy mystery series, The Invisible Library is the astounding debut from Genevieve Cogman.Irene must be at the top of her game or she'll be off the case - permanently . . .Irene...

Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, 34th in line for the throne, is flat broke. She's bolted Scotland, her greedy brother, and her fish-faced betrothed for London. The place where she'll experience freedom, learn life lessons aplenty, do a bit...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451414717Author Sofie KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Obsidian MysteriesPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 160g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780842371117Author Frank E. PerettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Tyndale House PublishersPublisher Tyndale House Publishers

Every year, on average 23 people disappear without a trace from cruise ships. No one has ever come back. Until now. Five years ago police psychologist Martin Schwartz lost his wife and son. They were holidaying on a cruise ship when they simply...

'Cabaret Macabre really had it all... [Mead's] characters are so well 'fleshed out' that you can picture them with ease. The twisted and complex puzzle totally foxed me, and although I hate to admit it, I really didn't have a clue whodunnit!...

__________________***NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES***A gripping true-crime story of a shocking miscarriage of justice, from international bestselling thriller author John Grisham.In the baseball draft of 1971, Ron Williamson was the first player chosen from...

SOMEONE ALWAYS TAKES THINGS TOO FAR . . . The gripping Sunday Times bestselling psychological thriller from the No. 1 bestselling author of My Lovely Wife 'So addictive it should come with a warning' Alice Feeney ________ No-one knows you better than...

Laura loves her daughter more than anything in the world. But nine-year-old Autumn is being bullied. Laura feels helpless. When Autumn fails to return home from school one day, Laura goes looking for her. She finds a crowd of older children taunting her...

A #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Outrageously entertaining' The TimesREVENGE IS WORTH WAITING FOR... Jamal loves to run. But one morning - as he is training on a path winding up a steep cliff - he stumbles across a woman in distress.It's a matter of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781962291088Author Grace BurrowesFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Grace Burrowes PublishingPublisher Grace Burrowes PublishingWeight(grams)...