Crime & Thrillers

'A twisting spiral of lies and corruption' Val McDermidFrom the hilltop he could see London, stretched towards the hills of Kent and Surrey. The sky was beginning to pale at the edges. The city itself looked numb as a rough sleeper; Camden and then the...

'A compelling story of love and betrayal in the divided Berlin of the 1980s' Sunday Times Best Books of 2019'A beautifully written, evocative literary thriller set in Berlin shortly before the fall of the Wall' Financial Times Best Books of 2019'A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062908377Author Anne HillermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint HarperPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 191mm *...

Old friends will clash, armies will collide... let there be blood.50 AD. The Invasion is over and Roman legions spread throughout the land, a blood red stain on Britannia. Caratacus has fled south to rebuild his army and warriors flock to his banner.In...

'One of the most successful MI5 undercover surveillance officers of his time.' - Sun'The brutal truth about the war against terror. Fast-paced and gripping.' - Ant Middleton The explosive book from ex-MI5 surveillance officer Tom Marcus takes the reader...

Inspector Singh is on a mission to China, against his better judgment. The son of a bigwig at the Singapore Embassy has been bludgeoned to death in a back alley in Beijing. The Chinese security insist that he was the victim of a robbery gone wrong, but...

On November 21, 1961, Michael C. Rockefeller, the twenty-three-year-old son of New York governor Nelson Rockefeller, vanished off the coast of southwest New Guinea when his boat capsized. He was on a collecting expedition for the Museum of Primitive Art,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800750906Author Joe ParkinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Swift PressPublisher Swift Press

It is 5:30 am on Clio's forty-fifth birthday and her hated ex is lying dead on her doorstep. Even worse, this is no accident. Someone’s killed him...When single mum Clio’s ex Gary turns up dead on the doorstep of her caravan – the one she’s been forced...

Split Second is the first in the gripping King and Maxwell series by bestselling author David Baldacci.When something distracts Secret Agent Sean King for a split second, it costs him his career and presidential candidate, Clyde Ritter, his life. But...

A novel of anger, jealousy, betrayal and murder in 2000 BC It is Egypt, 2000 BC, where death gives meaning to life. At the foot of a cliff lies the broken, twisted body of Nofret, concubine to a Ka-priest. Young, beautiful and venomous, most...

'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray It wasn't a traditional painter's smock that Madam Jonker was wearing. It was more a Dominican's monk's habit, the fabric as thick and soft as a bathrobe...She was holding a palette in her left hand, a...

The third book in the Angelique De Xavier series, from author Christopher Brookmyre.If society has the B-list celebrities it deserves, it now has a killer to match. Except that Simon Darcourt is a great deal more successful in his career choice than the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629553900Author Amelia AshFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Sterling and StonePublisher Sterling and StoneWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788027340460Author Historical NovelFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint e-artnowPublisher e-artnowWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 10mm

In this #1 New York Times bestselling John Clark thriller, author Tom Clancy takes readers into the shadowy world of anti-terrorism and gets closer to reality than any government would care to admit... Ex-Navy SEAL John Clark has been named the head of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Yeovil Literary Prize: Novel (The Betty Bollingbroke-Kent Award) 2011.Book InformationISBN 9780957568990Author Jackie McLeanFormat PaperbackPage Count...

In Amsterdam, three people are butchered in a canal house, their remains arranged around the crucified form of their patriarch, De Jaager: fixer, go-between, and confidante of the assassin named Louis. The men responsible for the murders are Serbian war...

A body has been found in the trunk of a Cadillac. Jesse's investigation takes him to the neighboring homes of two 'retired' gangsters. But it isn't the mobsters who fascinate Jesse - it's their wives: two completely identical twin sisters, who not even...

The first in a stunning action-packed series from one of the writers of THE WIRE.Spero Lucas has a new line of work. Since he returned home after serving in Iraq, he has been doing special investigations for a defence attorney. He's good at it, and he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942439325Author Denise Grover SwankFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint DGSPublisher DGSWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 22mm

Reeve LeClaire was abducted when she was twelve years old and held in captivity for four years. Now, in her twenties, she has a fragile stability. With the help of her psychiatrist, she has started to build a life of independence. But she will never...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913419752Author McGarvey BlackFormat PaperbackPage Count 309Imprint Bloodhound BooksPublisher Bloodhound Books

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE, a darkly funny, offbeat western about a reluctant assassin and his murderous brother. 'The Sisters Brothers confirms deWitt as one of the most talented young writers around' Sunday Times Hermann Kermit Warm is...

A missing girl. A murdered friend. No one left to trust. 'Seriously good suspense ... trust me, you'll need to know what happens' Lee Child 'Superb characterisation,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735212930Author J. Todd ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press

A captivating, adrenalin-fuelled thriller that will keep you hooked from Sunday Times bestselling author Simon Kernick, the UK's answer to Harlan Coben."Simon Kernick writes with his foot pressed hard on the pedal. Hang on tight!" - Harlan Coben"Simon...

LONGLISTED FOR THE MCILVANNEY PRIZE 2019 When reporter Rebecca Connolly is told of Roddie Drummond's return to the island of Stoirm she senses a story. Fifteen years before he was charged with the murder of his lover, Mhairi. When he was found Not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999981112Format PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Head & HeartPublisher Head & Heart

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956538274Author Kiersten ModglinFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Kiersten ModglinPublisher Kiersten ModglinWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Deadly secrets dwell behind closed doors...In the summer of 1380 a French captain is murdered in Hawkmere Manor - a lonely, gloomy dwelling place, otherwise known as the 'Devil's Domain'.The house is used by Regent John of Gaunt to house French...

'Think of two parallel lines. One is the life of Lee H. Oswald. One is the conspiracy to kill the President. What bridges the space between them? What makes a connection inevitable? There is a third line. It comes out of dreams, visions, intuitions,...

With an Introduction by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex. After Sherlock Holmes' apparently fatal encounter with the sinister Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls, the great detective reappears, to the delight of the faithful Dr Watson in...

From Daniel Silva, author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers The New Girl and The Other Woman, comes a stunning new action-packed thriller of high stakes international intrigue featuring the enigmatic art restorer and master spy Gabriel...

An 'utterly gripping' tale of love and espionage in Occupied France by the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Glass Room (Daily Mail)Marian Sutro is an outsider: the daughter of a diplomat, brought up on the shores of Lake Geneva and in England,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993021589Author Shaun AttwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Shaun AttwoodPublisher Shaun Attwood

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250326195Author Ellie AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454g

In this chilling thriller from the bestselling author of Keep Her Secret, if you don't take your dark secrets to the grave, maybe they'll take you there first...Calvin finally owns the bakery of his dreams, in an idyllic village in the Lake District...

Lost in the fog, a stranger seeks refuge in a nearby house only to find a man shot dead and his wife standing over him with a smoking gun. But the wife's confession is anything but convincing and the unexpected guest decides to help. Remarkably, the...

'Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place.'George and his large, simple-minded friend Lennie are drifters, following wherever work leads them. Arriving in California's Salinas...