Crime & Thrillers

FROM AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR CHRIS OFFUTT.'Excellent Kentucky noir - Offutt's third Mick Hardin novel is the best yet.' - KirkusAn explosive return to the mayhem of the Kentucky hills, Code of the Hills is a harrowing novel of family - of what we're willing...

'Vera Morris is one of those unexpected gems who turn up occasionally on the crime fiction scene' Mystery PeopleSomeone knows what happened . . .1971. David was thirteen when he went missing two years ago. It's now up to Laurel Bowman and Frank Diamond,...

Rigged exposes a cover-up at the highest level on both sides of the Atlantic, upending the official story of the biggest scandal since the global financial crisis. It picks up where The Big Short leaves off, as the dark clouds of the financial crisis...

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best ThrillerSooner or later, everybody pays.Gerry Fegan, a former paramilitary contract killer, is haunted by the ghosts of the 12 people he has slaughtered. Every night, on the point of losing his mind, he...

'Compelling.' Reni Eddo-LodgeA 'must-read book for 2022', as picked by StylistMore than one fifth of children want to become influencers and it's easy to understand why. What if you could escape economic uncertainty by winning the internet's attention?...

Ben Cooper and his team from Derbyshire Constabulary's E Division return in this gripping new page-turner from the master of the genre. For the Peak District hamlet of Shawhead, there's only one road in and one road out. Its handful of residents are...

A pacy international thriller with a historical twist, from the New York Times bestselling author.For ex-field agent Cotton Malone the stakes have never been higher: a deadly virus that could wipe out civilisation as we know it - and a cure that lies...

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...

Inspector Singh is sick of sick leave, so when Mrs Singh suggests they attend a family wedding in Mumbai, he grudgingly agrees - hoping that the spicy Indian curries will make up for extended exposure to his wife's relatives. Unfortunately, the beautiful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915490001Author M J TrowFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint BLKDOG PublishingPublisher BLKDOG PublishingWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

After years of abuse, Bernadette makes the decision to leave her husband, only to find that he is missing ... along with a little boy she'd befriended years earlier. A tense, dramatic and moving novel from the bestselling author of How To Be Brave and...

The thrilling first instalment in the Forrester Detective Agency Mystery series from the author of #2 bestseller The Family at No. 12 Nothing is more important than family . . .Matt Forrester has followed in his dad's footsteps, climbing the police ranks...

A killer at large in a remote Basque Country valley , a detective to rival Clarice Starling, myth versus reality, masterful storytelling - the Spanish bestseller that has taken Europe by storm. Shortlisted for the CWA...

WHEN THE FAIR COMES TO TOWN, A KILLER'S GAME BEGINS...'One hell of a ride' - THE TIMES'Revelatory' - VAL MCDERMID'A must-read' - JANICE HALLETT'A genuine triumph' - IAN MOORE'What more could a reader ask for?' - JOHN CONNOLLY'A thrilling helter-skelter'...

A dark-skinned young boy is found dead, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. The boy's Thai half-brother is missing; is he implicated, or simply afraid for his own life? While fears increase that the murder could have been racially motivated,...

Thirteen Torland Place was the scene of five terrible murders in the nineteenth century, and also related to the disappearances of two teenage girls. When a student living in the house is found to be brutally murdered, Detective Inspector Joe Plantagenet...

In the Summer of 1972, 14-year-old Judith Roberts took off for a bike ride within the vicinity of her Staffordshire home. Her body was discovered after a three-day manhunt, concealed from view in a thick privet having been brutally attacked. The...

Is Carl Andersen innocent of murder, or a very good liar?Detective Chief Inspector Maigret has been interrogating the enigmatic Danish aristocrat for seventeen hours. A diamond merchant was found dead, shot at point-blank range, in the garage of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916210479Author Malcolm RichardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 554Imprint Storm House BooksPublisher Storm House Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912592746Author David PennyFormat PaperbackPage Count 486Imprint River Tree PrintPublisher River Tree PrintWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

'Terrific' Sunday Times ___________In the dark world of cryptocurrency, there's a high price to pay . . .From the central bank of El Salvador to a tantalum mine in Rwanda, the Acropolis Museum in Athens to the biggest freeport on the planet in Dubai,...

1924: Still reeling from the effects of the Great War, life in the city of Leeds is hard: poverty is rife, work is scarce and crime is becoming more sophisticated. Bravely entering this maelstrom is one of the city's first policewomen to walk the beat,...

They thought it was a simple flight home. The pilot had other plans... A moment of calmHeading home after a conference, the senior leadership of a global corporation relax on their private jet ahead of their Christmas break. A flash...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593101117Author Emily BrightwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803144986Author Alice CastleFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint BookouturePublisher BookoutureWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.Book InformationISBN 9781933372426Author Elena FerranteFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Europa EditionsPublisher Europa Editions

FROM THE BESTSELLING AND CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF SPARE ROOM, GANGLAND GIRLS TRLIOGY and the FLESH AND BLOOD SERIESDreda Say Mitchell was awarded an MBE in Her Majesty The Queen's 2020 New Year's Honours List'A gripping and thrilling read by a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425273081Author Tom ClancyFormat PaperbackImprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 1281gDimensions(mm) 193mm...

'An engrossing, intelligent and provocative novel in the guise of a conventional mystery' - New York Times Book Review'A superb job of seamless collaboration. Thrones, Dominations is pure pleasure.' - Wall Street Journal1936. Lord Peter Wimsey has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911579793Author Christopher BushFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Dean Street Press LimitedPublisher Dean Street Press Limited

Every man has his dark side... Spero Lucas confronts his own in an explosive thriller from the writer of the award-winning THE WIRE.Spero Lucas is a young Iraq war vet now working as a PI in Washington DC. He's hired by a young woman to find a painting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780978270728Author Emilio SalgariFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint ROH PressPublisher ROH PressWeight(grams) 421gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 16mm

'Banks once again demonstrates his extraordinary dark powers of imagination' Sunday TimesHisako Onada, world-famous cellist, refuses to fly. And so she travels to Europe as a passenger on a tanker bound through the Panama Canal. But Panama is a country...

**The international bestseller and the book behind the film and play Let Me In**Let the Right One In Season 1 premieres Saturday, 8th October 2022 on Paramount+ UK.'The new Stephen King' The TimesOskar and Eli. In very different ways, they were both...

On suspension and unable to work, DCI Domenic Jejeune finds his attention snared by an unexplained death at an Antarctic research base. Meanwhile, DS Danny Maik investigates a string of arson attacks in Norfolk. When a corpse is discovered in a bird...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912599769Author Adam CroftFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Black Cannon PublishingPublisher Black Cannon PublishingWeight(grams) 320gDimensions(mm)...

FROM THE AUTHOR OF ITV'S OUR HOUSE COMES ANOTHER ADDICTIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE YOU SIMPLY CAN'T PUT DOWN 'The best book I have read all year . . . keeps you guessing until the end' 5***** READER REVIEW 'I was gripped by this book' 5***** READER REVIEW...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for IACW Dashiell Hammett Award 2017. Nominated for Barry Award for Best Thriller 2017.Book InformationISBN 9780399574344Author Steve HamiltonFormat...

London is being haunted by a serial killer who is beginning to evolve. Victims are left at iconic city landmarks and in the garden squares of the east end. They are carefully displayed with a pear in one hand and their heart in the other. The streets of...

'Fresh, original, authentic and gritty' A series of bizarre drug-related deaths among runaway teenagers has set the North East's homeless community on edge.The word on the street is that a rogue batch of Spice - the zombie drug sweeping the inner cities...