Crime & Thrillers

Ambitious Assistant District Attorney Hammond Cross has his sights set on the District Attorney's office. Prosecuting a high-profile murder case in his hometown of Charleston practically ensures him the job. But a Saturday night encounter with a...

'While My Italian Bulldozer certainly advocates a kind, considerate, some might even say old-fashioned approach to resolving affairs of the heart, it also succeeds in subtly, almost imperceptibly ripping up the traditional rules of the romantic comedy...

A well-read old dear has an unhealthy interest in murder, in this sharp, witty, and refreshingly original cozy crime novel. Retired librarian and bookshop owner May Morrigan lives in the affluent village of Blackheath with Fletcher, her best friend since...

Talking fridges, human clone farms, flying shopping malls - we must be in the Michael Marshall Smith zone. A world all too close to our own... Spares - human clones, the ultimate health insurance. An eye for an eye - but some people are doing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947744417Author T LockhavenFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Twisted Key Publishing, LLCPublisher Twisted Key Publishing, LLCWeight(grams)...

This new selection of stories featuring Inspector Maigret - three of which are published in English for the first time - takes the detective from a mysterious death in a Cannes hotel to a love triangle in the Loire countryside and a bitter rivalry within...

Meet James Bond, the world's most famous spy, in these landmark 70th anniversary reissues of Ian Fleming's classic series. James Bond is marked for death by the Soviet counterintelligence agency SMERSH in Ian Fleming's masterful spy thriller, and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496739933Author Andrea PenroseFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

Through a particularly tragic series of events, couch potato Maeve Kelly has been forced to sign up for the Other Half, Bath's springtime half-marathon. What Maeve doesn't know is just how brutal some of the other runners are.As race day draws closer, an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845279103Author John Alwyn GriffithsFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Gwasg Carreg GwalchPublisher Gwasg Carreg GwalchDimensions(mm) 182mm * 124mm *...

THE FIRST TOM REYNOLDS MYSTERY FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE PERFECT LIEIt's true what they say . . . revenge is sweet.1975A baby, minutes old, is forcibly taken from its devastated mother.2010The body of an elderly woman is found in...

The gripping and masterfully-crafted new thriller from award-winning author Matthew Frank'Tense and twisty . . . completely gripping. I ignored children, a ringing phone, hunger, everything just to devour the last hundred pages' KAREN PERRY, Sunday Times...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838881603Author Carol WyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint BookouturePublisher BookoutureWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 22mm

Marcus and Lena Fulford are the envy of their friends. Wealthy, attractive and successful, the couple, with their strikingly beautiful teenage daughter Amy, seem settled and content. But appearances mask a strained relationship almost at breaking point...

_________________________HANNIBAL LECTER HAS BEEN ON THE RUN FOR SEVEN YEARS.And seven years after he helped FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling bring down Buffalo Bill, her career is collapsing after a disastrous drug bust. Meanwhile, seven years after...

In Zambia, American lawyer Zoe Fleming and policeman Joseph Kabuta have uncovered a crime that has no rhyme or reason: a young girl, attacked and left for dead. Zoe and Joseph - their pasts, cultures and upbringings radically different - must work...

A tale of taut suspense from 'the best writer in crime fiction today' [USA Today]Harry Arno runs a South Miami Beach gambling operation. To protect his position, he was forced to cut a deal with the local muscle, Jimmy Capotorto (Jumbo Jimmy Cap), an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954123274Author Gary McAvoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Literati EditionsPublisher Literati EditionsWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa First Novel AwardShortlisted for the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award'Mesmerising, compulsive, deliciously dark' LUCY FOLEYCarmel is missing - but doesn't know she's lost.When sensitive, distracted eight-year-old...

Discover the chilling first mystery in a truly unique crime series you won't be able to put down'There comes a time when a novel raises the bar for a particular genre, and The Sea Detective does just that for Scottish crime fiction' SCOTSMAN______ Cal...

Still reeling from the tragic death of their much-loved colleague, Skinner's men are about to discover that a disturbed serial killer is still at large and very close to home.It's the second week of July Trades Holiday in Edinburgh when Deputy Chief...

'I flew through this book in a day! I loved it. It really had me desperate to know more' NetGalley Reviewer, To unlock her secret, you must tell yours. Holly Mayhew has the...

NO ONE IS EVER INNOCENT IN PARADISE.**THE TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH**A small town. A closely guarded secret, stretching back decades. And blood in the water.'A masterful, stunning thriller. A twisting mystery epic in scale yet intricate in detail...

Summer. 1930. The hottest day of the year. And Dr Bickleigh has murder in mind. A classic crime masterpiece from 'One of crime fiction's greatest innovators' Independent On a balmy summer's day in 1930 the great and the good of the county are out in...

DIRK PITT IS BACK, AND ON HIS SHOULDERS RESTS THE FATE OF THE ENTIRE PLANET . . .JOIN THE LATEST THRILL RIDE FROM THE GRAND MASTER OF ADVENTURE, CLIVE CUSSLER_________In 1959 a Skytrain plane flees Tibet - carrying a precious artefact - but after...

Joe Pickett investigates a mysterious death at a secret high-tech facility in this gripping new novel from #1 New York Times bestseller C.J. Box. When a prominent University of Wyoming professor goes missing, authorities are stumped. That is, until...

Extravagant, absurd, and self-aware, The Revolutionaries Try Again plays out against the lost decade of Ecuador's austerity and the stymied idealism of three childhood friends--an expat, a bureaucrat, and a playwright--who are as sure about the evils of...

Stuck in a job he doesn't want - but can't afford to lose - as nominal Head of the Communications Department at Fenland University, Wilt is still subject to the whims of The Powers That Be, both in and outside of work. The demands of his snobbish wife...

When 25-year-old Bella Michaels is brutally murdered in the small town of Strathdee, the community is stunned and a media storm descends. Unwillingly thrust into the eye of that storm is Bella's beloved older sister, Chris, a barmaid at the local pub,...

'Gone Girl meets Mean Girls and The Secret History' Guardian A darkly intoxicating novel of female friendship and obsession that will keep you turning the pages, perfect for fans of My Dark Vanessa and The Virgin Suicides ...

How far would YOU go to keep your secret safe?A classic gripping read from the Sunday Times bestselling author of a heartwrenching family secret.Eden Riley's life is far from what it seems. Her marriage is failing, and her career is spiralling out of...

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'Great read written by a great girl'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612199399Author Robert J. LloydFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing

'The best Discworld book in the whole world ever. Until next time.' SFXThe Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . ...

'Lottie Parker is one of the most compelling characters in Irish detective fiction' LIZ NUGENT, bestselling author of Our Little CrueltiesShe lifted the flap of the envelope and pulled out the single white page. As she opened it up she stared, open...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914602153Author Joseph ConradFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint Chiltern PublishingPublisher Chiltern Publishing

MEET DETECTIVE GEREON RATH IN THE BOOKS THAT INSPIRED THE HIT TV SERIES BABYLON BERLIN 'Tough, gritty and altogether superb, Goldstein is a worthy addition to the addictive Gereon Rath series.' -William Ryan, author of The Constant Soldier Volker...

Book Two of the Inspector Frank Stave Investigations, a German detective trilogy set in post-WWII Hamburg. More than 150,000 copies sold.Hamburg, 1948It is a year of extremes. After a bitterly cold winter of starvation, the bombed city groans under...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838886486Author Fliss ChesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint BookouturePublisher BookoutureWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 15mm

When the body of a man in eighteenth-century Highland dress is discovered on the site of the Battle of Culloden, journalist Rebecca Connolly takes up the story for the Chronicle. Meanwhile, a film being made about the '45 Rebellion has enraged the...