Crime & Thrillers

Captain Charles Johnson's celebrated A General History of the Pirates (1724) is the most famous book about pirates ever written. Buoyed by the volume's runaway success Johnson followed up with the equally engrossing The Lives and Adventures of the Most...

'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray During a quiet spell in June Maigret is called to investigate the disappearance of a reputable businessman. When a body is discovered near the famous Pere Lachaise cemetery Maigret struggles to find any...

'SUSPECT is an intense, fast-paced and thrilling page turner. Crais is winning raves' CNN'A touching relationship between man and dog' THE SUN'Robert Crais is hands-down the World's Greatest Crime Fiction Writer, and that's no joke' HUFFINGTON POSTThey...

Surviving the weekend depends on whether you can keep a secret . . . Lindsey hasn't spoken to Rachel in twenty years, not since her brother's eighteenth birthday party at their parents' remote country house.A night that shattered so many friendships -...

From the creator of hit podcast The Missing Cryptoqueen______________________________Guns. Sex. Drugs. Murder.The Dark Net is just a click away.Beyond the familiar online world that most of us inhabit lies a vast network of sites, communities and...

'One of today's best detective series' LA TIMESThe minefield of Elvis Cole's past is coming back to haunt him - with a vengeance...Six months after nearly losing everything to the men who kidnapped his girlfriend's ten-year-old son, Elvis Cole is slowly...

It was the happiest day of her life. Little did she know it was also the last. When a woman's body is found in the grounds of a ruined priory, Detective Imogen Evans realises she is dealing with a serial killer-a killer whose victims appear to die in...

From the world's bestselling thriller writer - three pulse-pounding stories in one book!THE LAWYER LIFEGUARD with Doug Allyn: Defense lawyer Brian Lord survived the car bomb that killed his fiancee. Out of work and out of his mind, he takes on a...

In the shadow of Sicily's Mount Etna, a brutal rebellion is about to erupt . . .The scorching new historical thriller from Sunday Times bestseller and Ancient Rome expert, Harry Sidebottom.'What Bernard Cornwell is to the Napoleonic Wars, Harry...

He's out of options. Kill. Or be killed. A searing thriller that will leave you reelingDisgraced Navy SEAL Finn is on the run.A wanted man, he's sought for questioning in connection to war crimes committed in Yemen by a rogue element in his SEAL team...

SHE SAID YES TO A DINNER INVITATION. NOW SHE'S A MURDER SUSPECT . . .'A gripping page-turner' CATHERINE RYAN HOWARD'Agatha Christie meets John Grisham' SAM BLAKE'I couldn't put it down' ANDREA MARAA visit to her old university takes an unexpected turn...

'Tough, uncompromising and insightful . . . Russell has brilliantly captured post-war Glasgow and the vulnerability of those left to pick up the pieces' Michael Robotham'A crime story that transcends the genre. . .This is storytelling at its very best!'...

Forever Rumpole - a hilarious new selection of the very best Rumpole stories by John MortimerHorace Rumpole lives alongside Mr Pickwick and Bertie Wooster as one of the immortal comic characters in English fiction. With his curmudgeonly wit, his literary...

Craig Moore is a brilliant but introverted programmer, who finds himself thrust into a world of government intrigue and technological warfare when a letter arrives from the UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory. Officials want Craig to assist...

Number one bestselling author Conn Iggulden takes on the story of the mighty Kublai Khan. An epic tale of a great and heroic mind; his action-packed rule; and how in conquering one-fifth of the world's inhabited land, he changed the course of history...

The world's most sacred and mysterious object and a race for survival... The brilliant new thriller from global bestseller James BeckerIn Ethiopia, Chris Bronson and Angela Lewis are on the hunt for the Ark of the Covenant. But it looks like their luck...

There's a killer on the loose, and he wants to play . . . Discover the runaway bestselling Richard and Judy pick, the gripping first thriller in the million copy bestselling Twin Cities seriesWant to play a game?A small American town.A brutally cold...

M.C. Beaton meets Miss Marple in the second book in the charming Laetitia Rodd Mysteries, which sees Kate Saunders' Victorian lady detective on the hunt for a missing Oxford scholar who is soon to be the heir to a fortune It is 1851 and Laetitia Rodd...

'His artistry is supreme' John Banville Eyes half-closed, head tilted against the back of his seat, he seemed not to be thinking, as the plane flew over a thick carpet of bright clouds. In reality, he was making an effort to bring names and shadowy...

Steve Toltz's A Fraction of the Whole is a riotously funny explosion of a novelSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008From his prison cell, Jasper Dean tells the unlikely story of his scheming father Martin, his crazy Uncle Terry and how the three of...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'A gut-wrenching tale of mother love . . . contains enough blind alleys and red herrings to keep even the most astute readers on their toes' Daily ExpressAs a career-driven Assistant District Attorney, Nina Frost's life is...

***PERFECT FOR FANS OF WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING AND SOON TO BE MAJOR FILM STARRING DAISY RIDLEY***You'd recognise my mother's name if I told it to you. You'd wonder, briefly, where is she now? And didn't she have a daughter while she was missing?And...

'Joe Ide is the best new discovery I've come across in a long time. And Isaiah Quintabe is the kind of sleuth not seen on the mystery landscape before.' MICHAEL CONNELLYTHE TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH: 'Full of humour, originality and high-quality...

'The father of contemporary European detective fiction' Ann Cleeves Poor Cecile! And yet she was still young. Maigret had seen her papers: barely twenty-eight years old. But it would be difficult to look more like an old maid, to move less gracefully,...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and...

"CHARLESGATE CONFIDENTIAL is terrific." - Stephen King A breathtakingly clever, twist-filled narrative that moves from 1946 to 1988 to 2014 and back again, CHARLESGATE CONFIDENTIAL establishes Scott Von Doviak as a storyteller of the first order. A...

Children think we make them, but we don't ... They come into the world and make us. They make us by breaking us first. 'Utterly gripping' Karin Slaughter 'Impossible to put down' Booklist ...

What's a lie among friends? It's murder-in this riveting thriller by Viveca Sten, bestselling author of Tonight You're Dead... It's Midsummer's Eve, the celebration of the longest day of the year, and on Sandhamn it's the longest party of the year...

'A colourful tale of love, lust, making good and revenge' The Sun 'Gripping from the very first page... this fast-paced, amoral story should appeal to fans of Peaky Blinders' The Lady Gangland was a man's world - but the women knew differentLondon,...

'Fans of MARTINA COLE will love this' Katerina Diamond A gripping new series from million-copy bestseller Mel Sherratt. 'I love all Mel Sherratt's books' IAN RANKIN 'Twists and turns and delivers...

A secluded mountain lodge. The perfect getaway. So remote no one will ever find you. The promise of a luxury vacation at a secluded wilderness spa has brought together eight lucky guests. But nothing is what they were led to believe. As a fierce storm...

'Dark, strange, thick with mystery and twists Book of Night is everything delicious and frightening I've come to expect from Holly Black.' Leigh Bardugo, Sunday Times bestselling author of Ninth House'Black is a master at world-building.' The New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781542038652Author Melinda LeighFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint MontlakePublisher Amazon Publishing

Thea and Drew have been married for a year and are settled in the village of Broad Campden, but Thea is chafing at the domestic routines she is expected to devote herself to, missing the novelty and adventure that house-sitting used to bring. When a...

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'Gripping' Guardian'Pacy and stylish' Jeremy Vine 'It was never meant to be like this. Sabotage, yes. Propaganda, yes. All of that and more - but not this. Not murder.'South Africa has become a powder keg. Its precious land is being sold off to the...

Kilbane has a new garda, and her first case is a grave matter indeed...After solving two murders in the County Cork village of Kilbane, Siobhan O'Sullivan has accepted her calling and decided to join the Garda Siochana. The O'Sullivan clan couldn't be...

Discover the action-packed adventure thriller, perfect for fans of The Da Vinci Code, Indiana Jones and C. J. SansomHidden away in a dusty antiquities shop in Egypt, an ancient artefact is discovered.Quickly, it becomes the centre of the deadliest...

'Alive with a tang of lemons to set the senses zinging' The SpectatorTranslated fiction at its most charming - A Man Called Ove meets Andrea Camilleri, Auntie Poldi is this summer's most unlikely hero.Auntie Poldi can think of no finer place to wait for...

The highly anticipated follow-up to Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month, Fatal Isles. Perfect for fans of Shetland, Broadchurch and Ann Cleeves.**Don't miss the next case for DI Karen Eiken Hornby. CRUEL TIDES is available to pre-order now**'TREMENDOUS ...