Crime & Thrillers

A REYKJAVIK MURDER MYSTERY.A skeleton is found half-buried in a dried out lake. The bones have been weighed down with an old radio transmitter: is this a clue to the victim, and the killer's identity?Detective Erlendur is called in to investigate and...

REESE'S BOOK CLUB x HELLO SUNSHINE AUGUST 2019 PICK!FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ALL THE MISSING GIRLS'The perfect summer thriller ... twisty and tense, with a pace that made my heart race. An edge-of-your-seat, up-all-night read.' Riley Sager, author...

The start of a brand new trilogy following MI6's agents with a licence to kill, that blows the world of James Bond wide open! THREE...James Bond is missing and presumed dead. In his absence, MI6 is left struggling to pick up the pieces in the...

Tristram Abberley was an acclaimed English poet of the 1930s whose legendary reputation was sealed when he died fighting for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. Nearly fifty years later, his sister Beatrix is brutally murdered in her seaside...

'You turn the pages as if your very life depends on it' - Daily MailMr Marseille is polite, elegant, and erudite. He would do anything for his genteel true love Anabelle. And he is a psychopath.A quiet Philadelphia suburb. A woman cycles past a train...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990925637Format PaperbackPage Count 390Imprint Chris Kuzneski, IncPublisher Chris Kuzneski, Inc

It's 1984. Tommy Wildeblood, hero of Beneath the Streets, has put his days as a Piccadilly rent boy and scandal-hunting sleuth behind him, to study at the radical Polytechnic of North London. During a pitched battle against National Front infiltrators...

________________________________________AN UNSPEAKABLE CRIME When he was arrested in July 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer had a severed head in the refrigerator, two more in the freezer, two skulls and a skeleton in a filing cabinet.A DEPRIVED ACTBut if anything...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780727889225Author Tarquin HallFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739945206Author Michael BaconFormat PaperbackPage Count 474Imprint Boomsong PublishingPublisher Boomsong Publishing

'If much of the action is set in a bookshop or a library, it is a bibliomystery, just as it is if a major character is a bookseller or a librarian.' - Otto Penzler A bookish puzzle threatens an eagerly awaited inheritance; a submission to a publisher...

The twisty, turny thriller set in a beautiful French chateau from the Sunday Times bestselling author A beautiful French chateauJo Lawless is still grieving her husband when his oldest friends invite her to a weekend houseparty in France...

PRE-ORDER EVERYTHING YOU HAVE, THE THRILLING NEW PAGE-TURNER BY KATE RUBY, COMING AUGUST 2024.A RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK 'I couldn't bear it to end' LOUISE CANDLISH 'A gripping page-turner' LAURA MARSHALL 'Chilling . . . Fast-paced and twisting'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803147833Author Alison JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint BookouturePublisher BookoutureWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 17mm

'The story is expertly told, skein by skein, with a new knot to be untied just when you think everything is clear' Sunday Telegraph 1963. It was the year of the Profumo Scandal, the Great Train Robbery, the Kennedy Assassination - and the...

This is a true story of a force of licensed to kill" secret agents, commanded by a real war time secret service chief code names M, with whom Ian Fleming worked, and upon whom his James Bond stories were based. Brigadier Colin Gubbins was M, the...

Set at the edge of the Peak district, the story of an impossible love, a family's loss, and the desire to make a better world - from the Booker-shortlisted author of The Year of the RunawaysNayan Olak keeps seeing Helen Fletcher around town and on his...

The Guilty Dead is the ninth book in P.J. Tracy's addictive and internationally bestselling Twin Cities series.Gregory Norwood, wealthy businessman and close friend of Minnesota's leading candidate for Governor, is found dead on the first anniversary of...

'The Daughters of Red Hill Hall ...[has] all the intrigue, mystery, relationship drama and edge of your seat secret reveals any reader could want.' - Books and Boardies When Gemma discovers a pair of ancient duelling pistols encrusted with...

SUZUKI IS JUST AN ORDINARY MATHS TEACHER...UNTIL HIS WIFE IS MURDERED.Seeking justice, he leaves his old life behind to infiltrate the criminal gang responsible. What he doesn't realise is that he's about to get drawn into a web of the most unusual...

From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Megan Abbott, a chilling and compulsive novel about a family holiday that takes a terrifying turn.CHOSEN AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, NPR AND THE TABLET'Splendidly tense and...

'I'm taking a revolver to Thrackley. You never know with blokes like Carson. I hate these harmless, potty people - they're always up to something.' Jim Henderson is one of six guests summoned by the mysterious Edwin Carson, a collector of precious...

'Smart, funny and beautifully written. Brodeur is a brilliant dissector of family relationships, a lyricist of the natural world, and an astute observer of our inner turmoils' MONICA ALI'Gorgeous, gripping, I couldn't put it down' RUTH OZEKI'Beautiful,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781631681622Author Hazel ThorntonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Graymalkin MediaPublisher Graymalkin MediaWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913401849Author Rachel McLeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Ackroyd PublishingPublisher Ackroyd Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692637647Author Kelly RunningFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Krm PublishingPublisher Krm PublishingWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

A brilliant, high-tension thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling master storyteller...Tyrell Hawthorne was a naval intelligence officer until his wife was murdered. Now Hawthorne has been called out of retirement for one last assignment. For he is...

'I couldn't help thinking of Harper Lee's great American novel To Kill a Mockingbird while reading The Reckoning . . . [Grisham] knows how to spin a yarn' - Chicago Sun-Times'May be his greatest work yet' - David Grann, New York Times bestselling author...

A young woman starts experiencing terrifying premonitions of people dying, as it becomes clear that a family curse known only as The Murmurs has begun, and a long-forgotten crime is about to be unearthed... 'Malone is the master of twists, turns and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804621387Author Denman CFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Book FolksPublisher Book Folks

Zack Walker Mystery #1Zack Walker is a writer with an overactive imagination and two teenage children. After a murder on their street, he uproots his family from the city - insisting it's for their own good - and heads for the security of the suburbs...

If the lies don't kill you, the truth will An electrifying, high-octane thrill ride; the new must-read standalone from a Sunday Times bestseller. Dark, gritty and always at the edge of your seat, this unforgettable new outing from master storyteller,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950054695Author Sara RosettFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint McGuffin InkPublisher McGuffin InkWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 18mm

'A great new series. Wiggins is a captivating hero, and Lyle draws his Edwardian backstreets in convincing colour' Mick Herron, author of Slow Horses'Skilfully mixing real history with action sequences worthy of Lee Child, this is historical...

She lost her memory - will she lose her life? Superb crime fiction from 'A star in our galaxy of crime writers' FINANCIAL TIMES'The mistress of unease' DAILY TELEGRAPHMrs Anderson is starting to forget where she has put things, what she has bought, or...

Charles Carter, dubbed Carter the Great by Houdini himself, was born into privilege but became a magician out of need: only when dazzling an audience can he defeat his fear of loneliness. But in 1920s America the stakes are growing higher, as technology...

Venice is a city full of secrets. For hundreds of years it has been the scene of scandal, intrigue and murderous rivalries. And it remains so today.1548, Lorenzino de Medici, himself a murderer and a man few will miss, is assassinated by two hired...

Contains: The Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Mr Standfast, The Three Hostages and The Island of SheepAbout the AuthorJohn Buchan (1875-1940) was born in Perth, Scotland and educated at Oxford where he published five books and won several awards,...

The gripping page-turner from the massive No. 1 bestselling author of FIND YOU FIRST and Richard & Judy Book Club winnerThe worst day of Tim Blake's life started out with him making breakfast for his seventeen-year-old daughter Sydney. Syd was staying...

'Even better than Child 44. Akyl Borubaev is a terrific creation' Anthony Horowitz'Just keeps getting better . . . buy the whole series right away' Peter Robinson, No.1 bestselling author of Sleeping in the GroundIN THE BURNING HEAT OF THE SUN, MURDER IS...