Crime & Thrillers

'Mazy, pacy London noir' Ian RankinTen days after the station closed, he was informed he'd been officially suspended pending a hearing over allegations of gross misconduct. No details. A few hours after that, he got a call from a man who wouldn't give...

The highly anticipated return of Dalziel and Pascoe, the hugely popular police duo and stars of the long-running BBC TV series, in a new psychological thriller. Caught in a huge Semtex explosion, it seems the only thing preventing...

Run by Mandasue Heller is a gritty story of Manchester's criminal underworld.After being cheated on by her ex, Leanne Riley is trying her hardest to get her life back on track, which isn't easy without a job and living in a bedsit surrounded by a junkie...

The BRAND NEW deliciously dark thriller from Sarah Bonner, author of How to Slay at Work You'd kill for a holiday like this one...Chloe has spent months planning the murder of her husband, Scott. Everything is ready, but first she must create the perfect...

Nothing much ever seemed to happen in the sleepy village of Hazel Green apart from the occasional tea-party, spiced with local gossip. Until Maggie Bell went out one evening for a breath of fresh air and never came back.Could Maggie's disappearance be...

Two true-crime cases from the hit TV series Murder is ForeverMURDER, INTERRUPTED. Rich, cheating financier Frank Howard wants his wife dead, and he's willing to pay Billie Earl Johnson whatever it takes. But when the bullet misses the mark, Billie Earl...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525535492Author Nick PetrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Putnam Publishing Group,U.S.Publisher Putnam Publishing Group,U.S.

A REYKJAVIK MURDER MYSTERY.It is a few days before Christmas and a Reykjavik doorman and occasional Santa Claus, Gudlauger, has been found stabbed to death in his hotel room in a sexually compromising position. It soon becomes apparent that both staff...

**The 30th Anniversary Edition: revised and updated for old and new fans of Lynda La Plante** From the bestselling screenwriter and author of The Dirty Dozen. One family. One legacy. One curse. Hugh is a hardened miner from the Welsh Valleys who has...

After losing her job and her boyfriend, Emily is devastated. As she is puzzling over what to do with the rest of her life, she is surprised to learn that her great aunt has died, leaving Emily her cottage in the picturesque Wiltshire village of Ashton...

DISCOVER THE GRIPPING THRILLER FROM THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING TWIN CITIES SERIES'Supercharged storytelling' DAILY MAIL________ A young woman is murdered in a park in Minneapolis. When detectives Gino and Magozzi discover a playing card near the...

Ray Hegarty, a highly respected former detective, lies dead in his daughter Sienna's bedroom. She is found covered in his blood. Everything points to her guilt, but psychologist Joe O'Loughlin isn't convinced.Fourteen-year-old Sienna is Joe's daughter's...

A second blistering crime novel set in France's most notorious suburb, by a police officer turned million-copy bestseller and key writer on Spiral"Hits the ground running and never lets up . . . This impressive debut is slick, sick and not for the...

Meet DI HILLARY GREENE, a policewoman struggling to save her career and catch criminals. Flo Jenkins is found murdered in her armchair, a paperknife sticking out of her chest. The old woman was well liked and nothing seems to have been stolen from her...

From the author of the Sanctus series comes a brilliant new serial killer thriller featuring forensic specialist Dr Laughton Rees and Detective Chief Inspector Tannahill Khan 'The ending is genuinely one of the most jaw-dropping ones I've read...

A busman's holiday for Hamish . . . After losing both his promotion and the lovely Priscilla Halburton-Smythe, Hamish Macbeth decides the best cure for a broken heart is a week's break at the charming coastal village of Skag. When he arrives at the...

Maggie Costello uncovers an assassination plot to kill the tyrannical new president. A blockbuster thriller from No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Sam Bourne. The...

Former head of MI5 Stella Rimington brings the high-stakes world of intelligence to life in AT RISK - the first novel in her bestselling and much-loved series featuring MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle.For MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle the...

The first Thora Gudmundsdottir novel from Yrsa Sigurdardottir - 'Queen of Icelandic crime'. 'Yrsa is one of the most exciting new voices in the crime thriller world.' - Peter James A young man is found brutally murdered, his eyes gouged out. A student...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780727885814Author Nick OldhamFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 438gDimensions(mm) 224mm * 146mm * 22mm

What would you do if you were suddenly reminded of something you witnessed as a young child, but had only just realised the terrible significance of what you saw? When Cerys Morgan, a beautiful young student, vanished from a crowded beach in Cornwall...

A girl lies close to death in a dark, deserted lane. A driver drags her body to the side of the road. A shadowy figure hides in the trees, watching and waiting. For Ellie Saunders last night's hit and run on the back road could destroy everything she has...

The brand new psychological thriller from the author of Am I Guilty, The Perfect Couple and The Happy Family When Mary receives a blank diary as a present, she thinks nothing of it. Until she opens the diary, and sees it's not blank after all....

In this, the first book of its kind, Kate Kray, who married gangster Ronnie Kray, peers into the minds of the top twenty worst killers in criminal history and, sparing no detail, reveals the awful truth of their abominable acts. The extreme nature of...

'Just keeps getting better and better' DAVID BALDACCI 'Slick and enjoyable' SUN 'Top-notch fun noir' SUNDAY TIMES CRIME CLUB (starred review)DESPERATE MEN ARE DANGEROUS . . .Joe Pike wasn't looking to save someone's life on the day he left the bank. But...

EVIL TAKES MANY FORMS. PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR CHARLIE PARKER HUNTS THEM ALL.'Haunting, scary and addictive' Independent on SundayIn the depths of the Maine woods, the wreckage of an aeroplane is discovered. There are no bodies. No such plane has ever...

*As seen on The One Show**A Sunday Times Crime Book of the Year*'A rip-roaring mystery that's engrossing from start to finish' ABIR MUKHERJEEHAS SOMEONE GOT AWAY WITH MURDER?On the verge of a four-billion-dollar deal, a tech entrepreneur from Shoreditch...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612438672Author Michelle KaminskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Ulysses PressPublisher Ulysses PressWeight(grams) 305g

'Wait just one minute while I catch my breath and pick my heart up off the floor. Wow! This book grabbed onto me and would not let go... Five stars' NetGalley reviewer, You thought she was safe. You were wrong... ...

A riveting Kate Brannigan thriller, from No.1 Sunday Times bestseller Val McDermid. 'Val McDermid remains unrivalled' Observer Kate Brannigan's having a bad week. Her boyfriend's death notice is in the...

From the cocreator of Deadpool and author of Suburban Dicks comes a diabolically funny murder mystery about the dark underbelly of suburban marriage After mother of five and former FBI profiler Andie Stern solved a murder-and unraveled a decades old...

NOMINATED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGERThere is more to solving a crime than following the clues.Welcome to Chief Inspector Gamache's world of facts and feelings.As a fierce, unrelenting winter grips Quebec, shadows are closing in on Chief Inspector Armand...

The perfect daughter is dead. And a secret is eating her family alive...Jenna is given another shot at life when she receives a donor heart from a girl called Callie. Eternally grateful to Callie and her family, Jenna gets closer to them, but she soon...

An FT Best Summer Thriller 2023'Creates an atmosphere of mounting menace' The Times'Conjures up a backdrop so vivid you can taste the smoke in the air' Val McDermid, author of 1989BIRMINGHAM, 1933.Private enquiry agent William Garrett facilitates...

Following a rash moment of insolence, Dr Siri Paiboun, Laos' reluctant national coroner, confused shaman and disheartened communist, is forced to go on a road trip with Judge Haeng and the Justice Department. While newly pregnant Nurse Dtui and Dr...

Meg Varnum. Maggie Littleton. Meg Upton. Different names for the same person, depending on the town, depending on the job. I'm not a con artist as much as an avenger. A righter of wrongs. But nothing about me is real, other than my desire to hold men...

An out-of-control arsonist seeking revenge. A fireman and a detective on his tail. COUNT TO TEN is a compulsive thriller, part of the Chicago series, by Sunday Times bestseller Karen Rose. Abandoned years ago to the foster-care system, two young...

A devoted husband defies fate and risks everything to find the one universe where his beloved wife is still alive in this bold and thought-provoking novel. Dr. Jonas Cullen has spent his career as a groundbreaking physicist defying the odds. But on the...