Crime & Thrillers

'I honestly believe this is one of the best books that I've read this year!' NetGalley Reviewer, You're not who you say you are. But neither is she. Olive Anderson has accepted that tonight she'll be dining alone, without her husband. So when a...

The second novel from the Women's Prize-shortlisted author of Unsettled Ground explores the mysterious truths of a troubled marriage and the ripples it creates.'Gil Coleman looked down from the window and saw his dead wife standing on the pavement below...

'Outstanding in every way' Lee Child'The page turned of the season' The Times____________'Do you need my help?' It was the first question he asked. They called him when they had nowhere else to turn. As a boy Evan Smoak was taken from an orphanage...

'Fast-paced and wryly amusing... A delight from start to finish' - Val McDermidDetective Inspector Jack Frost is having a hard time.A young boy is found dead in a rubbish heap, suffocated and with one finger cut off. Another boy is missing. A psychopath...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838881542Author Shalini BolandFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint BookouturePublisher BookoutureWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 15mm

It's London, the swinging sixties, and by rights MI6 spy Joe Wilderness should be having as good a time as James Bond. But alas, in the wake of an embarrassing disaster for MI6, Wilderness has been posted to remote northern Finland in a cultural exchange...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838182113Author Liz MistryFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Liz MistryPublisher Liz MistryWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 20mm

Doesn't every marriage have a dark side? 'Beautifully written, chilling and absorbing' Adele Parks, Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author of Lies Lies Lies and Just My Luck 'Her best novel yet...

A drug deal gone bad. A daughter gone missing. A hit man on the loose. And five days to find the answers. As journalist Siobhan Fallon embarks on a hunt for a missing girl, DI Mike Mulcahy uncovers a link between Ireland's largest-ever drugs haul and the...

'Like the best action films in book form' FHMNick Stone is back in London but if he thought he was home for a break, he's very, very wrong.Backed into a corner by a man he knows he cannot trust, ex-deniable operator Nick Stone strikes a devil's bargain...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942633006Author Diane CapriFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint AugustBooksPublisher AugustBooksWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 20mm

The second book in the heartwarming and charming Baby Ganesh series.For centuries the Koh-i-Noor diamond has set man against man and king against king.Now part of the British Crown Jewels, the priceless gem is a prize that many have killed to possess. So...

A man wakes in a cell.He doesn't know who he is or how long he has been here.He doesn't even know his name.All he knows is that someone has left the cell door open . . .Nevil Hammersmith is a former Metropolitan Police sergeant. He became a private...

*** A Guardian BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ***In the fourth rip-roaring thriller in the award-winning Malabar House series, Persis and Archie travel to the old colonial capital of Calcutta, where they collide head-on with the prejudices and bloody politics of...

An Edgar Award finalist for Best Fact Crime, this "impressive...open-eyed investigative inquiry wrapped within a cultural history of rural America" (The Wall Street Journal) shows legendary statistician and baseball writer Bill James applying his...

Private is going down under. And it might be going down for good . . .P.I. Craig Gisto is enjoying the glamorous launch party for Private Sydney with when the celebrations are interrupted by the discovery of a body at their doorstep.The victim is...

In the wake of a series of unfortunate experiences in the Cotswolds, Thea Osborne, accompanied by her spaniel Hepzibah, is perhaps over-optimistic about the English summertime and the possibilities of her latest house-sitting assignment in the secluded...

A Nest of Vipers is the twenty-first novel in Andrea Camilleri's irresistible Inspector Montalbano series.On what should be a quiet Sunday morning, Inspector Montalbano is called to a murder scene on the Sicilian coast. A man has discovered his father...

The fourth instalment in Syd Moore's spooktacular witch detective series Halloween in Essex and the Mystery and Suspense creative writing course at old Ratchette Hall is off to a satisfyingly creepy start. But things take a turn for the worse when the...

THE FIRST GRAY MAN NOVEL FROM #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR MARK GREANEY - now a Netflix original film starring Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans'Hard, fast, and unflinching-exactly what a thriller should be.' Lee ChildTo those who lurk in the shadows,...

An impossible mission, for a man who barely exists The mysterious assassin known only as Victor is locked in an uneasy alliance with the CIA. And he has a list: three names, three victims. Worst of all, Victor is given just two days to take down his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911579854Author Christopher BushFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Dean Street Press LimitedPublisher Dean Street Press Limited

'Brilliantly entertaining and original' C.L. Taylor'A standout book' Rosie WalshFrom the Sunday Times-bestselling author Rowan Coleman, comes a special new series featuring the Bronte sisters, written under the name Bella EllisYorkshire, 1845, and dark...

NO ONE KNOWS CRIME LIKE KRAY...'A cracking good read' Jessie Keane 'Well into Martina Cole territory' Independent'Great writing, gripping story, loved it' Mandasue Heller__________________Lolly Bruce spent several years in the lap of luxury, but now...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781805085027Author Nichole SevernFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Storm PublishingPublisher Storm PublishingWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786819321Author Shalini BolandFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint BookouturePublisher BookoutureWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 13mm

A defense attorney is prepared to play. But is she a pawn in a master's deadly match? A twisting novel of suspense by New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni. Keera Duggan was building a solid reputation as a Seattle prosecutor, until her...

A dazzling speculative novel of 'counterfactual history' from one of America's most highly-regarded science fiction authors, Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle includes an introduction by Eric Brown in Penguin Modern Classics.Philip K. Dick's...

Considered one of the foremost humorists in England at the turn of the century, W. W. Jacobs (1863-1943) is best known for his masterpiece of horror, ""The Monkey's Paw."" He was the author of thirteen volumes of short stories-all of which were...

Fans of S. J. Parris, Donna Leon, Steven Saylor and C. J. Sansom will love this captivating, colourful and unputdownable historical mystery from multi-million copy bestselling author Lindsey Davis. Guaranteed to have you turning the pages, this will...

"Slick, sick and not for the faint-hearted. It will make you cry out (for more)" - Mark Sanderson, The Times"Exhilarating . . . This is not conventional crime" Barry Forshaw, Independent Introducing Olivier Norek: Former police officer, writer on Spiral...

'Yrsa is a magnificent writer' Karin Slaughter'The queen of Icelandic thriller writers' Guardian A chilling note written by a thirteen-year-old predicting the deaths of six people is found in a time capsule, ten years after it was buried. Can it be a...

Not bored to death but murder most foul . . . Celebrated author John Heppel is known in Lochdubh as a self-important bore, prone to belittling the scribblings of the locals in his creative writing class. So when he's found dead, his mouth oozing ink, it...

King and Chizmar join forces again with a powerful stand-alone novel that is also the final chapter in the Gwendy trilogy.When Gwendy Peterson was twelve, a stranger named Richard Farris gave her a mysterious box for safekeeping. It offered treats and...

'America's preeminent fiction writer' New Yorker 'A raw, propulsive tale of love and grief' Mail on Sunday A novel of love and loss from the bestselling and prizewinning author of Blonde. ...

The boy's body was so white it was almost transparent. But that's not what caused the nausea to rise up her throat. He was so young. His body was unmarked, surrounded by a halo of plucked wildflowers.One hot summer evening, eleven-year-old Mikey Driscoll...

Gunpowder, pirates and mortal danger on the High Seas.It's 1786 and Alan Lewrie has his own ship at last, the Alacrity. Small but deadly, the Alacrity prowls the waters of the Caribbean, protecting British merchants from pirates.A surprising turn of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803141664Author Rona HalsallFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint BookouturePublisher BookoutureWeight(grams) 281g

THE HUNTERSIf you seek, they will find...The treasure:For two thousand years, Alexander the Great's legendary tomb - and the extraordinary riches within - has remained hidden, but recent events hold the key to locating the fabled vault. Only one team can...

Sophie is haunted by the things she can't remember - and visions from the past she will never forget.One morning, she wakes to find that the little boy in her care is dead. She has no memory of what happened. And whatever the truth, her side of the story...