Crime & Thrillers

Crime reporter Rosie Gilmour returns from hiding in Bosnia to a story of a brutal execution. University lecturer Tom Mahoney was shot at point blank range and the killing has all the signs of a hit. But who would want to kill a retired lecturer? Rosie...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806539140Author Anthony M. DeStefanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Citadel PressPublisher Kensington PublishingWeight(grams) 335gDimensions(mm)...

No one in Lochdubh expects Dorothy to stay for long...She is, after all, entirely unsuitable. She's an uptown girl, used to a fancy lifestyle in the big city of Glasgow. She'll never fit in. And how is that work-shy rogue Hamish Macbeth supposed to get...

When a merchant in Exeter hears an intruder in his home one night, his first thought is to conceal his adulterous lover. But then he witnesses a sinister figure stooping over the bed of his only child, a figure who seems to vanish into thin air.Two years...

A thrilling new collection from the bestselling author of The President is Missing. 13-MINUTE MURDER WITH SHAN SERAFIN: Michael Ryan can kill anybody in just minutes - from the first approach to the clean escape. An anonymous client offers Ryan a rich...

Meet Fahner, the retired small-town doctor who resorts to the garden axe when his patience with his cruel wife runs out. Meet Patrick, so entranced by the sight of his sleeping girlfriend that he cuts a small piece out of her back, just to see what she...

From the author of The Missing Girl, Jenny Quintana's gripping novel, Our Dark Secret, tells the story of two girls, two deaths and two decades of silence . . . As a teenager in the late 1970s, Elizabeth was clever, overweight and something of a loner...

AN EXPLOSIVE ASSAULT When a firebomb attack at a Brighton travellers' site kills women and children, Chief Superintendent Jo Howe has strong reason to believe the new, far-right council leader is behind the murders. A CORRUPT LEADER Howe digs...

'Allon is the 21st century Bond' - Daily Mail Gabriel Allon, secret agent, assassin and master art restorer, returns in a spellbinding new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Europe is exploding. And...

Ever since Vladimir Putin came to power, his critics have been turning up dead. According to Amy Knight, one of the West's foremost scholars of the KGB, this is no coincidence. Here, she links together dozens of deaths, exposing a far-reaching campaign...

Five Women. Five families' search for justice. All Sarah Chesham wanted was to survive, at a time when crops were poor and money was tight. By the time she died she was branded a merciless child killer.All Emily Swann wanted was the love of a man who...

The fast-paced new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Best Laid Plans, Morning, Noon & Night and Bloodline. Someone was following her. She had read about stalkers, but they belonged in a different, faraway world. She had...

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily MailThe suspenseful eighth Dirk Pitt classic from multi-million-copy king of the adventure novel, Clive Cussler.Dirk Pitt doesn't go looking for adventure: it finds him easily enough. His chance...

It's 1976 and England is sweating its nuts off. As an unrelenting heat wave beats down on the nation, the residents of Horse's Arse - aka Handstead New Town, north Manchester - are reaching melting point. The Park Royal Mafia, having recovered from the...

A BRUTALISED VICTIM IN THE WILDSA solitary tent is found to contain the body of a half-buried woman. She's been stoned to death. There are lash marks across her back. One of her hands has been cut off.A LONE VOICE Two years earlier internet reporter...

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FEATURING A BRAND-NEW JACK REACHER STORY! A collection of seventeen brand-new crime stories from bestselling authors Lee Child, Jeffrey Deaver, Stella Duffy, and more. KILLER SECRETS FEATURING A BRAND NEW JACK REACHER STORY Open the files on an...

THE NO. 1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR27 MILLION BOOKS SOLDWINNER OF THE GLASS KEY AWARD'Quirky, tense and delightfully unpredictable' Sunday TimesOn her 60th birthday, a woman takes her own life. When the case lands on Detective Carl Morck's desk,...

An enthralling and visceral thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author Simon Kernick, the UK's answer to Harlan Coben.'Kernick has produced a first-rate series of contemporary hard-boiled London thrillers, with ... a sympathetic character in Milne.' -...

'The queen of crime . . . You-Jeong Jeong is shaking up the world of suspense' Glamour'You-Jeong Jeong is a certified international phenomenon . . . one among the best at writing psychological suspense' Los Angeles Times A young girl is found dead in...

A SUNDAY TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH PICK******The new V.I. Warshawski novel from the New York Times bestselling author pits acclaimed detective V.I. Warshawski against some of today's most powerful figures.'The 19th Warshawski novel is also a...

You have a successful career, a loving husband and a baby on the way . . . no-one can replace you, can they?Carrie is a successful TV producer with the perfect husband and the perfect life. But when she falls pregnant, everything threatens to fall apart...

When Ernest Fletcher is found bludgeoned to death in his study, everyone is shocked and mystified: Ernest was well-liked and respected, so who would have a motive for killing him?Enter Superintendent Hannasyde who, with consummate skill, begins to...

A crisp winter morning in New York. In a luxury apartment, the body of a woman lies stretched out on a huge bed. On the wall above, the killer has left a message in bold black ink: FOR LIEUTENANT EVE DALLAS, WITH GREAT ADMIRATION AND UNDERSTANDING. Eve...

'Marvellously paced and ingeniously plotted. A real page-turner' Observer_________________________One winter morning, Lorimer Black - young, good-looking, but with a somewhat troubled expression - goes to keep a perfectly routine business appointment and...

Bradecote and Catchpoll discover that sometimes the difference between the law and justice is a great one. June, 1144. The naked corpse of an unknown man is discovered near Worcester, while the Prince of Powys's messenger has gone missing. Making the...

A respectable bookseller is found bludgeoned and strangled and it's up to Chief Superintendent Wycliffe to find out why . . .When Matthew Glynn is murdered, Wycliffe is mystified. Why would anyone want to kill him? But a look at Glynn's background...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538730751Author James PattersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496729507Author Ellery AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

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It felt like the slipknot on a rope round my chest was being tightened without pity Trouble is the last thing Albert needs. Travelling back to his childhood home on Christmas Eve to mourn his mother's death, he finds the loneliness and nostalgia of...

'I cannot think of a better biography of a spy chief'Richard Davenport-Hines, The SpectatorSir Maurice Oldfield was one of the most important British spies of the Cold War era. A farmer's son from a provincial grammar school who found himself...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892963973Author Ellis PetersFormat HardbackPage Count 118Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm)...

***The brand new, unmissable John Corey novel from America's Greatest Living Thriller Writer.***'Bottom line, if a man is known by his enemies, I'm one helluva guy.'Former anti-terrorist cop John Corey is NYU - New York Unemployed - and watching his...

The sixteenth chronicle in the Matthew Bartholomew series. When a wealthy benefactor is found dead in Michaelhouse, Brother Michael and Matthew Bartholomew must find the culprit before the College is accused of foul play. At the same time, Cambridge is...

* ADAPTED AS A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE BY SPIKE LEE* NOMINATED FOR SIX 2019 ACADEMY AWARDS & WINNER OF 'BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY' BAFTA* WINNER OF THE GRAND PRIX AT CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2018* NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWhat happens when a black detective goes...

Meet Amy Winter: Detective Inspector, daughter of a serial killer. DI Amy Winter is hoping to follow in the footsteps of her highly respected police officer father. But when a letter arrives from the prison cell of Lillian Grimes, one half of a...

A city that refuses to die, a policeman who will not yield - the first DI Faraday novel. From the author of LAST FLIGHT TO STALINGRADPortsmouth is a city on the ropes, a poor, dirty but spirited city, with a soaring crime rate. And it is home for DI Joe...

The first thrilling standalone crime novel from the international number one bestseller and Sweden's answer to Val McDermid, Anders de la Motte.'Enthralling...De la Motte juxtaposes the horrors of war with age-old superstitions to superb effect' Joan...

The incredible, pulse-pounding spy thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling master of the modern espionage novel, James Swallow.____________________A vicious Serbian gang whose profits come from fake nuclear weapons.A disgraced Russian general, with...