Crime & Thrillers

O is for Outlaw is the fifteenth in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton.First there was a phone call from a stranger, then a letter showed up fourteen years after it was sent. That's how I learned I'd made a serious error in judgement and...

Welcome to Bishop's Lacey. A murder every country mileFor eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, a visit to a Gypsy fortune-teller is just a bit of fun - until the old woman claims to see a vision of Flavia's mother, who died when Flavia was a baby. When the...

'If deaths are not investigated, then the authorities cannot be held to account and democracy is threatened. And if deaths are not investigated, we are not a society that values human life.' Inspired from a young age to help the marginalised and...

He thought he had it easy, until he fell into the middle of a murderous drug war . . .'This one you'll have trouble putting down' New York TimesNick Breakspear thought he had opted for the easy life, but acting as nursemaid for the idle rich aboard the...

Lisbon had a pivotal role in the history of World War II, though not a gun was fired there. The only European city in which both the Allies and the Axis power operated openly, it was temporary home to much of Europe's exiled royalty, over one million...

THE ULTIMATE GUIDE FOR SURVIVING LIFE IN PRISONCharles Bronson knows more about life in prison than anyone else in Britain - on either side of the bars. Jailed originally in 1974, his life since then has been once unbroken stretch of over forty-five...

At the Central Criminal Court, an eager crowd awaits the trial of Victoria Lamartine, an active participant in the Resistance during the war. She is now employed at the Family Hotel in Soho, where Major Eric Thoseby has been found murdered. The cause of...

The powerful, moving and turbulent novel of Sally Porter and the multiple personalities she has no idea she lives with... From the award-winning bestselling author of FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON: 'Heartbreaking, and utterly, completely brilliant' GUARDIANSally...

A Swedish crime writer as thrilling as Mankell, a detective as compelling as Wallander . . . Borkmann's Point by Hakan Nesser is the second gripping novel in the thrilling Van Veeteren series.'Borkmann's rule was hardly a rule; in fact, it was more of a...

'Tense, elegant, sensuous.' Niamh Campbell, author of WE WERE YOUNG'In The Anniversary Stephanie Bishop expertly and mercilessly builds an atmosphere of intense uncertainty and threat. You won't want to put it down.' Chris Power, author of MOTHERS'The...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Goodbye Man, discover Jeffery Deaver's gripping series that is now a major NBC TV series.The seventh novel in the bestselling Lincoln Rhyme series sees Rhyme attempt to catch his cleverest opponent yet . . ...

The Treasure Hunt is the sixteenth gripping novel in Andrea Camilleri's darkly humorous Inspector Montalbano series.When a crazed elderly man and his sister begin firing bullets from their balcony down onto the Vigata street below, Inspector Montalbano...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984822147Author Rhett McLaughlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

The latest book in the hugely popular Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus series from New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman A woman with everything to lose...Teresa McLaughlin flees to Los Angeles with her two children, trying to escape a...

Martha and the infamous League of Pensioners are back in The Little Old Lady Strikes Back, from the author of the smash-hit The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules.After stealing some priceless Russian jewels from the Stockholm Auction House, Martha...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593500583Author Valerie BauerleinFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 761g

"A very early candidate for the crime novel of the year" IRISH TIMESLive Aid, July 1985. The great and the good of the music scene converge to save the world. But the TV glitz cannot disguise ugly truths about Thatcher's Britain.Jon Davies and Suzi...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781996966Author Marie O'ConnorFormat PaperbackImprint Poolbeg Press LtdPublisher Poolbeg Press Ltd

EVERY OPERATIVE KNOWS THE RULES.The mission comes first. You are a deniable asset. Betrayal is punished by death.Alex Reeve is Operative 66. A former special ops soldier and one of the UK's deadliest weapons, he is part of the secretive SC9 - an elite...

Winner of The Bloody Scotland Crime Debut of the Year 2021Shortlisted for the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year 2021 and the CWA Historical Dagger 2022'A mesmerizing debut. Early gangland Glasgow with the gloss razored off' - Peter...

You probably haven't ever noticed them. But they've noticed you. They notice everything. That's their job. Sitting quietly in a nondescript car outside a bank making note of the tellers' work habits, the positions of the security guards. Lagging a few...

The bloated remains of a man are discovered bound to a derelict pier in Orkney and newly promoted DCI Lukas Mahler dispatches a team to investigate. But when the body is identified as Alex Fleming - Mahler's former colleague from his time in the Met -...

Charles Higham successfully presents the most plausible and convincing solution yet to the mystery of who killed William Desmond Taylor. In the process he paints a vivid portrait of Hollywood in the 1920s - from its major stars to its bisexual subculture...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912916504Author Clifford WittingFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo PublishersWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm)...

A funny art heist mystery that will steal your heart! The country is gripped with Mona Lisa Fever! The Royal Family has announced a huge reward for the return of a missing version of the Mona Lisa, stolen from their...

In Simple Genius, David Baldacci returns to the main characters from bestsellers Split Second and Hour Game. Former secret service agents Sean King and Michelle Maxwell must overcome their personal demons to solve two new mysteries.Scarred by the past...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613164167Author C. Daly KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penzler PublishersPublisher Penzler PublishersWeight(grams) 414gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

In a spellbinding new masterpiece by #1 New York Times-bestselling author Daniel Silva, Gabriel Allon undertakes a high-stakes search for the greatest art forger who ever lived Legendary spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon has at long last...

'If you are a fan of British police procedurals, add Shame the Devil to your must-read list.' Reader ReviewSometimes catching a killer means looking close to home...A young father is stabbed to death on his front doorstep in East London. Kieran...

The fifth Odd Thomas thriller from the master storyteller. Odd finds refuge at a rundown mansion, but soon discovers a frightening presence. ODD THOMAS SEES DEAD PEOPLE... They cannot speak to him nor do him harm; but still, it's...

A thrilling tale based on top-secret Nazi plans to invade the Soviet Union...All spies have secrets, but Henry Hunter has more than most. After he is stopped by British Intelligence at Croydon airport on the eve of the Second World War, he discovers one...

'A rich, complex and beautifully crafted novel' P.D. JamesThe prize-winning classic that 'changed the thriller landscape', with a new foreword from Val McDermid.VERA HILLYARD. AUNT. MOTHER. MURDERESS.Faith Severn's life has long been overshadowed by the...

"Rhys Bowen crafts a propulsive, unexpected plot with characters who come vibrantly alive on the page." -Mark Sullivan, author of Beneath a Scarlet Sky Love and secrets collide in Venice during WWII in an enthralling novel of brief encounters and...

Better the devil you know . . . or the one you don't?For DI Colin Anderson, there's no such simple thing as right and wrong.As his seemingly clear-cut conviction of paedophile Skelpie Fairbairn is declared unsafe, Anderson finds himself under...

Movie mogul Harry Nathan's lonely death in a Beverley Hills swimming pool is the beginning of a trail of lust and conspiracy leading to the darkest corners of the international art world. Private investigator Lorraine Page faces her toughest fight ever...

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Soon to be adapted for TV by Amazon and the makers of Homeland'An exciting journey into the dark under belly of the ultra-rich world of banking' The Times'Immersive, satisfying, tense - and timely: This is probably happening for real right now' Lee...

Private is the world's largest detective agency. And Jack Morgan, its owner, is having a criminally bad week.His twin brother is up on a murder charge and determined to frame Jack for the crime, and one of Jack's clients has just called to report the...

As seen on ITV in the Zoe Ball Book Club; An assassin's bullet. A deadly conspiracy. But who is calling the shots?; `A twisty, action-packed conspiracy thriller. Kent knows how to bring the thrills' -- MASON CROSS, author of the Carter Blake series; When...

It seemed the case of the notorious Yorkshire Ripper was finally closed when Peter Sutcliffe was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1981. But in the early 1980s, Gordon Burn spent three years living in Sutcliffe's home town of Bingley, researching his...