Crime & Thrillers

Brutal acts of firestarting have ravaged the Peak District, and now a new wave of moorland infernos sweeps across the national park. For DS Ben Cooper, the blazes are best left to the firefighters, even with the arsonists still at large. But when an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781448312825Author Mike RipleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate Books

A three-year-old girl is snatched from a beach in Spain. Nobody heard a sound. Nobody saw a thing. Rosie Gilmour's much-needed holiday is cut short when the abduction story breaks and she's sent to cover it. Her instincts tell her something's wrong: such...

The acknowledged 'Queen of Crime', P. D. James, was a past master of the short story, weaving together motifs of the Golden Age of crime-writing with deep psychological insight to create gripping, suspenseful tales. The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories...

Discover the compelling story of courage, friendship and love from the bestselling author of You'll Never See Me Again, Lesley Pearse'A heart-warming and evocative tale . . . a real delight to read' SunCoronation Day, 1953.Molly Heywood slips away from...

In every detective's life there are cases that can't be discussed, and throughout the Bryant & May novels there have been mentions of some of these such as the Deptford Demon or the Little Italy Whelk Smuggling Scandal.Now Arthur Bryant has decided to...

To mark the publishing centenary of Freeman Wills Crofts, 'The King of Detective Story Writers', this is one of six classic crime novels being issued in 2020 featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television. The Joymount Rapid Hardening...

Kim Chown was just 11 when her father Bernard Beaumont took her from her mother to Kenya. There, he tormented Kim with extreme sexual and emotional abuse, safe in the knowledge that as a pillar of the expat community his word would be believed over hers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593496589Author Laurie R. KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

A serial killer is terrorising the people of Bologna and rookie Detective Inspector Grazia Negro is determined to solve the case. She only has one witness who can identify the killer - and he is blind. Simone spends his nights listening to Chet Baker and...

***Read where it all began before watching Luther: The Fallen Sun, now on Netflix***Meet DCI John Luther in the prequel to the epic series Luther, starring Golden Globe winner Idris Elba. He's a murder detective. A near-genius. He's brilliant; he's...

The Boxing Day Hunt leads to a hunt for a killer... A Season for Murder is the second cosy and colourful English village mystery in Ann Granger's Mitchell & Markby series. This thrilling whodunit will enthral fans of Colin Dexter, Agatha Christie and...

'James Patterson is The Boss. End of.' Ian Rankin'One of the greatest storytellers of all time' Patricia Cornwell'A writer with an unusual skill at thriller plotting.' Mark Lawson, Guardian__________________________________The third thrilling instalment...

FULLY UPDATED CENTENARY EDITION 'An important book' Max Hastings, Sunday Times 'An intriguing history of covert surveillance ... thoroughly engaging' Daily Telegraph ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914602276Author H G WellsFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint Chiltern PublishingPublisher Chiltern Publishing

A detective rings the doorbell in the middle of the night.He wants to ask Jack Baxi some questions. Jack fears the police have come to arrest him. But things quickly take a darker, more violent turn.He isn't here to solve a crime.Because soon Jack is...

The first book in the brilliant William Dougal crime series, from the bestselling author of The American Boy and The Ashes of London. William Dougal, a post-graduate expert in the medieval script of Caroline Minuscule, stumbles on the garroted corpse of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781448310555Author Rosemary RoweFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate Books

The new Sherlock Holmes novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Odin. It is 1890, and in the days before Christmas Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson are visited at Baker Street by a new client. Eve Allerthorpe - eldest daughter...

Pickax's sedate calm is occasionally disturbed by random acts of vandalism, but nothing more serious than paint daubed on civic property. Until, that is, the cold-blooded murder of young banker Harley Fitch and his new bride Bella, which is altogether...

THE UNMISSABLE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER WITH A SHOCKING TWIST'Haunting . . . this story will stay with you' Jane Corry, author of My Husband's Wife & The Dead ExWould you risk your life to save a stranger?___________A local...

'The suspense was NON-STOP. Every page needed to be turned. Every WORD needed to be read. READ. THIS. BOOK.' 'OMG!!! AWESOME READ!!' SHE'S BEEN TAKEN. AND IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT.'Riveting suspense' COLLEEN HOOVERRainy lives at the top of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914537127Author M S MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Landmark MediaPublisher Landmark MediaWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

'The sheer charge of the writing swept me into another world' The TimesDecember 1943. A group of US fighter pilots is camped at a windswept air base in Norfolk. Their job is to escort bombers over Germany, and each mission could be their last. Among them...

When her beloved grandmother is hospitalised, Jennifer returns to the lakeside home where she spent a magical childhood. There she finds a package of letters addressed to her that tell of passion, intrigue and desire. This is the real tale of her...

THE FIRST IN THE ACCLAIMED NIC COSTA SERIES'No author has ever brought Rome so alive for me - nor made it seem so sinister' PETER JAMES'David Hewson's Rome is dark and tantalizing, seductive and dangerous, a place where present-day crimes ring with the...

Joseph Staines, an unemployed chef, has left Edinburgh with the tallybook of the late debt collector, Isa Stoddart. Her son Lachie thinks Stainsie killed her, but Lachie has apparently committed suicide. To his surprise, Stainsie is the sole beneficiary...

The brilliant, explosive new book from the master of the modern espionage thriller and Sunday Times bestseller James Swallow.___________________Gutted by the ruthless power brokers known as the Combine, the Rubicon Group is a shadow of its former self,...

Someone in your family isn't who they say they are . . . THE PAGE-TURNING NEW THRILLER FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SHE LIES IN WAIT'A darkly deceptive, twisting, masterful mystery. Gytha Lodge should be on every crime fiction fan's must...

A Cold War thriller from the master of spy fiction, John le Carre's The Looking Glass War is a gripping novel of double-crosses, audacious bluffs and the ever-present threat of nuclear war, published in Penguin Modern Classics.When the Department - faded...

A BERNARD SAMSON NOVEL'A master of fictional espionage' Daily MailWhen Bernard Samson is woken in the middle of the night and discovers an injured man on his doorstep, he knows it will only bring trouble. It is the start of a dangerous journey to Zurich,...

A special fortieth anniversary edition of The Rats, the classic, bestselling horror novel that launched James Herbert's career.With a foreword by Neil Gaiman, author of Norse Mythology. It was only when the bones of the first devoured victims were...

The fifth book in the classic Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s - the novels that shaped the future of Scandinavian crime writing. Hugely acclaimed, the Martin Beck series were the original Scandinavian crime novels and have inspired...

A BERNARD SAMSON NOVEL'The plotting is masterly, the atmospheric descriptions superb ... absolute bliss' Sunday TelegraphSummer 1987, the final years of the Cold War. Bernard Samson has been sent to East Germany to make contact with a KGB defector,...

'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray Inspector Maigret is followed home one evening by a man who reveals his intention to kill his wife and her lover. Maigret intervenes and speaks to the man daily but when the calls suddenly stop Maigret...

'Heart-wrenching . . . a story that needs to be remembered' FERN BRITTON 'Enthrallingly told . . . it's extraordinary how despite everything hope for the future shines out' RACHEL HORE Liverpool 1940. Alice King stands on the deck...

Elissa. Alyssa. Alissa. Three girls meet at a boarding school for troubled teens. A few years later, they were dead. Elissa's best friend sets out to discover what happened to them, following the only clues they left behind: their uncannily similar...

Don't miss B. A. Shapiro's new novel, Metropolis, available now! "[A] highly entertaining literary thriller about fine art and foolish choices." -Parade "[A] nimble mystery." -The New York Times Book Review "Gripping." -O, The Oprah Magazine Almost...

Watching a rented video, Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is shocked to notice that one of the actors is identical to him in every physical detail. He embarks on a secret quest to find his double and sets in motion a train of events that he cannot control...

An Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestseller. Dear Luke, First let me say-I love you...I didn't want to leave you... Luke Richardson has returned home after burying Natalie, his beloved wife of sixteen years, ready to face the hard job of...