Crime & Thrillers

The third in the detective series featuring DI Geraldine Steel Headmistress Abigail Kirby is dead. A potential witness has been murdered. And for DI Geraldine Steel, the stakes have been raised yet higher. Abigail's teenage daughter, Lucy, is missing,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910551530Author Kathryn BuchananFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Bradwell BooksPublisher Bradwell Books

Scandal, murder and treason... Athelstan and Cranston are back with a bang.Winter, 1379. French privateers are attacking the southern coast and threaten London itself, the very heart of the nation.The situation becomes dire when an English flotilla of...

'A comfortable chair and a Mary Stewart: total heaven. I'd rather read her than most other authors.' Harriet EvansLegend has it that when the Gabriel Hounds run howling over the crumbling palace of Dar Ibrahim, high in the Adonis Valley of Lebanon, death...

THE END IS NEAR.Adam Hamdy's first PENDULUM novel was called 'one of the best thrillers of the year' by James Patterson and chosen as a BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick. AFTERSHOCK is the page-turning climax to an explosive series that has gripped fans of Lee...

"Susi Holliday is one of our best and most original creators of tense and twisty tales." -Ian Rankin Four hikers enter the mountains. Only two return. But is it tragedy? Or treachery? When sisters Cat and Ginny travel with their husbands to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486433592Author Epictetus EpictetusFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

The Davie McCall series returns in Devil's Knock.About the AuthorDOUGLAS SKELTON is an established true crime author, penning eleven books including Glasgow's Black Heart, Frightener and Dark Heart. He has appeared on a variety of documentaries and news...

"Where Have You Gone Without Me? is a wildly entertaining romp across the gritty sidewalks of New York with a streetwise newspaperman. Bonventre is a compelling storyteller. Once I started reading, I couldn't stop. It's one hell of a yarn!" -Howard Blum,...

'A rollicking adventure [with] the inventive twists and turns of a satisfyingly bustling plot.' New York Times 'Fantastic... Gerard Fox could be Jack Reacher's ancestor, 700 years ago. Highly recommended!' Lee Child First in a fast-paced historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780297248Author Candace RobbFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 375gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 135mm *...

'Engrossing' Sunday TimesNobody was supposed to get out alive.On a Dublin city street, packed with afternoon shoppers, a young woman appears, naked, traumatised and bearing burn marks.Tom Reynolds, now Chief Superintendent, is no longer head of the...

'A modern master at work' THE TIMES 'Heart-poundingly suspenseful' WASHINGTON POST 'Joseph Kanon owns this corner of the literary landscape' LEE CHILDBerlin, 1963. The height of the Cold War and an early morning spy swap. On one side of the trade: Martin...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496713155Author Anna Lee HuberFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington PublishingWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm)...

German intelligence officer Captain Gregor Reinhardt has just been reassigned to the Feldjaegerkorps - a new branch of the military police with far-reaching powers. His position separates him from the friends and allies he has made in the last two years,...

'Gripping . . . twists and turns like a thriller' Sunday Times 'Brave and startling' Financial Times 'Classy . . . suspenseful' The Times 'I loved everything about it' Daily Mail 'Exhilarating' Guardian Dr...

A clever, engaging new novel from bestselling Italian author, Antonio Manzini, following the dashing deputy police chief, Rocco Schiavone, who confronts his most riveting case ever. It's the bitterly cold spring season in alpine Aosta, and a girl has...

"FAULTLESS." -The Guardian *** "A SLY PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER." -The Observer Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic new teacher and longs to be her pet. However, when a thief begins to target...

The Voice of the Violin by Andrea Camilleri is the fourth novel in the wryly humorous Inspector Montalbano series.The commissioner kept looking at him with an expression that combined contempt and commiseration, apparently discerning unmistakable signs...

What if you woke up to discover everyone thought you were somebody else?Pregnant and abandoned, all Helen Georgesson has is five dollars and a one-way ticket to San Francisco. Then she is involved in a train crash, and regains consciousness only to...

There's no way out this time... An unputdownable medieval adventure from a master of the genreHaunted by guilt and his sins, archer Martin Kemp is in Scotland to collect on a debt when war breaks out afresh. The border erupts in bloody violence.Stalked...

Held in a bunker by sadistic kidnappers, who can save these girls? KILL FOR ME is the brilliant thriller by bestselling Karen Rose, part of the Philadelphia/Atlanta series, and the finale to the trilogy she began with DIE FOR ME and SCREAM FOR ME. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802161611Author Len DeightonFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

A secret lost for a thousand years. A deadly race to keep it buried...1291 AD, Acre. As the city burns under the onslaught of the Sultan's men, the Falcon Temple sets sail, carrying a small band of knights and a mysterious chest entrusted to them by the...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AND CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF SPARE ROOM, GANGLAND GIRLS TRLIOGY and the FLESH AND BLOOD SERIESDreda Say Mitchell was awarded an MBE in Her Majesty The Queen's 2020 New Year's Honours List'Dreda Say Mitchell is right up there at...

'Nicci French's sophisticated, compassionate and gripping crime novels stand head and shoulders above the competition' Sophie Hannah *** You open your home and your heart to a victim. But your house is anything but safe . . . Samantha Laschen is a...

Let bestselling author Will Jordan take you on a break-neck speed ride with CIA agent Ryan Drake in this compelling and unmissable thriller. Fans of Lee Child, Vince Flynn and David Baldacci will love this!'Entertaining' - The Telegraph'Engrossing' --...

'Cain was not just a great hard-boiled novelist but a great novelist, period ... To read MILDRED PIERCE now is to experience a double vision, in which we confront both how much and how little things have changed' LA TIMES'Vivid, gritty, real...this is...

The gripping psychological thriller from the Top 10 Sunday Times bestselling author of After Anna, Seven Days and The Choice. Imitation is the most terrifying form of flattery... Which Sarah Havenant is you? ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971574366Author Chris KuzneskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Chris Kuzneski, Inc.Publisher Chris Kuzneski, Inc.Weight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm)...

After three years in the wilderness, hardboiled reporter Gerry Conway is back at his desk at the Glasgow Tribune. But three years is a long time on newspapers and things have changed - readers are dwindling, budgets are tightening, and the Trib's once...

'Andrew Taylor is a master story-teller' Daily Telegraph From the No.1 bestselling author of The Ashes of London and The Fire Court, this is the fifth instalment in the acclaimed Lydmouth seriesWhen Mattie Harris's body is found drowned in the river,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780295497Author Paul DohertyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 317gDimensions(mm) 204mm * 138mm *...

The first book of the smash-hit Wayward Pines trilogy, from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter, Recursion, and Upgrade.Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrives in Wayward Pines, Idaho, with a mission: locate two federal agents who went...

'Makes the capital as eerie as Le Carre's Berlin' Evening StandardMonday 10 June, end of a hot day. The city had started drinking at lunchtime and by 3 or 4pm crime seemed the only appropriate response to the beauty of the afternoon...At quarter to five...

Human freedom has one last hope to survive the information revolution in the epic, apocalyptic sequel to the international bestseller Daemon.The Daemon is now firmly in control and moving towards its endgame, using an expanding network of real-world,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685890407Author Robert J. LloydFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing

LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2018Antoine is twelve years old. His parents are divorced and he lives with his mother in Beauval, a small, backwater town surrounded by forests, where everyone knows everyone's business, and nothing much ever...

In the villages and on the mountains of County Tyrone, in the heartland of the Provisional IRA's most active Brigade, the golden rule is 'Hear nothing, see nothing, know nothing'. To collaborate with British Intelligence is to invite an inescapable death...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781542048538Author Viveca StenFormat PaperbackPage Count 415Imprint AmazonCrossingPublisher Amazon Publishing