Crime & Thrillers

'A deeply satisfying read' Sunday TimesChristmas Day, and DCI Tom Reynolds receives an alarming call. A mass grave has been discovered on Oilean na Caillte, the island which housed the controversial psychiatric institution St. Christina's. The hospital...

When a group of international activists arrive on the Faroe Islands, intent on stopping the traditional whale hunts, tensions between islanders and protestors run high. And when a woman is found viciously murdered only hours after a violent...

Nancy and Calder are moving from London to an isolated slate island, off the west coast of Scotland. Nancy is focused on their new beginning, but is increasingly unsettled by the stark island, the mysterious inhabitants and Calder's dark past, which he's...

ONE NIGHT. ONE CRIME. ONE FAMILY TORN APART . . .'Pulled me in from the first page' STEPHEN KING'Utterly authentic and full of twists. A remarkable debut' SUNDAY TIMES'One of the best books you'll read this year' SHARI LAPENA'Keeps you guessing until the...

THE NEXT ACCIDENT is the third book in the FBI Profiler series from The Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller. WHEN SOMEONE KNOWS YOUR EVERY WEAKNESS HOW CAN YOU STOP THEM PREYING ON YOU? Karin Slaughter calls Lisa Gardner 'an amazing writer'. Do...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451219008Author Lee GoldbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 180g

'Murder, politics, family secrets, an iconic main character, and a fiendish plot. What's not to love?' Laura Shepherd-Robinson, author of Blood & SugarIT STARTS WITH A BODY-a young woman found dead in an Iowa cornfield, on one of the few family farms...

'Count to three,' her mother told her, the last words she would ever speak. An Impossible Crime SceneA wealthy woman is found brutally murdered in the locked fortress of her London mansion. Surrounding her are four mysterious objects,...

Now a major film called The Unholy starring The Walking Dead's Jeffrey Dean Morgan.In James Herbert's horror novel Shrine, innocence and evil have become one . . .A little girl called Alice. A deaf-mute. A vision. A lady in shimmering white who says she...

The reckoning is coming...In an isolated house by Dugort pier a body is found. DS Lucy Golden is shocked to discover that the victim, Sandra Byrne, is a sister of one of her old school friends. To further complicate matters, Ben Lively, one of Lucy's...

Against the electrifying backdrop of the 1960s, Danielle Steel unveils a gripping chronicle of a young woman who discovers a passion for justice.The daughter and granddaughter of prominent Manhattan lawyers, Meredith McKenzie is destined for the best of...

A British cabinet minister is gunned down on a London street by an IRA assassin. In the wake of national outcry, the authorities must find the hitman. But the trail is long cold, the killer gone to ground in Belfast, and they must resort to more...

Internationally bestselling author Lisa Scottoline returns with this gripping, twisting thriller that will keep fans of Jenny Blackhurst's THE FOSTER CHILD and Shari Lapena's THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR guessing until the very end.Everyone deserves a second...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788304061Author Fin C GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 293Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

*US edition title: THE SIXTH IDEA*Cold Kill is the seventh book in P.J. Tracy's bestselling Twin Cities series.Two dead bodies.On a cold winter's night in Minneapolis, two friends are brutally murdered on opposite sides of the city. It's clear to...

SOME THINGS ARE TOO PERFECT TO BE TRUE... 'A sharp, compelling take on modern motherhood' HEAT 'A nail-biting, dark thriller' PLATINUM 'Fiendishly entertaining... A suspenseful and unsettling...

'Engrossing ... Big Brother meets Big Business - that pretty much nails it' Stephen King'A gripping read, a literary blockbuster with brains. Horribly compelling' The Observer'A triumph' The Guardian___________________In a world ravaged by bankruptcy and...

Adapted from Paula Hawkins' novel - an international phenomenon selling over twenty million copies worldwide - this gripping new play will keep you guessing until the final moment. Rachel Watson longs for a different life. Her only escape is the...

Glamour and suspense in the bestselling Sidney Sheldon novel from the international superstar Tilly Bagshawe. Grace Brookstein is the beautiful, young, and naive wife of financial superstar, Leonard Brookstein. In 2009 the US stock...

This novel was previously published as Too Close to Breathe.Perfect for fans of Tana French, Jane Casey and Gillian Flynn'Truly first class. Just knock-out' C. J Tudor, author of The Chalk Man'Fantastic . . . Compelling, chilling and brilliant' Karen...

Code to Zero is a fast-paced thriller about the satellite space race in the Cold War, from the master of suspense and author of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett.A Man with No MemoryA man wakes up to find himself lying on the ground in a railway...

In surreal Bangkok, city of temples and brothels, where Buddhist monks in saffron robes walk the same streets as world-class gangsters, a US marine sergeant is killed inside a locked Mercedes by a maddened python and a swarm of cobras. Two policemen -...

Aunt Mildred declared that no good could come of the Melbury family Christmas gatherings at their country residence Flaxmere. So when Sir Osmond Melbury, the family patriarch, is discovered - by a guest dressed as Santa Klaus - with a bullet in his...

A gripping adventure from the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of MAP OF BONES and THE DOOMSDAY KEY.Beneath the ice at the bottom of the Earth is a magnificent subterranean labyrinth, a place of breathtaking wonders - and terrors beyond imagining. A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496737700Author Vicki DelanyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

Can two unlikely allies unite to uncover the truth?Edith Trewin, the general maid in the Killivant household, and Miss Alicia Killivant, the young lady of the house, are social worlds apart but share a streak of independence and intelligence. Edith is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739676667Author Martha BondFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Emily OrganPublisher Emily OrganWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 12mm

It is late 1942, and Detective Inspector Tom Tyler is settling into his placement in Ludlow, Shropshire, which is crowded with evacuees and others fleeing the German bombs. On the town's outskirts is an Italian PoW camp, whose inmates work on local farms...

On the first day of the Somme enlisted railwayman Jim Stringer lies trapped in a shell hole, smoking cigarette after cigarette under the bullets and the blazing sun. He calculates his chances of survival - even before they departed for France, a member...

LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI PRIZE 2023'A compelling, fast-moving narrative . . . delivers real emotional impact' Telegraph'A literary provocateur' GuardianIsobel lives an isolated life in North London, working at a nearby library. She feels safe if she...

Discover the classic mystery from Dick Francis, one of the greatest thriller writers of all time'No one writes better thrillers than this - a classic' 5***** Reader Review'Tight plot, excellent locations and explosions of tension! You don't get much...

The third gripping novel in the Polish detective series featuring DI Dania Gorska.In the north of Dundee, DI Dania Gorska is leading the search for a missing girl, with the police and volunteers combing the dramatic landscape in hope of finding the child...

One of the most important untold stories of World War II, The Light of Days is a soaring landmark history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who inspired Poland's Jewish youth groups to resist the Nazis...

An estranged mother and father join forces to uncover the truth about their missing daughter in a haunting novel about trauma, loss, family, and hope. When patrolman Brandon Hall comes upon a broken-down car on a Colorado highway, he finds a young...

A The Times best crime books of 2021 pick________________________What secrets are hidden within the walls of a desolate farmhouse in a forgotten corner of Lapland?Early spring has its icy grip on OEdesmark, a small village in northernmost Sweden,...

A body on an embankment. A blast at a farmhouse. A burden on Colchester CID'Rounded characters, a terrific sense of time and place and masterful plotting . . . a 24-carat holiday read' GuardianFox Farm is, thanks to two corpses, neither picturesque nor...

The 1840s. Railway Baron Sir Martin Malprelate has been laying waste to the warren of Camden; buying up houses and clearing streets for his new railway line linking King's Cross with the prosperous town of Middlemarch. He stands to make his fortune...

A classic winter's crime novel by one of the most highly regarded exponents of the genre. Victor Harleston awoke with uncharacteristic optimism. Today he would be rich at last. Half an hour later, he gulped down his breakfast coffee and...

From the author of Thirteen Hours - A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pickWhy would a mathematics professor from Cambridge University, renting a holiday home outside Cape Town, require a false identity and three bodyguards?...

When struggling photojournalist Harper tries to return a dress she bought that morning for a job that's fallen through something catches her eye: the same little girl who was waiting there that morning is still there.The sales assistant doesn't know...