Crime & Thrillers

As gripping as Room, as powerful as Elizabeth is Missing, Beside Myself is the story of twin sisters, a childhood game with devastating consequences and the slippery nature of identity Helen and Ellie are identical twins - like two peas in a pod,...

Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year, The Scold's Bridle is the mystery thriller from crime queen Minette Walters. I wonder if I should keep these diaries under lock and key. Jenny Spede has disturbed them again . . . What...

A gripping thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat from Sunday Times bestselling author Simon Kernick, the UK's answer to Harlan Coben."Pace, pace pace is what Kernick does best" - DAILY MIRROR"Delights, excites and stimulates, and the only...

From the bestselling Sunday Times author of The Goodbye Man, discover Jeffery Deaver's thrilling series that is now a major NBC TV series.Can Lincoln Rhyme catch a diabolical killer in a world of truth and lies? A killer flees the scene of a homicide at...

Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime's first book, the seventh volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries. OFF WITH HIS HEADWhen the pesky Anna Bunz arrives at Mardian to...

Sarah Hilary, Theakston’s Crime Novel of the Year winner and author of Fragile, returns with Black Thorn, another compulsive psychological thriller that questions how much you know about the people who live next to you . . .'An astonishingly gifted...

'A thrilling new talent' PETER JAMES'Creepy, twisted and gripping' SUN'Dark, compelling and expertly paced' M. W. CRAVEN ___________________On a cold winter's morning, the body of a young boy is discovered in Epping Forest. The body is pristine and...

Ten astronauts. An imposter determined to kill them all. Welcome to the deadliest spaceship of all time.The intrigue of everyone's favorite video game comes to life in this unofficial Among Us adventure. V is a young astronaut ready for any challenge...

Julia Vargas is a cop with a mission. When she's not chasing down bad guys, Julia dedicates her time to investigating the Hangman serial killer...the same unsolved case that her father, Jim Vargas, was working on when he supposedly shot and killed...

Here are two things I know about my mother: 1. She had dark hair, like mine. 2. She wasn't very happy at the end. Anna has always believed that her mother,...

"For fans of a stylish fast paced thriller, Blood for Blood delivers on the nail" -Kate Hamer, bestselling author of The Girl in the Red Coat Shortlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger Award. A gripping, twisty serial killer thriller. Perfect for fans of...

When AA meetings make her want to drink more, alcoholic murderess Maeve sets up a group for psychopaths ... The dark, unpredictable, electrifyingly original new thriller from critically acclaimed cult author Will Carver.'Totally insane, and I mean that...

A classic thriller from the bestselling master of action and suspense. The atomic submarine Dolphin has impossible orders: to sail beneath the ice floes of the Arctic Ocean, and somehow locate and rescue the men of weather-station Zebra,...

Someone must have known what happened to Matilda Hacker. For someone in that house had killed her.So how could the murderer prove so elusive? Standing four storeys tall in an elegant Bloomsbury terrace, No. 4, Euston Square was a well-kept, respectable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143036951Author Philip KerrFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 357gDimensions(mm) 197mm * 129mm *...

**Longlisted for the ALCS Gold Non-Fiction Dagger** **Longlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize 2022** 'Haunting ... lingers in the mind long after the final page is turned' Sunday Times 'A compelling whodunnit ... Devastating'...

Law professor Thomas Jackson McMurtrie literally wrote the book on evidence in the state of Alabama. But when a power-hungry colleague uses a recent run-in between McMurtrie and headstrong student Rick Drake to end his career, he is left unsure what to...

'My Sweet Girl is like nothing else I've read. Set in San Francisco and Sri Lanka, this is a story about friendship, lies, and guilt. A stunning and original must-read' Samantha Downing, Sunday Times bestselling author of My Lovely WifeA girl in a new...

Inspired by the BAFTA award-winning ITV series ________________________'Loved the ITV series? Then you'll adore this clever read from psychological-thriller queen' Sun (Fabulous Magazine)'A crackingly well constructed crime novel' Daily Mirror'Whether...

THE THIRD VICTIM is the second book in the FBI Profiler series from The Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller Lisa Gardner. WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF A KILLER HAD YOU IN HIS SIGHTS? Sophie Hannah and Karin Slaughter love Lisa Gardner. Have you read her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739970642Author Maria FranklandFormat PaperbackImprint Autonomy PressPublisher Autonomy Press

A crime of passion brought to life by multi-million copy and SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author Ruth Rendell. Fans of PD James, Ann Cleeves and Donna Leon will love this dark and achingly absorbing thriller...'Psychologically acute and extremely...

During the autumn of 1888 a serial killer stalked, brutally murdering his way through the East End of London. Some called him the 'Whitechapel Monster', while locals referred to him as 'Leather Apron', but to the world he was known as Jack the Ripper. ...

SUNDAY TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH'Spectacular.' Mail on Sunday'Top-tier.' New York TimesThe pulse-racing international thriller of the yearMeet Will Rhodes: travel writer, recently married, barely solvent, his idealism rapidly giving way to...

'Brave and unflinching, dark and unsentimental' LIZ NUGENT'Truly first class' C. J. TUDOR'Positively hums with authenticity' DAILY MAIL'So atmospheric' CAZ FREAR'A total triumph' RACHEL EDWARDSDCS Frankie Sheehan does not wish to linger on the grisly...

'We must fall back upon the old axiom that when all other contingencies fail, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.'Sherlock Holmes's fearless chronicler Dr Watson once again opens his notebooks to bring to light eight further tales of...

'One of the best thriller writers working today' Lee Child'If you want a thriller that will chill your blood, break your heart and make your pulse race, Chris Mooney is your man' Mark BillinghamA KILLER WATCHES. A TOWN WAITS.Fear grips a town in Colorado...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781448306190Author Cynthia Harrod-EaglesFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 465gDimensions(mm) 197mm *...

Leaving behind her forensic pathology practice in South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta takes up an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured patient in a psychiatric ward. The handcuffed and chained patient, Oscar Bane,...

The Overnight Kidnapper is the twenty-third Inspector Montalbano mystery, from the international bestselling author Andrea Camilleri.After a hectic morning involving two rather irritating cases of mistaken identity, Inspector Montalbano finally arrives...

The Templar Cross is the second in the Paul Christopher's John Holliday series. Some secrets are too great to bear... Army Ranger Lt. Col. John 'Doc' Holliday is teaching at West Point when he receives desperate news. His niece Peggy has been kidnapped...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804055397Author Christie J. NewportFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Joffe BooksPublisher Joffe Books

NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL FILM They thought they would be friends forever-but what comes first, friendship or love? Revised edition: This edition of The 30th Candle includes editorial revisions. Linda, Dikeledi, Nolwazi and Sade spent their...

A dark and compulsive medical thriller written by a doctor who has seen it all, perfect for fans of Don't Wake Up and Tess Gerritsen. 'A suspenseful and frightening thriller' Lynda La PlanteRenowned surgeon Michael Trenchard locks his office door and...

GET READY FOR THE SCARIEST READ OF 2024 - a gripping new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Cold Cases*********April and Eddie have taken a wrong turn.They're on a long dark road, late at night, and they see a woman up ahead,...

A gruesome secret is about to be unearthed...'Fascinating... spectacularly gory... fast-paced.' Mail on SundayWhen a human skull is dug up in a garden near Boston, Dr Maura Isles is called in to investigate. She quickly discovers that the skeleton - that...

It's Always the Husband... unless it's the best friend. The Top 10 Sunday Times bestseller 'A page-turning whodunnit that will speak to anyone who's ever had a frenemy'Ruth Ware 'A gripping,...

'An Extraordinary story of innocence and persecution, determination and grit ... it had me rattling through the pages' SOPHIE DRAPER A gripping true crime investigation into the longest miscarriage of justice in...

When war broke out in 1914, Somerset Maugham was dispatched by the British Secret Service to Switzerland under the guise of completing a play. Multilingual, knowledgeable about many European countries and a celebrated writer, Maugham had the perfect...

After joining the the Lovat Scouts at the outbreak of the Second World War Donald Angus Gillies is sent on a mission to the Alps, where he meets Francoise, a young French Canadian SOE agent. The pair immediately form a close bond, but when Francoise is...