Crime & Thrillers

'Devoured it. Great characters and brilliant use of the history and architecture of Bologna. His best yet' Trevor WoodIn the sweltering heat of a Bologna summer, a murderer plans their piece de resistance...Only in Bologna reads the headline in the...

On the Mongolian steppes a general in the People's Liberation Army stakes his career, and his life, on a GPS-free missile guidance system that will change the balance of power on the battlefield.In Bath a young Chinese woman has secured the affections of...

Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments by T. L. Huchu is the second spellbinding book in the Edinburgh Nights series.'Stupendously engaging' - Ben Aaronovitch, bestselling author of Rivers of LondonSome secrets are meant to stay buriedWhen Ropa Moyo discovered...

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. The...

'A true master of British crime writing' RICHARD OSMAN 'The brilliant Savernake is a fascinatingly enigmatic character.' WASHINGTON POST A superb Golden Age mystery packed with twists, from the winner of the Diamond Dagger 2020 ENGLAND, 1930...

Amazon reviewers love The Scarlet Code!'A rollicking good tale''Thoroughly enjoyable, highly recommend''Exciting, swashbuckling adventure''Everything you could want from an adventure thriller: excitement, a fabulously endearing heroine and pirate to fall...

True crime from Dundee, covering the most fascinating and chilling cases from the last century Every town has its monsters. But only when their rage explodes and unspeakable crimes are committed do we realise we hold them in our midst. Some are...

'Effortlessly blends the brutal and the tender, the dark and the light. Aector McAvoy is a true original. So is David Mark.' Mick Herron, author of Dead LionsDS Aector McAvoy's brother-in-law Valentine is missing. In New York City, half the world away...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524744601Author Fiona DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451414717Author Sofie KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Obsidian MysteriesPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 160g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496732484Author Colleen CambridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

Europe, 1945: no longer at war but not yet at peace. The gripping finale to the bestselling Richard Prince espionage thrillers.British agent Richard Prince and the Danish spy Hanne Jakobsen come together for a vital mission: to find a Nazi war criminal...

'Echoes Dennis Lehane's SHUTTER ISLAND and Alice Sebold's THE LOVELY BONES ... but surpasses them' Washington PostA woman causes an accident on a major highway, flees the scene and is later picked up wandering on the shoulder of the Interstate. The...

The new Dirk Pitt adventure from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling authorAs Director of the National Underwater and Marine Agency, Dirk Pitt has always had a knack for finding rouble. This time, though, trouble has found him . . .On a NUMA mission to...

When Paris Peralta is arrested in her own bathroom-covered in blood, holding a straight razor, her celebrity husband dead in the bathtub behind her-she knows she'll be charged with murder. But as bad as this looks, it's not what worries her the most...

A thrilling portrait of 1960s Berlin and Krushchev's Moscow, centring around the exchange of two spies - a Russian working for the KGB, and an unfortunate Englishman.Having shot someone in the chaos of 1963 Berlin, Wilderness finds himself locked up with...

Longlisted for the CWA International Dagger 2017. Spring, 1967. The trail of tragedy and destruction that followed the previous winter's flood seems to have died down; Florence is beginning to recover. But Inspector Bordelli does not feel the same sense...

'A terrific page turner.' Guardian'Kept me guessing right until the end. I devoured it.' Claire Douglas'The UK's answer to Liane Moriarty. Amazing' Claire McGowan___A doting mother or a pushy parent?Karen Bloom expects perfection. Her son, Ewan, has been...

In Jack Nightingale's world - where reality and the occult collide - sometimes the only way to fight evil is with evil.A farmer walks into a school and shoots eight children dead before turning the gun on himself. It's a harrowing but straightforward...

The characters in this book are works of fiction. But, then, isn't everyone . . . ?1988, Pencalenick, Cornwall.At seventeen, Jason wants much more from life than working at his father's pub and when fate, in the form of twins Daisy and Bea and their...

Find the truth; risk everything. A gripping WWII spy novel full of intrigue and peril from a modern master.1942: A German spy comes ashore on a desolate stretch of Lincolnshire beach. But he is hunted down by a young detective, Richard Prince. The secret...

Because murderers are never who you expect... She was the quiet one... but is she guilty? For twin sisters Rose and Bel, enrolling at the prestigious new boarding school should have been a fresh start. But...

***Pre-order Hannah Dolby's next Historical rom-com, How to Solve Murders Like a Lady, now! Perfect for fans of cosy mysteries and female detectives*** *** Violet Hamilton is a woman who knows her own mind. Which, in Victorian Hastings, can make...

David Teale: groomed by the twins, controlled by threats, falsely imprisoned by the State for his 'own protection' as younger brother of Kray-informer Bobby. Turns out that's only half the story.David first met the Krays when he was seventeen years old...

Charles Carter, dubbed Carter the Great by Houdini himself, was born into privilege but became a magician out of need: only when dazzling an audience can he defeat his fear of loneliness. But in 1920s America the stakes are growing higher, as technology...

WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY VAL McDERMID Therese is just an ordinary sales assistant working in a New York department store when a beautiful, alluring woman in her thirties walks up to her counter. Standing there, Therese is wholly unprepared for the first...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'True to form, Picoult keeps you guessing to the end in this morality tale . . . an edge-of-your-seat thriller' Sunday ExpressWith one terrible, senseless act, Shay Bourne transformed the life of the Nealon family forever,...

The perfect quirky nostalgic crime read - a tale of steam trains, giant squid, missing screenplays, missing mothers and a quest for the truth, from the inimitable Malcolm Pryce It's the winter of 1948. The four great railway companies have just been...

'When James Lee Burke writes, the little birdies sing, the sun comes out and old men learn to dance again. That's how good he is. And now he's back . . . Purple Cane Road may be the finest novel Burke has written' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY'At times Burke's...

From the Collins Crime Club archive, the second Inspector French novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed 'The King of Detective Story Writers'. THE RETURN OF INSPECTOR FRENCH When young Maxwell Cheyne discovers that a series of...

A scintillating and unusual anthology of lost treasures from the timeless murder mystery genreFor The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries, writer and anthologist Michael Sims did not summon the usual suspects. He sought the unfamiliar, the unjustly...

For the twentieth anniversary of the start of the Matthew Bartholomew series, Sphere is delighted to reissue all of the medieval monk's cases with beautiful new series-style covers.------------------------------------The winter of 1353 has been...

A pacy international thriller with a historical twist, from the New York Times bestselling author.For ex-field agent Cotton Malone the stakes have never been higher: a deadly virus that could wipe out civilisation as we know it - and a cure that lies...

The thrilling new standalone suspense novel from Sweden's answer to Val McDermid and Sunday Times Book of the Month author, Anders de la Motte.**DON'T MISS DEEDS OF AUTUMN. AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW**'Tightly plotted and dark with psychological...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780295329Author Simon BrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 297gDimensions(mm) 217mm * 140mm *...

WHAT IF HITLER HAD SURVIVED?In the gripping new spy thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Hitler's Secret, a Cambridge spy must find the truth behind Hitler's death. But exactly who is the man in the bunker?'MASTER OF THE WARTIME SPY...

Artificial intelligence leads to shockingly real devastation in this new novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Gray Man series. Someone is killing the world's leading experts on robotics and computers. A desperate Russian scientist approaches Court...

Runner is an outstanding high-concept thriller that grips and entertains like your favourite Hollywood action movie - fans of Lee Child, Simon Toyne and Dan Brown, will love this rollercoaster of a thriller. 'Patrick Lee is a huge talent and Runner is...

'Iles's way of telling the story lifts him clear of the pack into a different league' (Observer) in this masterful psychological serial killer thriller from the New York Times No.1 bestseller. Some memories live deep in the soul, waiting to be...

New Orleans, and Vic Willing, Assistant District Attorney for the prosecutors' office, has been missing since Hurricane Katrina hit. Called in from San Francisco is Claire DeWitt, a detective whose expertise and methods derive from some unique...