Crime & Thrillers

The second that Columbia law student Jack Mullen steps down from the train at East Hampton, he knows that something is very wrong. As he greets his family, his kid brother Peter lies stretched out on a steel gurney, battered, bruised - dead. The police...

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The Wings of the Sphinx is the eleventh book in the wickedly funny Inspector Montalbano series by Italian author, Andrea Camilleri. Things are not going well for Inspector Montalbano. His long-distance relationship with Livia is on the rocks, he feels...

A killer is murdering Goths with relish - skinning and butchering them. The cops aren't getting anywhere so Jack Nightingale's nemesis, Superintendent Chalmers, asks him for help.Nightingale discovers that the murdered Goths had one thing in common: a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496729132Author Joanne FlukeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

A wealthy family. A deadly secret. A young woman with more to lose than she knows. Josephine Montfort is from one of New York's oldest, most respected, and wealthiest families. Like most well-off girls of the Gilded Age, her future looks set - after a...

The perfect neighbours tell the perfect lies... A top ten Kindle bestseller Behind the shutters lies a devastating secret... When Helen moves abroad with her loving husband Gary, she can't wait...

'We are the people our parents warned us about' is the motto of the Bandidos, one of the world's most feared outlaw motorcycle gangs. For ten years, Steve Utah was a Bandidos insider. He arranged the security of their clubhouses and electronic...

'Some may call me a vigilante. I think I've just got problems to fix.'Right now, Hunter's big problem is a missing little brother, last seen fleeing the site of a gruesome killing. Hunter needs the help of an old army buddy, a whole lot of hardware and a...

A death in the family-from-hell bring Detectives Fry and Cooper to a remote and unfriendly rural community in their fourth psychological thriller. 'And as it grew dark, Withens became almost entirely silent. Except for the screaming.' ...

'This is an absolute riot - part thriller, part satire of contemporary urban India' Mail on Sunday'If you're fat and Indian, you're rich; if you're fat and poor, you're lying. It's only the West where the rich are thin and vegan and moral...Ramesh Kumar...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617738463Author Carlene O'ConnorFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington PublishingWeight(grams)...

'Refreshing . . . I look forward to reading more' Alex Gray'First-rate' Sunday SportA seasonal hotel where murder can be made to disappear with the sun . . . Maggie Stewart travels with friends Liz and Harry to the Ice Hotel, a surreal building in...

'An electrifying plot that keeps you guessing to the last' Fiona Barton'Yet another gripping, heartbreaking read from a brilliant writer' Jill Mansell'Thrilling, compelling, clever and hugely entertaining. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough' C L...

Discover the classic mystery from Dick Francis, one of the greatest thriller writers of all time'Once you start reading you won't be able to stop' 5***** Reader Review'Couldn't put it down. I was awake half the night even on the second read!' 5*****...

Now a major Netflix film.Winner of the August Derleth Award, No One Gets Out Alive is the ultimate haunted house thriller from horror writer Adam Nevill. Darkness lives within . . .Cash-strapped, working for agencies and living in shared accommodation,...

Just as the bidding gets exciting in a Bath auction house, three armed men stage a hold-up and attempt to steal Lot 129, a medieval carving of the Wife of Bath. The highest bidder, appalled to have the prize snatched away, tries to stop them and is...

'Brilliantly original' - Clare Mackintosh, author of After the End'Deliciously dark and devious' - Red 'Highly recommended' - Harriet Tyce, author of Blood Orange'Gone Girl-esque' - The Times'I couldn't turn the pages fast enough' - Abigail Dean, author...

John Bookman - Book to his friends - is a tenured professor at the University of Texas School of Law. He's thirty-five, handsome and unmarried. He teaches Constitutional Law, reduces senators to blithering fools on talk shows, and is often mentioned as a...

The worldwide bestseller, over half a million copies sold. A Nearly Normal Family is the stunning psychological thriller from M. T. Edvardsson, which asks what would a parent do if their child was suspected of murder, and just how far they'd go to...

The thrilling follow up to The Irregular: A Different Class of Spy, featuring Wiggins - an ex-soldier who was trained as a child by Sherlock Holmes. Praise for The Irregular 'H.B. Lyle has found the golden thread between Bond and Holmes' Giles Foden,...

British leaders use spies and Special Forces to interfere in the affairs of others discreetly and deniably. Since 1945, MI6 has spread misinformation designed to divide and discredit targets from the Middle East to Eastern Europe and Northern Ireland. It...

Lady Emily must stop a serial killer whose sights are set on the new king . . .Lying on her deathbed, Queen Victoria asks to speak privately with trusted royal agent Colin Hargreaves, slipping him a letter with her last command: Une sanz pluis. Sapere...

A fictional, psychological thriller. The telling of a quest to discover the truth of who we are, and what we are doing here. You are invited to take a journey in mind, from madness to sanity, from suffering to peace, and to freedom, as our true power...

A gripping new crime novel featuring Alex Delware from the bestselling master of suspense.When a photographer is found inside an LA warehouse slumped in bed, shot to death, it sets in motion a complex and dangerous case for Lieutenant Milo Sturgis and...

THE GRIPPING STORY OF LIES AND MURDER HAUNTING THE DARKEST CORNERS OF TOKYO, SET AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF THE 2020 OLYMPICS . . .'Japan-set noir doesn't get any darker or more twisted than this' Sunday Times Crime Club 'Masterpiece' JEFFERY DEAVER 'A...

'Powerful . . . A twisting tale of love, loss, and dark family secrets' Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train and Into the WaterIt begins with a mystery. Sylvie, the beautiful, brilliant, successful older daughter...

While the success of national and international law enforcement cooperation to suppress organized crime means that stable, large-scale criminal organizations like the Cosa Nostra or the Japanese Yakuza have seen their power reduced, organized crime...

A wealthy family A fatal cup of tea Rex Fortescue was enjoying his morning cup of tea when he met his untimely end. Suspicions naturally turn to his wife. He was filthy rich, after all. Then she too is found...

The true story of former criminal defence lawyer Dylan Rhys Jones' experience of defending Rhyl serial killer Peter Moore, found guilty in 1996 of murdering four men and seriously assaulting many more, and referred to by the judge when sentencing as as...

A chilling, haunting ghost story that delves into the dark past of the 16th century Essex witch trials. To find the truth, she'll risk her life... Sadie Asquith has been fascinated by the Essex Witch Trials...

The hunt is on - but this time Stephanie's the prey...Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is on the chase of her life in To The Nines, the ninth hilarious crime adventure in the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich. The perfect read for fans of JD Robb and...

Dr. Watson was the chronicler of every Sherlock Holmes adventure published in The Strand magazine between 1887 and 1927. He reported them with honesty in the bluff, army-style of a military doctor, so frank in their account of human behaviour that they...

Frannie O'Neill is a young and talented veterinarian living in Colorado. Devastated by the mysterious murder of her husband, David, a local doctor, Frannie throws herself into her work. It is not long before another bizarre murder occurs and Kit...

The Protector is back. Mickey Bale must hunt down military-grade warheads in this gripping British thriller from Anthony Riches. Former close protection officer Mickey Bale has a dangerous skillset. One that many men, good and bad, want to make use of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613164877Author John Dickson CarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penzler PublishersPublisher Penzler PublishersWeight(grams) 307gDimensions(mm)...

This classic crime novel by six different authors is introduced by Martin Edwards, archivist of the Detection Club, and includes a never-before-published Preface by Agatha Christie, 'Detective Writers in England', in which she discusses her approach to...

ONE ROOM. FIVE SUSPECTS. THREE HOURS TO FIND A KILLER.'An impressive debut' James Oswald**************GUESS WHO A waitress. A cleaner. An actress. A lawyer. A student. Everyone is a suspect.WHERE In a locked room - with no escape, and no idea how they...

In the year of our Lord 1141, August comes in golden as a lion, and two monks ride into the Benedictine abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul bringing with them disturbing news of war- and a mystery. The strangers tell how the strife between the Empress...

First published in 1948, Death on the Last Train is a Chief Inspector Littlejohn mystery full of false leads, dead ends and old-fashioned charm. Detective Inspector Littlejohn of Scotland Yard is travelling to an assignment, exhausted after an arduous...