Crime & Thrillers

IN 1981, Detective Inspector Satchwell was the officer in charge of the case against Train Robber Tom Wisbey and twenty others. The case involved massive thefts from mail trains - similar to the Great Train Robbery of 1963 where GBP2.6 million was taken...

The most fearsome predator in history... Is no longer history. Seven miles down, on a top secret dive into the Pacific's deepest trench, Commander Jonas Taylor came face-to-face with the largest and most ferocious predator ever to inhabit the...

At the height of the Cold War, a new Soviet threat triggers a daring heist, and the stakes couldn't be higher'A defining novel of the genre and a lost classic' James SwallowBritish and American intelligence services have just learned of the Soviet...

The murder, a brutal stabbing, definitely took place on Guy Fawkes' night. It was definitely by the bonfire on the village green. There were definitely a number of witnesses. And yet, was it definitely clear to anybody exactly what they had seen? In the...

'The Wicked Sister is massively thrilling and altogether unputdownable' KARIN SLAUGHTERA startling novel of psychological suspense, as two generations of sisters try to unravel their tangled relationships between nature and nurture, guilt and betrayal,...

Inheriting unexpected millions has left reporter Jim Qwilleran looking like the cat who swallowed the canary. While his two Siamese cats, Koko and Yum Yum, adjust to being fat cats in an enormous mansion, Qwilleran samples the life-styles of the rich and...

A classic mystery starring the glamorous Mitford sisters and inspired real events, The Mitford Vanishing is the perfect story for fans of Agatha Christie.1937. War with Germany is dawning, and a civil war already raging in Spain. Split across political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735217454Author Laird BarronFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint G P Putnam's SonsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 189mm *...

This killer has got inside Harry's head. And now he's coming for YOU.'Breathtaking... Harry Hole returns in cracking form' Sunday Times'Nesbo deserves to be crowned the king of all crime thriller writers' Sunday Express'With Harry in the unfamiliar role...

'One of the best in the genre' THE SUN'A fabulously satisfying addition to the canon of vintage crime' DAILY EXPRESS'A delicious adventure' DAILY MAIL on The Riviera Express *** Murder can strike at any...

'Woodward's story is one of the most important of recent years...heartbreakingly powerful' THE TIMES'Harrowing, brave, hugely important book' HENRY WINTER'Haunting' SUNDAY TIMESSHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL AWARD AND THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARD...

THE PULSE-RACING FIRST DEPARTMENT Q THRILLER FROM THE NO. 1 INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR'Six-star suspense! Superbly written' 5***** Reader Review'Unputdownable. Keeps you hooked from start to end' 5***** Reader Review'Taut, thrilling and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739970666Author Maria FranklandFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Autonomy PressPublisher Autonomy Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903360408Author Andy GriffeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Orphans PublishingPublisher Orphans Publishing

The New York Times bestselling author of Be Cool and Get ShortyKiller man Vincent Majestyk had his belly-full of killing in Asia. It was his job and he was one of the best, but when he stripped off his uniform he never wanted to go back to it. Now he...

Inspector Dupin and Claire are on a two-week vacation, but while Claire seems to enjoy the quiet of the beach, Commissaire Dupin takes every opportunity to leave the beach towel. The fabulous dinners on the hotel patio and the rumors about a stolen...

**FROM THE AUTHOR OF RICHARD AND JUDY'S BOOK CLUB PICK OUT OF HER DEPTH.**_________________________________Two women - desperate to unlock the truth.How far will they go to lay the past to rest? ANNA has been taught that virtue is the path to God. But on...

A young man wakes from a coma to find himself targeted by the men who killed his parents, while someone is impersonating a notorious New Zealand serial killer ... the latest chilling, nerve-shredding, twisty thriller from the author of The Quiet People.....

Synopsis coming soon.......Book InformationISBN 9780743417600Author LeverittFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm * 28mm

'This was a FANTASTIC book, I will not forget this one for a loooooooooong time and if ever . . . a MUST READ!' Real Reader 'I SWALLOWED THIS BOOK WHOLE. Devoured it. Could not put it down . . . fast paced, twisty and kept me guessing' Real...

A gripping, terrifying road trip through the heat of the post-apocalyptic American desert from the author of Netflix's The Silence. This action-packed and thought-provoking eco-nightmare will appeal to fans of Benjamin Percy, Christopher Golden and Josh...

'Just the thing to chase the blues away' M. C. BeatonAll's fair in love . . . and antiques wars!Things are going well for Kat Stanford; not only is her antiques business thriving, she's also got a new date: Piers Carew, Viscount Chawley, who owns the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951627805Author Sue BlackFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 160mm...

Outside the pale of the abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, in September of the year of our Lord 1140, a priestly emissary for King Stephen has been reported missing. But inside the pale, Brother Cadfael's attention is turned on Meriet, a proud,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312304683Author Robert K ResslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 226mm...

From the mind of a psychologist comes a chilling domestic thriller that gets under your skin.**One of Cosmopolitan's 25 of the best books to read this summer 2021**"A wonderful storyteller" Chris Whitaker "Creepy, compelling and very well written"...

Salonika, 1940. To the bustle of tavernas and the smell of hashish, a secret war is taking shape. In the backrooms of barbers, envelopes change hands, and in the Club de Salonique the air is thick with whispers.Costa Zannis is the city's dashing chief...

'Creepy and compelling' HARRIET TYCE 'Brilliant - filled with tension and twists' SARAH PINBOROUGH 'An unsettling, terrifying thriller' ABIGAIL DEAN ...

"A remarkable, indispensable book" - Sunday Telegraph In 1993 toddler James Bulger was beaten to death by two ten-year-old-boys. In the wake of this brutal crime, came one of the most public and shocking trials in living memory. Written in...

A No.1 e-book bestseller, perfect for fans of Ruth Ware, Shari Lapena and Clare Mackintosh. Two suburban women. Two dark secrets. The almost perfect murder. Everybody...

A FIRE. A MURDER. A SILENT SUSPECT... On a quiet street, one house is burning to the ground... By the time sign language interpreter Paige Northwood arrives, flames have engulfed her client's home. Though...

A decade ago, teacher Nathan Brookes saw four of his students walk up a hill and vanish. Only one returned - Olivia - starved, terrified, and with no memory of where she'd been. After a body is found in the same woodland where they disappeared, it is...

The best time-travel story since H.G. Wells's The Time Machine, by the Grand Master of science fiction, the story of Andrew Harlan, Technician and Eternal. Andrew Harlan's job is to range through past and present centuries monitoring and even...

One spring afternoon, defence attorney Guerrieri is confronted with an unexpected spectre from his past. In her youth, Lorenza had been a beautiful and unpredictable girl with dazzling charm. A changed woman faces him in his office that day. The ensuing...

'One of the bad girls of gritty crime' Daily Mirror It begins on a winter afternoon, when schoolgirl Nicky Day runs from a gang of bullies. Then her little brother starts the fire. But the nightmare that is engulfing Sue and Terry Day is only beginning ...

'Other People had me purring with pleasure' The TimesLike a ghost or a fugitive, Mary roams through London - pursuing and pursued by memory and forgetting, by the compelling Amy Hide and the charming Mr Wrong...Martin Amis sustains an unnervingly high...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420154320Author Rebecca ZanettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Zebra BooksPublisher Kensington Publishing

Hettie and Tilly are summoned to a mysterious tea party hosted by Tilly's long-lost great-aunts. The ancient windmill they live in is not what it seems, and very soon the mill begins to reveal its terrifying secrets of murder and betrayal. Tilly must...

THE UNMISSABLE NEW THRILLER FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE GIRL IN THE ICE AND NINE ELMS ROBERT BRYNDZA__________'You can't help turning the pages hungrily to see what happens next' THE TIMES'Taut, atmospheric and spooky, Shadow Sands...

'A masterclass in psychological suspense. I couldn't put it down' Claire Douglas'A gripping new thriller by Gilly Macmillan - the mistress of classy suspense' Shari Lapena'A superbly plotted, breathless mystery' Lucy Clarke'A one-sit read. Creepy,...