Crime & Thrillers

PRE-ORDER THE EXPLOSIVE NEW KURT AUSTIN ADVENTURE FROM UK NO. 1 BESTSELLER CLIVE CUSSLERKurt and his crew are in a deadly race against time to stop the sea rising. A mission deep inside the swirling Pacific. Their objective? To save the world.The world's...

Pre-order Father's Day, the new must-read page-turner from Sunday Times bestselling author Richard Madeley, coming May 2024. 'An authentic and exciting story. The perfect summer read' - Clare Mackintosh, author of the bestselling I LET YOU GO From the...

The Templar Conspiracy is the fourth in Paul Christopher's electrifying John Holliday series.The ruthless reign of a secret power must be stopped . . . In Rome, the public assassination of the Pope by a sniper on Christmas Day sets off a massive...

'READS LIKE A GLOSSY 90s THRILLER. OBSESSED' JUNO DAWSON'IT GRIPS LIKE A VICE' WILL DEAN'A MUST READ FOR 2022' 5* READER REVIEW'ADDICTIVE AND INTOXICATING' 5* READER REVIEW'NOT ONE TO BE MISSED' EVENING STANDARD________He's a well-respected college...

The chilling psychological thriller from a top ten bestselling author. I'm the sister who got away. The lucky one. Until now. It is ten years since Ella's sister Miranda...

**Pre-order The Secret now - the new edge-of-your-seat thriller from Debbie Howells, coming soon!** Everything was perfect. And then her fiance disappeared... 'Dazzling' DAILY MAIL ...

Andrea Camilleri's sensational and darkly humorous Inspector Montalbano series continues in the fourteenth instalment, The Age of Doubt. A chance encounter with a strange young woman leads Inspector Montalbano to Vigata harbour - and into a puzzling new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553261097Author Rex StoutFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 119gDimensions(mm) 169mm *...

A cold-blooded killer has Stephanie in his sights...Where there's smoke, there's fire, and this couldn't be truer than in Smokin' Seventeen, the seventeenth wacky adventure in Janet Evanovich's bestselling Stephanie Plum series. The perfect read for fans...

The new emotional thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Ice Cream Girls, My Best Friend's Girl and The Brighton Mermaid. Dorothy Koomson, 'Queen of the big reveal', is back with a gripping page-turner full of twists and turns.Pieta has...

On the surface, things appear tranquil in Moose County. Jim Qwilleran, newspaper columnist and the county's richest resident, has moved back in to the remodelled apple barn with his two remarkable felines, Koko and Yum Yum. And the newly built gazebo...

One day in 1959, an entire village of people disappeared-leaving behind only the broken body of a woman in the town square, and an abandoned newborn in a schoolroom. No one knows why they vanished. No one's been there since. Until now. ...

Hamburg state prosecutor Chastity Riley investigates a series of arson attacks on cars across the city, which leads her to a startling and life-threatening discovery involving criminal gangs and a very illicit love story... 'Another brilliant...

Shortlisted for the Crime Fest 2016 Last Laugh Award Life is sublime in the idyllic suburb of New York City. Recent divorcee, Karen Daily and her two kids have for the first time in years found joy as they settle into the close-knit community of Savage...

Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, returns to face an ancient, Medusa-like curse in her twenty-sixth adventure. Fans of Charlaine Harris and Anne Rice will delight in this series by Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton. 'I've...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'It came with the wind through the silence of the night, a long, deep mutter, then a rising howl, and then the sad moan in which it died away. Again and again it...

Acid Row. The name the beleaguered inhabitants give to their 'sink' estate.A no-man's land of single mothers and fatherless children - where angry, alienated youth controls the streets. Into this battleground comes Sophie Morrison, a young doctor...

From the author of the bestselling Luckiest Girl Alive comes Jessica Knoll's thriller, The Favourite Sister, which follows a pair of competitive and uber-successful sisters whose secrets and lies result in murder. Perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty's...

When Cindy Decker finds a new-born baby in a rubbish bin, she can't imagine who would commit such a crime. Surely abandoning a baby is the biggest taboo of motherhood? The usual suspects - prostitutes, homeless women and drug abusers - aren't responsible...

'A smile can get you far, but a smile with a gun can get you further.' - Al CaponeFeatured in ViceA man of singular influence in the American underworld, Johnny Rosselli's career flourished for half a century, from the bloody years of bootlegging in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984826381Author Andrea BartzFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age 2007.Book InformationISBN 9780307341556Author Gillian FlynnFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House...

'I really loved this book!!... kept me on the edge of my seat wondering what was going to happen next!!' Reader ReviewThe only thing she was guilty of was trusting himAll Jenny Clifton ever wanted was to be the ideal wife and mother. When she...

Get hooked on Heck: the maverick detective who knows no boundaries. The perfect read for fans of Stuart Macbride and Luther. DS Mark 'Heck' Heckenburg is used to bloodbaths. But nothing can prepare him for this. Heck's most...

___________________________________ A gripping Temperance Brennan novel from world-class forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs, the international no. 1 bestselling crime thriller writer and the inspiration behind the hit TV series Bones.A full week after...

The Daughters of Cain is the eleventh novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series, featuring Inspector Morse.Bizarre and bewildering - that's what so many murder investigations in the past had proved to be . . . In this respect, at least, Lewis...

Based on the incredible true story of The Great Stork Derby, Prize Women is the profoundly moving novel that sheds light on a scandalous moment in history just as relevant today'Gorgeous. Prize Women took my breath away. I haven't stopped thinking about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Agatha Awards (Best Historical Novel) 2021.Book InformationISBN 9781496732453Author Colleen CambridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Kensington...

One last mission, a disastrous result, an impossible escape...Last in the RAF Trilogy, this story charts the final days of service of world-class British fighter pilot Dicken Quinney, in his most dangerous adventure yet. It is the summer of 1939, and the...

'RIVALS THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN AS A COMPULSIVE READ' The GuardianIf you can't trust your sister, then who can you trust?Kate Rafter has spent her life running from her past. But when her mother dies, she's forced to return to Herne Bay - a place her...

From the pen of prizewinning and bestselling author Craig Russell, comes this exquisitely plotted, intelligent and blindingly original crime thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat. If you like Stuart MacBride, James Oswald and Ian Rankin,...

Elizabeth Lange has arrived at an exclusive spa in Pebble Beach, California, weary of heart and soul. Still grieving for her beloved sister, a famous actress who plunged to her death from her Manhattan penthouse, Elizabeth is determined to unearth the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903155325Author Elisabeth Sanxay HoldingFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books LtdDimensions(mm) 194mm *...

HER PERFECT TWIN. YOUR NEW OBSESSION.'Sarah Bonner's debut novel made my jaw drop. There are so many twists in this story, I never knew what was coming next. You won't want to miss this one!' Samantha Downing, author of My Lovely Wife'A terrifyingly...

In the midst of the fighting, two Russian soldiers seek refuge in the crypt of a German church. There, clutched in the hands of a skeleton priest, they find The Shepherd; a priceless icon thought to have been destroyed long ago. When news of its...

BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY, CAROL AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN 'Highsmith is a damn fine writer' GUARDIAN'No one has created psychological suspense more densely and deliciously satisfying' VOGUE'The setting is Venice, the...

'It was the stunned, pale look of bad news'The call is brief. There's been a murder in the family of Lieutenant Decker's half brother, Rabbi Jonathan Levine. Ephraim Lieber, a Hassidic Jew with a catalogue of problems in his past, was found dead in a...

'Arnaldur Indridason is the grand old man of Icelandic noir' The TimesThe victim: a businessman missing for thirty years.The case: impossible to solve. Until now.A frozen body is discovered in the icy depths of Langjoekull glacier, apparently that of a...

Official, original James Bond from a writer described by Len Deighton as a 'master storyteller'.On holiday in Victoria, British Columbia, Bond becomes intrigued Lee Fu-Chu, a half-Blackfoot, half-Chinese philanthropist who is known as "Brokenclaw"...

Roberto Saviano is best known for his work on the Italian mafia, but Beauty and the Inferno, winner of the European Book Award 2010, also tackles universal themes with great insight and humanity, with urgency, and often with anger. This important...