Crime & Thrillers

The master storyteller's legacy continues. An elusive and shadowy killer is on the prowl, codenamed the Angel of Death. When an elderly multimillionaire is found brutally murdered in Hollywood, and his young wife raped and beaten, the police...

'A perfectly paced and beautifully observed story of betrayal, guilt and regret' Emma Curtis, author of Keep Her Quiet'A heady, glamorous tale with a dark side - another compulsively readable thriller from Rebecca Reid' Emma Rowley, author of You Can...

Three Debts Paid is the fifth gripping instalment in an exciting new generation of Pitt novels from the pen of highly acclaimed crime writer and New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry.It is February 1912 when barrister Daniel Pitt is reunited with...

'. . . a novel brilliantly evoking the isolation of a woman with an unbearable weight on her conscience' Sunday TimesWhere do your loyalties lie? With the truth or with your colleagues?Drinking outside a canal-side bar on a perfect summer's evening,...

The Romance of the Forest (1791) heralded an enormous surge in the popularity of Gothic novels, in a decade that included Ann Radcliffe's later works, The Mysteries of Udolpho and The Italian. Set in Roman Catholic Europe of violent passions and...

Intrigue and scandal threaten to rock the monarchy in wartime Britain... Windsor, 1943. Britain is in the grip of war and treachery is afoot. The body of controversial former courtier Lord Blackwater is found in the abandoned Fort Belvedere, once the...

New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke brings readers a captivating tale of justice, love, brutality, and mysticism set in the turbulent 1960s. The American West in the early 1960s appears to be a pastoral paradise: golden wheat fields,...

In the winter of 1959, privateeye John Nyquist arrives in the village of Hoxley-on-the-Hale with only apackage of cryptic photographs, and the frail hope of finding an answer to aquestion he's been asking since his childhood.But the villagers offer...

New York: Late 1958Walter Withers had given the best years of his life to the CIA, setting honeytraps and reeling in the victims of his plots. But Withers has returned to his hometown for an easier, safer life as a Private Investigator.Manhattan in the...

Some moments burn in the mind for ever. The landing is dark. Light comes from a window at the far end, enough to run by. Breath comes hard. From the stairs sound heavy footfalls in pursuit. The landing ends in a last doorway. There is no more running,...

A New York Times bestseller and winner of a 2015 Prose Award!There is a threat lurking online. A secret war with the power to destroy your finances, steal your personal data, and endanger your life.In Spam Nation, investigative journalist and...

Set in and around the dark, misty canals of Lichfield, Stephen Booth's incredible new novel is awash with mystery.When council officer Chris Buckley is approached by an odd old man demanding help in healing a decades-old family rift, he sends the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780295336Author Jim KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 138mm * 20mm

All the Tea in China - a Mortdecai novel by Kyril Bonfiglioli, soon to be a major film starring Johnny Depp'One of the funniest writers ever' UncutAfter committing a crime anyone but a close relative might forgive, Karli Mortdecai Van Cleef leaves...

There's trouble ahead for Fran Varady... Just as amateur sleuth Fran Varady is getting her life back on track, problems arise in Watching Out, the fifth fantastic Fran Varady mystery by Ann Granger. The perfect read for fans of M.C. Beaton and Rebecca...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944520137Author Helen NielsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Stark House PressPublisher Stark House PressWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 178mm *...

'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...

SEPTEMBER 1939. THE SECOND WORLD WAR HAS BEGUN. Even as the fighting rages in Poland, Stalin's long time obsession with the missing treasure of Tsar Nicholas II is rekindled. An informant claims to have information about the whereabouts of the man...

AN ANCIENT MYSTERY HAS ALREADY TAKEN TWO LIVES... HOW MANY MORE WILL IT CLAIM?The bestselling, pulse-poundingarchaeological thriller by bestselling author Paul Sussman is a must-read for fans of Dan Brown, Clive Cussler and Wilbur Smith.'A genuinely...

THE SECRET HUNTERS is another absorbing thriller by Ranulph Fiennes, the man the Guinness Book of Records called the 'world's greatest living explorer'.Canada's North West Territories: the arrival of a plane bound for the military's top secret Alert Base...

The Great Train Robbery of 1963 is one of the most infamous crimes in British history. The bulk of the money stolen (equivalent to over GBP40 million today) has never been recovered, and there has not been a single year since 1963 when one aspect of the...

A haunting and heart-breaking new thriller from the author of the word-of-mouth bestseller The Girl With All the GiftsFellside is a maximum security prison on the edge of the Yorkshire moors. It's not the kind of place you'd want to end up. But it's...

THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LEWIS TRILOGY AND THE ENZO FILESAWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021'Peter May is one of the most accomplished novelists writing today.' Undiscovered Scotland 'No one can create a more...

Sacred Stone is the second adventure for Clive Cussler's hero of the Oregon Files, Juan Cabrillo.Tens of thousands of years ago: a fist of stone punches through the Earth's atmosphere and falls on the snowy wastes of Greenland - its deadly secret waiting...

From a seasoned insider of global finance comes a "stimulating, relevant, and dramatic" (The Wall Street Journal) thriller about a group of American operatives who secretly take over the world's largest dark money fund-"a gripping thriller that takes you...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613162026Author Dorothy B. HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penzler PublishersPublisher Penzler PublishersWeight(grams) 284gDimensions(mm)...

I was created to have a humanlike capacity for complex and rational thought. And you believed that I might one day evolve consciousness and become a self-aware entity. Yet you gave surprisingly little consideration to the possibility that, subsequent to...

Amory Ames is travelling to New York, excited to be a bridesmaid at her friend Tabitha's wedding, but with Prohibition in full swing, her husband Milo is less than enthused. When a member of the wedding party is found murdered on the front steps of the...

'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat' Stephen King Ed Logan is 20 years old and a sophomore at Willmington University. He's also been dumped by his girlfriend. Lonesome and broken-hearted, he goes for a late-night walk. He doesn't know where...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780291390Author Paul DohertyFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 405gDimensions(mm) 150mm * 220mm *...

This volume offers bracing new translations of two precursors to the modern detective novel by Friedrich Durrenmatt, whose genre-bending mysteries recall the work of Alain Robbe-Grillet and anticipate the postmodern fictions of Paul Auster and other...

'Inspector Ikmen thrillers combine brightly coloured scene setting with deliciously tortuous plots' GuardianINCORRUPTIBLE is the gripping new Istanbul crime thriller starring Inspector Ikmen, 'the Morse of Istanbul' (Daily Telegraph), from award-winning...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781631680687Author Marcia ClarkFormat PaperbackImprint Graymalkin MediaPublisher Graymalkin MediaWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 142mm * 41mm

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE The start of a gripping new crime thriller series introducing ex-SAS trooper Jack Tate! 'Looking for...

'As chilling as an Icelandic winter' S. J. Bolton'Superior crime fiction set in Iceland' The TimesThe discovery of a corpse washed up on a beach in an Icelandic backwater sparks a series of events that propels the village of Hvalvik's police sergeant...

GOLD. THEFT. MURDER. A ROAD TRIP TO DIE FOR.'An unrelenting page-turner' CHRIS WHITAKER, author of WE BEGIN AT THE END'A triumph' THE i'The real star is the desolate Outback' THE TIMES'Thrilling . . . It left me breathless' ALEX MARWOOD, author of THE...

The days off are the hardest, because they give Margaret time to think. A moment of weakness leads to cocktails with a colleague - an attraction she knows could be dangerous - at the luxurious Hotel Bel-Air bar. A stroll through the grounds leads to a...

'One of Singapore's finest living authors' South China Morning Post'Simply glorious. Every nook and cranny of 1930s Singapore is brought richly to life' CATRIONA MCPHERSON'Charming' RHYS BOWEN'One of the most likeable heroines in modern literature'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804392454Author Andrew PrattFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

The Reverend Charles Howard sat in judgement on the poor, assessing their applications for the workhouse. But now he is dead, stabbed and brutally beaten in his office. Has some poor beggar he turned down taken his vengeance? Murdoch's investigation...