Crime & Thrillers

From the Collins Crime Club archive, the fourth Inspector French novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed 'The King of Detective Story Writers'. THE BODY THAT CAME FROM NOWHERE Off the coast of Burry Port in south Wales, two...

A terrifying ghost story from the Queen of Icelandic crime, Yrsa Sigurdardottir, author of the Thora Gudmundsdottir novels.'Yrsa is one of the most exciting new voices in the crime thriller world.' - Peter JamesThe crunching noise had resumed, now...

A brilliantly researched reinvestigation into the nearly forgotten century-old murder that inspired one of the most seductive mysteries in the history of television and film. In 1908, Hazel Drew was found floating in a pond in Sand Lake, New York,...

___________________________________ 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.In the run up to...

When 16-year-old Weldon Avery Holland encounters the notorious Bonnie and Clyde in his Texas hometown, the course of his young life is altered forever. He dedicates himself to fighting evil wherever he finds it.But it's the 1930s and evil is sweeping the...

The twisty, turny thriller set in a beautiful French chateau from the Sunday Times bestselling author A beautiful French chateauJo Lawless is still grieving her husband when his oldest friends invite her to a weekend house party in France. She...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493066254Author David DonachieFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint McBooks PressPublisher Globe Pequot PressWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 230mm *...

A ragtag group of elite Roman soldiers are sent on a suicide mission in this epic historical thriller from Sunday Times bestseller and leading Ancient Rome expert, Harry Sidebottom.____________________No man who enters the Castle of Silence ever walks...

Kate Sheridan is at Blenheim Palace to research King Henry's mistress Rosamund, said to have been poisoned there by Eleanor of Aquitaine. But her visit takes a strange turn when her hosts unwittingly begin to relive the legend.About the AuthorRobin Paige...

The day she left was only the beginning . . .Sam was eleven when his mother went out and never came back. He waited for her and then he grieved for her, as his family fell apart around him.Sam tried to get on with his life in the intervening years. But...

Winner of the Premio Bancarella, 2017 The second instalment in a prize-winning series charting the rise of the House of Medici as they become Masters of Florence and progenitors of the Renaissance. Florence, 1469. Lorenzo de' Medici is to be wed. ...

* * A NUMBER ONE IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER * *'Pacey and exciting and totally joyous.' Jo Spain, author of The Confession________________________You won't be able to look awayWhen Vittoria Devine and Lily Power find themselves sitting next to each other on...

After thirteen-year-old Agnes Fisher faints at school, her teacher is shocked to discover salacious photographs of the girl in her desk. When Agnes doesn't show up at school the next day, her teacher takes the photographs to the police. Murdoch, furious...

'A treat for anyone looking for an antidote to the usual saccharine Christmas fayre.' NB magazine From the twice CWA Dagger shortlisted author of The Twelve Strange Days of Christmas come twelve thirteen stories to transport you to the macabre world...

FROM THE #1 EBOOK BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF CALL ME MUMMY 'Gripped my throat and didn't let go until the final, searing sentence' - CAROLINE ENGLAND A nightmare jolts Debs awake. She leaves the kids tucked up in their beds and goes downstairs. There's...

1364: The plague has returned and fear fills the air as the pestilence claims its first victims in Chesterfield. When the local priest vanishes, John the Carpenter believes the man is simply scared - until he discovers a body left in an empty house...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787052024Format PaperbackPage Count 488Imprint MX PublishingPublisher MX Publishing

'Graham Greene's beautiful and disturbing novel is filled with tenderness, humour, excitement and doubt' The Times A leak is traced to a small sub-section of the secret service, sparking off the inevitable security checks, tensions and suspicions. The...

'Sensational and deeply addictive' Karin Slaughter'Fresh and atmospheric . . . haunting' Anna Bailey'A pitch-perfect psychological thriller' Peter PapathanasiouAmid the desolate wilderness of the Great Plains of Nebraska, a region so isolated you could...

A compelling look into damaged minds, The Chameleon's Shadow is a psychological thriller from crime queen Minette Walters. When Lieutenant Charles Acland is flown home from Iraq with serious head injuries, he faces not only permanent disfigurement but...

Two women. One devastating tsunami. And a decision that will change people's lives forever. Eighteen-year-old Jeannie has suffered a life of abuse at the hands of her stepfather. Now Jeannie thinks she is pregnant and wonders how she will ever escape...

***Shortlisted for the Comedy Women in Print Prize 2021*** THE ACCLAIMED MURDER MYSTERY FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR, PERFECT FOR FANS OF RICHARD OSMAN 'Funny, clever, charming, imaginative and nostalgic' The Times 'Terrific' Mail on...

The unputdownable thriller from the bestselling author of Black-Eyed Susans. 'Gripping' The Times____________Long ago, Carl Feldman was acquitted of murder.Now he's an old man, living alone with his fading memories.His daughter has come to see him, to...

'Pacy and intense . . .kept me frantically turning pages till the nail-biting end' ANDREA MARA 'Terrific . . . totally gripping and tightly plotted' JANE CASEY 'Thrilling . . .an adrenaline-charged page-turning read that leaves readers wanting more'...

'Should be at the top of everyone's wish list. Fennell has created one of the most compelling characters in UK crime fiction' - M.W. CRAVENFOR THIS KILLER IT'S DEATH AT FIRST SIGHT . . .The brilliantly dark new serial killer thriller from one of British...

December 2016 - A severed hand is found washed up on a beach next to the Queen's estate at Sandringham.Elizabeth has become quite accustomed to solving even the most complex of murders. And though she quickly identifies the 70-year-old victim, Edward St...

Book 3 in Steve Burrows' fabulous Birder Murder mystery series The threat from above casts a dark shadow. A man falls to his death from a cliff face in western Scotland. From a distance, another man watches. He approaches the body, tucks a book...

There's trouble at sea for an ex-war hero in this gripping thriller from the international bestselling author of the Sharpe novelsIn muddy waters, even heroes drown . . .With his father in prison for fraud, his ex-wife bleeding him dry and his spine...

'A high quality, sharply written thriller whose motley cast of deviants and misfits delivers some breathtaking twists on the way to a bleak but very satisfying conclusion. This is the reality of motherhood - red in tooth and claw' Sarah J Naughton,...

'[This] romance-cum-murder mystery moves at a brisk pace.' The Sunday Times 'A perfect blend of gothic mystery, drama and romance.' Cressida McLaughlin ************************************************************* ...

After losing her job and her partner in one fell swoop, journalist Elspeth Reeves is back in her mother's house in the sleepy village of Wilsby-under-Wychwood, wondering where it all went wrong. Then a body is found in the neighbouring Wychwoods: a woman...

The bestselling phenomenon of the Dollanganger family saga continues as the children who escaped the attic build new lives, haunted by their tragic past. Their captivity in their grandparents' attic is finally over.But revenge is a torment...

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'Everyone's going to be talking about the twists and turns of The Honeymoon' Good HousekeepingYou won't be able to put down this addictive psychological thriller from the bestselling author of HOME TRUTHS___________ It should be paradise. But it's turned...

A brutally mutilated body is discovered washed up in the bay of Havana. The body of Miguel Forcade Mier, head smashed in by a baseball bat, genitals cut off by a dull knife. Forcade, once an official in the Cuban government responsible for the...

Ann Cleeves Classic Crime - engaging mysteries to savour, beloved characters to meet againA Bird in the Hand is the first novel featuring George and Molly Palmer-Jones by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series.In England's...

FROM THE WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZEBirnam Wood is on the move...Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening group: Birnam Wood. An undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic gathering of friends, this activist...

'Beautiful, amazing, mesmerising' ALAN CUMMING A MISSING PERSON MYSTERY LIKE NO OTHER I am not gone. Mum is not gone. We are here. We are hidden. A father who is trying...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593333518Author Lorna BarrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

The internationally bestselling historical thriller, soon to be a Netflix series starring Luke Evans, Dakota Fanning and Daniel Bruhl.Some things never change.New York City, 1896. Hypocrisy in high places is rife, police corruption commonplace, and a...