Crime & Thrillers

Successful criminal defence lawyer, Jon Shaw, comes face to face with, Danny Hallam, the man he tried to murder twenty-five years ago...Then: While drug running for a local crime lord, Danny decides to call in a large debt from a young female drug...

THE SECOND INSTALMENT IN THE JOHN DEE PAPERSThe acclaimed second instalment of The John Dee Papers. Tudor intrigue, murder and the dark arts - brooding superstition leaves John Dee isolated in the land of his father...'Chills, thrills and satisfies. A...

Number one New York Times bestselling author Jocko Willink's fast-paced and exciting thriller Final Spin is a story of love, brotherhood, suffering, happiness and sacrifice - a story about life.Johnny . . .Shouldn't be in a dead-end job.Shouldn't be in a...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Tom Clancy: Code of Honor.In the icy heart of Alaska, a series of gruesome murders leads Deputy US Marshal Arliss Cutter into a firestorm of searing corruption, clashing cultures, and bone-chilling fear...In...

December 1890: Eleven days before Christmas, Clarice and her husband, Reverend Dominic Corde, arrive in the idyllic village of Cottisham to watch over the Reverend Wynter's flock, whilst he takes a richly deserved holiday. With its village green and...

Meet James Bond, the world's most famous spy, in these landmark 70th anniversary reissues of Ian Fleming's classic series. When SPECTRE hijacks two A-bombs, a frantic global search for the weapons ensues, and M's hunch that the plane containing the bombs...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913383572Author Howard of WarwickFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint The Funny Book CompanyPublisher The Funny Book Company

ISAAC BELL RETURNS IN A BRAND NEW THRILLING MISSION FROM THE GRAND MASTER OF ADVENTURE, CLIVE CUSSLERAn old nemesis. A secret technology. The fate of a Great War at stake . . .__________Summer, 1914.As New England swelters, Detective Isaac Bell is asked...

You'll tell her your darkest secretsSusan Svendsen has an unusual talent. She is an expert in finding out secrets. People feel compelled to confide in her and unwittingly confess their innermost thoughts. Her whole life, she has exploited this talent,...

Was Philip de Laszlo a secret agent and was MI5's source really as they claimed? Did an enemy spy really paint the portrait of the young Princess Elizabeth? In 1917, noted society portrait painter Philip de Laszlo, who painted such luminaries as the...

Readers looking for pulse-pounding action and a nail-biting adventure need not look any further than this new thriller from the author of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan series...Winter comes early to the rural native community of Stone Cross, Alaska - and so...

Be careful what you dig up...Still recovering from tragedy, Inspector Elisenda Domenech takes on a new case involving a body discovered on an archaeological dig. Seemingly executed as part of an ancient tribal ritual, it soon becomes clear that this body...

Discovery means certain death. And he's running out of time.It's 1990, and Dmitry Kalyagin is about to attain membership in Gorbachev's politburo when his long-dormant status as a "mole" for the British is suddenly reactivated.English intelligence man...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455542680Author James PattersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint FaithWordsPublisher Time Warner Trade PublishingWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm)...

Loyal, honest and, above all, principled. There is no finer detective in Victorian London than Thomas Pitt.It is 1896, and Thomas Pitt is in charge of Special Branch. He is beginning to understand the power he now commands, but is still ill at ease at...

Why Spy? is the result of Brian Stewart's seventy years of working in, and studying the uses and abuses of, intelligence in the real world. Few books currently available to those involved either as professionals or students in this area have been written...

Paris, 1945. A manhunt is raging across the liberated city. Airey Neave, head of Room 900, the ultra-secret M19 department, is desperate to track down Harry Cole. Harry is a rogue. He's an East End charmer and as sharp as a switchblade. But traitor? He...

A MISSING CHILD In Karlstad, nine-month-old Beatrice is missing from her pram. Her parents are in shock and the media is in a frenzy. A PERSONAL STRUGGLE DI Charlie Lager is struggling with her own demons when she's called to investigate, forced to...

The no. 1 bestseller from the author of Kolymsky Heights'As significant as . . . le Carre in bringing a gritty new realism to the thriller.' Sunday TelegraphAn ancient scroll has been discovered in Israel. Caspar Laing, a young and brilliant professor,...

In 1974, Dennis Lynn Rader stalked and murdered a family of four in Wichita, Kansas. Since adolescence, he had read about serial killers and imagined becoming one. Soon after killing the family, he murdered a young woman and then another, until he had...

Introducing Bombay CID's most dogged, dutiful officer, and one of the greatest, most engaging creations in all detective fiction, H.R.F. Keating's The Perfect Murder: The First Inspector Ghote Mystery includes a preface by Alexander McCall Smith, author...

'[A] lively, entertaining blend of murder mystery and supernatural adventure' GEORGE R.R. MARTINShould you find yourself in need of a discreet investigation, think of Jesperson and Lane . . .For several years Miss Lane was companion, collaborator and...

A GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FINALISTLonglisted for the Dublin Literary Award 2018Crime Book of the Month, Sunday Times, February 2018'I loved this... very tough and very real.' - Margaret AtwoodWhen Stella, a young mother in an Indigenous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781448307494Author Alys ClareFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 138mm * 18mm

'Exhilarating... a work of imagination and arresting originality' Sunday TelegraphThe war is ending, perhaps ended... For the castle and its occupants the troubles are just beginning. Armed gangs roam its lawless land, where each farm and house supports...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915530134Author Joan CogginFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo Publishers

'Sylva skillfully illustrates an unmoored character completely consumed by a spiraling, unrelenting grief' - Kirkus Reviews'This story is taut and unsettling with a brilliant ending!' - Candis'Creepily claustrophobic' - New York Times Book Review...

When a sudden crime wave hits several small midwestern towns, the U.S. Attorney for the region calls on Harry Duncan to investigate. An ex-cop known for his unorthodox methods, Duncan is reluctant to go up against a widespread criminal organization - but...

A FEVER IN THE HEART dissects an explosive triangle that led to obsession and murder in a small town in the north-west of America. Ann Rule reveals the story of an alluring wife and the two men desperate for her love; a story with a bizarre and deadly...

'Even better than Child 44. Akyl Borubaev is a terrific creation' Anthony Horowitz'Just keeps getting better . . . buy the whole series right away' Peter Robinson, No.1 bestselling author of Sleeping in the GroundIN THE BURNING HEAT OF THE SUN, MURDER IS...

'This is a wonderful novel, powerful, humane and moving. It's also one of the best police procedurals I've read this year' Ann Cleeves-----Can you really keep your child safe? What if who they are puts them at risk? And what if they have blood on their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956815576Author Martin KnightFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint London BooksPublisher London BooksWeight(grams) 327g

For lovers of Sherlock, Shardlake and Ripper Street. A hugely enjoyable action-packed Victorian thriller with a great detective double act.'Delicious Stuff.' Financial TimesPublished in hardback as The Infidel Stain. London, 1841. Mr Jeremiah Blake and...

This is the definitive story of the case against Jeffrey Epstein and the corrupt system that supported him and Ghislaine Maxwell, told in thrilling detail by the lawyer who has represented Epstein's victims for more than a decade. In June 2008,...

The Penguin English Library editionMany readers would claim that The Adventure of the Copper Beeches or The Man with the Twisted Lip was their favourite Sherlock Holmes story - but then that would be doing an injustice to The Adventure of the Yellow Face...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780727889744Author Veronica HeleyFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm) 224mm * 144mm *...

'This couldn't be more topical if A. A. Dhand was handing you the freshly written pages as he watched the news. It's hugely exciting, too.' Jake Kerridge, Sunday ExpressA bomb detonates in Bradford's City Park.When the alert sounds, DCI Harry Virdee has...

The Times Thrillers of the Year 2020 'Superbly crafted with heart-stopping twists and chills galore. A new star has arrived in the thriller firmament' The Times, Book of the Month Gabriela is a senior...

In Deal with the Devil, five-time Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter Peter Lance draws on three decades of once-secret FBI files to tell the definitive story of Greg Scarpa Sr., a Mafia capo who "stopped counting" after fifty murders, while...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496735133Author Lauren Elliott ElliottFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing