Crime & Thrillers

Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, embarks on a race against time in the name of justice. If you love Charlaine Harris and Anne Rice, you won't be able to resist the new novel from Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton.'I've...

Miss Seeton is most embarrassed . . . Her every attempt at a portrait of little Effie Goffer has become a chilling picture of a corpse. Is Miss Seeton actually drawing a clue to a series of child murders in rural England? Scotland Yard thinks so,...

The Kremlin does not forget. Six years ago, high-ranking Russian foreign intelligence officer Nikolai Volkov fled the country, accused of selling state secrets to MI6. Defecting to the UK, Volkov went into hiding. The Kremlin does not forgive. Nine weeks...

An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, novel'Richard was an alpha werewolf. It was his only serious flaw. We'd broken up after I'd seen him eat somebody.'You never forget your ex-fiance. And when the call came at three in the morning, I thought for a moment it...

THE TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH CHOICE MAGAZINE HARDBACK OF THE MONTH 'A thoroughly gripping spy thriller... Captures the high stakes paranoia of the era brilliantly.' Adam Hamdy, author of Black 13 'Intelligent, involving and gripping.' Choice ...

'A captivating, suspenseful thriller that draws you in - with a twist that will take your breath away.' TM Logan, bestselling author of The Holiday***After the sudden death of her husband, Tess is drowning in grief. All she has left is her son, Jamie,...

John the Carpenter has been happy to leave the investigation of death behind. For six years now he's been content to work with wood. His life looks prosperous, but times are growing desperate. Then the coroner summons him to look at the mysterious death...

Persuaded by his beloved companion to join her in a group tour of Scotland, Jim Qwilleran expects to revel in his Scottish heritage while keeping Polly Duncan safe from the Pickax Prowler. Instead, his trip is cut short when a thief swipes a suitcase,...

We called him a devil and quarantined him behind such labels as 'the most dangerous man alive.' But Charles Manson remains a shocking reminder of our own humanity gone awry. This astonishing book lays bare the life and the mind of a man whose acts left...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062993397Author Deborah CrombieFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint William Morrow & CompanyPublisher William Morrow & CompanyWeight(grams) 454g

'Dazzling and engrossing' Colm Toibin, Guardian A Granta Best Young American Author Book of Numbers is a novel about two men of the same age and with the same name: Joshua Cohen. The first Joshua is a writer whose keenly anticipated debut had the bad...

'Gripping, stylish, convincing' Sunday Times They won't all live to tell the tale... Seven friends. One killer. No escape... A group of childhood friends...

'[The Gosling Girl] interrogates the context of a child's crime and simplistic notions of evil by society and the media. It fosters understanding & empathy and draws us deep inside the protagonist's psychology' Bernardine EvaristoMonster? Murderer? ...

"An absolutely first-rate thriller." -New York Times Book Review Seattle PD sex-crimes detective Livia Lone knows the monsters she hunts. Sold by her Thai parents along with her little sister, Nason; abused by the men who trafficked them; marooned in...

What do you do when your child disappears?'A hugely compelling story of loss, grief and vengeance, The Empty Room is probably the best novel yet by one of our finest mystery writers. Unmissable.' John Connolly'The tension and heartbreak kept me turning...

'Superior crime fiction set in Iceland' The Times'As chilling as an Icelandic winter' S. J. BoltonReykjavik detective Gunnhildur Gisladottir tries not to believe in ghosts. But when Helgi, one of her team is certain he's seen a man who had been declared...

The Pyramid of Mud is the twenty-second Inspector Montalbano mystery from Italy's finest crime writer, Andrea Camilleri.It's been raining for days in Vigata, and the persistent downpours have led to violent floods overtaking the Inspector's beloved...

'Engaging, gripping, addictive and completely unpredictable. An absolute must read. Ali Blood is an author to watch' NetGalley Reviewer, She's moved on Three years after her...

One Sunday morning in 1993 a 16-year-old girl named Eliza Claps goes missing from a church in the centre of Potenza, Italy. Shortly before her disappearance, Elisa had met Danilo Restivo, a strange local boy with a fetish for cutting women's hair on the...

For fans of Dan Brown's Origin and The Da Vinci Code, by the author of the award-winning, massive bestseller The Girl with All the Gifts, comes a thriller to keep you reading until dawn.Hidden in the Dead Sea scrolls - the secret of how Christ really...

In the summer of 1998, Walter Kirn - then a young novelist struggling with fatherhood and a dissolving marriage - set out on a peculiar, fateful errand: to personally deliver a crippled hunting dog from an animal shelter in Montana to the New York...

From the USA Today bestselling author of the international sensation Baby Teeth comes a claustrophobic psychological thriller about one woman's nightmarish spiral while quarantined with her mother. Grace isn't exactly thrilled when her newly widowed...

When Jim Qwilleran's friend Polly decides to spend two weeks on vacation with an old girlfriend in Oregon, he finds himself at a loose end. But not for long - a visit from Nick Bamba brings news of a hotbed of mystery. Nick and his wife, Lori, fear that...

TO ACHIEVE GREATNESS, HE MUST SACRIFICE EVERYTHING . . .Discover 2024's most original new thriller, a story of glamour, secrets and obsession . . .'GRABS YOU FROM THE OPENING LINE AND WON'T LET YOU GO' ALEX MICHAELIDES, AUTHOR OF THE SILENT PATIENT...

A journalist in nineteenth-century New York matches wits with a serial killer in a gripping thriller by the prizewinning author of the Ian Hamilton Mysteries. New York, 1880. Elizabeth van den Broek is the only female reporter at the Herald, the...

The Beauty of the End is a gripping psychological thriller from Debbie Howells, author of the bestselling Richard and Judy Book Club success, The Bones of You.I was fourteen when I fell in love with a goddess . . .A love he'd never forgetEx-lawyer Noah...

The hunt for the crowning stone of the Dalriadic kings, the Stone of Scone, has begun.'You could easily make a case that Andrew Greig has the greatest range of any living Scottish writer' - ScotsmanA motorcyclist with a stolen ring walks into...

Between the two World Wars, there was a dramatic upsurge of violence as rival criminal gangs vied for rich pickings from bookmakers at racetracks throughout England. With ready access to cash, 'bookies' were a magnet for mobsters' blackmailing demands...

Risk analyst James Axton lives in Athens and works across Greece and the Middle East, part of a community of American ex-pats that includes his estranged wife and child. Their peripatetic existence is interrupted when a horrific, unexplained murder on...

How were criminal children dealt with in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Over this hundred-year period, ideas about the way children should behave - and how they should be corrected when they misbehaved - changed dramatically, and Emma...

A ritual murder at a Mumbai temple exposes the city's dark secrets and ravages the personal life of a detective in this sequel to The Blue Bar. Amid incessant rains pounding down on Mumbai, Senior Inspector Arnav Singh Rajput is called to a shocking...

Virginia Barkeley is a nice, well brought-up girl. So what is she doing wandering through a snow storm in the middle of the night, blind drunk and covered in someone else's blood? When Claude Margolis' body is found a quarter of a mile away with...

'Martin Edwards is a true master of British crime writing' Richard Osman 'Highly recommended, with a touch of the gothic' Ann Cleeves How can you solve a murder before it's happened? 'This is my challenge for you,' the woman in white said. 'I want...

In the pines, in the pines, where the sun never shines and we shiver when the cold wind blows.For over a century, the murder ballad has held a prominent place in American roots music, although its origins lie in Britain and Scandinavia. These songs tell...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420154252Author Fern MichaelsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Zebra BooksPublisher Kensington PublishingWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 171mm *...

In The Blame Game, a psychologist becomes involved with a patient and each blame the other for what happens next. A dark, entertaining and suspenseful thriller from Sandie Jones, the author of The Other Woman and The Guilt Trip.'A brilliant page-turner'...

In a race down the Thames, Detective Chief Inspector John Kerr is caught in a fight ot the death with two gold smugglers. The American wife of the British Defence Secretary is brutally murdered while walking her dog. A senior judge is executed in Middle...

'Carpenter emerges as an addictive new talent' Helen FieldsCan you ever really know your neighbours?When human remains are found in a ground floor flat, the residents of Nelson Heights are shocked to learn that there was a dead body in their building for...

The brilliant opening novel of the Catesby series, by a former special forces officer and 'the thinking person's John le Carre' 'Edward Wilson seems poised to inherit the mantle of John le Carre' Irish Independent'More George Smiley than James Bond,...

Human Trafficking: A Comprehensive Exploration into Modern Day Slavery examines the legal, socio-cultural, historical, and political aspects of human trafficking and modern-day slavery. While most texts only cover sex trafficking and labor trafficking,...