Crime & Thrillers

'A gripping, beautifully written novel that I devoured in a day...as thrilling as it is fascinating' Hannah Kent, author of Burial RitesSweden 1856.Blackasen Mountain: a distant place of rumour, superstition and now - murder.They say it was the Lapp who...

A terrifying ghost story by the bestselling author of The Woman in Black. Late one summer evening, antiquarian bookseller Adam Snow is returning from a client visit when he takes a wrong turn. He stumbles across a derelict Edwardian house and, compelled...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781448312818Author Alys ClareFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 320gDimensions(mm) 222mm * 147mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425283530Author Rhys BowenFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat' Stephen King Mordocks's cave is one of the wonders of the world: a place where, every year, thousands of sightseers go deep beneath the earth's surface to marvel at Nature's handiwork. But it's also home...

Luke, Connor, Thea and Violet spend their first holiday together alone in their father's house in France. The boys don't really know him - he left their mother when she was still pregnant with Connor, getting together with the girls' mother soon...

An investigative journalist on the edge. A serial killer testing his limits. What they have in common can freeze the blood. Still reeling from a personal tragedy, investigative journalist Rooker Lindstroem finds a grim hideaway from the world. It's...

'Gripping and elegant... brings readers into the interior of the twentieth century's most infamous crime' Nina de Gramont, author of The Christie Affair'The kind of book that shows the difference between a psychological thriller and any old thriller... a...

Prize-winning crime author Steve Hamilton's hugely commercial mainstream breakout tells the extraordinary story of a safe-cracker trying to unlock the key to his past.Michael hit the headlines once before, a seven-year-old kid the papers called The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425217566Author Dick FrancisFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint G P Putnam's SonsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 188mm *...

A locked room. A mysterious death. Just another gig for the Dizzy Heights. When London's finest jazz musicians, the Dizzy Heights, are booked to play the glitzy Midsummer Ball at a country house in Oxfordshire, they expect a weekend filled with...

On February 25, 1957, the nude, badly bruised body of a young boy was found in a cardboard box in trash-strewn woods of north Philadelphia. Posters of the "Boy in the Box" soon dotted the city and police stations nationwide-to no avail. In November 1998...

'Fast, tense, thrilling - and timely: this will happen one day. Highly recommended' LEE CHILD 'A dazzling debut' Marcel Berlins, The Times THE TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH THE GLOBAL MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER***************************************Tomorrow...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914537073Author M S MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 394Imprint Landmark MediaPublisher Landmark MediaWeight(grams) 576gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

SHALLOW GRAVE: The Old Rectory is the kind of house Detective Inspector Bill Slider would give anything to own. But the dead body of Jennifer Andrews, found in a hole on the terrace, rather spoils the view. It looks like a straightforward case: Jennifer...

"Old-school creepy. . . a five-star horror novel." STEPHEN KING A mind-bending speculative thriller in which the sudden appearance of a mountain in the middle of the Pacific Ocean leads a group of scientists to a series of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345483959Author Lorenzo CarcaterraFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Set in the bleak environments of London's homeless community, The Echo is the mystery thriller from crime queen Minette Walters. It was the smell that Mrs Powell noticed first. Slightly sweet. Slightly unpleasant . . . It shocked her badly to find a dead...

'Spectacular' Lee Child'One of the very best crime writers we have' Mark BillinghamSometimes helping a stranger is the last thing you should do . . .The Cornish village of St Petroc is the sort of place where people come to hide. Tom Killgannon is one...

Gayla's only hope is about to turn into her worst nightmareTricked into coming to Ireland with the offer of a good job, all Gayla wants to do now is run. As far and as fast as she can. Because her captors are close behind her, and they want her dead - no...

Kimihiko Kimizuka has survived the battle with Seed, but not without heavy casualties. Natsunagi is dead, Charlie is in critical condition, and Yui has been taken captive. Kimihiko is lost in despair, but Siesta appears before him to pull him back into...

Return to the world of Little Brother and Homeland. Attack Surface takes us five minutes into the future, to a world where everything is connected and everyone is vulnerable. Masha Maximow has made some bad choices in life - choices that hurt...

Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month, one of The Times Best Crime Novels of 2021, The Sunday Times Crime Club Book of the Week and one of the Observers thrillers of the month!'Riveting . . . Shindler's second novel displays an acute understanding of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496732545Author Andrea PenroseFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

'It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.'Sherlock Holmes, scourge of criminals everywhere, whether they be lurking in London's foggy backstreets or plotting behind...

She died. You're next. Now he's coming for you Ten years ago, Jen's cousin Meg killed herself after failing to escape an abusive relationship. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804178723Author Susan Elia MacNealFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, IncPublisher Random House USA...

They say the girls were witches. But Beatrice Scarlet, the apothecary's daughter, is sure they were innocent victims... London, 1758: Beatrice Scarlet, the apothecary's daughter, has found a position at St Mary Magdalene's Refuge for fallen women...

Line of Duty holds its status as the defining TV crime drama of today. The conspiracy theme of the series chimes at a time when public institutions and representatives are distrusted. Ted Hastings, the show's head of anti-corruption, has emerged as...

*Winner of the 2017 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel*New York Times bestselling author Christopher Golden's writing is 'the real deal' (Stephen King) and this heart-pounding supernatural thriller will thrill and fascinate in equal measure. 'Golden puts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955318504Author Michael J. ThextonFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Lanista Partners LtdPublisher Lanista Partners Ltd

Ritual murder. Archaic clues. A visionary killer. In this heart-stopping novel by the Wall Street Journal and Amazon Charts bestselling author of the Sydney Rose Parnell series, words can kill. On the muddy banks of the Calumet River, a body has been...

The new novel in the acclaimed alternate history vampire series from Kim Newman. "Compulsory reading... glorious" Neil Gaiman on Anno Dracula THE NEW MILLENNIUM... Vampire princess Christina Light is throwing a New Year's Eve party in Daikaiju...

In these three stories, the Saint finds himself embroiled in further plots and facing new enemies. The Inland Revenue sees him up against the most unyielding opponent ever - the taxman. In The Million Pound Scandal, a good deed leads Simon to uncover a...

The explosive debut thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Break Point and former Special Forces team leader, Ollie Ollerton. Ex-Special Forces soldier Alex Abbott escaped the Middle East under a cloud and now lives hand-to-mouth in...

'A tantalising mystery... a mesmerising work of literature' Antony Beevor 'Truly troubling, a weird meditation on death, war and sex' Paris Review A superb early postmodern classic by one of Nabokov's fellow emigre writers, rediscovered after more...

'A fast-paced who-done-what' SAGA MagazineA government minister has vanished into thin air. The local police in the isolated island of Crete have no leads, save for a mobile phone discarded on a cliff edge. Assistant Commissioner Louise Mangan of the Met...

In the stunning title story 'Strange Highways', a failed author returns to his hometown after many years to attend his father's funeral, only to find himself suddenly and inexplicably thrust back through time to relive a traumatic event from his past...

The accident. The lie. The fallout will be huge . . . When Liza's little boy has an accident at the local health club, it's all anyone can talk about. ...

'It is almost impossible to put down' - Lisa Tuttle, GUARDIAN'A stonking great slice of American folk horror: modern trauma layered with ancient evil' - DAILY MAILThe ranch was our dream home. Nestled in the arms of a valley below the Teton mountains,...