Crime & Thrillers

By the time Richard Stark sat down to write "Deadly Edge" in 1971, he'd been chronicling the adventures of his antihero, Parker, for nearly a decade. But it turns out he was just warming up: the next three "Parker" novels would see Stark crank everything...

For over ten years he was first detective on the scene when a murder was committed in south London. In the confusion and horror of the crime scene he identified the forensic clues that would later be needed to convict the killer in the calm and measured...

The fourth instalment in Syd Moore's spooktacular witch detective series Halloween in Essex and the Mystery and Suspense creative writing course at old Ratchette Hall is off to a satisfyingly creepy start. But things take a turn for the worse when the...

*Don't miss The Stranger in Our Bed... Now a major motion picture starring Samantha Bond, Emily Berrington and Ben Lloyd-Hughes* 'One of the deadliest female assassins I've ever encountered in fiction'...

The seventh novel in the V.I. Warhawski crime series, set in Chicago, from prize-winning author Sara Paretsky.V.I. Warshawski's Chicago neighbourhood is prospering. As it's out with the old and in with the new, long-term residents like elderly Hattie...

The tale of murder and revenge set on a remote oil rig, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense. SEAWITCH The massive oil-rig is the hub of a great empire, the pride of its billionaire owner. ...

An astonishing read -- full of corruption, greed, strong drink and stronger language -- that reveals the rotten heart of the global economy - Oliver Bullough, author of MoneylandCrackles along ... they deserve credit for exposing the dark underbelly of...

'The Circle meets Black Mirror in a thrilling, plausible and gripping debut. Frighteningly inventive.' John Marrs, bestselling author of The One 'Wow wow wow! What a story that was!... An unputdownable...

A brilliant new stand-alone crime thriller from Scotland's Crime MasterXavier (Xavi) Aislado is a gentle giant, half Spanish, half Scot, brought up in Edinburgh by his grandmother, Paloma Puig, a ferocious old lady whose grim brand of care sees him into...

FIRST RULE: Don't lose your concentration. Electra McDonnell and her family earn their living outside the law. Breaking into the homes of the rich and picking the locks on their safes may not be condoned by British law enforcement, but with World War...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250065858Author Ronald H BalsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 382gDimensions(mm) 209mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988843318Author Jeff MenapaceFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Mind Mess PressPublisher Mind Mess PressWeight(grams) 503gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804180306Author Karin SlaughterFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Dell Publishing Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

A dazzling mixture of crime, romance, magic and myth from the author of the bestselling The Psychology of Time Travel. The Kendricks have been making world-famous dolls for over 200 years. But their dolls aren't coveted for the craftmanship alone. Each...

A must-read mystery from the No. 1 bestselling author behind HBO's award-winning TRUE BLOOD series!A Lily Bard Mystery: 1Welcome to Shakespeare, Arkansas.Lily Bard came to the small town of Shakespeare to escape her dark and violent past. So when she...

A remote village. A deadly secret. An outsider who knows the truth... 'ATMOSPHERIC AND COMPELLING' CATHERINE COOPER 'ENGROSSING, EVOCATIVE AND CHILLING' C. J. TUDOR ...

'Tremendous. Tight plotting and strong writing carries the narrative along to a chilling conclusion' HARRIET TYCE, AUTHOR OF BLOOD ORANGEA STUNNING NEW PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER, FROM THE AUTHOR OF CLOSE TO ME AND LYING TO YOUEvery marriage has its problems...

'ONE NIGHT, NEW YORK transports the reader to the glitter and the danger of old New York. A page-turner with style.' ERIN KELLY'ENTHRALLING' THE TIMES, BEST NEW HISTORICAL FICTIONA THRILLING DEBUT NOVEL OF CORRUPTION AND MURDER, SET IN THE NIGHTCLUBS,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593547502Author Rachel Koller CroftFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

When a high-level mole with power to rewrite world order infiltrates the CIA, Rapp must uncover a threat like no other. After a blackout swept the nation, America is resuming life as normal with a new president, one unlike any Mitch Rapp has worked with...

Official, original James Bond from a writer described by Len Deighton as a 'master storyteller'.Two female agents of Operation Cream Cake - double agents and honey traps against the KGB - are murdered. Bond must find the others and conduct them to safety...

'Verve and charm in abundance'Andrew Caldecott, author of Rotherweird'Sunder City [is] an evocative creation, it has echoes of Ankh-Morpork, but also a broken melancholy all of its own'SFXI'm Fetch Phillips, just like it says on the window. There are...

New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry's nineteenth heart-warming Christmas novella.Gracie Tellman is preparing for Christmas with her husband and three young children when Millie Foster calls upon her. As a maid at Harcourt House, Millie is...

THE GRIPPING LOCKED-ROOM DYSTOPIAN THRILLER FOR FANS OF EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL AND ANDREW HUNTER MURRAY'A testament to the power of the written word' THE TIMES 'Unsettling and thought-provoking' CLARE MACKINTOSH ____________ This isn't the world you know...

From the bestselling author of What Have You Done comes a real whodunit about the bloody crimes that keep families together and tear them apart. Eighteen-year-old Jenny Moore is looking forward to a fresh start at college. There's just one problem:...

The classic tale of suspense set in Provence, where an English tourist investigates a series of mysterious deaths, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense. From all over Europe, even from behind the Iron Curtain, gypsies make an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641292580Author Cara BlackFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Soho PressPublisher Soho Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628729917Author Hye-Young PyunFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

STAR PICK IN THE SUNDAY TIMES CRIME CLUBWINNER OF THE CWA JOHN CREASEY NEW BLOOD DAGGER, FROM THE AUTHOR OF WHEN GHOSTS COME HOME'Bold, daring, graceful and engrossing.' BOBBIE ANN MASON____________They said Pastor Chamblis was a good man.They said he...

Why did he survive? An assassin guns down the justices as they are hearing a case in the U.S. Supreme Court. Solicitor General Jefferson McKenna, the government's top lawyer, is appointed to the multi agency commission investigating the murders. As...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399594359Author Andrew GrantFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc

It is the spring of 1895, and more than a decade of combating eldritch entities has cost Dr John Watson his beloved wife Mary, and nearly broken the health of Sherlock Holmes. Yet the companions do not hesitate when they are called to the infamous Bedlam...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250043207Author Ben CoesFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint St. Martin's PressPublisher St. Martin's PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 188mm *...

Crete, May 1941. Against all odds the Everards must survive a relentless Luftwaffe assault.The situation is dire for British forces in the Mediterranean. Their ships, with no air cover, have to run the gauntlet of 2,000 German bombers; and can only lick...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538703939Author James PattersonFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639104819Author Laura Gail BlackFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Crooked Lane BooksPublisher Crooked Lane Books

A century-old mystery - and a desperate battle to survive. Abandon is a compulsive standalone thriller from Blake Crouch, the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and Recursion.On Christmas Day in 1893, every man, woman, and child in a remote...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Agatha Awards (Best Contemporary Novel) 2022.Book InformationISBN 9781250145291Author Louise PennyFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher...

'A hilariously funny and bonkers book which I thoroughly enjoyed' ANNE GLENCONNER'A witty, waspy, parody that hits its targets - hilarious' HELEN LEDERERThe next in Daisy Waugh's hilarious Tode Hall series: a gloriously witty tale of toffs, terror and...

In this newest entry in the New York Times bestselling series by Tasha Alexander, Lady Emily Hargreaves travels to the south of France where an apparent suicide may be something far more sinister. Emily and husband Colin have come to the French Riviera...