Crime & Thrillers

Financial crime seems horribly complicated but there are only so many ways you can con someone out of what's theirs. In fact, there are four. A veteran regulatory economist and market analyst, Dan Davies has years of experience picking the bones out of...

"Erin E. Adams makes me proud to be a psychological thriller writer...a beautifully written page turner that you will not be able to put down." Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl "A heady, page-turning, all-too-relevant reinvention of the...

'Crichton's most compulsive novel' Sunday Telegraph'Crichton's dinosaurs are genuinely frightening' Chicago Sun-Times'Breathtaking adventure. . . a book that is as hard to put down as it is to forget' Time Out-------------------------------On a remote...

The compulsive thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Everything but the Truth and Anything You Do Say. You'd trust your sister with your life. But should you?'An exceptional thriller with a thumping, emotional heart' HEAT'Addictive,...

The thrilling new novel from the acclaimed author of Murder on Mustique, based on the childhood described in her international bestseller Lady in Waiting.January 1950. Lady Anne Coke, daughter of the 5th Earl of Leicester, is in Scunthorpe on a business...

One suspicious death. Two amateur sleuths. And an utterly impossible crime... The NUMBER ONE ebook bestseller! 'Amuses and intrigues in equal measure... a splendid start to what promises to be a...

Three-times winner of the CWA International Dagger for Crime FictionCommissaire Adamsberg has left Paris for a police conference in London, accompanied by anglophile Commandant Danglard and Estalere, a young sergeant. The city offers a welcome change of...

'Blazes with pace and wit - Crilley has produced a real page turner' Ed McDonald, author of BLACKWINGPerfect for fans of Ben Aaronovitch and Jim Butcher. The name's Gideon Tau, but everyone just calls me London. I work for the Delphic Division, the...

No one in Lochdubh expects Dorothy to stay for long...She is, after all, entirely unsuitable. She's an uptown girl, used to a fancy lifestyle in the big city of Glasgow. She'll never fit in. And how is that work-shy rogue Hamish Macbeth supposed to get...

Bestselling phenomenon Simon McCleave is back with a gripping, atmospheric new crime thriller series set on the Isle of Anglesey. Will there be blood in the water? Three years ago,...

The third book in the classic Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s - the novels that shaped the future of Scandinavian crime writing. Hugely acclaimed, the Martin Beck series were the original Scandinavian crime novels and have inspired...

'Another dark parable of society's vilification of women. Intelligent... A tantalizing investigation' Kate Colquhoun. On the night of 3 October 1922, in the quiet suburb of Ilford, Edith Thompson and her husband Percy were walking home after an...

'Opens with a terrific hook' IRISH TIMES'Absolutely absorbing' SAM BLAKE'A chilling, magical read' PATRICIA GIBNEY'Breathtakingly paced' S. A. DUNPHY'Truly gripping' SINEAD CROWLEYTHE DEAD WON'T STAY SILENT FOREVER...It's a crisp spring morning when...

Hot young British film star Amanda Delany had the world at her feet. She'd had a string of affairs with famous actors, making perfect fodder for the tabloids. Then came a commission to write a tell-all memoir. When Amanda is found brutally murdered, DCI...

"I still have whiplash from this book""I. Am. Speechless. This book is RELENTLESS. Page after page of twists and turns.""WOW!! Twisty and super fast-paced.""Easily the best book I've read all year.'Real readers love The Last Word. If you give this book a...

The BRAND NEW psychological thriller from #1 bestseller Rona HalsallHe killed my husband. Now I've promised to be his wife.After my first husband died, I thought my heart was completely broken, and that I'd never feel happy again.Until I met Theo. He's a...

*Discover The Secret Hours, the gripping new thriller from Mick Herron and an unmissable read for Slough House fans**Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman*'A terrific spy novel' Ian RankinTwenty years retired from the Intelligence Service, David...

The Vinyl Detective plunges into the world of electronic dance music in his seventh adventure. Expect laughs, LPs, cats and the return of fan favourites, Nevada, Tinkler, Stinky Stanmer and more. The Vinyl Detective enters the fraught and frenzied...

THE GRIPPING DI HELEN GRACE THRILLER BY THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR M. J. ARLIDGE'Nailbiting . . . full of twists and turns' 5***** READER REVIEW'The writing grabs you and pulls you straight into an action-packed read' 5***** READER REVIEW'Read...

An edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller from the acclaimed author of Every Line of You - A Good Girl's Guide to Murder meets virtual reality ... 'This dark, dystopian thriller is genuinely disturbing and the...

`A fast-paced, terrifying journey.' RACHEL ABBOTT `A born storyteller.' PETER JAMES A stranger is just a killer you haven't met yet... The SUNDAY TIMES bestseller returns with the next big thing to hit the shelves. If you haven't discovered Paul Finch...

The gripping thriller with a difference from Lisa Stone Have you seen Leila? 8-year-old Leila Smith has seen and heard things that no child should ever have to. On the Hawthorn Estate, where she lives, she often stays out after dark...

What secrets lie in the past? Fifteen years ago, during the Great War, Louise Leidner's first husband was tried as a spy, sentenced to death, and then escaped, only to die in a train crash. So how is he sending her death...

There is no client as scary as an innocent man...Mickey is a Lincoln Lawyer - a criminal defence attorney operating out of the back of his car, a Lincoln - taking whatever cases the system throws at him. He's been a defence lawyer for a long time, and he...

'One of the boldest thriller writers working today' TESS GERRITSEN'Her characters, plot, and pacing are unrivalled' MICHAEL CONNELLY_________________________________________The fifth book in Karin Slaughter's #1 bestselling GRANT COUNTY series.Deep in...

CLASSIC GOLDEN AGE MYSTERY, PERFECT FOR FANS OF AGATHA CHRISTIEWhen a blackmailer is stabbed at his own celebration, Miss Silver must find the guilty party'Ranks with the best of the golden-age detectives' Daily MailWhen the menacing Gregory Porlock...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803143569Author Shalini BolandFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint BookouturePublisher BookoutureWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 15mm

THE NINTH NOVEL IN THE MULTIMILLION-COPY BESTSELLING ADAM DALGLIESH SERIES FROM THE 'QUEEN OF ENGLISH CRIME' (Guardian) 'Outstanding . . . A book to escape into, delighting in the sense that you are in safe hands, no matter how unsafe the subject.'...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Incredibly thought-provoking SunAfter years of cruel bullying from his classmates, Peter Houghton snaps one morning, and in nineteen minutes, ten residents of the town of Sterling are dead. When the case goes to trial, the...

Edinburgh's toughest cop, Bob Skinner, looks into his past to assuage his demons in Quintin Jardine's thrilling new mystery.Skinner revisits his nightmares: old but not forgotten. Fifteen years in the past, newly promoted Detective Superintendent Bob...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us: there have been many circulations of the sap before we detect...

No wonder she's been crowned Queen of Cosy Crime' Mail on SundayAgatha Raisin has never been one for enforced holiday cheer, but her friendly little village of Carsely has always prided itself on its traditional Christmas festivities. But this year the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250311597Author F Paul WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm)...

New York, 1929, a city of speakeasies, swells and hoodlums at the fag end of the roaring twenties. It's a hell of a time and place for a young cop to be trying to make his way in the world.Joe Quinn's first case is one that could put his name up in...

[Leon's] portrait of Venice and modern Italy is, as always, captivating...The lively conversations between...characters, displaying Leon's sly humour, are a delight. Evening StandardA Kirkus Reviews Best Mystery 2011A Pacific Northwest Booksellers...

'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray 'Try to imagine a guest, a wealthy woman, staying at the Majestic with her husband, her son, a nurse and a governess . . . In a suite that costs more than a thousand francs a day . . . At six in the...

'A captivating read.' Mel Sherratt 'She trusted the man she loved. It was the most dangerous thing she had ever done ...' No one can touch Del Williams - the hardest gangster in Soho. He's got the monopoly...

___________________________________The third 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.A...

Some cases aren't as cold as you'd thinkKurt Wallander's life looks like it has taken a turn for the better when his offer on a new house is accepted, only for him to uncover something unexpected in the garden - the skeleton of a middle-aged woman. As...

PRE-ORDER THE PERFECT STOCKING STUFFER 'Delicious . . . The twist will make you rethink everything.' New York Times Book Review'Funny, clever and gripping ... with twists that will blow you away.' Irish IndependentWhen Ashley Smith - a bright-eyed but...