Crime & Thrillers

INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OFFICIAL SECRETS FEATURING A NEW INTRODUCTION In January 2003, 28-year-old GCHQ translator Katharine Gun received an email from the US...

Tie-in to the major motion picture, released on 12th March 2010.US Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to find an escaped murderer named Rachel Solando.As a killer hurricane bears down...

'One of the most multi-layered policemen to have appeared in recent years.' - Mail on SundayDetective Inspector Harry Virdee has a lot on his plate. His team is facing government cuts, tensions are building between Bradford's two rival drugs gangs and...

AS FEATURED ON RICHARD & JUDY'S 'KEEP READING AND CARRY ON' 'This is one of his best' - The TimesJack Reacher is back in a brand new white-knuckle read from Lee Child.It's a random universe, but once in a blue moon things turn out just right.In a...

'Pure genius. Absolutely brilliant' Shari Lapena'A twisted thriller, reminiscent of Patricia Highsmith' Ian RankinIBA Crime Fiction Book of the Year Winner 2018___________WINNER of the Dead Good Books Award for the Book That You Can't Put Down!She's not...

A shocking reveal threatens to unravel Detective Superintendent Roy Grace's happy new life in Love You Dead, by award winning crime author Peter James.Grace is newly married, having moved to a country cottage with Cleo and their baby son. But his first,...

From the bestselling author of Come with Me, five collected novellas from the master of terror, featuring possession, parasites and something monstrous lurking outside... COME CLOSER... Five terrifying collected horror novellas newly reissued from...

Winner of the Anthony Award for Best Crime NovelWinner of the Macavity Award for Best Crime NovelWinner of the Agatha Award for Best Crime NovelThere is more to solving a crime than following the clues.Welcome to Chief Inspector Gamache's world of facts...

'One of the great novelists of all time' STEPHEN KING 'One of the finest thriller series in existence. Sandford is superb - in a class of his own' JOHN CONNOLLYLucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers team up to crack an unsolvable case in this thrilling new...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF RICHARD & JUDY THRILLER PICK NO ONE HOME**LONG-LISTED FOR THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER AWARD** Lynda drives to a secluded beauty spot on the Somerset coast.CCTV watches her arrive, but never sees...

Returning from a brief holiday, Juno Browne is relieved to find that no one has been murdered in the picturesque Dartmoor town of Ashburton while she was away. Though uncharitable friends suggest that the quiet was simply due to her absence. Just as...

Your client is innocent. Your wife is guilty.Who would you fight for?*'Quite simply, THE PLEA is one of the most purely entertaining books you'll read this year' John Connolly'A gripping thriller' Ian Rankin*When David Child, a major client of a corrupt...

'I don't date vampires. I kill them.'My name is Anita Blake. Vampires call me the Executioner. What I call them isn't repeatable. Ever since the Supreme Court granted the undead equal rights, most people think vampires are just ordinary folks with fangs...

The Sunday Times bestseller - a thrilling new adventure in Simon Scarrow's acclaimed Eagles of the Empire series. Perfect for readers of Conn Iggulden and Bernard Cornwell. READERS CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF SIMON SCARROW'S BOOKS!'I could not put it down' *****...

'You won't put this novel down until you've uncovered every last skeleton in the closet. I loved it ' Louise CandlishKieran Elliott's life changed forever on a single day when a reckless mistake led to devastating consequences. The guilt that haunts him...

'A great yarn - Shrager knows her food and she's cooked up a storm. . . Rosie can write and Prudence Bulstrode is here to stay.' Miriam Margolyes'Think bolshy Mrs Beeton meets Miss Marple, our rambunctious heroine, Prudence, hilariously stomps her way...

'Nobody does crime like James Ellroy . . . One of Ellroy's best works in years' Sunday Times'This is the master of darkness at his incomparable best - simply impossible to put down' Daily MailLos Angeles. August 4, 1962. The city broils through a...

AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICKA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Once you start reading, be prepared, because you won't want to stop.' -Oprah WinfreyNew York Times bestselling author Lara Love Hardin recounts her slide from soccer mom to opioid addict to jailhouse...

Could the child once accused of murder really be innocent?'So good . . . Ballantyne makes it look easy' NEW YORK TIMES'Beautifully told' DAILY MAIL'Thought-provoking and unsettling' ALEX GRAY'A breathless thriller' WOMAN'S OWN'Had me turning the pages...

'Gloriously dark, deliciously twisty' CLARE MACKINTOSH ONE FAMILY, TWO HOLIDAYS, ONE DEVASTATING SECRETTo new nanny Amanda, the Temple family seem to have it all: the former actress; the famous professor; their three successful grown-up children. But...

'A page-turning read' PENNY HANCOCK'Like Nicci French, Kate Rhodes excels at character, pace and sense of place.' ERIN KELLY'Quentin is one of a cast of really believable and entertaining characters and both the plot and the writing keep one thoroughly...

From No.1 bestselling author Andrew Taylor comes the sequel to the phenomenally successful The Ashes of London Over 1 Million Andrew Taylor Novels Sold! A time of terrible danger...The Great Fire has ravaged London. Now, guided by...

From the author of the acclaimed In My Dreams I Hold a Knife comes a pitch-black thriller about a woman determined to destroy a powerful cult and avenge the deaths of the women taken in by it, no matter the cost.While in college in upstate New York, Shay...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143038634Author Ryu MurakamiFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 177mm * 130mm *...

The brilliant crime thriller from the BAFTA-winning writer behind the TV series PRIME SUSPECT and author of WIDOWS, now a major motion picture 'Lynda La Plante practically invented the thriller' KARIN SLAUGHTERCan she play the game and win? Suspicion and...

Winner of the 2022 Edgar Award for Best Novel "War, imprisonment, torture, romance...The novel has an almost operatic symmetry, and Kestrel turns a beautiful phrase." -New York Times Five Decembers is a gripping thriller, a staggering portrait...

Secrets. Lies. Murder. Fame can be deadly. A British icon delivers a powerful blockbuster in an exhilarating thriller set in London's East End. 'Masterful' Susan Lewis 'Feels...

PRE-ORDER THE PAPERBACK EDITION OF DROWNING, THE THRILLING NEW BLOCKBUSTER BY T. J. NEWMAN. OUT JUNE 2024. 'Amazing . . . Intense suspense, shocks and scares plus chilling insider authenticity make this one very special' LEE CHILD 'FALLING is the best...

He's every woman's worst nightmare...THE LADYKILLER is the first book in the DI Kate Burrows series: the only time the 'undisputed queen of crime writing' (Guardian) and Sunday Times bestseller Martina Cole has written from the perspective of the Old...

**From the author of the 2023 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction winning Fire Weather**'An unbelievable tale, expertly told' Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain'A superb book ' Daily Mail * 'Masterful . . . mesmerising, rangy and...

From Sunday Times bestseller Nora Roberts - a tale of adventure, magic and finding your home Mists, shimmering silver fingers, rose over the pale green water of the lake. They twined and twisted toward a sky quietly grey, while in the east, over the...

Silent Voices is the fourth book in Ann Cleeves' Vera Stanhope series - which is now a major ITV detective drama starring Brenda Blethyn as Vera.No murder is ever simple . . .When DI Vera Stanhope finds the body of a woman in the sauna room of her local...

The revised edition of the searing investigation into the murder of Pope John Paul I that has sold more than 6 million copies.Only thirty-three days after his election, Pope John Paul I died in strange circumstances. Almost immediately rumours of a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993076114Author David PennyFormat PaperbackImprint River Tree PrintPublisher River Tree PrintWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 22mm

A perfect village. A perfect crime. When two young girls disappear from their primary school, the village of Heighington is put on high alert-and not for the first time. Called in to investigate, Detective Karen Hart is sure that parallels with a...

_______________________________________An edge-of-your-seat legal thriller from the undisputed master of the courtroom drama.Ray Atlee teaches law at the University of Virginia. His ailing father, Judge Atlee, was once a loved - and feared - titan,...

The scene is set for a huge funeral in St Patrick's Cathedral in New York. The rich and the famous from all over America - and beyond - have arrived to honour a former First Lady after her sudden, unexpected death. Then follows an attack that was three...

Christopher Berry-Dee, criminologist and bestselling author of books about the serial killers Aileen Wuornos and Joanne Dennehy, turns his uncompromising gaze upon women who not only kill, but kill repeatedly. Because female murderers, and especially...

'Vibrant, warm and often hilarious. An absolute delight' JANE FALLON'Read Nothing Left Unsaid in two greedy stints. It's a novel written with wit, righteous rage and compassion' NIGELLA LAWSON'A warm, touching and humorous hymn of praise to those she...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593632666Author Richard OsmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Random House Large PrintPublisher Diversified PublishingWeight(grams)...