Crime & Thrillers

This is the story of the defeats and triumphs of three Irish families.It is a powerful and stirring look at love and hate, both personal and political.Told through the simple lives of its people, this is an epic history of Ireland. From the famine of the...

_________________________THE LEGENDARY THRILLER THAT CREATED DR HANNIBAL LECTERWill Graham was a brilliant profiler of criminals for the FBI - until he suffered terrible injuries in the process of capturing Dr Hannibal 'the Cannibal' Lecter.Years later,...

Rusty Sabich is a prosecuting lawyer in Chicago who enters a nightmare world when Carolyn, a beautiful attorney with whom he has been having an affair, is found raped and strangled. He stands accused of the crime.This 'insider' book by a Chicago lawyer...

'A superb book... Joey's story is extraordinary and its authenticity and relevance to the times we're living in is stunning' Eamon Dunphy'Gritty, terrifying and the most incredible true gangland story you will ever read. The Witness is hard to put down...

The gripping new Ben Hope thriller from the Sunday Times bestseller. THEY THOUGHT HE WAS AN EASY TARGET. THEY THOUGHT WRONG. It's a snowy, peaceful Christmas at Le Val, the rural...

FEATURED IN THE TIMES TOP 100 CRIME NOVELS SINCE 1945SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SERIES 'An intelligent, provocative whodunit with a killer twist' IAN RANKIN ____________ A body is found off the coast of Iceland.A cursory police investigation calls it...

Eve wasn't sure what it said about her that she was more comfortable in the morgue than a baby boutique. And she didn't care. The scent of death was the familiar.Rushing to the murder scenes of a tortured young woman, Eve is far more at home than when...

Discover the heartstopping fourth instalment in the Lorien Legacies series by Pittacus Lore, the bestselling author of I AM NUMBER FOUR'Exhilarating . . . Each book grows more and more cataclysmic and heroic' 5***** Reader Review'This series is...

Madeline and her twin brother Roderick have the Usher name, the Usher house - and the Usher disease. Something is wrong with the family's blood - and it seems to have spread to the house itself. Sometimes Madeline even thinks that the house is alive.....

'I'd follow her anywhere' GILLIAN FLYNN'One of the boldest thriller writers working today' TESS GERRITSEN'Her characters, plot, and pacing are unrivalled' MICHAEL CONNELLY_________________________________________Watch Will Trent on Disney+ The eighth...

TRAITORS OF ROME: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERAn enthralling Cato and Macro adventure from bestselling author Simon Scarrow. Not to be missed by readers of Conn Iggulden and Bernard Cornwell. AD 56. Battle-hardened veterans of the Roman army Tribune Cato...

A dentist lies murdered at his Harley Street practice... The dentist was found with a blackened hole below his right temple. A pistol lay on the floor near his outflung right hand. Later, one of his patients was found dead from a lethal dose...

Kosuke Kindaichi arrives on the remote Gokumon Island bearing tragic news - the son of one of the island's most important families has died, on a troop transport ship bringing him back home after the Second World War. But Kindaichi has not come merely as...

'Feels incredibly modern... it is brutal, frank about sex and violence, and will make your flesh creep' Ian RankinA brilliant new translation of Simenon's critically acclaimed masterpiece.'And always the dirty snow, the heaps of snow that look rotten,...

Who is the hunter and who is the prey? A cruel bully A troubled daughter A desperate mother A body in the woods But who is the hunter and who is the prey? When a shocking crime takes place in a close-knit community, it exposes secrets and conflicts and...

Don't miss the new, devastatingly good thriller from Helen Fields, The Institution. Coming March 2023 - available to pre-order now! 'Relentless pace, devilish cleverness and a laser-sharp focus on plot.'...

** SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA'S ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION **In 1985, Peter Everett landed the job as Superintendent of Southwark Mortuary. In just six years he'd gone from lowly assistant to running the UK's busiest murder morgue. He couldn't...

Amy's found another body in a hotel bedroom. There's a funny smell coming from one of Jim's storage units. And Kate's losing it after spending all day with the police. There's no going back after what they've seen. Breathing Corpses was first...

'Dark, compelling, beautifully written'Andrew Michael HurleyIn this eerie, atmospheric and mysterious tale, a woman returns to the house in Morecambe Bay where she grew up in the 1960s to find it falling apart, undermined by the roots of two huge...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915747082Author Helen GoldenFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Drew Bradley PressPublisher Drew Bradley PressWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Afraid of the dark? You should be ... Part horror, part psychological nightmare, The Deep by Nick Cutter is a novel fans of Stephen King and Clive Barker won't want to miss.A plague is destroying the world's population. The 'Gets makes people forget...

The remarkable and shocking true account of the kidnap of Natascha Kampusch in 1998, who shares her deeply moving story. On 2 March 1998 ten-year-old Natascha Kampusch was snatched off the street by a stranger and bundled into a white van. When she...

A disturbing discovery is made in a Glasgow cemetery in Easy Kill, the fifth novel in Lin Anderson's forensic crime series featuring Rhona MacLeod.A vulnerable young woman has been brutally slain and left on a grave in Glasgow's sprawling cemetery, the...

Ex-CIA master assassin Court Gentry has always prided himself on his ability to disappear at will, to fly below the radar and exist in the shadows - to survive as the near-mythical Gray Man. But when he takes revenge upon a former employer who betrayed...

When an American war correspondent's murder is concealed by British authorities, Maisie Dobbs agrees to work with an agent of the US Department of Justice to help an old friend discover the truth. With German bombs raining down on London, Maisie is torn...

DISCOVER THE GRIPPING NO. 1 BESTSELLER BEHIND THE AWARD WINNING HBO SENSATION STARRING REESE WITHERSPOON, NICOLE KIDMAN & MERYL STREEP________Perfect families, perfect houses, perfect lives.Three mothers, Jane, Madeline and Celeste appear to have it all,...

The best-selling crime series continues in this strikingly-designed new edition from Image. Criminal Volume 2: Lawless - A story of brotherly love and hate, as Tracy Lawless finally returns home to find out who murdered his kid brother, and how much...

`Gripping' - IAN RANKIN; The RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK that sends pulses pounding, Marked for Death will grip fans of David Baldacci and Peter James until the very last page.; A deadly secret. A chilling game. A past you can't escape.; When...

*** THE SMASH HIT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER *** *** THE GENRE-BUSTING RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK *** *** A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2023 *** *** A TELEGRAPH BEST SUMMER BOOK 2023 *** 'The queen of tricksy crime' - SUNDAY TIMES 'Her best so far' -...

A deadly plague is spreading across the land...__________________As the year 1349 approaches, the Black Death continues its devastating course across England. In Dorseteshire, the quarantined people of Develish question whether they are the only...

IN 12 YEARS, MICHELLE LYONS WITNESSED NEARLY 300 EXECUTIONS.As a reporter and then spokesperson for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Michelle was a frequent visitor to Huntsville's Walls Unit, where she recorded the final moments of death row...

THE BREATHTAKINGLY TWISTY 2022 RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK _______________________________________I'd do anything for my friends - even murder...Georgie, Lissa and Bronwyn have been best friends since they met on their college swimming team. Now...

From bestselling horror author and queen of gothic mysteries Darcy Coates comes a chilling story about the shadows of dead things-and how they haunt the living. How long could you survive?As the daughter of spiritualists, Mara's childhood was filled with...

On a perfect Spring morning at Windsor Castle, Queen Elizabeth II will enjoy a cup of tea, carry out all her royal duties . . . and solve a murder.The perfect book for fans of The Crown and The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman.'Like an episode of...

A comfortable, solid, middle-American town - inhabited by a serial killer...Children are disappearing, lost to the world, horrifically murdered. The best clue the detectives have - a serial killer from a century ago. Jack Sawyer, retired from the LAPD...

'Are you listening, outside world? I'm coming back. Are you listening?' For twelve long years Rachel Beckett has been in prison for the murder of her husband, Martin. A murder she swears she did not commit. For twelve long years she has been denied the...

This book gathers together the stories of the 123 prisoners who were executed at Gloucester between 1792, when the first prisoner was hanged on the roof over the entrance gate of the newly-built prison, and 1939, when the last convict was executed within...

The smell grew riper, thicker. She began to breathe through her teeth. She'd smelled violent death too many times to mistake it.'When New York homicide lieutenant Eve Dallas makes the gruesome discovery of a mutilated and dismembered body, the hunt is on...

'A dark page-turning debut of friendship, deceit and lies' Woman & Home'A compelling page-turner which kept me reading well into the night' Jane Corry, author of My Husband's WifeYOU TRUSTED YOUR BEST FRIEND . . . YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE.Vicky Seagrave is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887240473Author Steve NilesFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Idea & Design WorksPublisher Idea & Design WorksWeight(grams) 1308gDimensions(mm) 267mm *...