Crime & Thrillers

*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*'The finest British spy fiction of the past 20 years' MetroSlough House is the Intelligence...

**Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers 2023****WINNER Crime Novel of the Year, Irish Book Awards 2023****SHORTLISTED for The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award**'Shocking, disturbing and utterly original - will grip you from first page...

THE BRAND NEW HEART-POUNDING GOTHIC THRILLER FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOREveryone believes that Lenora Hope is a mass murderer.When the Hope family was massacred decades ago, she was the only one left after that tragic night.Mute,...

'A MUST-READ for fans of dark fiction!' Readers First 'There's a new serial killer in town' Readers First Meet Kitty Collins. ...

THE HEART-STOPPING NEW NOVEL FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR GILLIAN MCALLISTERHow do you choose between right or wrong, family or justice when the crime is so close to home . . .'McAllister stunned me - and she will stun you too' Jodi Picoult...

Prepare to be hooked . . . A compulsive thriller from Lisa Jewell.* #1 UK SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ** OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD ** HOLLY WILLOUGHBY'S SUMMER READING HIGHLIGHT *'I read it all in one sitting.' Colleen Hoover'I loved The Family Upstairs!'...

PRE-ORDER PRECIPICE, THE THRILLING NEW NOVEL FROM ROBERT HARRIS, NOW - PUBLISHING AUGUST 2024A SUNDAY TIMES BEST PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR 2023'A belter of a thriller' THE TIMES'A master storyteller . . . an important book for our particular historical...

Discover the gripping new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door'The most addictive book I've read in ages...Just brilliant.' Lisa Jewell'Fast paced, tightly-plotted and with twists so well executed they floored me...

An unmissable thriller that readers are calling 'the best book ever' from the Sunday Times Number One bestselling author of Both Of You... Lost. Missing. Murdered? And both her husbands are...

'It leaves the reader gasping for breath' DAILY MAIL'This is Grisham delivering the kind of mesmeric narrative that we expect from him' FINANCIAL TIMES***THE BIGGEST GRISHAM IN OVER A DECADE***The Exchange is John Grisham's epic follow-up to his...

Longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger 2024'If you haven't read Kate Morton before, do yourself a favour' - Graham Norton, broadcaster and bestselling author of Home StretchA breathtaking mystery of love, lies and a cold case come back to life, Homecoming is...

'The Night She Disappeared is by far her best thriller yet.' HARLAN COBEN'Insane suspense. I loved it.' LEE CHILD'A gothic, multi-layered tale, deeply satisfying. We both loved it.' RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUBThe Night She Disappeared is UNBELIEVABLY good...

A TENSE PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER RIPPED STRAIGHT FROM THE HEADLINES . . .'I was thoroughly gripped. Expertly plotted with some major twists' 5***** Reader Review'A gripping psychological thriller that had me hooked from the first page' 5***** Reader Review...

Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho is one of the most controversial and talked-about novels of all time. A multi-million-copy bestseller hailed as a modern classic, it is a violent and outrageous black comedy about the darkest side of human nature.With...

Nina can never forgive Maggie for what she did. And she can never let her leave. They say every house has its secrets, and the house that Maggie and Nina have shared for so long is no different. Except that these secrets are not buried in the past. ...

***The 7th novel in the Strike series, THE RUNNING GRAVE, is coming in September 2023. Pre-order now and be the first to read it***'The Cuckoo's Calling reminds me why I fell in love with crime fiction in the first place' VAL MCDERMID-----Now a major BBC...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804362174Author Marion ToddFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Canelo CrimePublisher CaneloDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 21mm

YOUR NEIGHBOUR IS A KILLER . . . BUT WHICH ONE?The thrilling new 2023 Detective Jane Tennison crime novel from the Queen of Crime Drama - now available in paperback, eBook and audiobook._____________________Detective Inspector Jane Tennison was beginning...

Private investigator Elvis Cole and his enigmatic partner Joe Pike face a cryptic case and a terrifyingly unpredictable killer in this twisty, edge-of-your-seat thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Robert Crais. Traci Beller was only...

The grand master of gripping fiction is back. International No.1 bestseller Ken Follett returns to Kingsbridge in the 18th century, with an epic tale of revolution and a cast of unforgettable characters.Revolution is in the air1792. A tyrannical...

Discover the new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life after Life.Welcome to Rook Hall.The stage is set. The players are ready. By night’s end, a murderer will be revealed. Ex-detective Jackson Brodie is staving off...

In this mesmerising thriller from the bestselling author of Keep Her Secret, a family's fresh start is just the beginning of their nightmare...Ethan Dove's family has moved to a new home in a safe community, and it's exactly the fresh start they need...

DEEP DECEPTION. TWISTED FATE.'Move over morse' Val McDermid 'A superb series' Sunday TimesThames Valley has a new Superintendent - DSU Wainwright - young, charismatic and ruthless, charged with pushing through big reforms. Her in-tray is full of...

This Christmas, the hunters become the hunted... When four trail hunters go missing in the fells of Cumbria on Christmas Eve, the race is on to find them before nightfall - when the temperature plummets. ...

The unputdownable new rollercoaster read from Sunday Times bestseller Jeffrey Archer - one of the must read books of 2024! 'An absolute page-turner' reader review 'Impossible...

Brutally violent, Blood Meridian is the story of one teenage runaway in the nineteenth-century American South, as a sadistic gang unleashes its massacre across the desert land. It is the work that sealed Cormac McCarthy's reputation as one of the...

'A masterpiece' - Janice Hallett, bestselling author of The AppealLonglisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024Longlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger 2024Winner of the Bloody Scotland Crime Debut of the Year 2023Inspired by a real-life murder trial,...

'A whip-smart whodunnit, this will keep you guessing' Red 'A fast-paced thriller with clever twists' Bella Something bad happened last night. My best friend Posey is dead. The...

How can DI Clare Mackay uncover the facts if nothing is what it seems?DI Clare Mackay is called to Albany High, where the body of a girl has been found. A suspected suicide - yet Sophie Bakewell was by all accounts a cheerful, talented student. Could she...

A twisty psychological thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Housemaid and The Coworker!Some doors are locked for a reason...While eleven-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing...

A Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover comes a novel that explores life after tragedy and the enduring spirit of love. When Leeds meets Layla, he's convinced he'll spend the rest of...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE MULTIMILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SILENT PATIENT 'Infinitely thrilling and delicately crafted, the plot keeps everyone guessing until the very end, with an unscrupulous villain to...

'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_________________________________________FROM THE AUTHOR OF PIECES OF HER, NOW A...

An innocent man framed. A case closed. A serial killer free to kill again.It is 1985. Detective Inspector Mungo 'Bob' Willis is being forced out of Avon and Somerset Police on medical grounds. His career is in tatters, his body broken, his mind...

One toxic family. Eight suspicious guests. Everyone is guilty. But who is a killer? Welcome to the McAlpine Lodge: a secluded mountain getaway, it's the height of escapist luxury living. Except that everyone here is lying. Lying...

One toxic family. Eight suspicious guests. Everyone is guilty. But who is a killer? Welcome to the McAlpine Lodge: a secluded mountain getaway, it's the height of escapist luxury living. Except that everyone here is lying. Lying...

THE GRIPPING AND TWISTY THRILLER FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE COUPLE AT NO 9 AND THE GIRLS WHO DISAPPEARED'Thrillingly tense and twisty, a great read' B.A. PARIS, bestselling author of THE DILEMMA'If you loved Clare Mackintosh . . ...

Richard is a middle-aged Englishman who runs a B&B in the fictional Val de Follet in the Loire Valley. Nothing ever happens to Richard, and really that's the way he likes it. One day, however, one of his older guests disappears, leaving behind a...

Cloaked strangers and danger abound...Margery and Clementine Butcher-Baker are coming to the end of another busy half term as dinner ladies at Summerview Secondary school. The school is abuzz with chatter about the upcoming break, the local harvest...

Start right here! Discover the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries and become obsessed with one of the most popular crime series in Britain.'Galloway now seems as real as Marple and Morse' The Times'I've never before read a crime novel in which archaeology and...