Crime & Thrillers

In this thrilling novel from bestselling author John Marrs, a young couple's house hides terrible secrets-and not all of them are confined to the past. Mia and Finn are busy turning a derelict house into their dream home when Mia unexpectedly falls...

'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,...

WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2019 A BARACK OBAMA BEST BOOK OF 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION 2019 TIME's #1 Best Nonfiction Book of 2019 A NEW YORK TIMES...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914537288Author M S MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Landmark MediaPublisher Landmark Media

THE SHOCKING TRUE STORY BEHIND THE HIT TV DRAMA THREE GIRLS When detective Maggie Oliver first discovered that children as young as 10 were being groomed, abused and trafficked for sex by gangs of men in the Rochdale area, she felt like a lonely voice...

The gripping new Jack Reacher thriller from the No.1 bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child.When your name is Jack Reacher, the truth is always worth doing time for.Gerrardsville, Colorado. One tragic event. Two witnesses. Two conflicting...

"Consistently pulse-raising. . .an exhilarating ride. . .Personal wrests back the sheer gusto of the earlier novels; it's the best Reacher adventure in some considerable time." (Independent) Jack Reacher walks alone. Once a go-to hard man in the US...

KAREN PIRIE RETURNS. A MASTERFUL THRILLER BY THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER VAL MCDERMID__________Edinburgh, haunted by the ghosts of its many writers, is also the cold case beat of DCI Karen Pirie. So she shouldn't be surprised when an author's...

Following John Grisham's international bestsellers, Camino Island and Camino Winds, Camino Ghosts is the story of an island off the Florida coast with a haunted, violent history and an uncertain future.Dark Isle off the Florida coast is said to be...

***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 NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, JULY 2023'A superlative piece of crime fiction' SUNDAY TIMES'There can be no...

*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 INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***THE TIMES THRILLER BOOK OF THE YEAR*****WINNER OF THE...

'A DELICIOUSLY DARK STORY OF MURDER AND SECRETS' CLAIRE DOUGLASYou can run away from your life. But you can't run away from murder.When her family tragedy is splashed across the newspapers, Nancy decides to disappear. Her grandmother's beautiful Regency...

The gripping new thriller with a difference from internationally bestselling author Lisa Stone An isolated cottage...After losing her job and boyfriend, Jan Hamlin is in desperate need of a fresh start. So she jumps at the chance to rent a...

From Sunday Times bestselling author Freida McFadden comes a dark, twisting thriller about a group of friends lost in the woods: one by one, they each will fall, and only the killer will return home alive...A night spent sleeping on dirt and leaves is...

'An alluring, immersive Gothic mystery from an impressively talented writer.... A simmering, splendid novel' Jennifer SaintThere's something devilish going on in the quiet Welsh village of Penhelyg. Will the shadow key unlock its dark secrets?After a...

THE SUNDAY TIMES bestseller, as seen on BBC 2's BETWEEN THE COVERS A WATERSTONES THRILLER BOOK OF THE MONTH NOMINATED FOR FOUR MAJOR AWARDS Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year Capital Crime Book of the Year 2023 Crime Writers' Association ILP John...

THE BIGGEST NETFLIX SHOW OF 2024 STARRING MICHELLE KEEGAN, JOANNA LUMLEY AND RICHARD ARMITAGE.READ THE BOOK THAT STARTED IT ALL . . .'The absolute master' RICHARD OSMAN'One of the all-time greats' GILLIAN FLYNN'At the top of his game' PETER JAMES'Never...

***THE INSTANT TOP FIVE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*** SHE WILL KILL YOUR WORST ENEMY. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS KILL HERS. 'Dazzling' SUNDAY TIMES Best Thriller Books of 2023 'Steve Cavanagh's twists hit you between the eyes. You never see them coming' ANTHONY...

SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER"Don't start a Freida McFadden book late at night. You won't be able to put it down!"- Natalie Barelli, bestselling author of UnforgivableTwo women. An office filled with secrets. One terrible crime that can't be taken back.Dawn...

She thinks it was murder. But if she can't trust herself, can anyone else? Nancy North and her boyfriend Felix are making the move across London to Harlesden. A new flat, a new area, a new start. Because while Nancy is fine now, she wasn't fine before...

Now a major motion picture, starring Amandla Stenberg No. 1 New York Times bestseller Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize * Goodreads Choice Awards Best of the Best * National Book Award Longlist * British Book Awards Children's Book of the...

The gripping new instalment in the William Warwick series, An Eye for an Eye, is available to pre-order now! 24 hours to stop the crime of the century The race...

Two female army high-flyers. Both acquainted with Jack Reacher. Both forced to resign from the service.Now they're both dead.Found in their own homes, naked, in a bath full of paint. Apparent victims of an army man. A loner, a smart guy with a score to...

Calm your mind. Be here, now. Take a breath. And kill.THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - OVER 2.5M COPIES SOLDI didn't kill anyone until I was forty-two. That's actually a little on the late side for my current professional environment. Admittedly, I did...

When does a liar, become a killer?*The brand new novel in The San Diego Case Files series from Sunday Times bestseller Karen Rose*Homicide Detective Kit McKittrick finds herself standing over a dead body in the Shady Oaks retirement centre. Frank Flynn...

The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller! Watch Will Trent on Disney+! Sara doesn't think about that night. About the attack. About the way it tore her world apart. About the man who did it, now safely...

'I loved it . . . Unputdownable' MICK HERRON'Like Daphne du Maurier he sustains the ambiguity deftly and deliciously' SUNDAY TIMES'Mysterious, suspenseful and suffused with paranoia' ALEX MICHAELIDES'Fast-paced and exhilarating, you'll be hooked'...

A spellbinding epic tale of ambition, anarchy and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of twelfth-century England, The Pillars of the Earth is Ken Follett's classic historical masterpiece.A MASON WITH A DREAM 1135 and civil war,...

The newly formed Ministry of Fine Arts has a staffing problem - one minister dead within six months of its inception, his successor snuffed out shortly before the General Election. When a third victim, Permanent Secretary Edwin Pompfret is fatally...