Crime & Thrillers

Ancient blood feuds and modern conspiracies: Magnus Jonson discovers that vengeance, in Iceland, is best served at arctic temperatures...Iceland 1934: Two boys playing in the lava fields that surround their isolated farmsteads see something they...

SELECTED BY BARACK OBAMA AS ONE OF HIS BEST BOOKS OF 2020A New York Times bestseller and Guardian Book of the Month'This flawless masterpiece deserves to be a bestseller.' DAILY EXPRESS'Tough, tense and twisty - but tender, human and deeply affecting,...

An investigation leads DI Kelly Porter back to her former command... and the ex who betrayed herA brutal murder in the Lake District.A double assassination in a secret lab in London's West End.Seemingly unconnected, unexpected links between the gruesome...

*** PRE-ORDER THE DEATH WATCHER, THE THRILLING NEW CHRIS CARTER NOVEL, COMING SUMMER 2024! ***THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERA killing like no other.A killer more twisted than he's ever seen before.A case that will test him to the limit. Has...

In July 1983, James Morgan Kane returned home in the evening to find a corpse in his living room.Fearing that he would be held responsible, and sensing that his wife was somehow involved, he wanted to do all he could to protect his young family.Jamie...

A SERIES OF KILLINGS Three men, sleeping rough on London's mean streets, have been found brutally murdered - each victim kicked to death and found with a GBP20 note pinned to his chest. But were they killed at random, or were they targeted for a reason?...

Pre-order REDEMPTION, the thrilling new Jack Jordan novel, coming June 2024. HE TRUSTS HIS LAWYER WITH HIS LIFE . . . HE SHOULDN'T Wade Darling stands accused of killing his wife and teenage children as they slept and burning their house to the ground. ...

October 1942. Jo Hardy, an Air Transport Auxilliary ferry pilot, is delivering a Spitfire to Biggin Hill Aerodrome, when she has the terrifying experience of coming under fire from the ground. In a bid to find out who was trying to take down her...

A murder she doesn't remember committing. Or a killer she doesn't remember meeting? Liv Reese wakes up in the back of a taxi with no idea where she is or how she got there. She is dropped off at her apartment, but is confronted by a stranger who claims...

The second book in the bestselling Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series.There's only one thing more dangerous than a corrupt cop . . . and that's a corrupt cop with a gun.When a group of armed police in an elite unit turn maverick and start to rip off drug...

The explosive book from ex-MI5 surveillance officer Tom Marcus takes you on a non-stop, adrenalin-fuelled ride as he hunts down those who would do our country harm.'The brutal truth about the war against terror. Fast-paced and gripping.' - Ant Middleton,...

Accident? Dangerous game gone wrong? Or murder? DI Blackwell faces her toughest case yet. When the body of a young woman is discovered in a shipping container in Bristol, the police suspect she was an illegal immigrant whose death was a tragic...

Yorkshire, 1969. Nell Lewis is four months into her new role as governor of HMP Brackerley when the prison takes on a catering contract for Brackerley village's wedding of the year.Almost all the female inmates are delighted to be involved in the...

1961. The height of the Cold War. Just hours before work begins on the Berlin Wall, a KGB assassin and his young wife flee for the West before the Iron Curtain comes down and traps them in the East forever. This gripping story of real-life espionage...

Shortlisted for the 2018 McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year.Follow the Dead is the thrilling twelfth book in Lin Anderson's forensic crime series featuring Rhona MacLeod.On holiday in the Scottish Highlands, forensic scientist Dr Rhona...

___________________Detective Harriet Blue needs to get out of town, fast.With her brother under arrest for a series of brutal murders in Sydney, Harry's chief wants the hot-headed detective kept far from the press. So he assigns her a deadly new case -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780295824Author Paul DohertyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 315gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm *...

A modern take on The Lord of the Flies set in a theme park, FantasticLand is a debut dystopian horror story that deals directly with contemporary issues of climate change, natural disasters, and the implication of social media. Mike Bockoven a...

Accidental Heroes is a heart-stopping thriller about ordinary people who embark on a journey they will never forget.On a beautiful May morning at New York's JFK Airport, a routine plane departs for San Francisco. Security agent Bernice Adams finds a...

"Ahoy, my lad!" he bellowed back. "I didn't expect you so early. Come for a dip! The water's fine. Everything is-" Then it happened. Mystery and murder runs amok amidst ominous peaks and icy lakes. In hushed valleys, venom flows through villages...

When New York's most vicious gossip columnist is found dead, "Heat" uncovers a gallery of high profile suspects. Heat's investigation is complicated by her surprise reunion with superstar magazine journalist Jameson Rook. Sexual tension fills the air as...

'Full of surprises you truly don't see coming' HARLAN COBEN'Instantly gripping and compulsively readable' RILEY SAGERGuilty or innocent? The primary suspect in a murder case is her father ... FBI Agent Nell Flynn has come home for the first time in a...

Stephanie Plum is down on her luck. She's lost her job, her car's on the brink of repossession, and her apartment is fast becoming furniture-free. Enter Cousin Vinnie, a low-life who runs a bail-bond company. If Stephanie can bring in vice cop turned...

To Britain's criminal underworld, Freddie Foreman is the Godfather. Held responsible for the gangland killings of Ginger Marks and Frank 'The Mad Axeman' Mitchell, he was the punisher to those who broke the underworld's strict code of conduct.Foreman's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668037713Author Stephen KingFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 156mm * 32mm

In James Herbert's Portent it is the near future and signs of an impending global disaster are multiplying. Earthquakes, floods and volcanic eruptions sweep the earth. As the storms and tempests rage, a series of ominous events signal the emergence of a...

Now a major film on Netflix starring Amy Adams, Gary Oldman and Julianne Moore OVER 5 MILLION COPIES SOLD! THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Astounding. Thrilling. Amazing' Gillian Flynn 'One of those...

Amongst the scholars, secrets and soporifics of Victorian Oxford, the truth can be a bitter pill to swallow...Jesus College, Oxford, 1881. An undergraduate is found dead at his lodgings and the medical examination reveals some shocking findings. When the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912946068Author Neil LancasterFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Burning Chair PublishingPublisher Burning Chair Publishing

A chilling attack. A missing child. And a twisted killer driven to the very brink. DI Louise Blackwell is still reeling from her brother Paul's murder when she is brought back from enforced leave and tasked with solving a strange new case-the...

ENROLLMENT BEGINS NOW A beguiling, sinister collection of 12 dark academia short stories from masters of the genre, including Olivie Blake, M.L. Rio, Susie Yang and more! In these stories, dear student, retribution visits a lothario lecturer; the...

The ultimate Rome story From the spectacle of gladiatorial combat to the intrigue of the Senate, from the foreign wars that secure the power of the empire to the betrayals that threaten to tear it apart, this is the remarkable story of the man...

"[A] mordant debut novel....examines what it means to covet the lives of others, no matter the cost."-The New York Times"Tense, twisty, and packed with shocks."-Riley Sager, New York Times bestselling author of Survive The NightSix friends.One college...

Bernie Gunther returns in the thirteenth book in the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling series, perfect for fans of John le Carre and Robert Harris.'One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILD'Kerr leads us through the facts of...

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*** WINNER OF THE CWA SAPERE BOOKS HISTORICAL DAGGER 2021 ***'The leading character is the deftly drawn Persis Wadia, the country's first female detective. She's a wonderful creation and this is a hugely enjoyable book' ANN CLEEVES'This is historical...

Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is haunted by the past in his latest case, and his private life, in Dead Man's Time, by award winning crime writer Peter James.A vicious robbery at a secluded Brighton mansion leaves its elderly occupant fighting for...

'An enthralling read' -- DAILY MAILIn the gripping new novel by the author of The Fourteenth Letter, a lawyer in Victorian London must find a man he got off a murder charge - and who seems to have killed again . . . Victorian London, 1882.Five years ago,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646092727Author Natsu HyuugaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Square EnixPublisher Square Enix

'There's only been one time that Rose couldn't stop me from doing the wrong thing and that was a mistake that will haunt me for the rest of my life.'Fern Castle works in her local library. She has dinner with her twin sister Rose three nights a week...