Crime & Thrillers

'No one does it better than Grisham' - TelegraphDonovan Gray is ruthless and fearless. Just the kind of lawyer you need, deep in small-town Appalachia.Samantha Kofer is a world away from her former life at New York's biggest law firm. If she is going to...

From the BAFTA-winning writer behind the TV series PRIME SUSPECT and author of WIDOWS, now a major motion picture... The coroner's report identifies the body as young, black, female, and impossibly anonymous. Yet one thing is clear to Detective Chief...

If he isn't guilty . . . Who is? 'Addictive' Caz Frear'Brilliant, compelling' Karen Hamilton'Compulsive' Rachel AbbottDon't miss Laura Marshall's addictive new thriller, MY HUSBAND'S KILLER. Pre-order now!___________Sasha North has gone missing...

Joshua is convinced there's a family curse.It's taken his loved ones, robbed him of his eyesight, and now his father has been killed chasing down a murderer. His dad's last wish seems like a blessing: the chance for Joshua to see. But as Joshua...

When a skeleton is discovered on a Devon smallholding, DS Wesley Peterson, a keen amateur archaeologist, is intrigued by the possibility that it is a Viking corpse, buried in keeping with ancient traditions. But he has a rather more urgent crime to...

An incredible psychological crime thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat from the Top Ten Sunday Times bestselling author 'This is creepy storytelling of the highest order: spine-chilling and difficult to put down'...

How well does she really know this man? A teacher becomes a target, in this intense new thriller by the author of Unravelling Alice. Alexandra couldn't help herself. She fell madly in love with married man Ryan, the father of her pupil Mia. When he...

Republished for the first time since 1951, Beware of Johnny Washington is Francis Durbridge's clever reworking of the very first Paul Temple radio serial using his new characters, the amiable Johnny Washington and newspaper columnist Verity...

An unexpected hike to the Other Side . . . After time away, Agatha Raisin returns to her beloved Cotswold village of Carsely - and to her handsome neighbour, James Lacey. True, James seems less than thrilled to see her, but Agatha is soon distracted by a...

'Compelling, heartbreaking and beautifully written. This superb thriller will stay in my mind for a very long time' B P Walter, Sunday Times-bestselling author of The Dinner Guest on The Girl Upstairs He...

'Thrill seekers will be absorbed by this exciting story' Kirkus'Nobody does it better.' Jeffery Deaver'James Patterson is The Boss. End of.' Ian Rankin____________________________ My Name is Hannah Dory and I need you to believe meNow: Hannah is brought...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780719810817Author Robert BlochFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Robert Hale LtdPublisher Joffe Books

'For fans of Agatha Christie' Mail on Sunday The new DI Richard Poole mystery Two dead bodies. A family of suspects. And one very disgruntled detective. Reluctantly...

England, 1716. The only certainty in a thief's life... is death.Christopher Templeton is a lawyer whose conscience troubles him. He knows many of the secrets of The Fellowship, the shadowy group profiting from the civil unrest in the nation, and has...

Epic multi-generational family saga from household name Prue Leith, perfect for fans of Penny Vincenzi and Barbara Taylor Bradford.A proud family. Snubbed by aristocratic neighbour Lord Frampton at a coming-of-age ball, Donald Oliver dreams of the day...

Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime's first book, the first volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries. A MAN LAY DEADSir Hubert Handesley's extravagant weekend house-parties...

Bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix show Fool Me Once Harlan Coben brings us his most shocking-and deeply personal-thriller yet. And it all begins when Myron Bolitar's ex tells him he's a father . . . of a dying thirteen-year-old boy. Myron...

George Foss never thought he'd see her again, but on a late-August night in Boston, there she is, in his local bar, Jack's Tavern. When George first met her, she was an eighteen-year-old college freshman from Sweetgum, Florida. She and George became...

Lacey's mother was shot twelve years ago. Her killer is about to be released on parole. Only Lacey's statement can keep him in jail. Lacey is...

'Wow, what a read! Great plot and characters. Everything you want in a mystery. This series gets better with every book' NetGalley reviewer, When a body is found at the Merrywell Book Festival,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593135228Author Andy WeirFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm) 202mm...

THE FOURTH NOVEL IN THE MULTIMILLION-COPY BESTSELLING ADAM DALGLIESH SERIES FROM THE 'QUEEN OF ENGLISH CRIME' (Guardian) 'Kept guessing until the final pages! Read in one go. Totally unputdownable. Ready to read the next one.' 5* reader review'Plenty of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910946671Author Allan MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint ThunderPoint Publishing LimitedPublisher ThunderPoint Publishing Limited

'The Alan Banks mystery-suspense novels are the best series on the market. Try one and tell me I'm wrong.' - Stephen King.From the master of police procedural and bestselling author of Standing in the Shadows comes A Necessary End, book three in Peter...

THE CHILLING SERIAL KILLER THRILLER FROM THE CO-HOST OF CHART-TOPPING PODCAST MORBID'AMAZING TWISTS. UNPUTDOWNABLE' SAMANTHA DOWNING'CAPTIVATING. The reader might want to shut their eyes, but the joust between the killer and the pathologist makes that...

SOON TO BE AN ORIGINAL AMAZON PRIME SERIES_____________________________________'No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades. The Alex Cross series proves it.' LEE CHILD 'Alex Cross is a legend.'...

The first in a gripping new mystery series introducing Detective Tess Fox and her con-artist sister Sarah Jacobs 'A tasty whodunnit' The Sun 'Three deviously clever impossible crimes' Gigi...

'THE GLASS LAKE is Maeve Binchy at her spellbinding best - you'll never want it to end' Woman's Journal'Maeve Binchy really knows what makes women tick. She crystallises their hopes, dreams and passions in her novels and now she has done it again in THE...

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Three book editors, jaded by reading far too many crackpot manuscripts on the mystic and the occult, are inspired by an extraordinary conspiracy story told to them by a strange colonel to have some fun. They start feeding random bits of information into...

February 1574 and London is in a fervour of paranoia, superstition and rumour. Mob violence is commonplace. A whispered word is all it takes to condemn a woman to burn as a witch.Having foiled the 'Incendium' plot against the Queen, intelligencer Dr...

Don't miss Faith Martin's fiendishly clever new novel, Murder by Candlelight, set in the 1920s and described as 'the perfect village mystery' by J.M. Hall 'The pairing of Ryder and Loveday is a stroke of genius.' Clare Chase,...

Shocking. Eye-opening. Grimly fascinating. These true stories from a Forensic Psychiatrist working in prisons, secure hospitals and criminal courts are perfect for true crime fans and readers of The Prison Doctor and The Dark Side of the Mind.As a...

In 1993, teenagers Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley, Jr. - who have come to be known as the West Memphis Three - were arrested for the murders of three eight-year-old boys in Arkansas. The ensuing trial was marked by tampered evidence,...

Sandhamn Island's archipelago is a beautiful place to visit. For a mother on the run, it's the only place to hide in a novel of escalating suspense by Viveca Sten, bestselling author of Still Waters. Building a case against Andreis Kovac is a risky...

Fans of Jo Nesbo, The Killing, and Scandi noir will love this gripping thriller from international bestselling crime-writing sensation A closed case hides a terrible secret . . . _______ Department Q solves the unsolvable. So when a file on the brutal...

"It's me, love ... I'm The Yorkshire Ripper." When Peter Sutcliffe spoke those words to his wife Sonia following his arrest in 1981, it marked the end of a killing spree which had terrorised northern England for five years. The nation had been...

The dead demand vengeance . . . Discover the gripping crime thriller in the bestselling Inspector McLean series'Chilling, harrowing, extremely well written and absolutely addictive' 5***** Reader Review_______A truck driver loses control in central...

Crime fiction packed with Italian flavour, Death in August is the first Inspector Bordelli mystery set in 1960s' Florence - perfect for fans of Andrea Camilleri or Donna Leon. Florence, summer 1963. Inspector Bordelli is one of the few policemen left in...

In 1940s Japan, the wealthy head of the Inugami Clan dies, and his family eagerly await the reading of the will. But no sooner are its strange details revealed than a series of bizarre, gruesome murders begins. Detective Kindaichi must unravel the clan's...