Thrillers

NOWHERE IS SACRED. NOWHERE IS SAFE. Fans of Karen Rose and Nora Roberts will love Lisa Jackson's chilling new novel about a killer striking in the holiest of places.Sister Camille, a troubled novice, is found garrotted in St Marguerite's cathedral. ...

"This afternoon I shall go to my own funeral service before I watch them bury me under six feet of London clay." When kindly provincial solicitor, Andrew Soulsby, fails to listen to his instincts he is condemned to live an evil man's life in a tailspin...

'One of the most sophisticated fictional responses to the war on terror yet published' GuardianAn illegal Muslim immigrant arrives in Hamburg with a traumatic past and the key to a fortune held in a private bank. He says his name is Issa. To the...

Obsessed with his ex-girlfriend, Alistair Haston heads off to Greece, where she is on holiday. Mugged on arrival in Paros, he loses everything. So when a charming Aussie, shows up and offers Alistair a job recruiting tourists to pose for his wealthy...

It is America's most secret base, hidden deep in the Utah desert, an Air Force installation known only as Area 7. And today it has a visitor: the President of the United States. He has come to inspect Area 7, to examine its secrets for himself. But he's...

MADRID, 1982. Comandante Leopoldo Guzman has decided it is time to disappear. Franco is dead and there's no place in the new order for the former head of the tyrant's secret police. But first, Guzman needs money. Luckily, blackmail has always come...

A victim on display. A detective on the rails. Shopping with her sister, DI Amy Winter is admiring a Valentine's Day window display of a perfect bride encrusted in diamonds and resplendent in lace-until she notices blood oozing from the mannequin's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648055433Author Steve P VincentFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Steve P VincentPublisher Steve P VincentWeight(grams) 181g

Chief Superintendent Michele Ferrara knows that the beautiful surface of his adopted city, Florence, hides dark undercurrents. When called in to investigate a series of brutal and apparently random murders, his intuition is confirmed. Distrusted by his...

Pandora's Box is about to be opened...A brilliant, fast-paced thriller from the internationally bestselling author of the Bourne series.December 1939. A train winds its way through Italy towards the Alps wth a cargo too precious to destroy, too awful to...

Dangerous by Jessie Keane is a deadly story of London's criminal underworld, from the bestselling author of Nameless and the Annie Carter series.Whatever the cost, she would pay it . . . Fifteen-year-old Clara Dolan's world is blown apart following the...

'Challenging and disturbing, The Melting is an incredibly cruel fable about friendship and adolescence . . . Spit knows no fear. It is we, the readers, that are left trembling.' - Leila Slimani, author of LullabyEva can trace the route to Pim's farm with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681373096Author Alyson WatersFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,...

FROM THE AUTHOR OF ITV'S OUR HOUSE COMES ANOTHER ADDICTIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE YOU SIMPLY CAN'T PUT DOWN 'The best book I have read all year . . . keeps you guessing until the end' 5***** READER REVIEW 'I was gripped by this book' 5***** READER REVIEW...

The Winner Stands Alone is an enthralling novel by the incomparable Paulo Coelho. The story is set during the Cannes International Film Festival and the entire action plays out over 24 hours. Igor is a wealthy Russian...

Two victims. Nothing connects them, except that someone buried them in the exact same way.Seven hundred years apart.'Oh my goodness, what a rollercoaster of a ride.' READER REVIEW'Every page draws you in.' READER REVIEW'Do yourself a...

'Dreda Say Mitchell is right up there at the forefront of British crime fiction' Simon KernickDreda Say Mitchell was awarded an MBE in Her Majesty The Queen's 2020 New Year's Honours ListBOOK 3 in the FLESH AND BLOOD series, BLOOD DAUGHTER sees the...

Don't miss Philippa East's gripping and suspenseful new novel, I'LL NEVER TELL available now! 'Breathtaking suspense. A phenomenal talent' HOLLY SEDDON 'Terrifically...

When British and American intelligence catch wind of a major Al Qaeda operation in the works, they are primed for action - but what can they do? They know nothing about the attack: the what, where or when. They have no sources in Al Qaeda, and it's...

NOMINATED FOR THE McILVANNEY PRIZE 2020 FOR SCOTTISH CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Truly difficult to put down' Daily Mail 'High-concept plot keeps the 'tecs and the reader on their toes' Sunday Times Crime Club 'Robertson is a master storyteller . . . never...

The ultimate Rome story Julius Caesar has taken his legions north to battle the Gallic tribes. But as his successes mount, overwhelming ambition and new alliances begin to threaten his one true friendship. Marcus Brutus was...

What is the truth? And how do you recognise it when you hear it?Jenny and Pippa are twins. Like many twins they often know what the other is thinking. They complete each other.When Pippa disappears Jenny is left to face the world alone, as she tries to...

Anna Hunt has lost her memory and is on the run. From who and what she is unsure, but trapped in the present she seems certain of only one thing - she is somehow linked to the stolen painting currently being restored in the National Gallery. In a...

'Amazing!... I was absolutely blown away. Twists and turns and so much suspense.' Reader ReviewNo one can love a son like his mother...Patricia Mullner is trapped in a nightmare no parent should ever experience. Three years ago, 17-year-old son...

It was meant to be paradise... the stunning new thriller that readers are calling 'a real page turner' and 'gripping and immersive' 'Thought-provoking, twisty and devastatingly plausible... captivating. One to get lost in. '...

'Count to three,' her mother told her, the last words she would ever speak. An Impossible Crime SceneA wealthy woman is found brutally murdered in the locked fortress of her London mansion. Surrounding her are four mysterious objects,...

Terrifyingly authentic, London-set debut crime novel with a psychological edge, by an ex-Met detective. Perfect for fans of Mark Billingham, Peter James and Stuart MacBride. How do you catch a killer who leaves no trace?A young man is stabbed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906378175Author Gilou BareauFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint FolrosePublisher FolroseWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 18mm

The Undoing is the most talked about TV series of 2020. From the creators of Big Little Lies, starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant and Donald Sutherland. 'A great psychological thriller ... I couldn't put it down.' Daisy Goodwin'Gripping . . . had me in...

Rachel Cutler loves her job and her kids, and remains civil to her ex-husband, Paul. But everything changes when her father dies under suspicious circumstances, leaving behind clues to a treasure called the Amber Room, one of the most intriguing...

A gripping psychological thriller from the bestselling author of Follow You Home and The Magpies. It was the job she had dreamed of since childhood. But on her very first day, when an unnerving encounter drags up memories Sophie Greenwood would rather...

A secret State. A dark conspiracy. A terrible crime.Karin Muller of the German Democratic Republic's People's Police is called to a factory in the east of the country. A man has been murdered - bound and trapped as a fire burned nearby, slowly...

Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime's first book, the fourth volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries. SURFEIT OF LAMPREYSThe Lampreys were a peculiar family. They...

'Deeply moving and beautifully written' ANN CLEEVES'Heart-breaking, beautiful and thrilling - a book that will stay with you for a very long time' ELLY GRIFFITHS'A tale of devastating secrets, brilliantly told' RORY CLEMENTSSHE CAN'T HAVE A FUTURE UNTIL...

The first book in the epic Masters of Rome series.Rome. 110BC. A city which is home to Gaius Marius, prosperous but lowborn, a proud and disciplined soldier emboldened by his shrewdness and self-made wealth. It is also home to Lucius Cornelius Sulla, a...

The brand-new psychological suspense novel from the author of After She's Gone, soon to be a major motion picture starring Daisy Ridley.'DAZZLING ORIGINALITY' SUNDAY TIMES'THE VERY TOP TIER OF SCANDINAVIAN CRIME FICTION' ANDERS DE LA MOTTE, AUTHOR OF...

Former Secret Service agent, Nick Averose, must expose a dark conspiracy in this electrifying thriller from New York Times bestselling author Matthew Quirk. 'Opens with a bang and keeps exploding for three hundred pages' DAVID BALDACCI His job is to...

'Prague Spring is a wonderfully atmospheric portrait of the city as well as a political and historical thriller with dashes of espionage. It is as brilliant as anything he has written, which is saying a lot' The TimesIt's the summer of 1968, the year of...

A heart-pounding First World War naval thriller featuring the rebel Captain Cochrane Smith.1917: After three years, the outcome of the Great War is poised on a knife-edge. David Cochrane Smith, captain of the armoured cruiser HMS Thunder, is patrolling...

'One of the bad girls of gritty crime' Daily Mirror It begins on a winter afternoon, when schoolgirl Nicky Day runs from a gang of bullies. Then her little brother starts the fire. But the nightmare that is engulfing Sue and Terry Day is only beginning ...