Thrillers

'John Cook is the Jack Reacher of 1940's Britain' - Damien Lewis*****May 1940. With Nazi forces sweeping across France, invasion seems imminent. The English Channel has never felt so narrow. In rural Sussex, war veteran John Cook has been tasked with...

Crime novel set in Reykjavik Detective Soffia struggles to cope with a single-handed investigation into a spate of malicious acts, and enlists help from her psychologist ex-husband Adam. With Covid raging in the city, he grudgingly agrees to work with...

'A pacy, gripping page-turner of a thriller . . . Don't venture into the future without having read this book' Andrew RobertsFrom the acclaimed authors of the runaway New York Times bestseller 2034 comes another explosive work of speculative fiction set...

The most fearsome predator in history... Is no longer history. Seven miles down, on a top secret dive into the Pacific's deepest trench, Commander Jonas Taylor came face-to-face with the largest and most ferocious predator ever to inhabit the...

'Absorbing and brilliant ... Game of Thrones without the dragons' THE TIMES The third book in Sidebottom's epic series set in third century Rome; a dramatic era of murder, coup, counter-rebellions and civil war. Rome AD238. The Year...

Home is where you hang your hat...When Patsy talks her way into a job on the Champion Street Market millinery stall, the Higginson sisters get more than they bargained for.Riddled with insecurities, Patsy's impudence wins her new enemies as well as...

At the height of the Cold War, a new Soviet threat triggers a daring heist, and the stakes couldn't be higher'A defining novel of the genre and a lost classic' James SwallowBritish and American intelligence services have just learned of the Soviet...

'A terrific thriller' - James Patterson'A new benchmark for the modern spy thriller' - Peter James'Excellent . . . Packed with relentless pace and hard-edged thrills' - James SwallowAn exiled agent out for revenge.A hidden enemy stoking hate. A...

She was beautiful and evil - she murdered minds as well as bodies...'A work of art - terrifyingly believable' NEW YORK TIMES'Superb ... BEAST IN VIEW is cunningly plotted and has an ingenious final twist' MAIL ON SUNDAY'Millar was the master of the...

THE GRIPPING LOCKED-ROOM DYSTOPIAN THRILLER FOR FANS OF EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL AND ANDREW HUNTER MURRAY'A testament to the power of the written word' THE TIMES 'Unsettling and thought-provoking' CLARE MACKINTOSH ____________ This isn't the world you know...

Law professor Thomas Jackson McMurtrie literally wrote the book on evidence in the state of Alabama. But when a power-hungry colleague uses a recent run-in between McMurtrie and headstrong student Rick Drake to end his career, he is left unsure what to...

Now a BBC Radio 4 Drama Series.Former dancer and party loyalist Wen Liping vanishes in rural China just before she was to leave the country. Her husband, a key witness against a smuggling ring suspected of importing aliens to the US, refuses to testify...

Chilling and disturbing, meet the demons in Master of Horror James Herbert's Creed.Sometimes horror is in the mind. And sometimes it's real. Telling the difference isn't always easy. It wasn't for freelance photographer Joe Creed. He'd just photographed...

THE SCENT OF ALMONDS AND OTHER STORIES is a collection of short stories from the No.1 international bestseller Camilla Lackberg. Perfect for fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo. Four unmissable stories set in the Swedish fishing village of...

Sworn Brother by Tim Severin is the thrilling second volume in the Viking trilogy - an epic adventure in a world full of Norse mythology and bloodthirsty battles.London, 1019: a few months have passed since Thorgils has escaped the clutches of the Irish...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613163771Author Alice SlaterFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Penzler PublishersPublisher Penzler PublishersWeight(grams) 691gDimensions(mm) 239mm *...

Discover the chilling first mystery in a truly unique crime series you won't be able to put down'There comes a time when a novel raises the bar for a particular genre, and The Sea Detective does just that for Scottish crime fiction' SCOTSMAN______ Cal...

During WW2 there was a rumour that German spies were landing by parachute in Britain, dressed as nuns...'Spy-masterful storytelling' Sunday Post'Delightfully old-fashioned and prudent of prose, McCall Smith unspools his tales' Daily Mail'[Adds] another...

A defense attorney is prepared to play. But is she a pawn in a master's deadly match? A twisting novel of suspense by New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni. Keera Duggan was building a solid reputation as a Seattle prosecutor, until her...

A retreat doesn't always mean safety...Following the death of her husband, Emily is happy to find herself surrounded by friends and fellow Oxford peers at the rustic Chalet des Anglais in the French Alps. With no electricity, running water, or access by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739970666Author Maria FranklandFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Autonomy PressPublisher Autonomy Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394744209Author Harry MulischFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Pantheon Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 176gDimensions(mm) 202mm...

The Hundred Years' War sets Brittany ablaze in this unputdownable medieval adventure.Into a land torn by civil war rides freebooter Martin Kemp, in search of a lord in whose service he can win plunder and glory.Soon he falls under the spell of...

Written by 'a sublimely elegant historical novelist as addictive as crack' (Daily Telegraph), the Inspector Troy series is perfect for fans of Le Carre, Philip Kerr and Alan Furst.1959.An old flame has returned to Troy's life: Kitty Stilton, now wife of...

**FROM THE AUTHOR OF RICHARD AND JUDY'S BOOK CLUB PICK OUT OF HER DEPTH.**_________________________________Two women - desperate to unlock the truth.How far will they go to lay the past to rest? ANNA has been taught that virtue is the path to God. But on...

Taut, tense and terrifying - AMERICAN DEVIL marks the thrilling debut of an outstanding new talent.The Progression of Love: his ultimate artistic creation. Now all he needs is seven beautiful women.For the violent killer stalking New York's streets, the...

From the author of APPLE TREE YARD, now a major BBC drama starring Emily Watson. Against a rising tide of commuter mayhem, three women struggle in to work. Caught up in the chaos on the streets - and in the equally savage battle surrounding their boss's...

Q is for Quarry is the seventeenth in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton and is based on a true crime.She was a 'Jane Doe', an unidentified white female whose decomposed body was discovered near a quarry off California's Highway 1. The...

A gripping, terrifying road trip through the heat of the post-apocalyptic American desert from the author of Netflix's The Silence. This action-packed and thought-provoking eco-nightmare will appeal to fans of Benjamin Percy, Christopher Golden and Josh...

A chilling modern horror novel from the author of THE SILENCE OF THE SEA, winner of the 2015 Petrona Award - perfect for fans of Let the Right One In.The light spilling in from the corridor would have to do. Though weak, it was sufficient to show Aldis a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913065324Author Dawn BrookesFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Oakwood PublicationsPublisher Oakwood PublicationsWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm)...

Bond is back! After 10 years out of print, the world's greatest secret agent returns, in two classic adventures brought together in a deluxe James Bond collectors' library paperback edition! When an old friend's body is found in the Alps 20 years after...

From the bestselling Sunday Times author of The Goodbye Man, discover Jeffery Deaver's thrilling series that is now a major NBC TV series.Can Lincoln Rhyme catch a diabolical killer in a world of truth and lies? A killer flees the scene of a homicide at...

WINNER OF THE TAIWAN LITERATURE AWARD "An uncompromising, unsentimental, slyly humorous novel." IRISH TIMES "A haunting drama of a Taiwanese family's efforts to rise out of poverty." PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Keith Chen, the desperately yearned for...

***THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING DETECTIVE SERIES***Don't miss the thrilling new Lorimer novel from Alex Gray. WHEN SHADOWS FALL is available to pre-order now'Immensely exciting and atmospheric' Alexander McCall Smith A murder on their doorstepA case...

'A brilliant writer' EVENING STANDARDJoe Pike must take on his toughest challenge yet. He must hunt down and rescue . . . Elvis Cole.A nail-biting Cole and Pike novel from the No. 1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author.Elvis Cole. All round nice guy. Always...

Some secrets are too terrible to reveal . . . Some crimes are too unspeakable to solve . . . Painter's Creek, Ohio may be a sleepy, rural town with both Amish and 'English' residents, but it's also the place where a series of brutal murders shattered the...

Salonika, 1940. To the bustle of tavernas and the smell of hashish, a secret war is taking shape. In the backrooms of barbers, envelopes change hands, and in the Club de Salonique the air is thick with whispers.Costa Zannis is the city's dashing chief...

'Creepy and compelling' HARRIET TYCE 'Brilliant - filled with tension and twists' SARAH PINBOROUGH 'An unsettling, terrifying thriller' ABIGAIL DEAN ...

HER PERFECT TWIN. YOUR NEW OBSESSION.'Sarah Bonner's debut novel made my jaw drop. There are so many twists in this story, I never knew what was coming next. You won't want to miss this one!' Samantha Downing, author of My Lovely Wife'A terrifyingly...