Thrillers

Roz Harper is a woman who has lived life on her own terms. She had dearly loved her first husband. After his death, she had thrown herself into raising their boys, and then into making a business out of her passion for gardening. Roz likes her life just...

'INCENDIARY, TIMELY AND AUTHENTIC' Crime Monthly 'ORIGINAL AND DISTURBING' Sunday Times 'UNDERLINES HOW FINE A WRITER NEWHAM IS' Daily Mail A tragic accident - or a ruthless killer? When a flash mob on Brick...

A serial killer to chill your bones. A psychopath more frightening than Hannibal Lecter. Set in London's Blackheath, Rattle is the number one bestselling psychological thriller from the author of When I Was Ten, Fiona Cummins.'Harrowing and horrifying' -...

KANSAS, 1905 On a new well out on the plains an assassin's bullet kills oilman Spike Hopewell. Minutes later an explosion rips apart his refinery. Death and destruction - just another bad day at the well? Except Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Detective...

Veteran thief Nolan tangles with a skyjacker and vigilante in two full-length novels from Grandmaster Max Allan Collins (Road to Perdition), collected in one volume for the first time ever. It Takes a Thief to Take a Thief. In the aftermath of a...

Orphaned at an early age, DCI Holly Craig grew up in the small Welsh coastal town of Pontyrhudd. As soon as she was old enough, she ran away to London and joined the police. Now, fifteen years later, she's back in her old hometown to investigate what...

'One of the best books I've ever read' Ruth Jones'This is superb . . . and compulsive and disturbing and very well done indeed' Harriet Tyce, author of Blood Orange_______________________________________If I Can't Have You by Charlotte Levin is an...

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668026540Author Jay NewmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 104mm *...

Lie to your daughter. Betray your friend. Trust no-one. His nightmare began with a quick handshake and a friendly smile... Danny Goodman would do anything for his teenage daughter Abby. So when his wife dies, and he can no longer afford the...

Washington D.C., 1953. The Cold War is heating up: McCarthyism, with all its fear and demagoguery, is raging in the nation's capital, and Joseph Stalin's death has left a dangerous power vacuum in the Soviet Union. The CIA, meanwhile, is reeling from a...

As the wife of a Resistance member in German-occupied Belgium, Claire Daussois has grown used to hiding strange men in her attic. By the end of 1943, the tiny room has housed dozens of Allied airmen, soldiers and other refugees, whom Claire nurses and...

Elizabeth was a young widow with two small children when she met Congressman Richard Baker. Handsome and wealthy, with a sparkling public image, Richard seemed like the perfect man to provide the security that Beth and her kids were craving. But when she...

An instant USA Today bestseller. A woman in search of a new beginning is put to the test in ways she never imagined in an empowering and provocative page-turner by the author of Not That I Could Tell. Katie's divorce was, in a word, humiliating. So...

The hotly anticipated sequel to The Dark Lake, this is perfect for fans of The Dry, police procedurals, and classy, clever crime fiction._____________Highly recommended - LoveReading______________Senior Detective Gemma Woodstock is a small-town...

The sudden death of Guy Brouard after his morning swim shocks the residents of Guernsey. A generous patron and benefactor of the island since his arrival there a decade ago, his demise puts a question mark over many cherished projects.When a young...

Think of the Children is a tense and gripping thriller from Kerry Wilkinson, whose smash-hit Jessica Daniel series has enthralled thousands of readers.Detective Sergeant Jessica Daniel is first on the scene as a stolen car crashes on a misty, wet...

Surely you would like to be immortalised in art, fixed forever in perfection? Sadler's Wells, 1933. I would kill to dance like her. Disciplined and dedicated, Olivia is the perfect ballerina. But no matter how hard she works, she can never match...

"An absolute master of modern horror. And a damn fine writer at that" - Guillermo del Toro Alex Grand is a successful crime novelist until his latest book is condemned for appropriating the experience of victims of abuse. In a bid to rescue his...

John Bookman - Book to his friends - is a tenured professor at the University of Texas School of Law. He's thirty-five, handsome and unmarried. He teaches Constitutional Law, reduces senators to blithering fools on talk shows, and is often mentioned as a...

'On the Anatomization of an Unknown Man (1637) by Frans Mier' won the CWA Dagger for best short story.'The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository' won the 2014 Anthony award for best short story.Fans of THE BOOK OF LOST THINGS and NOCTURNES...

THE NAIL-BITING SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHORA TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR'Is this the best crime writer in the world today?' The Times'A world-class crime writer . . . One of the most astonishing...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERTen years ago, a tragic accident tore through a community.Ever since, the nine survivors - just teenagers at the time - have met on the anniversary to remember those they lost. They made a promise to keep each other safe from...

'Families and friendships, secrets and lies, twists and turns and a shocker of an ending - I didn't see that coming! Loved it' JACKIE KABLER'I enjoyed this classy and twisty thriller. A great read, don't miss it!' B.A. PARIS'The definition of a trust no...

A fast-paced action thriller inspired by real events in the aftermath of the Iraq War. With Saddam Hussein deposed and an entire country in need of rebuilding, former Royal Marine John Pierce hears the siren call of adventure and opportunity. His...

'Truly brilliant, sexy and sly storytelling' Deesha Philyaw'Intoxicating' Claire Fuller'Everything you could want in a book, delivered when you least expect it' Diane Cooke'I f***ing loved this. Thrilling and gorgeously observed' A.E. OsworthToday, she...

A body has been found in the trunk of a Cadillac. Jesse's investigation takes him to the neighboring homes of two 'retired' gangsters. But it isn't the mobsters who fascinate Jesse - it's their wives: two completely identical twin sisters, who not even...

I am not my thoughts. My thoughts are not me. Jonathan Stetson's life has not turned out the way he envisaged. Just shy of forty, his limited theatre work has dried up and he finds himself alone, broke and depressed, waiting tables just to get by...

'Seriously, amazingly, awesomely brilliant'CJ Tudor, author of The Chalk Man'A chilling and uniquely disturbing 21st-century twist on the unreliable narrator makes for a compulsive and deeply thought-provoking psychological thriller'Cara Hunter, author...

BEFORE PRIME SUSPECT THERE WAS TENNISON.Every legend has a beginning . . . During 1974 and 1975 the IRA subjected London to a terrifying bombing campaign. In one day alone, they planted seven bombs at locations across central London. Some were defused -...

From the author of Harry's Game - A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pickJeez Curwen, a British undercover agent in South Africa reporting on the African National Congress, has received the death penalty for his part in a job...

From the bestselling author of Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow's The Last Trial recounts the final case of Kindle County's most revered courtroom advocate, Sandy Stern. Already eighty-five years old, and in precarious health, Sandy Stern has been...

She loves me. She loves me not. Bo Luxton has it all - a loving family, a beautiful home in the Lake District, and a clutch of bestselling books to her name. Enter Alice Dark, an aspiring writer who is drifting through life, with a series of dead-end...

'Atmospheric and foreboding this is the perfect contemporary homage to the gothic tradition.' - The Sun Beneath the surface lies a terrible secret... Hollywood, 1975: Tragedy sends troubled film star Vivien...

A gripping new thriller from the bestselling author of THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER'S WEB"A classic murder mystery . . . one Holmes himself would have loved to solve" Independent"Fans of dark Swedish crime will love this moody thriller" The Sun"A nerve-racking...

The chilling psychological thriller from a top ten bestselling author. I'm the sister who got away. The lucky one. Until now. It is ten years since Ella's sister Miranda...

Jason Bourne is back! 'Olympic style, all-out espionage' Daily Express'Watch your back 007 - Bourne is out to get you' - Sunday TimesJason Bourne's nemesis Arkadin is still hot on his trail and the two continue their struggle, reversing roles of hunter...

The Long Winter is over. We survived. But only just. On a ruined world, we rebuild, watching the sky, waiting for any sign of their return. With only nine million survivors from a population of billions, humanity's survival is far from guaranteed...

The third book in the DI Nicholas Lowry series, for fans of Peter James and Stuart Macbride.It's November 1983 in Essex and there are reasons to be cheerful. Uptown Girl is sitting pretty at the top of the charts, Risky Business is raking it in at the...

'ONE OF THE BEST THRILLER WRITERS WORKING TODAY' LEE CHILDTHEY'RE DYING TO MEET HIM . . ._______The discovery of a body in Boston harbor has crime scene investigator Darby McCormick looking into an almost identical case: both were female students,...