Thrillers

Now a BBC Radio 4 Drama Series.Tucked away from the building sites of modern Shanghai are the beautiful mansions once owned by the smartest families in 1930s China. They have since been bought by rich businessmen and high-ranking members of the Communist...

The first in THE HUNTERS series from the international bestseller Chris Kuzneski - "If you seek, they will find"...The Hunters: Financed by a billionaire philanthropist, this elite team - an ex-soldier, an historian, a computer whiz, a weapons expert,...

I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore - the film tie-in! They killed Number One in Malaysia. Number Two in England. And Number Three in Kenya.John Smith is not your average teenager. He regularly moves from small town to small town. He changes his name and...

BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY, CAROL AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN 'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' THE TIMES 'I love Highsmith so much . . . What a revelation her writing is' GILLIAN FLYNN 'No one has created psychological suspense more...

Lawman to the Coreby Delores Fossen A special agent will do anything to protect a woman and baby. The woman who broke into special agent Nick Brodie's home isn't a stranger. Neither is the baby with her...

NO PHONESNO OUTSIDERSNO ESCAPE'An exciting and compelling new voice, Anna Downes' The Safe Place is a very accomplished debut' B.A. Paris, Sunday Times bestselling author of The DilemmaRated 4.5 * on NetGalley, this international bestseller is perfect...

'Plakos is a strange place, for the tides of civilisation and progress seem to have left it high and dry. It is a relic of old days, full of wild beliefs and pagan habits.' Young Englishwoman Kore Arabin has inherited a remote Greek island, Plakos,...

The startlingly powerful psychological thriller by international bestselling author Sebastian Fitzek. Now adapted into a compelling TV series from Amazon Germany. Four years ago Josy, the 12-year-old daughter of well-known psychiatrist Viktor Larenz,...

Past and present collide on a richly mysterious Nile cruise... From the bestselling author of Lady of Hay comes this atmospheric and gripping page-turner. Recently divorced Anna Fox decides to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538751930Author Sandra BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)...

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'One of the best thriller writers working today'Lee Child'Chris Mooney is an exceptional thriller writer. I envy those who have yet to read him'John ConnollyBy the time you read this, I'll be missing or dead. Whatever you do, don't come looking for me...

What does it mean to be human when you're part of the machine?Synners are synthesizers - not machines, but people. They take images from the brains of performers, and turn them into a form which can be packaged, sold and consumed. This book is set in a...

EVERY OPERATIVE KNOWS THE RULES. The mission comes first. You are a deniable asset. Betrayal is punished by death.'A writer of almost cinematic talent' DAILY EXPRESSAlex Reeve was Operative 66. A former special-ops soldier and one of the UK's most...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the bestselling Black Dagger Brotherhood series get ready for a new band of brothers. And a firestorm . . . Anne Ashburn is a woman consumed - by her bitter family legacy, by her scorched career as a...

I couldn't turn the pages fast enough . . . a terrific debut' - Jenny Blackhurst, author of Before I Let You In. The only thing more dangerous than a lie . . . is the truth.When a family man is killed at point blank range in his home, it shakes a sleepy...

'This might well be his masterpiece' - MARK BILLINGHAM'One of Ireland's finest crime writers' - STEVE CAVANAGH'Chilling and compelling' - VAL McDERMID'Terrifying' - CHRIS BROOKMYRE'Thrilling' - CHRIS WHITAKER'Stunning' - MARK EDWARDS'Brilliant' - ADRIAN...

They made the rules. She's going to break them.When Alex Vogel gets a new job working at a corporate Manhattan law firm, she thinks all her dreams have come true. The pay checks are huge, the work is exciting, and the drinks are flowing every Friday...

'Dazzling ingenuity and cleverness' IndependentThree con artists are on the make, and making millions. There's Silas, the leader, slick and self-assured; Liz, his glamorous lover; and Bob, the young cockney upstart (who's also falling for Liz). As this...

'Wow, what a rollercoaster read, I loved everything about this story... A gripping, chilling and addictive thriller I found hard to put down.' - NetGalley Reviewer, A DARK FAMILY SECRET ...

'It gripped me for a week. Incredible!' JANICE HALLETT 'Mind-bendingly brilliant. Agatha Christie on steroids!' TIM GLISTER A locked room. A brutal murder. And a killer who can unwind time... A DEAD BILLIONAIRE Part-time constable Ella Manning...

DEAVER. DANGEROUSLY GOOD. When Detective Bill Corde looks at the beautiful face of the murdered girl in the mud, he does not know his own life is about to turn into a terrifyingly real nightmare. For the girl's killer is now on the trail of Corde and his...

Two Girls. One Chance. When Lizzie's car crashes with her two daughters inside, she faces a terrible choice. And when she recovers from her injuries, she has to deal with the impact of that tragedy as well as the police investigation into it. As Lizzie...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250252838Author D J PalmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 454g

Discover the classic mystery from Dick Francis, one of the greatest thriller writers of all time'A whip cracking, page turning read with a twist in the tail' 5***** Reader Review'Kept me turning the pages, full of twists and turns - Dick Francis at his...

Grand Central Station, New York City, 11 pm.Gunshots and explosions fill the air, and suddenly you - and everyone else - are running for your lives.You stumble across a dead man slumped against an open locker containing a bag full of diamonds.What do...

From Daniel Kraus, the New York Times bestselling co-author of Academy Award-winning Best Picture The Shape of Water, comes Blood Sugar, the blood-curdling story of a Halloween where trick-or-treat becomes life or death... "A hard kick in the shins...

If you're looking for a gripping new crime series, you'll love Aline Templeton. Featuring DI Marjory Fleming - 'Big Marge' - and set in Galloway. If you enjoy novels by Ann Cleeves, Faith Martin, Val McDermid and LJ Ross, try Dead in the Water.'The crime...

'A chilling page-turner...Gripping and twisty, I was hooked until the last page.' Sophie Flynn, author of All My LiesThey're in your house.They want your life.And now, they have your baby. To the world, I'm @HappyWife. Online, people only see my...

A little lie ... a seismic secret ... and the cracks are beginning to show... In a reimagined contemporary Edinburgh, where a tectonic fault has opened up to produce a new volcano in the Firth of Forth, and where tremors are an everyday occurrence,...

What if YOUR PAST has caught up with you?A well-loved and totally unputdownable novel from the Sunday Times top ten bestselling author about a woman faced with an unimaginable dilemma.Reported for kidnapping her own eleven-month-old son, her face all...

A twisty, addictive psychological thriller about family, lies and the secrets we keep from those we love most.Avery is an obscure author whose recent disappearance is eerily similar to the death of a character in her latest thriller. Last seen walking...

THE FIRST IN THE MILLION-SELLING DCI EWERT GRENS SERIES, WINNER OF THE GLASS KEY 2005 FOR BEST SCANDINAVIAN CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR, AND AS HARD-HITTING A CRIME NOVEL AS YOU WILL EVER READ.'A must read' ObserverBernt Lund harbours a sickness. He is a...

Eighteen years ago Martha said goodbye to best friend Juliet on a moonlit London towpath.The next morning Juliet's bike was found abandoned at the waterside.She was never seen again.Nearly two decades later Martha is a TV celebrity, preparing to host a...

'A stone-cold Cold War classic' Toby Litt, GuardianA high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped. A secret British intelligence agency must find out why. But as the quarry is pursued from grimy Soho to the other side of the world, what seemed a...

'Extremely fast paced and completely page-turning ... like a nerve-shredding fusion of James Patterson and Thomas Harris, with a terrifying final act that will stay in my mind for a long time' B P Walter, Sunday Times-bestselling author of...

'An all-action court drama' Sunday Times on Summary JusticeShe was found hanging in a dingy London bedsit with a blood orange in her mouth. Diane Heybridge, a young woman without a past or much of a future, has captured in death the compassion denied her...

'Riveting... as shocking as it is brilliant' Daily Mail'A cleverly contrived reworking of the Kennedy assassination myth' The Times'A really terrific read' Literary ReviewDarkly imaginative alternative history thriller from the global bestseller and...

Ava Gold's employment options are rapidly shrinking and, not wanting to go back to driving minicabs, she lands herself a trial run at being nightclub owner Chris Street's personal driver. Chris is one of the men about town in Kellston, East London, and...

The latest atmospheric mystery from the author of the Richard and the Judy Book Club choice, The House on Half Moon Street. 'Exceptional - you hear and smell and taste Victorian London' Sarah Hilary The headlines scream warnings about the 'Butcher...