Thrillers

When a strange woman slips a note into grieving widow Paula's pocket at her husband's funeral, everything suggests that he was not all that he seemed ... A devastatingly moving, explosive psychological thriller from the international bestselling author...

'A compelling story that will keep you up past your bedtime' KARIN SLAUGHTHER'One of the best thriller writers working today' LEE CHILDA DEAD MURDERER. A LIVING LIE . . .______A mother and her son have been executed in their home.Fingerprint matches...

The brand new Oswald de Lacy thriller, for fans of C.J. Sansom, Minette Walters and S.J. Parris.A Publishers Weekly Book of the Year!'Living legends Andrew Taylor and Susanna Gregory; bestselling phenomena SJ Parris and CJ Sansom... a league of...

'Brilliantly disturbing and funny at the same time' Ben Aaronovitch on the Laundry Files'Tremendously good, geeky fun' Telegraph on the Laundry FilesNEVER VOLUNTEER FOR ACTIVE DUTY . . .Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671035464Author Stephen HunterFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 171mm * 107mm *...

From the bestselling author of HOME TRUTHS comes an addictive psychological suspense with a shock twist you WON'T see coming . . . Six friends. One reunion. Countless secrets. It had always been the six of us. Since we met at university twenty-five...

Mark Twain's witty, satirical tale of childhood rebellion against hypocritical adult authority, the Penguin Classics edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is edited with a critical introduction by Peter Coveney.Mark Twain's story of a boy's...

A New York Times Editor's Choice A Herald's Best Summer Book'An unusual and accomplished first novel . . . moves in intriguing leaps and twists.' Economist'Gorgeous' New York Times'Grapples with the complexity of familial love.' Marie ClaireFrench...

The Times Thrillers of the Year 2020 'Superbly crafted with heart-stopping twists and chills galore. A new star has arrived in the thriller firmament' The Times, Book of the Month Gabriela is a senior...

From the author of Harry's Game - A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pickIn a village on the Suffolk coast, Frank Perry waits for his past to arrive. A decade before he spied for the Government on the Iranian chemical and...

Action thriller by the classic adventure writer about security consultant, Max Stafford, set in Kenya. When a legacy of GBP40 million is left to a small college in Kenya, investigations begin about the true identities of the heirs - the South...

DISCOVER THE EXPLOSIVE THRILLER IN THE BESTSELLING JACK RYAN SERIESA NOOSE IS TIGHTENING AROUND PRESIDENT JACK RYAN'S AMERICA . . .______A container ship from Shanghai explodes on its approach to Seattle.A US spy vessel in the South China Sea tangles...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780727896728Author Adrian MagsonFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Severn House Large Print BooksPublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 555g

To marry is madness.To escape is impossible. 'The Darlings of the Asylum by Noel O'Reilly grips like a vice' Nicola Cornick In 1886, a respectable young woman must acquire a husband. But Violet Pring longs...

Fear is just the beginning...Kristin Burns has lived her life by the philosophy, 'don't think, just shoot' - pictures that is. Struggling to make ends meet, she works full time as nanny to the fabulously wealthy Turnbull family, looking after their two...

The Simulacrum is the most famous lost movie in film history - would you tell someone your darkest secrets, just to lay hands on a copy? 104-year-old Mary Arden is the last surviving cast member of a notorious lost film. Holed up in Garthside, an Art...

THE GRIPPING STORY OF LIES AND MURDER HAUNTING THE DARKEST CORNERS OF TOKYO, SET AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF THE 2020 OLYMPICS . . .'Japan-set noir doesn't get any darker or more twisted than this' Sunday Times Crime Club 'Masterpiece' JEFFERY DEAVER 'A...

She's accused of four murders. She's only guilty of three...When Ruby was a child growing up in Miami, she saw a boy from her school struggling against the ocean waves while his parents were preoccupied. Instead of helping him, Ruby dove under the water...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954938410Author Willow RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Buoy MediaPublisher Buoy MediaWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm

Amid the heat of Brazil, explosives expert Jaq Silver has one goal - vengeance. When her enemies take what she treasures most, she will do anything to make them pay. But a series of betrayals leave Jaq unsure of those she can trust, and she realises...

THE SUNDAY TIMES 60 BEST THRILLERS AND CRIME NOVELS OF THE PAST 6 YEARS PICK - A CAPITAL CRIME AND A CHILLING CONSPIRACY AWAIT DCI EWERT GRENS.'A powerful, multi-layered novel' Guardian'A mesmerising crime narrative' IndependentONE CELLA convicted...

***Winner of the August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel***'Come home.' Vera's mother called and Vera obeyed. In spite of their long estrangement, in spite of the memories - she's come back to the home of a serial killer. Back to face the love she had...

These three stories find the Saint flushing out swindlers in inimitable style. In The Logical Adventure Templar is on the tail of a famous aviator who has a sideline in drug smuggling and human trafficking. In The Wonderful War the Saint travels to the...

The smart, sophisticated and completely gripping new thriller from the author of Richard & Judy pick THE RECOVERY OF ROSE GOLD'Expertly paced, hugely unsettling and perfectly dark' ASHLEY AUDRAIN'Slick, smart and terrifying' 5***** READER REVIEW'Gripping...

A Times 'Best New Thriller' for May 2022 'Enthralling ... Sharp dialogue and flashes of dry wit' Financial Times 'Ben Creed has a genuine gift for conjuring up Stalin's Leningrad in all its beauty and misery' The Times 'A cleverly constructed thriller'...

TO TIE-IN WITH THE SONY/YELLOW BIRD PRODUCTION STARRING CLAIRE FOY AS LISBETH SALANDER - RELEASED NOVEMBER 2018Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist have not been in touch for some time.Then Blomkvist is contacted by renowned Swedish scientist Professor...

Hatusu, the remarkable young widow of Pharaoh Tuthmosis II, has forced Egyptian society to acknowledge her as Pharaoh, and her success in battle is spreading Egypt's glory well beyond its frontiers. In the Temple of Anubis, Hatusu and the defeated King...

A multi-layered and unnerving portrait of gangland Glasgow, For Those Who Know the Ending is the gripping novel from the award-winning author of The Glasgow Trilogy, Malcolm Mackay. He has to clear thoughts of Joanne and thoughts of the past out of his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316317177Author James PattersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint BookshotsPublisher BookshotsWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 175mm * 124mm * 13mm

A heart-stopping new psychological thriller from international bestseller, Emily Elgar, inspired by a shocking true-life story'Grips to the very last page - a tense, twisted tale' T.M. Logan, bestselling author of THE HOLIDAY'I was completely hooked'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780620941273Author Jess KitchingFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Kingsley PublishersPublisher Kingsley PublishersWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

The brand new Covert-One thriller from a master storyteller and global bestseller.When a US Special Forces team is wiped out by a group of normally peaceful farmers in Uganda, Covert-One operative Jon Smith is sent to investigate. Video of the attack...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789176377000Author Richard ConnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Wisehouse ClassicsPublisher Wisehouse ClassicsWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

WINNER OF THE 2011 CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER. A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 5 BESTSELLER. AND SOON TO BE A HOLLYWOOD BLOCKBUSTER - SCANDINAVIAN CRIME DOES NOT GET MORE EXPLOSIVE.'Extraordinarily compelling' Daily Mail'Three Seconds is just about how long it feels...

A brutal killer is on the streets of Rome. He leaves no trace. And shows no mercy. A series of gruesome murders leaves the police force in Rome reeling, with no real clues or hard evidence to follow. Assigned to the case is Sandra Vega, a brilliant...

From the author of Sunday Times bestseller and Richard & Judy Book Club pick, Baby Doll, comes a riveting thriller with domestic violence, murder and how far one woman will go to protect her family at its core.'Every bit as gripping as her best-selling...

'Quick's ambitious novel, set during the golden age of Hollywood, sparkles with wit and clever plotting' Publishers WeeklyEscape into a glittering bygone world, where beauty and glamour meet deception and revenge . . . Investigative apprentice Lyra...

Selected by Marcel Berlins in The Times as one of the 50 best crime novels of the last 50 years: 'Deon Meyer is acclaimed for his portrayals of crime and the police after the end of apartheid. Non-white detectives hold positions once monopolised by...

Five years after the horrific crash of TWA Flight 800 over Long Island which killed 230 people, John Corey is inadvertently caught up in the now-closed case by his FBI lawyer wife, Kate, who believes the government's findings of mechanical failure is...

Snow Blind is the fourth book in P.J. Tracy's bestselling Twin Cities series.The Dead of Winter... Minneapolis, winter's first white flakes; a park full of snowmen. But the layers of packed snow hide a ghoulish surprise.First, the bodies of two cops are...