Thrillers

A sensational debut thriller from a master storyteller. A KILLER WITH A MESSAGE. Two men have been murdered. Both of them were school bullies when they were younger. Plenty of people would have wanted them dead. A single clue has been found at the...

GOLD. THEFT. MURDER. A ROAD TRIP TO DIE FOR.Winner of the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing PrizeShortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger AwardShortlisted for the Davitt Award for Best Adult Crime NovelShortlisted for the ACWA Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut...

1941, Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. An unforgettable story of love, hope and betrayal, and a testament to the courage of humanity in history's darkest days. University professor Josef Held has never recovered from the loss of his beloved wife - and has no...

YOUR NEIGHBOUR IS A KILLER . . . BUT WHICH ONE?The thrilling new 2023 Detective Jane Tennison crime novel from the Queen of Crime Drama - now available in paperback, eBook and audiobook._____________________Detective Inspector Jane Tennison was beginning...

'THE SURPRISES ARE FAST AND FURIOUS AND WILL LEAVE YOU BREATHLESS TO READ MORE' LISA GARDNER They say face your fears. Here I am. OLD ENEMIES... Francis Ackerman Jr. is one of America's most prolifific serial killers. Scarred from their past...

This is the story of how we grow old - how we give up the dreams of youth for something better - and how many chances we have to get it right. George Bailey has been given the gift we all dream of - the chance to live his life again.After...

Refusal is the new Dick Francis novel from bestseller, Felix Francis. When Sir Richard Stewart, chair of the horse racing authority, demands ex-investigator Sid Halley examines some suspicious races, he is given a firm no. Sid retired six years ago - and...

*Don't miss The Lost Wife - the brand new jaw-dropping thriller from Georgina Lees* 'Compelling, heartbreaking and beautifully written. This superb thriller will stay in my mind for a very long time' B P...

Her eyes are wide open. Her lips parted as if to speak. Her dead body frozen in the ice . . . She is not the only one. When a young boy discovers the body of a woman beneath a thick sheet of ice in a South London park, Detective Erika Foster is called in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912916528Author Clifford WittingFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo PublishersWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)...

A young drifter finds more than he bargained for when he agrees to deliver a parcel to an English country house... Little did Anthony Cade suspect that a simple errand on behalf of a friend would make him the centrepiece of a murderous...

The masterful Richard & Judy pick, from the Sunday Times bestselling author.Winner of the Irish Book Awards Crime Fiction Book of the Year.'A TRULY GREAT WRITER' Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl'ONE OF THE BEST CRIME WRITERS WORKING TODAY' GuardianYou...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800310124Author Mark RowleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Legend Press LtdPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams) 500g

* Pre-order LOYALTY, the brand new novel from Martina Cole. Coming October 2023. *Keep everything in the family. Even betrayal... BETRAYAL by the 'undisputed queen of crime writing' (Guardian) and Sunday Times No.1 bestseller Martina Cole is a gripping...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995507586Author Caimh McDonnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint McFori InkPublisher McFori InkWeight(grams) 454g

From the bestselling author of The American Boy, a No.1 Sunday Times best-seller and a Richard & Judy Book Club choice, comes another gripping historical crime novel Over 1 Million Andrew Taylor Novels Sold! A Times Historical Crime...

'will have you gripped from start to finish, so much so that you really don't want to stop reading!' (5 stars) Reader review'I was hooked straight in from the first chapter and it really didn't let up. Fast paced and thrilling.' (5 stars) Reader...

THE MOST GRIPPING, TWIST-FILLED THRILLER YOU'LL READ THIS SUMMER. FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE RUMOUR'A real page turner. An engrossing and suspenseful tale with absorbing characters and plenty of shocking twists.' Susan Lewis,...

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER THE CALLER. Detective Robert Hunter of the LAPD's Homicide Special Section receives an anonymous call asking him to go to a specific web address - a private broadcast. Hunter logs on and a...

The Winter Secret is a thrilling mystery from Lulu Taylor, top ten bestselling author of The Snow Rose.'My dear boy, the place is cursed. It always has been and it always will be . . .'Buttercup Redmain has a life of pampered luxury, living in beautiful...

THE RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK FOR AUTUMN 2022 Can YOU guess who killed Jamie Lawrence? ***Don't miss the new spectacularly entertaining thriller from Celia Walden - THE SQUARE is available to pre-order now***'Impossible to put down' HELEN...

'A beautifully written and intriguing story that stayed with me long after I had turned the last page' Santa Montefiore. 'I wanted to live in this story. Jane Johnson writes with such grace and ease' Carol Drinkwater. One house, two women, a lifetime...

FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR'Dazzlingly inventive'Sunday Times, Crime Book of the Month'A meticulously plotted exploration of friendship, foe-ship and the lies that bind, which builds to a gripping and powerful conclusion'Cara Hunter**********...

The Snow Angel is a deliciously dark family saga from Lulu Taylor, the bestselling author of The Winter Folly.A forbidden passion. A lifetime of consequences. In 1960s London, Cressida Felbridge is living the high life as a debutante when she is courted...

*The new novel in the bestselling Sharpe series - SHARPE'S COMMAND - is available to pre-order now* SHARPE IS BACK. The global bestseller Bernard Cornwell returns...

'Kept me furiously turning the pages. What a ride!...A dark, devious and devastatingly twisted tale.' Alice Hunter, author of The Serial Killer's WifeHer missing daughter was just the start of the nightmareTwenty years ago, Christine Donovan took a call...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERSOMEONE'S GETTING MARRIED. SOMEONE'S GETTING MURDERED.'Tense, terrifying' Clare MackintoshNora hasn't seen Clare for ten years. Not since the day Nora walked out of her old life and never looked back. Until, out of the...

It began with a phone call... Has he now made a promise he can't keep? A gripping Myron Bolitar novel from the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author of SIX YEARS.The 2am phone call is from a young, frightened, lost girl who has called the one adult who had...

Agatha Christie's ingenious murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Beautiful Caroline Crale was convicted of poisoning her husband, yet there were...

A dam breaks. A body rises from the flood. Hidden for decades, can this small town face the secrets that will surface?**THE TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR****SUNDAY TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH**Young detective Nell Buchanan uncovers a deadly, decades-old...

'One of the most interesting detectives in crime fiction' THE TIMESThere is more to solving a crime than following the clues.Welcome to Chief Inspector Gamache's world of facts and feelings.Hardly a day goes by when nine-year-old Laurent Lepage doesn't...

Welcome to HMP Ashcroft. A women's prison run by a corrupt governor who will impose his will at any cost - with brutal consequences. The Women is a gripping street crime thriller from bestselling author Jacqui Rose.Within these walls, friendships are...

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S 2022 SUMMER PICKS'Le Carre at his finest' Mick Herron, GuardianJulian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the City for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But after only a couple of months...

WATERSTONES SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018!*******'Scotland's Outer Hebrides provides the sensuous setting for this impressive debut...a beautifully crafted novel' - Publishers Weekly'Lovely atmospheric descriptions of Hebridean light and landscape' -...

An ordinary photograph causes a mother's world to unravel in this shocking thriller from the bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix drama Fool Me Once. When Grace Lawson picks up a newly developed set of family photographs, there is a picture...

'The last line will make you literally shout with shock' Good Housekeeping'Terrifically twisty ... hooks from the first page' Sunday TimesOn a bright morning in the London suburbs, a family moves into the house they've just bought on Trinity Avenue...

BE PREPARED TO PUT YOUR LIFE ON HOLD FOR THIS ADDICTIVE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING THRILLER - WITH A TWIST THAT YOU WILL NEVER SEE COMING.'A jaw dropping last line twist' Lisa Jewell, #1 bestselling author of The Family Upstairs'Impossible to put down'...

'A chiller with a puzzling mystery that manages to be a tearjerker too. Prepare for sleepless nights' GraziaEven the deepest-buried secrets can find their way to the surface...Moments before she dies, Nicola's grandmother Betty whispers to her that there...

Perfect for fans of The Familiars and The Glass House, this is the intoxicating story of one woman's fight for freedom in Victorian England. 'Outstanding gothic psychological thriller!' 'Fantastic character and fantastic story. Buy this book'...

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that...