Thrillers

Could the child once accused of murder really be innocent?'So good . . . Ballantyne makes it look easy' NEW YORK TIMES'Beautifully told' DAILY MAIL'Thought-provoking and unsettling' ALEX GRAY'A breathless thriller' WOMAN'S OWN'Had me turning the pages...

DEAVER. DANGEROUSLY GOOD.Henry Loving is a 'lifter', hired to extract information from his victims. He is very, very good at it.His next target is a Washington, D.C. detective, whose family are immediately put under government protection. The man...

'My most anticipated book of the year' - Peter F. Hamilton, Britain's no.1 science fiction writerChildren of Ruin follows Adrian Tchaikovsky's extraordinary Children of Time, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke award. It is set in the same universe, with new...

'WHAT DID I JUST READ...What a jaw dropping twist!' Reader Review, Her child is missing. And she'd do anything to find her... Every Friday Mercy Hamilton goes to the same supermarket. She doesn't go...

Can Captain Jack Aubrey and his crew defy the odds, and outmanoeuvre the French, to take two small but vital islands in the Indian Ocean? Life ashore on half pay, despite the joys of family life, is unlikely to satisfy a man of action such as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593545836Author Rachel HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 244g

'A thoroughly gripping and mesmerising work of black comedy and political disaster' - GuardianWinner of the 2017 Prix GoncourtEric Vuillard's gripping novel The Order of the Day tells the story of the pivotal meetings which took place between the...

'Louise Penny's writing is intricate, beautiful and compelling' PETER JAMESThere is more to solving a crime than following the clues.Welcome to Chief Inspector Gamache's world of facts and feelings.Winter in Three Pines, and the sleepy village is...

Moral Compass is a deeply meaningful and thought-provoking story from the worldwide bestselling author, Danielle Steel.Saint Ambrose Prep has been the school of choice for the sons of the great and the good for over a hundred years. Now, for the first...

'A truly original voice' Peter JamesDreda Say Mitchell was awarded an MBE in Her Majesty The Queen's 2020 New Year's Honours ListBOOK 2 in the FLESH AND BLOOD series, BLOOD MOTHER shifts to the 70s to tell the troubled tale of one East London family...

Hornet's Nest is the first book in the Andy Brazil series, from bestselling author Patricia Cornwell.Deputy Chief Virginia West likes and respects her boss, Hammer, but with an increasing number of visiting businessmen being murdered in her city by a...

An unmissable thriller that readers are calling 'the best book ever' from the Sunday Times Number One bestselling author of Both Of You... Lost. Missing. Murdered? And both her husbands are...

WHO WILL BELIEVE YOUR STORY IF THE ONLY WITNESS IS DEAD?'So different, so superbly written. At no point did I know the ending' REAL READER REVIEW'Rachel has done what she is best at...leaving me on the edge of my seat, unable to do anything...

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**********...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781805411536Author Martin WebbFormat PaperbackPage Count 426Imprint Publishing Push LTDPublisher Publishing Push LTD

*****Part of the bestselling John Shakespeare series of Tudor spy thrillers from Rory Clements, winner of the Ellis Peters Historical Fiction Award*****'[Clements] does for Elizabeth's reign what CJ Sansom does for Henry VIII's' Sunday...

Dee Henderson Is Back! Ann Silver is a cop's cop. As the Midwest Homicide Investigator, she is called in to help local law enforcement on the worst of cases, looking for answers to murder. Hers is one of the region's most trusted investigative positions...

"Sir, the First Lady ... has gone rogue."President Tucker is caught up in a media firestorm. The scandal of his affair has sent shockwaves through his re-election campaign, and threatens to derail everything he has worked for. To win the vote, he needs...

October 1938, and foreign correspondent Jack Telford is on the run in northern Spain, territory now controlled by Franco's fascists. And he's killed somebody close to the Generalisimo's heart. Telford's a hunted man, and hunted by three different and...

Introducing Jonas Flynt. Gambler. Thief. Killer. Man of honour.Longlisted for the McIlvanney Prize 2023'Fast, furious and with a glint of gallows humour, this is high-octane historical fiction' Daily Mail'Swashbuckling action against a vivid historical...

Prepare to feel paranoid with this deliciously addictive, Sunday Times bestselling psychological thriller.Someone knows Astrid's darkest secret. And they're going to have fun with it . . .It's been 192 days, seven hours and fifteen minutes since her last...

'Jurassic Park with dragons' NEIL OLIVER'Completely believable' WASHINGTON POSTGET READY FOR ACTION ON A GIGANTIC SCALEThe Chinese government has been keeping a secret for forty years: they have found a species of animal no one believed even existed.Now...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590170571Author Adolfo Bioy CasaresFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

'A glittering, entertaining, perfectly formed whodunnit' ADELE PARKSThe newly married and most beautiful of the Mitford sisters, Diana, hot-steps around Europe with her husband and fortune heir Bryan Guinness, accompanied by maid Louisa Cannon, as well...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800197275Author K L SlaterFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint BookouturePublisher BookoutureWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 19mm

'Original' Clare Mackintosh'Will keep you gripped . . . and rooting for a rather wonderful heroine' Sunday Mirror'James Bond should retire now . . . puts the sass in assassin as it's never been done before' L. S. Hilton***'Adroitly combines social and...

'The phenomenal Patterson, one of the great storytellers of our time, does not often produce a new character, but he does here to stunning effect' Daily Mail'A gutsy heroine. A ticking clock. A breathless pace. Wow! This one had me reeling' JANE...

Can you forgive the past?It's 1963 and a young German reporter has been assigned the suicide of a holocaust survivor. The news story seems straighforward, this is a tragic insight into one man's suffering. But a long hidden secret is discovered in the...

Sally is watching the news with her husband when she hears a name she ought not to recognise: Mark Bretherick. Last year, a business trip Sally had planned was cancelled at the last minute. Desperate for a break from her busy life juggling her career and...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD 'What a ride!' India Knight, Sunday Times Summer reads 'Thrilling... a sumptuous feast of plotting and intrigue' Mail on Sunday 'A complete joy' Bettany Hughes 'Gloriously immersive'...

'Compulsive, edgy and fabulous twists!' B A Paris'Few writers can match Jane Corry' Cara HunterHE CHEATED. HE LIED . . . HE DIED.Vicki's husband David once promised to love her in sickness and in health. But after a brutal attack left her suffering with...

THE TWISTY NEW THRILLER FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE RUMOUR'Startlingly original . . . It's hard to think of a recent novel than can match it for an almost unbearable level of suspense' Sunday Times'I loved this absorbing, twisty...

THE NAIL-BITING SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR'Is this the best crime writer in the world today?' The Times'A world-class crime writer . . . One of the most astonishing plots of modern crime fiction' Sunday Times'It is...

A gripping new psychological thriller from P.R. Black, where a couple relocate to their dream house, only to find it a place of gangland violence and murder...The dream home. The perfect nightmare. Vonny and Seth dream of a place in the country, but...

A sumptuous, shocking, steamy thriller set in the vineyards of California's Napa Valley🍷🍇 What happens when the husband you thought died years ago shows up alive? 'This novel has it all.....

The hunt is on - but this time Stephanie's the prey...Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is on the chase of her life in To The Nines, the ninth hilarious crime adventure in the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich. The perfect read for fans of JD Robb and...

Now a major Netflix film starring Mila Kunis.'A great story that you can't put down!' - Reese WitherspoonLuckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll is an audacious, page-turning debut thriller that will appeal to fans of Gillian Flynn, Paula Hawkins and Jodi...

'One of the most purely entertaining books you'll read this year. It's a blast' JOHN CONNOLLY'A fantastic thriller writer' MARK BILLINGHAMFRAUD. BLACKMAIL. MURDER.IT'S ALL IN A DAY'S WORK FOR EDDIE FLYNN.When David Child, a major client of a corrupt New...

THERE'S NOWHERE TO RUNWilliam Jaeger is a former SAS soldier who has spent years thwarting attempts to revive the Nazi movement in the modern world. With international security restored, he is reluctantly thrust back into action when he uncovers evidence...

An unbelievably twisty, tension-packed psychological thriller from bestselling author Keri BeevisA radio DJ is tormented by a twisted killer, who has a gruesome request.I was nineteen when I discovered my boyfriend's father was a serial killer. I...