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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780712639330Author George BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 440Imprint Barrie & JenkinsPublisher VintageWeight(grams) 156g

Set in Washington D.C., this fascinating thriller of unparalleled suspense dares to explore an unthinkable abuse of power and criminal conspiracy: a vicious murder involving the US President and a cover-up orchestrated by his zealously loyal Chief of...

The sequel to "A Real Shot in the Arm" which won the 1989 John Creasey Award for best crime novel. It features the heroine Chris, a middle-aged housewife turned local journalist/sleuth, determined to uncover a murder mystery.Book...

A psychological thriller set in New York and Los Angeles involving a serial killer whose signature is a piece of popcorn. Lieutenant Santomassimo realizes that the murders are planned and inspired by the films of Alfred Hitchcock. The author also wrote...

Just after lunch on a Tuesday in April, nine feet under water, police diver Flea Marley closes her gloved fingers around a human hand. The fact that there's no body attached is disturbing enough. Yet more disturbing is the discovery, a day later, of the...

The killing of a young girl in a small Mexican village ignites a powder-trail of gossip that erupts in tragic violence, in this suspenseful tale from the writer of the acclaimed film "Amores Perros".Book InformationISBN 9780571214167Author...

It is autumn in the little Somerset town of Glastonbury. Lance Bradley is just beginning to feel that he is idling away his life there as usual when he receives a call for help from the eccentric sister of his old friend Rupert Alder. Inexplicably, Rupe...

An American journalist arrives in present-day Moscow to investigate his father's suicide in 1953. But his father was involved with a CIA mission so sensitive that both the American and Russians will do anything to keep its details secret. From the author...

A dispute with his masters sees Foster leaving SIS headquarters in West Germany and starting work for the East Germans. The British must find him, fast. He has a directory of West Germans collaborators with the brutal East German intelligence service. As...

Published to coincide with the publication of "A Wilderness of Mirrors," Ted Allebury's latest novel, "The Seeds of Treason" has been reissued in a new jacket. This earlier novel recounts the story of individuals from the West and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449239063Author Desmond BagleyFormat PaperbackImprint Fawcett BooksPublisher Fawcett BooksWeight(grams) 150g

Following his wife's betrayal and his own retirement from the force, Detective Inspector Elder has fled as far as it is possible to go in England without running out of land. But he is haunted by the past and in particular by the unsolved disappearance...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399126147Author Lawrence SandersFormat HardbackPage Count 444Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 794g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399148330Author Jack HigginsFormat HardbackPage Count 289Imprint G P Putnam's SonsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 612g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399145629Author Dick FrancisFormat HardbackPage Count 293Imprint Putnam Publishing GroupPublisher Putnam Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 712g

A haunting and heart-breaking new thriller from the author of the word-of-mouth bestseller The Girl With All the Gifts Fellside is a maximum security prison on the edge of the Yorkshire moors. It's not the kind of place you'd want to end up. But it's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912456161Author Claire WelchFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Pillar Box Red Publishing LtdPublisher Pillar Box Red Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 272g

Jonah Said is a loner and a troublemaker, shipped off by the British army to work with the UN in the buffer zone between Kuwait and Iraq, because they want him out of harm's way.Big mistake.From the minute he lands, Jonah becomes drawn into a deadly...

This is a Steven Madden mystery. For Steve Madden, Brighton is no longer beaches, fish and chips and amusement arcades. It's also a place of murder. Estranged from his son and grappling with the jealousy that comes from watching your ex-wife getting...

Philip Bartley picks up a hitch-hiker one rainy night, hoping for sexual favours. But when the car crashes into a hedge, she is nowhere to be seen. Reverend Peter Darley has a mortal sin on his conscience and finds that even the church cannot provide...

This is a legal thriller with the Old Bailey and a West Country village as its main settings. It features a jaundiced barrister trying to deal with the creaking British legal system.Book InformationISBN 9780340639733Author Dexter DiasFormat PaperbackPage...

A courtroom thriller set in the English justice system.Book InformationISBN 9780340632314Author Jonathan DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Coronet BooksPublisher Hodder & StoughtonWeight(grams) 185g

A drama set in a world where money means much more than morals, and force of will is the thing a man - or woman - needs in order to succeed. The author also wrote "Fire Lance", "The Highest Ground", "Frankenstein's Children"...

"Canceleer" is a modern adventure story set amidst the tensions of the Middle East, a Baedeker to the seamy fringe between the worlds of secret intelligence and organized crime, and a psychosexual drama that explores the perverse fascination...

The body of a dead cat is found in St Pat's church and the priest finds signs of a black mass. Then when the priest is murdered, Jimmy Flannery finds he is investigating murder. The first of the author's Jimmy Flannery books, "The Junkyard...

Kate Power is newly promoted - and in charge of her own station. So in addition to getting used to the pressures of responsibility and gaining the respect of a new team, she has to get to know a new neighbourhood, with new problems and new crimes. When...

Jean, Michael and Steph are three reluctant loners who are getting by. Damaged and fearful of life, they cannot survive alone for much longer. A mixture of deceit, good luck and misfortune draw them together to Walden Manor, a secluded and gracious...

Two brothers, one an executive at a bank and the other in an entry-level position, hatch a plot to steal three million dollars. Using a sophisticated computer program, they plan to transfer the money into an account only they can access. But after the...

Tim Cranmer, retired secret servant, and Larry Pettifer, bored radical don, philanderer and for twenty years Tim's mercurial double agent against the now vanished Communist threat, have an unresolved rivalry that dates back decades. They follow each...

A Yardie shooting and the rape and murder of a twelve-year-old girl appear to be two unrelated crimes. The notorious criminal, 'Capper', is quickly identified by a witness of the first killing, but Sgt Fox is having difficulties pinning the second on her...

Dido thinks she's onto a good thing when a colleague offers to let her take the big deal he's been offered. The seller is the ex-lover of a famous poet, and wants to let Dido handle the sale of her collection - which includes some wonderful documents as...

Set in Carlisle in 1592, this is the third thriller to feature Sir Robert Carey. In this mystery, Sir Robert is on a dangerous mission across the Scottish border in search of stolen guns.Book InformationISBN 9780340671603Author P. F. ChisholmFormat...

This is a thrilling tale with a touch of horror. It follows Jonty who wakes up in hospital not believing the woman who claims to be his wife, until she mentions his own private fallen angel.Book InformationISBN 9780340659915Author Chaz BrenchleyFormat...

Something elseBook InformationISBN 9780340640371Author Elizabeth IronsideFormat PaperbackPage Count 425Imprint Coronet BooksPublisher Hodder & StoughtonWeight(grams) 236g

When the body-count soars at the Whitcomb Funeral Homes, the treasurer suspects foul play and consults Palm Beach detective Archy McNally. The Whitcomb family proves to be a hotbed of violent clashes, questionable business practices, family scandals -...

Dr Kate Martin, marketing supremo at Randall-Webber Pharmaceuticals, has just launched the most revolutionary drug of the century. Called Genelife, it dramatically slows the ageing process, leaving the user looking and feeling younger. But soon people...

Private eye Carlotta Carlyle faces two cases of family obsession which lead her into a world of counterfeit drugs and a conspiracy that threatens to rock the foundations of one of Boston's finest hospitals. This Carlotta Carlyle mystery follows "The...

New York Police Lieutenant, Frank Janek, hero of Bayer's best-selling "Switch", returns from Venice to hunt the killer of his beloved goddaughter and several others who have been viciously murdered in New York. Other books by the author are...

This story features the character of James Bond. Bond is the victim of a plot by Colonel Sun of the People's Liberation Army of China. M has been abducted, but Bond appears to be the target of this plot to discredit the British Secret Service.Book...

Bond is back on secret loan to the US government and primed to confront an old and deadly adversary which now has a sinister new leader and a devastating operation underway. In partnership with the daughter of his old friend Felix Leiter, Bond...