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General Charles de Fourge intends to usurp the role of the current President of France by stirring up anti-Semitic and anti-German feeling by a campaign of terrorism. It takes the efforts of Tweed, Paula and their team of agents to prevent de Fourge's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847510143Author Emerson ColeFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Severn House Paperbacks LtdPublisher Severn House Publishers Ltd

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 AND THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2016 Part mystery, part psychological drama, Julia Rochester's The House at the Edge of the World is a darkly comic, unorthodox and thrilling debut When I was...

Malachi Thorndyke, former soldier, smuggler, drunk, is living in the South Australian Reclamation when he is given a smuggling job. His mission will take him to New Jerusalem, the capital of the Christian fundamentalist state that America has become.Book...

IIndia Black, one of Victorian London's most respected madams, is puzzled when Colonel Francis Mayhew forwards an innocuous shipping bill to her address, but furious when thugs break down her door and steal it. Mayhew has been butchered and India makes a...

The true story of a group of four boys brought up in New York's notorious Mafia-run Hell's Kitchen during the 1960s. After nearly causing a man's death, they were sent to a reformatory where guards routinely brutalized them, leaving them with nothing but...

A darkly funny, moving and original novel about a man coming to terms with the corruption around him and the conscience within. Harry Fielding is a shabby, solitary, but basically cheerful sort, living in a seamy flat in London and subsisting on a diet...

In Green River State Penitentiary 2800 convicts sweat it out in a labyrinth of granite, glass and steel until the violence of men erupts in a cataclysm of ferocity. On the day that Ray Klein wins his parole, the prison is taken over by its inmates and...

DAN STEELE is an adman with a career that is about to go stratospheric. Dan is cold-hearted, ruthless and completely without morals in his job, and will steal ideas from anyone. He has just stolen a completely brilliant campaign idea from a no-hoper...

It opens with a killing- an undercover cop is forced to witness the murder of his partner. A drug kingpin named Junior is the man who arranged the hit. Val Duran is the cop. The killing is the catalyst that sends Val on the run and Heartbreaker off and...

'Artful and beautifully ambiguous' Irish Independent 'Captivating and entertaining' RTE Eight-year-old Jess and her little brother were playing at the water's edge when their parents vanished. For hours the children held hands and waited for them to...

When MI5 agent-runner Liz Carlyle is moved from Counter-Terrorism to the Industrial Espionage Section, it looks very much as if she has been sidelined. While vetting the director of a top-secret research establishment in the Peak District, however, Liz...

Ana, an FBI agent in Los Angeles, is facing the moral dilemma of suing her department for sex discrimination, and being told that her cousin's children, recently orphaned, are now her responsibility. On top of this, she has to grapple with a major drugs...

The mysterious, enigmatic Seraphin Monge, having avenged the horrific murder of his family, has vanished as abruptly as he appeared. His brief sojourn in the village of his birth has touched the lives of the villagers, and he is much mourned by the women...

Emily Gibson has come to Japan as a missionary, to start a new life. In America her beauty drove men wild. In Japan she possesses no beauty at all. Matthew Stark speaks like a missionary but wears a pistol like a gunslinger. Emily has come to Japan to...

'I've just heard a crazy thing, thought it might amuse you. You look as though you need cheering up.' Burden seated himself on the corner of the desk, a favourite perch. Wexford thought he was thinner than ever. 'Woman phoned to say she and her husband...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780091794392Author Rendell, RuthFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint HutchinsonPublisher Cornerstone

From the author of SIMISOLA, a novel featuring Chief Inspector Wexford, whose wife allies herself to a protest movement when a by-pass is planned for Kingsmarkham, but the plot thickens when the lifeless body of a young woman is discovered, and people go...

Only 18 black people live in Kingsmarkham. One is Wexford's new doctor. When the doctor's daughter goes missing, the Chief Inspector takes more than just a professional interest in the case, which tests not only his powers of deduction, but his beliefs...

When two British aid-workers are taken hostage in Beirut, the Government devises a plan to rescue them. Working on intelligence reports, they send fighter aircraft to intercept an airliner en route to Libya with orders to shoot it down if it refuses to...

You can erase the memory. But you cannot erase the crime. Jenny's wounds have healed. An experimental treatment has removed the memory of a horrific and degrading attack. She is moving on with her life. That was the plan. Except it's not working out...

Get ready for the biggest thriller of 2018! What did she see? It's been ten long months since Anna Fox last left her home. Ten months during which she has haunted the rooms of her old New York house like a ghost, lost in her memories, too terrified to...

`You couldn't make it up. Brilliant.' Jeffrey Archer `Decades of war has given James Deegan a natural ability to create a world that is incredibly realistic and exciting. This takes military fiction to a whole new level entirely. Deegan is a master' Tom...

The award-winning and Number One bestselling Val McDermid crafts an electrifying psychological suspense thriller that mixes history, heritage and heinous crimes. A 200 year-old-secret is now a matter of life and death. And it could be worth a fortune...

A stunning new thriller in the vein of Velocity and The Husband from one of the world's bestselling authors. After a day's work hefting brick and stone, Tim Carrier slakes his thirst at The Lamplighter Tavern. Nothing heavy happens there. It's a friendly...

Maverick USAF pilot Patrick McLanahan is caught up in explosive events in the Middle East in this new high-action adventure from the bestselling author of FLIGHT OF THE OLD DOG and WARRIOR CLASS. With the authenticity expected of a former pilot and the...

London's Second City has been the scene of many a terrifying crime, but the discovery of a pile of infant skulls unearthed near police headquarters is particularly horrifying. Another major worry for John Coffin, Chief Commander, is a triple murder on...

The new atmospheric thriller by the author of the outstanding The Eye of Ra. The murder in Cairo of Dr al-Ghali, Egyptian-born adviser to the US President, brought both the local police and the FBI to the scene. Feisty, country-born Lieutenant Sami is...

Two years after the death of her partner, homicide investigator Merci Rayborn has finally pulled her life back together, living with her father and dating fellow officer Mike McNally. Then Mike emerges as the prime suspect in the murder of a young...

Complex psychological thriller from the author of When the Ashes Burn: 'Phil Lovesey is among the most talented of the new wave of young British crime writers' Marcel Berlins, The Times As a seven-year-old boy, William Dickson goes into the woods with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780006386315Author Lee SelleckFormat PaperbackPage Count 357Imprint HarperCollins CanadaPublisher HarperCollins CanadaWeight(grams) 544g

From the acclaimed author of NIGHT TRAP, the third exhilarating tale of modern espionage and military adventure featuring US Navy intelligence officer Alan Craik - sure to appeal to the many fans of Tom Clancy and Dale Brown. The Alan Craik novels -...

Marks the return of Nicholas Newman, the architect protagonist of the bestselling The Amethysts, which the critics called 'unforgettable'. Played out in the arena of football, Pearl is a compelling story in which the past rises to dominate the present...

'Brilliant twisty dark farce' ERIN KELLY 'A nail bitingly tense and original book' SHARON BOLTON 'Compulsive, horrifying and irresistibly funny' VAL MCDERMID Shortly after Christmas, a message arrives at Sophie's house, scrawled across her own round...

In October 1986 the bodies of two nine-year-old Brighton girls were found in undergrowth close to their homes. After three years, the case was still unsolved. Having interviewed relatives and gained access to documents, the author has uncovered new...

The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known--and cautiously avoided--by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood. David Simon, an...

Before Al Capone and Lucky Luciano, there was the one-fingered, cunning Giuseppe Morello and his murderous coterie of brothers. Had it not been for Morello, the world may never have heard of 'men of honour', the code of omertaor Mafia wars. This...

1067. In the desolate wastes of Greenland, a band of hunters discover a strangely-shaped meteor which has fallen from the sky. At first, the mysterious 'sky-stone' seems to bring good luck, healing a lame boy and guaranteeing a good catch of furs. But...

Part 3 of The Dead Trilogy Michael Forsythe might be, as one of his assailants puts it, 'un-f*cking-killable', but that doesn't seem to deter people from trying. He's living in Lima, reasonably well-hidden by the FBI's Witness Protection Program, but...

This is shortlisted for the CWA International Dagger. How do you dolve a murder without a body? Keeping watch under the windows of the Paris flat belonging to a politician's nephew, ex-special investigator Louis Kehlweiler catches sight of something odd...