Suspense

Once you're in the family, you're in it for life... Devastatingly powerful, THE FAMILY by the 'undisputed queen of crime writing' (Guardian) and Sunday Times No.1 bestseller Martina Cole reaches the darkest corners of family life. Philip Murphy expects...

Fans of Lisa Jewell, Cara Hunter and Karin Slaughter will love this bone chilling, spellbinding thriller from Richard & Judy bestselling author Sharon Bolton. With a pacy narrative, a terrific heroine, a sinister plot and plenty of forensic detail,...

'One of the best Nordic Noir writers' - GuardianA trip behind the Iron Curtain would change their lives forever . . .It begins in 1969. Six young people arrive in Uppsala, Sweden. Different circumstances push the three young couples together and, over...

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...

Television producer Laurie Moran has spent her career solving cold cases on-screen. But her next case takes place away from the glare of the spotlights . . . and the missing person is a member of her growing family. Laurie is just days away from her...

Readers of PD James, Ann Cleeves and Donna Leon will love this deliciously tense and suspenseful thriller from multi-million copy and SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author Ruth Rendell. An absolute page-turner you won't be able to stop reading...'If crime...

* * THE IRISH TIMES AND KINDLE No. 1 BESTSELLER * *Shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger_______________________________I was the girl who survived the Nothing Man. Now I am the woman who is going to catch him...You've just read the opening...

In 1935, six-year-old Emily Evans vanishes from her family's summer house on a remote Minnesota lake. Her disappearance destroys the family - her father takes his own life, and her mother and two older sisters spend the rest of their lives at the lake...

THE WORLDWIDE #1 BESTSELLER BEHIND AMAZON PRIME'S BOSCH AND NETFLIX'S THE LINCOLN LAWYER SOME CRIMES YOU CAN'T FORGET.Detective Renee Ballard is given the chance of a lifetime: revive the LAPD's cold case unit and find justice for the families of the...

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...

Two families, one terrible secret, and a painting to die for . . .Glastonbury, an art restorer, has been brutally murdered, and the newly discovered Rembrandt he was working on has disappeared.For spy turned art restorer Gabriel Allon, it has been six...

BRAVE HERO OR CRIMINAL MASTERMIND?TONIGHT WE FIND OUT'Simon Kernick writes with his foot pressed hard on the pedal. Hang on tight!' HARLAN COBEN'Great plots, great characters, great action' LEE CHILD'Heaven for readers who love ruthless, full-throttle...

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'...

*JO NESBO HAS SOLD OVER 50 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE*'An incendiary cocktail of murder, revenge and a hitman with multiple problems' IndependentThe contract killer.Olav lives the lonely life of a fixer. When you 'fix' people for a living - terminally -...

'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...

'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...

There are some cases you have to take.Adam Hill is a rookie lawyer at a top Chicago firm. The world is at his feet.So why does he volunteer to represent a KKK terrorist under threat of execution?And why is the defendant happy to put his life in a...

The highly-anticipated sequel to Sunday Times bestseller The Black Book___________________________Detective Billy Harney exposes an evil lurking deep within his city - but it also brings his own past demons to light...To Billy Harney, the newest member...

The Simple Truth is a tense courtroom drama with a fast-paced plot from bestselling author, David Baldacci.As a young conscripted soldier, Rufus Harms was jailed for the brutal killing of a schoolgirl. Yet, after twenty-five hard years of incarceration,...

Lindsay Gordon investigates the murder of a bestselling author and discovers that, beneath the glittering facade, the London publishing world is a hotbed of seething rivalries, soured relationships and desperate power plays. Fifth in the series. ...

From Sarah Moss, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Summerwater and Ghost Wall, comes a story about the circumstances and the consequences of isolation.'A tense page-turner . . . I gulped The Fell down in one sitting' - Emma Donoghue'Her work is as...

An inventive and ambitious speculative courtroom thriller - Shutter Island meets The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle 'I look up to find twelve strangers staring back at me... I realise I'm the one they're waiting for.' Lila Dalton has no memory...

An inventive and ambitious speculative courtroom thriller - Shutter Island meets The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle 'I look up to find twelve strangers staring back at me... I realise I'm the one they're waiting for.' Lila Dalton has no memory of...

Love. Lies. Murder. A lot can happen... COME SUNDOWNBodine Longbow loves to rise with the dawn. As the manager of her family's resort in Western Montana, there just aren't enough hours in the day - for life, for work, for loved ones. She certainly...

** The #1 eBook bestseller! ** 'Utterly compelling!' Lisa Hall, bestselling author of Between You and Me 'A good, old-fashioned page-turner, with a poisonous sting in the tail.' Daily Mail ...

'Gripping and authentic' NEW YORK TIMES 'Heartrending . . . An engrossing read' FINANCIAL TIMESSEVENTEEN YEARS AFTER THE FALL OF THE THIRD REICH Max Weill has never forgotten the face of Otto Schramm, a doctor who worked with Mengele on appalling...

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...

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...

You thought you were alone. Think again. The groundbreaking fifth thriller in Lars Kepler's bestselling series featuring Joona Linna. Perfect for fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo. CLOSE THE CURTAINSA film...

You thought you were alone. Think again. The groundbreaking fifth thriller in Lars Kepler's bestselling series featuring Joona Linna. Perfect for fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo. CLOSE THE CURTAINSA film...

'Serrailler, Hill's brilliant detective, is the central character in the great writer's crime fiction novels' CAMILLA, DUCHESS OF CORNWALLA little boy is snatched at the gate of his home while he waits for his lift to school.An ex-con struggling to go...

SOON TO BE AN ORIGINAL AMAZON PRIME SERIES_______________________________With the country in chaos and corruption on all sides, there's only one person to turn to.When a series of military-style attacks erupt across the United States, Detective John...

A ruthless international cartel seeks world domination... Framed in the doorway of Poirot's bedroom stood an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dust. The man's gaunt face stared for a moment, then he swayed and fell. Who...

*** PRE-ORDER ZERO DAYS, COMING IN PAPERBACK SPRING 2024 *** THE RICHARD & JUDY PICK 'Deliciously dark and utterly addictive - my favourite Ruth Ware yet' LUCY FOLEYEveryone wanted her lifeSomeone wanted her dead It was Hannah who found April's body ten...

The second Inspector Rebus novel from the No.1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES.'Ian Rankin is a genius' Lee ChildA junkie lies dead in an Edinburgh squat, spreadeagled, cross-like on the floor, between two burned-down candles, a...

"One of the world's best storytellers."-Huffington PostFor eons, the city of Troy-whose legendary fall was detailed in Homer's Iliad-was believed to be myth, until archaeologists in the nineteenth century uncovered its ancient walls buried beneath the...

The chilling new psychological thriller by S. K. Tremayne, author of the Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller, THE ICE TWINS. IT TOOK ONLY SIX WORDS TO SHATTER HER DREAMS... When Rachel marries handsome David and moves to a beautiful house...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781998250Author Andrea MaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Poolbeg Press LtdPublisher Poolbeg Press Ltd

A FULLY REVISED AND EDITED EDITION OF THE CLASSIC INSPIRED BY THE HIT, LONG-RUNNING TV SERIES STARRING DAVID HAYMANIt is every mother's nightmare. Her missing daughter found murdered. Her lover the prime suspect.It is every police officer's fear. A child...

They think as one. They act as one. They kill as one. 'Look Both Ways is devilishly good - exciting, thrilling - Barclay at his best!' SHARI LAPENA, No. 1 internationally bestselling author The residents of...