Suspense

One day in 1959, an entire village of people disappeared-leaving behind only the broken body of a woman in the town square, and an abandoned newborn in a schoolroom. No one knows why they vanished. No one's been there since. Until now. ...

Even the littlest lies can have the biggest consequences... On the night of her mother's wake, only one thing brings Ruby comfort; the knowledge that her mother's killer is safely behind bars. But guilt is eating away at fragile younger sister Sophie,...

**NOW AN AMAZON PRIME TV SERIES STARRING CHRIS PRATT** 'Take my word for it, James Reece is one rowdy motherf***er. Get ready!' CHRIS PRATT JAMES REECE IS BACK 1978, Rhode Island: A freshman senator is gunned down, sending shockwaves through Washington...

You have an affair. You finish it. You think it's over. You're dead wrong . . .'Too few novelists can combine this level of page-turning suspense with character care and pin-sharp prose' ERIN KELLY_______ Miranda Cotton thinks she's put boyfriend Brendan...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945410512Author Kyla StoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Paper Moon PressPublisher Paper Moon PressWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 142mm...

After Art in the Blood and Unquiet Spirits, Holmes and Watson are back in the third of Bonnie MacBird's critically acclaimed Sherlock Holmes Adventures, written in the tradition of Conan Doyle himself. It's 1890 and...

New Dalziel and Pascoe novel from Britain's finest male crime writer: 'Reginald Hill stands head and shoulders above any other writer of homebred crime fiction' Tom Hiney, Observer A man drowns. Another dies in a motorbike crash. Two accidents...

'A magnificent writer' KARIN SLAUGHTERA murdered woman. A missing child. And a father intent on revenge.On a cold day in Reykjavik, a baby goes missing from her pram. When the child's blanket washes up on the beach, and the mother is found dead,...

'Electrifying' - A.J. Finn, bestselling author of The Woman in the WindowA Sunday Times Best Thriller Book of the Year. More than two million copies sold in Spain alone. Red Queen is the first in Juan Gomez-Jurado's internationally bestselling serial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800804838Author J M DalglieshFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Hamilton PressPublisher Hamilton Press

A search for a missing son... and a toxic mystery that threatens the globe. 'Did a 1981 Dean Koontz thriller predict the coronavirus outbreak?' Daily Mail'Dean Koontz is not just a master of our darkest dreams, but also a literary juggler' The TimesFrom...

'I love the Children's House series and Yrsa delivers again with The Doll. Such engaging characters and a compelling, twisted and creepy mystery - I couldn't put it down!' SHARI LAPENA'Yrsa is a wonderful storyteller. Her stories are atmospheric,...

______________________________THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLERJohn Grisham's first and most shocking novel, adapted as a film starring Samuel L. Jackson and Matthew McConaugheyWhen Carl Lee Hailey guns down the violent racists who raped his ten-year-old...

Even is a pulse-racing spy thriller by Andrew Grant, now the co-author of the Jack Reacher novels as Andrew Child.He's walked the wire many times before. His motivation is survival. And his lifelong belief is justice.David Trevellyan is a survivor from...

***Special anniversary edition, with a new introduction by Sophie Hannah***You remember an idyllic childhood. But your memory is deceitful. And possibly deadly . . .When a skeleton is unearthed in the Martellos' garden, Jane Martello is shocked to learn...

Now with a stunning new cover look, the ultimate storyteller Stephen King presents the classic bestseller about a shop where you can buy whatever you want - but it comes at a price.There is a new shop in town. Run by a stranger.Needful Things, the sign...

THE NAILBITING RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK FOR SPRING 2020___________________The tension is simmering. The lies are piling up. Who do you trust?'Pulses with tension until its shocking conclusion' SHARI LAPENA'White-knuckled suspense' TESS...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399564512Author Deborah HarknessFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint VikingPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 162mm *...

CERN Institute, Switzerland: a world-renowned scientist is found brutally murdered with a mysterious symbol seared onto his chest. The Vatican, Rome: the College of Cardinals assembles to elect a new pope. Somewhere beneath them, an unstoppable bomb of...

Chris Hutchison is a man on the run.Imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, Hutch escapes from a British maximum-security prison and starts a new life in Hong Kong. But a ghost from his past catches up with him and gives him a choice: help a former...

*The thrilling new novel from Lucy Clarke, THE HIKE, is available to buy now* 'Impossible to put down' Clare Mackintosh Seven years ago, two boys went missing at sea - and only one was brought to shore. The Sandbank, a remote...

'Ross Greenwood doesn't write cliches. What he has written here is a fast-paced, action-filled puzzle with believable characters that's spiced with a lot of humour' Kath Middleton Some secrets refuse to stay buried...When Alfie Hook settles down to eat...

A child's body in an unmarked grave. A killer waiting to strike again.A young boy's body is found in a meadow beside the River Mersey. No DNA. No witnesses. No clues. It brings back painful memories of the Moors Murderers. After two weeks, the police...

CAUTION: THIS BOOK IS ADDICTIVE . . .'A brilliant, brilliant novel. Incredbily gripping and scary!' Susanna Reid, Good Morning Britain'Had me gripped from start to finish.' Jane Fallon'Creepy, paranoid and shocking.' Alex Michaelides'Twisty, insightful...

A dead man's secrets put a family in peril in a twisting novel of suspense by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of the David Adams series. Alex Mahan is married to his high school sweetheart, Taylor. They have two daughters and a beautiful home,...

The past is a foreign country . . .Mattie Engel is one of the rising stars at Private Berlin, and believes she's seen the worst of people as a police officer. That is until Chris, her colleague - and fiance - is found dead, brutally murdered in an old...

When a new NASA satellite detects evidence of an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory...a victory that has profound implications for U.S. space policy and the impending...

'Her greatest book ... at once whimsical and harrowing, a miniaturist's charmingly detailed fantasy sketched inside a mausoleum ... the deeper we sink, the deeper we want to go' Donna TarttLiving in the Blackwood family home with only her sister...

'If there has been a better mystery suspense story written in this decade, I can't think of it' STEPHEN KING________________________Apologies for the general email, but I desperately need your help.My goddaughter, Coco Jackson, disappeared from her...

"Full of twists and turns, this is an exciting, pacy read." -Heat, Book of the Week "The brilliant Teresa Driscoll builds tension and menace with a flick of a sentence." -Fiona Barton "A creepy and addictive read" -Katherine Faulkner "A...

'I gobbled it up in two sittings, quickly turning pages to see what would happen next. The windswept, desolate setting, cold, gloomy manor house and dark characters created the perfect stormy day read... And did I mention the twists? Oh my goodness!'...

'Aided by some punchy translation and flashes of bathetic humour, Black Wolf is larky fun and knows it.' - The TimesThe highly anticipated sequel to Juan Gomez-Jurado's number 1 international bestseller, Red Queen, now an original series streaming on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593595787Author Keith RossonFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

When the National Security Agency's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls in its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant, beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves...

Don't miss the thrilling gangland series from bestselling author Stephanie HarteMeet the Kennedy twins and get ready for trouble!Twin sisters Lily and Daisy Kennedy live a life ruled by their controlling father, Des. Desperate to salvage his own...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645598285Author Ely NorthFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint Red Handed PrintPublisher Red Handed PrintWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

The most famous of all locked-room mysteries - a classic in the crime genre.'The first deadly walking of the hollow man took place when the side streets of London were quiet with snow and the three coffins of the prophecy were filled at last...'The...

With a stunning new cover look, King's classic tale of survival sees a young mother and her son trapped in a car by a horrifyingly familiar monster.Once upon a time, not so long ago, a monster came to the small town of Castle Rock, Maine . . .Cujo is a...