Thriller

Jane Casey / The Burning (Large Paperback)

"Astute, complex, layered―and very twisted. You'll remember this one for a long time."―Lee ChildThe Burning Man. It's the name the media has given a brutal murderer who has beaten four young women to death before setting their bodies ablaze in secluded...

A.J. Finn / End of Story (Large Paperback)

“I’ll be dead in three months. Come tell my story.”So writes Sebastian Trapp, reclusive mystery novelist, to his longtime correspondent Nicky Hunter, an expert in detective fiction. With mere months to live, Trapp invites Nicky to his...

Jeffery Deaver / The Vanished Man (Large Paperback)

The New York Times" bestselling author of "The Stone Monkey" is back with a brilliant thriller that pits forensic criminologist Lincoln Rhyme and his partner, Amelia Sachs, against an unstoppable killer with one final, horrific trick up his sleeve."The...

Tami Hoag / Prior Bad Acts

New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag returns with a thriller that begins with a shocking crime scene you’ll never forget and follows two relentless detectives on a manhunt that ends in a chilling confrontation with the essence of human evil...

William Kent Krueger / Mercy Falls

Back in the saddle as sheriff of Tamarack County, Cork O'Connor is lured to the nearby Ojibwe reservation on what appears to be a routine call -- only to become the target of sniper fire. Soon after, he's called to investigate a mutilated body found...

John Gordon Davis / A Woman Involved

A Pope is dead, possibly poisoned; his successor has just survived an assassination attempt; death is meted out in the South Atlantic with the explosive fury of Exocet missiles; a disgraced banker is found hanging under a London bridge; a row of US...

Jean-Christophe Grangé / Flight of the Storks

Every year the storks set off on their miraculous 12,000-mile migration from Northern Europe to Central Africa. Then one year, inexplicably, they do not return. At the invitation of the wealthy Swiss ornithologist Max Boehm, a young French academic,...

John Russell Fearn / The Frozen Limit

Defying the Medical Council, Dr. Robert Cranston, helped by Dr. Campbell, carries out an unauthorized medical experiment with a 'deep freeze' system of suspended animation. The volunteer is Claire Baxter. But when Claire undergoes deep freeze...

Rory Clements / The English Führer

Autumn 1945 - Off the east coast of England, a Japanese sub surfaces, unloads its mysterious cargo, then blows itself to pieces.Former spy Professor Tom Wilde is enjoying peacetime in Cambridge, settling back into teaching and family life. Until a call...

Dinuka McKenzie / Taken

Who do you turn to when your baby is taken? The tense, must-read new Detective Kate Miles novel from the award-winning author of The Torrent. 'I was in the shower. I left Sienna in her bassinet ...When I got out ... She was gone. 'Detective Sergeant...

Peter Gadol / The Long Rain

Jason is a lawyer who has lost his job and his wife has left him, taking their young son. Fleeing to the Californian vineyard he has inherited from his father, he begins to pull his life together, until, that is, the night he runs down and kills a...

Rebecca Brandewyne / High Stakes

The secret heiress to the vast Marlowe fortune, Angelina Marlowe tries to unsort the mysteries of her past, only to become the target of the ruthless consortium responsible for the murders of her parents, and only Hawk Bladehunter can protect her...

Gary Krist / Bad Chemistry

A quality thriller by an American short-story writer whose work has been compared to Updike and Cheever in the New York Times – a gripping suspense story featuring a former Chicago woman cop trying to leave her past, whose husband disappears into...

Scott Mariani / The Moscow Cipher

When twelve-year-old Valentina fails to return from a visit to her father in Moscow, alarm bells start ringing. Her rich and powerful family know there’s one man they can depend on to bring her back safe: former SAS major Ben Hope.But what starts...

Alex Kava / Lost Creed

Fifteen years ago Ryder Creed's sister, Brodie disappeared from an interstate rest stop. She was only eleven and Creed was fourteen. Since then her disappearance has haunted him, so much so that Creed has dedicated his life to his K9 business. He rescues...

L.J. Ross / Impostor ( An Alexander Gregory Novel)

There’s a killer inside all of us…After an elite criminal profiling unit is shut down amidst a storm of scandal and mismanagement, only one person emerges unscathed. Forensic psychologist Doctor Alexander Gregory has a reputation for being...

Michael Byrne / Lottery Boy

A fast-moving and gripping thriller with a powerful emotional engagement; this is a young boy’s story of loss and unbearable hope as he survives on London’s streets.Reminiscent of Slumdog Millionaire, this contemporary adventure story set on...

Rebecca Barrow / Bad Things Happen Here

With compelling characters, broken friendships and complicated romances, BAD THINGS HAPPEN HERE is the irresistible YA murder mystery thriller: it makes your heart race, your toes curl, and your mind whirl with deadly secrets, dark truths and the innate...

Deborah Masson / Out for Blood

DI Eve Hunter is back in the edge-of-your-seat new detective thriller from Deborah Masson, winning author of the Bloody Scotland Crime Debut of the Year 2020.A young man, the son of an influential businessman, is discovered dead in his central Aberdeen...

Katia Lief / Dead Rich

The rich play by their own rules.Former New York City homicide detective Karin Schaeffer should be enjoying a family holiday in Sardinia. But she and her husband, Mac, arrive on the island to find their children and nanny missing.Is the kidnapping...

Lynne McEwan / Dead Man Deep

When lifeboat volunteer DI Shona Oliver receives a Mayday call coming from Kilcatrin Island, she soon faces a major incident. Upon the shore is the badly burned body of a man, and a boy lies gravely injured nearby. Strewn around them on the beach are...

John Matthews / The Shadow Chaser

Just one man stands in the way of a killer stalking millions. Andre Lemoine, one of the world's leading geneticists, is on the verge of the medical breakthrough of the century: a link with rare primates that could unlock a vital key in the search for a...

Helen Cox / A Body in the Borderlands

Former investment banker Johan Golding - Joe to his friends - is the newest member of the Hartley and Edwards Investigations team. And he's thrilled to be shadowing Kitt Hartley, librarian-turned-top sleuth, and her right-hand woman Grace Edwards; even...

Andrew Klavan / Damnation Street

Scott Weiss is a middle-aged private eye based in San Francisco, an ex-cop with a basset hound's face, a romantic's soul and an empath's ability to read others, but he is in serious trouble. He's in a race against time with a contract killer...

Hanna Jameson / Something You Are

The debut thriller from the bestselling author of The Last. He's paid to kill. Not paid to think. Nic Caruana never wanted to be a killer. But life took a few wrong turns, and now he works as a hitman for a violent arms dealer. His boss's teenage...

Dean Koontz / The Forbidden Door

Her enemies will learn the true meaning of fearThe No.1 New York Times bestseller and master of suspense Dean Koontz returns with the new Jane Hawk blockbuster.I will come for you. Nothing can stop me!Rogue FBI agent Jane Hawk is on the trail of the...

Helen H. Durrant / Dead Sorry

Looking for a brilliant best-selling crime mystery with great detectives?THE PAST COMES BACK TO HAUNT THEMTwenty-five years ago a schoolgirl was attacked by three bullies in her home where she lived with her grandmother.Now, the mother of one of those...

Ana Reyes / The House in the Pines

This is the story of a house.The cabin lies deep in the woods, where the trees are so dense it’s easy to miss. On the outside it might look like it’s crumbling, crawling with weeds, but on the inside it’s warm and cosy. A fire crackles...

Julia Heaberlin / Paper Ghosts

Carl Louis Feldman is an old man who was once a celebrated photographer. That was before he was tried for the murder of a young woman and acquitted. before his admission to a care home for dementia. Now his daughter has come to see him, to take him on a...

Clare Mackintosh / A Game of Lies

They say the camera never lies.But on this show, you can't trust anything you see.Seven reality show contestants arrive in the Welsh mountains to compete for a life-changing prize, not realising what they're truly signing up for.Each stranger has a...

Carol Wyer / Little Girl Lost

Her breath rose and fell in fearful gasps but it was too late. She could already see what she dreaded most. The back seat was empty.Bye, bye, Mummy.When a devoted teacher goes missing under suspicious circumstances and an actor is murdered at a local...

Stav Sherez / A Dark Redemption

Paperback. 384 English Faber and Faber Crime A Dark Redemption introduces DI Jack Carrigan and DS Geneva Miller as they investigate the brutal rape and murder of a young Ugandan student Plunged into an underworld of illegal immigrant communities. they...

Emily Elgar / Grace is Gone

Meg and her daughter Grace are the most beloved family in Ashford, the lynchpin that holds the town together. So when Meg is found brutally murdered and her daughter missing, the community is rocked by the tragedy. Her daughter, Grace, has been sick for...

David Klass / Out of Time

Mr. Klass, an experienced screenwriter, incorporates shifting points of view and a score of diverse characters with well-developed backstories. His top-notch thriller builds toward a fateful showdown.” —The Wall Street Journal “[A]...

Steohen Leather / Private Dancer

Pete, a young travel writer, wanders into a Bangkok bar and meets the love of his life. Joy is the girl of his dreams: young, stunningly pretty, and one of Zombie Bar's top-earning pole dancers. What follows is a roller-coaster ride of sex, drugs, lies...

Tom Knox / The Deceit

High-concept adventure thriller set in Egypt and Cornwall. What connects a lost hoard of ancient religious texts with a revival in satanic rituals? Perfect for fans of Wilbur Smith.AN ANCIENT SECRETWhen a renowned historian is found dead in a cave in the...

Andrew Masterson / Death of the Author

Australian poet and academic Rick Harding has a good life, until he discovers someone is stealing his poems and publishing them under another name. Who is Jason Schwartze and why has he selected Rick as his victim? Unable to get anyone to take his...

Douglas Preston / Mount Dragon

Mount Dragon: an enigmatic research complex hidden in the vast desert of New Mexico. Guy Carson and Susana Cabeza de Vaca have come to Mount Dragon to work shoulder to shoulder with some of the greatest scientific minds on the planet. Led by visionary...

Sandra Brown / Seeing Red

Kerra Bailey is a television journalist on the rise, and she's hot on the trail of a story guaranteed to skyrocket her career to even greater heights: an interview with the legendary Major Trapper. Twenty-five years ago, the Major emerged a hero from the...

N.K. Curran / I Know Who You Were

  EVERYONE HAS A PAST. . . YOURS IS COMING TO KILL YOU Alex and Morven have a pretty perfect marriage. Still madly in love after ten years, they have no secrets from each other and their life in London with daughter Poppy is . . . happy. Until one...

George Dawes Green / The Juror - PB

Single mother Annie Laird makes a huge mistake when she joins the jury at the murder trial of mob boss Louie Buffano. Immediately, Annie is contacted by the "Teacher", a Buffano lackey, who makes it clear that her life, and that of her son Oliver, depend...

Charlotte Lamb / Angel of Death

  Still mourning the death of her husband, Miranda remains haunted by Alex Manoussi, the enigmatic Greek who rescued her from the cruel sea that had claimed Tom. Miranda witnesses a murder and is forced into hiding, and the job in a luxury hotel on...

Humphrey Hawksley / Man on Ice

An incident in the snows of Alaska could trigger the outbreak of World War III in this tense and twisting thriller.When Rake Ozenna of the elite Eskimo Scouts brings his fiancee, trauma surgeon Carrie Walker, to his remote home island in the Bering...

Pekka Hiltunen / Cold Courage

A young woman has been gruesomely killed, her body abandoned in a car boot in the middle of London as a warning to others.The police have no leads and no clues as to the identity of the victim. It seems that Lia is the only one who refuses to let the...

Sheila Parker / Mercy or Mercenary

Introducing a thought-provoking thriller, Mercy or Mercenary grabs the reader from the beginning with tight pacing and takes them on a heartstopping journey. Readers of Agatha Christie will enjoy this tense, clever story that will make you question what...

T.F. Muir / Dead Find

St. Andrews, Renovation works on the famous Old Course golf course uncovers the remains of a body in a shallow grave - two bullet holes in the skull. DNA confirms the victim as Rab Shepherd, the missing brother of Scotland's late crime patriarch, Jock...

Alex Khan / The Scorned

Sidra Ali has just made it home after a date. Opening the door, her blood runs cold as she realises the caller is here to take her life...When a young Asian woman is found brutally murdered in her North London home, DS Mumtaz ‘Moomy’ Ali...

Gary Bell / Post Mortem

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Scott Mariani / The Rebel’s Revenge

Even when ex-SAS major Ben Hope is taking a holiday, trouble seems to find him. What started as a relaxing trip to the Deep South spirals into a nightmare when he’s wrongly accused of a vicious murder and forced to go on the run.Target of a...

Mary Higgins Clark - While My Pretty One Sleeps - HB - 1989

1989, the year of original publication, this is an ( unusual to me) imprint called Leisure Circle, which looks to be a Simon & Shuster linked Book Club edition.  In excellent condition, no marks or damage, almost 'as new' . No barcode or...

J.D. Kirk / A Litter of Bones

Was the biggest case of his career the worst mistake he ever made?Ten years ago, DCI Jack Logan stopped the serial child-killer dubbed 'Mister Whisper,' earning himself a commendation, a drinking problem, and a broken marriage in the process.Now, he...

Suzanne Bugler / The Safest Place

How cosy I made it sound. How easy. Sam and Ella both looked at me for a moment, their faces a mixture of apprehension and wistfulness. I smiled back at them indulgently, feeling so pleased with myself. Now, I look back and I want to grab my old self by...