Thriller

Jan-Philipp Sendker / The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

   Winner of the 2013 Indies Choice Honor Award A poignant and inspirational love story set in Burma, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats spans the decades between the 1950s and the present. When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears...

Wilbur Smith / The New Kingdom (Hardback)

   BOOK 1 IN A THRILLING NEW ANCIENT EGYPTIAN SERIES, FROM INTERNATIONAL SENSATION WILBUR SMITH 'Best historical novelist' - Stephen King'A master storyteller' - Sunday Times'Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are...

Francine Pascal / Before Gaia

 This Special Edition looks at the events that shaped Gaia Moore's destiny - the story of what happened to her parents before their daughter was born without the fear gene. Gaia Moore is the girl born without the fear gene. This special edition...

Michael Palmer / Oath of Office (Hardback)

   Michael Palmer, the "New York Times" bestselling author of "A Heartbeat Away" and "The Last""Surgeon" brings us a shocking new thriller at the crossroads of politics and medicine. "What if a well respected doctor inexplicably goes on a...

John Grisham / Sycamore Row (Hardback)

 In the long-awaited successor to the novel that launched his phenomenal career, John Grisham brings us the powerful sequel to A Time to Kill. As filled with page-turning twists as it is with legal mastery, Sycamore Row proves beyond doubt that John...

W E B Griffin / The Hostage (Hardback)

 By Order of the President, the first novel in W.E.B. Griffin's crackling new Presidential Agent series, won immediate acclaim from critics and fans alike.Charley Castillo works with the Department of Homeland Security, but more and more he is the...

Bear Grylls / Ghost Flight (Hardback)

 THE BOURNE IDENTITY meets Indiana Jones - a debut thriller to take your breath away.A mother and child savagely abducted from a snow-swept mountainside.A loyal soldier tortured and executed on a remote Scottish moor.A lost warplane discovered in...

Carol Goodman / The Other Mother (Hardback)

 Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning author "An atmospheric and harrowing tale, richly literary in complexity but ripe with all the crazed undertones, confusions, and forebodings inherent in the gothic genre. Recommend this riveting, du Maurier-like...

Brad Meltzer / The President's Shadow (Hardback)

 A severed arm, found buried in the White House Rose Garden.A lethal message with terrible consequences for the Presidency.And a hidden secret in one family's past that will have repercussions for the entire nation.Following The Inner Circle and The...

Michael Palmer / Second Opinion (Hardback)

 Dr. Thea Sperelakis, diagnosed as a teen with Asperger’s syndrome, has always been an outsider. She has a brilliant medical mind, and a remarkable recall of details, but her difficulty in dealing with hidden agendas and interpersonal conflicts have...

Paula Cocozza / How to Be Human (Hardback)

 SHORTLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2018 __________________________________'In evocative and elegant prose Cocozza delves deep into the psyche of a strange and troubled woman. The reader is invited to share in her intense connection to a fox...

Richard North Patterson / In the Name of Honor (Hardback)

 Home from Iraq, a lieutenant kills his commanding officer--was it self-defense or premeditated murder? An enthralling novel of suspense about the high cost of war and secrets The McCarrans and the Gallaghers, two military families, have been close...

Glenn Beck / The Overton Window (Hardback)

 A plan to destroy America, a hundred years in the making, is about to be unleashed . . . can it be stopped? There is a powerful technique called the Overton Window that can shape our lives, our laws, and our future. It works by manipulating public...

Linwood Barclay / Chas

 Get ready to run . . . an edge-of-your-seat thriller with bite from international bestselling author Linwood Barclay, in his first novel for 9-12 year olds. Chipper is a very special dog. As part of a top-secret, multi-million dollar experiment to...

Lotte Hammer / The Girl in the Ice

 Under the heartless vault of the Greenland's arctic sky the body of a girl is discovered. Half-naked and tied up, buried hundreds of miles from any signs of life, she has lain alone, hidden in the ice cap, for twenty-five years. Now an ice melt has...

Julie Clark / The Flight

 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! 'Bristling with suspense and crammed with false clues, it would make a fine Hitchcock film' Daily Mail'Engrossing' The Times (Book of the Month)'Thoroughly absorbing - not only because of its tantalizing plot and...

Sarah Pinborough / 13 Minutes

 A totally gripping twisty psychological thriller from the amazing author of Behind Her Eyes, now a major Netflix series I was dead for 13 minutes.I don't remember how I ended up in the icy water but I do know this - it wasn't an accident and I...

Wilbur Smith & Mark Chadbourn / The New Kingdom

 BOOK 1 IN A THRILLING NEW ANCIENT EGYPTIAN SERIES, FROM INTERNATIONAL SENSATION WILBUR SMITH 'Best historical novelist' - Stephen King'A master storyteller' - Sunday Times'Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared' -...

Howard, Catherine Ryan - 56 Days - PB BRAND NEW

 Winner of the An Post Irish Book Awards 2021 Crime Fiction Book of the YearA Book of the Year for 2021 in the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Irish Times, nominated for the IMPAC Prize 2023. ___________________________** THE...

Connelly, Michael - The Lincoln Lawyer ( Mickey Haller Series - Book 1 )

There is no client as scary as an innocent man...Mickey is a Lincoln Lawyer - a criminal defence attorney operating out of the back of his car, a Lincoln - taking whatever cases the system throws at him. He's been a defence lawyer for a long time, and he...

Alex North / The Whisper Man (Hardback)

 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER & GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR The gripping thriller that will give you chills this winter . . .'Alex North has achieved the seemingly impossible. The Whisper Man is a thriller that is both terrifying and utterly...

Sheena Kamal / Eyes Like Mine (Hardback)

 'A brave, unflinching heroine and brave, unflinching writing adds up to an extraordinary debut - highly recommended' LEE CHILD 'Utterly compelling, rich with voice and psychological insight, populated with heartbreakingly real characters, Eyes...

Philip Kerr / Prussian Blue (Hardback)

 When his cover is blown, former Berlin bull and unwilling SS officer Bernie Gunther must re-enter a cat-and-mouse game that continues to shadow his life a decade after Germany's defeat in World War 2... The French Riviera, 1956 Bernie's old and...

Christina Dalcher / VOX (Hardback)

 This book will blow your mind' PRIMA'Disturbing' LEE CHILD'A petrifying reimagining of The Handmaid's Tale' ELLE'Left me speechless' DAILY MAIL'Terrifying' RED'A novel ripe for the #MeToo era' VANITY FAIR'Extraordinary' LOUISE O'NEILL'The book of...

Janet Evanovich / Wicked Appetite (Hardback)

 Meet brand-new heroine Elizabeth Tucker: Marblehead resident, bakery worker, unlucky in love...and descendant of witches.Life is pleasantly predictable for Lizzy, until a tall, black-haired, dark eyed man shows up. His name is Gerwulf Grimoire,...

Nicci French / The Lying Room (Hardback)

 Expertly paced, psychologically sharp, thoroughly enjoyable' Louise Candlish'Meticulously plotted, psychologically astute' Sarah Vaughan'Confirms Nicci French as the giant of the genre' Erin Kelly'A pure adrenaline rush' Jenny ColganNeve Connolly...

Tom Bradby / Triple Cross

 From the ITV News at Ten Anchor'Bradby has the talent of a reporter but the heart of a storyteller' Daily MailAttempting to rebuild her shattered life in the South of France, former MI6 operative Kate Henderson receives an unexpected and most...

Tom Vowler / That Dark Remembered Day

 LONGLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN NOT THE BOOKER PRIZE One family, one town, devastated by one tragic event.Can you ever know what those closest to you are really capable of?When Stephen gets a phone call to say his mother isn't well, he knows he must...

John LeCarre / Silverview

 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...

John Le Carre / Silverview (Large Paperback)

 Julian 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 into his new career, Edward, a Polish emigre, shows up at his door with a very...

Victoria Selman / Truly, Darkly, Deeply (Large Paperback)

 'Victoria Selman is an exciting and powerfully fresh voice' Patricia CornwellTwelve-year-old Sophie and her mother, Amelia-Rose, move to London from Massachusetts where they meet the charismatic Matty Melgren, who quickly becomes an intrinsic part...

Clara Salaman / The Boat (Large Paperback)

 It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime... Johnny and his new bride Clem have arrived in Turkey for a year's honeymoon. Young, blissfully happy but poor, they are surviving on love, luck and a spirit of adventure.So when a boat appears out of...

Krysten Fitter / Bonfire (Large Paperback)

 Dark, disturbing, and compulsively readable'Ruth Ware, bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood and The Woman in Cabin 10'Bonfire is a stone-cold stunner-the writing is dazzling, the suspense is creeping . . . An extraordinary debut from a major...

Tom Rob Smith / Agent 6 (Large Paperback)

 Moscow, 1965. Former Secret Service agent Leo Demidov is forbidden to travel with his wife and daughters to New York as part of a 'Peace Tour', meant to foster better relations between the two Cold War enemies. Leo's natural paranoia reaches its...

Cruz Smith / Tatiana (Large Paperback)

 In his groundbreaking Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith created one of the iconic investigators of contemporary fiction, Arkady Renko. In Tatiana, Smith delivers his most ambitious and politically daring novel since. When the brilliant and fearless...

G.M. Ford / Identity (Large Paperback)

 They took his name. They took his memories. Now they want his life . . .Paul Hardy has lived in a care home for the past seven years with no memory of who he is or where he came from. When a horrific accident necessitates pioneering surgery he...

Alan Glynn / Under the Night (Large Paperback)

 Under the Night is Alan Glynn's masterpiece ... if you liked Limitless, you will love this.' STAV SHEREZ, author of The IntrusionsIn 1950s Manhattan, the CIA carry out a covert study of psychoactive drugs. When they dose ad man Ned Sweeney with...

James Patterson / Private Princess (Large Paperback)

 Jack Morgan receives an offer he cannot refuse... When the head of the world's foremost investigation agency is invited to meet Princess Caroline, third in line to the British throne, he boards his Gulfstream jet and flies straight to London.The...

Daniel Cole / Ragdoll (Large Paperback)

 THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Superb thriller writing.' Peter Robinson'A brilliant, breathless thriller' M.J. Arlidge'A high concept solution to a mystery' Sophie HannahA body is discovered with the dismembered parts of...

Robert Harris / The Ghost (Large Paperback)

 'The moment I heard how McAra died I should have walked away. I can see that now...' The narrator of Robert Harris's gripping new novel is a professional ghostwriter - cynical, mercenary, and with a nice line in deadpan humour. Accustomed to...

Ross Armstrong / Head Case (Large Paperback)

 'Quirky, offbeat, stylish and original. I loved it.' Mick Herron Tom Mondrian is the last person you want on your case. And the only one who can solve it, in this quirky psychological thriller.Tom Mondrian is watching his life ebb away directing...

Koethi Zan / The Never List (Large Paperback)

 There were four of us down there for the first thirty-two months and eleven days of our captivity.And then, very suddenly and without warning, there were three.Even though the fourth person hadn't made any noise at all in several months, the room...

James Patterson / Private Rogue (Large Paperback)

 We will take on any case, solve any crime, uncover any secret.We are Private. And we're the best.__________________________In Afghanistan, a US Special Forces pilot is shot down during a covert mission.In New York, a mother is forced to flee with...

Liza Costello / The Estate (Large Paperback)

 SINISTER AND WONDERFULLY ATMOSPHERIC' B A PARIS'TO BE READ IN A SINGLE SITTING, WITH THE LIGHTS ON' JOHN CONNOLLYBeth Sheehan thought planning a future with her boyfriend Jason would be the answer to her problems. Now in her twenties, her wild ways...

Minette Walters / Fox Evil (Hardback)

 When elderly Ailsa Lockyer-Fox is found dead in her garden, dressed only in nightclothes and with blood stains on the ground near her body, the finger of suspicion points at her wealthy, landowning husband, Colonel James Lockyer-Fox. A coroner's...

David Mark / Original Skin (Hardback)

 From the author of the breakthrough crime debut of 2013, Dark Winter. Simon and Suzie are two pleasure seekers defined by their flamboyant tattoos. Peter Tressider is a politician on the fast track to the top. DS Aector McAvoy is a policeman with...

Susan Allott / The Silence (Hardback)

   "Emotionally spry, smartly suspenseful...vibrates with Hitchcockian atmosphere. -- Booklist (starred review)Combining the emotional power and dual narrative style of Before We Were Yours with the nuanced, layered, and atmospheric mystery of...

David Baldacci / Daylight (Hardback)

   Daylight is the gripping follow up to Long Road to Mercy and A Minute to Midnight featuring Special Agent Atlee Pine from one of the world's most favourite thriller writers, David Baldacci. FBI Agent Atlee Pine's search for her twin...

Stuart Macbride / All That's Dead : The New Logan Mcrae Crime Thriller (Hardback)

 The stunning new thriller from No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller Stuart MacBride.One down...A dark night in the isolated Scottish countryside. Nicholas Wilson, a prominent professor known for his divisive social media rants, leaves the house with his...

Lori Rader-Day / Under A Dark Sky : A Novel (Hardback)

 From the critically-acclaimed author of The Day I Died comes a terrifying twist on a locked-room mystery that will keep readers guessing until the last page Only in the dark can she find the truth . . .Since her husband died, Eden Wallace's life...

Joseph Knox / Sirens (Hardback)

 It starts with the girl. How it ends is up to DC Aidan Waits.Isabelle Rossiter has run away again.When Aidan Waits, a troubled junior detective, is summoned to her father's penthouse home - he finds a manipulative man, with powerful friends.But...

Amanda Craig / The Golden Rule (Hardback)

 Longlisted for the Women's Prize 2021A Times, Sunday Times, Observer, Daily Mail and Financial Times Best Book of 2020 Pick'A highly enjoyable story about female resilience and finding fulfilment on your own terms' Sunday Times'An irresistible...