Thriller

Lynn S. Hightower / Flashpoint

    A crime novel about a gutsy female cop on the trail of a sadistic female serial killer.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very...

Mark Greaney / The Gray Man

   'Hard, fast, and unflinching-exactly what a thriller should be.' Lee ChildThe first in the Court Gentry all-action thriller series, from Tom Clancy's co-writer Mark Greaney.To those who lurk in the shadows, he's known as the Gray Man. He is...

Mary Willis Walker / Under the Beetle's Cellar

    A chilling, only-too-topical thriller from the award-winning author of THE RED SCREAM and ALL THE DEAD LIE DOWN. Eleven Texan schoolchildren and their bus driver are captured by a fundamentalist cult, taken to a fortified compound and...

John Watson / The Iron Man

    In a stunning David v. Goliath debut thriller, John Watson pits the antiquated brute force of an old Soviet World War II battleship fresh out of mothballs against the cutting edge technology of the American war machine. A bunch of...

Keith Baker / Lunenburg

    Near the town of Lunenberg, Novia Scotia, a young boy witnesses an horrific crime. Years later, Scottish journalist John Taggart is headed for Canada to cover one of the biggest stories of his career, haunted by the mystery of his...

Elise Title / Bleeding Hearts

    When the body of respected psychoanalyst, Melanie Rosen, is found, it seems her murderer knew of her interest in him. When Melanie's sister starts receiving extracts of Melanie's diaries, she is shocked by details of her sister's sex...

Dick Francis / Crossfire

   Crossfire is the new thriller from father son team Dick Francis and Felix Francis.Captain Thomas Forsyth's tour of Afghanistan is cut brutally short when he is badly wounded by a roadside bomb.Returning home, to his mother - a racehorse...

Steve Dunne / The Disciple

   DI Brook thought the nightmare was over- but the Reaper has left behind a horrifying legacy...A nail-shredding thriller for fans of Stuart MacBride and Thomas Harris.When an accidental drowning is found to be murder, Brook's past...

Tom Hoyle / Thirteen

   Thirteen is the first in an exciting action series from Tom Hoyle.Born at midnight in London, on the stroke of the new millennium, Adam is the target of a cult that believes boys born on this date must die before the end of their thirteenth...

Penny Hancock / The Darkening Hour

   Meet TheodoraAnd MonaTwo women, from completely different walks of life, forced by circumstances to live together under one roof.Both women are at their wits' end, scared of losing the one thing that's most precious to them. So when...

Beverly Barton / I'll Be Watching You

   With the suspense of Karen Rose, and the sensual thrills of Sylvia Day, this is an addictive story of forbidden love and cold-blooded revenge.``Not for the faint-hearted' CLOSERElla, sweet Ella, you were meant to be mine. You can't begin to...

Christopher Farnsworth / Killfile

     A brilliant contemporary thriller with a unique special element - for fans of Inception, Minority Report and Touch by Claire NorthWhen billionaire Everett Sloan hires John Smith to take down his biggest rival, it's not just because...

John Niven / Kill Your Friends

   Meet Steven Stelfox.London 1997: New Labour is sweeping into power and Britpop is at its zenith. A&R man Stelfox is slashing and burning his way through the music industry, fuelled by greed and inhuman quantities of cocaine, searching...

Stephen Woodworth / From Black Rooms

   Natalie Lindstrom has finally left the underworld behind for a new career in the art world. But there's one world she can't escape: the Other world of the dead. As a former Violet, an elite crime-fighter with the power to channel murder...

Chris Ryan / Agent 21

   Some authors just write about it. Chris Ryan has been there, done it, and lived to tell the tale. Agent 21 is the first in the action-packed adventure series by the real-life SAS hero.When Zak Darke's parents die in an unexplained mass...

Winston Graham / Marnie

    The novel that became a classic Hitchcock film. Marnie seems a charming woman, but no one knows her real name or anything about her at all. Now Marnie has walked into a trap. The game is over - or would be - if the man who trapped her...

Maggie Gibson / First Holy Chameleon

    Cash Ryan's life is a mess. A property developer has made her homeless, her boyfriend has decided to lead the celibate life, and her big acting break in a TV soap has just fizzled out like a damp squib. She gets sympathy and support...

B M Carroll / The Missing Pieces of Sophie McCarthy

   'Intriguing, compelling. Impossible to put down and irresistibly good' Liane MoriartyShe's the victim.But is she so innocent?Sophie McCarthy is known for her determination, ambition and brilliance at work. She's tough, but only because she...

Anders De La Motte / The Silenced

   WINNER SWEDISH CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR.The adrenaline-charged and suspenseful thriller set in a ruthless world where all means are permitted in the fight for power.When a savaged body is found in the waters outside the governing party's...

Louise Phillips / Last Kiss

   He thought he was in control. But he was wrong. And after the final blows of the knife, she stole his last breath with a kiss...Will criminal psychologist Dr Kate Pearson uncover the identity of this vicious killer before it is too late?At...

Rhiannon Navin / Only Child

   A Richard and Judy Book Club Pick.Compelling, compassionate and powerful, Rhiannon Navin's Only Child will stay with you long after you've turned the final page.We all went to school that Tuesday like normal. Not all of us came home.When...

C. J. Skuse / Pretty Bad Things

   SIXTEEN-YEAR OLD TWINS IN CANDY-STORE CRIME SPREE!Twins, Paisley and Beau Argent are in the headlines again. Last time,they were the 'wonder twins', when, as six-year-olds, they werefound alive in woods after three days missing following...

Naomi Alderman / The Power

    *WINNER of the THE 2017 BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION* What if the power to hurt were in women's hands? Suddenly - tomorrow or the day after - teenage girls find that with a flick of their fingers, they can inflict agonizing pain...

Louise Welsh / A Lovely Way to Burn

 As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book at BedtimeIt doesn't look like murder in a city full of death.A pandemic called 'The Sweats' is sweeping the globe. London is a city in crisis. Hospitals begin to fill with the dead and dying, but Stevie Flint is...

Donald James / Vadim

 In this, the third appearance of Inspector Constantin Vadim leaves his native Russia for New York. Vadim finds himself caught up in the middle of a presidential election where the victory of the leading candidate is threatened by the outrageous...

Mary-Ann Tirone Smith / An American Killing

 Two years ago in the town of New Caxton, three people were stabbed to death and a black man imprisoned for the crime. According to congressman Owen Hall, the convicted man is innocent. Something sinister has been going on in New Caxton, something...

Karin Slaughter ( Editor) / Like A Charm

 Desire leaves a man destroyed - a young girl's curiosity reveals secrets better left hidden - an accidental encounter on a train ends violently - ambition leads to a curious exchange - an uncanny likeness changes two lives forever.A novel in...

Nancy Werlin / The Killer's Cousin

 Guilt, murder, ghosts - will David and Lily ever escape the past?Recently acquitted of accidently killing his girlfriend but still crucified with guilt, 17-year-old David has moved to Massachusetts to complete his senior year of high school. His...

Michael Cordy / Crime Zero

 The year is 2008, and there is an epidemic of violent crime in the United States. Project Conscience promises to bring a radical solution to the crime problem, treating criminals with gene therapy. But some involved have a sinister agenda...

Chris Fox / L.U.C.I in The Sky

 Maria Haymeyer has an I. Q. of 250, once posed for a Playboy 'Girls of Mensa' feature, and has invented a radical new design for a warplane computer game she calls 'L. U. C. I.' -- short for Light Ultra Chip Intelligence. But someone has stolen her...

Susan Lewis / Silent Truths

    Secrets can be deadly...When journalist Laurie Forbes turns up on Beth Ashby's doorstep, minutes after Beth's husband, political high-flier Colin Ashby, has been arrested for murder, neither can even begin to guess the shocking...

Julia Notaro / Short Change

    Lisa Soames is half-heartedly looking for a job. Turning up at a major Japanese investment bank wearing a turqoise jacket, yellow socks and red patent leather lace-up shoes, she doesn't rate her chances of being picked, but somehow...

Tim Bowler / Storm Catchers

 Fin is devastated by guilt when his sister, Ella, is kidnapped. She is snatched away from the house in the middle of a storm. As the kidnappers make their demands, Fin's guilt is replaced by a fierce determination to find his sister by whatever...

Michael Kimball / Mouth to Mouth

   Following the huge international success story of UNDONE, Michael Kimball s acclaimed debut thriller, MOUTH TO MOUTH takes the reader deeper still into a world of twisted love, dark passions and ingenious scheming. When a lonely woman falls...

Nelson Demille / The Cuban Affair

 Nelson DeMille is a true master'Dan BrownStrap in for the ride of a lifetime with the blistering new novel from America's greatest living thriller writer, Nelson DeMille.Daniel 'Mac' MacCormick has a good life. Aged thirty-five and a decorated US...

Tony Park / The Delta

 After a failed assassination attempt on the president of Zimbabwe, ex-soldier turned mercenary Sonja Kurtz is on the run. She heads for her only place of refuge, the Okavango Delta in the heart of Botswana. She's keen to forget her warrior...

Liane Moriarty / Nine Perfect Strangers

 THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER AND RICHARD & JUDY SPRING BOOK CLUB PICK, FROM THE AUTHOR BEHIND AWARD WINNING TV SERIES BIG LITTLE LIES.'The suspense keeps building in an enjoyably zany thriller' GUARDIAN, BEST SUMMER READSNine perfect...

Simon Toyne / The Tower

 The much anticipated final instalment in the bestselling conspiracy thriller trilogy by Simon Toyne, author of SANCTUS: `Plenty of action, plenty of intrigue and wonderfully imaginative. The sort of novel to devour in one sitting' Kate Mosse. For...

Cathy Glass / My Dad's a Policeman

 The second novel, and first quick read title, from Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Cathy Glass.My Dad's a Policeman is a dramatic and engaging story of a young boy with an alcoholic mother. Lonely, bullied and desperate for a...

Kimberley Chambers / Payback

   Family. They're supposed to watch your back. Not stab you in itWhen the enemy is one of your own, the payback is twice as hard.The Butler brothers are the Kings of the East End, and their motto is `what goes around, comes around'.In their...

Matt Chamings / The Medici Curse

 It is Renaissance Florence: Alessandra, the daughter of the powerful Lorenzo Medici, sits for her portrait - a wedding gift for the man her father is forcing her to marry. It is Florence, in 2005: Maria is on holiday visiting relatives when her...

Matthew Hall / The Chosen Dead

   The Chosen Dead is the fifth gripping installment in Matthew Hall's twice CWA Gold Dagger nominated Coroner Jenny Cooper series, from the creator of BBC One's Keeping Faith.An unlikely suicide or a deadly conspiracy?When Bristol Coroner...

Donald James / Monstrum

    Russia in the early twenty-first century: a civil war has subsided into an uneasy peace; police inspector Constantin Vadim is transferred from Murmansk to head an investigation in a crime-ridden Moscow district. His task: to solve a...

Andrew Kaplan / Homeland : Carrie'S Run

   An edge-of-your-seat original prequel novel based on Showtime's hit series, HOMELAND, `the best thriller on American television' New York PostBeirut, 2006. CIA operations officer Carrie Mathison barely escapes an ambush while attempting a...

Rick Mofina / Vengeance Road

   A woman's body lies twisted in a shallow grave.Carved into her bloody skin, one word.GUILTY.A trail of bodies litters America's loneliest highways, their branded corpses marking a path of brutal retribution. This killer is judge, jury -...

Rob Mccarthy / A Handful of Ashes : Dr Harry Kent Book 2

 Crime's most original series character returns in a gripping new case.Dr Harry Kent is on the edge...He works too hard, sleeps too little, hardly sees daylight.And then the Met police call him out to certify the suicide of a whistleblower from a...

Lynda La Plante / Tennison

   From the creator of the award-winning ITV series Prime Suspect, starring Helen Mirren, comes the fascinating back story of the iconic DCI Jane Tennison.In 1973 Jane Tennison, aged 22, leaves the Metropolitan Police Training Academy to be...

Austin Wright / Tony and Susan

   Many years after their divorce, Susan Morrow receives a strange gift from her ex-husband. A manuscript that tells the story of a terrible crime: an ambush on the highway, a secluded cabin in the woods; a thrilling chiller of death and...

Scott Westerfeld / Afterworlds

 Darcy Patel has put college and everything else on hold to publish her teen novel, Afterworlds. Arriving in New York with no apartment or friends she wonders whether she's made the right decision until she falls in with a crowd of other seasoned...

Peter May / Chinese Whispers ( A China Thriller Novel )

 THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR'A TENSE AND ATMOSPHERIC THRILLER WITH A HEART-STOPPING ENDING' TANGLED WEB'POWERFUL AND AUTHENTIC' GLASGOW HERALDThe Beijing Ripper makes a personal vendetta against Detective Li Yan in the sixth and final...

John Grisham / The Reckoning

 I couldn't help thinking of Harper Lee's great American novel To Kill a Mockingbird while reading The Reckoning . . . [Grisham] knows how to spin a yarn' - Chicago Sun-Times'May be his greatest work yet' - David Grann, New York Times bestselling...

Peter Abrahams / A Perfect Crime

    Against the backdrop of an East Coast winter, menace and suspense build towards a chilling conclusion, as the lives of four people, linked by an illict love, are manipulated wth intricate and terminal precision.     All...