Thriller

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...

John Burdett / Bangkok 8

    SURREAL BANGKOK ...City of temples and brothels, where Buddhist monks in saffron robes walk the same streets as world-class gangsters, where bodies and souls are for sale or rent, and where the way you die may be more important than the...

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...

Elisabeth Herrmann / The Cleaner

 An unforgettable heroine. An unforgivable past.For fans of Child 44, The Lives of Others and Stasi Child, The Cleaner is a gripping thriller that will chill and intrigue as the sins of the past catch up with the secrets of the present.Pools of...

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...

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...

Michael Robotham / Bombproof

 Sami Macbeth is not a master criminal. He's not even a minor one. He's not a jewel thief. He's not a safe-cracker. He's not an expert in explosives. Sami plays guitar and wants to be a rock god but keeps getting side-tracked by unforeseen...

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...

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...

Sarah Bailey / The Dark Lake

 A hot summer. A shocking murder. A town of secrets, waiting to explode...A beautiful young teacher has been murdered, her body found in the lake, strewn with red roses. Local policewoman Detective Sergeant Gemma Woodstock pushes to be assigned to...

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...

Frank Delaney / At Ruby's

 Wealthy architect Nicholas Newman is again embroiled against his will in events beyond his control. The story opens in the boardroom as he looks on as the chairman ruthlessly faces down a mysterious challenge from another director. That night...

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...

Paul Kilduff / Frontrunner

    The assassination of the Chinese premier during a state visit to Hong Kong sends the HK markets into freefall, triggering a global financial crisis. Various governments turn to their Central Bankers for a solution. The Bankers decide to...

John Gilstrap / Even Steven

    Another rocket-paced thriller from John Gilstrap that pulls at the heart. What Bobby and Sue Martin want more than anything is to have a child of their own. After several failed attempts they decide to take a restorative camping trip...

Philip Davison / The Long Suit

    On the second green of a Long Island golf-course there are three golf balls and a corpse with a bullet-hole in his forehead. The call goes out for Harry Fielding to come in from the cold. With a new suit and a new partner, Harry is back...

Jorge Volpi / In Search of Klingsor

   Already an international bestseller, `In Search of Klingsor' traces an American physicist's thrilling search to unmask Hitler's chief science advisor, the man whose work on the German atomic bomb threatened Allied security.In 1946, Francis...

M. J. Rose / The Delilah Complex

    The Delilah Complex by M. J. Rose released on Dec 27, 2005 is available now for purchase.     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...

Stephen King / The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

   The short story OBITS won the 2016 Edgar for best short story.The No.1 bestselling author delivers an 'outstanding' (USA Today) collection of thrilling stories, introducing each one with a fascinating piece on when, where or how he came to...

Cath Weeks / Blind

   'It'll make you weep' ElleA Closer must-readFor fans of Diane Chamberlain and Jodi Picoult, this is an emotional, page-turning and high-concept debut about a mother who gives birth to a blind baby.Twyla Ridley, resourceful, optimistic, has...

Anna Jacobs / Cinnamon Gardens

   Now that Nell's three sons are in work, she's ready to build a new life for herself. She's been left a house in England by an elderly aunt and decides to leave Australia for a while.But her house on Peppercorn Street isn't fit to live in...

Michael Palmer / The First Patient

   Two helicopters disrupt the peace of Dr Gabe Singleton's remote Wyoming ranch. From one of them strides the President of the United States with startling news - and a stunning request which will turn Gabe's quiet life upside down.President...

Jane Shemilt / The Drowning Lesson

 The haunting new novel from the author of 2014's stunning Richard and Judy Book Club bestseller DaughterThe press conference, one year agoOur home is a crime scene now.I am in yesterday's clothes. The clothes in which I kissed Sam goodbye. Then...

Peter May / Freeze Frame ( An Enzo Files Novel )

ENZO MACLEOD TACKLES ONE OF FRANCE'S MOST NOTORIOUS UNSOLVED CASES, IN THE FOURTH OFFERING FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING MASTER OF CRIME. ILE DE GROIX, FRANCE. A Frozen Island. This tiny isle off the coast of Brittany is the scene of a murder left...

Christopher Reich / Numbered Account

    Former U.S. marine and Harvard Business School graduate Nicholas Neumann seems to have it all: a dream job, a beautiful fiancee, a future bright with promise. But beneath the dazzling veneer of this golden boy is a man haunted by the...

James Patterson / The President is Missing

   SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SERIES STARRING DAVID OYELOWO'The dream team delivers big time ... Clinton's insider secrets and Patterson's storytelling genius make this the political thriller of the decade.' - Lee...

Sean Moncrieff / Dublin

    Dublin was mucky and vulgar. Like a tourist who gets drunk and wakes up with a huge tattoo. This is what it's like for you: your name is Simon Dilion. You're 35. You're a failure. Too hungover to go to work, too lazy to get a new job,...

Peter Cunningham / Who Trespass Against Us

    A novel which confronts the Irish troubles and presents a portrait of men and women in love, in grief and in war. An IRA bomb outside Paddington Station claims one victim, a beautiful teenage girl, and changes the lives of two men...

Peter Carey / Jack Maggs

    This title is part of a series of nine plays for children aged seven to nine. It is intended for guided reading sessions and is in line with literacy guidance. Each play in the series provides: easy-to-read text; colour-coded character...

Charles Lambert / Any Human Face

   When Andrew -- a second-hand-book dealer -- comes across a pile of photographs from police archives, he decides to exhibit them. But then the gallery is raided the day before the opening, and the photos seized with surprising violence. It...

Kimberley Chambers / The Victim

   If you live for your family, would you die for your family?The third novel in the compulsive Mitchells and O'Haras trilogy.Life is looking bleak for Frankie Mitchell.Not only has she lost custody of her two children to their sadistic...

Jilliane Hoffman / The Cutting Room

 The chilling new psychological thriller from the bestselling author of Retribution and Pretty Little ThingsTHEY WATCH.The body of a student who went missing from a Florida nightclub is found in a dumpster. A horrifying scene, but nothing compared...

Dick Wolf / The Intercept

 Four days before the dedication of the new Freedom Tower at ground zero in New York City, five passengers and a flight attendant bravely foil the hijacking of a commercial jet en route to the city. Thrust into the national spotlight, 'The Six'...

Lars Kepler / Stalker

 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 arrives at Stockholm's National Crime...

N.J. Fountain / Painkiller : Her pain is real ... but is the danger?

 Painkiller is an edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller, perfect for fans of The Gift and Dear Amy.'If you've been left with a Girl on the Train-shaped shaped hole in your life, this book will undoubtedly fill it' Evening StandardMonica suffers...

John Le Carre / A Legacy of Spies

   Chosen as a Book of the Year in The Times Literary Supplement, the Evening Standard, the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, The Times'A brilliant novel of deception, love and trust to join his supreme cannon' Evening Standard'Vintage le Carre...

Jessica Jarlvi / When I Wake Up

 When Anna, a much-loved teacher and mother of two, is left savagely beaten and in a coma, a police investigation is launched. News of the attack sends shock waves through her family and their small Swedish community. Anna seems to have had no...

Adam Christopher / Hang Wire

   When Ted Hall finds strange, personalised messages from a restaurant's fortune cookies scattered around his apartment, his suspicions are aroused, particularly as his somnambulant travels appear to coincide with murders by the notorious...

Ryan David Jahn / Acts of Violence

 Katrina Marino is about to become America's most infamous murder victim.This is Katrina's story, and the story of her killer.It is also the story of Katrina's neighbours, those who witnessed her murder and did nothing: the terrified Vietnam...

Stephen L. Carter / Palace Council

 Summer, 1952. Twenty powerful men gather in secret and devise a plot to manipulate the President of the United States.Soon after, writer Eddie Wesley leaves a party hosted by affluent and influential members of black society, and discovers a body...

John Creed / The Day of the Dead

   Just when he thinks he's done with the covert life, Jack Valentine hears from his old friend Paulo Cassegrande. Embarking on a seemingly straightforward mission to return his friend's daughter from the low-life company she's fallen in with,...

Paul Kilduff / The Dealer

    When the multi-billion-pound takeover of Provident Bank is sensationally announced, life will never again be the same for many influential players in the City. A star equities dealer has just bought a million soaring Provident shares -...