Thriller

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...

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...

Amy Engel / The Roanoke Girls

 THE #1 EBOOK BESTSELLER**PERFECT FOR FANS OF THE HBO SERIES SHARP OBJECTS'Darkly sexy and compelling' HEAT'Fans of The Girls will love this' RED ONLINE'You'll be gripped' RICHARD MADELEY'One of the best books I've read' REBECCA DONE'This book is...

Chris Brookmyre / Black Widow

 The seventh book in the Jack Parlabane series, from author Christopher Brookmyre.'A celtic Gone Girl... guaranteed to keep you guessing'Ian Rankin*****WINNER Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year**********WINNER Bloody Scotland McIlvanney...

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...

Stephen and Owen King / Sleeping Beauties

 A spectacular father/son collaboration like no other, Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men? In this spectacular father/son collaboration, Stephen King and...

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...

James Oswald / The Damage Done ) ( Inspector McLean Series - Book 6 )

No good deed goes unpunished... When a police raid in Edinburgh goes horribly wrong, the only silver lining for Inspector Tony McLean is a discovery that could lead to a long-lost girl from his early days on the beat.Haunted by the mystery of what...

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...

C. M. Palov / The Templar's Code

   An action-packed adventure steeped in archaeological treasures, long-lost secrets and intrigue. If you like Dan Brown, Sam Bourne and Clive Cussler you'll love this.An ancient secret worth killing for . . .During the Middle Ages, rumours...

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...

Jo Nesbo / Blood on Snow

 OVER 33 MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDEOlav lives the lonely life of a fixer.When you `fix' people for a living - terminally - it's hard to get close to anyone.Now he's finally met the woman of his dreams.But there are two problems.She's his boss's...

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...

Camilla Grebe / The Ice Beneath Her

   NO ORDINARY PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER - THIS WILL KEEP YOU UP ALL NIGHT'Scandi-noir at its powerful bleakest.' Daily Mail'Deserves to be called a page-turner - I read it in one sitting!' Cecilia Ekback, bestselling author of Wolf WinterFor...

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...

David L. Lindsey / The Colour of Night

    Harry Strand is a renowned international dealer in Old Master and Impressionist drawings. Working from a gallery in Texas, he is mourning the death of his wife, Romy. He is approached by the beautiful Mara Song needing to sell some...

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...

Patrick Redmond / The Wishing Game

    Something terrible happened at Kirkston Abbey school for boys during the bleak winter term of 1954. Now, more than forty years later, journalist Tim Webber is determined to find out the truth. He uncovers a disturbing tale of a...

Kimberley Chambers / The Wronged : No Parent Should Ever Have to Bury Their Child...

 With family like this, who needs enemies. . .There are some families that welcome newcomers with open arms, then there are the Butlers. An East End family no good girl wants to marry into...Jo fell for Vinny Butler's good looks, but she's stood at...

Helen Fields / Perfect Death

   `Relentless pace, devilish cleverness and a laser-sharp focus on plot.' Chris Brookmyre`Without doubt, this is one of the best detective series I have read.' Woman's Way MagazineYour new addiction starts here: get hooked on the #1...

Tracy Buchanan / Her Last Breath

   A girl has gone missing. You've never met her, but you're to blame.From the #1 bestselling author of My Sister's Secret...Food writer Estelle Forster has the perfect life. And with her first book on the way, it's about to get even better...

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...

Felix Francis / Front Runner

   Things are hotting up in this latest thriller from bestselling author Felix Francis, in his fifth solo novel Front Runner.Jefferson Hinkley is back. In his role as an undercover investigator for the British Horseracing Authority, Jeff is...

Kelley Armstrong / Personal Demon

    In her acclaimed Women of the Otherworld series, Kelley Armstrong has created a scintillating realm where the supernatural and the human coexist on the edge of darkness, romance, and eternity. Now Armstrong tells the captivating tale of...

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...