Thriller

Sandie Jones / The Other Woman

   A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick. 'One of the most twisted and entertaining plots' -Reese WitherspoonThe Other Woman by debut author Sandie Jones, is a gripping psychological thriller, perfect for fans of Michelle...

Vince Flynn / The Survivor

   THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERThe brand new thriller featuring CIA operative Mitch Rapp. Rapp is bruised and battered after his time in the Near East but, however high the odds seem to be stacked against him, he always returns...

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...

Simon Toyne / Solomon Creed

   HOW CAN HE SAVE A MAN WHO'S ALREADY DEAD?`A fast-moving thriller that makes for an exhilarating read. Perfect for any fans of Lee Child' SUN`Compelling, vivid and profound' PETER JAMES`Who is Solomon Creed? He's the hero of an epic new...

Claire Allan / Her Name Was Rose

   The USA Today bestseller`AMAZING. I read it in one go. I was totally hooked.' MARIAN KEYES`Utterly addictive. Compulsive, twisty, tense.' CLAIRE DOUGLAS, author of Local Girl MissingHer name was Rose. You watched her die. And her death has...

Michael Robotham / Say You're Sorry

   My name is Piper Hadley and I went missing on the last Saturday of the summer holidays three years ago.When Piper and her friend Tash disappeared, there was a huge police search, but they were never found. Now Tash, reaching breaking point...

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...

Michelle Frances / The Temp

   You have a successful career, a loving husband and a baby on the way . . . no-one can replace you, can they?Carrie is a successful TV producer with the perfect husband and the perfect life. But when she falls pregnant, everything threatens...

Joanne Harris / Different Class

   The gripping new psychological thriller from Joanne Harris, to follow her bestselling Gentlemen & Players and Blueeyedboy. Perfect for fans of Claire Mackintosh, BA Paris, Paula Hawkins and Tracy Chevalier.`Crime novel or literary...

Peter Cocks / Body Blow

   Once you're in the business, there's no going back...Eddie Savage is hiding out in the West Midlands after his near-fatal shooting during the Kelly affair. But while the physical wounds are fading, the emotional scars are taking longer to...

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'...

Erik Axl Sund / The Crow Girl

 The international thriller sensationIt starts with just one body - the hands bound, the skin covered in marks.Detective Superintendent Jeanette Kihlberg is determined to find out who is responsible, despite opposition from her superiors. When two...

C.L. Taylor / The Lie

 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThis was no accident...Haunting, compelling, this psychological thriller will have you hooked. Perfect for fans of Gone Girl and Daughter.I know your name's not really Jane Hughes . . .Jane Hughes has a loving partner, a...

Sophie McKenzie / Here We Lie

   On holiday with family and her adoring fiance, Jed, Emily couldn't be happier. But overnight, the idyllic trip turns into a waking nightmare when one of the group is found dead in what appears to be a terrible accident.The devastated party...

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...

James Sallis / Drive

 I drive. That's what I do. All I do'. Much later, as he sat with his back against an inside wall of a Motel 6 just north of Phoenix, watching the pool of blood lap toward him, Driver would wonder whether he had made a terrible mistake. Later still,...

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...

Rebecca Whitney / The Liar's Chair

 As featured on Loose Women's Loose Books as their November book club pick'Shocking . . . You go through every emotion with it' - Coleen Nolan'You can't help but be drawn into her world' - JameliaThe Liar's Chair is Rebecca Whitney's stunning...

Tim Willocks / Green River Rising

 After three years' hard time, minding no-one's business but his own, Ray Klein wins his parole. That same day, the disciplinary perfection of Green River State Penitentiary is torn apart by tribal war, and the prison falls into the hands of its...

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 Lescroart / Nothing But the Truth

    Lawyer Dismas Hardy is sure his wife is the most reliable of mothers. So when she fails to pick their children up from school one Thursday afternoon he's convinced something terrible has happened. It has. His wife has been keeping a...

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 -...

Kevin Lewis / Frankie

   Homeless, streetwise and running away from a past she would rather forget, Francesca Mills is just another face on the streets of London. When a violent encounter leads to a man's death, however, she is forced to leave the harsh world that...

Jack Steel / The Titanic Secret

   10 April, 1912 As the RMS Titanicleaves from Southampton Docks for her maiden voyage to New York, little do her 2,223 passengers dream of the powers at play on board the ship and the terrifying fate that awaits them far out in the icy wastes...

Tess Gerritsen / Playing with Fire

   What if your child wanted you dead?'I defy you to read the first chapter and not singe your fingers reading all the rest. It's that compelling. It's that good.' David BaldacciJulia is terrified by her daughter's aggressive behaviour. Lily...

Bear Grylls / Burning Angels

   A prehistoric corpse entombed within an Arctic glacier, crying tears of blood.A jungle island overrun by rabid primates - escapees from a research laboratory's Hot Zone.A massive seaplane hidden beneath a mountain, packed with a Nazi cargo...

Edmund Power / No Christian Grave

    A dark secret stemming from a moment of tragedy and violence haunts several lives in a gripping and highly charged psychological crime novel, in the tradition of Patricia Cornwell and Clare Francis It should have been the start of the...

Rebecca Chance / Killer Diamonds

   After decades in the spotlight as an Oscar-winning film star and famous beauty, Vivienne Winter is one of the most recognizable women on the planet. When she decides to auction her multimillion dollar jewellery collection for charity,...

James Phelan / Chasers

    Jesse is on a school trip in New York when his subway carriage is rocked by an explosion. When he and three friends crawl out of the wreckage they discover a city in chaos. Streets are deserted. Buildings are in ruins. And the only...

Alan Glynn / Paradime

   After a stint as a private contractor in Afghanistan, Danny Lynch is back in New York. But nothing's easy. Work is hard to find and his girlfriend owes more than $30,000 in student loans. Danny is also haunted by something he witnessed at...

Aleksei Evdokimo / Headcrusher

   Vadim's having a tough time adjusting to capitalism. The grey, slushy Latvia he knows has not been the same since Euro-bypass surgery revived its economy. Everywhere he looks, designer-clad clones are hanging out in chic bars and driving...

Nuala Ellwood / The Day of the Accident

   WHAT DID YOU SEE? WHAT DID YOU DO? 'Gripping, poignant...I read it in one sitting' ROSAMUND LUPTON'Brilliantly compulsive and with one hell of a twist!' CLAIRE DOUGLAS____________________________Sixty seconds after she wakes from a coma,...

Claire Kendal / The Book of You

   Sunday Times top ten bestseller and Richard & Judy pick, The Book of You is a terrifying psychological thriller about obsession and power, perfect for fans of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train.You left me no choice, Clarissa.I just...

David Gilman / The Devil's Breath : Danger Zone

   He doesn't need Alex Rider's girly gadgets. He's much more fanciable than Andy McNab's Boy Soldier. His adventures will take you to places even Wilbur Smith hadn't thought of.Soon after escaping an assassin that bursts from the shadows to...

Helen Dunmore / Talking to the Dead

    Isabel and Nina. Inseparable since childhood. Sisters. Bound together by a tragedy, the knowledge of which could destroy their adult lives. Brought together one burning hot summer, by the birth of Isabel's first child, tensions are...

Nicola White / In The Rosary Garden

    Ali Hogan is leaving school, all the possibilities of adult life glistening before her, when her discovery of a murdered newborn in the convent garden in Ireland shatters her world and resurrects half-formed memories of her childhood...

Peter Carey / My Life as a Fake

    Melbourne, the late 1940s. A young conservative Australian poet named Christopher Chubb decides to teach his country a lesson about pretension and authenticity. Choosing as his target the most avant-garde of the literary magazines, he...

Martin Baker / Meltdown

    Samuel Spendlove, one of the brightest young academics at Oxford, has given it all up to work undercover for William Barton, owner of a massive media empire. His reasons are complicated, but he's finding he gets a thrill out of working...

Kass Morgan / The 100 : Book One

   The Hunger Games meets Lost in this spectacular new series. Now a major TV series on E4.No one has set foot on Earth in centuries - until now.Ever since a devastating nuclear war, humanity has lived on spaceships far above Earth's...

John Rector / Cold Kiss

   Nate and Sara are broke -- and on the run from the past.When a shady hitchhiker offers them cold hard cash for a lift, they can't afford to say no.But very soon they'll be wishing they had. Because picking him up is about to become the...

Nigel McCrery / Tooth and Claw

   From the creator of the hit BBC drama Silent Witness, comes the gripping second instalment in the acclaimed Mark Lapslie series, sees the DCI come under attack from all sides. Perfect for fans of M.J. Arlidge and Angela Marsons.By now he...

Nigel McCrery / Core of Evil

   A visceral thriller from the creator of the hit BBC drama Silent Witness, introducing synaesthetic detective DCI Mark Lapslie.I've looked into the eyes of women who have banged nine-inch nails into the skulls of their victims with hammers ....

Meg Gardiner / The Memory Collector

   A pulse-pounding, race-against-time thriller featuring forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett.Forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett's speciality is the psychological autopsy - an investigation into a person's life to determine whether a death was...

Mo Hayder / The Devil of Nanking

   Tokyo, 1990 Grey Hutchins is in pursuit of an obsession. She is searching for a piece of film taken during the infamous Nanking massacre of 1937. Some say it never existed. Grey is certain that it does, and that it lies hidden -...

Alex Connor / The Bosch Deception

    A TRUTH CONCEALED. Brabant, 1473. A clandestine brotherhood hides a secret that could bring down the Catholic Church. Their chosen hiding place - the art of Hieronymus Bosch. A TERRIBLE CONSPIRACY. London, 2014. An excommunicated priest...

Anders Roslund / Cell 8

   THE SUNDAY TIMES 60 BEST THRILLERS AND CRIME NOVELS OF THE PAST 6 YEARS PICK - A CAPITAL CRIME AND A CHILLING CONSPIRACY AWAIT DCI EWERT GRENS.'A powerful, multi-layered novel' Guardian'A mesmerising crime narrative' IndependentONE CELLA...

Robert Parker / A Wanted Man

      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 good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...

Fionnuala Kearney / The Day I Lost You

   `Incredibly moving, it's beautifully written and page-turning' Susan LewisTHE DAY I LOST YOU WAS THE DAY I DISCOVERED I NEVER REALLY KNEW YOUWhen Jess's daughter, Anna, is reported lost in an avalanche, everything changes.Jess's first...

Helen Fitzgerald / The Cry

   Now a major BBC 1 drama starring Jenna Coleman (Victoria, Dr Who) and Ewen Leslie (Top of the Lake, Safe Harbour), The Cry by Helen Fitzgerald brings a parent's worst nightmare to vivid life.Longlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime...