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Lord Lislelivet has a talent for making enemies - so not even his wife is surprised when it emerges someone has tried to poison him. What is surprising is that...

A page-turning psychological puzzle for fans of Shutter Island and True Detective'The detail is unerring ... and this magisterial grasp of time and place lends the story vivid veracity. The...

'A sensational debut - compelling, hypnotic, full of suspense and quiet menace. Don't miss it!' Lee Child A split-second decision puts your family in danger. A gripping new thriller that...

Eleven Days is a wry and gripping police thriller. Written by a former deputy sheriff on his vacation, the story covers the solving of a horrific satanic cult murder in...

The master storyteller continues the Clifton saga with this, the second novel. New York, 1939. Tom Bradshaw is arrested for first degree murder. He stands accused of killing his brother....

'Jo Spain is a sublime storyteller . . . this is a book you won't want to put down' JANE CASEY2014, Dublin: at St Edmunds, an elite college on the...

A TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH'Absolutely gripping' Alex Gerlis, Every Spy a Traitor'Nygate is not afraid to get her hands bloody' James Owen, The Times'Perfect for fans of early le...

______________________NOW THE HIT 2020 MOVIE THE POSTCARD KILLINGS STARRING JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN AND FAMKE JANSSEN______________________Murder is on the cards...NYPD detective Jacob Kanon is on a tour of Europe's most gorgeous...

Inspector Christian Tell and his team are called to the scene of a double murder. University lecturer Anne-Marie Karpov lies dead in her home, alongside her student and lover, Henrik....

Hotter than The Beach House and scarier than Kiss The Girls, James Patterson's explosive new thriller introduces a bride who is beautiful, talented, devoted - and deadly. When a young...

James Patterson takes us on a twisting roller-coaster ride of thrills in his most gripping novel yet. Lauren Stillwell is not your average damsel in distress. When the NYPD cop...

Bode Bonner is the Republican governor of Texas. He has everything he ever wanted: money, power, influence. But something isn't right in his life - everything feels too settled and...

The electrifying new thriller from the author of the acclaimed The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August.Kepler is like you, but not like you. With a simple touch, Kepler can...

When hotshot lawyer Elizabeth Brice turns up to collect her daughter Grace from football practice, the coach tells her she needn't have bothered, as Grace's uncle has already picked her...

The new book from the number one bestselling author of The Son and The Snowman, Jo NesboJon is on the run. He has betrayed Oslo's biggest crime lord: The Fisherman.Fleeing...

Every so often a thriller appears that offers more to the reader than just entertainment. White Crocodile is just that. When emotionally damaged mine-clearer Tess Hardy travels to Cambodia to...

When, despite all his training and twenty five years experience as a private detective, Phil Kramer is shot dead on a quiet suburban south California street his wife and partners...

'An intense, brilliantly crafted thriller that hums with menace from start to finish' TM Logan 'He did kill. Kill and kill and kill.' Tess's number one priority has always been...

On a mild autumn afternoon in 1882, William Trenchard sits smoking his pipe in the garden of his comfortable family home. When the creak of the garden gate heralds the...

'a tour de force work of art' - The Wall Street Journal, Best Books of the YearLonglisted for the 2022 CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger AwardIt's Saturday evening, 9 March...

The sixteenth thrilling instalment in the globally bestselling Michael Bennett series._________________________________________________________How do you catch a killer who leaves no trace?In New York City, a sniper dubbed 'The Longshot Killer' is...

Detective Lindsay Boxer and her friend Yuki Castellano are out shopping with Yuki's mother Keiko when Keiko drops in the middle of the busy street. It looks like she's had...

The true value of a human life is being tested to its limit in this sharp, page-turning thriller...When soldier Paul Curtis, recently returned from active duty, is approached covertly by...

'A truly original voice' Peter JamesDreda Say Mitchell was awarded an MBE in Her Majesty The Queen's 2020 New Year's Honours ListBOOK 2 in the FLESH AND BLOOD series, BLOOD...

One rainy night in New York City, outstanding law student Chloe Larson wakes from a terrible nightmare. But it's not a nightmare - it's real. Not only is she savagely...

Paige Vallis claimed that she gave in to Tripping's sexual demands because he had threatened to harm his son if she didn't. Alexandra Cooper, prosecuting the ex-CIA man, knew she...

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...

***THE TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER******LONGLISTED FOR THE THEAKSTONS CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD***''So thrilling and unexpected that it made my head spin' LISA JEWELL'A dazzling psychological thriller' Sunday Times'Deliciously...

From bestselling Ian Rankin, winner of the 1997 CWA GOLD DAGGER for fiction for BLACK & BLUE the three Jack Harvey novels, gathered together in one omnibus volume.WITCH HUNT, BLEEDING...

Three sons, one massive fortune. The race to be the first to make GBP1,000,000 to win the inheritence is on... Harry Bingham is a wonderful new talent in the great...

After five years, lawyer Hugh Gwynne's most difficult case has finally come to court. His client Tom Deacon is claiming damages for post-traumatic stress after a car accident in which...

The Pope is dying.In the catacombs of San Domatilla, deep beneath the streets of Rome, a militant group of disaffected priests are urged to wage a new Inquisition. As the...

When Ty witnesses a stabbing, his own life is in danger from the criminals he's named, and he and his mum have to go into police protection. Ty has a...

WELCOME TO MAKE-BELIEVE. YOU CREATE THE FANTASY, THEY CONTROL YOUR MIND.Cassie worked at Imagen, the tech giant behind the cutting-edge virtual reality experience Make-BelieveT, and she got to know the...

Gus Dury is a changed man. He is off the Edinburgh streets and back with estranged wife, Debs. He has promised her that he won't get involved in any more...

Daniel Easterman crosses boundaries never before visited with this awesome novel of politics, fundamentalism and kidnapping. In an idyllic Northumberland village, the locals prepare for the Harvest Festival as they...

'Powerful and gripping - an adrenaline-filled thriller you won't forget' - Sunday Times bestseller Kimberley Chambers What to believe Who to betray When to run... Plastic surgeon Dr Maria Martinez...

The gripping new standalone thriller from the critically acclaimed, award-winning author of `California Girl' and `The Fallen'. Funny how different lives can suddenly collide. When TV weatherwoman Frankie Hatfield gets...

The thriller that opened a new chapter in the sex wars ...Thomas Sanders' world collapses in just 24 hours - he is passed over for promotion, his new woman boss...

'I can make good bad and bad badder, and most fun of all, really bad seem good.' Jeffery Deaver And that is exactly what he does in this superb collection....

*** THE #1 KINDLE BESTSELLER ****** A NETGALLEY BOOK OF THE MONTH *** 'Dark, heartbreaking and totally absorbing' - LORRAINE KELLY 'Brilliantly written and emotionally compulsive' - HARRIET TYCE 'A...