Thriller

Jo Bloom / Ridley Road

 NOW A MAJOR BBC ONE DRAMA starring Rory Kinnear, Tamzin Outhwaite, Tracy-Ann ObermanA TALE OF LOVE AND MORALITY SET IN THE DARK SIDE OF THE SWINGING SIXTIES'Vivid, cinematic and exciting' Red'Conjures a great picture of Soho's early-Sixties...

John Grisham / Sparring Partners

 THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'Three sparkling Grisham stories for the price of one . . . Appealing entertainment' IRISH INDEPENDENT'These three novellas in a single volume show Grisham at his masterful best, exquisite evocations of the...

Linwood Barclay / Take Your Breath Away

 A missing woman. A husband suspected.The truth will ... Take Your Breath AwayLinwood Barclay is...'A suspense master' Stephen King'In a class of his own' T.M. Logan'One of the finest thriller writers in the world' Mark BillinghamIt's always the...

Peter Robinson / Caedmon's Song (Hardback)

 On a balmy June night, Kirsten, a young university student, strolls home through a silent moonlit park. Suddenly her tranquil mood is shattered as she is brutally attacked. When she awakes in hospital, she has no recollection of that night. But...

Paul Perry / The Garden (Hardback)

 The Garden is dying. Once an Edenic orchid farm, it has been decimated by the worst hurricane in Florida's living memory. Its glasshouses are shattered, the surrounding mangroves encroach, and its men are dangerously idle. When Romeo - an expert...

Paul Adam / Enemy Within (Hardback)

 A respected modern historian with a secure job at a red-brick university, father of two in a happy marriage, Tom leads a content and fulfilled life. Then he is arrested. Charged with down-loading child pornography. He is suspended from his post and...

Martin Cruz Smith / Three Stations (Hardback)

 As a train pulls into Yaroslav Station, Moscow, a teenage girl - Maya - wakes to an unimaginable horror. Her baby has been taken . . . Increasingly disillusioned with the workings of Moscow's Prosecution Service, Arkady Renko is teetering on the...

Tracey S. Phillips / Best Kept Secrets (Hardback)

 A homicide detective must confront the darkest parts of her past in this "twisty, tantalizing" domestic thriller about best friends and siblings, driven to terrible acts (Karen Harper, New York Times-bestselling author). Best friends tell each...

Mia de Laire / And the Truth Shall Be Told (Large Paperback)

 New York City, 1956. Peter Logan is finishing up the training for his cover job with Calder Oil, annoyed because he is told to get married before leaving on his first assignment. Two months before leaving for Africa he meets and marries Lara...

Bernard Cornwell / The Pagan Lord (Large Paperback)

 *A brand new companion to the Last Kingdom series, Uhtred's Feast, is available to pre-order now* The seventh novel in Bernard Cornwell's number one bestselling series on the making of England and the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg...

Susan Lewis / Never Say Goodbye (Large Paperback)

 For readers of Jodi Picoult, Heather Gudenkauf, and Elizabeth Flock comes a deeply moving novel of finding friendship and love in the most unexpected of places. Josie Clark, a loving wife and mother, struggles to make ends meet by cleaning homes...

Skye Elizabeth Wieland / Mark's Strength (Large Paperback)

 Mark and Sarah van der Merwe think they may have escaped the attention of the ivory smugglers they faced in the past while saving the elephants in Kruger National Park. However, now fighting depression and isolation, the backslidden couple ventures...

Lucy Clarke / One of the Girls (Large Paperback)

   The scorching, escapist new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Castaways 'An addictive sun-soaked thriller'MARIE CLAIRE'The perfect holiday read' CLAIRE DOUGLAS'Brimming with tension' CLARE MACKINTOSH'Talk about...

T.M. Logan / The Curfew (Large Paperback)

 I should have known something was wrong. I should have sensed it. Felt it in the air, like the build-up of pressure before a thunderstorm, that heavy, loaded calm. The curfewAndy and Laura are good parents. They tell their son Connor that he can...

Dervla McTiernan / The Murder Rule (Large Paperback)

 No one is innocent in this story. First Rule: Make them like you.Second Rule: Make them need you.Third Rule: Make them pay.They think I'm a young, idealistic law student, that I'm passionate about reforming a corrupt and brutal system.They think...

Richard Pitman / Joseph's Mansions (Large Paperback)

 Richard Pitman introduces a wonderful new hero in Frankie Houlihan, a man who quit the priesthood for love and then lost his wife in a terrible accident. Trying to rebuild his life, Frankie accepts a job with the security team who investigate...

Greg Iles / The Bone Tree (Large Paperback)

 From #1 New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles comes the second novel in his Natchez Burning trilogy--which also includes Natchez Burning and the upcoming Mississippi Blood--an epic trilogy of blood and race, family and justice, featuring...

David Mamet / Chicago (Large Paperback)

 A big-shouldered, big-trouble thriller set in mobbed-up 1920s Chicago-a city where some people knew too much, and where everyone should have known better-by the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of The Untouchables and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright...

Andy Mcnab / Crossfire (Large Paperback)

 Bodyguarding a TV crew on the streets of war-torn Basra, ex-deniable operator Nick Stone s life is saved by a reporter s swift action as a roadside bomb explodes. When the man later vanishes, Stone is asked to find him. The trail leads from Iraq to...

Catherine Ryan Howard / Run Time (Large Paperback)

 SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS' CRIME FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR _________________________________*** A Top Ten Kindle Bestseller ***'Pure nerve-shredding suspense from the first page to the last' Erin Kelly'Blair Witch meets Fleabag ... pure...

Ryan Gattis / The System (Large Paperback)

 Thriller of the Month in The Times and the Guardian. Book of the Week in the Daily Telegraph.The System can save you, or it can break you . . .On the sixth of December 1993, a drug dealer named Scrappy is shot and left for dead on her mother's...

E.V. Kelly / Her Last Words (Large Paperback)

 'Opens with a terrific hook' IRISH TIMES 'Absolutely absorbing' SAM BLAKE'A chilling, magical read' PATRICIA GIBNEY'Breathtakingly paced' S. A. DUNPHY'Truly gripping' SINEAD CROWLEYTHE DEAD WON'T STAY SILENT FOREVER...It's a crisp spring morning...

Nicolas Freeling - Gadget - Vintage PB 1979

Jim Hawkins, an American physicist working in a German nuclear institute, is kidnapped by terrorists, along with his wife and two young daughters. The captors - terrorists of a rather atypical variety - want him to produce the Gadget, a small nuclear...

Patrick McGrath / The Wardrobe Mistress (Large Paperback)

 ***SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION*** From the bestselling author of Asylum, Trauma and SpiderJanuary, 1947.London is in ruins, there's nothing to eat, and it's the coldest winter in living memory.To make matters...

Megan Abbott / The Fever (Large Paperback)

 Her hands flying up, she grabbed her throat, her body jolting to one side. Then, in one swoop, her desk overturned, clattering to the floor.And with it Lise. Her head twisting, slamming into the tiles, her bright red face turned up, mouth teeming...

James Kilcullen / Global Warning

      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...

Amanda Mason / The Wayward Girls

   A gripping, unsettling debut novel about two sisters and a dangerous game that becomes all too real. Perfect for fans of The Girl in the Walls and The Little Stranger. The haunting began quietly. The girls heard it first . . .THEN1976. Loo...

Bryony Pearce / Angel's Fury

   A stunning debut book for young adults, mixing mythology, fantasy and real-life terror in a paranormal story like no other. Every atrocity Every war Every act of vengeance One fallen angel walks the earth to bring mankind to its destruction...

Sarah Vaughan / Reputation

 From the bestselling author of Anatomy of a Scandal, now a major Netflix series...Reputation: it takes a lifetime to build and just one moment to destroy.'Sarah Vaughan has done it again. Superb' Shari LapenaEmma Webster is a respectable MP.Emma...

Niall Leonard / Crusher

 The day Finn Maguire discovers his father bludgeoned to death in a pool of blood, his dreary life is turned upside down. Prime suspect in the murder, Finn must race against time to clear his name and find out who hated his dad enough to kill him...

Marion Todd / See Them Run

 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BLOODY SCOTLAND SCOTTISH CRIME DEBUT OF THE YEAR 2020In a famous Scottish town, someone is bent on murder - but why?On the night of a wedding celebration, one guest meets a grisly end when he's killed in a hit-and-run. A card...

Peter Gadol / The Stranger Game

 Intriguing, enigmatic literary thriller' The Financial Times'A unique premise, chillingly written and evocative' Woman's Own'An enigmatic novel . . . a metaphysical thriller' Edmund White'Like the best of Highsmith and Hitchcock rolled into one'...

Stephen Leather / The Hunting

 'I doubt if a more exciting and muscular book will come along this year' Peterborough TelegraphMoney can't buy everythingBut it can buy revengeCan a doctor take lives instead of saving them?British doctor Raj Patel puts his own life on the line to...

Scott Turow / The Last Trial

 'The master is back and in The Last Trial Scott Turow takes it to another level' - David Baldacci From the bestselling author of Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow's The Last Trial recounts the final case of Kindle County's most revered courtroom...

Humphrey Hawksley / Absolute Measures (Large Paperback)

 Samira and Yasin, orphaned when they were eight years old, were adopted by a Malaysian millionaire. They grow up in a world of wealth and privilege, but the seeds of hatred, sown when they were children, are about to reap a terrible harvest...

John Grisham / The Judge's List (Large Paperback)

 ***THE SUNDAY TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH*** 'Besides the usual Grisham virtues of an arresting idea, polished plotting and vivid social snapshots, what's impressive here is his willingness to take on fresh challenges' THE SUNDAY TIMESNonstop...

Rosaleen Flanagan / Missing Links (Large Paperback)

   The locals of Carrabhain were baffled when Ned Cunningham, an elderly man was fatally attacked. Within a week a second local disappeared and when she was found murdered the pressure was on DI Cathy Spragg to find answers to what exactly was...

Brian van Reet / Spoils (Large Paperback)

 A Guardian Book of the Year Winner of The Writers' League of Texas Fiction Award 2017'Spoils is a harrowing and incredibly powerful debut. I read this with awe.' Kate AtkinsonIt is the spring of 2003 and coalition forces are advancing on Iraq...

T. J. Newman / Falling

 FALLING: the blockbuster thriller and most explosive global bestseller of 2021 in hardback, now in paperback.You just boarded a flight to New York.There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard.What you don't know is that thirty...

Jeffrey Archer / Over My Dead Body ( William Warwick Series - Book 4 )

 An unputdownable story of murder, revenge and betrayal from international number one bestseller Jeffrey Archer. THE CLOCK IS TICKING IN THIS ROLLERCOASTER RIDE OF A THRILLER...In London, the Metropolitan Police set up a new Unsolved Murders Unit -...

Kate White / The Wrong Man

   A chance encounter leads to a fight for her life...Kit Finn plays it safe in her personal life; any risky moves are saved for her work. But when she meets handsome Matt Healy on a business trip she decides she's tired of being careful. Kit...

Sean O'Brien / Once Again Assembled Here

 Stephen Maxwell has just retired from a lifetime spent teaching history at his alma mater. As he writes the official history of Blake's, a minor public school steeped in military tradition, he also reveals how, forty years ago, a secret conflict...

Mike Thomas / Unforgivable

 A dark slice of Cardiff crime for fans of TONY PARSONS, JAMES OSWALD and LUCA VESTE. There isn't always a welcome in the valleys . . . Bombs detonate in a busy souk, causing massive devastation.An explosion rips apart a mosque, killing and...

A.J. Butcher /Spy High 2: Benjamin White

   Benjamin Stanton, Jr is a graduate of the Deveraux College, the highly secret school for teenage spies. When Spy High's old enemy, President Vlad Tepesch of Wallachia, steals an alien device from a Deveraux Moon Colony, Ben's mission is...

Arturo Perez-Reverte / The Dumas Club

 A well-know bibliophile is found hanged days after selling a rare manuscript of Alexander Dumas's classic, The Three Musketeers. Across Madrid, Spain's wealthiest book dealer has finally laid his hands on a 17th-century manual for summoning the...

James Patterson / Murder Thy Neighbour

      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...

Will Ferguson / 419

 HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO FOR REVENGE? A car tumbles through darkness down a snowy ravine. A woman without a name walks out of a dust storm in Africa. And in the seething heat of Lagos City, a criminal cartel scours the Internet, looking for victims...

Rumaan Alam / Leave the World Behind : 'The book of an era' Independent (Hardback)

 Easily the best thing I have read all year' KILEY REID, AUTHOR OF SUCH A FUN AGE'Intense, incisive, I loved this and have still not quite shaken off the unease' DAVID NICHOLLS'Simply breathtaking . . . An extraordinary book, at once smart, gripping...

Wilbur Smith / The New Kingdom (Hardback)

   BOOK 1 IN A THRILLING NEW ANCIENT EGYPTIAN SERIES, FROM INTERNATIONAL SENSATION WILBUR SMITH 'Best historical novelist' - Stephen King'A master storyteller' - Sunday Times'Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are...

James Lee Burke / A Private Cathedral : A Dave Robicheaux Novel (Hardback)

 After finding himself caught up in one of Louisiana's oldest and bloodiest family rivalries, Detective Dave Robicheaux must battle the most terrifying adversary he has ever encountered: a time-traveling superhuman assassin. The Shondell and...

Francine Pascal / Before Gaia

 This Special Edition looks at the events that shaped Gaia Moore's destiny - the story of what happened to her parents before their daughter was born without the fear gene. Gaia Moore is the girl born without the fear gene. This special edition...

Peter Lovesey / Swing Swing Together : The Seventh Sergeant Cribb Mystery

   The seventh book in the Sergeant Cribb series by Peter Lovesey London, 1889: After Jerome K Jerome's Three Men in a Boat became a Victorian bestseller, rowing on the Thames was the great craze of 1889. When an elementary school teacher in...