Thriller

Val McDermid / 1979 (Hardback)

 Hailed as Britain's Queen of Crime, Val McDermid's award-winning, internationally bestselling novels have captivated readers for more than thirty years. Now, in 1979, she returns to the past with the story of Allie Burns, an investigative...

Lynda La Plante / Widows' Revenge (Hardback)

 The sequel to Lynda La Plante's groundbreaking thriller, Widows - now a major feature film.DOLLY, LINDA, SHIRLEY AND BELLA ARE BACK. AND THIS TIME IT'S A FIGHT TO THE FINISH.Against all the odds, Dolly Rawlins and her gangland widows managed the...

Michael Palmer / Oath of Office (Hardback)

   Michael Palmer, the "New York Times" bestselling author of "A Heartbeat Away" and "The Last""Surgeon" brings us a shocking new thriller at the crossroads of politics and medicine. "What if a well respected doctor inexplicably goes on a...

Christobel Kent / A Secret Life (Hardback)

   A girls' night out. A bad decision.A life, unravellingWhen Georgie is persuaded to join two old friends for Ladies' Night, she intends to have fun, to behave like the Georgie she was before marriage and motherhood changed her life.But one...

John Grisham / Sycamore Row (Hardback)

 In the long-awaited successor to the novel that launched his phenomenal career, John Grisham brings us the powerful sequel to A Time to Kill. As filled with page-turning twists as it is with legal mastery, Sycamore Row proves beyond doubt that John...

Valerio Massimo Manfredi / The Tower (Hardback)

 70 AD. A group of Roman soldiers crossing the Sahara desert is destroyed by a ferocious and mysterious presence hidden in a solitary tower at the extreme borders of the sea of sand. The sole survivor, the Etruscan seer Avile Vipinas, is...

W E B Griffin / The Hostage (Hardback)

 By Order of the President, the first novel in W.E.B. Griffin's crackling new Presidential Agent series, won immediate acclaim from critics and fans alike.Charley Castillo works with the Department of Homeland Security, but more and more he is the...

Daniel Handler / Adverbs (Hardback)

 A dramatic meditation on love both fleeting and everlasting, 'Adverbs' is a serious work of fiction by one of today's most innovative voices. 'Adverbs' marks the return of Daniel Handler to adult fiction as he tackles life's most complicated and...

Bear Grylls / Ghost Flight (Hardback)

 THE BOURNE IDENTITY meets Indiana Jones - a debut thriller to take your breath away.A mother and child savagely abducted from a snow-swept mountainside.A loyal soldier tortured and executed on a remote Scottish moor.A lost warplane discovered in...

Michael Palmer / Second Opinion (Hardback)

 Dr. Thea Sperelakis, diagnosed as a teen with Asperger’s syndrome, has always been an outsider. She has a brilliant medical mind, and a remarkable recall of details, but her difficulty in dealing with hidden agendas and interpersonal conflicts have...

Paula Cocozza / How to Be Human (Hardback)

 SHORTLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2018 __________________________________'In evocative and elegant prose Cocozza delves deep into the psyche of a strange and troubled woman. The reader is invited to share in her intense connection to a fox...

Linwood Barclay / A Noise Downstairs (Hardback)

 'One of the world's finest thriller writers on the top of his game. A Noise Downstairs is a blinder - his best yet' PETER JAMES* * * * *EVERY STEP...Paul Davis forgets things - he gets confused, he has sudden panic attacks. But he wasn't always...

Glenn Beck / The Overton Window (Hardback)

 A plan to destroy America, a hundred years in the making, is about to be unleashed . . . can it be stopped? There is a powerful technique called the Overton Window that can shape our lives, our laws, and our future. It works by manipulating public...

Mandasue Heller / Broke

 'One of the bad girls of gritty crime' Daily Mirror She's hit rock bottom - but she's going to fight back . . .Amy's marriage to Mark isn't the best - he can't resist the girls, he can't hold down a job. But she doesn't want to know just how bad...

Jean Hanff Korelitz / The Plot

 From the author of The Undoing 'Remarkable.' Stephen King'Breathtakingly suspenseful.' Megan Abbott'Smart, surprising and stealthily unsettling.' The TimesWhen a young writer dies before completing his first novel, his teacher, Jake, (himself a...

Naomi Joy / The Liars

 Two women. One deadly secret. A rivalry that could destroy them. Ava Wells is perfect. She has the boyfriend, the career, the looks. But one night changes everything and her life suddenly isn't so seamless. Jade Fernleigh is ambitious. She's...

Hillary Rodham Clinton / State of Terror

 A Sunday Times and New York Times Bestseller! 'A rip-roaring, brilliant page-turner, but it's also timely, cheeky, important and wonderfully, courageously provocative. What great fun!' - James Patterson'Smart and fast and twisty, State of Terror...

Linwood Barclay / Chas

 Get ready to run . . . an edge-of-your-seat thriller with bite from international bestselling author Linwood Barclay, in his first novel for 9-12 year olds. Chipper is a very special dog. As part of a top-secret, multi-million dollar experiment to...

Lotte Hammer / The Girl in the Ice

 Under the heartless vault of the Greenland's arctic sky the body of a girl is discovered. Half-naked and tied up, buried hundreds of miles from any signs of life, she has lain alone, hidden in the ice cap, for twenty-five years. Now an ice melt has...

Frank Gardner / Ultimatum

 'It grips like a python from the first page, squeezing the breath out of the reader' DAILY MAIL 'Outstanding' SUNDAY TIMES'Breathless action' THE TIMESHidden from prying Western satellites, Iranian scientists are at work on a banned device . . ...

Sarah Pinborough / 13 Minutes

 A totally gripping twisty psychological thriller from the amazing author of Behind Her Eyes, now a major Netflix series I was dead for 13 minutes.I don't remember how I ended up in the icy water but I do know this - it wasn't an accident and I...

Louise Millar / The Hidden Girl

 One cold March morning, a removal van arrives at Tornley Hall in Suffolk. Will and Hannah Riley have been waiting a long time to adopt, and Hannah is obsessed that this new 'dream' family home in Tornley, will improve their chances with social...

Adam Lebor / The Reykjavik Assignment

   UN covert negotiator, Yael Azoulay, has been sent to Reykjavik to broker a secret meeting between the US President and her Iranian counterpart. Both parties want to reach agreement, but Yael soon realises that powerful enemies are preparing...

Philip Kerr / Metropolis

 Berlin detective Bernie Gunther bows out at last in the 14th and final book of the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling series. With an introduction by Ian Rankin. 'One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILD'One of the greatest...

Peter Lovesey / Rough Cider

 The standalone novel from the critically-acclaimed Peter Lovesey. Rough Cider was nominated for an Edgar Award. It is World War II and American soldiers stationed in rural England have made friends, especially with the local girls. After a dance...

Peter Robinson / Not Dark Yet

 ***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*** Murder is only the beginning for Banks and his team . . .The gruesome double murder at an Eastvale property developer's luxury home should be an open and shut case for Superintendent Banks and his team of...

Chris Ryan / Agent 21: Codebreaker : Book 3

 Secret agent Zak Darke is back for his third mission - and the stakes have never been higher.An unknown bomber is conducting a terror campaign in London. After an explosion on the tube leaves someone dead, Zak and his team are brought in to try and...

Kerry Barners / The Rules

 The second instalment of Kerry Barnes' explosive new series! 'Page turner' New!********Do you live by the rules, or die by them?Holed up in prison, Mike Regan is offered a deal - his freedom in exchange for his firm taking down the gang that is...

Anna Smith / Until I Find You

 'Gritty, violent and very dark, it is a real page turner. I loved the character of Billie Carlson' Patricia Gibney This nail-biting Glasgow-set crime thriller introduces Billie Carlson, an ex-cop turned Private Investigator.WHEN YOU'VE LOST...

Nick McDonell / The Third Brother

   Mike is spending the summer working for a magazine in Hong Kong when Christopher Dorr, a brilliant journalist, goes missing in Thailand. Mike's editor decides to send him to Bangkok to report on the drug-tourism crackdown, but Mike's real...

Chris Hammer / Silver

 AN ENTHRALLING AND PROPULSIVE NEW THRILLER FROM THE ACCLAIMED AND BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SCRUBLANDS 'Compelling, original and brilliantly executed - an excellent thriller from a new master of Australian noir' CHARLES CUMMING'Dark, twisty and...

David Baldacci / Mercy

 Mercy is the gripping follow up to Long Road to Mercy, A Minute to Midnight and Daylight featuring Special Agent Atlee Pine from one of the world's most favourite thriller writers, David Baldacci.THE HUNT IS FINALLY OVER.FBI agent Atlee Pine is at...

Robert B. Parker / Blue Screen

 Sunny Randall, "Boston's leading lady gumshoe" (New York Daily News), returns as hired bodyguard for the spoiled, and possibly dangerous, prize female client of a sleazy producer. This time, she gets a little help from Parker's popular character...

Catherine Ryan Howard - 56 Days - PB BRAND NEW

 Winner of the An Post Irish Book Awards 2021 Crime Fiction Book of the YearA Book of the Year for 2021 in the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Irish Times, nominated for the IMPAC Prize 2023. ___________________________** THE...

Stephen Leather / First Response (Hardback)

   From the bestselling author of the Spider Shepherd and Jack Nightingale series comes First Response, the utterly addictive new thriller by Stephen Leather. London is under siege.Nine men in suicide vests primed to explode hold hostages in...

Laura Lippman / After I'm Gone (Hardback)

 New York Times best seller Laura Lippman returns with a classic story of murder and mystery, in which one man's disappearance echoes through the lives of his wife, daughters - and mistress. When Felix Brewer meets nineteen-year-old Bernadette...

Mary Higgins Clark / Silent Night : A Novel (Hardback)

 When her husband was diagnosed with leukemia, Catherine Dornan and their two young sons accompanied him to New York, during the Christmas season, for a life-saving operation.Hoping to divert the boys from worry about their father, and to temper her...

Robert Goddard / Blood Count (Hardback)

 There's no such thing as easy money. As surgeon Edward Hammond is about to find out. Thirteen years ago he performed a life saving operation on a Serbian gangster, Dragan Gazi. Gazi is now standing trial for war crimes in the international court in...

Gerald Seymour / The Dealer and the Dead (Hardback)

 SOMETIMES, surviving a war can almost seem worse than dying in it.In a Croatian village near Vukovar, no one who survived will ever forget the night they waited for the weapons they needed to make a last-ditch fight against the advancing Serbs.The...

Andrew Vachss / Terminal (Hardback)

 You know why we hate you? Not because you don’t know what we know, but because, if you did, you wouldn’t give a damn.So I’m sitting here, waiting to commit extortion, and planning a lot worse. I’m what you’d call a criminal. That’s why I’ll never...

Janet Evanovich / Wicked Appetite (Hardback)

 Meet brand-new heroine Elizabeth Tucker: Marblehead resident, bakery worker, unlucky in love...and descendant of witches.Life is pleasantly predictable for Lizzy, until a tall, black-haired, dark eyed man shows up. His name is Gerwulf Grimoire,...

James Lee Burke / A Private Cathedral (Hardback)

 Detective Dave Robicheaux is caught in the crossfire of Louisiana's oldest and bloodiest gangland feud...From the wreckage of Louisiana's oldest and family rivalry, Detective Dave Robicheaux faces his most sinister enemy yet . . .Isolde and Johnny...

Guillermo Del Toro / Trollhunters (Hardback)

   The book that inspired the Netflix original series.In San Bernardino, California, children are going missing.The townspeople don't believe the rumours of trolls, but fifteen-year-old Jim Jnr knows that they're a very real threat.At night,...

Simon Scarrow / Centurion (Hardback)

 A gripping new novel featuring Roman army officers Macro and Cato on their most dangerous mission yet. In the first century AD the Roman Empire faces a new threat from its long-standing enemy Parthia. Parthia is vying with Rome for control of...

Denis Hamill / Fork in the Road (Hardback)

 "Smart, gritty, and tough as a Brooklyn cop bar" (New York Post), Denis Hamill's thrillers have won him a well-deserved cadre of fans. Now, in an electrifying departure, he unfurls a deeply moving tale of illfated love played out amid the romantic...

Tina Baker / Call Me Mummy

 'Dark, heartbreaking and totally absorbing' - LORRAINE KELLY'Brilliantly written and emotionally compulsive' - HARRIET TYCE'A powerful and thought-provoking page turner' - KATERINA DIAMOND________________________________________CALL ME MUMMY. IT'LL...

Holly Seddon / The Hit List : You live an ordinary life, so why does someone want you dead?

 What would you do if you found your own name on a hit list? Seddon addresses this terrifying question in an explosive novel. One of the most exciting, brave and clever books I have ever read. The Hit List is my book of the year. Gillian McAllister,...

Karen Cleveland / Need To Know (Hardback)

 Married for ten years. Four children. She thought she knew her husband better than anyone.She was wrong.'Heart-poundingly suspenseful and heart-wrenchingly insightful' J.P.Delaney, author of The Girl Before'This compulsive, clever thriller will...

P. D. Viner / The Call

 'Holy hell, this book was intense...it kept me on edge the whole time. I absolutely LOVED this book.' Reader Review 'Ben, I need you. Help me.''PLEASE HELP ME!''It was an accident...but there's so much blood...'In a frantic late-night phone call,...

Jay Brandon / Defiance County

 Kelsey Thatch is called to a small town in Defiance County, when the DA's brother is accused of murdering a couple and abducting their baby. But no-one wants to talk to an outsider and Kelsey has a slim chance of proving her case against Billy...

Michael Koryta / The Prophet (Large Paperback)

   Two brothers with a shared tragic past, caused by a two-second decision that haunts them both. One decides to avenge it. The other, to forgive. Both will pay for their choices - more than they could ever imagine.When he was a teenager, Adam...

Erin Kelly / The Skeleton Key (Large Paperback)

 Moody, propulsive, and one of the most intriguing set ups I've read in years' GILLIAN McALLISTER'I completely lost myself to this book for a few days' LUCY FOLEY'Unputdownable' HEAT'There's layer upon layer of mystery in this frankly brilliant...