Thriller

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...

Lucy Clarke / The Castaways

 *The gripping, twisting new novel from Lucy Clarke, THE HIKE, is available to pre-order now* *A Waterstones Thriller of the Month selection & the Sunday Times bestseller*A SECRET BEACH.A HOLIDAY OF A LIFETIME.WISH YOU WERE HERE?THINK AGAIN.....

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...

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...