Thriller & Suspense Books

THE ISLES OF SCILLY MYSTERIES #5'An absolute master of pace, plotting and character' ELLY GRIFFITHSA MISSING CHILD St Martin’s is shrouded in bitterly cold fog when Jade Minear and her twin brother, Ethan, are attacked in a field, late at night...

‘Crazy, sexy, cool: Caroline Kepnes gets better – and Joe Goldberg gets worse – with every book’ ERIN KELLY'Caroline Kepnes writes with such malevolent energy, such dark grace and such ink-black humour. An utterly unique character and an utterly unique...

In the next thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling Mitch Rapp series, it’s a race against the clock when ISIS takes out the entire US power grid and throws the country into chaos.When Mitch Rapp captures ISIS’s top technology expert, he reveals...

SET TO BE ADAPTED FOR THE SCREEN. Like Michael Connelly’s Bosch, John Bailey will risk everything to get to the truth – and bring down the world’s most wanted terrorist.Catching the world's most wanted terrorist was supposed to...

In Chances, Lucky grew up in a top crime family. In Lucky, she was married three times. And now, in Lady Boss, she takes on Hollywood and wins! Featuring a brand new introduction from bestselling author, Julie Cohen, talking about what Jackie...

Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers join forces on a deadly maritime case like no other . . .  An off-duty Coast Guardsman is fishing with his family when he calls in some suspicious behaviour from a nearby boat. The slick craft has stopped to...

THE RIVETING FOLLOW-UP TO THE BESTSELLING FIREWATCHING 'Hard-hitting' SUNDAY TIMES, CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH 'Comparable with the best of Michael Connelly’s Bosch books and James Lee Burke’s Robicheaux novels, and – naturally – Ian...

Mitch Rapp, the CIA’s top operative, searches for a high-level mole with the power to rewrite the world order in this riveting thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Vince Flynn, written by Kyle Mills.America is reeling from the...

'Taut, clever, compelling and guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat…' Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the TrainYou think you know her… But look a little closer   She is a stay-at-home mother of three with boundless reserves of...

Some secrets you try to hide. Others you don’t dare let out …   Twin Peaks meets The Dry in a deliciously dark and twisted tale that unravels a small Australian country town   Ambitious young journalist Marlowe ‘Lo’ Robertson would do...

‘Absolutely brilliant… An exceptionally exciting, mysterious book – we both loved it’  Richard & JudyIt all happens so quickly. One day you're living the dream, commuting to work by riverbus with your charismatic neighbour Kit in the seat beside...

*The thrilling conclusion to the acclaimed series that started with Kill the Father, a Richard and Judy 2017 Bookclub pick and Sunday Times bestseller* Two damaged but deductively brilliant detectives must sort out what is real and what is imagined...

When talented journalist Penelope “Casey" Harrison starts to research a piece about the #MeToo movement that includes an incident in her own life which she has been trying to put out of her mind for years, she does not realize that the young man who...

Forbidden passions have been the hallmark of the Dollanganger clan since Flowers in the Attic debuted more than forty years ago. In this third book of a new related trilogy, witness the birth of the Dollanganger curse as Corrine Foxworth’s children learn...

An unprecedented and terrifying bioterrorism plot threatens to kill millions in the midst of a divisive presidential election in this new thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling Mitch Rapp series.A toxic presidential election is...

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Scot Harvath series and “heir to Tom Clancy and Robert Ludlum” (Chicago Tribune) returns with this unputdownable, white-knuckled thriller following the Secret Service agent as he’s on the trail of the...

Wilbrook in Western Australia is a sleepy, remote town that sits on the edge of miles and miles of unexplored wilderness. It is home to Police Sergeant Chandler Jenkins, who is proud to run the town’s small police station, a place used to dealing with...

“I will probably be clutching Flowers in the Attic in my gnarled hands on my deathbed.” —GILLIAN FLYNN, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sharp ObjectsThe twisted, beloved Dollanganger legend began two generations before Corrine Foxworth locked...

The author of the bestselling novel The Party returns with a chilling domestic drama about two women whose deep friendship is threatened by dark, long-buried secrets.How well do you really know your friends?Frances Metcalfe is struggling...

“I will probably be clutching Flowers in the Attic…on my deathbed.” —Gillian Flynn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Gone GirlForbidden passions have shaped and haunted the Dollanganger family since their first novel—Flowers in the Attic—debuted...

Lucas Davenport confronts an old nemesis, now a powerful U.S. senator, in this thrilling novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Prey series. Find out why Stephen King calls John Sandford 'one of the great novelists of all time'!Lucas Davenport...

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER THE CALLER‘Thirty-seven years in the force, and if I was allowed to choose just one thing to erase from my mind, what’s inside that room would be it.’   That’s what a LAPD...

The second novel from the acclaimed author of Kill the Father, this thriller is multi-layered, complex, full of twists and turns and satisfyingly dark –  one of those novels you just have to read late into the night.A high-speed train from...

THE ISLES OF SCILLY MYSTERIES # 1‘Gripping, clever and impossible to put down' ERIN KELLYDI Ben Kitto needs a second chance. After ten years working for the murder squad in London, a traumatic event has left him grief-stricken. He’s tried to resign...

'The rock cast a sharp, dark shadow over a shape huddled on the ground. Please don’t let it be the boy, Colomba thought. Her silent prayer didn’t go unanswered. The corpse belonged to the mother.'When a woman is beheaded in a park outside Rome and her...

As Vera Reynolds, drag queen and night club star, sways onstage singing 'Falling in Love Again', a sixteen-year-old rent boy lies in the older man's apartment, engulfed in flames. Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison has moved up the ranks, fighting...

The global war on terror has a new front—the very edge of outer space.In the year 2020, Kazumi Kimura, proprietor of shooting star forecast website Meteor News, notices some suspicious orbiting space debris. Rumors spread online that the debris is...

The extraordinary novel from Queen of Suspense Mary Higgins Clark & Alafair BurkeFive years ago Amanda Pierce was excitedly preparing to marry her college sweetheart. She and Jeffrey had already battled through sickness and health, although their...

In the thirty-first instalment in James Patterson's globally bestselling Alex Cross series, Cross must investigate two different killers at the same time.The thirty-first instalment in James Patterson's globally bestselling series.When an American...

Detective Alex Cross is hunting three killers. But is someone hunting him?Detective Alex Cross has three killers to hunt, and one to escape . . .Pulled in every direction by three different investigations, Alex Cross has never been under more pressure...

The President's children have been kidnapped. The water supply for Washington DC has been poisoned. Alex Cross is on both cases.The eighteenth novel in the bestselling Alex Cross series ____________________________________ 'No one gets this big without...

The outstanding new thriller from the author of international bestseller, Greenwich Park 'This is The Undoing meets Big Little Lies' Abigail Dean 'The elevated, devourable thriller you've been looking for' Ashley Audrain 'Relentlessly twisty' Sarah...

Winter, 1364. Sir Thomas Blackstone, Edward III's Master of War, has travelled to France to secure Brittany for England. But soon he is ordered to Castile, to defend England's ally from the French. Winter, 1364. The King is dead. Defeated on the field of...

The former President of the United States -- a hawkish former leader of the free world who's now gone bohemian is busy doing his best to settle into a crunchy California retirement routine where the highest-stakes decisions he faces are the flavor of his...

From the author of the international bestseller The Quincunx"Palliser's novel shares some superficial similarities with last year's Booker winner,Prophet Song a family in crisis navigating an authoritarian regime but is a more well developed and...

"A literary pulp fiction that flays and skewers post-Millennial New York and along the way reinvents the American detective novel." -Evan Wright,New York Timesbestselling authorHarry Bloch is a ghost-ghostwriter, that is. He's the man behind your...

A fictional portrayal of a real-life Revolutionary spy and her daring deeds, from the New York Timesbestselling author of The Only Woman in the Room.Agent 355 is a result of author Marie Benedict's quest to bring history's most fascinating and courageous...

As a mysterious affliction spreads, a sleepy small town descends into madness in this "strikingly original" thriller and Daphne du Maurier Award nominee(Douglas Preston, #1New York Timesbestselling author ofExtinction).Everything seems normal in Winslow,...

Six guests embark on a wilderness tour, but only two emergeDevils Island is home to abundant wildlife, making it the ideal place to reintroduce endangered Tasmanian devils. Working to rescue, rehabilitate, and release devils has been Kerry's job and...

Never Forget.Memory is Copeland-Stark's business. Yet after months of reconsolidation treatments at their sleek new flagship facility, Hope Nakano still has no idea what happened to her lost year, or the life she was just beginning to build with her one...

Jude and Lyle's newlywed life is shattered when a vicious attack leaves Lyle infected with a disease that transforms him into a violent and often incomprehensible person. With no cure for the "zombie" virus in sight, the young husbands begin to face the...

Stranger from Across the Seais the new novel from acclaimed author Regina McBride. It's a thrilling mystery with a depth of sensation that verges on the supernatural.Stranger from Across the Seaexamines the powerful relationships that occur between...

In 2043, the climate has finally changed.The planet is ravaged by violent storms and failing crops and much of the world is now uninhabitable. Amidst a world of hungry and desperate people, the Department of Environmental Justice have been tasked with...

One of the Guardian's novels everyone must read.This new edition ofStevenson's renowned gothicmasterpiece has a specially writtenintroduction by Denise Mina.In The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London lawyer Gabriel John Utterson investigates a...

Tales of suspense for the twilight hour...Dark Encounters is a collection of classic and elegantly unsettling ghost stories. A spine-tingling collection, these tales are set in the brooding landscape of Scotland, with an air of historic authenticity -...

Spring, 1523. Henry VIII readies England for war with France. The King's chief minister, Cardinal Wolsey, prepares to open Parliament at Blackfriars. The eyes of the country turn towards London. But all is not well in Wolsey's household. A visiting...

Twelve original dark academia stories from bestselling thriller writers.Imagine darkened libraries, exclusive elite schools, looming Gothic towers, charismatic professors, illicit affairs, the tang of autumn in the air...and the rivalries and obsessions...

Love Gone Wrong is first of all a work of fiction. Secondly, this is a rendering told from many points of view of what can happen when love is no longer the beautiful thing it started out to be. Having said that, events are described realistically and...