Thriller & Suspense Books

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...

In the fall of 1993, Cindy Lombardo is a devout Catholic and bored Long Island suburban housewife. Until her life drastically changes when she meets a charismatic, handsome, and charming new priest in her parish who calls himself, "The Spiritual Healer."...

In this outdoors mystery, special agent Sam Rivers investigates the unexplained-and very unlikely-cougar attack that killed a wealthy business owner.The sighting of a cougar in the Minnesota River Valley, outside the Twin Cities, is incredibly rare. A...

Ghost Mother is a mesmerising psychological ghost story that blurs the thin line between reality and delusion.'Ghost Mother has so many pleasures: a gorgeous old wreck of a house, a charmingly flawed and sympathetic heroine, supernatural...

'My feet are itching to walk to the shore, to leave the kids again, to sit with the birds and pretend none of this has happened.'In an isolated town on the North Norfolk coast, Fran's life is unravelling.As she fills her days...

'Nair captures the seedy side of shiny new India vividly' GuardianWhen elderly Professor Mudgood, a well-known rationalist and fervent critic of right-wing forces in India, is found dead in his home in Bangalore by his daughter, Assistant Commissioner...

The Island of Sheep is the fifth, last and most unusual of the Hannay books. Having returned once again to a quiet life at Fosse Manor, Hannay's life is shaken a final time when the son of an old acquaintance from Africa asks for his help in finishing a...

THE FIRST NOVEL FROM "THE TWENTY-YEAR DEATH "TRILOGY! THIS INSTALLMENT IS SET IN 1931 IN THE STYLE OF CLASSIC CRIME WRITER, GEORGES SIMENON. 1931 - The body found in the gutter in France led the police inspector to the dead man's beautiful daughter - and...

From a three-time Spur Awardwinner comes the tale of an orphaned boy who is forced to become a man.Mark Kelton is eighteen years old-part boy, part man. On the trail to set up a ranch in eastern Oregon, his parents are killed by an unknown assailant and...

"Brand practices his art to something like perfection." -The New York Times"Max Brand is the Shakespeare of the Western range." -Kirkus ReviewsAfter Andrew Lanning's father dies, his Uncle Jasper takes him under his wing and raises him for the next...

Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all. London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has thinned. Violet-eyed mediums commune with spirits under the watchful eye of the Royal Speaker Society, and sixteen-year-old Silas Bell would rather rip out his...

A passionate love story, centred on a devastating Russian plot to sabotage the undersea communication cables linking the US to the UK.Clive Franklin, a Russian language expert in the Foreign Office, is summoned unexpectedly to Moscow to act as translator...

Tokyo, 1958. Teiko marries Kenichi Uhara, ten years her senior, an advertising man recommended by a go-between. After a four-day honeymoon, Kenichi vanishes. Teiko travels to the coastal and snow-bound city of Kanazawa, where Kenichi was last seen, to...

A modern-day writer and a Harlem Renaissance artist are connected by a painting with a deadly secret in this gripping dual-timeline gothic thriller.Shanice Pierce knows better than to heed bad omens. But she has a hard time ignoring the signs when she...

A thousand years ago in an ancient Scottish landscape, a woman is on the run with her three bosom companions a healer, a weaver and a seer. If the men hunting her find them, they will kill her because she is the only one who stands between them and their...

The Tunnel Tigers were an elite group of construction workers who specialised in a lucrative but hazardous profession blasting tunnels through mountains and under rivers, in dangerous conditions few men could endure.Alice Larkin, the headstrong daughter...

Richard Hannay Returns.JULY, 1942. Once again veteran adventurer Richard Hannay is called into action on a mission that will test him as never before. At stake is the fate of the beleaguered island of Malta where Hannay's son is stationed as a fighter...

In this stunning debut by a South Carolina attorney, Zach Stander, a lawyer with a past, and Addie Stone, his indomitable detective and lover, find themselves entangled in secrets, lies, and murder in a small Southern town.A high-profile murder case A...

The month, November. Glittering worldliness and dubious shabbiness overlap, passion and suspicion intertwine in a three-day Venetian adventure, bookended by the arrival of a plane and the departure of a ship.It begins with a troubling encounter on a...

Six decades. Seven people. One unspeakable secret.1957. A catastrophe occurs at the pharmaceutical lab in Coventry where sixteen-year-old Wilf is working for the summer. A catastrophe that needs to be covered up at all costs.2017. Phiney is shocked by...

The Thickness of Ice is a tender and tragic tale set in the remote sub-arctic tundra, in the small town of Churchill with a transient population on Hudson Bay. The barren icy landscape pervades the characters' lives and relationships. As the novel opens...

Jonas Williker is considered one of the most sadistic serial murderers of the modern era. This epistolary novel explores the aftermath of his arrest and the psychological trauma of those who lived through it.The Pennsylvania native brutalized his way...

The venue was the canteen block of the Red Hammer Cement Works. It was the usual set-up: way out of town, secretive directions to get there, and disco lights blazing...Moscow, 1993. The end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union have...

A group of urbex explorers breaking into the world's tallest skyscraper in Moscow grapple with dangers from all sides in this pulse-pounding cinematic thriller for readers of Greg Hurwitz and Patrick Hoffman.Michael Foster, Cam Buckley and Maddie Acosta...

Doors open at 7. The sacrifice is at 9. The dress code is, as usual, black tie. It's the winter solstice in a Philadelphia that has been eroded by extreme weather, economic collapse, and disease-carrying mosquitoes. The Saturnalia carnival is...

Winner of the 2022 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Praveen Herat's gripping international thriller is a breathtaking exploration of power, identity, unconditional love, and the question of how far we'll go to uncover the truth.British war...

A West German nightclub owner goes behind the Iron Curtain on a desperate mission to save his brother, in this Cold War thriller by the author of Lost Kin.West Germany, 1949. Former actor Max Kaspar suffered greatly in the Second World War. Now he owns a...

The trial for a fifty-year-old murder comes with plenty of danger for one judge, in this explosive legal thriller by the author of The Hanging Judge.Dominic O'Connell is one of Boston's most prominent businessmen. His rise from poverty to power as a...

Cultural shifts of the late twentieth century reveal dark secrets at an elite prep school, in this posthumously discovered novel by the author of "Our Crowd."Located in bucolic Connecticut, the Crittenden School has long held a venerable reputation as...

A story of family bonds amid political betrayal that explores the drastic steps that a young girl will take in order to find a sense of belonging.Fred is lost, confused, almost certainly about to die. As he traces his steps back from the desert where he...

1964. A hoard of the finest Scotch whisky ever made - the legendary Dalziel Double Proof - goes missing.2023. Albie, youngest son of the wealthy Dalziel family, vanishes. His desperate mother turns to Robbie Gould, a disgraced reporter with a reputation...

The last time Maeve saw her cousin was the night she escaped the cult they were raised in. For the past two decades, Maeve has worked hard to build a normal life in New York City, where she keeps everything and everyone at a safe distance.When her cousin...

From Ellen Datlow - 'the venerable queen of horror anthologies' per the New York Times - comes a new entry in the series that has brought you thrilling stories from Stephen King and Neil Gaiman, the best horror stories available.For...

Fears of a weaponized blockchain become reality when a software developer races to deactivate the rogue smart contract targeting him for assassination.Life is comfortable for a prominent, if schlubby, developer at a New York City blockchain company. That...

Mona Mason's life is disrupted after her husband, Jonathon, suddenly dies from a freak bike accident. Her latest novel, Celestial World, has just been released, and she's about to go on a book tour. Her estranged niece comes back, claiming her...

Beware of jewelry that calls to you.Andi Wyndham has been able to communicate with spirits since she was a kid. When a bone pendant carved into the likeness of a girl's face calls to her at a gem show in Pennsylvania, she can't resist buying it and a...

"Friedman's lyrical style will lure you in and scare you senseless." -Annette Dashofy, USA Today bestselling author of the Zoe Chambers Mysteries"Heart-pounding and heart-wrenching." -Library Journal, audio starred reviewBeware the Fisherman.Andi Wyndham...

A novel based on the shocking true eighteenth-century story of a Scottish noblewoman whose own husband faked her death and exiled her to a remote island, where she could never be found.Edinburgh, January 1732. It's the funeral of Rachel, wife of...

The Rachel Conditionis at once a political thriller, a family saga, and a mind-bending love story that plays out through the mysterious byways of Detroit.Antony has ostensibly traveled to Detroit in search of the last copy of a dangerous political novel,...

Denzil Meyrick's three Tales from Kinloch are collected here in one paperback volume. From ghostly Vikings, to adventurous voyages, to old scores being settled, these stories are guaranteed to provide a fun-filled escape.From the author of the global...

A 2024 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award Gold Medal Winner"A tense and twisty debut . . ." -Karen Dionne, author of the #1 international bestseller The Marsh King's Daughter and The Wicked Sister "Brimming with intrigue . . ." -Ellery Kane, award-winning...

The Isle of Iona, 825.In a bloody, brutal raid, Abbot Blathmac is slain on the steps of his monastery for refusing to give away the location of the sacred relics of St Columba, the missionary who first brought Christianity to Scotland. Following a night...

New York Times Best Thriller of 2023New York Times Editors' Pick 2023For seventeen years, small-town public defender Andy Hughes has been underpaid to look after the poor, the addicted, and the unfortunate souls who constantly cycle through the courts,...

Two sisters. One fire. A secret that won't burn out.The Grayson sisters are trouble. Everyone in their small town knows it. But no-one can know of the secret thatbinds them together.Hattie is the light. Penny is the darkness. Together, they have...