Thrillers & Mysteries

"While a single sentence can turn a novel, a single word can turn a short story," writes guest editor Don Winslow. The pieces featured in this collection hinge on those...

'Chilling, tragic, and utterly immersive. ' ' This book. Wow, Just, wow! A beautifully written and unforgettable story. I can't stop thinking about it' Occupied France, 1944 In the shadow...

A gripping new psychological thriller from S. J. Watson Blackwood Bay. An ordinary place, home to ordinary people. It used to be a buzzing seaside destination. Now, ravaged by the...

YOU CAN RUN, BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE... Kate Irving arrives at her grandfather's cottage at Frenchman's Creek in the dead of night with her young son, a small suitcase and...

Claymore Straker is a fugitive with a price on his head. Wanted by the CIA for acts of terrorism he did not commit, his best friend has just been murdered...

Forensic investigator Reilly Steel, Quantico-trained and California-born and bred, imagined Dublin to be a far cry from bustling San Francisco, a sleepy backwater where she can lay past ghosts to...

A blistering thriller from acclaimed author Craig Robertson about a vigilante killer with revenge on his mind-and an entire city in his sights-for fans of Stuart MacBride. A series of...

When Paul enters university in early 1970s Pittsburgh, it's with the hope of moving past the recent death of his father. Sensitive, insecure, and like a stranger to his family,...

More than anything young alchemist Peter Woulfe wants to turn lead into gold. Until he meets the elusive and alluring Sukie one hot summer night and his life changes forever....

'Sylva skillfully illustrates an unmoored character completely consumed by a spiraling, unrelenting grief' Kirkus Reviews 'This story is taut and unsettling with a brilliant ending!' Candis 'Creepily claustrophobic' New York...

THE INSPIRATION FOR THE WORLDWIDE HIT NETFLIX SERIES THE NIGHT AGENT - NOW BACK FOR SEASON 2! Readers love THE NIGHT AGENT : 'Quirk has earned his spot in the...

A sophisticated spy thriller, set in the dangerous maze of the Cold War, from Radio 4 presenter and political insider James Naughtie. From Radio 4's James Naughtie, a sophisticated thriller...

Acting on a confidential tip, Detective Sergeant Stilwell and his deputies watch a plane land in the middle of the night and drop a duffel bag of drugs at a...

She was not an action woman: she could not run very fast; she favoured ballet slippers over combat boots, never swore and still suffered from nightmares; she did not enjoy...

A puzzling locked-room mystery that puts someone Oldroyd loves in terrible danger... When a film shoot on Wharfedale's vintage railway turns into a grisly crime scene, DCI Oldroyd's idyllic visit...

An Amazon Charts bestseller. For a Florida police diver, danger rises to the surface in an adventurous thriller by the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Naturalist . Coming...

You let her in. Now she won't let you go. Sue Keller is lost. When her father dies suddenly, she's orphaned in her mid-twenties, her mother having died long ago....

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA DAGGER FOR CRIME FICTION IN TRANSLATION 2024 'It's a clever book ... [Im Seong-sun] offers readers his razor-sharp observations on consumer capitalism and what it means...

'Stella Rimington was the first female director general of Britain's MI5 and brings true authenticity to her tale of intellectual thievery' Irish Independent A historic institution is hiding a very...

'Joan is an unforgettable anti-heroine. I don't think I'll ever stop thinking about her' ELIZABETH DAY 'So insanely good and true and twisted it'll make your teeth sweat' OLIVIA WILDE...

STELLA RIMINGTON'S THE HIDDEN HAND IS OUT NOW 'Races along at breakneck speed. Packed with insider information, this is not one to miss' M. W. CRAVEN One lie put the...

The eleventh book in the Sunday Times -bestselling Inspector McLean series, from one of Scotland's most celebrated crime writers. The charred remains of an elderly woman are discovered in a...

THE CATCHER IN THE RYE meets TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN from the acclaimed author of THE TASTE OF BLUE LIGHT. Praise for The Taste of Blue Light: "Beautiful. Visceral....

Howard Gordon--the longtime executive producer of the hit TV series "24"--makes his fiction debut with a tale of political intrigue and international terrorism. Gideon Davis has just 48 hours to...

Masterful #1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag is back with a riveting, emotionally powerful new thriller! 'A gripping thriller that glued me to the pages' FREIDA MCFADDEN 'Tami...

Washington, Hong Kong and Peking - terror sweeps the globe. The Vice-Premier of the People's Republic has been brutally murdered by a legendary assassin and everyone is asking the same...

She's the daughter he doesn't know he has, until she calls him...from death row. Michael Gresham meets his lost daughter, Cache, in her prison cell. She is scheduled for execution...

A killer in the guest room. When Michael Gresham and his wife offer to help their priest, life takes a dark turn. The holy man's has a son, illegitimate of...

THE INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER! 'Full of clever twists and surprises' HARLAN COBEN 'The summer read everyone is talking about' WOMAN & HOME 'Stunning, shocking, terrifying' CHRIS WHITAKER 'Atmospheric, immersive,...

Smoky Mountains Mystery - Lena Diaz When his decades-old cold case meets her very recent murder investigation... While Lance Cabrera's company, Unfinished Business, specialises in solving cold cases, he has...

Ex-special forces soldier Alex Abbott escaped the Middle East under a cloud and now lives hand-to-mouth in Singapore. Scraping a living as a gun for hire and estranged from his...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER! ' Scarrow's Berlin is sharply drawn with closely observed detail, a place that reeks of threat and fear - and not just from the Gestapo'...

Clive Cussler, author of the bestselling Dirk Pitt series, and his co-author, Graham Brown, send hero Kurt Austin into the heart of the storm in the action-packed NUMA Files series....

'Twisty, riveting storytelling with a plot that surprises until the very end. Happily Ever After is a beautifully written thriller' Clare Leslie Hall, author of Broken Country Nobody told her...

After Mirren Sutherland finds a priceless antique book in her great aunt's attic, she is contacted by Jamie McPherson, who is hopeful she might be able to find another one...

***A BBC BOOK AT BEDTIME PICK*** ' One Came Back is the real thing, a concise account of Scottish-set obsession' THE CRITIC 'Dark and devastating . . . a story...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Moving, outrageous and outrageously funny' Dawn French When a toxic hospital consultant dies of a heart attack, fellow doctor Eitan Rose smells foul play. Nobody...

Susie Salmon is just like any other young American girl. She wants to be beautiful, adores her charm bracelet and has a crush on a boy from school. There's one...

Dangerous Recall - Tyler Anne Snell An unidentified body. A vulnerable client. And a bodyguard pushed to extremes Protecting people is Mack Atwood's job. But when a mysterious murder leaves...

A missing child. A deadly network. A father who will tear it all down. Rex Dalton's world is upended when his college sweetheart reaches out after years of silence. She's...

In the heart of the Andes, an archaeological dream is threatened by a sinister plot. When former black ops field agent Rex Dalton and his trusty K9 companion, Digger, form...

When a beautiful woman breaches Rex Dalton's defences, he will stop at nothing to save her. Ex-military operative Rex Dalton's quest for a new identity in Thailand takes a treacherous...

In a struggle to escape his past, Rex Dalton is unleashed against those who prey on the innocent. To stay alive, Dalton must live as though he's dead, and fleeing...

In a relentless fight to escape his past, Rex Dalton is unleashed against those who prey on the innocent. When Rex Dalton's family is killed in the Madrid train bombings...

Sometimes a victim decides to stop being a victim. Michael Gresham and Marcel, his investigator, go on the hunt for a client's missing wife. She has been nominated to the...

There's a problem with the lawyers in the US Attorney's Office. They're dying. Someone is picking them off, one-by-one. Michael Gresham is assigned to prosecuting the case against the at-large...

Attorney Michael Gresham has a new go-to person. Her name is Annie and she's twelve. Annie is a savant. She can look at you and, like her idol, Sherlock Holmes,...

A deadly arms shipment, a rigged trial in Russia. Can Michael Gresham navigate a labyrinth of deception to save his clients from execution? When two CIA operatives uncover evidence of...