Crime Fiction & Thriller Bargain Book Box 43 (17 Books)

Crime Fiction & Thriller Bargain Book Box 43 (17 Books)

Seventeen ways to lose a night's sleep.

Inside: a Scottish detective novel from one of the finest crime writers working today. Martina Cole on the brutal arithmetic of loyalty in the criminal underworld. James Lee Burke's short fiction, which reads like Southern gospel with a body count. A reality TV show where the cameras keep rolling past the point of safety. Tom Thorne, DSI Lorimer, and a courtroom in Devon. Ski chalets, book clubs, true crime writers who get too close — and one psychological thriller after another built around the kind of twist you don't see coming until it's already landed.

Legends of the genre alongside the writers currently redefining it. Pick one up and cancel your evening plans.

1. The Good Father — Liam McIlvanney | ISBN: 9781804186985 | RRP: $32.99
   From the acclaimed author of The Quaker comes another superbly written Scottish crime novel — literary in its prose, ruthless in its plotting. Liam McIlvanney writes about Glasgow with the authority of someone who knows exactly what lies beneath its surface.
2. Dark Horizon — James Swallow | ISBN: 9781802793215 | RRP: $26.99
   A high-octane thriller from the author of Nomad, pitting a lone operative against a conspiracy with global consequences. Swallow writes action with precision and pace — this one does not let up.
3. The Great Deceiver — Elly Griffiths | ISBN: 9781529409901 | RRP: $55.00
   A gripping novel from the bestselling author of the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries. Elly Griffiths brings her trademark intelligence and atmosphere to a story of secrets, deception, and the lies people tell themselves as much as each other.
4. Loyalty — Martina Cole | ISBN: 9781472249456 | RRP: $59.99
   Martina Cole returns to the world she knows better than anyone — organised crime, fractured families, and the brutal cost of loyalty. Uncompromising, compelling, and utterly absorbing from the first page to the last.
5. Harbor Lights — James Lee Burke | ISBN: 9781409199502 | RRP: $55.00
   A stunning collection of stories from one of American crime fiction's greatest living writers. James Lee Burke brings his singular voice — lyrical, moral, and shot through with the light and shadow of the American South — to a series of tales that linger long after the final page.
6. A Game of Lies — Clare Mackintosh | ISBN: 9781408725993 | RRP: $24.99
   A reality TV show becomes the backdrop for something far more sinister in this taut, timely thriller from Clare Mackintosh. When the cameras keep rolling and the public keeps watching, who is really in control — and who is really in danger?
7. The Murder Book — Mark Billingham | ISBN: 9781408712450 | RRP: $55.00
   A Sunday Times bestselling Tom Thorne novel and one of the most dramatic instalments in the series to date. Mark Billingham has been at the top of British crime fiction for two decades, and this is him operating at full strength.
8. The Fake Wife — Sharon Bolton | ISBN: 9781398709836 | RRP: $24.99
   From the author of The Split comes another razor-edged psychological thriller about identity, trust, and what happens when the person closest to you may not be who you think. Bolton is one of the genre's most consistently brilliant practitioners.
9. Last Witness — Lucie Whitehouse | ISBN: 9781398709249 | RRP: $49.99
   A crime thriller that earns its promise to keep you up all night. Whitehouse builds her tension carefully and then pulls it tight in a story about the last person who saw something — and what it's costing them to stay silent.
10. Complicit — Winnie M Li | ISBN: 9781398705081 | RRP: $24.99
    A compulsive and urgently relevant thriller about power, complicity, and who gets believed. Winnie M Li writes with real authority about the systems that protect the guilty, and the cost borne by those who try to expose them.
11. The First to Lie — Hank Phillippi Ryan | ISBN: 9781250258809 | RRP: $39.99
    An expertly constructed thriller of deception and counter-deception, in which nobody's identity is quite what it seems and every character has a reason to be lying. Hank Phillippi Ryan's investigative journalism background shows in the precision of the plotting.
12. Questions for a Dead Man — Alex Gray | ISBN: 9780751583328 | RRP: $24.99
    Book 20 in the Sunday Times bestselling DSI William Lorimer series, and proof that a great detective only gets more compelling with time. Alex Gray's Glasgow is vivid, atmospheric, and home to the kind of darkness that only a detective of Lorimer's experience can illuminate.
13. In Her Place — Edel Coffey | ISBN: 9780751582413 | RRP: $55.00
    From the award-winning author comes a gripping suspense novel perfectly pitched for book clubs — the kind of story that raises uncomfortable questions about ambition, identity, and the lengths we go to in order to become who we want to be.
14. The Killing Place — Kate Ellis | ISBN: 9780349433158 | RRP: $24.99
    A thrilling, atmospheric mystery set against the dramatic landscapes of Devon. Kate Ellis brings deep local knowledge and a sure hand with character to a story where the past refuses to stay buried.
15. A Season in Exile — Oliver Harris | ISBN: 9780349144153 | RRP: $24.99
    A sharp, stylish thriller from Oliver Harris, whose crime fiction combines genuine literary quality with real forward momentum. Atmospheric, intelligent, and populated by characters whose motives are never entirely clear.
16. The Ski Trip — Sarah Clarke | ISBN: 9780008670948 | RRP: $32.99
    A luxury ski resort. A group of friends with shared history. And secrets that are about to come apart in the cold. Sarah Clarke delivers a sharp, confined thriller that makes excellent use of its isolated, high-altitude setting.
17. End of Story — A J Finn | ISBN: 9780008234218 | RRP: $32.99
    From the author of The Woman in the Window comes a clever, layered thriller about a true crime writer who becomes dangerously entangled in a case that hits closer to home than she ever anticipated. Finn plays expertly with genre, obsession, and the stories we tell to make sense of the world.