Secondhand Crime Fiction & Thriller Bargain Book Box SP2838

Secondhand Crime Fiction & Thriller Bargain Book Box SP2838

Twenty-one thrillers at the serious end of the genre — the kind that keep the reading light on late and leave you checking the clock at 2am wondering if one more chapter would really hurt. Procedural crime, campus spy thriller, medical nightmare, classic Cold War adventure, and hard-boiled Louisiana detective fiction all share the same box, so whatever the mood, something here fits. A collection for the reader who judges a trip by how many books they can fit in a bag.

1. The Double Eagle — James Twining — A brilliantly inventive thriller in which stolen Nazi gold coins and a daring Washington heist set art thief Tom Kirk and FBI agent Jennifer Browne on a collision course across three continents and centuries of history.
2. The Crossing — Michael Connelly — Retired LAPD detective Harry Bosch crosses the thin blue line when his half-brother Mickey Haller asks him to investigate a murder from the defence side — one of the most morally complex moments in Connelly's series, and one of the best.
3. The Hunt for Atlantis — Andy McDermott — Nina Wilde's discovery of a possible location for the lost civilisation of Atlantis sets off a global race against a ruthless private organisation determined to prevent the truth from surfacing — McDermott's breathless debut adventure.
4. Tom Clancy's Commander in Chief — written by Mark Greaney — A coordinated global attack targets the United States from multiple fronts while Jack Ryan tries to hold the Western alliance together, in one of the most accomplished entries in the Campus series under Greaney's pen.
5. Blood Work — Michael Connelly — A retired FBI agent recuperating from a heart transplant is drawn back into investigation when he discovers the murder victim whose heart he now carries — a compulsively clever premise executed with Connelly's usual psychological precision.
6. The Burning Room — Michael Connelly — Harry Bosch investigates a decade-old case when a man finally dies from a bullet lodged near his spine since a seemingly random shooting years earlier — a novel about the cold cases that define Bosch's relentless pursuit of justice.
7. The 22nd Midnight — James Patterson and Maxine Paetro — The Women's Murder Club return in one of the series' most gripping instalments, with Lindsay Boxer facing a case that threatens not just her investigation but those closest to her.
8. Harmful Intent — Robin Cook — A doctor is sued for malpractice after a patient dies under anaesthesia, then framed for murder — Cook's medical thriller that turns the healthcare system itself into the villain, paced with his characteristic relentlessness.
9. The Sacred Vault — Andy McDermott — Nina Wilde and Eddie Chase are back for another globe-spanning adventure as a hidden collection of religious artefacts pulls them into a conspiracy that threatens to ignite conflict across the entire world.
10. Tom Clancy's True Faith and Allegiance — written by Mark Greaney — A data breach exposes the identities of CIA and military personnel worldwide, setting off a chain of targeted assassinations that the Campus team must stop before the entire intelligence network unravels.
11. Ice Station Zebra — Alistair MacLean — A British naval officer and an American nuclear submarine crew race through the Arctic to reach a crippled weather station before the Soviets — one of MacLean's finest Cold War thrillers, as tense now as when it was first published.
12. Transfer of Power — Vince Flynn — Terrorists seize the White House and take hundreds of hostages while the President is hidden in an underground bunker, and only covert operative Mitch Rapp can end the siege from the inside — Flynn's breakthrough novel, as propulsive as anything he ever wrote.
13. Tom Clancy's Support and Defend — written by Mark Greaney — A young CIA recruit stumbles onto a conspiracy that threatens to expose an entire network of assets, in one of the most tightly plotted Campus thrillers in the series.
14. Outbreak — Robin Cook — A deadly haemorrhagic fever begins killing people across the United States, and Dr. Marissa Blumenthal's investigation leads to a discovery so dangerous that the people responsible will kill to keep it secret — Cook's epidemic thriller at its most terrifying.
15. A Song for the Dark Times — Ian Rankin — John Rebus travels to the remote Scottish Highlands to help his daughter when her husband becomes a murder suspect, while DS Siobhan Clarke handles a potentially connected case back in Edinburgh — Rankin at the peak of his powers.
16. Tennison — Lynda La Plante — La Plante's prequel to the Prime Suspect series follows the young Jane Tennison as she joins the Metropolitan Police in the 1970s and begins finding her feet in a world determined to keep women on the margins — compulsively readable crime fiction with a character we already know we'll love.
17. Maximum Thrill — James Patterson — A collection of Patterson's shorter thriller fiction across his crime, suspense, and action genres — proof that his instinct for pace and surprise translates just as well to shorter form.
18. False Accusations — Alan Jacobson — A respected surgeon's career and family are destroyed when he is accused of a hit-and-run, and his only hope lies in proving a conspiracy that goes deeper than anyone wants to look — a legally precise and morally complex thriller that knows how to keep the pages turning.
19. Purple Cane Road — James Lee Burke — Dave Robicheaux investigates the murder of a woman he suspects may have been his mother, pulling him deep into the corrupt underworld of Louisiana politics and criminal justice — Burke at his most lyrical and most devastating.
20. Bone Yard — Paul Johnston — Quint Dalrymple investigates a series of murders in Paul Johnston's dystopian Edinburgh, where the festival city has become a controlled tourist state — dark, inventive, and unlike anything else in British crime fiction.
21. Lies He Told Me — James Patterson and David Ellis — A woman discovers that her husband has been living a secret life, and the deeper she investigates the more dangerous the truth becomes — a domestic thriller that moves with the efficiency of Patterson at his commercial best.