The Great Clear Out Sale: Crime & Thriller

Clive Cussler’s Ghost Soldier by Mike Madden sees Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon return in an explosive new instalment of the #1 New York Times bestselling series. A deadly war game, an adversary as hard to find as he is to kill, and weapons so sophisticated none have seen the like before. Juan Cabrillo and the crew...

An action-packed, hilarious enemies-to-lovers thriller for fans of Katy Brent, Jesse Sutanto, and Ally Carter. She always gets her man … but has Maisie Baxter met her match? * Maisie Baxter has a particular set of skills honed over a very successful career. She’s determined not to let her job at a boutique, ethical assassin agency get in the way...

The epic conclusion to Camilla Läckberg and Henrik Fexeus' pulse-raising Swedish crime thriller trilogy 'Hello Niklas Sockenberg. We hope you have been satisfied with our services during this time, which has now reached its end. You have 14 days, 1 hour and 12 minutes left to live' It is December in Stockholm and Sweden's Minister of Justice is under threat....

Millions have been entertained by the viral video of a man being arrested after a 'succulent Chinese meal'. But when Mark Dapin investigated, it emerged that this man's story went to the heart of the Australian underworld. A true crime cult classic in the making. This edition featuring a new Afterword. Whether you know it as the 'succulent Chinese meal'...

In Cornwall, a man suffers a violent death - and the killer may lurk within the community . . . Featuring Detectives Barbara Havers and Thomas Lynley, A Slowly Dying Cause is an atmospheric, gripping crime thriller from bestselling author Elizabeth George. Amid the beauty of Cornwall's coastline, the death of a local man shatters the peace with its violence....

A heart-pounding and emotional thriller about marriage and deceit, by an R&J selected author. HUSBAND. LOVER. KILLER? PC Chris Fletcher is a man with secrets. Hiding away in remote Scotland, he awaits the verdict on the death of his ex-lover, Sophia Roy. His innocence hangs by a thread, but telling lies is what Chris was trained to do. With him...

From the world's bestselling thriller writer comes a gripping kidnapping plot with twists on every page. It would take a perfect plan to collect a billion-dollar ransom. So here's the plan. Five innocent people. In different locations. All kidnapped at the same moment in time. Two children taken from a private school bus. A film producer and a movie star...

The mysterious stranger is perfect. But nobody knows who she is. And nobody can imagine the terrible things she has done to survive. A bonfire burns on a Cornish beach in the middle of the night. Nearby, a young woman waits for morning, and for the estate agent to arrive with the keys to her new life in the peaceful...

The Cold War is long dead, but the trade in deceit and lies is still running hot. In Hamburg, John Anselm is hiding from the ghosts he has left behind in foreign war zones. He spends his days working for a surveillance firm whose business is just this side of legal. At night, he drinks too much, paranoid about the...

The Game Is Murder by Hazell Ward offers an intriguing challenge: Thirteen guests. Thirteen suspects. But only one is the murderer, and only you can solve the mystery... Introducing the most original murder mystery of 2025! You are invited to a very special murder mystery party. Thirteen guests have been gathered—rather, thirteen suspects. Only one of them is a murderer....

A witty whistle-stop tour through organised crime across the centuries, by acclaimed historian and journalist Mark Galeotti, exploring how the underworld shapes our overworld, perfect for fans of Otto English. When does a bandit become a monarch? When does a gang become a government? And is organised crime at the heart of every modern state? On a thrilling whistle-stop tour...

Re-issued in stunning new livery, this is one of Frederick Forsyth's best books - a gripping masterclass in espionage fiction from one of the greatest storytellers of our time. Soldier Years ago, Cal Dexter was a Vietnam tunnel rat recruited to ferret out the enemy. Today, he's hired to pursue a new target - a dangerous, violent man, responsible for...

'No one writes twisted, suspenseful novels quite like Sophie Hannah'. Liane Moriarty The twistiest murder mystery you are ever likely to read? A story about a family that does the unthinkable? Both? Or something else altogether? You think it will never happen to you. The doorbell. The policeman. The words that turn your world inside out: I'm afraid there's been...

At the close of a long day, Inspector Stephen Villani stands in the bathroom of a luxury apartment high above the city. In the glass bath, a young woman lies dead, a panic button within reach. So begins the sequel to Peter Temple's bestselling masterpiece, The Broken Shore. Villani's life is his work. It is his identity, his calling, his...

Joe Cashin was different once. He moved easily then; was surer and less thoughtful. But there are consequences when you've come so close to dying. For Cashin, they included a posting away from the world of Homicide to the quiet place on the coast where he grew up. Now all he has to do is play the country cop and...

Louisa Luna's best thriller yet. Dynamic investigative duo Alice Vega and Max Caplan are entangled in a chilling right-wing conspiracy in this riveting follow-up to Two Girls Down and The Janes. Vega ignored his tone and continued, "I don't think you're angry because I haven't called you. I think you're angry because I almost got you killed three times." A...

The poachers that come across this side are organised and better armed than we are. They shoot to kill - men as well as elephants and rhino. We have been forced to do the same. If we run into a band of poachers, we shoot first. Who sings for the lost country? Dr Daniel Armstrong, ecologist and documentary maker, has...

The new Kurt Austin adventure in the NUMA Files series from UK No. 1 bestseller Clive Cussler. The world's oil supply is vanishing, the stock market is plummeting, and the key to saving the future seems to be a baffling historical mystery. Can the NUMA crew crack it in time? After an explosion in the Gulf of Mexico destroys three...

From the author of the acclaimed Wolf in White Van comes a horror-infused thriller set in a tiny Midwestern town. Jeremy works at the counter of Video Hut in Nevada, Iowa. It's the 1990s, pre-DVD, and the work is predictable and familiar; he likes his boss, Sarah Jane, and it gets him out of the house, which has felt desolate...

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 that he was on his way to meet a man who claims to have the...

From beloved Amazon bestselling author Sophie Lark, the second book of the Sinners duology completes Cole and Mara's story, a dark and steamy serial killer romance in which the two's newfound love may destroy them when a new killer plans to use Mara to destroy Cole. Just because he couldn't kill her doesn't mean his enemy won't. Cole and Mara's...

THE BRAND NEW NOVEL IN THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING RIVERS OF LONDON SERIES 'This isn't London. The rules are different up here, and so are the allegiances.' Detective Sergeant Peter Grant takes a much-needed holiday up in Scotland. And he'll need one when this is over... If more's the merrier, then it's ecstatic as his partner Beverley, their young twins,...

The discovery of an oil field off the coast of Guyana plunges Jack Ryan, Jr. into a cauldron of lies in the latest entry in this internationally bestselling series. It starts with the destruction of a US Coast Guard cutter and the loss of her entire crew. But the USCG Claiborne was on an innocuous mission to open a sea...

You saw it. You were too scared to act. But now it's coming back for you... A terrifying new thriller from the internationally bestselling author of The Whisper Man. Dan Garvie can't move on from a thing he didn't do. He saw the boy. He knew he needed help. But he ran and hid - and a terrifying serial killer...

Fantastic - like witnessing Scottish noir's Big Bang creation in the company of its greatest living exponent... like Maradona and Messi playing in the same team. - LEE CHILD Lawyer Bobby Carter did a lot of work for the wrong type of people. Now he's dead, and it was no accident. Besides a distraught family and a heap of powerful...

After the murder of her best friend, a librarian's search for answers leads back to her own dark secrets in this sweeping novel about a woman transformed by war, family, vengeance, and love, from award-winning writer Allen Eskens. Hana Babic is a quiet, middle-aged librarian in Minnesota who wants nothing more than to be left alone. But when a detective...

Ann Cleeves Classic Crime - engaging mysteries to savour, beloved characters to meet again. The Baby-Snatcher is the sixth and final mystery novel in the Inspector Ramsay series by Ann Cleeves, Sunday Times bestselling author of the Shetland, Vera Stanhope and Two Rivers crime series. Marilyn Howes and her mother Kathleen are an inseparable duo, until one night Kathleen doesn't...

The globe-trotting spy thriller that inspired the action blockbuster Argylle, starring Henry Cavill, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Samuel L. Jackson, directed by Matthew Vaughn of Kingsman trilogy fame. One Russian magnate's dream of restoring a nation to greatness has set in motion a chain of events which will take the world to the brink of chaos. Only Frances Coffey, the...

The Bird Sisters return to solve another mystery in the hotly anticipated sequel to the bestselling 2 Sisters Detective Agency. Patterson's greatest crime-solving team since the Women's Murder Club is the Bird Sisters. Rhonda and Barbara "Baby" Bird are half-sisters—and full partners in their Los Angeles detective agency. They agree on nothing. Rhonda, a former attorney, takes a by-the-book approach...

From New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden comes a story about a young woman running from her past. But when she's taken in by an older couple, it soon becomes clear they have no plans of letting her go... A brand new psychological thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden! The nightmare she's running from is...

Ann Cleeves Classic Crime - engaging mysteries to savour, beloved characters to meet again. A Lesson in Dying is the first mystery novel in the Inspector Ramsay series by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series. Who hung the headmaster in the playground on the night of the school Halloween Party? Almost everyone in Heppleburn either...

With an exclusive new introduction from the author. Total Control. You'll kill to keep it... A RISING STAR. Jason Archer is a young executive at a world-leading technology conglomerate. Determined to give his wife and daughter the best of everything, he enters into a deadly game of cat and mouse. A GRIEVING WIDOW. When a plane plummets into the Virginia...

Kiss the Girls by James Patterson follows Detective Alex Cross as he investigates the disappearance of his own niece in the second novel of Patterson's worldwide bestselling series. Detective Alex Cross's niece is missing. Cross fears the disappearance could be linked to a string of recent abductions and murders that are terrorising the US. Two killers, operating on opposite sides...

Pre-order the brand new novel in The San Diego Case Files series from Sunday Times bestseller Karen Rose High wire suspense that keeps you riveted - Lisa Gardner When homicide Detective Kit McKittrick and psychologist Sam Reeves discover a mutilated body in the desert outside San Diego, any number of people could be on their suspect list. The murder victim,...

Open Season is the 40th Alex Delaware novel from the No. 1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense, perfect for fans of Michael Connelly and David Baldacci. In the middle of the night, Detective Lieutenant Milo Sturgis is called to a Westside hospital. A young woman has been left dead at the entrance to the E.R. Milo soon identifies...

Helena Lanark is the only one who knows about the horrors which once occurred in her family's house. The heiress of an immense family fortune, she now resides in a luxurious care home; her mind and memory fading fast. Dark Rooms follows Jane Tennison, who is leading a murder investigation into the recent brutal death of a young girl, her...

A page-turning collection of dark and twisted crime stories from the international bestselling author of the Harry Hole series. Filled with dark thrills, twisted minds, and vengeful hearts, these twelve page-turning short stories from the king of Scandicrime (FT) and creator of the iconic detective Harry Hole, will have you reading late into the night. We meet a Greek detective...

The Innocence of Father Brown is the first collection of stories starring Father Brown, a short, stumpy Catholic priest with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella, and uncanny insight into human evil. Father Brown may be a kindly cleric, but his bumbling nature disguises a sharp detective mind to rival Sherlock Holmes. He uses his experiences as a priest and...

Michael Connelly is a powerhouse, an unstoppable force in crime fiction. The Waiting is proof he is at the top of his game."MICK HERRON, #1 bestselling author of SLOW HORSES IN COLD CASES, IT'S NOT THE HOPE THAT KILLS YOU. IT'S THE WAITING. LAPD Detective Renée Ballard gets a DNA hit in a case that has gone unsolved for twenty...

The brand new Strafford and Quirke murder mystery from the bestselling author of Snow. A chilling must-read. 'Haunting . . . compelling.' Daily Mail 'Banville is one of my favourite writers alive.' Rebecca F. Kuang 'The repressed and sinister world of 1950s Ireland is exposed in beautiful, sometimes chilling prose.' Financial Times He had seen drowned people. A sight not...

The Sanatorium took you to the Alps and chilled you to the bone. Now, The Wilds will take you deep into the woods... and out there, it's easy to get lost. The Wilds by Sarah Pearse is an evocative and engrossing thriller set in the depths of a Portuguese national park. After the traumatic events of her childhood, Kier Templer...

In this new thriller set on Camino Island, popular bookseller Bruce Cable tells Mercer Mann an irresistible tale that might be her next novel. A giant resort developer is using its political muscle and deep pockets to claim ownership of a deserted island between Florida and Georgia. Only the last living inhabitant of the island, Lovely Jackson, stands in its...

Baltimore, 2015. Riots were erupting across the city. Drug and violent crime were surging, with homicides reaching their highest level in over two decades. For years, Sgt Wayne Jenkins and his elite team of plain-clothed officers - the Gun Trace Task Force - had been the city's lauded heroes, working to get drugs and guns off the streets. But all...

'An extraordinary story of grace, forgiveness and moral courage' Patrick Radden Keefe A 2024 HIGHLIGHT IN THE OBSERVER, GUARDIAN AND IRISH TIMES SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDSAN IMMEDIATE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child. There exist words for orphan, widow and widower, but there is no...

A man runs for his life in a forest. A woman plans sabotage. A body is unearthed. Newly-minted homicide detective Nell Buchanan returns to her hometown, annoyed at being assigned a decades-old murder—a 'file and forget'. But this is no ordinary cold case, as the discovery of more bodies triggers a chain of escalating events in the present day. As...

An exciting legal thriller from the world's bestselling thriller writer. The No. 1 Lawyer features Stafford Lee Penney, the best defence lawyer in Mississippi—he's never lost a case. Until now. Hot on the heels of his latest courtroom victory, his wife is brutally murdered. Devastated, Stafford Lee spirals into a losing streak that forces him to abandon his once brilliant...

The much-anticipated publication of John le Carré's last complete novel is now available in paperback. Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the City for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But after only a couple of months into his new career, Edward, a Polish emigré, shows up at his door with a...

Two children emerge from the woods. But who are they? An engrossing mystery thriller from the world's bestselling thriller writer. Two children dressed in rags are discovered ransacking a grocery store on the edge of town. They bare their teeth. They growl. They claim to have been raised by wolves. Where did these children come from? Who are their parents?...

In the thrilling follow-up to The Perfect Assassin, James Patterson takes readers on a heart-stopping adventure with his latest novel, Murder Island. When Brandt 'Doc' Savage and his girlfriend, Kira, land on what they believe to be a remote island paradise in the middle of the Atlantic, they think they have finally found an escape from their troubled lives and...

The new white-knuckled thriller in the NUMA series from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling Grand Master of Adventure, Clive Cussler. Kurt Austin and the NUMA crew face swarms of deadly bio-hacked sea locusts, a runaway AI system, and a sinister cult in the latest novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series created by the "grand master of adventure"...

In John le Carré's thrilling novel, Agent Running in the Field, the greatest chronicler of espionage weaves a gripping tale set against the backdrop of a nation in turmoil. Nat, a seasoned veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, is poised to settle into a less volatile phase of his career, only to be thrust back into the fray by MI6....

Now with three new chapters, author Stuart Mullins and former South Australian police detective Bill Hayes expose Harry Phipps as the prime suspect in the abduction, disappearance, and likely murder of the Beaumont children, one of Australia’s most notorious cold cases since 1966. On Australia Day 1966, Jane, Arnna, and Grant Beaumont were abducted from Colley Reserve, Glenelg, South Australia,...

Your daughter goes missing and she doesn't want to be found... from the internationally bestselling author behind the Netflix sensation and TV series Fool Me Once. COMING SOON TO NETFLIX, STARRING JAMES NESBITT, RUTH JONES AND MINNIE DRIVER YOUR DAUGHTER IS MISSING AND SHE'S MADE IT CLEAR SHE DOESN'T WANT TO BE FOUND. One day you see her, frightened and...

Private investigator Billie Carlson is back in the next gripping instalment of this utterly addictive series. WILL SHE SACRIFICE EVERYTHING TO UNCOVER THE TRUTH? PI Billie Carlson is in Cleveland, Ohio, following a lead on the whereabouts of her son, Lucas. But when the trail goes cold, she is forced to return to Glasgow and a life of waiting and...

A hilarious and scathing novel about a crazed and determined man who has devoted his strange existence to saving southern Florida from con artists and carpetbaggers after a hurricane hits. When a ferocious hurricane rips through southern Florida, insurance fraudsters, amateur occultists, and ex-cons waste no time in swarming over the disaster area. Caught in the middle are Max and...

Brilliantly twisted entertainment wrapped around a powerful ecological plea from the New York Times bestselling author of Squeeze Me. When Palmer Stoat notices the black pickup truck following him on the highway, he fears his precious Range Rover is about to be carjacked. But Twilly Spree, the man tailing Stoat, has vengeance, not sport-utility vehicles, on his mind. Idealistic, independently...

In 1943 a submarine returning from a secret mission is attacked, its vital cargo believed lost . . . Three quarters of a century later, NUMA director Dirk Pitt is asked to help locate a missing person: the scientist responsible for the design of the revolutionary Poseidon's Arrow submarine. This craft is so advanced and dangerous that any government would...

SECRETS ARE THE DEADLIEST POISON When a poisonous plant murder case once again lands on Professor Eustacia Rose's desk, she knows she should walk away. After all, she promised Matilde, her loving partner, that she would devote time to their relationship. That she would avoid any dangerous adventures from now. That they would live a normal life. But the murder...

This edition includes an excerpt from Dear Debbie, an essay, a reading group guide, and a Q&A with the author.“You must be our new neighbors!” Mrs. Lowell gushes and waves across the picket fence. I clutch my daughter’s hand and smile back: but the second Mrs. Lowell sees my husband a strange expression crosses her face. In that moment I make...

Detective William Wisting is on the case in this new, captivating no. 1 international bestselling novel from author Jørn Lier Horst. Following a harsh winter, the dam gates at Farris Lake have been badly damaged, and as summer approaches the lake must be drained for repairs. Under the intense summer sun, the idyllic lake transforms into a barren wasteland -...

The powerful new thriller from the global No.1 bestselling author, Paula Hawkins. 'Vivid, extremely tense, unnervingly unputdownable. This is a superb, powerful read.' – Independent 'Undoubtedly Hawkins' best novel yet' – Observer * For twelve hours each day, the Scottish island of Eris is cut off from the mainland. No way in. No way out. The island's only house was...

Janet Evanovich takes readers on a global hunt to track down missing masterpieces in this action-packed and steamy sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller The Recovery Agent. Gabriela Rose, recovery agent extraordinaire, can find just about anything. Too bad she can't seem to lose her gorgeous-but-infuriating ex-husband Rafer Jones. And now he needs her help. His cousin, Harley,...

Ten Seconds will keep you up all night — HARLAN COBEN Looking for more Ben Harper? The next page-turningly-addictive thriller in the series, Nine Hidden Lives, is available to pre-order now. Broadchurch meets Harlan Coben in the most compulsive thriller you'll read all year. Whether you've read Twelve Secrets and Eleven Liars or are discovering Robert Gold for the first...

The indomitable Miss Cocks and Ethel Bromley return for Book Two in the bestselling and charmingly cosy Petticoat Police Mystery Series, inspired by one of Australia's first policewomen. Adelaide, September 1917. Six months after solving the Dora Black case, Kate Cocks and Ethel Bromley are back walking the beat. The city is unsettled. Winter won't leave. Soldiers are returning from...

A wonderfully crafted space thriller. It has everything we loved about The Martian or Gravity, but more psychological depth. It’s also a chilling picture of the Russian mentality and its workings, written by someone who truly understands it. With the resurgent conflict between the East and the West and the return of the threat of totalitarianism, this blockbuster book couldn’t...

An unsolved murder investigation in 1970s Ireland from “one of Canada’s finest novelists.” — Ottawa Review of Books Shay Rynne grew up in the Corporation Flats — public housing — in Fenian Street, Dublin. He has always toyed with the idea of joining the Garda Síochána, the Irish police. But in the early 1970s, young fellows from the tenements of...

Spectacular and sexy fantasy - Freya Marske, author of A Marvellous Light The Sky on Fire is a daring, original fantasy heist adventure from Jenn Lyons, acclaimed author of the Chorus of Dragons series, that will thrill fans of Temeraire, Fourth Wing and Dragonriders of Pern. Enter a world ruled by dragons . . . Anahrod lives only for survival,...

Brooklyn psychiatrist Dr. Caroline Strange is certain she knows what's best for her patients, her family, and pretty much everyone else, but that all changes when a troubled young man arrives for his appointment and makes a pair of alarming confessions: I'm going to kill someone, and I know who you really are. Dr. Caroline is accustomed to hearing her...

Iggy Guerra returns home from prison to find his beloved mother dead and buried, his father Armando a beer-soaked mess, and the Miami butcher shop that has been in their family for generations about to be gentrified into bankruptcy. When Iggy's mistakes plunged his family into debt, his heartbroken and furious father got in too deep with a group of...

Nobody likes The Complaints - they're the cops who investigate other cops. Complaints and Conduct Department, to give them their full title, but known colloquially as 'the Dark Side', or simply The Complaints. Malcolm Fox works for The Complaints. He's just had a result and should be feeling good about himself. But he's middle-aged, sour, and unwell. He also has...

Bombs are exploding in the streets of London, but life seems to have planted more subtle booby-traps for Miles Flint. Miles is a spy. His job is to watch and to listen, then to report back to his superiors, nothing more. The job, affording glimpses into the most private lives of his victims, appeals to Miles. He doesn't lust after...

Interpol have tried and failed to find the terrorist, Witch. Now the combined forces of Scotland Yard and MI5 must try the impossible to prevent a major international incident. Dominic Elder carries her autograph wherever he goes. Witch is his passion, his obsession. And being retired is no bar to his willingness to restart the hunt. MI5 know that the...

In the thrilling follow-up to The Perfect Assassin, Brandt 'Doc' Savage must travel the world to find his missing girlfriend and put a stop to a global conspiracy. They thought they found heaven on earth. They discover a living hell. When Brandt 'Doc' Savage and his girlfriend Kira land on a desert island in the middle of the Atlantic, they...

From the world's bestselling thriller writer comes an enthralling novel about the heist of the century. A rare masterpiece by Picasso is about to go to auction, and the whole world is watching. But bright art student Halston Graham sees an opportunity. One that could secure millions for her future - and freedom for her wrongly imprisoned father... To pull...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Kind Worth Killing and Eight Perfect Murders comes an inventive, utterly propulsive murder-mystery in reverse, tracing a marriage back in time to uncover the dark secret at its heart. Thom and Wendy Graves have been married for over twenty-five years. They live in a beautiful Victorian on the north shore of...

The thrilling third instalment in the award-winning Dan Clement series, described by reviewers as 'Aussie noir at its best.' A violent death by crucifixion near a remote north-west station has Detective Inspector Dan Clement and his Broome police officers disturbed and baffled. Other local incidents—the theft of explosives from a Halls Creek mine site, social justice protests at an abattoir,...

Smoke in Berlin is a beautiful, atmospheric detective story set in Berlin during the Second World War. Oriana Ramunno's Hugo Fischer series is full of tension, drama and, ultimately, hope. Berlin, June 1944. Hugo Fischer is forced to work for the Nazi secret service, though he keeps his own dangerous secret from the Third Reich. Faced with a series of...

Compelling, haunting and beautifully written. You'll be thinking about it long after you turn the last page! - Liane Moriarty Two women. A tragedy on the lake. And secrets beneath the surface... The lyrical, haunting new novel from the author of The Beautiful Words. For fans of The Lovely Bones, Before You Knew My Name and Everything I Never Told...

A propulsive rollercoaster high concept international thriller which dares to take the world to the edge of oblivion. The city that never sleeps just said goodnight. On the anniversary eve of the 9/11 terror attack, New York swelters under a heat dome of record temperatures. Even the global leaders assembled at the UN HQ are forced to admit that the...