Thriller Books

An addictive, unpredictable thriller that will keep you asking the question: what is the truth? Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams. They think they've found it when they visit the remote manor that once belonged to Dr. Adrienne Hale, a renowned psychiatrist who vanished without a trace years ago. But when a violent winter storm traps them at the estate, the house begins to lose its appeal. Stuck inside and growing restless, Tricia stumbles on a collection of audio transcripts from Dr. Hale's sessions with patients. As Tricia listens to the cassette tapes, she learns about the terrifying chain of events leading up to the doctor's mysterious disappearance. With each tape, another shocking piece of the puzzle falls into place, and a web of lies slowly unravels. But by the time Tricia reaches the final cassette, the one that reveals the entire horrifying story, it will be too late… Product Information:  • ISBN: 9781464221361 • Author: Frieda McFadden • Publisher: Sourcebooks, Poisoned Pen Press • Format: Paperback  • Pages: 320 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 1.9 cm

He swore he’d never let her go. She should have believed him. Brooke Hastings is ready to end her six-week affair. Gideon Ross is charming and sexy, but he’s not worth throwing away her marriage and family for. So she breaks it off, hoping Gideon will understand.  He doesn’t. Gideon insists that he and Brooke are meant to be together. Finally, he backs off, but not before issuing a promise: he’ll never let her go.  Six years later, Brooke wants to believe it’s all behind her. Her family has survived intact. Gideon has vanished.  But the fear hasn’t disappeared. Brooke can’t tell how much of it is paranoia, and how much is justified, but she’s worried. And maybe she’s right to be.  Because Gideon is a man who keeps his promises . . . A totally addictive psychological thriller with a twist you won’t see coming. Perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell, K.L Slater and The Housemaid. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781399723909 • Author: Lisa Jackson • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton • Pages: 384 • Format: Paperback • Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.8 cm

Kate and her husband are expecting their first child. Even though it was a surprise, Kate is thrilled and so is her mother, Helen. Kate just needs Helen’s anxieties to ease and for Dan to be on board. Dan is struggling – he loves Kate, but he is not ready to be a father. With relations between them feeling hostile, the attractive lead singer in Dan’s band offers him a tantalizing escape. Two weeks before the due date, Kate heads off for an overnight stay at a guesthouse she is designing. When suddenly neither Helen nor Dan can reach her, Helen discloses a dark secret from their past. One that leaves them wondering, has something terrible happened to Kate and the baby? Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008607593 • Author: Karen Clarke • Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers • Format: Paperback • Pages: 256 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.1 cm

Prepare to read the most exhilarating thriller from M.J. Arlidge yet…. When local teenager Naomi goes missing, Detective Inspector Helen Grace is her only hope. But with the police force under fire from all sides as a gang war grips the city, Helen will have to defy direct orders to search for her. Helen’s secret investigation follows a disturbing trail of missing girls disappearing from the streets. She’s the only person looking for them. And with the clock still ticking, she’s about to have more enemies than time working against her… Product Information: • ISBN: 9781398708259 • Author: M. J. Arlidge • Publisher: Orion Publishing • Format: Paperback • Pages: 464 • Dimensions: 19.69 x 13.03 x 2.87 cm

Cora-Jane Winslow’s father walked out on her family 23 years ago; his letters to her over the years the only connection she has had to him. When his body is discovered in an abandoned building, she is shocked to discover he has been dead all this time. What happened to him and who would cover up his murder by writing the letters? After his post-traumatic stress disorder forced him to run away from his life, Phin Bishop returns to the Burke Broussard Private Detective Agency, only to stumble upon an armed break-in. Cora-Jane is seen running from the building and his colleague Joy has been shot. When it appears the shooting is related to Cora-Jane’s father, the Agency step in to offer protection while they hunt for the perpetrator. Someone knows what really happened to Cora Jane’s father and will stop at nothing to prevent their long-buried secrets being discovered . . . Product Information: • ISBN: 9781035403233 • Author: Karen Rose • Publisher: Hodder Headline • Format: Paperback • Pages: 512 • Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 4.2 cm

The man who can't feel fear is back, in a race against time to find the woman who knows a secret that could take down the world as we know it. When a shocking murder and abduction on the streets of London leads investigators to him, Ben Koenig has no idea at first why the highest echelons of the CIA would need his help. But then he realises he knows the woman who carried out the killings. Ten years earlier, without being told why, he was tasked with helping her disappear. Far from being a deranged killer, she is the gatekeeper of a secret that could take down the West, so for years she has been in hiding. Until now. And if she has resurfaced, the danger may be closer and more terrifying than anyone can imagine. So Ben Koenig has to find her before it's too late. But Ben suffers from a syndrome which means he can't feel fear. He doesn't always know when he should walk away, or when he's leading others into danger . . . Product Information: • ISBN: 9781408717639 • Author: M. W. Craven • Publisher: Little Brown • Format: Paperback • Pages: 448

PREPARE TO BE HOOKED . . . Early morning: on the foreshore of the river Thames, a bag of bones is discovered. Human bones. DCI Samuel Owusu quickly sends the bag for forensic examination. The bones are those of a young woman, killed by a blow to the head many years ago. Also inside the bag is a trail of clues which lead DCI Owusu to a mansion in Chelsea where thirty years previously three people lay dead, while a baby upstairs waited for someone to pick her up. Four deaths. An unsolved mystery. A family whose secrets can't stay buried for ever. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781529158564 • Author: Lisa Jewell • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Format: Paperback • Pages: 464 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 13 x 2.77 cm

She runs. He watches. He waits  . . . A woman runs alone in the woods. She convinces herself she’s safe. But a predator is watching from the shadows. Waiting for the perfect moment to attack. They thought they caught him. But another victim has just been found. The hunt has only just begun. And the killer is ready to strike again… Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008303488 • Author: Karin Slaughter  • Publisher: HarperCollins • Format: Paperback • Pages: 512 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 3.2 cm

It’s a deadly race against time… Tech billionaire Miles has more money than he can ever spend, but he can’t buy more time. Diagnosed with a terminal illness, he is forced to take a long, hard look at his past. Somewhere out there, Miles has children who don’t know it, but they might be about to inherit the good and bad from him – possibly his fortune, or possibly something more sinister. So, Miles decides to track them down. But a lethal killer is one step ahead of him. One by one, people are vanishing. Not just disappearing, every trace of them is wiped. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008332082 • Author: Linwood Barclay • Publisher: HQ • Format: Paperback • Pages: 480 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 3 cm

Jack Reacher jumps off a bus and walks fourteen miles down a country road into Margrave, Georgia. An arbitrary decision he's about to regret. Reacher is the only stranger in town on the day they have had their first homicide in thirty years. The cops arrest Reacher and the police chief turns eyewitness to place him at the scene. As nasty secrets leak out, and the body count mounts, one thing is for sure. They picked the wrong guy to take the fall. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780553826166 • Author: Lee Child • Publisher: Bantam • Format: Paperback • Pages: 544 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.7 x 3.2cm

You're back home after four years working abroad, new husband in tow. You're keen to find a place of your own. But for now you're crashing in your big brother's spare room. That's when you meet the man next door. He's the head teacher at the local school. Twice your age. Extraordinarily attractive. You find yourself watching him. All the time. But you never dreamed that your innocent crush might become a deadly obsession. Or that someone is watching you. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781784756277 • Author: Lisa Jewell • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Format: Paperback • Pages: 512 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 3 cm

The gripping standalone thriller from Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author Karin Slaughter, now a major Netflix series. . . Andrea Oliver's life is about to change in a split second when a mass shooting breaks out in her local mall. But this shocking act was only the start and as the bodies fall around them, Andy's mother Laura takes a step forward into the line of fire. Hours later, Laura is in hospital and her face is splashed over the newspaper. Now, Andy must embark on a desperate race against time to uncover the secrets of her mother's past before any more blood is shed. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008150853 • Author: Karin Slaughter • Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers • Format: Paperback • Pages: 495 • Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 3.5cm

It’s always the husband, isn’t it? When his wife Brie vanishes from their home one night, never to be seen again, people assume Andy got away with murder. The police can’t build a case against him, but still his friends and neighbours abandon him. Six years later, Andy’s life is back on track, and he’s settled with a new girlfriend. And when he hears his old house has been bulldozed and rebuilt, he’s not bothered. Things are good. But then one day, a woman who looks like Brie shows up at their old address, screaming ‘Where’s my house? What happened to my house?’ before vanishing as quickly as she appeared. And as dark suspicions resurface, Andy’s future depends on discovering what the hell is going on. The trick is staying alive long enough to find out… Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008332136 • Author: Linwood Barclay • Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers • Format: Paperback • Pages: 464 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.8 cm

Murder and scandal in the heat of 1950s Las Vegas: can Lily Jones stop a murder that happened before she was born? Lily Jones can’t forget her incredible time-slip adventure back to the Golden Age of Hollywood and the friends she made there - especially a handsome barman by the name of Louis, with whom she felt such a strong connection. Back in 2020, life isn’t going so well for her and Lily is idly googling when she is horrified to discover that Evelyn, Louis’ ex-girlfriend, is brutally murdered in 1953. She is compelled to go back to the 1950s and try to save Evelyn’s life, but this time it isn’t just the gilded stars of Tinseltown she will have to contend with, but The Mob as she finds herself in the seedy glamour of Vegas and learns that Evelyn’s future depends upon her first solving the murder of a Vegas showgirl. Thankfully she has Louis and his sister, Tilda, to help her, but her own life is in danger as she tries to find the killer and change Evelyn’s fate. What will she risk to save a life? Product Information:  • ISBN: 9781804366592 • Author: Lisa Hall • Publisher: Canelo Hera • Format:  Paperback • Pages: 336 • Dimensions: 12.9 x 2 x 19.8 cm

She might be the first victim, but she won't be the last. Three… A woman is abducted in front of her child. Two… A month later, a second is taken in explosive circumstances. One… But the web is bigger and darker than anyone could imagine. The clock is ticking to uncover the truth. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008303426 • Author: Karin Slaughter • Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers • Format: Paperback • Pages: 464 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 cm

Jack Reacher, alone, strolling nowhere. A Chicago street in bright sunshine. A young woman, struggling on crutches. Reacher offers her a steadying arm. And turns to see a handgun aimed at his stomach. Chained in a dark van racing across America, Reacher doesn't know why they've been kidnapped. The woman claims to be FBI. She's certainly tough enough. But at their remote destination, will raw courage be enough to overcome the hopeless odds? Product Information: • ISBN: 9780857500052 • Author: Lee Child • Publisher: Bantam • Format: Paperback • Pages: 560 • Dimensions: 19.3 x 12.7 x 3.56 cm

November 1999, North Dana, Massachusetts. The body of Bastion Attia – high school quarterback, secret witch, and Nesbit Nuñez’s even-more-secret boyfriend – is discovered at the edge of Stepwood Cemetery. As Nesbit and his coven of queer misfits investigate Bastion’s death they discover local folktales of Mr. Nous, a terrifying wish-granting creature, one whose gifts come at a terrible price. The coven must do battle against an age-old evil before it strikes again … Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008623494 • Author: Freddie Kolsch • Publisher: Farshore • Format: Paperback • Pages: 448 • Dimensions: 12.9 x 3 x 19.8cm

Reacher had no idea where he was. No idea how he had got there. But someone must have brought him. And shackled him. And whoever had done those things was going to rue the day. That was for damn sure. Jack Reacher wakes up, alone, in the dark, handcuffed to a makeshift bed. His right arm has suffered some major damage. His few possessions are gone. He has no memory of getting there. The last thing Reacher can recall is the car he hitched a ride in getting run off the road. The driver was killed. His captors assume Reacher was the driver's accomplice and patch up his wounds as they plan to make him talk. A plan that will backfire spectacularly . . . Product Information: • ISBN: 9780857505590 • Author: Lee Child • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Format: Hardback • Pages: 352 • Dimensions: 24 x 16.1 x 3cm