Thriller & Suspense Books

Heart-stopping thriller from the master of suspense. Bad things are starting to happen at the Pendleton, an eerie building with a tragic past. The Pendleton stands on the summit of Shadow Hill, a palace built in the late 19th century as a tycoon’s dream...

The third volume in the acclaimed Emperor series, in which Conn Iggulden brilliantly interweaves history and adventure to recreate the astonishing life of Julius Caesar – an epic tale of ambition and rivalry, bravery and betrayal. THE GATES OF ROME, THE...

The second volume in the bestselling Emperor series, an acclaimed sequence of novels in which Conn Iggulden brilliantly interweaves history and adventure to recreate the astonishing story of Julius Caesar – an epic tale of ambition and rivalry, bravery...

The action-packed second novel in the No. 1 bestselling Conqueror series, bringing to the epic story of Genghis Khan brilliantly to life The gathering of the tribes of the Mongols has been a long time in coming but finally, triumphantly, Temujin of the...

The first book in the bestselling Conqueror series featuring Genghis Khan and his descendants. 'I am the land and the bones of the hills. I am the winter.'Temujin, the second son of the khan of the Wolves tribe, was only eleven when his father died in...

*A brand new companion to the Last Kingdom series, Uhtred’s Feast, is available to pre-order now*The fourth book in the epic and bestselling series that has gripped millions.A hero will be forged from this broken land.As seen on Netflix and BBC around...

The classic, heartrending story of a British boy’s four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War. Newly reissued with an introduction by John Lanchester. Based on J. G. Ballard’s own childhood, this is the extraordinary account...

Longlisted for the 2004 Man Booker PrizeShortlisted for the 2004 Orange PrizeA haunting tale of an Africa and an adolescence undergoing tremendous changes by a talented young Nigerian writer. The limits of fifteen-year-old Kambili's world are defined by...

The second book in the Darkwar series, from world-wide bestselling author of Magician, Raymond E. Feist. Chaos threatens to overwhelm two worlds as the most dangerous force ever encountered threatens to invade Midkemia, while the most treacherous...

In the second instalment of The Conclave of Shadows. The Conclave demands its membership price from their new protégé: Tal must gather information on the sinister magician Laso Varen. But, to do this means service with the sorcerer's master, Duke Kaspar...

Forty-year-old Alice Kaczmarek has lost so much. She wants a baby, but her husband Daniel is serving a life sentence, accused of orchestrating an accident on Sydney's new transport system. When T, the subject of medical experimentation, crawls up the...

Set between the Blue Mountains and a Sydney hospital, Lisa Kenway's All You Took From Me is a thriller brimming with great characters and nail-biting tension.Anaesthetist Clare Carpenter has just lost her husband and her memory in a single-vehicle...

'A fast-paced and emotional page-turner.' - Christian White, bestselling author of Nowhere ChildFollowing a bitter separation, Lucie moves to London to take up a position with a prestigious law firm. It seems an optimistic new beginning, until one day...

'The darkest little room in the world is the human heart,' she said at last. 'Even yours, perhaps, has black secrets that you would never let into the light.'Patrick's Holland's haunting new novel arises from his experiences in Indochina. An atmospheric...

How far would you go for someone you love?Alison has an excellent relationship with her eighteen-year-old daughter. Lola is a hardworking, straight-A student, bound for university. They tell each other everything. Or so she thought.Lola has a secret:...

A calculated killer. A town under threat. An unfinished pattern...Professor Carla James is an archaeologist with an interest in more than just bones and stones. She wants to understand the emotions behind the sites she investigates.Desperate for a change...

DI Kelly Porter knows his death was no accident.The body of a man is found at the bottom of a quarry. His appearance, and physical evidence, rule out the chance he travelled there unaided: he was put there.DI Kelly Porter is tasked to investigate and...

‘Tense, atmospheric, you won’t know who to trust … An Aussie crime fiction star in the making.’ Candice Fox, author of Crimson Lake and Devil’s KitchenA year after a tragic incident splintered their friendship, three women travel to Marcoy, a regional...

‘Moving and thoughtful, with the propulsion of a page turning thriller. The book made me desperate to know what would happen to these women and their lives. I loved it.’ –Kate Hamer, author of The Girl in the Red Coat and The Doll...

Ilene, a working-class mother, is struggling to survive and desperate to reconnect with her children, Jack and Lonnie, in the aftermath of a near-fatal tragedy.But her children vanish, setting off a chain reaction within the community.Suspended detective...

The truth is never black and white   ‘This is about three deaths. Actually more, if you go back far enough. I say deaths but perhaps all of them were murders. It’s a grey area. Murder, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. So let’s just call...

Mayo Street. It’s a very desirable address. And it seems to promise the perfect suburban dream. Until three of the street’s residents die.   Behind its respectable facades lie some terrible secrets, and in the course of one autumn many of them are...

A dark comedy about how to live your best life, even when you're dead. Stacey was trying to live her best life, but now she’s dead. But why hasn't she passed on? Could it be her fatal car accident was actually murder?Detectives Ed Beaufontaine and...

Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime FictionIt's an author's job to create a new world in the pages of a book. But when lines start to blur and reality begins to fade, getting lost in a story can be dangerous—especially if you can't find your way...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NED KELLY AWARD FOR BEST CRIME FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE ABIA FOR GENERAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE DANGER AWARD - BEST DEBUT CRIME FICTION Once you’re online, there’s nowhere to hide   Is it...

‘a thought-provoking, wise and compassionate novel on a subject of philosophical, as well as medical, import.’ - The AgeFrom the bestselling, prize-winning author of Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures comes an exquisitely crafted novel,...

Ten astronauts. An imposter determined to kill them all. Welcome to the deadliest spaceship of all time.The intrigue of everyone’s favourite video game comes to life in this unofficial Among Us adventure. V is a young astronaut ready for any challenge...

One night in the woods A party gone wrong A body discovered at sunrise He murdered her at the folly on their wedding day, left her body for the crows. They say she haunts the woods now, a girl in a white dress …   Everyone in the small town of...

“An impressive debut.”–Publishers Weekly ***International Book Awards Finalist — Best New Fiction***They said you can’t take your money with you when you die.What if they were wrong? Srinath Adiga’s timely satire explores the pitfalls of modern...

Deeply moving, sad and haunting..." —Brandon Hobson, National Book Award Finalist and author of Where the Dead Sit TalkingInto Captivity They Will Go is a story for our time, told with sometimes brutal emotional honesty and always with compassion...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!William Kent Krueger offers “one of his most puzzling mysteries to date” (Publishers Weekly) as a disappearance and a dead body put Cork O’Connor’s family in the crosshairs of a killer in the twentieth book in the New...

In this gripping and intensely atmospheric debut, disquiet descends on a small town after the suspicious death of a beautiful young doctor, with all clues pointing to the reclusive young man who abandoned the community in chase of big city dreams but...

Mitch Rapp faces an old foe from Iran in the new thriller in Vince Flynn's #1 New York Times bestselling series, now written by bestselling author Don Bentley.In 2011, on a remote Iranian mountain, a group of high-level officials have just witnessed the...

​‘Jane Halifax out of her depth and at her best. I could not put it down.’ Rebecca Gibney, television's Jane Halifax​JANE HALIFAX IS ABOUT TO DISCOVER THE GRITTY UNDERBELLY OF SILICON VALLEYWithin hours of arriving in New York City, Jane is dragged...

From one of the sharpest voices in fiction today, a profound and enthralling novel about beauty, power, and capital's influence on art and those who devote their lives to creating it. Once, Jay was an artist. Shortly after graduating from his London art...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with a twisty, unputdownable thriller featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, who finds herself at the centre of a Washington, D.C., arson investigation that spawns...

‘A ruthlessly efficient, consistently surprising whodunnit. The depiction of the glowering inferno is so realistic you’re surprised to find your eyebrows aren’t singed’ Mark Sanderson, The TimesA town under fire. A detective with something to prove. A...

NOW AN AMAZON PRIME TV SERIES STARRING CHRIS PRATTWith the walls closing in, Navy SEAL sniper James Reece is on a race to dismantle a conspiracy that has forced America to her knees in the latest high-octane page-turner that seems ripped from the...

This atmospheric and moving novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Flowers in the Attic and Landry series—now popular Lifetime movies—combines a forbidden romance with a family fortune and a young girl in peril.Caroline Bryer is the...

Equal parts brutal and beautiful, Show’s End takes place in Georgia during the 1920s and follows Loralye, a 12-year-old runaway seeking refuge with a traveling group of freak show performers. At first, she isn’t welcomed for being too “ordinary.” But...

SET TO BE ADAPTED FOR THE SCREEN. Journalist John Bailey and CIA officer Ronnie Johnson join forces to outwit their most deadly adversary yet.Winner, 2024 Danger Awards, People's choice award Shortlisted, 2024 Ned Kelly Awards, Best Crime...