The Camel Club
David Baldacci
The man known as Oliver Stone has no official past. He spends most days camped opposite the White House, hoping to expose corruption wherever he finds it. But...
Restless
William Boyd
It is 1939. Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian emigree living in Paris. As war breaks out she is recruited for the British Secret Service by Lucas...
The Thirty-Nine Steps
John Buchan
May 1914. Britain is on the eve of war with Germany. Richard Hannay is living a quiet life in London, but after a chance encounter with a mysterious...
The Bourne Ultimatum
Robert Ludlum
It all starts with a cat-and-mouse chase to the death in a Baltimore funfair. The Jackal, Bourne's age-old antagonist, is back and Bourne is forced from his idyllic...
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier
'Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again...' Working as a lady's companion, the heroine of Rebecca learns her place. Life begins to look very bleak until,...
Snowdrops
A. D. Miller
Snowdrops. That's what the Russians call them - the bodies that float up into the light in the thaw. Drunks, most of them, and homeless people who just...
The Pelican Brief
John Grisham
Two Supreme Court Justices are dead. Their murders remain unsolved. Darby Shaw, a brilliant and beautiful New Orleans legal student, draws up a speculative legal brief which links...
Brighton Rock
Graham Greene
A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared...
Live and Let Die
Ian Fleming
Beautiful, fortune-telling Solitaire is the prisoner and tool of Mr Big: master of fear, artist in crime and Voodoo Baron of Death. But James Bond has no time...
The Constant Gardener
John Le Carré
Tessa Quayle has been horribly murdered on the shores of Lake Turkana in Northern Kenya, the birthplace of mankind. Her putative African lover, a doctor with one of...
The Historian
Elizabeth Kostova
Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters addressed ominously to 'My dear and unfortunate successor'....
The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown
I don't consider this the best fiction book I've read but it was a thrilling, gripping, can't-put-it-down read. The plot was tosh but very enjoyable tosh. The lovely...
How to Write a Thriller
Scott Mariani
This book is designed to help aspiring thriller writers to create exciting, suspenseful novels and to give you the best chance of getting your work published and into...
Strangers on a Train
Patricia Highsmith
The psychologists would call it folie à deux... 'Bruno slammed his palms together. 'Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We...
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson
Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her...
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