Silence of the Grave by Arnaldur Indridason
24.99 NZD
Category: Thriller
Building work in an expanding Reykjavik uncovers a shallow grave. Years before, this part of the city was all open hills, and Erlendur and his team hope this is a typical Icelandic missing person scenario; perhaps someone once lost in the snow, who has lain peacefully buried for decades. Things are neve ...Show more
The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie
28.99 NZD
Category: Thriller
Cold-blooded murder just isn't Thomas Lang's cup of tea. Offered a tidy sum to assassinate an American industrialist, he opts to warn the intended victim instead - a good deed that soon takes a bad turn. Quicker than he can down a shot of his favourite whiskey, Lang is bashing heads with a Buddha statue ...Show more
Sandstorm by Henry Shukman
26.99 NZD
Category: Thriller
Former foreign correspondent Charles Mortimer is all washed up, living a hand-to-mouth existence in Manhattan, wondering how things could have gone so wrong for him. A chance discovery of a newspaper obituary takes him back to the beginning of his career, when he was a young, hopeful man reporting from ...Show more
Ascent by Jed Mercurio
26.99 NZD
29.99 (10% off)
Category: Thriller
Yefgenii Yeremin is a flyer and he is a phantom. In the Korean War, he shoots down more American jets than any other pilot in history. He becomes the legendary ace dubbed 'Ivan, the Terrible'. But the Soviet Union's involvement in Korea must be kept secret, so his name remains unknown, his victories unc ...Show more
I Want to Watch by Diego De Silva
27.00 NZD
Category: Thriller | Reading Level: good
In an apartment in Italy, a man and a little girl are playing hide and seek. Indulgently he gives up the search, and she emerges from her hiding-place with a happy squeal. The man pulls a startled face, the loser of the game. The girl hurls herself at him, hugging his waist. He kneels down and she throw ...Show more
Zone Defence by Petros Markaris
26.99 NZD
Category: Thriller
Inspector Costas Haritos of the Athens CID has finally made time for a holiday. But when a minor earthquake causes his holiday beach to spit up a corpse, he finds there is no such thing as being off duty. Back in Athens, and working on the mystery of the as-yet unidentified body, Haritos is assigend a s ...Show more
School's Out by Christophe Dufosse
26.99 NZD
Category: Thriller
When a teacher is found dead, having apparently committed suicide, his friend Pierre Hoffman takes over class 4F and finds himself responsible for a group of strangely subdued, well-behaved and yet menacing pupils. Assuming their behaviour to be a response to the trauma of their teacher's death, Pierre ...Show more
The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
27.99 NZD
33.00 (15% off)
Category: Thriller | Reading Level: very good
Boston. 1865. A small group of elite scholars prepares to introduce Dante's vision of hell to America. But so does a murderer. The literary geniuses of The Dante Club- poets and Harvard professors Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell and publisher J. T. Fields- are ...Show more
The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow
26.00 NZD
Category: Thriller
"Drug lord Miguel Angel Barrera is head of the Mexican drug federaci n, responsible for millions of dollars worth of cocaine traffic into the US and the torture of those who stand in its way. His nephew, Adan Barrera, is his worthy successor. Art Keller is a US government operative, so determined to obt ...Show more