Gritty Thriller

Nancy Byrne might be the head of the notorious Byrne crime family, but she’s determined to give her little daughter, Scarlett, the best start possible. After the death of her beloved father, the notorious gangster Jimmy Byrne, nothing’s stopping Nancy from making money on her own terms - even if she has to combine motherhood with providing for her entire family. But with enemies at their door, she’ll do whatever it takes to protect her loved ones.

Play dirty, play to win. From the top ten bestselling author Jessie Keane comes a gripping thriller featuring two women who will do anything to win the man they love. Josh Flynn is the king of the bare-knuckle gypsy fighters. His reputation is un-blemished; his fist a deadly weapon. Claire Milo...

Stay Dead is the heartstopping sixth book in Jessie Keane's bestselling Annie Carter series. Annie Carter finally believes that life is good. She and Max are back together and she has a new and uncomplicated life sunning herself in Barbados. It's what she's always dreamed of. Then she gets the...

Get ready for queer mayhem in this gritty psychological thriller filled with stolen identity, true crime and first love, from the bestselling author of All That's Left in the World. For fans of One of Us Is Lying, The Reappearance of Rachel Price and They Both Die at the End. Desperate to escape...

'This is Peaky Blinders territory. Packed with dramatic action and unforgettable characters' – Daily Mail 'A darkly compelling thriller . . . Morrison succeeds in summoning Depression-era Glasgow in a powerful work of crime fiction' – The Sunday Times Glasgow, 1933. Murder is nothing new in...

A woman stands on a bridge, the water rushing below. In a few seconds she will jump, plunging more than two hundred feet to her death. Who is she? And why is she desperate to take her own life? Nina Kennedy, a wife and mother, is afraid. A man is following her, threatening her family, toying...

From Sandie Jones, bestselling author of the Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick The Other Woman. Addictive, page-turning psychological suspense, The Trade Off asks how far a journalist will go to get the story. Everyone has a price. What's yours? Would you print a lie across a front page? For...

Set in urban Manchester, Running Scared is a nerve-shredding thriller by bestselling author Mandasue Heller. When teenager Alexis ‘Lexi’ James falls out with her best mate Nicole over ‘bad boy’ Ryan King, it’s just the beginning of a chain of events that go from bad to worse to deadly...

They shouldn't work together. DS Susie Drummond is the detective trying to keep a serial killer off Edinburgh's front pages while her boss watches the clock. Doug McGregor is the journalist who already knows more than he should and isn't above using it. They've struck an uneasy truce built on mutual leverage and something that might, on a good day, resemble trust. It's not much. But it's all they've got.

Bloomsbury presents Living Death by Graham Masterton, read by Lucianne McEvoy. DS Katie Maguire and her team are stretched to their limit. A gang of dognappers is terrorising Cork. The city's drug trade is at an all-time high. Now a girl has gone missing – and all in the glare of the media...

Empires don’t need kings. They need queens. Freshly paroled from Holloway Prison, Pearl Armstrong returns to Soho not for nostalgia — but to reclaim the empire she built with blood, cunning and grit. Her sons, Kristian and Daniel, have turned the Armstrong legacy into a shadow of its former...

Bloomsbury presents Blood Sisters by Graham Masterton, read by Lucianne McEvoy. Why would nuns need protection from a killer? In a nursing home on the outskirts of Cork, an elderly nun has been suffocated in her sleep. It looks like a mercy-killing – until another sister from the same convent...

Looking back, Nick Leary couldn't say exactly what kept him awake that night. He'd had a lot on his mind; perhaps he'd been thinking about the 'respectable' Essex business that he ran, or about his two young sons sleeping in the room next door. Or was it simply the sound of his beautiful wife's...

Bloomsbury presents Pay Back the Devil by Graham Masterton, read by Aoife McMahon. Katie Maguire is back in the gripping twelfth instalment of million-copy-bestselling Graham Masterton's police-procedural series. DS Katie Maguire is one of Ireland's best detectives. There's no mystery she can't...

The next BRAND NEW edge-of-your-seat action thriller from author of Wolf Six, Alex Shaw 💥 Perfect for fans of Tom Wood and Mark Greaney! 📚 'A gritty, action packed adrenaline rush!' - Alan McDermott Taking a life isn't hard, when you've already given your own. Ruslan Akulov, the legendary...

No one thinks a seventeen-year-old girl can take on the hard men of London's gangland, but it's a mistake to underestimate Maura Ryan: she's tough, clever and beautiful - which makes her one very dangerous lady. Together, she and her brother Michael are unbeatable but notoriety has its price...

Discover the gritty gangland read from bestseller, Kerry Kaya Perfect for fans of Martina Cole and Kimberley Chambers. Nothing to lose… When nineteen-year-old Tommy Carter throws away a promising career to work for local villain Davey Abbott, everyone thinks he’s made a huge mistake -...

When DC Lucy Murphy meets Debra, wife of feared drug-dealer Gerard Jennings, she sees a young woman in urgent need of help. Brutalized by her husband, Debra is too terrified to tell the police what she knows. But Lucy is determined to bring Gerard down - for Debra’s sake and the safety of the Griffin Estate. Meanwhile, after the death of one of his drug runners, Gerard is under pressure from his bosses to prove he’s still up to the job.

The first mistake was to underestimate Georgie. The second mistake was to underestimate her daughter. When Georgie Deacon’s husband, Dixie, is found shot dead in the street, the police assume it’s a revenge killing. However, things are not what they seem when two of her brothers-in-law are...

A criminally good gangland thriller from bestselling author, Kerry Kaya Another brilliant story from Kerry Kaya, perfect for gangland fans everywhere! Her vengeance will be deadly… Cathy Townsend has it all, a loving husband, two handsome sons, and a lifestyle that many people envy. But one...