Mysteries & Detective Stories

From New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson comes the start of a new series about a sharp and funny young detective named Stevie Bell who begins school at an elite, yet peculiar, boarding school and finds herself entangled in a murder mystery;...

'I have long believed that loving a boyband brings with it a wealth of transferable skills, but I'd never imagined solving a murder would be one of them...'Harri and her best friends worship Half Light - an internationally famous boyband. When frontman...

'A deliciously twisted gothic fantasy you'll want to read again and again, with characters you'll adore, prose that'll spellbind you, romance you'll swoon over, and a mystery that'll keep you guessing until the last stunning twist' ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781368013703Author Gretchen McNeilFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint HyperionPublisher Hyperion

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsNominated for American Library Association's YALSA Quick Pick 2018.Book InformationISBN 9780553521528Author Kara ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint EmberPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781426338175Author National Geographic KidsFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Under the StarsPublisher National Geographic KidsWeight(grams)...

From the internationally acclaimed bestselling author of Code Name Verity comes a stunning new story of pearls, love and murder - a mystery with all the suspense of an Agatha Christie and the intrigue of Downton Abbey. Sixteen-year-old Julie...

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781426333040Author National Geographic KidsFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Under the StarsPublisher National Geographic KidsWeight(grams)...

A photograph, a necklace and a missing family . . . A new pupil, Nancy, arrives at Precious Ramotswe's school, and the two girls soon become firm friends. When Precious finds out that all Nancy has to remind her of her missing parents is a photograph...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062287052Author Sara ShepardFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Shelby Holmes is not your average nine-year-old. For one, she happens to be the best detective her neighbourhood has ever seen, using her uncanny analytical mind and sassy attitude to solve crimes which stump even the police department. But when...

In this queer retelling of the classic novel and third book in Tirzah Price's Jane Austen Murder Mystery series, Mansfield Park is the center of a deadly accident (or is it?). Perfect for fans of the Lady Janies and Stalking Jack the Ripper. Aspiring...

Betty and Veronica's cheerleading retreat with the River Vixens was supposed to be fun - not deadly. Betty, Veronica, Cheryl and the rest of the River Vixens are heading out of town for the weekend on a cheerleading retreat. So...

Two boys. One identity. He can change his life if he says yes... An explosive new mystery from the award-winning author Jenny Valentine, The Double Life of Cassiel Roadnight is the story of a boy who assumes the identity of a missing teenager...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Edgar Allan Poe Awards (Young Adult) 2023.Book InformationISBN 9781250800558Author June HurFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St...

Years after a violent war destroyed much of the world, Kaspar has grown up in a society based on peace and harmony. But beyond the city walls, a vicious band of rebels are plotting to tear this peace apart. It is up to the Guardians - an elite...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316273510Author Kerri ManiscalcoFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Iowa High School Book Award 2012. Short-listed for Young Reader's Choice Award (Senior/Grades 10-12) 2012 and Colorado Blue Spruce Award 2012.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781484707319Author Liz BraswellFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Disney HyperionPublisher Disney HyperionWeight(grams) 553gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 141mm...

Wrong place. Wrong time. A boy on the run. THE MARKET'S ON FIRE. FIRE! FIRE! THE BOY DID IT! Smoke belches out through the market entrance. And me? I turn and run. Inverness 1889. When 12-year-old Phin is accused of a terrible...

In this terrifying prequel novel to the New York Times bestselling Asylum series, a teen is wrongfully committed to the Brookline psychiatric hospital and must find a way out-before he becomes the next victim of the evil warden's experiments. With the...

Sawkill Girls meets The Hazel Wood in this lush and eerie debut, where the boundary between reality and nightmares is as thin as the veil between the living and the dead. If I could have a fiddle made of Daddy's bones, I'd play it. I'd learn all the...

Germany, 1945. Eighteen-year-old Zofia Lederman is alive, but not whole. Her body is just beginning to heal from the trauma of the Holocaust, her mind is broken, and her life is shattered. She knows that she will never see her beloved parents,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781728248042Author Kathryn FoxfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Sourcebooks FirePublisher Sourcebooks FireWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Becca's ability to hear the broken thoughts of others has not turned out to be a fabulous gift after all. It has got in the way of her being able to function in the world normally. More seriously, it makes her think she knows things that she doesn't...

In the dramatic conclusion to the bestselling Confessions series, Tandy Angel's next murder case could be her own! Tandy Angel is losing her mind - or so she thinks. Even as she's forced to fight for the family company, she's imagining new dangers in...

Whidbey Island is ablaze.Late summer on Whidbey Island after nine weeks of no rain and fire season has arrived . . . along with a fire starter who soon begins tormenting the residents of this peaceful Pacific Northwest idyll with fires that escalate in...

"The pages turn themselves in this sizzling debut. Wendy Cross is relentless!" Jennifer Lynn Alvarez, author of Friends Like These.Let the games begin.Every inhabitant in the Quadrant knows about The Pinnacle, a reality TV contest set on a remote planet...

Historical fiction meets crime fiction in The Djinn's Apple, an award-winning YA murder mystery set in the Abbasid period-the golden age of Baghdad. A ruthless murder. A magical herb. A mysterious manuscript. When Nardeen's home is stormed by angry...

Haunting, fast-paced sequel to the New York Times bestselling photo-illustrated novel ASYLUM. Perfect for fans of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Featuring real found photographs from vintage carnivals, SANCTUM is a...

The Breakfast Club meets The Usual Suspects in this riveting YA mystery told entirely through the first-person police interviews of four teens over the course of several hours that asks: what happened at Salvation Creek?An influencer, an over achiever, a...

Thrilling ghost-hunting teen mystery as modern-day London is plagued by a sudden outbreak of brutal murders that mimic the horrific crimes of Jack the Ripper. "A gorgeously written, chilling, atmospheric thriller. The streets of London have...

When Travis Delaney's parents die in a car crash, Travis is devastated. In a bid to pull himself out of his grief, he starts to look into the last case they were investigating at the private investigation agency they ran. What starts as a minor...

From the internationally bestselling author of Netflix's hottest new show, One of Us is Lying, comes a new, page-turning thriller . . .True crime can leave a false trail.Four years ago, Brynn left Saint Ambrose School following the shocking murder of her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739980405Author Graham WhitlockFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Grass Roots Productions LtdPublisher Grass Roots Productions LtdDimensions(mm) 216mm...

A fantastically smart, funny, and thoughtful thriller.' Nicola Yoon, #1 New York Times best-selling author of Everything, Everything and The Sun Is Also a Star . The year is 1998: Titanic just won six Oscars, boy bands are dominating MTV s airwaves,...

This thrilling novel from the author of the New York Times bestselling paranormal mystery Jackaby series pits R.F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplainable and his new assistant, Abigail Rook, against a supernatural serial killer. Newly arrived in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593643419Author Diana Rodriguez WallachFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Delacorte PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 442gDimensions(mm)...

Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, Helen Grant's first teen novel The Vanishing of Katharina Linden follows a misfit teenager as she attempts to unravel the mystery of several strange disappearances in the small town of Bad Munstereifel. The Vanishing...