Mystery & Detective

*NOMINATED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD*Family Album 'a hugely enjoyable read' from Booker Prize winner Penelope Lively'This novel should delight her regular readers and ensnare new ones' Evening StandardAllersmead is a big shabby Victorian suburban house...

Max Tudor has adapted well to his post as vicar of St Edwold's in the idyllic village of Nether Monkslip. The quiet village seems the perfect home for Max, who has fled a harrowing past as an MI5 agent. Now he has sound a measure of peace among urban...

"If you're missing your Murderbot fix, Emergent Properties is a worthy successor."-Sarah Pinsker Emergent Properties is the touching adventure of an intrepid A.I. reporter hot on the heels of brewing corporate warfare from Nebula Award-nominated...

To the innocent visitor the picturesque village of Greenings would appear to be a haven of tranquility. But every place has its secrets and beneath the calm surface lurk hidden resentments and dangerous passions. When a man is found lying face down in a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780298252Author Candace RobbFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

DI Blackwell will do anything to keep her niece safe. And the bomber knows it. When a local school is the target of a bomb threat, DI Louise Blackwell finds herself embroiled in her most personal case to date. Not only is her niece among the terrified...

WHEN THE FAIR COMES TO TOWN, A KILLER'S GAME BEGINS...'One hell of a ride' - THE TIMES'Revelatory' - VAL MCDERMID'A must-read' - JANICE HALLETT'A genuine triumph' - IAN MOORE'What more could a reader ask for?' - JOHN CONNOLLY'A thrilling helter-skelter'...

THE TOP TEN BESTSELLER __________________________You were obsessed with his case. You fought for his freedom. He was acquitted. You married him. But now you're wondering if he's so innocent after all. __________________________ As recommended by MY...

Jan Fabel returns to the Hamburg murder squad to track down a horrifying killer... From the pen of prizewinning and bestselling author Craig Russell comes this darkly compelling and horribly prescient thriller full of spine-tingling moments and...

'A class above' IAN RANKIN. Forty years ago, in the dark of the playground, two children's lives were changed for ever. The case of six-year-old Sarah Ferris, killed in an empty playground, haunted Hammersmith police for decades. Not just because...

Two backcountry skiers find the body of a young woman embedded in the ice of a remote mountain creek. All through the night police work with arc lights and chainsaws to prise her out. Identifying her doesn't take so long. Abbie Cooper is wanted for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912592746Author David PennyFormat PaperbackPage Count 486Imprint River Tree PrintPublisher River Tree PrintWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

In this #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller, Tracy Crosswhite must first identify the victim to catch the killer. When a woman's body is discovered submerged in a crab pot in the chilly waters of Puget Sound, Detective Tracy Crosswhite finds herself...

They thought it was a simple flight home. The pilot had other plans... A moment of calmHeading home after a conference, the senior leadership of a global corporation relax on their private jet ahead of their Christmas break. A flash...

THE FIRST IN THE INCREDIBLE MERRILY WATKINS SERIESMerrily Watkins: late thirties, single mum, parish priest. Cosy? I don't think so...The new vicar had never wanted a picture-postcard parish - or a huge and haunted vicarage. Nor had she wanted to walk...

From the bestselling author of BEHIND HER EYES. 'Few writers blend mystery and the supernatural as well as Sarah Pinborough, but there are none who do it better. Quite, quite brilliant' John Connolly Dr Thomas Bond is back, but this time the trial of...

This brand new edition of the first novel to feature the officer and gentleman detective Colonel Wickham Gore includes the first ever reprint of the only Colonel Gore novella, Too Much Imagination. Colonel Gore is reunited with old friends at...

FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'Deadly conspiracies, bone-crunching action and a tormented hero with a heart . . . packs a real punch' Andy McDermott A BRUTAL MURDER.A SCIENTIST ON THE RUN.A PLOT TO KILL...

BASED ON THE LONG-RUNNING BBC RADIO 4 McLEVY DRAMA SERIES...WHILE THE STREETS OF LONDON HAD SHERLOCK HOLMES, THE DARK ALLEYS OF EDINBURGH HAD INSPECTOR JAMES McLEVYELEGANT AND CONVINCING' The Times | 'ASHTON IS THE DIRECT HEIR TO ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON'...

WHEN THE VOICES CALL, DON'T ANSWER... In the wake of his parents' tragic deaths fourteen-year-old Richard Elauved has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote town of Ballantyne, where all is not as it seems. Richard quickly earns a...

Now a major film starring Oscar-winner Ben Affleck and Golden Globe-nominee Ana de Armas.'If you read crime stories at all or perhaps especially if you don't, you should read Deep Water'SUNDAY TIMES'If I really don't like somebody, I kill him . . . You...

The Murder Wall is Mari Hannah’s first gripping crime novel featuring DCI Kate Daniels.Eleven months after discovering a brutal double murder in a sleepy Northumbrian town, Detective Chief Inspector Kate Daniels is still haunted by her failure to solve...

'Beautifully written' S. A. Cosby Sometimes to find yourself, you have to go back to where you came from. You just might not like what you find. After failing in his new life, Luke decides to go home, back to the one place where he'd once felt he...

London is being haunted by a serial killer who is beginning to evolve. Victims are left at iconic city landmarks and in the garden squares of the east end. They are carefully displayed with a pear in one hand and their heart in the other. The streets of...

The nineteenth chronicle in the Matthew Bartholomew series.In the summer of 1358 Matthew Bartholomew finds himself one of a party of Bishop's Commissioners, sent north to investigate the mysterious disappearance of the Abbot of Peterborough. He and his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780762448104Author Maxim JakubowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Running Press,U.S.Publisher Running PressWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm) 197mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648348924Author Dionne ListerFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Dionne ListerPublisher Dionne ListerWeight(grams) 152g

Four men were due to fly to Dublin. When disaster struck and the plane went down over the Irish sea, only three of them were on board. With the identities of the flyers scattered to the winds, the police turn to the patchy account of the Wade family,...

Elena Weaver, in her skimpy dresses and bright jewellery, exuded intelligence and sexuality. A student at St Stephen's College, Cambridge, she lived a life of casual but intense physical and emotional relationships, with scores to settle and targets to...

Actress Norma Rice is found dead on a train, and the letters REX are scrawled in red chalk on her compartment window. It is the third death to occur in a mysterious string of murders and Scotland Yard are compelled to send once again for Paul Temple. ...

First things first, stay calm.Eric Sanderson wakes up in a place he doesn't recognise, unable to remember who he is. All he has left are journal entries recalling Clio, a perfect love now gone. As he begins to piece his memories back together, Eric finds...

Transport yourself to mid-century New York in this compelling and evocative story of secrets, jealousy and hidden love'BOOK OF THE MONTH' WOMAN & HOME'DAZZLING DEBUT' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING'SUPERLATIVE' RED'SO VIVIDLY EVOKED' CLARE CHAMBERS, AUTHOR OF SMALL...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of American Library Association Notable Books 2010.Book InformationISBN 9780345476036Author Dan ChaonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House IncPublisher...

New York homicide cop Eve Dallas is plunged into a terrifying nightmare, where her past and the present are about to collide.Eve Dallas was just a rookie cop when her instincts led her to the apartment of Isaac McQueen, a murderer and paedophile, who was...

'Fans of Martina Cole will love this' Katerina Diamond A gripping new series from million-copy bestseller Mel Sherratt. TICK... In the city of Stoke, a teenage girl is...

A woman in danger. A killer with ice in his veins.Cleary, North Carolina, is a sleepy mountain town - the kind of place where criminal activity is usually limited to parking violations.Until now. Four women have disappeared in two years. A blue ribbon...

NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING RACHEL WEISZ AND SAM CLAFIN 'Du Maurier is a storyteller whose sole aim is to bewitch and beguile' NEW YORK TIMES'Du Maurier has no equal' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH' . . . one of her best novels, ingeniously contrived as to plot,...

In his deadliest case yet, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace faces a complex kidnapping in Dead If You Don't, by award winning crime writer Peter James.Kipp Brown, successful businessman and compulsive gambler, is having the worst run of luck and is...

A Financial Times Translated Fiction Book of the YearTranslated from the Japanese by Louise Heal Kawai Minoru Aose is an architect whose greatest achievement is to have designed the Yoshino house, a prizewinning and much discussed private residence built...

'Beautifully crafted by Sansom, Professor Morley promises to become a little gem of English crime writing; sample him now' Daily Mail October 1937. Swanton Morley, the People's Professor, sets off to Essex to continue his history of England,...