Mystery & Detective

'His artistry is supreme' John Banville'Sullenly, he got dressed. Why, whenever he was woken on a winter night like this, did the coffee have a particular taste? The smell of the apartment was different...his pipe, too, had a different taste.'Set against...

January 1910. A journalist has been killed in a suspicious blaze. Everything points to a group of suffragettes, but the apparent culprit insists she is innocent. When Lady Hardcastle receives a letter from a suffragette requesting her urgent help, the...

Martin Vail, Chicago's most brilliant lawyer, has been set up by his enemies to defend a case he cannot win. Young Aaron Stampler was caught red-handed after a murder that had the city reeling. He looks bound to fry, but he swears he's innocent. In a...

A hot summer. A shocking murder. A town of secrets, waiting to explode...A beautiful young teacher has been murdered, her body found in the lake, strewn with red roses. Local policewoman Detective Sergeant Gemma Woodstock pushes to be assigned to the...

The Whole Truth by David Baldacci is a terrifying global thriller that delivers all the twists and turns, emotional drama, unforgettable characters and can't-put-it-down pacing that Baldacci fans expect - and still goes beyond anything he's written...

'The thing is, Detective... If you believe in God, you've got to believe in the Devil.'Deepest winter. Darkest Philadelphia.A murder shocks the frozen city - the most spectacular homicide in its 300-year-old history: an ex-cop has been lured to the...

The Tower, previously published as Post Mortem, is now a major ITV drama. 'Draws you in and doesn't let you go. A must read.' Rosamund Lupton She could not escape the horror of it: falling unstoppably, irretrievably until the hard concrete reaches up...

The fiery star of the company of players called Lord Westfield's Men, Laurence Firethorn, is hot for a lady, wife of the Lord Mayor elect. A tryst at London's Nine Giants Inn is arranged. Meanwhile, the lugubrious landlord of the actors' home base is...

THE SIXTH INSTALMENT IN THE HANNE WILHELMSEN SERIES. A high-profile murder brings Hanne back to the city she fled in the wake of heartbreak.When celebrity chef Brede Ziegler is discovered stabbed to death on the steps of the Olso police headquarters it...

The redoubtable Phryne Fisher is holidaying at Cave House, a Gothic mansion in the heart of Australia's Victorian mountain country. But the peaceful surroundings mask danger. Her host is receiving death threats, lethal traps are set without explanation,...

The sound of a scream in the early morning dawn leads to a case that will change Kate Burkholder's life irrevocably . . . When the police arrive at the Amish farmstead in Painters Mill they can't imagine the horror that awaits them. An entire family...

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THE MITFORDS AT WARIt's 1941, and the Mitford household is splintered by the vicissitudes of war. To bring the clan together - maybe for one last time - Deborah invites them to Chatsworth for Christmas, along with a selection of society's most impressive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312388867Author Sharyn McCrumbFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint GriffinPublisher GriffinWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 137mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804240472Author Sir Arthur Conan DoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint MX PublishingPublisher MX PublishingWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm) 297mm *...

Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018Haunting, gripping and gorgeously written, SEE WHAT I HAVE DONE by Sarah Schmidt is a re-imagining of the unsolved American true crime case of the Lizzie Borden murders, for fans of BURIAL RITES and MAKING...

A Voice in the Night is the twentieth compelling crime novel in the phenomenally successful Inspector Montalbano series by Andrea Camilleri. Feeling his age, as his birthday rolls round once again, Inspector Montalbano decides to cheer himself up by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913313432Author Leopold BorstinskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 618Imprint Sobriety PressPublisher Sobriety PressWeight(grams) 776gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

'Stunning' - Sunday Times Claire Askew won the Scottish Debut Crime Award with her debut All the Hidden Truths, praised as 'A meticulous and compelling novel' by Ian Rankin.'What if I told you,' he said, 'that I believe my mother's life to be in...

'Bask in the brilliance . . . Golden Age Amsterdam, Versailles, the court of Charles I - it's armchair travel with a unique companion' MAIL ON SUNDAYThe spellbinding and beautifully written story of courage and devotion, for fans of historical and...

In The Sicilian Method, Andrea Camilleri's twenty-sixth novel in the Inspector Montalbano mystery series, Montalbano finds his answers to a murder in a theatrical play.Mimi Augello is visiting his lover when the woman's husband unexpectedly returns to...

The famous detective returns in a thrilling anthology of 12 Sherlock short stories spanning Holmes's entire career, penned by Peter Swanson, Cara Black, James Lovegrove and more. A brand-new collection of twelve Sherlock Holmes short stories which...

In the last idyllic summer of 1914, the battle lines are already drawn. In Cambridge, the golden June days seem timeless. But for Joseph Reavley the summer is shattered by his parents' deaths in a car accident. Bringing the terrible news, his brother...

DON'T COUNT ON SEEING TOMORROW 'If you like your crime medicine strong, this will keep you gripped.' Mail on Sunday Dr Toby Harper's quiet night is disrupted when a severely ill man stumbles into ER. She suspects a viral brain infection. But shortly...

Her dream escape is about to become a nightmare... Kimberley King has spent the last five years trying to outrun the reason she left the police force. Her life is a mess and she's desperate for change. So when she is randomly selected for the new series...

'You don't volunteer for slugfests with vampires. It shortens your life expectancy.'And you don't fall in love with a werewolf. It interferes with your work. Especially when you're a preternatural expert, like me. My name is Anita Blake. My business...

A thrilling chase as Sherlock Holmes is set a fiendish puzzle by Irene Adler over a snowy London Christmas, in this stunningly packaged mystery. Sherlock Holmes's discovery of a mysterious musical score initiates a devious Christmas challenge set by...

The Winter Children is a haunting mystery from Lulu Taylor, author of The Snow Angel. Behind a selfless act of kindness lies dark intentions . . . After years of IVF, Olivia and Dan are blissfully happy at the arrival of their long dreamed-of twins. At...

When Sonja's son is kidnapped by her ruthless ex-husband, she's thrust back into the world of cocaine smuggling, but this time she's got a plan of her own... High-stakes jeopardy presides in book two of the dark and original, nail-bitingly fast-paced...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER_________________A RACIALLY CHARGED MURDER SPLITS A TOWN IN TWORuby Bozarth, a newcomer to Rosedale, Mississippi, is also fresh to the Mississippi Bar - and she faces an impossible task defending a college football star accused...

'An impenetrable mystery seems destined to hang for ever over this act of madness or despair.' Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.' In Carroll's sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice once again finds herself in a...

With a new Skane County Police commissioner wanting to make his mark in Malmo, the Criminal Investigation Squad is under pressure when they are called in to solve the killing of a private investigator. The nature of the victim's work throws up some...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616959494Author Colin CotterillFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Soho Press IncPublisher Soho Press Inc

Now airing as an original series on Amazon Prime. The first YA thriller from bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix show Fool Me Once, Harlan Coben brings us a shocking thriller about a grieving teenager obsessed by the disappearance of a...

When Cameron and Eleanor Sexton arrive home to find their teenage babysitter missing, their immediate concern is for their young daughter. Detective Sergeant Jessica Daniel is dispatched to find out what's going on, but with all apparently well, she...

Transferred to Naples after a tangle with the Sicilian Mafia, Detective Inspector Giuseppe Lojacono feels that he's marking time, waiting out an awkward scandal.But when the bloodied bodies of teenagers start appearing around the city, victims of a...

NOW AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER'A witty, fast-paced, and swoon-worthy mystery.' 5* reader review'Riveting from start to finish . . . definitely a must-read!' 5* reader review'Action packed and definitely eventful, I also found myself chuckling.' 5* reader...

'This was such a brilliant whodunit thriller that I didn't want to put down. I picked it up in the morning and by lunchtime I was finished.' NetGalley Reviewer, You can cover up the truth, but...

A young woman is forced to question everything she thought she knew, when a family tragedy leads to a series of startling revelations ... and dark secrets. A stunning and emotive psychological thriller from the bestselling author of The Cliff House and...