Mystery & Detective

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...

THE STUNNING NEW SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BETRAYALS AND THE GOOD GIRL'No one writes about modern family with more truth or authenticity than Fiona Neill' LISA JEWELL'A stunning, almost hypnotic read that pulls you under...

Three of Ellroy's most compelling novels featuring Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins in one volume. Blood On The Moon: 20 random killings of women are unconnected in police files. But Det. Sgt. Lloyd Hopkins sees a pattern. As he is drawn to the murderer,...

'Twisty, suspenseful and deeply atmospheric.' Harriet Tyce 'An electrifying crime thriller.' Woman's Own The bigger the sin, the further the fall... With Easter approaching, the verger of St Albans Cathedral was supposed to be readying the church...

Northumberland, 1809: A beautiful young heiress disappears from her locked bedchamber at Linn Hagh. The local constables are baffled and the townsfolk cry 'witchcraft.' The heiress's uncle summons help from Detective Lavender and his assistant,...

The first book in the Darkwar series, from world-wide bestselling author of Magician, Raymond E. Feist. The Conclave of Shadows, the undercover organisation charged with the protection of Midkemia, have problems: the evil magician Leso Varen...

'One of the great psychological novelists of this century' IndependentThey ran into cloud cover as they approached the French coast and flew up above it. Through a break in the clouds a little later, Maigret caught a lucky glimpse of the sea, sparkling...

'Jill Paton Walsh has created a Miss Marple for the 21st century' - Mirror'A jewel in the traditional English detective mode . . . Ms. Morse has arrived' - ObserverAnother foolhardy Cambridge college night climber has died attempting Harding's Folly...

Stephen Whalby loves to walk the moor. It is a dark and forbidding place, but it is his.When the body of a young blonde woman is found there, her face horrifically disfigured, the victim of a merciless murderer, his beloved moor is tainted with suspicion...

Polish off your magnifying glass and step into the shoes of your favourite detectives as you unlock tantalising clues and solve intricate puzzles. There are over 100 criminally teasing challenges to be scrutinised, including word searches, anagrams,...

'Layers of secrets are gradually peeled back in this brilliantly absorbing tale.' Marion Todd, author of Old Bones LieDarkness lies at the heart of this family...In 1959 Milly starts her new life as a housemaid at Rutherford House, working for the...

THE THIRD TOM REYNOLDS MYSTERY FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE PERFECT LIEAs he scanned the glade, his stomach lurched. One, two, three, four. Five, counting the mound of earth disturbed under the tent. Somebody had cleared the earth...

The gripping new high-concept thriller from the author of The Genesis Secret, perfect for fans of Dan Brown and Sam Bourne. In America a young man inherits a million dollars, from a grandfather he thought was poor. Meanwhile, across Europe old...

'A riveting murder mystery. A psychological thriller. A magnificent work of literary fiction' KIRAN DESAI 'An elegy for India. It is gorgeously written, utterly devastating, and feels completely true' SONIA FALEIRO A literary thriller of...

What's a lie among friends? It's murder-in this riveting thriller by Viveca Sten, bestselling author of Tonight You're Dead... It's Midsummer's Eve, the celebration of the longest day of the year, and on Sandhamn it's the longest party of the year...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804243015Author M J H SimmondsFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint MX PublishingPublisher MX PublishingWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062073716Author Agatha ChristieFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 277g

'It was a night that would be long remembered. The Florence police would come to call it a night of horror, the start of a new nightmare ...' After enduring years at the mercy of an infamous serial killer, the people of Florence rejoice at news of his...

NO ORDINARY PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER - THIS WILL KEEP YOU UP ALL NIGHT'Scandi-noir at its powerful bleakest.' Daily Mail'Deserves to be called a page-turner - I read it in one sitting!' Cecilia Ekback, bestselling author of Wolf Winter For fans of Jo Nesbo...

Something doesn't add up about Archie and Pye... After a disastrous day at work, disillusioned junior PR executive Tom Winscombe finds himself sharing a train carriage and a dodgy Merlot with George Burgess, biographer of the Vavasor twins,...

With so many potential victims to choose from, there would be many deaths. He was spoiled for choice, really, but he was determined to take his time and select his targets carefully. Only by controlling his feelings could he maintain his success. He...

'Serial killers turn up all the time in crime fiction, but few are as patient or as devious as the murderer in Zhou Haohui's Death Notice. This extraordinary novel is the first in a trilogy, and it is already China's bestselling crime series to date'...

The latest book in the Sunday Times bestselling phenomenon that is the Inspector McLean series, from one of Scotland's most celebrated crime writers.The charred remains of an elderly woman are discovered in a burned out gamekeepers cottage, hidden away...

The year is 1869. A brutal triple murder in a remote community in the Scottish Highlands leads to the arrest of a young man by the name of Roderick Macrae. A memoir written by the accused makes it clear that he is guilty, but it falls to the country's...

THE SECOND INSTALMENT IN THE HANNE WILHELMSEN SERIESThe detective hunts down a serial rapist - but can she find him before a father devastated by an attack on his daughter takes the law into his own hands?The Oslo police are baffled. Crime scenes are...

V is for Vengeance is the twenty-second in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton. Las Vegas, 1986. A young college graduate is murdered when he is unable to pay back a loan funded by notorious criminal Lorenzo Dante. Two years later private...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780727850478Author Chris NicksonFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 410gDimensions(mm) 222mm * 145mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901091854Author Roger RiccardFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Irregular Special PressPublisher Baker Street StudiosWeight(grams) 360g

Canine conspiracies, spurned lovers, murderous greed, jealousy, politics, power and knitting: Pelagia and the White Bulldog marks the beginning of an addictively entertaining new crime series from the internationally bestselling author, Boris Akunin.In...

LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER'Simply glorious. Every nook and cranny of 1930s Singapore is brought richly to life' CATRIONA MCPHERSON 'Charming' RHYS BOWEN'One of the most likeable heroines in modern literature' SCOTSMAN _________Mirza, a...

'A five-star read that's intelligent, accomplished and exciting. I dare you to put it down.' Janice Hallett, author of The Appeal The dark, atmospheric, feminist offspring of Squid Game, The Hunting Party and Misery A book deal to die for. Five...

The perfect classic crime story to cosy up with this winter as Amateur sleuth Mrs Bradley investigates a puzzling Christmas mystery.'The equal of Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie' IndependentIt is December and Mrs Bradley has left London behind for...

For him, death was a vocation. He was a maestro in the art of death. The keeper of time. The bringer of destiny.Lieutenant Eve Dallas is as tough as New York cops come. But on discovering the tortured body of a young woman, Eve is catapulted back to nine...

'For the most part, the dead man received public sympathy. A decent, hardworking chap, with not an enemy anywhere. People were surprised that anybody should want to kill Jim.' But Jim has been drowned in the Dumb River, near Ely, miles from his Yorkshire...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593639412Author Anna Lee HuberFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

*NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING TOM HANKS AND FELICITY JONES*Florence: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon awakes in a hospital bed with no recollection of where he is or how he got there. Nor can he explain the origin of the macabre object that is found...