Mystery & Detective

The year is 1143, and once again Brother Cadfael is forced to abandon the tranquility of his herb garden and use his knowledge of human nature to solve a murder- this time frighteningly close to home. When a newly ploughed field, recently given to the...

In the summer of 1143, William of Lythwood returns to Shrewsbury in a coffin... his pilgrimage at last at an end. William's young attendant, Elave, accompanies the body and sets about trying to secure a burial place on the grounds of the Abbey of Saint...

The perfect quirky nostalgic crime read - a tale of steam trains, giant squid, missing screenplays, missing mothers and a quest for the truth, from the inimitable Malcolm Pryce It's the winter of 1948. The four great railway companies have just been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613164587Author Ellery QueenFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penzler PublishersPublisher Penzler PublishersWeight(grams) 384gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Private Investigations is Quintin Jardine's twenty-sixth Bob Skinner mystery that sees the Edinburgh sleuth plunged into a gruelling new case in which no score will go unsettled. A thrilling mystery for fans of Ian Rankin and Peter Robinson.Former Chief...

Is a killer still on the loose? The thirtieth gritty mystery in Quintin Jardine's bestselling Bob Skinner series, not to be missed by readers of Ian Rankin and Peter May. Praise for Quintin Jardine's gripping novels: 'Well constructed, fast-paced,...

There is a secret hidden within a body, burning within the flames, that will change history forever.2014: In the French city of Orleans, a man's charred corpse is found in a burned-out hotel, stripped of all ID. Police captain Ines Picaut must hunt down...

'For fans of the hugely successful CWA Gold Dagger-winning The Dry by Jane Harper' Vaseem Khan'One of Sweden's most talented crime fiction authors' Erik Axl Sund**DON'T MISS DEEDS OF AUTUMN. AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW**You can always go home. But you can...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616958299Author Colin CotterillFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Soho Press IncPublisher Soho Press Inc

New revelations on a notorious local cold case raise ghosts of the past in the newest thriller from New York Times-bestselling author Ace Atkins.Twenty years ago, teenager Brandon Taylor walked into the Big Woods north of Tibbehah County, Mississippi,...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.' ...

'Gory, brutal, devastating, utterly addictive and yet so finely written. This deserves to be huge - and I think it will be. His best yet' Louise Beech They were the perfect family. It was the perfect crime. ...

Set in a Rome riven by religious and political conflicts, SHROUD FOR THE ARCHBISHOP is the second compelling novel in Peter Tremayne's gripping Celtic mystery series.PRAISE FOR THE SISTER FIDELMA SERIES: 'A compulsive readable whodunit fronted by one of...

Staffordshire in the 1950s. Within the clay tanks at the pottery company Shentall's, a body has been found. Amid cries of industrial espionage and sabotage of this leader of the pottery industry, there is a case of bitter murder to solve for Inspector...

An eclectic mix of crime stories written over half a century. From a tale of poison-pen letters tearing apart a village community to a macabre mystery by Arthur Conan Doyle, the stories collected here reveal the dark truths hidden in an assortment of...

Autumn 1921. The Peabody-Emerson clan are enjoying a fruitful period of excavation in Egypt. But when they hear the alarming tale of a man's mysterious death their digging turns to detecting. His widow is convinced her husband was the victim of a curse...

"Amazing. TORE through it!" Holly Seddon, bestselling author of Try Not To Breathe. If you enjoyed The Couple Next Door and Apple Tree Yard, you will LOVE this gripping psychological thriller.Heidi and Jason aren't like other couples. Six years ago,...

ONE ROOM. FIVE SUSPECTS. THREE HOURS TO FIND A KILLER.'An impressive debut' James Oswald**************GUESS WHO A waitress. A cleaner. An actress. A lawyer. A student. Everyone is a suspect.WHERE In a locked room - with no escape, and no idea how they...

The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller! Will Trent and Sara Linton are back! Don't miss the electrifying thriller featuring GBI investigator Will Trent and medical examiner Sara Linton from the international No.1 bestselling author Karin Slaughter. ...

Located by a computer in the bowels of a major university, this missing manuscript by Dr. John Watson, the biographer of Sherlock Holmes, reveals for the first time a hitherto unknown episode in the life of the Great Detective. The year is 1891, Paris is...

THE TOP FIVE IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER'Griptastic!' Liz NugentTwo decades of secrets. One shocking discovery...When a skull is found in Lough Coyne, facial reconstruction expert Dr Carla Steele is drawn into a fourteen-year-old case - but not all cases are...

The gripping twenty-fifth Ikmen mystery from award-winning crime writer Barbara Nadel will delight her many fans.Don't miss Ikmen and Suleyman in the sensational TV series The Turkish Detective When Ates Boecek, son of a feared Istanbul gang leader, is...

Phryne Fisher is back - as smart and sassy as ever.Phryne Fisher, her sister Beth and her faithful maid, Dot, decide that Luna Park is the place for an afternoon of fun and excitement with Phryne's two daughters, Ruth and Jane. But in the dusty dark...

Those who play with fire are going to get burned . . . Seven years ago Martin Chadwick set fire to a Manchester pub, not knowing a teenager was sleeping inside. Chadwick's release from prison is imminent, with journalists gearing up for a good...

'Absolutely MAGNIFICENT: dark, witty, charming. I LOVED it.' MARIAN KEYES'Original, terrifying, hilarious and memorable.' SUNDAY TIMES IRELAND 'An Agatha Christie-esque whodunnit, a dark supernatural mystery and an account of mass trauma...meticulously...

'Like a darker, grimier version of Mick Herron's Slough House novels, this is a highly promising debut.' Mail on Sunday'Mesmerising'. The Financial TimesA senior civil servant dies in suspicious circumstances. A sensitive file in his possession and...

A deadly pursuit through the English countryside from the acclaimed author of ROGUE MALE.After working as a double agent for the British in Nazi Germany during the war, Charles Dennim is now living a quiet, unassuming life in England. Until the postman...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316778503Author Carolyn ParkhurstFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

This is an intelligent thriller introducing a brilliant anti-heroine whose actions grip the reader right from the first page. Cilla is a 22-year-old contract killer, specialising in the dry job: a murder which is interpreted by the world as death by...

It is the run-up to Christmas when two seven-year-old boys are abducted from the streets of Glasgow. For DI Colin Anderson the case is especially disturbing, because the boys look so much like his own young son Peter.When a simple house fire turns into a...

Tragedy befalls the Carter family following an eventful visit from a Russian prince and a scandalous blackmail letter. The murder of Wally Carter generates a bewildering mystery - how does one shoot a man crossing a narrow bridge without being near the...

JOIN JUAN CABRILLO AND THE OREGON AS THEY GO UP AGAINST THEIR TWIN NEMESES IN THIS BLISTERING NOVEL FROM ADVENTURE KING, CLIVE CUSSLER'An all-out nonstop action thriller . . . the best one yet. The story hits the gas pedal and never taps the brakes'...

'Dripping with authenticity. Packed full of characters you genuinely care about . . . I didn't read the last few chapters, I devoured them. An absolute triumph' M. W. CRAVEN_____________________Most acts of violence are pretty random. But murdering...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999343385Author Emily OrganFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Emily OrganPublisher Emily OrganWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 10mm

Catch Me When I Fall is a chilling novel of murder, madness and a woman on the edge from the Top Ten bestselling author, Nicci FrenchYou're a whirlwind. A success. You're living life on the edge. But who'll catch you when you fall? Holly Krauss is a city...

'Vintage Simenon, a dark masterpiece . . . eerily prophetic' John Banville, Guardian'It's not because you're foreigners. It's because you aren't foreign enough . . . or else that you are too foreign'Just as the Krull house sits on the edge of a rural...

The compelling, gorgeously atmospheric tale of female friendship, redemption and betrayal, inspired by the incredible true story of female convicts at sea 'Beautifully written, an epic sea voyage with an intriguing murder mystery . . . an unputdownable...

SOME LESSONS CAN BE DEADLY . . . The unputdownable new thriller from the author of international sensation and Richard & Judy pick, MY LOVELY WIFE'Dark, sly and delicious . . . totally original - and totally compelling' JP DELANEY, bestselling author of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781448307722Author Michael JecksFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 305gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 139mm *...

George Mann's Newbury & Hobbes steampunk mystery series concludes in this thrilling final volume as our Victorian special agent heroes discover a grand plot to that threatens the state of the world. The time has finally come. Queen Victoria has...