Mystery & Detective

The good people of Pickax are agog with anticipation. Not only is the new bookstore, The Pirate's Chest, about to open, but the Theatre Club is set to perform Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. The play does not continue past opening night,...

From the author of the 'great' (Dolly Alderton), 'terrific' (Zadie Smith) The New Me, comes a subversive, hilarious portrait of two colleagues, each more like the other than they would care to admit.'Wretchedly riveting' Jia Tolentino, New Yorker'Butler...

Beset on all sides, time is running out: to solve the case, and to save his future...Harry Probert-Lloyd has inherited the estate of Glanteifi and appointed his assistant John as under-steward. But his true vocation, to be coroner, is under threat...

The twenty-sixth book in the hugely popular Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus series from New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman A disappearance...When Bertram Lanz, a disabled man, goes missing from a local...

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA ENDEAVOUR HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD 2017* LONDON 1885 - A woman's body is discovered on Edgware Road. Ten miles away, her head is pulled from the dark muddy waters of the Thames. For two men, this event will push them to...

'A story to savour, complete with wonderful settings stretching from Paris to the glorious countryside of southern France' Dinah JefferiesA LOVEREADING BOOK OF THE YEAR from the bestselling author behind Channel 5's Carol Drinkwater's Secret...

Two trains Side by side for a brief moment In that moment, a murder Elspeth McGillicuddy is positive she witnessed a man strangling a woman to death. But it was only the merest glimpse through a carriage window...

Motherland meets Midsomer Murders in this fresh and funny mystery about a group of soon-to-be mums who turn detective when there's a murder at their antenatal class. 'Cosy crime at its finest!' JANICE HALLETT'A sharply witty debut' SIMON BRETT'The...

"Fans of medieval mysteries will revel in Starr's lively blending of intriguing suspense and telling historical detail." - Library Journal It is the autumn of 1367. Master Hugh is enjoying the peaceful life of Bampton, when a badly beaten man is found...

A powerful Matt Scudder novel about love and loss.Matthew Scudder is hired to find Paula Hoeldtke. Hot on the ice-cold trail of the missing girl, he finds it's a sleaze-and-terror playground in which he is looking for love in all the wrong places, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425231173Author Ann PurserFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

When her personal copy of the current Finance Act is found a few metres away from a body, young barrister Julia Larwood finds herself caught up in a complex fight against the Inland Revenue.Set to have a vacation away from her home life and the tax man,...

THE TIES THAT BIND is the fourth novel from Erin Kelly, the author of THE POISON TREE and HE SAID/SHE SAID. Gripping, twisty and compelling, it confirms her as a mistress of psychological suspense.Could a soul, once sold, truly be redeemed?'Full of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925559484Author Stephanie LaurensFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Savdek Management Pty LtdPublisher Savdek Management Pty LtdWeight(grams)...

Super-sleuth Phryne Fisher steps, like an elegant cat, through this, her eighth adventure In investigating the poisoning of a young man in a bookshop at the Eastern Market, and the wrongful arrest of one Miss Sylvia Lee, Phryne is plunged into a world of...

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He looked at his hands, covered with her blood, at the wild spatters of it on the walls. An artist, he mused. Maybe he should be an artist.Murder doesn't stop for Thanksgiving. As NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas and her billionaire husband Roarke prepare...

The Chosen Dead is the fifth gripping installment in Matthew Hall's twice CWA Gold Dagger nominated Coroner Jenny Cooper series, from the creator of BBC One's Keeping Faith. An unlikely suicide or a deadly conspiracy? When Bristol Coroner Jenny Cooper...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616963705Author Joe R. LansdaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Tachyon PublicationsPublisher Tachyon Publications

Fourteen years ago, the Palmer sisters - Emma, Juliette, and Daphne - left their home in Arden Hills and never returned. But when Emma discovers that she's pregnant and her husband loses his job, she has no option but to return to the house that she and...

The first in a vivid and charming crime series set in the Louisiana bayou, introducing the hilariously uncensored amateur sleuth Glory Broussard. Perfect for fans of Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club. *A New York Times Book Review Best Crime Novel of...

A frantic mother comes to SHERLOCK HOLMES, begging him to find her son, a navy officer who has not returned from the war in South Africa. He has been labeled a deserter, yet she is sure he would never abandon his men. Holmes and Watson begin their own...

The once-peaceful beach resort of Bushrangers Bay, not far from Melbourne, is the site of multiple crimes that must be investigated by Homicide Squad Inspector Hal Challis and Sergeant Ellen Destry of the Mornington Peninsula Police Force. A toddler is...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'It is with a heavy heart that I take up my pen to write these the last words in which I shall ever record the singular gifts by which my friend Mr...

Winner of the Rosenkrantz Award for Best Thriller of the YearFrom the bestselling, award-winning Swedish author Hakan Nesser, The Living and the Dead in Winsford is a gripping and deeply atmospheric psychological thriller set on Exmoor.There is nobody in...

'Just brilliant.' DONAL RYAN 'An exceptionally good book.' C. J. SANSOM1816 was the year without a summer. A rare climatic event has brought frost to July, and a lingering fog casts a pall over a Dublin stirred by zealotry and civil unrest, torn...

'LIKE ALIAS MEETS X-MEN . . . I LOVED IT!' Maria Lewis on The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t With Her MindFull of imagination, wit and random sh*t flying through the air, this insane new Frost Files adventure will blow your tiny mind.Teagan Frost's life is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781448308972Author Barbara HamblyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 325gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 137mm *...

___________________________________A gripping Temperance Brennan novel from the world-class forensic anthropologist and #1 bestselling author Kathy ReichsA newborn baby is found wedged in a vanity cabinet in a rundown apartment near Montreal. Dr...

'A beguiling heroine - clever sympathetic and bearing a weight of guilt . . . This is Andrea Carter's first book; she'll go far' The Times'Haunting, atmospheric and gripping. One of the finest Irish mystery debuts of recent years.' John Connolly, New...

The gritty new thriller from the Queen of Crime Drama and the fifth book in the Sunday Times bestselling Jane Tennison series.Jane Tennison has worked hard to become the first female detective ever post to the infamous Flying Squad, or 'the Sweeney'...

Never underestimate a librarian. Fifty-something Edinburgh librarian Shona is a proud former pupil of the Marcia Blaine School for Girls, but has a deep loathing for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, which she thinks gives her alma mater a bad name...

'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily TelegraphA baffling case. A mysterious inheritance.It starts when a man's arm is fished out of Paris's Canal Saint-Martin. Then the rest of the body is...

As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book at BedtimeIt doesn't look like murder in a city full of death. A pandemic called 'The Sweats' is sweeping the globe. London is a city in crisis. Hospitals begin to fill with the dead and dying, but Stevie Flint is convinced...

When Maude Slocum - beautiful, frightened and angry - comes to Lew Archer's office with a poison pen letter intended for her husband, he reluctantly agrees to help her. As he follows the Slocums around, Archer finds that Mrs Slocum might have the least...

The gripping new thriller from the No.1 Sunday Times bestseller Jeffery Deaver Twist left. Unique Investigator Colter Shaw is searching for the answer to his father's final, posthumous riddle. It will lead...

A crime novel meets a puzzle book in this spine-tingling escape thriller!This is the ultimate challenge for fans of fiendish puzzles, escape room games and mysterious crime thrillers. Answering each riddle correctly will lead you to the next page in the...

The Flight is the fourth thrilling installment in Matthew Hall's gripping, CWA Gold Dagger shortlisted Coroner Jenny Cooper series, from the creator of BBC One's Keeping Faith.A tragic accident or a terrible crime? When Flight 189 plunges into the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451219008Author Lee GoldbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 180g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780727850676Author Simon BrettFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 370gDimensions(mm) 200mm * 130mm * 25mm