Mystery & Detective

'A true master of British crime writing' RICHARD OSMAN 'The brilliant Savernake is a fascinatingly enigmatic character.' WASHINGTON POST A superb Golden Age mystery packed with twists, from the winner of the Diamond Dagger 2020 LONDON, 1930 The...

This classic country house mystery, first published in 1933, contrasts the splendours and frivolities of the English upper classes with the sombre overhang of the First World War and the irresistible complications of deadly familial relationships.Book...

Sunday Times bestselling author Simon Kernick, the UK's answer to Harlan Coben, brings us this spine-tingling, compelling and captivating thriller that you won't be able to put down. Real edge-of-your-seat stuff!'The pace is breakneck, the plot twists...

*The Missing File has now been adapted for television in a new series called The Calling out in November 2022*A sixteen-year-old boy is missing in a Tel Aviv suburb. His mother is worried. Inspector Avraham Avraham is not. It is unheard of for children...

An ISIS-style beheading of a journalist, carried out by a New York City group pledging fealty to that rogue state, becomes more than just another case for NYPD Captain Nikki Heat when the killers announce their next target: her husband, magazine writer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780296586Author Tarquin HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 325gDimensions(mm) 220mm * 140mm *...

The Disappeared is the second thrilling instalment in Matthew Hall's gripping, CWA Gold Dagger shortlisted Coroner Jenny Cooper series, from the creator of BBC One's Keeping Faith.Two missing students. One sinister cover-up. Two young British students,...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The movements of his mind seemed to tend to the thought that some power was working against him.' When Henchard, an out-of-work hay-trusser gets...

'One of British crime's most assured craftsmen . . . perfect entertainment' GuardianOnce again, the plumbing at Tawcester Towers is causing consternation for the Dowager Duchess, so - unusually for her - she gives her blessing for Blotto to take part in...

When Niccolo Rosselli, the driven, charismatic leader of a Florentine political movement, collapses at a rally, his young party immediately comes under threat. And when it emerges that his long time partner, Flavia, has disappeared, leaving behind not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593437858Author Rhys BowenFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

'A timely, powerful and gorgeously readable novel that represents everything that is good and important about the crime fiction genre' Irish Times1978: The National Front is gaining ground in Hackney. To counter their influence, anti-fascist groups...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496735652Author Maddie DayFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Kensington CoziesPublisher Kensington PublishingWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 170mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593548707Author Sofie KellyFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Its France, 1761. Beyond the glittering court of Louis XV and Madame de Pompadour at Versailles, lies Paris, a capital in the grip of crime and immorality ...A police officer disappears and Nicolas Le Floch, a young recruit to the force, is instructed to...

London, 1940. Winston Churchill has just been sworn in, war rages across the Channel, and the threat of a Blitz looms larger by the day. But none of this deters Maggie Hope. She graduated at the top of her college class and possesses all the skills...

'Animal lovers will delight' Ann Granger'A real treat . . . I loved it. Cats, dogs, murder and a credible and relatable heroine' Barbara Nadel'This debut promises to build up into a popular series' Daily MailClarice Beech has two passions in life:...

The book that began Ian Rankin's phenomenal career.From the No.1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES'The themes that would come to dominate the Rebus books are already here ... the blurred boundaries between good and evil; the pull of...

Every full moon a Ripper runs amok on the streets of Brentford. Masters Simon and Keith Innes set out to catch the killer under the disturbing guidance of the repellently delightful and now immortal sleuth, Mrs Bradley. Full of the very British eccentric...

'Fierce and touching' Jennifer Saint, bestselling author of Ariadne'Haunting, thrilling, wonderful. I loved it' Stacey Halls'Your next obsession. . . Unique and captivating' Cosmopolitan Discover the extraordinary, luminous novel that everyone is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993237263Author Ann SwinfenFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Shakenoak PressPublisher Shakenoak Press

Dr. Watson was the chronicler of every Sherlock Holmes adventure published in The Strand magazine between 1887 and 1927. He reported them with honesty in the bluff, army-style of a military doctor, so frank in their account of human behaviour that they...

A must-read for fans of Clare Mackintosh and Paula Hawkins.'Sophie Hannah is genuinely Christie's heir' The Scotsman'Hugely entertaining, full of uncomfortable truths' London Evening StandardWhat if having a best friend was the most dangerous thing you...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451234568Author Jessica FletcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

'A haunting, gripping, deeply atmospheric novel' - Emma Stonex 'What a storyteller . . . masterful' - Donal Ryan 'Beautiful, compelling and exquisitely told. This story will haunt me' - Ruth Hogan 'To be savoured long after the last page' - Leonora...

A Swedish crime writer as thrilling as Mankell, a detective as compelling as Wallander . . . Chief Inspector Van Veeteren delves into a dark family mystery in the sixth book in Hakan Nesser's Van Veeteren series, The Unlucky Lottery. Four friends...

It is winter 1139 and the tranquil life in the monastery gardens in Shrewsbury is again interrupted by violence. Raging civil war has sent refugees fleeing north from Worcester. Among them are two orphans from a noble family, a boy of thirteen and an...

Sister Fidelma follows a trail that is as suspenseful as it is tortuous in the riveting third novel in Peter Tremayne's unputdownable series. PRAISE FOR THE SISTER FIDELMA SERIES: 'Tremayne's super-sleuth is a vibrant creation' Morgan Llywelyn, 'A...

5 October 1982. It's been one of the worst days of Detective Sergeant Jack Frost's life. He has buried his wife Mary, and must now endure the wake, attended by all of Denton's finest. All, that is, apart from DC Sue Clark, who spends the night pursuing a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916006188Author Jay GillFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Jay Gill BooksPublisher Jay Gill BooksWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 11mm

Jacob Meaney makes so little money as a translator that his girlfriend has given up on him. Then Eloise, an Australian digital marketer, appears out of the blue, offering him unheard of sums for a couple of weeks' work.A private plane and helicopter take...

Mallory Book 6: the sixth NYPD detective Kathy Mallory novel from New York Times bestseller Carol O'Connell, master of knife-edge suspense and intricate plotting.Detective Kathy Mallory. New York's darkest. You only underestimate her once.A street kid...

Agatha Christie's most famous murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947533731Author Roy TemplemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Breese Books LtdPublisher Breese Books LtdWeight(grams) 139g

'A hugely promising debut' Irish Independent 'Gripping and pacy' Steve Cavanagh, Sunday Times bestselling author of Fifty Fifty 'They're dead. They're all dead...

First...there was the last quarry. Then...there was the first quarry. Now...look who's caught in the middle. The enigmatic hitman Quarry - star of seven celebrated novels and an award-winning feature film ("The Last Lullaby") - is back in this violent,...

'Mel Starr has done it again with another brilliant Sir Hugh de Singleton medieval mystery to keep readers guessing until the very end. [.] I was there at the Queen's College, dining on pottage, getting soaked in the rain in fourteenth-century Oxford -...

'Real escapism...for me the book was an absolute win' A gorgeous Greek island A stranger in a veil And a fatal fall from the cliffs... Miss Atalanta Ashford is sightseeing near...

Another classic crime novel featuring Cornwall's Superintendent Wycliffe.The girl was young, with auburn hair arranged on the pillow. Wycliffe could almost believe she was asleep - that is, until he saw her face. She had been strangled, and someone had...

FIRST RUNNER-UP OF THE INAUGURAL 2019 CWIP PRIZE'Original' Clare Mackintosh'James Bond should retire now . . . puts the sass in assassin as it's never been done before' L. S. Hilton***Killing Eve meets Stephanie Meyer's The Chemist in this 'unique' (Heat...