Mystery & Detective

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613164877Author John Dickson CarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penzler PublishersPublisher Penzler PublishersWeight(grams) 307gDimensions(mm)...

The Daughters of Cain is the eleventh novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series, featuring Inspector Morse.Bizarre and bewildering - that's what so many murder investigations in the past had proved to be . . . In this respect, at least, Lewis...

'Tremendously good' Observer'The most vivid and compelling portrait of late Victorian London since The Crimson Petal and the White' Sarah Perry'Part Wilkie Collins, part Conan Doyle' Guardian'Huge fun' Daily Mail'Has everything you could want in a novel'...

August Heat by Andrea Camilleri is the tenth installment in the Inspector Montalbano series, now adapted as a major BBC4 television series. The lazy, slow month of August at the height of the Sicilian summer is, Inspector Montalbano assures his...

The perfect Christmas crime thriller! Carmine & Greene return for a new festive mystery in 2023. Pre-order The Party Season now!'A cracking read. The perfect Christmas gift for crime fans' C. L. Taylor, author of The Lie'A quirky, cleverly plotted crime...

As IQ plugs a mysterious USB into his laptop, he's horrified to see what flashes across the screen: his girlfriend Grace is sweaty and bedraggled - her wrists wrapped with duct tape. Grace has been kidnapped by the likes of Skip Hanson, a brutish hitman...

In OSCAR WILDE AND THE MURDERS AT READING GAOL, the sixth in Gyles Brandreth's acclaimed Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries series featuring Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle, Reading Gaol's most famous prisoner is pitted against a ruthless and fiendishly...

The Saint and Patricia are looking forward to a relaxing holiday with friends in Miami - but when they arrive the house is empty and their friends gone. The plot thickens that evening when a tanker explodes off the coast and a dead British sailor washes...

The world's greatest detective faces one of the history's greatest monsters: the knife-wielding terror of Victorian London, Jack the Ripper Grotesque murders are being committed on the streets of Whitechapel. Sherlock Holmes believes they are the...

'Just the thing to chase the blues away' M. C. BeatonAll's fair in love . . . and antiques wars!Things are going well for Kat Stanford; not only is her antiques business thriving, she's also got a new date: Piers Carew, Viscount Chawley, who owns the...

It is 1925 and the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple, her husband Alec Fletcher and their recent twins move to a new, large house on the outskirts of London. Set in a small circle of houses with a communal garden, it seems like the idyllic setting - that is,...

Sherlock Holmes has just uncovered the truth about the theft of a priceless ruby. The wealthy Lady Damury staged the theft and tried to frame her husband - but just as Holmes reveals the truth, Lady Damury is found murdered. Holmes deduces that this is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847515377Author Chris NicksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 309gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 138mm *...

After battling for justice, at great personal risk, in his first recorded case, Sergeant Caleb Cluff made a swift return to duty in this book. The story opens one wet and windy night, with the discovery of a young woman's corpse, lying face down on the...

A #1 Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Amazon Charts bestseller. In the sixth thriller in the multimillion-copy bestselling series, Morgan Dane and PI Lance Kruger investigate the mysterious disappearance of a true-crime writer. When...

Winter, Witchcraft and Devilish Deceit. Faced with the austerities of a bitterly cold English winter, the theatre is deserted and Westfield's Men find themselves out of work. Fortuitously, the company is invited to perform at a country home in Essex;...

'A delightful book that combines the basic tug of the whodunit with the more elegant pleasures of the literary novel' Independent ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944520182Author Lou CameronFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Stark House PressPublisher Stark House PressWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 178mm *...

An Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling series. Detective Tracy Crosswhite draws a long-dormant serial killer out of hiding in a nerve-shattering novel by New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni. Tracy Crosswhite is reopening...

D is for Deadbeat is the fourth in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton.My name is Kinsey Millhone. I'm a private investigator . . . female, single and self-employed, with a constitutional inability to work for anyone else. I'm a purist when...

'One of Singapore's finest living authors' South China Morning Post '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'...

A man is burnt alive in a shed. No witnesses, no fingerprints - only a positive ID of the victim as an immigrant with a long list of enemies. Detectives Zigic and Ferreira are called in from the Hate Crimes Unit to track the killer, and are met with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955395076Author Elizabeth CraigFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Elizabeth Spann CraigPublisher Elizabeth Spann CraigWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060925482Author Batya GurFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

The daring dystopian satire that inspired one of the most notorious films ever made, beautifully reimagined as part of the Penguin Essentials series'Every generation should discover this book' Time Out ________________In this nightmare vision of youth in...

Prime Suspect meets Ashes to Ashes as we see Jane Tennison starting out on her police career . . .The fourth in the Sunday Times bestselling Jane Tennison thrillers, MURDER MILE is set at the height of the 'Winter of Discontent'. Can Jane Tennison...

THE NAIL-BITING, PULSE-RACING THRILLER FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR, NICCI FRENCH'Extraordinary. It carried me with it on the breathless ride' 5***** Reader Review'Had me totally hooked and kept me guessing until the end' 5***** Reader Review'Gripping,...

***Discover the half-a-million-copy-selling debut smash and prepare to hold... your... breath...***'Panic is an instant classic'Lee Child'A sleak, smart thriller. No question: Jeff Abbott is THE new name in suspense'Harlan CobenThings are going well for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781448306398Author Mike RipleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 375gDimensions(mm) 217mm * 140mm *...

Find out how far these divas will go to stay on top in the sexy thriller that inspired the BET show Games People Play. When entertainment writer Nia Bullock loses her job and her live-in boyfriend, she flees LA for Manhattan and a gig as...

When Houston reporter Lucy Resnick cashes in her retirement to buy her grandmother's farm in Buttercup, Texas, she's looking forward to a simple life as a homesteader. But Lucy has barely finished putting up her first batch of Killer Dewberry Jam when an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143128076Author M.L. LongworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 223g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Agatha Awards (Best First Novel) 2021.Book InformationISBN 9781639101009Author Raquel V. ReyesFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Crooked Lane...

A gripping new thriller from the master of crime... 'It's a winner, involving bent MPs, snatched heiresses, sex, drugs, and double dealing' Time Out In the 1980s, London is a melting pot of...

Super-sleuth Sister Fidelma faces personal danger as proceeds through the valley of the shadow in the stunning sixth historical mystery by Peter Tremayne. PRAISE FOR VALLEY OF THE SHADOW: 'Tremayne's discriminating sense of history distinguishing...

New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry's twenty-first heart-warming Christmas novella.When Mariah Ellison arrives in the picturesque village of St Helen's to spend the festive season with her old friend Sadie Alsop, she is shocked to discover that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for CrimeFest Last Laugh Award 2016.Book InformationISBN 9781780295572Author Simon BrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate...

Caroline Rose has a problem. She hears voices and the incessant tapping of typewriter keys, and she seems to be a character in a novel . . . A comedy of errors, a crime novel, a book about books, Spark's debut remains as otherworldly and mischievous as...

Quick Curtain is a witty detective story, originally published in 1934. It is one among many books that enjoyed brief popularity during the "Golden Age of murder" between the two world wars but subsequently fell out of sight. The author, Alan Melville,...

Twenty-four year old Lissette Delgado was beaten, raped, and then strangled with a towel. Marijuana is found in her apartment and her wardrobe is suspiciously beyond the means of a high school teacher. Lieutenant Conde is pressured by "the highest...