Mystery & Detective

The killer is closing in... can she find him before he finds her? When Detective Nikki Parekh receives a set of threatening postcards, she knows it can only mean one thing... The man who escaped arrest after murdering...

'Humour and topicality along a cold enigmatic trail of murder' Observer Life is on the up for Patrick Aldermann: his Great Aunt Florence has collapsed into her rose bed leaving him Rosemont House with its splendid gardens. But when...

A spellbinding literary thriller about terror, war, greed, and the darkest secrets of the human soul, by the author of the million-copy bestseller, The Interpretation of Murder.September 16, 1920. Under a clear blue September sky, a quarter ton of...

A thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat from the first page to the last! A kidnapped boy...A young child is snatched in broad daylight outside his nursery. Nobody in charge sees a thing, but the other children say a woman is the...

Despite Lana's protests, Betty Lee signs her daughter up to attend a restaurant convention being held in sunny Irvine, California. To make matters worse, her sister, Anna May, invites herself along to escape the dating woes of her new relationship. Lana...

Don't miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+! NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLegendary Navajo policeman Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn takes center stage in this riveting atmospheric mystery from New York...

London, the 1880s, and Jack the Ripper is at large. Two childhood friends meet again having found very different fortunes in the fog-bound, Ripper-stalked streets of Victorian London. Plain but witty Dot is a music hall star; pretty Kate (Eddowes, a...

She can't see what she fears the most.As far as the police are concerned, Terence Bailey is a killer. Imprisoned for breaking and entering, he has long been the key suspect in the murders of six women but they have never been able to make the charges...

The master of the Victorian crime, New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry returns with the 23rd novel in the William Monk series, AN ECHO OF MURDER.London, 1870: The body of a Hungarian immigrant is found dead in what appears to be a ritualistic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901091670Author Roger RiccardFormat PaperbackPage Count 355Imprint Irregular Special PressPublisher Baker Street StudiosWeight(grams) 453gDimensions(mm)...

A young woman is brutally murdered and PIs Strange and Quinn are forced to confront their own part in the crime.Private Investigator Derek Strange and his partner, Terry Quinn, are running a PI business in the seedy underbelly of Washington DC are...

'An investigation consists of a mass of voices, the sort you can hear, and the sort you can't. You have to listen to the soundless voices, Malin. That's where the truth is hidden.' Early one morning in the coldest winter in Swedish memory, police...

At the start of this fourteenth adventure for Amelia, which continues the wartime theme begun in Lord of the Silent, it is New Year's Eve, 1917.Risking winter storms and German torpedoes, the Emersons are heading for Egypt once again: Amelia, Emerson,...

Rediscover Gladys Mitchell - one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers.When Rupert Sethleigh's body is found one morning, laid out in the village butcher shop but minus its head, the inhabitants...

A hanged man. A stolen painting. An impossible crime.A marine engineer is found hanged in a locked apartment. Some artwork is stolen, then mysteriously returned. And a security guard is found dead at the base of a Welsh cliff.When Fiona Griffiths is...

Winner of the Crime Fiction Lover Best Indie Crime Novel of 2022'A seriously fun read.' - Dervla McTiernan, author of The Murder Rule'Wickedly clever, highly original and thoroughly entertaining - I loved it!' - Chris Hammer, author of Scrublands'Sulari...

This beautiful hardback collection features the world's most famous detective in his most classic adventures. We begin with A Study in Scarlet, the novel that introduces the most famous characters in literature - Sherlock Holmes and Dr. watson. Then, in...

'Powerful' Harriet Tyce'Brave' Liz Nugent'Compulsive' John Marrs'Dazzling' Chris Whitaker'Fearless' Anna Mazzola'Masterful' Araminta Hall'Timely' TM LoganYou know what it's like. A comment here, a closed door there, turning a blind eye to get ahead.My...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955395182Author Elizabeth CraigFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Elizabeth Spann CraigPublisher Elizabeth Spann CraigWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm)...

The Darkest Day is the first novel in the five part Inspector Barbarotti series from renowned Swedish crime author Hakan Nesser.It's December in the quiet Swedish town of Kymlinge, and the Hermansson family are gathering to celebrate father Karl-Erik and...

Four charred bodies. One killer. A race against time...DI Joe Faraday is convalescing after a serious injury - but four deaths in a suspicious fire drag him back to work before he's truly fit. His partner, meanwhile, wants to adopt a child who was badly...

When the police are called to a building on New York's Upper East Side, Detective Mike Chapman and Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper respond quickly. A resident, Tina Barr, is alleged to have been assaulted, but she refuses to co-operate with their enquiries...

We are invisible: we clean your houses, we look after your children, we know your secrets... Corazon, Angel and Donita have all come to Singapore to work for a living. The thing that...

In all her novels, multi-million copy and SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author Ruth Rendell digs deep beneath the surface to investigate the secrets of the human psyche and The Girl Next Door is no exception. This compelling and captivating mystery, with its...

It's Christmas, and Phryne has an invitation to the Last Best party of 1928, a four-day extravaganza being held at Werribee Manor house and grounds by the Golden Twins, Isabella and Gerald Templar. She knew them in Paris, where they caused a sensation...

___________________________________A gripping Temperance Brennan novel from world-class forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs, the international no. 1 bestselling crime thriller writer and the inspiration behind the hit TV series Bones.When Dr Temperance...

'What an emotional, twisty, rollercoaster of a novel! It kept me guessing all the way through.' Alice Hunter, author of The Serial Killer's WifeSometimes the past is best left buriedSince the birth of baby Joe five weeks ago, Ali Baker has been...

Former police inspector Makana, in exile from his native Sudan, lives on a rickety Nile houseboat in Cairo, scratching out a living as a private investigator. When he receives a call from the notorious and powerful Saad Hanafi, he is thrust into a...

For Inspector Hunkeler the New Year begins with a most unwelcome phone call. He is summoned back to Basel from his holiday to unravel a gruesome killing in a gardening allotment on the city's outskirts. An old man known as Anton Fluckiger has been shot...

ONE TURKEY FARM, FIVE WILD COLLEAGUES AND A BARN FULL OF MYSTERY When jilted crime writer August Saunders returns from London to her roots in rural Wiltshire, she feels lost and lacking in inspiration. Determined to reignite her writing mojo, she...

Sunday Times bestseller Charlaine Harris returns at last to her fan favourite Aurora Teagarden series with a brand new mystery Librarian Aurora Teagarden is basking in the news of her pregnancy when disaster strikes her small town: four children,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496725998Author Traci HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

Tracy Crosswhite returns in the second book in the page-turning series by New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni. Homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite has returned to the police force after the sensational retrial of her sister's killer. Still...

'For fans of classic hard-boiled whodunits, this is a time machine back to an exuberant era of snappy patter, stakeouts, and double-crosses' LA Times 'Kingpin among the mystery writers' New York TimesMuriell Gilman left her father at the breakfast table...

Intrigue and scandal threaten to rock the monarchy in wartime Britain... Windsor, 1943. Britain is in the grip of war and treachery is afoot. The body of controversial former courtier Lord Blackwater is found in the abandoned Fort Belvedere, once the...

When a chance encounter makes him a witness to the abduction of a child, private detective Lew Archer can't help but be drawn into the case, pursuing a trail that leads all too quickly to murder. While forest fires rage in the hills around Los Angeles,...

CIA agent Bill Hefflin is back in Bucharest- immersed in a cauldron of spies and crooked politiciansThe CIA is rocked to its core when a KGB defector divulges that there is a KGB mole inside the Agency. They learn that the mole' s...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912550401Author Claire SheldonFormat PaperbackImprint Ruby FictionPublisher Choc Lit Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425224465Author John SandfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

Who said nothing ever happens in the French countryside?Picardie, 1964. On a deserted country road, three Moroccan nationals are shot dead with precision, a cold-blooded execution, one bullet each. To Inspector Lucas Rocco, it's a mystery. Why them and...