Mystery & Detective

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780297811Author Mike RipleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 355gDimensions(mm) 217mm * 140mm *...

* THE ELEVENTH NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING MODESTY BLAISE SERIES * 'The finest escapist thrillers ever written' THE TIMES 'Before Buffy, before Charlie's Angels, before Purdy and Emma Peel, there was Modesty Blaise' OBSERVER Modesty Blaise is about...

It is 1894, and the news of a Transylvanian nobleman's death at the hands of a certain Professor Van Helsing is the talk of London. Unsatisfied at the acquittal of the professor, Mycroft Holmes asks Sherlock to investigate what truly led to the deaths of...

Olivier Norek: Former police officer, writer on SPIRAL and a million-copy bestseller"The greatest exponent of the policier at work today" Mark Sanderson, The Times"Exhilarating . . . This is not conventional crime" Barry Forshaw, FTWhen a routine...

Sister Fidelma is thrown into a sinister mystery full of intrigue, danger and violence in Peter Tremayne's fourth Celtic mystery.PRAISE FOR THE SISTER FIDELMA SERIES: 'Definitely an Ellis Peters competitor' Evening Standard, 'This is masterly...

Completely captivating, this is a spine-tingling page-turner of a mystery from multi-million copy and SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author Ruth Rendell. Perfect for fans of PD James, Ann Cleeves and Donna Leon. 'The most brilliant mystery novelist' --...

Los Angeles - Fritz Brown, ex-alcoholic private eye with a stained past, makes do with car repossessions and classical music. Then he is offered a case by Freddy 'Fat Dog' Baker, an eccentric golf caddy whose sister has made off with a much older man...

This fast-paced, pulse-pounding thriller from multi-million copy and SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author Ruth Rendell is perfect for fans of PD James, Ann Cleeves and Donna Leon. With its climax of stunning unexpectedness, you'll be gripped to the very last...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451477378Author Donald BainFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

The marriage between the Duke of Marlborough and 17-year-old Consuelo Vanderbilt, the American railroad heiress, was the talk of two nations when it occurred in 1895. By 1903, the Duchess had produced the requisite heir-and-a-spare, and the Duke had...

Karen and I on the sofa, Karen and I in the back seat of the BMW, Karen and I at the river, up the alley, down the garden, round the corner, in the pub. Our movements are furtive, frantic and compulsive. Our pleasures are brief and incomplete. Our...

From USA Today bestselling author Debra Webb comes another heart-pounding thriller featuring investigator Finley O'Sullivan, this time taking on a cold case that could uncover new dangers. Legal investigator Finley O'Sullivan has dealt with her share...

'ONE OF THE BEST THRILLER WRITERS WORKING TODAY' LEE CHILDA MISSING GIRL. AN ICE COLD KILLER. It's been eleven years since Claire Flynn disappeared - abducted without a trace from a snowy hillside. Investigator Darby McCormick remembers the case. She...

Mankind's greatest mystery lies in wait...Civil war rages in Ethiopia. A priest waits to die in a parched prison cell; he has not seen daylight for four decades. But then a mortar shell hits the compound, and the prisoner and his secret are free. Two...

The first in the Nick Stefanos trilogy from one of the acclaimed writers of THE WIRE.Advertising director Nick Stefanos is well acquainted with the seedy side of the electronics business - blow-out sales and shady deals were his life on the shop floor...

The fourth book in the ingenious Thursday Next series, from Number One bestselling author Jasper Fforde.'Don't ask, just read it. Fforde is a true original' - Sunday Express on Lost in a Good BookThursday Next, Head of JurisFiction and ex-SpecOps agent,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780295428Author Simon BrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 138mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425241608Author Emily BrightwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

It's no ordinary summer for DCC Bob Skinner, as murder mystery leaps from the page into reality in the nineteenth volume of Quintin Jardine's outstanding cop series. It's August and the Edinburgh International Book Festival is in full swing. So it's a...

Irish immigrant Molly Murphy is contemplating giving up PI work for something a little less...exciting. Molly has had quite enough excitement recently, thank you very much. Especially from the handsome but deceptive NYPD captain Daniel Sullivan. She...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061561320Author Alafair BurkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

When Judge Larocca is the subject of corruption allegations, Guerrieri goes against his better instincts and takes the case. After all they had been at school and university together. Helped by Annapaola Doria, a motorbike-riding bisexual private...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912916511Author Peter MorfootFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo PublishersWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

From the No. 1 bestseller and author of Richard & Judy pick The Savage Garden: an atmospheric world war two crime thriller for fans of Carlos Ruiz Zafon and Jed Rubenfeld "You want to know who I am? I'm the last living soul you'll ever set...

Shortly after a fractious weekend away with her family, Gaelle wakes up injured in a psychiatric hospital in Berlin. Her seven-year-old son is in a coma in another hospital - and the police suspect her of attempting to murder him. With no memory of what...

Jim Qwilleran and his sleuthing Siamese companions, Koko and Yum Yum, up sticks from their converted apple-barn home for the snowy winter months and move into the old Gage mansion. The house belongs to Junior Goodwinter's grandma, Euphonia, and is full...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812986723Author James A. MichenerFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint Dial Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681377605Author Jean-Patrick ManchetteFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

London, 1943. Across the city prominent figures in science and the military are bursting into flame and being incinerated. Convinced that the Germans have deployed a new terror weapon, a desperate government turns to the one man who can track down the...

'I was hooked from the start and finished this book in 1 day. I couldn't read it fast enough. It was a whirlwind with plenty of suspense, secrets and betrayal.' NetGalley reviewer, How far would you go to protect your...

When small-time gambler and petty crook Steinie Taylor turns up dead in a hopper of flour at a country bakery, Gently has to figure out not only how he got there, but also why his prime suspects all appear to have dark secrets to hide. Why had the...

Nothing much ever seemed to happen in the sleepy village of Hazel Green apart from the occasional tea-party, spiced with local gossip. Until Maggie Bell went out one evening for a breath of fresh air and never came back.Could Maggie's disappearance be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496711793Author Cheryl HollonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

An action-packed bookish adventure, The Lost Plot is the fourth title in Genevieve Cogman's witty and wonderful The Invisible Library series.A covert mission.A royal demand.And a race against time.In a 1920s-esque America, Prohibition is in force,...

The killer is a little too close to home...Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum must make a devil's bargain to get the help she needs in Seven Up, the seventh laugh out loud adventure in the Stephanie Plum series. The perfect read for fans of Sue Grafton and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847514929Author Cora HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 303gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 138mm *...

The morning after a gruelling psychotherapy session in a Warsaw monastery, Henryk Telak is found dead, a roasting spit stuck in one eye. The case lands on the desk of State Prosecutor Teodor Szacki. World-weary, suffering from bureaucratic exhaustion and...

The chilling and heart-pounding new novel from Norwegian superstar Jorn Lier HorstINSPIRATION FOR THE HIT BBC FOUR SHOW WISTING'Up there with the best of the Nordic crime writers' THE TIMESA killer caught. A murder sentence served. But did they arrest...

High-concept adventure thriller set in Egypt and Cornwall. What connects a lost hoard of ancient religious texts with a revival in satanic rituals? Perfect for fans of Wilbur Smith. AN ANCIENT SECRET When a renowned historian is...