Mystery & Detective

Grand Central Station, New York City, 11 pm.Gunshots and explosions fill the air, and suddenly you - and everyone else - are running for your lives.You stumble across a dead man slumped against an open locker containing a bag full of diamonds.What do...

Three Debts Paid is the fifth gripping instalment in an exciting new generation of Pitt novels from the pen of highly acclaimed crime writer and New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry.It is February 1912 when barrister Daniel Pitt is reunited with...

From Daniel Kraus, the New York Times bestselling co-author of Academy Award-winning Best Picture The Shape of Water, comes Blood Sugar, the blood-curdling story of a Halloween where trick-or-treat becomes life or death... "A hard kick in the shins...

If you're looking for a gripping new crime series, you'll love Aline Templeton. Featuring DI Marjory Fleming - 'Big Marge' - and set in Galloway. If you enjoy novels by Ann Cleeves, Faith Martin, Val McDermid and LJ Ross, try Dead in the Water.'The crime...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911021797Author Joy EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Joffe BooksPublisher Joffe BooksWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 19mm

It is the end of October, the city of Basel is grey and wet. It could be December. It is just after midnight when Police Inspector Peter Hunkeler, on his way home and slightly worse for wear, spots old man Hardy sitting on a bench under a street light...

Book Two of the Inspector Frank Stave Investigations, a German detective trilogy set in post-WWII Hamburg. More than 150,000 copies sold.Hamburg, 1948It is a year of extremes. After a bitterly cold winter of starvation, the bombed city groans under...

A remote island. An isolated community. A terrible secret.If the new District Sheriff, Tristan Haraldsen, thought moving to a remote village on the island of Vagar would be the chance for a peaceful life with his wife Elsebeth, his first few weeks in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781837940653Author Barbara GreigFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Vanguard PressPublisher Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941531822Author Nic PizzolattoFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Dzanc BooksPublisher Dzanc Books

Everyone is afraid. But some fears can kill you... A gripping new thriller featuring a brilliantly complex psychologist, Dr Jessie Flynn, who struggles with a dark past. Perfect for fans of Nicci French and Val...

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THE FIRST IN THE MILLION-SELLING DCI EWERT GRENS SERIES, WINNER OF THE GLASS KEY 2005 FOR BEST SCANDINAVIAN CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR, AND AS HARD-HITTING A CRIME NOVEL AS YOU WILL EVER READ.'A must read' ObserverBernt Lund harbours a sickness. He is a...

Inspector Witherspoon has never come up against a case which he couldn't solve . . . with the help of his housekeeper, Mrs. Jeffries. But now he's confronted with a bewlidering murder. It seems as though the victim has cheated his stockholders out of a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999343347Author Emily OrganFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Emily OrganPublisher Emily OrganWeight(grams) 318g

One of Travel + Leisure's most anticipated books of summer 2020. From the Washington Post and Amazon Charts bestselling author of When We Believed in Mermaids comes a story of four generations of women grappling with family betrayals and long-buried...

'With its trademark mix of brutality and poetry, Swan Peak is a brilliant piece of work from an American master.' ObserverAfter the devastating events recounted in THE TIN ROOF BLOWDOWN, Dave Robicheaux and his ex-partner in Homicide, Clete Purcel, head...

THE STUNNING FINAL INSTALMENT OF THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING DARK ICELAND SERIES'A world-class crime writer' Sunday Times'Ragnar Jonasson writes with a chilling, poetic beauty' Peter James 'Ragnar does claustrophobia beautifully' Ann Cleeves When the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947533632Author J. M. GregsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Breese Books LtdPublisher Breese Books LtdWeight(grams) 139g

Banned from the Valley of the Kings, Amelia Peabody and her distinguished husband have returned to England with their 19-year-old son Ramses and their foster daughter, Nefret. Ramses is secretly in love with Nefret and plans to flee to Germany to avoid...

The latest atmospheric mystery from the author of the Richard and the Judy Book Club choice, The House on Half Moon Street. 'Exceptional - you hear and smell and taste Victorian London' Sarah Hilary The headlines scream warnings about the 'Butcher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395843673Author John UpdikeFormat PaperbackPage Count 835Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 960g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947533984Author John HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Breese Books LtdPublisher Breese Books LtdWeight(grams) 141g

Guardian Crime Book of the Month WINNER OF THE CRIMEFEST LAST LAUGH AWARD _______________ 'A giddy spell of sheer delight' Daily Mail 'Ingenious ' Sunday Times Crime Club Brighton, 1957. Inspector Steine rather enjoys his life as a policeman by...

The novels that inspired Rebecka Martinsson: Arctic Murders - the major TV series "Rebecka Martinsson: the new Scandi-noir heroine to rival Saga Noren and Sarah Lund" iNews "In a television world now awash in female coppers, there aren't many as...

SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SERIES PRODUCED BY SNOOP DOGG'The best new discovery I've come across in a long time' Michael Connelly 'Writing so sharp you may cut your fingers on the pages' Attica Locke'The best thing to happen to mystery writing in a very long...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398409958Author David TetlowFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

The second a child disappears, the clock starts ticking.When the son of a controversial local politician goes missing at election time, Detective Elisenda Domenech is put on the case. They simply must solve it. Only the team also have to deal with a...

A movie star A deadly cocktail A murder When glamorous Marina Gregg came to live in St Mary Mead, tongues were sure to wag. But, with a local gossip's sudden death, has one tongue wagged a bit too much? ...

It's a thin line between love and murder... A tense new thriller, perfect for fans of Clare Mackintosh, Cara Hunter and Lisa Jewell A murder that shocks a city... Shots ring out on...

USA Today bestselling author of The Girl Who Lied and Sister Sister Dear Carys, Zoe and Andrea Come and join me for my fortieth birthday adventure weekend, full...

In Egypt, Nuri, a teenage boy, falls in love with Mona - the woman his father will marry. Consumed with longing, Nuri wants to get his father out of the way - to take his place in Mona's heart. But when his father disappears, Nuri regrets what he wished...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593184011Author Fiona DavisFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847515902Author Glenis WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 284gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 138mm *...

'Brian McGilloway blends timeless values with ripped-from-the-headlines issues to produce some of the very best crime fiction being written today' Lee ChildA young man is found in a riverside park, his head bashed in with a rock. The only clue to his...

Would you kill, to save a life? DCC Bob Skinner faces a life-changing dilemma...'If we are right about this, the stakes are higher than anything I've ever faced.' Gangsters have infiltrated Edinburgh. MI5 are on their case and, unknown to Deputy Chief...

The death of a young Pakistani bride in Glasgow gets Rosie Gilmour's antennae twitching. She is sure this tragic accident was anything but - but she is not prepared for where her investigation will take her...Rosie has her hands full navigating the...

An atmospheric new Fry and Cooper thriller for fans of Peter Robinson and Reginald Hill. On a rain-swept Derbyshire moor, hounds from the local foxhunt find the body of a well-dressed man whose head has been crushed. Yet an anonymous caller...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997017526Author S C SterlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint No Bueno! PublishingPublisher No Bueno! PublishingWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm)...

Death descends on the New Forest in Ann Granger's gripping eighth Victorian mystery featuring Scotland Yard's Inspector Ben Ross and his wife Lizzie.It is Spring 1871 when Lizzie Ross accompanies her formidable Aunt Parry on a restorative trip to the...