Mystery & Detective

White Suicide is initially set in the anni di piombo (the years of lead), the twenty years of Italian terrorism, and begins with the kidnap, and subsequent murder, of Aldo Moro in 1978, one of Italy's, and the Cold War's, visionary leaders.About the...

DCI Steve Burt is drawn into the sleazy underbelly of London - gentlemen's clubs and all - while tracking down a serial killer who is murdering young women and dumping their bodies soon afterwards. Then the body of an American professor is found floating...

On the dark streets of Mumbai, the paths of a missing dancer, a serial killer, and an inspector with a haunted past converge in an evocative thriller about lost love and murderous obsession. After years of dancing in Mumbai's bars, Tara Mondal was...

The Pyramid of Mud is the twenty-second Inspector Montalbano mystery from Italy's finest crime writer, Andrea Camilleri.It's been raining for days in Vigata, and the persistent downpours have led to violent floods overtaking the Inspector's beloved...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781448312108Author Jeffrey SigerFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 415gDimensions(mm) 223mm * 148mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425236031Author Miranda JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

A Wall Street Journal bestseller. For nearly thirty years a serial killer has been hiding in plain sight. So has the key to an FBI agent's dark past. A family is murdered as they sleep. FBI Special Agent Nina Guerrera and her new team are tasked...

Amazon reviewers love The Scarlet Code!'A rollicking good tale''Thoroughly enjoyable, highly recommend''Exciting, swashbuckling adventure''Everything you could want from an adventure thriller: excitement, a fabulously endearing heroine and pirate to fall...

A timeless classic of modern-day piracy from the acclaimed master of action and suspense. Aboard the SS Campari, all is not well. For Johnny Carter, the Chief Officer, the voyage has already begun badly; but it's only when the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802129338Author Chris OffuttFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Black CatPublisher Black Cat

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398813663Author Maurice LeblancImprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

From the author of The Red Notebook, described as 'Parisian perfection' by HRH The Duchess of Cornwall, The Readers' Room is a thrilling murder mystery set in the world of publishing. 'The plot blends mystery with comedy to great effect'- Daily Mail ...

A missing couple. A lurking killer. A perfect storm.Forensic psychologist Paula Maguire returns to solve a dark and dangerous case on a small Irish island in the taut and terrifying BLOOD TIDE, the fifth novel in Claire McGowan's acclaimed series. The...

'Dark, gripping and believable' GRAHAM MASTERTON. Are you looking for an addictive serial killer thriller with a dark twist? EVERY NIGHT, A FAMILY DIES... While a blizzard rages through the streets of Liverpool, a family are slaughtered in their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062659132Author Alex GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617732263Author Joanne FlukeFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

From the Master of Horror, James Herbert's Others, private investigator Nicholas Dismas is hired to track down a missing baby stolen away at birth, he finds himself immersed in a grim underworld of lies and deceit. His investigations ultimately lead him...

We thought we'd seen the last of Easy Rawlins at the end of BLONDE FAITH. But it takes more than an oncoming car to stop LA's finest PI.As Easy wakes from his coma, the last thing he needs is an investigation. But a friend's son is in trouble and old...

In fear for his life, American millionaire Daniel Cartwright changes his will, appointing his old friend Rowland Sinclair as his executor. Soon murder proves that fear well founded. When Rowland receives word of Cartwright's death, he sets out...

A cold case. A recent discovery. A very real threat...Amongst the ruins of the old Beaumont mansion lies a terrible secret. In the cellar are three graves - but only two skeletons. They belong to Holly and Poppy Duval who disappeared 20 years ago. But...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet is the literary debut of the world's most famous fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, introduced by Iain Sinclair with notes by Ed Glinert in Penguin Classics.Convalescing in London after a disastrous...

Locked-room mysteries and other impossible crime stories have been relished by puzzle-lovers ever since the invention of detective fiction. Fiendishly intricate cases were particularly well suited to the cerebral type of detective story that became so...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312341459Author Ken BruenFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Minotaur BooksPublisher Minotaur BooksWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 212mm * 141mm * 16mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786810083Author Angela MarsonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint BookouturePublisher Bookouture

Ross Henderson was an influential vlogger rallying against the growing tide of the far right. As his audience tuned in to Henderson's latest live broadcast, they had front-row seats to his savage murder. Alongside this volatile case, Detective...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060777104Author Michael ChabonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 199mm *...

Figure out whodunnit in this exciting new 1930s crime series that whisks you away to the most gorgeous escapist destinations! A beautiful French estate A wedding A murder ...

Kaite Welsh's thrilling medical mystery THE UNQUIET HEART is the second in the gothic Sarah Gilchrist series, following a medical student turned detective in Victorian Edinburgh. For readers of Natasha Pulley's THE WATCHMAKER OF FILIGREE STREET or...

On a secret island in the Caribbean, bioengineers have devised a vacation resort like no other, promising the ultimate escape. But when Dr. Roger Clark investigates, he discovers the dark secret of Eden Island and of Advance Biosystems, the shadowy...

Murder comes to Madingley Grange as a game goes horribly wrong. When a failed entrepreneur is temporarily left in charge of his aunt's huge gothic home, he knows he must be able to make a profit from it somehow. Murder, he decides, is the only way to do...

Barney Thomson is a restless soul in search of a quiet town in which to settle. He thinks he might just have found it in Millport on the Isle of Cumbrae and life can at last bring him some peace. Or, at least, it might have done, but for the dead body at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781447479161Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read BooksWeight(grams) 364gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 16mm

The sixth instalment of the popular Birder Murder series A trail of a murder leads Domenic Jejeune across a vast continent... Newly estranged from his girlfriend, Lindy Hey, Inspector Domenic Jejeune returns to Southern Ontario, where he receives...

Roderick Alleyn is back in this unique crime novel begun by Ngaio Marsh during the Second World War and now completed by Stella Duffy in a way that has delighted reviewers and critics alike. Shortlisted for the CWA Historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911021490Author Michael HamblingFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Joffe BooksPublisher Joffe BooksWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143126133Author Keith McCaffertyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins'In one moment, every drop of blood in my body was brought to a stop ... There, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth ... stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed...

'The great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller' - Stephen KingA dark, psychological thriller, first published in 1957 as The Executioners and filmed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro.'A master storyteller, a masterful suspense...

A Swedish crime writer as thrilling as Mankell, a detective as compelling as Wallander . . . Hakan Nesser's astonishingly successful Van Veeteren series continues with the eighth book, The Weeping Girl.Winnie Maas died because she changed her mind . . ...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AND CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF SPARE ROOM, GANGLAND GIRLS TRLIOGY and the FLESH AND BLOOD SERIESDreda Say Mitchell was awarded an MBE in Her Majesty The Queen's 2020 New Year's Honours List 'Dreda Say Mitchell has been flying the...