Mystery & Detective

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780727850409Author Mike RipleyFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 405gDimensions(mm) 225mm * 140mm * 20mm

GONE TOMORROW: Inspector Bill Slider is called to cope with a disfigured corpse grotesquely left in a children's playground. His enquiries plunge him into the shadow world behind the fashionable facade of Shepherd's Bush, among the victims of the Welfare...

From the author of Thirteen Hours - A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pickWhy would a mathematics professor from Cambridge University, renting a holiday home outside Cape Town, require a false identity and three bodyguards?...

**AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW**'A killer read with twist after twist.'JANICE HALLETT'So many great twists and a truly chilling villain . Swanson's best one yet.' MARK EDWARDS'A clever, ingenious, edge-of-your-seat thriller.' LIV CONSTANTINE 'The stakes...

James Bond meets The Thomas Crown Affair in a spellbinding tale of international intrigue and suspense. Tom Kirk. The world's greatest art thief. Jennifer Browne. An FBI agent desperate for a second chance. Cassius. The...

Jenny is 18 when her guardian is killed and her wealthy relations the Forbes invite her to stay. Consoled by the affectionate attentions of their little girls and the charming elder son, she starts to find her feet again. Then she overhears a private...

Parker, the ruthless antihero of Richard Stark's eponymous mystery novels, is one of the most unforgettable characters in hardboiled noir. Lauded by critics for his taut realism, unapologetic amorality, and razor-sharp prose style - and adored by fans...

Running late to the Hinkler gala performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore, she meets some thugs in a dark alley and handles them convincingly before they can ruin her silver dress. Phryne then finds that she has rescued a gorgeous Chinese man, Lin...

A chilling new case for Thora Gudmundsdottir, from Iceland's answer to Stieg Larsson.When all contact is lost with two Icelanders working in a harsh and sparsely populated area on the northeast coast of Greenland, Thora is hired to investigate. Is there...

'Excellent' THE TIMES'Crais's thrilling narrative oozes suspense. There are twists to keep you guessing' OBSERVERTwo minutes can be a lifetime. But break the two minute rule and it's a lifetime in jail. Ask anyone on the wrong side of the law about the...

'Loved it, loved it, loved it. This book has such a powerful storyline, you could really imagine it being real.' NetGalley Reviewer, THREE MURDERS. ONE MISSING BOY. THE GAME IS JUST BEGINNING... ...

A hunt for a stolen painting turns into a murder investigation for Spenser, Robert B. Parker's legendary private eye.Private Detective Spenser is on his easiest job yet. Art professor Ashton Prince has hired him to help recover a stolen painting. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553386295Author Rex StoutFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 209mm *...

'Stunning' Simon Mayo Radio 2 Book Club'A twist-filled page-turner' CloserThree-year-old Dillon vanished in the middle of the night. His father Harry can't forgive himself for not protecting his only child. Yet Harry isn't blamed by his wife Robin: she...

A classic crime novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, 'The King of Detective Story Writers', featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television. The new Sir Geoffrey Buller is earning his living in Chicago when he...

Gore Vidal was one of America's greatest and most controversial writers. The author of twenty-three novels, five plays, three memoirs, numerous screenplays and short stories, and well over two hundred essays, he received the National Book Award in 1993...

'. . . a novel brilliantly evoking the isolation of a woman with an unbearable weight on her conscience' Sunday TimesWhere do your loyalties lie? With the truth or with your colleagues?Drinking outside a canal-side bar on a perfect summer's evening,...

Nobody knows Bangkok like Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, and there is no one quite like Sonchai: a police officer who has kept his Buddhist soul intact-more or less-despite the fact that his job shoves him face-to-face with some of the...

He gazes at the bodies. Young men, probably in their early thirties. The wooden flooring around them has been stained dark red. He wonders what kind of monster could have done this.And why.As a murder detective in the Met Police, D.I. Matthew Denning is...

From the author of The Angel's Mark, a CWA Dagger longlisted novel and a Walter Scott Prize Academy Recommended Read 2019'S.W. Perry's ingeniously plotted novels have become my favourite historical crime series.' S. G. MacLean, author of The Seeker...

TO LOVE, HONOUR, AND BETRAY...'One of our finest thriller writers.' Daily Mail1936: Devastated by the death of her beloved brother Hugh, Emma seeks to keep his memory alive by wholeheartedly embracing his dreams of a communist revolution. But when she...

'The crime book of the year is unquestionably James Lee Burke's HEARTWOOD . . .there is no better crime writing coming out of America' EVENING STANDARDDeaf Smith, Texas, a small town with small town problems until the local boy made good Earl Deitrich...

What happens when you mix the brilliant wit of Noel Coward with the intricate plotting of Agatha Christie? Set during a weekend in an English country manor in 1932, Death by Design is a delightful and mysterious "mash-up" of two of the greatest English...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307278999Author Ross MacdonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Potter StylePublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 203gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593449387Author Christoffer CarlssonFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

An atmospheric and gripping mystery from Lady Antonia Fraser's Jemima Shore series.How well do we ever know our friends? When Jemima Shore offers to flat-sit for her friend Chloe, the last thing she is expecting is threatening anonymous phone calls on...

The prize-winning author of Edinburgh Twilight returns to the darkening shadows of nineteenth-century Scotland to track a killer on a profane mission of revenge. A wicked Scottish winter has just begun when pioneering female physician Sophia Jex-Blake...

'Superior crime fiction set in Iceland' The Times'As chilling as an Icelandic winter' S. J. BoltonReykjavik detective Gunnhildur Gisladottir tries not to believe in ghosts. But when Helgi, one of her team is certain he's seen a man who had been declared...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250834256Author Lev Ac RosenFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 212mm *...

Summer in the Lincolnshire Wolds and Clarice is rung by her friend Louise, asking whether she can look after Susie, her son's lively Boxer, as 41-year-old Guy has gone missing from the family home. His mother thinks he has been suffering from depression...

Brutal murders linked to an ancient betrayal send late 17th-century Tokyo into a panic. They also spell big trouble for the Shogun's special investigator, Sano Ichiro, in this sequel to Rowland's first novel, Shinju. The killings are made known when the...

New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry's eighteenth enthralling Christmas novella. When Celia Hooper discovers that her dear friend Clementine is to marry widower Seth Marlowe - a man with a sinister past - she calls upon her husband, Detective...

Two solar eclipses. Two missing girls. Sixteen years ago a little girl was abducted during the darkness of a solar eclipse while her older sister Cassie was supposed to be watching her. She was never seen again. When a local girl goes missing just...

Newly married to his childhood sweetheart and happily settled in Glasgow, private enquiry agent Oz Blackstone is looking for a touch of the unexpected in his life. And when he's introduced to the seven-foot, granite-muscled figure of Everett Davis,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780727890740Author Peter SteinerFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 370gDimensions(mm) 225mm * 145mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Agatha Awards (Historical) 2015.Book InformationISBN 9780804178709Author Susan Elia MacNealFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307740731Author Ross MacdonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Scottish Highlands, 1958Britain is awash in Cold War anxiety as Mirabelle Bevan heads for the Highlands on a holiday to visit Superintendent Alan McGregor's family. More glamorous than she expected, the Robertsons welcome her with open arms and an array...

Inspired by a true unsolved crime, Frog Music is a gripping historical novel by Emma Donoghue, author of the multi-million-copy bestseller Room.San Francisco, 1876: a stifling heat wave and smallpox epidemic have engulfed the City.Deep in the streets of...

A family reunion and medieval-style murder? Ever so inconvenient.Cosily ensconced in his eighteenth-century Cambridgeshire manor, bestselling mystery writer Sir Adrian Beauclerk-Fisk delights in tormenting his four grown children with threats of...