Mystery & Detective

Who could be after a harmless old lady?Amateur sleuth Fran Varady takes it upon herself to investigate an old love affair and a family quarrel in Rattling the Bones, the seventh and final mystery in the popular Fran Varady series by Ann Granger. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250031310Author Claude IznerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Minotaur BooksPublisher Minotaur BooksWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm *...

KATE SHUGAK is a native Aleut working as a private investigator in Alaska. She's 5 foot 1 inch tall, carries a scar that runs from ear to ear across her throat and owns a half-wolf, half-husky dog named Mutt. Resourceful, strong-willed, defiant, Kate is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916152427Author Fran SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Hog Fen PublishingPublisher Hog Fen PublishingWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

In dark, wintry Lochdubh, Christmas Cheer is about as welcome as a flat tyre on a deserted road. The Calvinist element in town has always resisted what they view as secular frivolity, so for most of the townsfolk there'll be no carols, feasting, gifts -...

When a woman is stabbed to death while jogging in Malmo's main park, the Criminal Investigation Squad need to discover who she is before the case can properly get under way. Soon they realise the victim had flown in from Switzerland, and with links to...

Prize-winning crime author Steve Hamilton's hugely commercial mainstream breakout tells the extraordinary story of a safe-cracker trying to unlock the key to his past.Michael hit the headlines once before, a seven-year-old kid the papers called The...

The Baker Street Classics Sherlock Holmes collection is a retro-inspired full set of Conan Doyle's wonderful tales of the inimitable "consulting detective" at work. Featuring original illustrations from editions of the 1920s, this collection will adorn...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496724472Author Carlene O'ConnorFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

A Jane Austen heroine murdered. A literary villain turned hero. And an investigator between it all.The year is 1814 when Fanny Price is found murdered in Mansfield Park. Once a rich heiress who was spoiled, condescending, and generally hated throughout...

Some games can be deadly'So dark and so clever -- a thrilling puzzle for the reader to solve. I loved it' Lucy Foley'Kiernan's best yet. You'll be gripped from the minute you open The Murder Box . . .' Cara Hunter'A real page-turner with an ingenious...

THE THRILLING SEQUEL TO TEXAS RANGER Rory Yates of the Texas Rangers doesn't seek out hero status, but it's unavoidable once his girlfriend, country singer Willow Dawes, writes a song about his bravery. Rory escapes his new-found fame when he's sent to...

KATE SHUGAK is a native Aleut working as a private investigator in Alaska. She's 5 foot 1 inch tall, carries a scar that runs from ear to ear across her throat and owns half-wolf, half-husky dog named Mutt. Resourceful, strong-willed, defiant, Kate is...

An unforgettable heroine. An unforgivable past. For fans of Child 44, The Lives of Others and Stasi Child, The Cleaner is a gripping thriller that will chill and intrigue as the sins of the past catch up with the secrets of the present. Pools of...

One glorious summer's afternoon, Karen Slocombe is visited by her cousin Penn, who unexpectedly asks for husband Drew's help in tracking down a missing relative, Justine. But why has Penn come to him, and why is she reluctant to get the police involved? ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981688305Author Ben F EllerFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint PearlStone PublishingPublisher PearlStone PublishingWeight(grams) 140g

New York's famed female detective duo, Pentecost and Parker, are back in their fourth audacious adventure. Perfect for fans of The Thursday Murder Club, The Marvellous Mrs. Maisel, Agatha Christie and M. C. Beaton.When Vera Bodine, an elderly recluse...

Psychic cat Irene Peggledrip is being visited by a band of malevolent spirits who all claim to be murderers. Not only is their message disturbing, but they cause chaos with indoor snowstorms, flying books and the untimely demise of a delicious Victoria...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593197059Author C. S. HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Lucy is on assignment. A wild, reclusive writer awaits her. She wants his life story. He wants her everything. A whirlwind romance takes them to the highs and lows of Deia. But beneath them lie the bodies of a generation and as Lucy unearths the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780446572583Author Graham MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint TwelvePublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm *...

'Scottish crime-writing at its finest, with a healthy dose of plot twists and turns, bodies and plenty of brutality' SunThe gritty new mystery in Quintin Jardine's bestselling Bob Skinner series, set in Edinburgh and the Scottish countryside; not to be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399576607Author C. J. BoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint G P Putnam's SonsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 176gDimensions(mm) 191mm *...

"Gripping . . . everything he writes is thrilling" Literary Review"Hits the ground running and never lets up . . . Slick, sick and not for the faint-hearted . . . It will make you cry out (for more)" - Mark Sanderson, The Times on The Lost and the...

Terrorists strike at the heart of the Edinburgh Festival in Quintin Jardine's fantastic second novel in the highly popular Bob Skinner series.An explosion rocks Princes Street in the midst of the Edinburgh Festival. Responsibility is claimed by a group...

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A missing teenage girl should be an easy job for Dominic Queste - after all, finding lost souls is what he does best. But wouldn't it be better sometimes if lost souls just stayed that way? Jenny Deavers is trouble. She's being hunted, and for the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496732545Author Andrea PenroseFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

Murder is rarely cut and dried. Usually it follows its own unique, twisted logic... Deputy Chief Constable Bob Skinner has a failed marriage on his hands, and a death on his conscience. He faces the biggest challenge of his career within the secret...

***A MAIL ON SUNDAY '100 HOTTEST BOOKS OF SUMMER 2019'*** 'Had me turning the pages well into the night' Harlan Coben 'Extraordinary' Sunday Times 'Breathtakingly good' Daily Mail 'Stylish... More please!' The TimesWELCOME TO A SCHOOL REUNION YOU WON'T...

Not every woman can collect her dethroned lovers and their wives into one room. But then Claribel was not 'every woman'. Things happened at her parties and so one swallowed the latest baits and joined all the other poor fish. But having given her party,...

THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERTwo young girls. Two unspeakable crimes. Fifty years separate them - their pain connects them. When the body of a 15-year-old is found in a remote countryside lane, beaten and broken, DI Annie Cabbot is brought in...

'Wonderful . . . razor-sharp' LA Times Al Rosen was doing just fine, hiding out in Israel - until he decided to play Good Samaritan and rescue some elderly tourists from a hotel fire. Now his picture's been published in the press, and the guys he's been...

"It's like having a new Brian De Palma picture." - Martin Scorsese, Academy Award-winning director FROM THE DIRECTOR OF SCARFACE AND DRESSED TO KILL -- A FEMALE REVENGE STORY When the beautiful young videographer offered to join his campaign,...

The discovery of a dead body shatters the tranquillity of a Cotswold village in Ann Granger's second Campbell and Carter mystery.When old Monty Bickerstaffe finds a dead body in his drawing room it comes as a nasty surprise - the first of many. Monty...

An elegant young Lebanese man carrying diamonds in his bag is on the train from Frankfurt to Basel, a drug mule on the return journey. At the Basel train station, Hunkeler is waiting for him after a tipoff from the German police. The courier manages to...

Lord and Lady Sheridan (Charles is now Baron of Somersworth) have taken a house for a few quiet weeks in the late summer of 1897, in the sea-coast village of Rottingdean. Long known as Smugglers' Village, the hamlet sits on a labyrinth of ancient tunnels...

1951. Brighton. With the war over and the Nazis brought to justice at Nuremberg, Mirabelle Bevan (retired Whitehall secretary) thinks her skills are no longer required. After her lover's death she retires to the seaside to put the past behind her and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914537097Author M S MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 394Imprint Landmark MediaPublisher Landmark MediaWeight(grams) 576gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

In an all-consuming novel of suspense from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson, the survivor of a brutal family massacre must uncover the shocking truth about a fateful night that left her forever marked . . .All her life, she's been the...