Mystery & Detective

A single spark can start a blaze...DS Catherine Bishop's life was thrown into turmoil by one of the most brutal cases of her career, and she is still dealing with the aftermath. But her own trauma must be put aside when she is called to a horrific scene...

Detective Carter knows all about torture-but he's never known a case as dark as this one. The Six... An abandoned building goes up in flames. Six women are chained inside and left to die-the truth is left to burn with them. Only one piece of...

Fifteen years ago Ryder Creed's sister, Brodie disappeared from an interstate rest stop. She was only eleven and Creed was fourteen. Since then her disappearance has haunted him, so much so that Creed has dedicated his life to his K9 business. He rescues...

'Great protagonist, great setting - this is a delightful book' Morning Star The second novel in Ovidia Yu's delightfully charming crime series set in 1930s Singapore, featuring amateur sleuth Su Lin.What we came to think of as the betel nut affair began...

Eight strangers.One deadly secret.Passengers boarding the 10.35 train from Manchester Piccadilly to London Euston are bound for work, assignations, reunions, holidays or new starts, with no idea that their journey is about to be brutally curtailed. Holly...

Pickax City is not only about to celebrate its first Mark Twain Festival, but is also hosting the tri-country Scottish Gathering and Highland Games. And most exciting of all, the distinguished celebrity Mr Delacamp is coming to visit, setting female...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945802799Author Josh LanyonFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Vellichor BooksPublisher Vellichor BooksWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

A newly-discovered gun casts light on Rowland Sinclair's father's death some thirteen years earlier. The whole Sinclair family has ducked the issue, keeping secret the fact that Sinclair senior was murdered. A murder the family would prefer stayed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911021247Author Helen H DurrantFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Joffe BooksPublisher Joffe BooksWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 13mm

'These days my life is a cross between a preternatural soap opera and an action-adventure movie.'The first hit man came after me at home, which should be against the rules. Then there was a second, and a third. Word on the street is that Anita Blake,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493066254Author David DonachieFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint McBooks PressPublisher Globe Pequot PressWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 230mm *...

After the intrigues and excitements of their time in the city, the Darcys are more than prepared for a bit of peace and quiet at Pemberley. Finally, they can spend time together as Elizabeth settles into her pregnancy. However, serene solitude is not...

A nail-biting, tough-talking classic western from the author of GET SHORTY and JACKIE BROWN.In LAST STAND AT SABER RIVER, a Civil War veteran returns home to find a Yankee's private army living on his land, while another enemy waits to strike...Paul...

Crash LandingBy Janice Kay Johnson Escaping was just the beginning... After surviving a crash landing and the killers gunning for them, Rafe Salazar and EMS paramedic Gwen Allen are on the run together. Hunted across treacherous...

'A new Simon Brett is an event for mystery fans' P. D. James'Murder most enjoyable' Colin DexterBlotto and Twinks are off on another adventure - and this time they're bound for the Alpine village of Luzvimmen in Switzerland, where Blotto participates in...

From the author of Thirteen Hours - A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pickONE COP. ONE KILLER. TWO CAPTIVES OF THE PAST.Mat Joubert, once a rising star of the South African police force, had it all. Then his wife was...

Every August, Florence shimmers in the summer heat. But this year the heatwave is fiercer than usual, and the city's inhabitants have fled to the cool of the hills. So it is no surprise that amidst the shrubbery of a normally busy roundabout, a corpse...

'An intricate story, full of tension' The Sun From the author of Little White Lies 'Masterful, clever, surprising at ever turn; a proper page-turner and a one-sitting read. I couldn't stop turning the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780291369Author Candace RobbFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(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 9781999661861Author Anna NicholasFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Burro BooksPublisher Burro Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538753187Author James PattersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)...

'Dark, disturbing and utterly compelling' LIZ FENWICK'Haunting and skilfully crafted' PHOEBE WYNNE'Mysterious, atmospheric and chilling' ANITA FRANKA HOUSE CAN HOLD A THOUSAND SECRETS . . .2019When Henry Fox is found dead in his ancestral home in...

A murder that defies logic-and a killer on the loose. England, 1176. Aelred Barling, esteemed clerk to the justices of King Henry II, is dispatched from the royal court with his young assistant, Hugo Stanton, to investigate a brutal murder in a...

Brighton,1957Mirabelle Bevan can't resist a cry for help, be it the little girl at a seaside sanatorium who is getting bullied or the strange behaviour of Uma, the Indian nurse who is looking after her. Intrigued she soon finds herself drawn into a...

'Better than Martina Cole' - Amazon reviewLOVE IS DANGEROUS. OBSESSION IS DEADLY . . .Things have been going too well for Daisy Lane. Her murdered lover, Eddie Lane, has left her well off and his son little Eddie is adorable and a constant reminder of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780298085Author Barbara HamblyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 320gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

A blistering take on Cool Britannia and London's underbelly in the 1990s, the third novel in Jake Arnott's loose trilogy following The Long Firm and He Kills Coppers. It's 1995, and crime is the new cool. Actress Julie wants none of it as she comes to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941527061Author Jana OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Nevermore BooksPublisher Nevermore BooksWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

#1 New York Times bestseller C.J. Box returns with a new Joe Pickett novel. THE TIME HAS COME It's a crisp October morning in Wyoming's Twelve Sleep County, and game warden Joe Pickett should be keeping watch over his patch. Instead, the state...

'When the monsters are involved, it's never just one dead body. One way or another the dead multiply.'First, there were the dead in the graveyard, two hundred years dead. I'd been hired to raise them to settle a dispute over who owned the land they were...

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...

An ancient legend, an all-too modern murder, and Chief Superintendent Wycliffe must find the link between them ...Every year, at Halloween, high on the Cornish cliffs, a life-sized effigy of a man is strapped to a blazing wheel and run into the sea - a...

The No.1 bestselling novel and Richard & Judy Summer Read: a haunting tale of murder, love and lost innocence for fans of Carlos Ruiz Zafon and Jed Rubenfeld Behind a villa in the heart of Tuscany lies a Renaissance garden of enchanting beauty...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451489678Author Laura ChildsFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

A reality TV star becomes a suspect in an Essex murder case in the sharp, funny and moving new thriller from M.K. Hill Three years ago, Danny 'Abs' Cruikshank, star of reality show Laid in Essex!, was living the dream. But on the night of the party,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682301043Author Candace RobbFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Diversion BooksPublisher Diversion BooksWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780852447000Author Simon CaldwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint GracewingPublisher Gracewing

Sex, lies, and scientific history collide in 1993 Havana.It was as if we'd reached the minimum critical point of a mathematical curve. Imagine a parabola. Zero point down, at the bottom of an abyss. That's how low we sank.The year is 1993. Cuba is at the...

THE NEW INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER BY THE 80 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR1920, TexasSoldier Thatcher Hutton returns to a country unlike the one he left behind - where Prohibition is the new law of the land. When he is caught up in a crime on...