Mystery & Detective

Eccentric Annabeth Gentry pretty much keeps to herself. Besides her recent inheritance - and the attention her bloodhound gets for digging up the body of a murdered thief - her life is in fact, rather dull. So why does she think that someone is trying...

After being kidnapped, Kimizuka, Natsunagi, Saikawa, and Charlie have learned thetruth about Siesta's death...or have they? A girl who looks just like the deceaseddetective appears and informs them that the footage they've been investigatingcontains...

Maverick investigator Dominic Queste is on the trail of missing butcher Sam Price. But he soon uncovers links to a killer with a taste for games. What began as a simple favour for his girlfriend quickly descends into a battle for survival against an...

Introducing Ryan Drake - think Jason Bourne meets Jack Reacher...If you like Lee Child, Vince Flynn and David Baldacci, you will love this riveting and unputdownable thriller from bestselling author Will Jordan.'Entertaining' - The Telegraph'I can...

The 1920s most stylish sleuth returns in The Crystal Crypt for another thrilling murder mystery! "But accidents can still happen... Perhaps there was something out of her control, something she couldn't have foreseen...""Like someone plotting to kill...

1582, St Andrews. A violent storm wrecks a ship nearby, and the only man about dies without revealing how he came to be there alone, or where the ship was headed. But neither he nor the wreck is really of interest to the townsfolk of St Andrews. Lashed...

A perfect crime needs a perfect alibi... Crime reporter Beth Chambers is committed to uncovering the truth - and she's not afraid of bending the rules to get there. When troubled soap star Megan Fuller is found stabbed to death in...

Seymour Brathwaite, a young physicist, was found standing over the body of a murdered man. Charcoal Joe, one of the deadliest men in America, wants Brathwaite cleared. Easy Rawlins, a renowned Los Angeles PI, cannot refuse Charcoal Joe. But what links...

Fresh, funny historical mystery series for fans of Jasper Fforde and M.C. Beaton. 'Delightful and original... A series that could well become a cult' Daily Mail 125 Gower Street, London, 1884. Sidney Grice - London's foremost personal...

Killer Diamonds by bestselling author Rebecca Chance sizzles with glamour, secrets and revenge.After decades in the spotlight as an Oscar-winning film star and famous beauty, Vivienne Winter is one of the most recognizable women on the planet. When she...

Late one night, a man calls the local emergency line. He’s in a cemetery, and he’s just discovered a freshly dug grave marked with a wooden cross bearing his name. The dispatcher thinks it’s the ravings of a drunk—until the police find the man’s body the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780291147Author Paul DohertyFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 410gDimensions(mm) 224mm * 147mm *...

A brilliant Murphy and Rossi police procedural from Luca Veste, called 'A writer to watch' by Mark Billingham. Social media stars Chloe Morrison and Joe Hooper seem to have it all - until their bodies are found following an anonymous phone call to their...

When Emily Inglethorp is poisoned the police are certain they've found the killer, but Hercule Poirot is not so easily satisfied. The sleuth digs deep into a tangled mystery in his debut appearance as the detective hero of Christie's classic crime series...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916467910Author Jeremy CameronFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint L. R. Price PublicationsPublisher LR Price

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616952082Author Helene TurstenFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Soho Press IncPublisher Soho Press IncWeight(grams) 269g

One morning, Takahashi, a writer who has just stayed up all night working, is interrupted by a phone call from his old friend Sonomura: barely able to contain his excitement, Sonomura claims that he has cracked a secret cryptographic code based on Edgar...

When her father dies, lawyer Sarah Curtis returns to her hometown of Bolton to wind up his law practice. She plans to leave as soon as she can but when Gerry, a family friend, goes missing and his family receive death threats, she agrees to help his wife...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538734728Author Angela MarsonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)...

Alain Delambre is a 57-year-old former HR executive, drained by four years of hopeless unemployment.All he is offered are small, demoralizing jobs. He has reached his very lowest ebb, and can see no way out.So when a major company finally invites him to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553212419Author Sir Arthur Conan DoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 1088Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Perfect for fans of Philippa Gregory, Alison Weir, Anne O'Brien and Elizabeth Chadwick, Deborah Swift brings a unique period in history to vivid, fascinating life in her acclaimed Pepys trilogy.'Laced with emotional intensity and drama, Pleasing Mr Pepys...

Dr. Watson was the chronicler of every Sherlock Holmes adventure published in The Strand magazine between 1887 and 1927. He reported them with honesty in the bluff, army-style of a military doctor, so frank in their account of human behaviour that they...

“If you’re looking for a fun, thrilling read, look no further. The Bang-Bang Sisters is a rip-roaring delight of a novel – pulpy, fast-paced, and absolutely unputdownable.” – New York Times bestselling author Roxane GayFrom critically acclaimed author...

A bounty on his head, and nowhere to run...When a minor Paris criminal is found stabbed in the neck on a country lane in Picardie it looks like another case for Inspector Lucas Rocco. But instead he is called off to watch over a Gabonese government...

Someone wants to put Stephanie six foot under...Leaving her career as a bounty hunter behind won't be so easy for Stephanie Plum, as disaster follows wherever she goes. Eleven On Top is the hilarious and fast-paced adventure in the Stephanie Plum series...

Pre-order the brand new Ballard & Bosch thriller from #1 Sunday Times bestselling master of crime, Michael Connelly.SOME CRIMES YOU CAN'T FORGET.Detective Renee Ballard is given the chance of a lifetime: revive the LAPD's cold case unit and find justice...

It's March 1916, and Joseph Reavley is on sick leave and finding recovery slow and hard. His sister Hannah is caring for him at home, and it's a delight to them both when Shanley Corcoran, an old friend, comes to visit. Corcoran confides in Joseph that...

The fourth novel in the Jimmy Suttle series, from 'one of the UK's finest crime novelists' (INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY), author of LAST FLIGHT TO STALINGRAD'There is no-one writing better police procedurals today' Sunday TelegraphD/S Jimmy Suttle is called to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780929293Author David MarcumFormat PaperbackPage Count 492Imprint MX PublishingPublisher MX PublishingWeight(grams) 717gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

'A fine new voice' - Daily Mail'Edgy and ice-cool' - Marnie RichesFor readers who loved The Girl with the Dragon TattooThe body count is rising...and the clock is ticking.When a young woman is attacked and left fighting to survive in hospital, the police...

It was meant to be the perfect holiday for six British gradates. But then she arrived, lithe and tanned, by the pool one hot afternoon. Severine - the girl next door. As her beauty captivates each of them, tensions begin to boil over, and years of...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. '...we call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.' When...

Forever Rumpole - a hilarious new selection of the very best Rumpole stories by John MortimerHorace Rumpole lives alongside Mr Pickwick and Bertie Wooster as one of the immortal comic characters in English fiction. With his curmudgeonly wit, his literary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915179135Author Sophie ParkesFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Northodox PressPublisher Northodox Press

A woman is missing. But is it by choice, or is she in grave danger? When Lauren Cook fails to return from a hen weekend in Amsterdam she is reported missing by her husband. But DS Catherine Bishop and her colleagues see no reason to believe this is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451183835Author Jessica FletcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm)...

The Missing Children Case Files: Case 3 'Mind-blowingly addictive!' Samantha Lee Howe, USA Today-bestselling author of The Stranger in Our Bed They stole away her future... A French woman...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781464211195Author Kerry GreenwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Poisoned Pen PressPublisher Poisoned Pen PressDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 25mm

***A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR*** The Bastards face their hardest challenge yet Sometimes it takes facing a formidable adversary to truly know one's worth. The Bastards of Pizzofalcone may have found just that: when the brutal...