Mystery & Detective

Whilst on a trip to the sunny Channel Islands to find the heir to a lucrative tax law case, young barrister Michael Cantrip finds himself in over his head. Peculiar things begin to occur on the mysterious and isolated islands with something - or...

'Gripping ... a compelling and authentic page-turner' Sunday Mail 'A must read!' Reader review 'A sparkling debut!' Reader review The first in...

From the #1 bestselling author of My Sister's Secret and No Turning Back For the first time in your life, she is going to tell you the truth... Then: A trip to the beach tore...

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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250199331Author C J BoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Minotaur BooksPublisher Minotaur BooksWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 33mm

"I know every move of your game... It has been a duel between you and me, Mr Holmes... If you are clever enough to bring destruction upon me, rest assured that I shall do as much to you." With Sherlock Holmes's reputation as the scourge of the...

THE THIRD NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BURNING MEN AND THE KILLING CHOICE, FEATURING DI ALEX FIN AND DCI MATTIE PAULSENSadie Nicholls has been found dead, brutally and strangely murdered, in her South East London flat. Her little boy is missing.DI Alex...

Spring, 1523. Henry VIII readies England for war with France. The King's chief minister, Cardinal Wolsey, prepares to open Parliament at Blackfriars. The eyes of the country turn towards London. But all is not well in Wolsey's household. A visiting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781510709485Author Denis O SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Sky Pony PressPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

A forensic psychologist fights a mental war against two serial killers in this disturbing thriller from Mike Omer, Washington Post and Amazon Charts bestselling author of A Killer's Mind. An online video of a girl clawing at the ceiling of her own...

GRANTA BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2023From the Booker Prize-nominated author of The Water Cure comes a chilling new feminist fable based on the true story of an unsolved mystery...A recommended read for 2023 in The Times, Guardian, Irish Times,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316267724Author Joe IdeFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Mulholland BooksPublisher Mulholland BooksWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 241mm * 162mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802138613Author Christopher BrookmyreFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly...

A brutal hit-and-run killing opens the path to another 25-year-old crime. A brilliant novel in the acclaimed Faraday series, from the author of NO LOVELIER DEATH.Past midnight, a horribly mutilated body is discovered on a road in Portsmouth, evidently...

Vish Puri is as fond of butter chicken as the next Punjabi. And when there's plenty on offer at the Delhi Durbar hotel where he's attending an India Premier League cricket match dinner, he's the first to tuck in. Irfan Khan, father of Pakistani star...

While on an outing one day, a woman who looks exactly like Kimitsuka Kimihiko's deadmentor, Siesta, kidnaps the former detective's assistant and his three friends! There,she reveals a long-forgotten truth about Siesta's death. Will this be the clue...

A massive undercover operation turns personal for DI Faraday when his son is involved.Portsmouth's major drug dealer's time is up. For years Bazza Mackenzie has made millions selling cocaine and heroin into the streets of Portsmouth. He's laundered the...

'If I really don't like somebody, I kill him . . . You remember Malcolm McRae, don't you?'Melinda Van Allen is beautiful, headstrong and sexy. Unfortunately for Vic Van Allen, she is his wife. Their love has soured, and Melinda takes pleasure in...

London, 1940. After years of stealing from the rich and giving to the poor-well, to themselves, anyway-Ellie McDonnell and her family have turned over a new leaf as they help the government's war effort. It's true that the straight-laced Major Ramsey...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062908377Author Anne HillermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint HarperPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 191mm *...

A stunning debut historical thriller set in the turbulent 14th Century for fans of CJ Sansom, The Name of the Rose and An Instance of the Fingerpost. London, 1385. A city of shadows and fear, in a kingdom ruled by the headstrong young King...

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Deenie, Gabby and Lise are best friends - a tight girl-unit negotiating their way through the troubled waters of their teens, a world of sex, secrets and intense relationships. When first Lise then Gabby falls prey to a mysterious illness, hysteria...

The third instalment of the brilliant William Dougal series, from the bestselling author of The American Boy and The Ashes of London. There's unfinished business between William Dougal and his widowed father. Part of it has to do with Celia Prentisse,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781837910106Author Nils-Olof FranzenFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Oak Tree BooksPublisher Andrews UK Limited

'Laetitia Rodd is a warm and engaging heroine' The Times For readers of The Thursday Murder Club, M.C. Beaton and James Runcie, The Mystery of the Sorrowful Maiden is the charming third mystery in Kate Saunders's series about Laetitia Rodd, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668030813Author Anders De La MotteFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 160mm *...

''Geordie' Cartwright has disappeared, along with Bobby Mahoney's money. I have to find him and fast, or it's going to be my face staring into the business end of a nail gun' David Blake is no gangster, or so he likes to think. He's a white-collar...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496740557Author Maddie DayFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

From the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold HotelTake an ordinary, well-off family like the Prices. Watch what happens when one Sunday seventeen-year-old Hannah disappears without a trace. See how the family rallies when a ransom note demands...

An ingenious thriller in which young Detective Constable Trave uncovers a sophisticated plot at the heart of MI6 to assassinate Churchill and bring the Second World War and the whole Allied effort to an untimely end. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911547419Author Arthur Conan DoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books

Victim or assassin - the lines are blurred...A badly beaten woman walks into A&E and is promptly arrested by the Home Office on suspicion of being an illegal alien. However, she is neither illegal, nor a victim. After she escapes detention, the bodies of...

London, 1785. When the body of a former West Indies planter is found outside St Paul's Cathedral, suspicion abounds. But talk is not only of the man's death. His past brings a tide of fear directly to Harriet Westerman's door where William Geddings,...

'Greenwood's strength lies in her ability to create characters that are wholly satisfying: the bad guys are bad, and the good guys are great' Vogue1929: Girls are going missing in Melbourne. Little, pretty golden-haired girls. And not just pretty. Three...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312246983Author John Maddox RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454g

From the author of A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES - set to be a major Hollywood film - comes the third novel in the Matt Scudder series.When hard-drinking ex-cop Matt Scudder is roped into an NYPD internal investigation, one detective ends up in the slammer...

Bestselling author Walter Mosley has proven himself a master of narrative tension, both with his extraordinary fiction and gripping writing for television. The Awkward Black Man collects seventeen of Mosley's most accomplished short stories to showcase...

**AS SEEN ON WRITE AROUND THE WORLD WITH RICHARD E GRANT**'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' The Times'Ripley, amoral, hedonistic and charming, is a genuinely original creation' Daily Telegraph'He is using you for what you are worth'Tom Ripley wants money,...

A parent's worst fear is realised when seven-year-old Libby Hallforth goes missing at a funfair; no witnesses, no leads, and no trace. Months later, after the trail for Libby has gone cold, DI Jake Porter and DS Nick Styles find human remains but that's...