Mystery & Detective

A young woman wakes in a hospital room. What happened to her and why is a mystery. Is she victim or murderer? The young woman has been badly injured in a fire and has amnesia. But what happened to her? Is she Mi, Micky or Michele, or Do, Dominique? As...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780727890979Author Veronica HeleyFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 370gDimensions(mm) 225mm * 145mm *...

The serial killer to end all serial killers is out there and only one person in the whole city knows it...Twenty years ago John Costello's life, as he knew it, ended. He and his beautiful girlfriend, Nadia, were victims of the deranged 'Hammer of God'...

A dark-skinned young boy is found dead, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. The boy's Thai half-brother is missing; is he implicated, or simply afraid for his own life? While fears increase that the murder could have been racially motivated,...

There's suspicion, smuggling and shady goings-on galore in the second novel in Dan Kavanagh's darkly humorous series, featuring bisexual private detective Duffy.Everyone knows a bit of petty theft goes on in the freight business at Heathrow - it is...

FULLY REVISED NEW EDITIONDanger and intrigue follow him wherever he goes.France, 1963. It's a time of great change, not least for Inspector Lucas Rocco. As part of a nationwide initiative to broaden police operations, he finds himself moved from the...

Greenwich, 1897. A macabre scene is discovered outside a house on Shooters Hill. There has been a vicious fight, and amid the bloodstains are locks of long auburn hair. Thomas Pitt, head of Special Branch, is called: this is the home of Dudley Kynaston,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399585593Author Sofie KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

An Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling series. Solving a decades-old disappearance sets Tracy Crosswhite on a dangerous collision course with the past in a pulse-pounding novel by New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617738500Author Carlene O'connorFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

Marriage is complicated. It doesn't always work out. Sometimes there are things you discover about yourself and each other which mean the marriage has to end. Sad, particularly when kids are involved - but all pretty normal.Normal that is, until there's...

The Penguin English Library editionAs usual with the Sherlock Holmes stories it is very hard to say which are the best - but there are many stories here which would get the vote - ranging from The Boscombe Valley Mystery to the wonderful Adventure of...

The new thrilling medieval mystery from the West Country's master of crime.1325: There is turmoil in England. But could the Prophecy of St Thomas's Holy Oil save King Edward? It is believed that the king who is anointed with it will be a lion among men:...

Psychologist Alex Delaware is confronted with a dark and vicious plot of violence and murder in TIME BOMB, an enthralling thriller from New York Times No. 1 bestselling Jonathan Kellerman, author of KILLER and BREAKDOWN. Fans of Harlan Coben and Michael...

A woman lies dead in a bombed-out house. A tragic casualty of the Blitz? Or something more sinister? Sixty years later, the detective's daughter unearths the truth... From the number 1 bestselling author of The Detective's Daughter. LONDON, 1940 ...

'For me the true heart of the book was Min, and his search for a sense of belonging that neither America nor Korea is quite able offer him. His story is truly unforgettable' Abi Dare, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Girl with the Louding...

A brand-new Sherlock Holmes mystery from the author of Sherlock Holmes: The Vanishing Man. It is 1897, and Sherlock Holmes is investigating a murder that took place during a society ball. Holmes and Watson rush to the scene, but are shocked by...

THE SECOND NOVEL IN THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING CANON CLEMENT MYSTERY SERIESCANON DANIEL CLEMENT IS BACK...It's been a few months since murder tore apart the community of Champton apart. As Canon Daniel Clement tries to steady his flock, the...

The New York Trilogy is perhaps the most astonishing work by one of America's most consistently astonishing writers. The Trilogy is three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of standard detective fiction and achieve a new genre that...

Carolina Garcia-Ramirez is a rising star in national politics, taking on the establishment with her progressive agenda. Tough, outspoken, and driven, the young congresswoman has ignited a new conversation in Boston about race, poverty, health care, and...

font size="+1">'Animal lovers will delight' Ann Granger'A real treat . . . I loved it. Cats, dogs, murder and a credible and relatable heroine' Barbara NadelSummer in the Lincolnshire Wolds and Clarice is rung by her friend Louise, asking whether she can...

A special release of the very first crime novel by John Rhode, introducing Dr Priestley, the genius detective who would go on to appear in more than 70 bestselling crime novels during the Golden Age. When Harold Merefield returned home in the...

Lawman to the Coreby Delores Fossen A special agent will do anything to protect a woman and baby. The woman who broke into special agent Nick Brodie's home isn't a stranger. Neither is the baby with her...

A multi-layered and unnerving portrait of gangland Glasgow, For Those Who Know the Ending is the gripping novel from the award-winning author of The Glasgow Trilogy, Malcolm Mackay. He has to clear thoughts of Joanne and thoughts of the past out of his...

Never underestimate a librarian. Intelligent cosy crime with razor-sharp wit and an unlikely hero, for fans of P.G. Wodehouse and Muriel Spark "So funny." Lynne Truss Shona McMonagle is back, once again personally selected by Marcia Blaine, founder...

'Parker has only one competitor - Thomas Harris' Washington Post ... At once horrifying, tense and lyrical, The Blue Hour is a beautifully written novel that probes the darkest recesses of the human psyche. He takes the women from shopping...

Captain Hazard's Game, third in the Chocolate House Mysteries series, conjures up the vibrant life of early eighteenth-century gamesters and money-men, a world of deception where risk could bring huge rewards - especially when you turned the stock-market...

WINNER OF THE GLASS KEY AWARD 2023 FOR THE LAST GRUDGE The chilling new Scandinavian thriller from a New York Times bestselling author, perfect for fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo. Praise for Max Seeck: 'Finland's answer to Jo Nesbo' Sunday...

The 18th-century meets the sharp blade of forensic science...In 1780s London, American anatomist Dr. Thomas Silkstone is plunged into a swirling cauldron of sorcery, slavery, and cold-blooded murder...When the sole survivor of an ill-fated scientific...

The massive Swedish international bestseller and the first in the Sebastian Bergman series. Now a hit BBC4 TV drama starring Rolf Lassgard, the original WALLANDER, as Bergman.Sixteen-year-old Roger has vanished. Days pass and Vasteras Police do nothing,...

Prince's College, Cambridge, is a peaceful and scholarly community, enlivened by Prudence Pinsent, the Master's daughter. Spirited, beautiful, and thoroughly unconventional, Prudence is a remarkable young woman. One fine morning she sets out for Suffolk...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739590826Author A.B. KyazzeFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Humanity in the Landscape PublishingPublisher Humanity in the Landscape Publishing

Jack Taylor has finally traded in his violent life in Galway for a quiet retirement in the country. But on a day trip back into the city, Jack is hit by a truck and left in a coma, mysteriously without a scratch on him. When he awakens weeks later,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425275405Author C. J. BoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint G P Putnam's SonsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 192mm *...

A dark and twisting thriller from the master of psychological suspense, New York Times No. 1 bestseller Jonathan Kellerman, author of KILLER and BREAKDOWN. Perfect for fans of the thrillers of Harlan Coben and Michael Connelly, 'OVER THE EDGE is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593200018Author Sofie KellyFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

'One of Britain's most consistently excellent crime novelists' Marcel Berlins, The Times '[Reginald Hill] keeps one on the edge of one's wits throughout a bitterly enthralling detection thriller' Sunday Times When a four-year-old child is...

Wildly successful chick lit mystery writer Kimberlee Kalder is the guest of honour at an exclusive writers' conference at Dalmorton Castle in Scotland. But the fun ends when Kimberlee is found dead at the bottom of the castle's bottle dungeon. Who didn't...

Christmas comes to Arkham Horror in this action-packed eldritch adventure full of secret whispers, haunted streets, and a lost actor falling through time Ruby Malone Gutierrez is running away, although she won't admit that to herself. Suffering from...

From the acclaimed author of The Town, an epic thriller about the secret right-hand man of one of the most infamous unprosecuted mob bosses in American history, and the hidden crime that will bring down an empire.In the late 1970s, The Outfit has the...